Polk Gulch Garage to Be Preserved, Demand for Parking Grows
While the supersized plans for redeveloping the Polk Gulch funeral home site at 1123 Sutter Street, along with the adjacent three-story garage at the corner of Sutter and Larkin, were…
Approved Tower Pushed Back, Parking Lot Extension Sought
As we outlined back in September of 2020: Having been approved back in 2016 but yet to break ground, the entitlements for a skinny 495-foot-tall tower to rise at 524…
Supersized Development Seeks More Parking, Here’s Why…
Plans for a supersized building to rise across the two Hayes Valley parcels at 618-630 Octavia Street have been in the works since 2019, as we first reported at the…
Surprise! That’s Not a Legal Parking Spot (Or Unit)
While common in practice and rarely enforced, parking in the setback/driveway between a home’s garage and the sidewalk in San Francisco is technically illegal per Planning Code Section 132(f), and…
Parking Lot Slated for Extension as Tower Entitlements Expire
Having been approved back in 2016 but yet to break ground, the entitlements for a skinny 495-foot-tall tower to rise at 524 Howard Street, a development which could yield up…
Onetime Record-Setting Bernal Home Relisted Anew
Having very briefly held the title of the most expensive reported home sale in the history of Bernal Heights when it sold for $2,310,000 back in the first quarter of…
Plans to Convert Podium Parking into Dwelling Units
There are currently 228 parking spaces in the podium of the 227-unit Bay Towers building at 388 Beale Street, the majority of which are tucked away behind the vented semi-circles…
Closer to Fine (But Not Quite) for Supersized West Oakland Project
Facing pushback from Oakland’s Planning Department with respect to the “monotonous and bulky massing” of the proposed 1,032-unit “Hub” development to rise up to 23 stories in height upon the…
Church Opposes Infill Housing, Cites Competition for Parking
As we first reported back in June, plans to remove ten of the eleven garage doors and parking spots at the base of the existing twelve-unit building at 1100 Fulton…
Revised Plans for Supersized Bart-Adjacent Project Sans Parking
Facing pushback from Oakland’s Planning Department with respect to the “monotonous and bulky massing” of the proposed 1,032-unit “Hub” development to rise up to 23 stories in height upon the…