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Originally Posted by fimiak
this is huge for San Francisco because it allows for much greater density in the city core. It translates to the tune of 30+ buildings and skyscrapers in just a few city blocks
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Hate to join the usual "it should be taller" chorus, but in this particular location, adjacent to the southern FiDi, TransBay District, Rincon Hill and the rest, it really should be taller, allowing buildings to at least 600 ft and maybe 800.
Just look at what will be permitted in Central SOMA (yellow) as compared to what now exists nextdoor in the districts mentioned (blue):
A rendering by SOM of potential development under the Central SoMa plan
https://cdn.bisnow.net/fit?height=48...gssfhlj-VOwkrA
Central SOMA should simply be zoned as more of what was done nearby.
It's hard for me to fathom, given the shortage of both office space and housing in SF, why the planners continually allow opportunities to really make some headway in meeting demand pass them by. That's why this time I agree "it should be taller". Not out of some love of skyscrapers (though I admit to that) but because we really need more ROOM in San Francisco and we are running out of logical places to build it. Once this area is built out mostly, with a few 400 ft exceptions, to a midrise scale, it'll stay that way for a couple of decades and we'll have to find someplace else to do the growing we need to do.