Also my boss litellally. I had the opportunity to work with poly at goldfarb and litman. Shes an excellent lawyer with far more tolerance for reviewing loan documents than i ever had. She was an extraordinary mentor for younger lawyers at the firm. I know there are past and present lawyers, especially women lawyers who persisted as practitioners and made their on contributions and public law because they have the great good luck to work with and for polly. She worked there for 30 years serving as council to non profits and public agencies helping build thousands of units Affordable Housing across the bay area and beyond. Along the way, she wrote or co wrote a number of publications including several additions of a legal guide to california redevelopment, a real page turner and a guide of housing which came out in 2003 and i think i worked on that with you and then in 2010 after i left. Excellent a lawyer as she is, even when i was, it was clear her true passion was her service on the S
Presentation and then get back to it. Let me continue to address other primary concerns brought up today. We want to be clear the current design of the proposed project does not include a basement level for the proposed building. The geotechnical report and supplement analysis may reflect iterations of the proposed project including a basement level. This could be confusing as no longer considerations no longer apply as the building will be built at grade. In described in the cpe its only excavating about four feet below Ground Surface. The geotechnical investigation found ground water at 11 to 12 feet below the Ground Surface and recommended a designed level of eight feet below Ground Surface that means assuming ground water is found at eight feet below Ground Surface. The project is only excavating four feet below the Ground Surface. Though the project may encounter ground water during construction for soil improvements its unlikely the finished grade will extend into ground water th
, really, to some extent, are a quirk of the code because they flow from the corner lot location and the need to modify the rear yard, so just as a two other examples, the common open space that we have, if it were located in a code compliant rear yard, we would not need a variance for common open space, but because its in a modified rear yard that responds to the corner location, different standards apply and it requires a variance. The same thing is true of dwelling unit exposure. The dwelling units that look out onto this modified rear yard, because it is modified, you need a variance. Again, we provided the code compliant rear yard, which results in a weird configuration okay. Commissioner richards . So on the nested bedrooms, 75 are in one bedroom 75 is in onebedroom and 50 9 of the onebedroom units contain a nested bedroom. To me, from a quality point of view, if you have a two and a three bedroom threebedroom units, you have nested bedroom number 2 or bedroom number 3, it would
[laughter] the short answer is that a non nested onebedroom apartment needs roughly about 23 to 24 feet of frontage to the street in order to get a bedroom that has a window on the front. When you run the 24 feet around the limited perimeter of the site, it reduces the number of units that you can get significantly because the 24 foot wide unit, lets say we try to crate 550 or 650 square foot units, you are coming back about 24 feet, then you have a n the other side. You are under utilizing the site because you are unable to maximize the depth to the perimeter ratio. That makes sense. If that is relatively clear, i can then go on. And nested bedroom is a hot button item. We know this. We have done them, actually very successfully in terms of their demand on the market for the last four or five years. We have several projects north of market that already have them i am not a marketing person, but the difference between a studio apartment which doesnt have the nested bedrooms stigma, and
Thank you. [laughter] how to design housing in San Francisco 101. [laughter] the short answer is that a non nested onebedroom apartment needs roughly about 23 to 24 feet of frontage to the street in order to get a bedroom that has a window on the front. When you run the 24 feet around the limited perimeter of the site, it reduces the number of units that you can get significantly because the 24 foot wide unit, lets say we try to crate 550 or 650 square foot units, you are coming back about 24 feet, then you have a n the other side. You are under utilizing the site because you are unable to maximize the depth to the perimeter ratio. That makes sense. If that is relatively clear, i can then go on. And nested bedroom is a hot button item. We know this. We have done them, actually very successfully in terms of their demand on the market for the last four or five years. We have several projects north of market that already have them i am not a marketing person, but the difference between a