The committee will come to order. Without objection, all members have five days to visit made statements and questions for the record subject to the limitation of the rules. Ambassador wells and ms. Friedman, welcome to the members of the public and the press as well. We are glad to have our friends from cspan here as well. We need this mornings of the committee conduct oversight of the administrations policy towards afghanistan and iran now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. For months weve been attempting to get some visibility into the ongoing peace negotiations without success. We all want peace and the fighting in afghanistan do and do. Congress needs to know what the potential deal looks like and members need the chance to ask questions and offer views and in the last few weeks, weve seen the reconciliation process go off the rails in a spectacular fashion area to be learned from a president ial message that the administration was planning to host the caliban at camp davi
Serves a low income and water and come is very important. You have people that come in and say, Pay Attention to us. And you have people that are paid to bump the department about getting the project through. The Planning Department, in my perception, listens to the group of people who they want to get the permits approved very fast without any real input from the public. And you are it for the Planning Department. You have a role to play to tell the Planning Department, Pay Attention to the people that are really struggling to stay in the city to get housing that is affordable to them, not housing affordable for people that are dumped from the buses from Silicon Valley into San Francisco. We are building the housing and everywhere in Silicon Valley. If you dont acknowledge that, you are not really paying attention. You are about to have the first hearing ever on a 43 site project. Theres nothing available. I have been bugging the department. And you are going to approve the project. Y
, really, to some extent, are a quirk of the code because they flow from the corner lot location and the need to modify the rear yard, so just as a two other examples, the common open space that we have, if it were located in a code compliant rear yard, we would not need a variance for common open space, but because its in a modified rear yard that responds to the corner location, different standards apply and it requires a variance. The same thing is true of dwelling unit exposure. The dwelling units that look out onto this modified rear yard, because it is modified, you need a variance. Again, we provided the code compliant rear yard, which results in a weird configuration okay. Commissioner richards . So on the nested bedrooms, 75 are in one bedroom 75 is in onebedroom and 50 9 of the onebedroom units contain a nested bedroom. To me, from a quality point of view, if you have a two and a three bedroom threebedroom units, you have nested bedroom number 2 or bedroom number 3, it would
[laughter] the short answer is that a non nested onebedroom apartment needs roughly about 23 to 24 feet of frontage to the street in order to get a bedroom that has a window on the front. When you run the 24 feet around the limited perimeter of the site, it reduces the number of units that you can get significantly because the 24 foot wide unit, lets say we try to crate 550 or 650 square foot units, you are coming back about 24 feet, then you have a n the other side. You are under utilizing the site because you are unable to maximize the depth to the perimeter ratio. That makes sense. If that is relatively clear, i can then go on. And nested bedroom is a hot button item. We know this. We have done them, actually very successfully in terms of their demand on the market for the last four or five years. We have several projects north of market that already have them i am not a marketing person, but the difference between a studio apartment which doesnt have the nested bedrooms stigma, and
Thank you. [laughter] how to design housing in San Francisco 101. [laughter] the short answer is that a non nested onebedroom apartment needs roughly about 23 to 24 feet of frontage to the street in order to get a bedroom that has a window on the front. When you run the 24 feet around the limited perimeter of the site, it reduces the number of units that you can get significantly because the 24 foot wide unit, lets say we try to crate 550 or 650 square foot units, you are coming back about 24 feet, then you have a n the other side. You are under utilizing the site because you are unable to maximize the depth to the perimeter ratio. That makes sense. If that is relatively clear, i can then go on. And nested bedroom is a hot button item. We know this. We have done them, actually very successfully in terms of their demand on the market for the last four or five years. We have several projects north of market that already have them i am not a marketing person, but the difference between a