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And for various kind of housing, market rate or not market rate. As many as 40 of San Francisco households are single people. This could be a great and much more affordable option for them. We know that rents are through the roof now. A onebedroom apartment in many places of the city is running for 2,500 or even 3,000 a month. Large studios are often running for 2,000 or more a month. And many people simply cannot afford these rents. We have a lot of people who are living in roommate situations and sometimes cramming in more people than they probably should into some of these roommate situationses. And i believe people should have the option, if they want, to live on their own in a smaller unit with their own kitchen and with their own bathroom. These units will also support a growing national and International Trend of what we call cooperative housing where people have s ....
Weve heard from are people who have legal nonconforming uses that currently are in areas that dont permit office because right now under the current zoning you cant really have office anywhere. Or you have people who want to do new office, which obviously that is a very sensitive issue in western soma because very high demand for office space. But its not the kind of space not the kind of use they want to have to be prevalent throughout the plan area. We have the wmuo district on townsend street. We are permitting one floor of office space in the rcd right, already existing office. Right. On top of that looking at now you have these article 11 buildings which i imagine many of which have existing office in them because they were allowed to today, now in the future wont be able to. So, looking at how we treat even if we choose to call out that category in a separate manner, i just think we need to figure it out because, you know, and actually put [speaker not understood] when it gets to ....
And i think that at a minimum they might have been consulted for their views on ways to address legitimate city interest about housing and how Student Housing is supposed to work in the city. We dont think that the staff report its a good start, but we dont think its there yet. We think it needs more work. And its not clear to us at this point why this ordinance has been proposed. Student housing already reports and this is the work we did. It has clear reporting requirements to the Mayors Office of housing. In addition, schools are required to have institutional master plan. And this appears to be a duplicative unnecessary third layer of reporting. And not sure to what purpose. Weve always supported the monitoring and reporting of Student Housing that takes advantage of the exemptions in the ordinance such as inclusion ....
Statement. It talks about the neighborhood plans and they are referenced in there already and thats fine without going into details which gets to detailed. I like his statement as its written. On that mission, commissioners to endorse the departments mission and value statements, commissioner aye, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously. And places you under item 8 on timing of project implementation. Good afternoon, dan with the department staff. This item commissioners is on your agenda today for discussion only for informational item. We are not suggesting that you take action, we are recommending that on april 4th at the public hearing you can consider taking action at that time. And if we can have the screen for a second, mr. Secretary. This is the technical title for this item. Its what we, and staff have as an appropriate here is a more useful product. Handout you quickly must someone get a permit. This is what we are talking about today. We are not suggesting that you mak ....