Could be learned from such a very small sample size which, is one of the citys housing stock. What conclusions would planning staff be able to reach by studying 375 units in a sample this small would they be able to determine whether or not its a successful Housing Project . How it compares to other housing types or what changes might be recommended its we dispute its a statistically valid sample size and do not believe that the conclusions based on a sample size this small could be relied on and have a my potential for error and second the cap sends a wrong message to market blooder and is that the city doesnt support this market and that investors should proceed at their own payroll and while this approach is common in San Francisco its distrust traiting to our members. First if the cap is adopted its not clear what the harm the city would be avoidings and second its another example of the contribution of the values weest spouse and policies we adopt while a city we claim to support
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
We are happy to continue working with the neighborhood and supervisor kims office. The continuance to february 28th is acceptable and hopefully we will have fewer people here for Public Comment when we come back. Thank you. Any additional Public Comment on the continuance . Good afternoon, commissioners, my name is angelica with the south Market Community action network. I thank you for continuing this project in terms of making sure that the community has adequate or enough time to really meet with the developer. I do request that the community is able to speak on this. A lot of the people here today took the time to be here. So even if you limit our speaking to even one minute, i ask of you to let our Community Speak on this issue and why we are here. As you know this is a development that is the single unit family zone and a lot of us concerned with the stability of the families including seniors in the neighborhood. So i please, im asking to please let us speak, thank you. Is there
Project manager lives in the neighborhood and managed the development of it at 55 page street. As you know 400 grove street was once part of the offramp that stretched through blieting the neighborhood and today it serves as a surface parking lot which is not the highest and best use for the urban prop. After purchasing this parcel, we hired inaudible of the San Francisco based Award Winning inaudible architecture. She has worked with market activity plan to design an outstanding mixed use building and help to beautify a very busy stretch of the street. It will bring numerous inaudible and fulfill the goals. It will take a former freeway site and transform it into a beautiful new landmark building and bring the positive activity to the corners of goff and grove street doner the day and at night. It will boost the local economy and add 34 Housing Units with a good mix of studios, one and two units with over half suitable for families. It will add 4 bmr units on site to better housing in
Wall and we will talk about how we chose to do that later on. So just a quick project facts that you have heard before, the project is between 5 and 4 stories, the height is between 45 and 55 feet, we took advantage of the 15foot height for the base and we could create a really nice sort of retail space, right at the corner of goff and grove as well as walk up units on grove and goff street. The unit mix is there, we have 52 present two bedrooms and the rest of the mix is studios and one bedrooms and there are four on sight bmrs which 50 percent of them will be units. There are only 17 Parking Spaces as for the plan and there are 25plus bike park and then about a 2,000 commercial space. This is very quickly the plan, there is a Basement Parking but we are only going down five feet to mitigate as much as possible, excavating too much and that is the parking as well as bike storage in the corner and what is important about the project for us was the Site Planning strategy on the ground f