Micro-apartments next for S.F.?

[Mad_Nick]

Originally Posted by Hayward

That bathroom might not work. It looks like it's 5' x 5'. How is that even possible unless they're forced to wash hands / shave in the sink in the kitchen. You could fit a toilet near the tub and have a pocket door (so there's no door swing).

In Japan they sometimes have small sinks on top of the toilet, they route the water which would otherwise go straight to the cistern via the tap, which starts running when you flush the toilet and stops running when the cistern is full. Perhaps not for shaving or brushing your teeth, but it does the job for hand washing.

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'Micro-apartment' plan may face limits

Read More: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/articl...ts-4038467.php

A political scrap over who should live in San Francisco is threatening to limit a plan to allow construction of tiny, 220-square-foot apartments to meet the city's housing crisis.

The new units could become magnets for young, high-paid tech workers looking for a place in the city even though they work elsewhere, said Sara Shortt, executive director of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco. The micro-apartments are designed as "crash pads for people who work 24/7 in Silicon Valley and need a place in the city to sleep and party," she said. "It doesn't build a sense of community or neighborhood."

The battle will be taken up Thursday afternoon by the Planning Commission, where the staff wants the commission to reject a Board of Supervisors plan to put a 375-unit cap on the number of new market-rate micro-apartments in the city. "We don't see any policy rationale for the cap," said Sophie Hayward, a city planner dealing with the issue. "We need the housing." She won't get an argument from Supervisor Scott Wiener, who introduced both the original measure to allow construction of the micro-apartments and the proposal to limit the number that can be built.

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