The skyscraper would bring 712 apartment units to San Francisco and become the tallest building in an area that is home to mostly two- and three-story homes.
Renderings of a proposed 50-story skyscraper on a one-acre lot in this San Francisco neighborhood would stick out like the giraffes do at the zoo across the street.
Out of the 712 units, 115 of them would be affordable, according to the latest application submitted by CH Planning to the San Francisco Planning Department on April 11. The problem is that the neighborhood is not zoned for a 500-foot building, according to city officials., which gives developers more favorable development requirements in exchange for building more affordable housing units.
“It simply defies logic that a building in a 100-foot height district seeking a 50% bonus could somehow rise to 560 feet,” Sider said in a statement. “While we agree that this site is ripe for housing and we hope to work with the developer to achieve that, there is no provision in state or local law to permit the downtown-style building that’s been proposed.
The project has seen pushback from at least one group, Save Our Neighborhoods San Francisco, which balked at the previous proposed rendering and took up a petition to try and stop it. The group says it has collected nearly 1,900 signatures to ask the city to shut down the project.While other expensive cities have excelled at using a new federal program to get vulnerable families off the streets, San Francisco hasn’t kept up.
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