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[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 ...

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 fe...

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....

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 locati...

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 t...

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...

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....

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 un...

Us. Im adam tuss. Im jennifer fitzgerald. Our former colleague tom where say a orange sherbert sunrise. You know, lauryn has some good s descriptions awell. We are happy to have her with us. Lauryn, this weather has been aioss the last couple of days. Once ag you walk outside and you are going to feel the humidity and mugginess yeah, tom had a great way of describing things out there. Lets show you guys the sunrise out there rightus now beca it is absolutely gorgeous out there. And we are go g i...

And it tells an important story. This is another very sunny day for most of us. But not all of us. If we look at a different camera, this one sitting at the edge of the toll gate for the bridge,f clouds through the golden gate. The clouds hover around the coast. For the rest of us if youre not right at the immediate coastline or right on the bay near the gate, you have a very sunny day today. Look at the view. From our roof, lets put the numbers on there. Mid 50s now. We will go to 73 for the ci...