get any money, why don't we start with a san francisco ami and then make the san francisco neighborhood adjustments. it's beyond me to understand why it is that we're sticking with a jupbal ami in a program that requires, that doesn't have any federal money in it, that indeed is a new public policy that it has no public subsidy which has been elevated to a new master plan policy, i guess. then let's have the current of our neighborhood, let's do a city ami >> commissioners, you remember how an unadjusted ami gives us greater simplicity, it streamlines our process. if we have dueling ami programs, it slows down the process and it's more costly. there's nothing magical about an ami chart versus a hud unadjusted ami chart. what's the average people make? on the hut chart, the point is go to the data, look at what the incomes are in the neighborhood, look at what the market rate is in the neighborhood and pick the place. it's either could be to be fiflt percent and 45 percent, you don't need to have dualing charts. we can look at data on the market rate rents and pick an ami level according

residential in san francisco are about 230 or 40. if you are taking, aggregating lots of 250 or half the block you are creating substantially large buildings in areas where you might have a need of much, much finer grain and with additional heights on what is half a block i'm very concerned that those buildings could look overly monsterous relative to what we are trying to achieve. unless additional guidelines are developed which break down the appearance of the building into what is the typical lot width in san francisco we want to avoid in the rush for value capture we are forgetting architectural modulation and all these kinds of things for, by which i was wondering --. >> don't worry, i'm listening. >> not forgetting the essence of what san francisco architecture is all about. i'm sorry, the urban design plan itself, and that is 4c3, very strongly spoke against lot mergers. for those people who haven't been around i need to remind you because what urban design plan for the downtown district required was indeed to avoid having the

to help and benefit san francisco as a whole especially the fathers and mothers in san francisco thank you for your time >> thank you. next speaker, please good evening, commissioners i'm peter hartman a resident homeowner and also chair of the ocii transbay advisory committee as you've heard the citizens advisory committee approved the height increase in our january meeting the main reasons why we did see were first and foremost because of the increase in the number of housing units 73, 60 persons will be below-market-rate and felt this was extremely important given the current issues of the cost in our city we secondly, we found the effective shadows on rincon park and the other parks in the city to be amuse we found the higher building height is really very much in keeps very much with the surrounding character of the 74th annual memorial day neighborhood as development whethn we came up wh the original plan 13 or 14 years ago that was surface parking lots and at that time, three hundred foot building seemed very the idea of a three hundred foot building is bold now it is modest bec

francisco now i'll walk you through through the criteria that map is of dozens of districts in san francisco and that's all one and 50 thousand plus parcels the city so first, we limited over analyze to zones the planning department recollected by the former agency for the port are used a large development agreement last week that will be the order are roechdz their potential is largely considered by the program rather the planning lo alone it politiappl stati state law projects it is not as pdrs or p zones for example, are excluded this leave us with the zoning direc districts where residential is allowed from the gwen this program has excluded the many heaareas that were sdroend the last exactly like metabolarket octavia and t eastern neighborhoods that are created under the plans generally don't limit density by law area instead recollecting by height and bulk and minimum two bedrooms requirement we didn't say look at the ahbp the newer district the department is working closely with at city agencies to develop tools including possible the density bonuses to increase the affordable housin

did it and denver did and a san francisco, california do it, too i'll not let the diversifiesness of the efforts to rip away the proce progress we've a maid the schafrm withs those commissioners in the past year than >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm alison heath with a lifelong friend of jackson park she and i raised our families on potrero hill and other we were forced to struggle with the city over new criminality that was 20 some years ago then as now san francisco had the lowest percentage of children under 8 than any supply the country we understand the as commissioners you have zero control over the s f rp d and the budget but have the ability to shape policies through area plans and new you go guidelines to reverse the trends the showcase square castro hipotrer plans to achieve for fraamilies friendly place and others communities services zoning requirement were written to promoted a significant number of units with two or more bedrooms and design housing with private entrances open space inclusion of other spaces such the pedestrian family-friendly sidewalks and onsite in