Senate Bill 827 could raise height limits throughout SF, transform city
A state bill seeking to solve California’s housing crisis by encouraging denser, taller housing near transit could force a striking, historic rezoning of much of San Francisco.
Senate Bill 827, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, could allow five- and eight-story buildings to sprout in neighborhoods that traditionally have seen mostly single-family homes and two-unit duplexes.
“One of the fundamental problems is we have enormous swaths of land in California, including in some of the most transit-accessible parts of the state, that are zoned for hyper-low-density housing,” Wiener said. “When you talk about where housing should go, it should go around public transportation.”
The bill, which was introduced Jan. 3, would increase existing height limits in neighborhoods to a minimum of 85 feet if they fall within a quarter-mile radius of transit corridors. Some narrower streets would see height limits raised to a minimum of 55 feet.
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