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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 site because you are unable to maximize the depth to the perimeter ratio. That makes sense. If that ...

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 max...

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 apartme...

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 ex...

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. ...