Low cost to construct rather than low cost to live in and you have 40,000 families in San Francisco waiting for Affordable Housing on a waiting list, and thank you. Good afternoon commissioners. My name is Raymond Castillo and the lead person and chairperson to advance the youth and i wanted to let you know most of the our members is pretty much student, city college, San Francisco state university, and we work a lot of youth at soma and other areas and just to give you background youre building a lot of things with schools and going to college. Theyre dealing with tuition cuts and money for books and all of this, and having this efficiency dwelling units i mean i want to speak my mind and 1300 to 1600 a month is not affordable for students alone and theyre dealing with this at the same time. As families we want to keep the students with us. I dont want to be separated from them so please focus on building more Affordable Housing here in San Francisco and afford this cap on the legisla
Recommending disapproval of the proposed ordinance but have modifications for you and the board of supervisors to consider if it is adopted so i would first like to outline the proposed change and move on to the departments recommendation. The planning code doesnt define efficiency dwelling units. Socalled efficiency dwelling units are defined only in the San Francisco Building Code based on the set of criteria that include providing living area with minimum size of 220 square feet, individual cooking facilities and a separate bathroom and clozet. Legislation that is currently pending at the board of supervisors would amend the definition of efficiency dwelling units and reduce the size the allowable size of efficiency dwelling units to have living units as small as 150 square feet as long as the total size including the bathrooms and closets was no smaller than 220 square feet. The proposed ordinance today will add a new definition to the planning code and efficiency dwelling units fo