The San Francisco planning department presented a plan on Thursday to expand San Francisco tens of thousands of houses by increasing the height and density boundaries in large parts of the city.
The “family zoning plan” largely focuses on the Westside of the city, where it imagines, a larger, denser living space.
For the mayor Daniel Lurie, this was a political statement with some risk: he was pleased with the pro-development Yimby groups who did not support his candidacy and possibly irritate the population in Westside in the neighborhood in Westside.
The city is commissioned by the state to build 82,000 residential units by 2031, and the city’s upzoning plan was first initiated in 2023 under the former mayor London Rasse in order to meet this requirement. In addition to the units approved under current zoning, the proposed changes would take 36,000 units.
The consequences of not having met government requirements could be bad, but the housing construction raised a distant back seat during Lurie’s mayor campaign on public security, road conditions and accountability. It was the reigning mayor in London Rasse that ran urban topics and received the notes of organizations such as SF Yimby and Housing Action Coalition.
In a voter guide of Neighborhoods United (a coalition of neighborhood groups that opposes upzoning in relation to the housing platforms of the mayor candidates, Lurie was against the “Ceiling -upzoning plan of the city” and the perspective that the state apartment element is “unreachable” and “counterproductive”. Public comments developed by candidates.
In the meantime, he accepted a different liability on his campaign website and promised Rezone to make the state -sought residential element.
In a pleasant surprise for pro-housing organizations after being in room 200, Lurie takes a pro-upzoning line.
“It’s brave, isn’t it?” Said District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar, who quickly pointed out that many voters in Lurie’s basis (and their own district) have expressed hostility to the city’s upzoning destinations. The neighborhoods that disrupt the zone changes almost exclusively overlap with Lurie’s base.
