In the absence of the proposed s. U. D. s removal of the Affordable Housing grandfather clause, the project would be required to provide 14. 5 or 14 of the 95 units as permanently affordable. The s. U. D. Language as proposed by supervisor farrell would require 17 of the 95 units to be affordable. Commensurate with the removal of the dwelling unit density control proposed in the geary masonic s. U. D. , increasing the number of dwelling units from 21 to 95, the Planning Department recommends that the s. U. D. S be modified to increase the Affordable Housing rate from the current requirement of 18 from rental projects to 23 and from the current requirement of 20 for ownership projects to 26 . At the a. M. I. Levels prescribed by section 413. 3 of the planning code. Its based on staff review of the level of density increase provided by the proposed s. U. D. As well as other current relevant city policies. More specifically, the citys inclusionary Affordable Housing program was recently r
Do you know if i can turn on oh, perfect. Thank you. First off, i want to thank all of you for your time this afternoon. And thank the supervisor and his staff along with the Planning Department. This is certainly a long and arduous process to get here. But one that weve been very excited about. I wanted to start off by giving you a little bit of context about the site itself. It is the site formerly of the lucky penny founded by geary and masonic. Immediately adjacent to trader joes. Its heavily serviced site of Public Transit and the future site of the geary Rapid Transit line as well, which is currently under construction there. Will actually be a stop for that right at masonic, immediately adjacent to the proposed development. I wanted to spend a few minutes, although the supervisor did do a great job of outlining the evolution of this project. Just outlining the various iterations that have come forth and that planning have considered and preface all of this by saying that, as wit
We put the lobby in the center of the courtyard. As you come into the lobby, you can see through to one of the open spaces that ill show in a moment. And the two towers basically focus can around this organization. Behind the lobby and within the main court, we have this open space and this provides lighten and views to the fitness area. And similarly, we have another open space that is in modified rear yard with a flowthrough planter thats at the rear of the building. As im running short on time, ill point out quickly on the elevations you can, again, see the interdigitation of the facade and pronounced entriway and court yard and ill skip quickly to the roof where we also have our open space. Thank you. Im available for questions, of course. Ok. Thank you. President , my apologies. Theres one important condition that was in response to the neighborhood feedback that id like your permission to introduce. If thats ok. Ok. Can you give us a can you do it in a minute . Sure. Absolutely.
Order to inform exactly how much retail we should have, how it should be sized and placed within the site. We studied the sizes of the shops from how many different the range of the sizes of the shops, how many were on each block, what is the difference between a corner store with a restaurant and a midblock shop, and we looked to emulate these features that were really consistent across the city in mission rock, which we believe will be the main street of mission bay. We actually went so far as to introduce an entirely different chapter of our controls. Just to preview it, weve had the urban design team and the architecture Landscape Team Work Together to ensure that those retail spaces on the ground floor of each of our buildings is really working to activate and enhance the public realm along the streets themselves. Well also be looking at a siteside programmisit siteside programming for all of the retail, so well be taking a holistic approach to look at where the restaurants should
There is such a degree of uncertainty with it when you dont even know at the end of the day after months or maybe a year of going through the process whether youre even going to be able to go into that space, that it its very discouraging for potential retailers to come into our neighborhood commercial corridors, so i hope that were going to be taking a look at expediting the process to increase the certainty and enable retailers to be able to get in as quickly as possible. Also, i think flexiblity is key, and i heard a lot of that today. And i i think its with the changing conditions of retail in the city and in the country, i think its very important that a diversity of uses be able to go into ground floor commercial spaces, including professional services. And one of your colleagues, supervisor peskin has been promoting legislation that would restrict that. We would really encourage diversity. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is deidre