The 7-story affordable housing project at 17th and G in the East Village neighborhood of downtown San Diego provides 72 of the units for permanent supportive housing units for persons earning below 40% area median income and 14 units affordable for persons earning below 50% of the Area Median Income (AMI). The project dubbed ‘The Link’, exemplifies the client’s vision of creating housing enriched with support resources – a special place that can link its formerly homeless residents with the help they need to survive and thrive.
50% FAR Bonus: Allowance to build to 13.0 FAR maximum. Base FAR is 3.0. (Affordable Housing Bonus)
Reduction of Parking Requirement (from 1.0 parking space per unit to .5 spaces/bedroom)
Allowance for up to five incentives from development standard (Project specific incentive: elimination of streetwall requirement on the southwest corner of the site)
Not subject to private open space requirement (“Living Units” exempt from the CCPDO requirement)
