About six floors i believe. Im not sure of the floors it goes up. I think that is primarily a question that we should ask glen scal vo to answer and we have been sensitive to the way it can be successful and as a wall material can be unsuccessful and the elements that we have tried to integrate into those portions of the building have to do with color, with add mixture, by creating release in the depth of the precast panels and variety of finishes in terms of smooth and rough finish and a big palet that changes the way light is perceived and the surface of the building is perceived so i think we have a very skillful architect and tried to maximize the visual impact of that material. Yeah. It looks like its going to be just for my personal preference if its a little bit darker its richer on that part about the third level up to the six level. Maybe he can i am getting outside of my licensing permissions. So basically the way that we have done it at the base of the building we have stone
And includes housing and south of harrison street where you have sli primarily housing is extremely limited only to Affordable Housing and then the far north east corner near fourth and tal mar you have several blocks here sso which is zoned office. The resolution the board of supervisors passed instructing the task force to under go this plan asked them to use the existing zoning as the base. It wasnt looking to necessarily reinvent the wheel or create new districts and thats what the task force came up with and the same philosophy in terms of harris street being a dividing line along with the freeway. The major changes however is that there were no longer be any mixed use districts in western soma. They will be new districts fall under eastern neighborhood mixed use districts so north of harrison street in the red primarily you have wmg for western soma and the existing alleys and rad mixed district that is also found in the alleys but has more mixed use nature within the alleys and
Address two of the questions of the ones that you presented. I cannot address the tishman spire strategy in changing or creating their program. Art stone is a rental developer, owneroperator, and the intention here one of the intentions in redesigning the project was to design a rental high rise. We think weve got it right. Everybody has to make a subjective business judgment call in terms of the right balance and how many square feet for a studio, one bedroom, two bedroom is and is it 1100 feet or 1350 square feet . We have made a decision guided by the limits imposed by the eir and the original approvals to go to the higher unit end of unit count and adjust the size slightly lower. We still have met the 40 two and three bedroom threshold. Thats a factual statement and exactly where we were and recall us having been in 2005. In terms of the best way i can respond to the preponderance or not of families living in downtown hi rises is probably one hawthorn which is a project that my com
Was scheduled to come to you in december. Now it looks like its coming in january, and i will be the only person who has standing on the project because no one is paying attention to the fact that we are about to lose the Exposition Center of the city through demolition. Its on your advance calendars. How many of you know what henry adams and are andin and i know that is demolition of the concourse. I have in the past month have been invited to kpfas annual events which is in december, the green festival which was last week, and another thing. No one is paying attention because you dont give any notice and it will be exactly the same. Notice only goes to Property Owners within a 300foot radius and me because i get all notices. That is not very good notice. I have pleaded with the Planning Department staff, particularly Environmental Review, that they require owner to give notice to all of the tenants. The tenants come in there once a year. Kbfa and the green festival. No one knows they
Of the best way i can respond to the preponderance or not of families living in downtown hi rises is probably one hawthorn which is a project that my company developed and has 165 residential units and its anecdotal information and not just speak for example art stone and i have provided to my partners. We have approximately five families i think the definition of families parents with children living in the 165 unit high rise building. 10 units remain unsold but it cant skew the mix too much and the preponderance of the units are primary residents. Theyre not investor units. I dont know if i can shed anymore light on the question. I think you answered it and certainly sounds based on your experiences with hawthorn this is the best you feel that would work best for you and i am certainly supportive, and obviously these units are condo mapped so in the future they had to be sold they could be sold, and i really complement you also on the design redesign with an outstanding Architectural