I guess im done. I have one last thing to say and that is simply, what is the job of planning . Isnt it to make sure we have housing and we have infrastructure and we have subway systems . We have a subway system that is brand new and doesnt go to the stadium or trance bay term ina its a failure. He have a new trance bay terminal that is built for a train that will never a arrive and yet doesnt connect to bart . What are we doing . This makes absolutely no sense. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon commissioners, my name is timothy right and im a field representative with carpenters local 22 and i was born, raised and still living on the west side. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. Im here today to speak against the proposed legislation. The legislation will be at odds of the citys over all goal of increasing Housing Production and improving affordability for residents. This legislation goes far beyond residential demolition. This would difficult in decreased Housi
In damascus. The u. N. And the Syrian Arab Red Crescent working on a plan off for departures from the us will humanitarian assistance. Whats being discussed at the moment and hope hans need to agree on this both deliver a system. Called phone. The opposition accuses the government of using a tactic employed throughout the 8 years of war siege and starve people into submission and rock band it appears to be succeeding and yet again the International Community is failing to act. Beirut hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes in democrats or public of congo because of into communal fighting around 4000 have arrived in neighboring uganda the United Nations is trying to resettle zarmina kay and while the refugees doesnt want us to has more from them. Its been 2 days since of noir family and right the child while the refugee settlement 2 of 5 children aged 4 and 7 didnt survive the journey from the north east of the sea to western uganda. India when the fighting
Need. I think in all of my projects, starting i think after the 08, there was a huge wave of money that came into the city. And a large number of houses smaller houses that were either added on or in cases where they were no longer structurally sound were replaced with larger Single Family houses. For the past three years, i have not had a Single Family house. Every project i do has, if its an rh2 district, two units and rh3 we try to get three units in there. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. My name is luke. I have been the principal of an Architecture Studio in San Francisco for the past 20 years. Im also a member of the a. A. I. A. Public and policy committee. I find most of the specifics to be overly restrictive with a clear bias towards the radical historicallism. For instance, the grab bag to qualify for conditional use demolition is clearly designed to be unachievable, particularly egregious is the subject building not resemble the height
Has asked, and what i think we need to answer is this legislation that prohibits the demolition of sound housing . If that is countered to the densification that we need to have for environmental reasons, then are we not just setting ourselves up for failure . Just answering that question, for me, is going to allow us to make progress. Aside from that, i would suggest a few things that i would like to see in the legislation. I would like to exempt cosmetic, nonstructural things like cladding from the demo calculations. I would like fines to fit, you know, the crime. I would like things in addition to fines, like process, to weed out bad actors. So we know who they are, we know they are there frequent flyers. We currently do not have a process that codified to disallow them to keep gaming the system, other than fines. I think we can do that through a process. I would like to have the demo calculations and additions to be more targeted to neighborhoods. I know we have resisted that, but
Adjacent buildings, that it contains a gable roof, like several on the block. It contains a raised entry, like several on the block. And it contains some doublehung fixed encasement windows, all of which are found throughout the neighborhood. Therefore, doesnt meet that criteria of the ordinance. The project, although compatible with the mixed character, does not prescriptively conform with the height scale forms and architectural details of the entire surrounding neighborhood, as the neighborhood itself is quite mixed. The project, although it did add density, it did not add affordability equal to or greater than the existing building being demolished. So it wouldnt be approvable under that criteria. And the units, although similarly sized and with similar exposure, full floor flat plus down, and the other is floor floor unit and up, it exceeds the cap placed in the ordinance. Both roughly 2,000 square feet each. And lastly, the project includes the garage, which is also prohibited un