Should increase affordability of some of the sites. We think that sites that large enough to accommodate 200 units should be affordable, should be 100 affordable and that the sites that are larger than 200 units we can look at a more mixed Income Housing. We think that will help balance our housing in San Francisco and meet the affordability mandate set out bit general plan as well acid prop k and really create a service for the public in San Francisco. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, commissioners. Whitney jones the director of the Housing Development form chinatown ucu. First i want to thank the city staff who are moving this process forward. Thank you, guys. Many city sites have been held by agencies for years without a process for moving them forward to meet overall city needs. So this process of starting to move these sites are consider uses for these sites is a great one. We support the chao choochoo paper presented to you earlier earli
Could provide us the opportunity to build muchneeded Affordable Housing in areas of the city, like soma, and the central city and in chinatown. Additionally, we think that we should increase affordability of some of the sites. We think that sites that large enough to accommodate 200 units should be affordable, should be 100 affordable and that the sites that are larger than 200 units we can look at a more mixed Income Housing. We think that will help balance our housing in San Francisco and meet the affordability mandate set out bit general plan as well acid prop k and really create a service for the public in San Francisco. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, commissioners. Whitney jones the director of the Housing Development form chinatown ucu. First i want to thank the city staff who are moving this process forward. Thank you, guys. Many city sites have been held by agencies for years without a process for moving them forward to meet overall
And meet the affordability mandate set out bit general plan as well acid prop k and really create a service for the public in san francisco. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, commissioners. Whitney jones the director of the Housing Development form chinatown ucu. First i want to thank the city staff who are moving this process forward. Thank you, guys. Many city sites have been held by agencies for years without a process for moving them forward to meet overall city needs. So this process of starting to move these sites are consider uses for these sites is a great one. We support the chao choochoo paper presented to you earlier earlier and highlight a couple of points that i think you have heard a couple of times already. A couple of simple points with my heard at the public meetings, the emphasis was on affordable and middleIncome Housing. We think with that emphasis to set a great emphasis on affordable and that sites that offer the opportuni
Working on upper yard, balboa reservoir and 50 ferris, baker watts that we actually did achieve in central freeway is a great example of our producing in all kinds of neighborhoods. I will say that we work within coin straints. So if we build pay 200unit deal our average subsidy is 250,000. That is 50 million of subsidy. We have to come up, and that doesnt necessarily include acquisition costs. That is a huge amount of our annual budget. There are opportunity costs we have to consider, because if were going to do that, that means that other very worthy projects may not. So i heard something about driving with i heard some of the Folks Community housing organizations come up and say they want it exactly the inverse of what you are proposing, up to 200 units want 100 affordable and you are saying it could be 50 affordable. Let me clarify, i must have misstated. We would love to see 100 s but that would cost 50 million. So we have to acknowledge scarcity of resources. Its a resource issue
Enterprise and minority Business Enterprise and finding space for them. The way i think you do that is to have a Development Agreement. I think the best thing to do was to have a Standard Development agreement that has elements that Everyone Wants to see, and then tailor it to specific sites and they arer not only starting from scratch with Different Development partners. That is something to consider and get it out in one fail whoop, local hire, mix of units, any sort of benefits that you want to provide for special open space or programming, for Economic Development . Put it all in there, do the work upfront and for each site depending on how many units and the size, you can see what of those elements you canly actually do . This is another sort of planning code issue that again im not sure if maybe the Housing Working Group saw it and determined it wasnt feasible. But we have a requirement for the Affordable Housing that if you are going to do it, sra there is a certain unit mix, a