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seems like a lot of office development -- if we could look into that -- >> i suspect it is mission bay and hunters point shipyard. >> there are a couple of projects that will build out over a longer time. commissioner sugaya: those projects are skewing the numbers on the city-wide side? it isn't distributed evenly throughout commercial areas? >> no. commissioner antonini: in addition to the housing projects in the pipeline, there are quite a few under construction. one would expect the 2011 drop was an anomaly and there will be big changes in 2012. the transit use mentioned only 36% ...

on the city-wide side? it isn't distributed evenly throughout commercial areas? >> no. commissioner antonini: in addition to the housing projects in the pipeline, there are quite a few under construction. one would expect the 2011 drop was an anomaly and there will be big changes in 2012. the transit use mentioned only 36% and your report says 31% walk, 2% pike, and 2% use other modes. adding it up, it looks like 70% coming to work by non-auto means. that is pretty impressive. walking is a statement to the fact that we have quite a few residential areas in walking distance of the bus...

>> there are a couple of projects that will build out over a longer time. commissioner sugaya: those projects are skewing the numbers on the city-wide side? it isn't distributed evenly throughout commercial areas? >> no. commissioner antonini: in addition to the housing projects in the pipeline, there are quite a few under construction. one would expect the 2011 drop was an anomaly and there will be big changes in 2012. the transit use mentioned only 36% and your report says 31% walk, 2% pike, and 2% use other modes. adding it up, it looks like 70% coming to work by non-auto means. t...

conversions from stephen housing to regular housing would trigger the requirement of the inclusion ary housing payment. there had been discussions with the academy of art and there are asked to describe the discussions. the director described the process and recommendations to preserve existing housing. he described it the legislation is a separate issue from any discussions at the academy of art and that there is a discussion for a more global solution to legalize their work and if there were any agreements reached, this would come before the board at a later time. supervisor kim as...

high as we want to. i don't know, that doesn't seem to be the goal of the community either. so i think it's kind of like this, you know, vice president olague: a rock and a hard place. commissioner sugaya: yeah. i'm curious. i'm going to try to go back and try to rezone everything and figure out now in more detail why in a lot of these tier c areas are surrounding the smaller parcels in the neighborhood. i'm sure we had that discussion, but it escapes me now as to why that happened. i'm for kind of moving it ahead. i don't want to make a motion to deny, to disapprove it because i thi...