opportunity to expand. how do we accomplish that? how do i take care of my family? how do i invest in this city, when i can t even invest in my own home. thank you. thank you. next speaker, please. hi, i m jennifer fever with the san francisco tenants union. so the easiest way to protect tenants and affordable rents to keep them housed in the first place. it s been a very frustrating few years for us. we ve had a bunch of tenants come to us worried about losing their homes during extensive renovations. so we started experimenting with filing d.r.s and we ve learned a lot about the planning department and their process. most surprising to me the planning staff had no directive to consider how permits affect existing tenants. the planning code is written so narrowly, they can claim to have hamstrung rather than considering humans in their plans. tenants are 65% of the population. we should matter. i challenge the architects in this room to hold the public forum about their
for the past three years, i have not had a single family house. every project i do has, if it s an rh-2 district, two units and rh-3 we try to get three units in there. thank you. thank you. next speaker, please. thank you. thank you. hello. my name is luke. i have been the principal of an architecture studio in san francisco for the past 20 years. i m also a member of the a. a.i.a. public and policy committee. i find most of the specifics to be overly restrictive with a clear bias towards the radical historicallism. for instance, the grab bag to qualify for conditional use demolition is clearly designed to be unachievable, particularly egregious is the subject building not resemble the height scale and architecture of surrounding buildings. this language is so deliberately vague, and subject to personal interpretation, that it could easily disqualify nearly all potential candidates for demolition consideration. doesn t every existing single family house in san francisco
[bell ringing] and so we re not given the opportunity to expand. how do we accomplish that? how do i take care of my family? how do i invest in this city, when i can t even invest in my own home. thank you. thank you. next speaker, please. hi, i m jennifer fever with the san francisco tenants union. so the easiest way to protect tenants and affordable rents to keep them housed in the first place. it s been a very frustrating few years for us. we ve had a bunch of tenants come to us worried about losing their homes during extensive renovations. so we started experimenting with filing d.r.s and we ve learned a lot about the planning department and their process. most surprising to me the planning staff had no directive to consider how permits affect existing tenants. the planning code is written so narrowly, they can claim to have hamstrung rather than considering humans in their plans. tenants are 65% of the population. we should matter. i challenge the architects in this
need. i think in all of my projects, starting i think after the 08, there was a huge wave of money that came into the city. and a large number of houses smaller houses that were either added on or in cases where they were no longer structurally sound were replaced with larger single family houses. for the past three years, i have not had a single family house. every project i do has, if it s an rh-2 district, two units and rh-3 we try to get three units in there. thank you. thank you. next speaker, please. thank you. thank you. hello. my name is luke. i have been the principal of an architecture studio in san francisco for the past 20 years. i m also a member of the a. a.i.a. public and policy committee. i find most of the specifics to be overly restrictive with a clear bias towards the radical historicallism. for instance, the grab bag to qualify for conditional use demolition is clearly designed to be unachievable, particularly egregious is the subject building not r
hi, i m jennifer fever with the san francisco tenants union. so the easiest way to protect tenants and affordable rents to keep them housed in the first place. it s been a very frustrating few years for us. we ve had a bunch of tenants come to us worried about losing their homes during extensive renovations. so we started experimenting with filing d.r.s and we ve learned a lot about the planning department and their process. most surprising to me the planning staff had no directive to consider how permits affect existing tenants. the planning code is written so narrowly, they can claim to have hamstrung rather than considering humans in their plans. tenants are 65% of the population. we should matter. i challenge the architects in this room to hold the public forum about their role in our displacement. surely you can see how this system can be abused by speculators, looking for any way to get rid of rent-controlled tenants and avoid compensating them. i support the legisla