commissioner moore: i like to discuss that we're in a r.m. 2 district. we're seing a lot that is being proposed for four drawing units. staff recommendation analyzes that the prevailing height is not more than three stories, however, what is in front of us is a four-story building. in addition to that this particular project requires a variance and i am in no position to have a building which is excessive in height and excessive also in bulk to be approved without trying to challenge it. i'm not opposed for this large of family to build a -- a four-dwelling unit house. however,, i am looking for more skillled architecture, this project puts an extreme emphasis on stairs galore. i would say briefly glancing at drawing -- i would say easily 15 to 20% of this house is in multiple stairs. instead of combining stairs and minimizing stairs because we are being confronted with the family where we're told that there would be elderly and handicapped people who have -- who have difficulties moving up and downstairs, i would assume that concentrating, common stairs

and r.m.-1 allows for one unit regardless of the unit. president miguel: commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: i realized this was only an initiation and that answers some of my concerns and it appears as if this is going to be sold will be able to use the funds for other redevelopment projects because arkt tech churlly while the towers serve a very good purpose, architecturally they're probably not our best product. i was hoping that we wouldn't see the same. this sounds like it may be commercial. it may be residential. i'm not really sure. but it sounds like the process is going to allow us to and we're only initiating the zoning change. i would hope that as we move forward, we will have more information before we actually approve the zoning change as to some ideas about what might be built there. it may be just a sale. there may not be a project yet. i don't really know. i'd like to know a little bit when we goat that point. president miguel: commissioner moore? commisioner moore: this is one of those types of lots where one would require guidelines which particularly

the project is within their r.m. 3 and 65 a districts. the project requires a rear yard variance, because the two floors aligned with the rear wall of the neighboring building will enroach in the rear yard. the building has a rear yard of only four feet, but the addition would be set back 11. the project site is in the densely developmented area of nobody hill. the character of the development is resident the buildings from three to five stories in height, with a large six-story 24 unit apartment building at the pleasant and jones street corner. other taller buildings fronting on -- on sacramento street. the residential buildings fronting on pleasant, generally contain two to four units and larger buildings front on the four surrounding streets containing apartment buildings ranging from nine to 24 units. the citywide plan for alley guidelines states that building heights should not compete 2.5 times the width of the alley orb be set back at the upper stories to preserve visual access to the sky. a 45 tall building would be able to be con

i think there should be a respect for the smaller units if indeed we're going in our r.m. 2 to what basically is an r. 4. i put this to the commission for consideration. my motion would be to continue this project, no decisions made as no-no, we're not saying you can't doo this. but we want to basically more responsive design. >> second. >> motion and second to continue. what date? >> i think it takes easily eight to 10 weeks to redesign the building. >> february at some point. february 10th or 1r7b? >> 10rks giss. >> 150r? >> february 10th. >> i can respond, what do you think? what is thu1 what's the challenge to you and your calendar? >> could you clarify the date, please? >> february 10 or february 17 in >> i think february 10 is good enough for us. >> thank you. >> commissioner, on the floor is a motion foner, on the floor is a motion for continuance february 10th. public hearing remains open and basically it's to consider a redesign of the project. >> that's correct. >> sorry. i was just going to say, i think the direction of commissioner moore's comments are to lessen the amount -- les