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Lastly, on the unauthorized units, weve been a big champion of these. Theres an estimate of 20 to 50,000. If you knew how many you would have to remove them. They exist in the city but they are an important housing resource. Most are rent controlled. A lot of our most vulnerable renters live in these units. We have two objectives around this. One is retain as many units as we can, protect them from merger, from demolition and conversion. The other is protect tenants rights as best we can. We think we recommended both of those things. Every unit will have a broad path to legalization. So if you...

Member in minneapolis minnesota as they began their conversation about eliminating Single Family homes that said something that resonated with me that there are a ton of places that it makes sense not to add density. There are rural communities. We have farmland we need to protect. But to expect San Francisco california, to be that place it just doesnt make any sense. And so while conversations will continue to happen at the state, i think the reallocation process going on now is fascinating. Its fascinating what happened in Southern California when you have bedroom communities having allocati...

The new we are seeing is just black buildings completely flat on the street level. And they have a rooftop where you can have a deck or this is their new recreation area. New folks that come into the neighborhood no longer get to experience the community as a whole. So these guidelines our beautiful, Historic Buildings from turning into a moratorium of black. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am a life resident of the mission. Lived all my life off the corridor of 24th street. And weve seen many changes coming into calle 24. And i would like to ask that you support this new ...

Commission. Discussion around the faux saws and this is going back to 2015. The discussion of the retention related to the Historic Properties and how it had been coming out in the city and the sort of product that had been arriving through this process. In 2016, further discussion of examples. In 2017 reviewing draft policy staff had begun to develop. What was interesting was the shift in thinking from this as preservation. There is conversation if these were preservation projects. At that point the commission directed staff to begin describing this as a Design Review process rather than pres...

And then all of a sudden something rolls over us and everything that we did actually was more not because now theres some new mandate out of sacramento. We spent weeks years, on the market octavia plan. We designed it, 45 feet in the middle of the block, 55 feet at the end of the block. Got 85 feet in the middle of the block now. These are the kinds of things im talking about. We got to be careful. Thats all im saying. Thank you. Let me just add one more thing. And that is what was beautiful about the victory we just had at the polls of proposition e with proposition a is that we were able to ...