It for years. I want to get paid for that. I have one of the same doors and my bedrooms. Let let me add to that, you mentioned that the Building Code requires 50 opening. The Building Code allowed that to be like a wall and literally be open. That 50 opening has to be wild walled off in this way. It has to be enclosed so that is why we often see these floortoceiling glass doors that provide an opening for the light and can provide a full enclosure. Versus a pony well. If i might, one last thing. And all of our units, we are bringing in outside air for mechanical ventilation for all the apartments. Because it is on venice, so meet to to meet the sound issues, we are bringing fresh air from the inside, putting that into the bedrooms, but the bedroom does not have to rely upon the sliding glass door to be open to get ventilation. Great. One of the questions with administrator, the apartment requirement, people injured mentioned that there is too much parking. What is allowed on van ness .
Which is what you really want from an urban Design Perspective and then, the remaining variances that we are asking for , 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, i
Minimum 50 openable of area. You could literally do the top half openable, or you can take a portion of the wall and make that openable. That is what we do. We take a portion of the wall, we slide the door past and now it is wide open, but then you have to take the ventilation requirements for the nested bedroom, which is a 4 of the floor area, and the light and air requirement which is eight of the floor area, and add that to the same four and eight for the in between room, and that tells you the minimum Natural Light and ventilation area you have to provide in the exterior wall, the window. Right. On these nested bedrooms, what percentages are you at . The opening . How would that stack up . Have you provided the minimum . In most cases, we are over the minimum, just to be sure. We are somewhere between 50 to 260 . The units are tight and some of the kitchens run to that wall so we have a drywall partition there, and we make the window a sliding partition as large as we can. We use a
The units are tight and some of the kitchens run to that wall so we have a drywall partition there, and we make the window a sliding partition as large as we can. We use a private firm from San Francisco and we have been doing it for years. I want to get paid for that. I have one of the same doors and my bedrooms. Let let me add to that, you mentioned that the Building Code requires 50 opening. The Building Code allowed that to be like a wall and literally be open. That 50 opening has to be wild walled off in this way. It has to be enclosed so that is why we often see these floortoceiling glass doors that provide an opening for the light and can provide a full enclosure. Versus a pony well. If i might, one last thing. And all of our units, we are bringing in outside air for mechanical ventilation for all the apartments. Because it is on venice, so meet to to meet the sound issues, we are bringing fresh air from the inside, putting that into the bedrooms, but the bedroom does not have t
It for years. I want to get paid for that. I have one of the same doors and my bedrooms. Let let me add to that, you mentioned that the Building Code requires 50 opening. The Building Code allowed that to be like a wall and literally be open. That 50 opening has to be wild walled off in this way. It has to be enclosed so that is why we often see these floortoceiling glass doors that provide an opening for the light and can provide a full enclosure. Versus a pony well. If i might, one last thing. And all of our units, we are bringing in outside air for mechanical ventilation for all the apartments. Because it is on venice, so meet to to meet the sound issues, we are bringing fresh air from the inside, putting that into the bedrooms, but the bedroom does not have to rely upon the sliding glass door to be open to get ventilation. Great. One of the questions with administrator, the apartment requirement, people injured mentioned that there is too much parking. What is allowed on van ness .