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on the whole, i am supportive of this project, and i will turn it over to the director. thank you, commissioner. i will emphasize this is 25% affordable. it is a pretty su substantial number of affordable. to commissioner johnson s point, it is common in much of the city to have taller buildings at the corners especially in the commercial districts. it is common in the richmond and pacific heights with the multiple story buildings with lower rise single family or two family between, and because this is on a major transit line, as many of you pointed out, this felt like the right place for this amount of density. with respect to the transition. this is a very narrow lot. it would be extremely difficult, i think, to carve out some parts of this building without losing more units and getting into that whole discussion about the loss of units with respect to other aspects of city law and policy. i think on the whole weared on the side of saying this was the right project ....
number of affordable. to commissioner johnson s point, it is common in much of the city to have taller buildings at the corners especially in the commercial districts. it is common in the richmond and pacific heights with the multiple story buildings with lower rise single family or two family between, and because this is on a major transit line, as many of you pointed out, this felt like the right place for this amount of density. with respect to the transition. this is a very narrow lot. it would be extremely difficult, i think, to carve out some parts of this building without losing more units and getting into that whole discussion about the loss of units with respect to other aspects of city law and policy. i think on the whole weared on the side of saying this was the right project in the right place and poster child how home-sf project should work that is the basis for our recommendation. i want to second your motion. thank you. commissioner fong. it is inte ....
it would be extremely difficult, i think, to carve out some parts of this building without losing more units and getting into that whole discussion about the loss of units with respect to other aspects of city law and policy. i think on the whole weared on the side of saying this was the right project in the right place and poster child how home-sf project should work that is the basis for our recommendation. i want to second your motion. thank you. commissioner fong. it is interesting that the flow in terms of or waves, if you will, of housing development in our city. if you look at this area, you know, the first great wave was after the war when sun stream and those people developers built quite a few of the homes here. they built it on a relatively small scale for the returning g i s. as i indicated at a previous time, perhaps the norm of what we are seeing in san francisco changed. we are now getting these 5, 6, 7 story pop ups, walk ups similar to the larger ....
perspective what the neighborhood would look like. the actual package should have the materials on the elevation drawings and there should be a rendering in there as well from the corner of 45th. we supplemented the visual with an additional rendering of the building looking back from 45th avenue towards the north. that is the only one. the main rendering from the corner of 45th and judah. commissioner johnson. i live in a sister neighborhood of this project in the richmond, and in the richmond we have single family homes, we have two to four story buildings, we have multi-family units and we have huge buildings, particularly on the outer sunset side close to the ocean. around the 1980s there was a shift to down zone different parts of the city including this neighborhood. i think one of the folks who came to speak in favor of the project shared that. for so many of us living in multi-family buildings or want to live in other neighborhoods there is limited sup ....
second. thank you. on that motion to continue this matter to december 2nd december 5th. excuse me, december 5th. [roll call] assistant zoning administrator? continuing the variance to the same date. thank you. that will place us in item 18 , 3360 sacramento street, conditional use authorization. good afternoon, commissioners i am with planning department staff. the proposal before you as a conditional use authorization to legally establish a trade office to doing businesses the devonian group within the sacramento street m.c.d. the planning code requires conditional use authorization for trade office uses within this zoning district. the subject property is developed with a three-story, mixed use building, constructed in 1909. no exterior modifications other than business signage are proposed. the ground floor tenant space has been occupied by the existing tenant since january, 2013. prior to 2013, the space was used as an office for a design professiona ....