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point of is because we re talking about affordability for the project in regards to parking, parking makes housing more expensive. because of the shape of the lot you d have to excavate floors to have more than 16 spots even when we re talking about moving electrical and mechanical equipment here or there but that may get you one or two more spots in the floor they have already in the plans for parking to get to approach .3, .5 parking spaces for 95 units, you d have to excavate two and three stories down and that would add a lot cost and potentially make the project not even pencilled. it s not only a design but feasibility issue. i think people need to be aware of that. i think sometimes it gets lost and a matter of us saying more parking design but it s a feasibility issue and adding a lot of parking for this site means we probably wouldn t have a project. i want to move quickly to talk about the other ways cars and automobiles are used for the project which is deliv ....
the city s general plan and your priorities as the commission and currently a family of four lives there. the parents are immigrants from central america and they have two young children, and and there s a history at this property of the current owner trying to force those tenants out and so i don t think that it s an accident that the plan was to convert their one bedroom into a studio and make it impossible for them to live there. so one thing i wanted to bring up was that when and if the permit is approved, the tenants will be displaced temporarily and i wanted i m not sure how it s possible, but to minimize the dislocation of those tenants during that process because the the rent ordinance requires payment of relocation money for three months, and they don t get additional money if they re out of the apartment beyond those three months. okay. that s all i had to say. thank you. vice president richards: thank you. project sponsor, you have i m sorry, public co ....
again, this corner is highly, highly trafficked at most times of the night. it s not the kind of corner where people can stop and jump out and get back in. it s really challenging. that s going to be it doesn t mean don t do the project, it just means there s a challenge. the last thing i ll comment on in terms of affordability, i concur with the staff just to go further the project has a gray area with affordability. it gets the density decontrol it would have had with home sf which requires 30% but yet not there. it s also not at the inclusionary level that was passed this past summer or even the inclusionary level passed that was mandated temporarily through the last version of prop c. so i do think that there s some benefits being conferred here that are positive. we want to see more units but at the same time, it s not giving the affordability we would have seen through home sf or if the project were subject to the affordability in the recently passed legislation ....
and sepg the projeaccepting th one bedroom down in this illegal unit. currently there is a notice on this unit. it does not meet the current building code. there s not existing ventilation, it s very apparent that the unit itself has no building permits for it. so the we have to actually restructure the the unit here, and as i said, we were open and actually our clients have sent an e-mail assuring them that there would be a one bedroom changing it from a studio, and unfortunately, they weren t able to come to any agreement, so as i said, we re in support of taking dr and actually accepting the plan as proposed. thank you. vice president richards: thank you. any additional comments from the project sponsor s team? seeing none, public comment in support of the project sponsor. seeing none, dr requestor, you have two minutes to rebut. [ inaudible ]. yes, initially there was an e-mail that said fine, we agree, and then, they didn t agree anymore. i mean, the plann ....
on where the parking is. i think people will be surprised how little of an impact this has when it actually gets hit on the street. the design is vastly improved. i don t know if you did the earlier design but if you did you vastly i am improved it. it remembers of van ness. originally it was a good design but didn t not turn out as as well as originally planned and part was materialiality. i think your balconies add texture to it which they don t have and it looked like an office complex. i like this one but i hope we don t cheapen the design. i thank supervisor farrell in working on this and getting it to where it is. hopefully the retail will be active. it is a tough corner but you re wine shop is doing well and making it there so hopefully that retail will add to the vibrancy of what s there. so very supportive. commissioner richards. i didn t make the motion but i d like to add the condition we have car-share spaces. the planning code only requires one and i th ....