Speaking as a resident of the Richmond District im a single mom of 3 id love to have those size of rental apartment this is a city that is favorable unfriendly with one bedroom studios ive moved to the richmond and stuck in a house this is too expensive because theyre not unit like this available to families like myself i felt strongly but this project and feel for marching she is he is so developed previous projects that are skeptic to the community and i understand you guys have an important citywide policy with affordability but were looking at 2 units that are 2 hundred and 50 sfooet e square feet and the other one thousand plus not assessable for anyone to rent i understand we have a challenge and major affordability problem but moving forward this particular development it might be weighing on her shoulders being the fact shes looking at building the user frantically in the richmond i would like you to balance out this citywide policy and start with a smaller developer so thank y
Interest balance becomes a little bit different than a demolition of town housing which quite frankly under 317 cant be grant so we need to look at that also and then the members of the board have talked about the fact you would like to have some kind of some of the units be affordable this is not going to be a rental project this is going to be a for sale project and what i suggest and i have to consult with the project sponsor is perhaps we can look at one of the unit as a for sale unit that is for the Workforce Housing that is right now we have two policies one is that 90 percent of medium income is section 13 and recently have a well, this last election the policy of having housing raising it up to one hundred and thirty percent i think one of the points this board has talked about although planning hadnt moved forward aggressively to address is the need for Workforce Housing also so one of my suggestions would be and again is the City Attorney has to jump into it whether or not it
Really affordable thank you. Next speaker. Hi, im amy lee im not not working on this project but speaking as a resident of the Richmond District im a single mom of 3 id love to have those size of rental apartment this is a city that is favorable unfriendly with one bedroom studios ive moved to the richmond and stuck in a house this is too expensive because theyre not unit like this available to families like myself i felt strongly but this project and feel for marching she is he is so developed previous projects that are skeptic to the community and i understand you guys have an important citywide policy with affordability but were looking at 2 units that are 2 hundred and 50 sfooet e square feet and the other one thousand plus not assessable for anyone to rent i understand we have a challenge and major affordability problem but moving forward this particular development it might be weighing on her shoulders being the fact shes looking at building the user frantically in the richmond i
They can afford so perhaps its the other debate we need to bring into this decision. Thank you supervisor farrell. So i understand there are currently two rent controls unit your mentioning one unit as a bmr scenario can you explain the discrepancy. One is subject to rent control currently, however, the record is that none of the units has been on the rental market since 199 of they have been used by the previous owner when at the come into the town and they have not been part of the rental market value for a a long time. To be clear its 2 rent control units today. Right now no. Theyre not right now those unit at the bottom okay there are two questions youre asking one is are they rent control units yes, but under section 7717 which is the outer complooement neighborhood district you can ask to demolish a residential unit. Okay. But to be clear today, its two rent control units and today, there are two residential units neither one is going to okay. And has not been. Supervisor kim. Th
Supervisor mar. Yeah. I want to answer a few of supervisor kims questions in january of last year when i office convened gabriel the architect and tom the owner and a number of the residents i know that that was a concern expressed how to preserve the two units of housing that is when amy lee working with the project sponsor in our office has been discussing that there was an effort to try to figure out a winwin for the project could preserve those two units but still move forward as others have said there are benefits from a project its right bid hard knox and the theater theres a need for housing in the city that concern of the loss as supervisor wiener mention if you demolish two units of rent control housing youre not going to get that back but working with the project sponsor work with a Development Agreement and building on the rest of the lot and supervisor kim suggested so when Alice Barkley and the pardon come forward those are questions and more time for the residents to rais