Average Unit-Size Density Incentive Program On July 30, 2013, the City Council approved the Average Unit-size Density (AUD) Incentive Program Ordinance. The AUD Program Ordinance carries out a key implementation action of the City’s 2011 General Plan. The intent of the Program is to support the construction of smaller, more affordable residential units near transit and within easy walking and biking distance to commercial services and parks. Increased densities and development standard incentives are allowed in most multi-family and commercial zones of the City to promote additional housing. Rental, employer-sponsored, and limited equity housing cooperative units that provide housing opportunities to the City’s workforce are especially encouraged. The AUD Program has an initial duration of eight years or until 250 new units under the Program have been constructed in the High Density Residential or Priority Housing Overlay areas, whichever occurs first. Any application for new units that is deemed complete prior to the expiration of the Program may continue to be processed under the AUD Incentive Program.

As of August 31, 2016, the following residential units are pending, or have been approved or constructed under the AUD Program. Residential units that are pending, or have been approved or constructed under the AUD Program. 1Includes projects under construction with a building permit. 2Projects that have received a Certificate of Occupancy. 3Units located in the Medium-High Density Area are shown for informational purposes only. 4Includes all pending projects that have an application with the Planning Division. Some projects may not have been deemed complete. AUD Projects as of August 31, 2016 Click the double arrow on the upper left part of the map to view the legend. Please click the links below to view the AUD Cases by Month. AUD Cases - April 2016 Related documents to view: As of March 15, 2016, the following residential units are pending, or have been approved or constructed under theThis page summarizes the unit of pressure and wind used in this web site.

Hecto Pascal is a unit for pressure, and, in this web site, used mainly for representing the central pressure of a typhoon. In Japan, the unit of "millibar" (mb) was used through November 1992, but since December 1992, the unit of "hectopascal" (hPa) has been used to comply with the International System of Units. Conversion between those two units is 1hPa = 1mb, however, so the value itself is the same as before. Knot is a unit for speed. One knot means a speed of moving one nautical mile (nm) in one hour. Knot is used for representing the maximum wind speed at the center of a typhoon, or a movement speed of a typhoon on this website. Because 1nm = 1.852km, 1kt = 1.852km/h = 0.5144m/s. Roughly speaking, halving the knot makes the speed in meter per second, while doubling it makes the speed in kilometer per hour. By the way, Japan Meteorological Agency publishes conversion tables of motion speed, wind speed and distance. This site refers to these conversion tables. The intensity of a tropical cyclone is classified by the maximum sustained wind (10-min mean) according to World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

The following table summarizes categories for tropical cyclones. ac unit is not cutting onHere "Tropical Depression" is a tropical cyclone weaker than a typhoon, and a tropical cyclone stronger than a typhoon, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) classification has four levels (previously five) and international classification has three levels.recharge my home ac unit Maximum Sustained Wind (10-min Mean)window air conditioner heating units meters per second (m/s) kilometers per hour (km/h) central position cannot be accurately identified Severe Tropical Storm (STS) Typhoon (TY) or Hurricane Note that the definition of "typhoon" is different between the Japanese standard and the international standard.

with the wind speed of more than 34 kt is called a "typhoon" in Japan, while in the international standard, that with the wind speed of more than 64 kt is called a "typhoon." Tropical cyclones in the world are called by different names in each basin, such as a "typhoon" and a "hurricane," but the standard to be called by such names is the same : more than 64 kt of wind. Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) and other US meteorological organizations use Saffir-Simpson Scale to classify tropical storms stronger than the hurricane (or typhoon) intensity based on the maximum sustained wind (1-min mean). Maximum Sustained Wind (1-min Mean) A typhoon with maximum sustained surface winds greather than or equal to 130 knots (approximately Category 5) is called a "super typhoon," and a hurricane of Category 3 and above is called a "major hurricane." A tropical cyclone weaker than Category 1 is not a "typhoon" in the international standard, but may be classified as a "typhoon" in the Japanese standard.

In mainland China and Hong Kong, a typhoon with maximum sustained surface winds greather than or equal to 100 knots are called Super Typhoon. However, maximum sustained winds are measured differently in mainland China and Hong Kong, where the former uses 2-min mean and the latter uses 10-min mean. In addition to maximum wind, maximum gust is also used to represent the strength of winds in a shorter time scale. Japan Meteorological Agency defines maximum gust as the average of 3 seconds (the average of 12 measurements by the frequency of 0.25 seconds), in comparison to the average of 10 minutes for maximum wind. The ration of maximum gust divided by maximum wind is called "gust factor" and it is known to take some values between 1.5 and 2. This means that 50m/s maximum gust could happen within the storm-wind circle of 25m/s maximum wind. For other regions than Japan and the United States, please refer to the classifiction of tropical cyclones in the world. The size of a typhoon is classified by the radius of the area in which the wind speed exceeds 15 m/s.

The intensity and size represents different aspect of a typhoon. That is, we could have a strong but not large typhoon, and also a large but not strong typhoon. Radius of the area with the wind speed of 15m/s and above Before 2000, JMA has been using additional typhoon classes for intensity and size. The intensity class had "weak" (which corresponds to Tropical Storm) and "middle" (which corresponds to Severe Tropical Storm), and the size class had "very small," "small," and "middle." These classes, however, might have given unreasonable relief to the people's attitude, such as "this typhoon is OK because it's very small and weak." In addition, these typhoon classes were regarded as one reason for a big accident at a river on 1999, when a weak tropical depression caused heavy rain resulted in more than 10 people died of increased water level. Difference between typhoons and tropical depressions is only in terms of winds, and it has nothing to do with rains, but the expression of "weak" might have given different impression for preparedness.