Urban Townhome Addition Redesigned
While the plans to add two urban townhomes atop the recently remodeled Financial District building at 220 Battery Street are pushing forward, as we reported last week, the project team…
Plan to Prohibit Street Parking for a Big Building with a Small Garage
The idea behind San Francisco’s policy of restricting the number of parking spaces allowed to be included within a new development, a policy which has been in place for years,…
Recommendation for Affordable Housing Requirements Revealed
With San Francisco Supervisors having drafted two competing proposals for overhauling the percentage and mix of below market rate (BMR or “affordable”) units that developers of market rate projects are…
Major Price Cut for Mission District Development Site
As we first reported earlier this year: Approved for a 24-unit development to rise up to six stories in height on the Mission District site, with 20 two-bedrooms and 4…
The Draft Plan to Radically Change Parking in This Neighborhood
With UCSF encroaching, the Warriors Arena having broken ground nearby and a neighborhood building boom underway, plans to radically change the allocation and regulation of Dogpatch’s 2,700 on-street parking spaces…
Bigger Plans for Outer Sunset Gas Station Site
As originally proposed a couple years ago, the 76 station on the southwest corner of Lawton and 42nd Avenue in the Outer Sunset was to be razed for a four-story…
Designs and Timing for UCSF’s New Psych Center in Dogpatch
With the latest plans for UCSF’s future Child, Teen and Family Center, and Department of Psychiatry Building, slated to be presented to UC’s Board of Regents next month, a plugged-in…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Drops to Its Lowest Mark This Year
Having hit 4.30 percent four weeks ago with the probability of the Fed’s second rate hike already priced-in, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage has since dropped to…
Complaints Related to Airbnb-ing in S.F. Have Doubled Again
Having more than doubled from around 250 in 2015 to over 600 in 2016, the number of formal complaints related to illegal short-term rentals in San Francisco is on pace…
Former ‘Farm’ Parcel Rezoned, on the Market as a Development Site
Having successfully petitioned to re-zone the southwestern spur of the former Mission District “Farm” buildings site from Open Space (OS) to Mixed-Use Residential (MUR), with the potential for building up…