Renderings of a proposed 50-story skyscraper on a one-acre lot on this San Francisco neighborhood would stick out just like the giraffes do on the zoo throughout the road.
The skyscraper at 2700 Sloat Blvd. wouldn’t solely overlook the San Francisco Zoo, however it could change into the tallest constructing within the Outer Sundown neighborhood and alter its make-up. The undertaking by CH Planning plans to deliver 712 residence items to the town’s west aspect, however the renderings launched final week present that the constructing would tower over an space made up of largely two- and three-story houses.
Out of the 712 items, 115 of them can be reasonably priced, in keeping with the most recent software submitted by CH Planning to the San Francisco Planning Division on April 11. The issue is that the neighborhood shouldn’t be zoned for a 500-foot constructing, in keeping with metropolis officers.
The developer stated it needs to make the most of California’s density bonus legislation, which provides builders extra favorable growth necessities in alternate for constructing extra reasonably priced housing items. Earlier variations of the undertaking included an eight-story constructing with 213 items, adopted by a 12-story constructing with 400 items, in keeping with paperwork submitted to the town’s Planning Division during the last a number of years.
A 50-story skyscraper would basically quintuple the present property’s top restrict, stated Daniel Sider, chief of employees for the Planning Division.
“It merely defies logic {that a} constructing in a 100-foot top district searching for a 50% bonus might one way or the other rise to 560 toes,” Sider stated in a press release. “Whereas we agree that this web site is ripe for housing and we hope to work with the developer to realize that, there isn’t a provision in state or native legislation to allow the downtown-style constructing that’s been proposed.”
CH Planning didn’t reply to requests for remark.
In March, CH Planning founder Raelynn Hickey advised the San Francisco Enterprise Occasions that the undertaking would come with 646 items and be a mixed-use tower with ground-floor retail and restaurant area. Based mostly on the most recent software, 69 items have been added, with whole building costing $134 million and taking roughly 20 months to construct.
The undertaking has seen pushback from not less than one group, Save Our Neighborhoods San Francisco, which balked on the earlier proposed rendering and took up a petition to attempt to cease it. The group says it has collected practically 1,900 signatures to ask the town to close down the undertaking.
The present iteration of the undertaking in all probability won’t get off the bottom primarily based on the Planning Division’s response to the proposal.
“The proposed undertaking is flat out inconsistent with native zoning guidelines and state density bonus legal guidelines,” Wealthy Hillis, San Francisco’s planning director, stated in a press release. “It units again our efforts to appropriately add housing on the Metropolis’s west aspect and meet our Housing Aspect targets. Frankly, it’s a distraction.”
However there may be mounting strain for the town to start out constructing new housing. Beneath the brand new Housing for All program, San Francisco goals to construct 82,000 new houses by 2031 by increasing housing decisions, which incorporates zoning legal guidelines accommodating for extra items on the town’s west aspect, just like the Outer Sundown neighborhood.
A backyard heart and parking zone presently occupies the one-acre lot at 2700 Sloat Blvd.
