Lurie's Family Zoning' Proposal Starts Slogging Through City Hall, With Both NIMBY and YIMBY Opposition

"We are one week away from the Recall Joel Engardio election, which is motivated mostly by animus over the Great Highway closure, but also to some degree over the fact that Engardio supports upzoning the west side so that it can be more than just mostly single-family homes in the future. Yet despite that headwind, SF Mayor Daniel Lurie remains determined to upzone the west side so it's more than just mostly single-family homes."

"In late June, Lurie introduced a housing proposal called the family zoning plan, an attempt to help meet that state-mandated housing element requirement that the city permit 82,000 new housing units by the year 2031. And while we are nowhere near that goal, the Chronicle reports that half of that amount of housing is already approved on paper. So Lurie's family zoning plan intends to cover most of the other half (about 36,000 units),"

"The above Here's what it does Twitter-thread from the SF Planning Department does not, in fact, tell you much about what it does. Neither does Lurie's official press release, which is merely a collection of optimistic platitudes and glowing quotes. But the details are that it would change the zoning along certain corridors of the city's north side and west side so that buildings can be as tall as six to eight stories. Some streets in low-height neighborhoods could see buildings as tall as 14 stories on certain high-traffic commercial corners."

Mayor Daniel Lurie introduced a family zoning plan in late June to help meet a state-mandated requirement to permit 82,000 new housing units by 2031. Half of that target is already approved on paper, and the plan aims to cover roughly the remaining 36,000 units. The proposal would upzone corridors on the city's north and west sides, allowing buildings six to eight stories tall and up to 14 stories on certain high-traffic commercial corners. The plan faces opposition from both NIMBY and YIMBY groups and has its first hearing before the San Francisco Planning Commission.

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