One of the first projects to show the impacts of SF's recent upzoning.
8 stories, 8 units right next to USF, in a mostly 2-3 story area.
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Benjamin Schneider
@urbenschneider
Good illustration of the challenges of the 2 stair mandate for narrow buildings.
On a standard 25 foot lot, you can either have 2 stairs or a lightwell.
The latter opens up more livable, coherent floorpans. x.com/PaulSteidl/sta…
More thoughts on the benefits of skinny buildings — they're almost always aesthetically and urbanistically an improvement on wide buildings, no matter the quality of the architecture.
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I would pay to watch the neighbors lose their minds. Is there a livestream of the city planning meetings?
This is ridiculous. It looks terrible. Torture for the rest of the neighborhood.
Nice short building. Would hope taller buildings can be built in expensive areas
looks out of place now but gotta rip the bandaid off and build
Once they're all over it will be fine
Very ugly. Will immediately make people hate the upzoning.
The following QT is much better. If it costs too much, they should get near property owners involved. You can either make their properties worth more with a new build, or worth lees.
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Tall Roman Statue
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Do people who design slop boxes actually think of themselves as talented? x.com/urbenschneider…
It’s just a shame SF design policies turn out trash. SF has a very unique vernacular, all the new stuff going up honestly looks like what London was building 15 years ago.
why do the people designing these buildings have no taste. why, God, why
A typical proposed development feature: a woeful amount of parking spaces in a neighborhood that lacks spaces.
I boggle that people don’t like this. I want them to build ten thousand of these so I can afford to buy a unit. I’d move in tomorrow.
California keeps losing businesses, jobs, and residents.
When opportunity gets harder to find, people eventually look elsewhere.
this looks like shit, whoever approved this at SF planning needs a lobotomy
It needs to be taller. Projects aren't good unless they torture and make life miserable for all the NIMBY neighbors. I hope it falls over on adjacent homes, destroys them, and then they build something even bigger and more value-engineered in its place
looks like shit
no wonder people are becoming nimbies
1 horrible building and the entire otherwise good neighborhood is ruined
Remember, this is California where zoning is only the first of roughly 268k hurdles that need be cleared to build something. If this is actually constructed, I will happily send you money to buy a beer.
Peak slop architecture. Can’t build something that doesn’t look like it spawned in Minecraft?
So ground up starts at what $1200 psf? Plus additional soft costs this could end up being a $20mm project with 2 BMR units out of 8 and three parking spots. The math here makes zero sense. They’ll likely try to sell the lot with the entitlement.
That’s cool but why make it ugly? Is that just what pencils or is it planning department rules?
Upzoning is a very big deal. We can build many more homes where people want to live, but we need to implement housing abundance policies on the California model. thatrichbaxter.substack.com/publish/posts/