San Francisco's West Portal could get 172 homes instead of 64 at the shuttered Empire Theater site, thanks to the Family Zoning Plan and Supervisor Melgar's support. The new proposal offers 26 affordable units (15% per FZP versus the city's current 5% requirement), half of which will target “very low income” households and half moderate income families, 7,000 square feet of retail space in two st…
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San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman says he wants to preserve historic buildings in the city with his proposed ordinance which arbitrarily doubles the number of protected sites. But by unfairly removing Supervisor Bilal Mahmood from the Land Use Committee for introducing sensible amendments which would preserve housing capacity, Mandelman showed that his true objective i…
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Amazon proposes a three-story, 24-hour package-delivery facility at 900 7th Street. The 6.23-acre site is roughly the size of five football fields. The project would include about 710,000 square feet of floor space and more than 1,000 vehicle parking and staging spaces.Before Amazon purchased the site, it was planned as a mixed use development with 1,000 homes. What we are asking SF Planning to…
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San Francisco is way behind on its housing targets, but instead of working to get more homes built for current and future San Franciscans, the Board of Supervisors recently voted to ban new housing in parts of SOMA and the Mission—FOREVER.Earlier this year, California cleared the way for new housing close to transit like BART and Muni Metro with SB79. As a safeguard for urban industrial are…
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The Safeway redevelopment proposed for the Marina will provide desperately needed housing. In order to meet our RHNA requirements, we need to break ground on a project this size every two weeks (or equivalent)!This project will bring mixed-income housing to a part of the city which has not done its fair share to house new residents. This is a very high resource part of the city, so this developme…
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The San Francisco Democratic Party will be hearing two resolutions on 10/22 regarding the Family Zoning Plan ("FZP").One from Chair Nancy Tung and Member Mike Chen calls for the party to support the FZP, and a competing resolution from Members Gordon Mar and John Avalos calls to reject the FZP unless amended. As is typical, the resolution opposing falsely claims that plans to build more homes wil…
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We, the undersigned, oppose the proposed historic district designation of Ingleside Terraces. This effort is a thinly veiled attempt to block housing development in a time of urgent need. San Francisco must build tens of thousands of homes to address a severe housing crisis. Wealthy, low-density neighborhoods like Ingleside Terraces must contribute their fair share. Instead, this historic design…
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San Francisco is on the verge of adopting a new zoning map -- one that could unlock more housing across the city, especially near transit, schools, and neighborhood amenities. But this plan won’t pass without strong public support. At the April 10 Planning Commission hearing and the June 16 Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee hearing, residents like you came out spoke in favor of the…
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San Francisco is about to adopt a new zoning map that will help ease our housing shortage and make the city more affordable for current residents and future generations. These changes are required by state law and are designed to finally make it legal to build more housing in the right places.Homeowners and builders will have more flexibility in what they’re allowed to build on property they own.…
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Support the legislation to cut red tape and fill vacant storefronts on Van Ness!The Van Ness commercial corridor (between O'Farrell and Broadway) is suffering from many commercial vacancies, which blights the neighborhood, reduces foot traffic, deters tourism, and harms residents. The vacancies tend to be large footprint storefronts which are especially hard for small businesses to fill. Chain st…
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The NIMBY forces of North Beach are at it again. They have a plan to designate the neighborhood as a historic district by the State Historical Resources Commission. The reason? They want to exempt themselves from state law and freeze the neighborhood in amber, preventing any change and further exacerbating our housing shortage in San Francisco and beyond.Many of the buildings they want to protect…
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Mayor Breed, Supervisor Dorsey, and the Office of Economic & Workforce Development (OEWD) announced new legislation to allow for increased residential development as a part of the Central SoMa plan, which was originally slated to include a much higher proportion of commercial development. However, given the changing times and the overwhelming need for more housing in San Francisco, this is exactl…
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San Francisco requires 82,000 homes by 2031, yet in 2023 San Francisco only managed to complete 2,000 homes. At that rate it will take us 4 decades to meet the obligations for housing we are supposed to meet in less than a decade.For decades, our city has historically underbuilt homes, leading to skyrocketing rents and displacement. To reverse this trend, we need to demand that our city take the …
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On March 14, Mayor London Breed vetoed Aaron Peskin’s attempt to downzone affluent neighborhoods. President Peskin’s ordinance attempts to prevent one of San Francisco's iconic neighborhoods from growing and thriving by adding numerical density limits and maximum density ratios where none exist, on our waterfront. In layman's terms: we already have a bunch of rules preventing buildings that are t…
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Board President Aaron Peskin, who represents North Beach (D3), is about to be termed out of office in November. But he's not done trying to prevent one of San Francisco's iconic neighborhoods from growing and thriving.He's introduced an amendment to the SF Planning Code to add numerical density limits and maximum density ratios where none exist, on our waterfront. In layman's terms: we already ha…
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San Francisco has a housing shortage and needs to build 82,000 homes over the next 8 years to meet the state-mandated housing element plan.Meanwhile, a plan to build 4 new homes on an empty lot at 1846 Grove St in the North of the Panhandle neighborhood has been stuck in red tape for years. The project was previously approved unanimously by the SF Planning Commission in 2021 before the Board of S…
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On Monday, February 5, the Board of Supervisors’ Land Use and Transportation Committee will consider President Peskin’s non-binding resolution opposing State Senator Scott Wiener's SB 951.SB 951 is a smart, targeted bill that removes the already developed areas of San Francisco's coastal zone from additional, unnecessary processes. The City and County of San Francisco is a co-sponsor of this legi…
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For decades, San Francisco hasn't been building the homes it needs, but in 2018, State Senator Scott Wiener sponsored and passed SB 828, which fixed the way California cities zone for housing every 8 years.Today, San Francisco is in the middle of implementing the zoning, process, and regulatory changes that it needs to make to have a shot at building 82,000 new homes in 8 years, which would be a …
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Board President Aaron Peskin, who represents North Beach (D3), is about to be termed out of office in November. But he's not done trying to prevent one of San Francisco's iconic neighborhoods from growing and thriving.He's introduced an amendment to the SF Planning Code to add numerical density limits and maximum density ratios where none exist, on our waterfront. In layman's terms: we already ha…
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The San Francisco Planning Department is working on a plan to rezone San Francisco to accommodate 82,000 new units of housing by 2031 to implement its housing element. At least, that's what they're telling the public. The reality is different. The Planning Department is not implementing crucial housing element programs adopted by city legislators, and their efforts are in fact subverting state la…
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This is a make-or-break moment for the housing element. The Board of Supervisors must take action on the city's eight-year housing plan—called the housing element—to accommodate 82,000 new homes by 2031. The Board just missed the deadline set by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to pass Mayor London Breed's landmark housing element implementation law…
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Your voice is urgently needed. The Board of Supervisors faces a critical decision regarding the city's eight-year housing plan—called the housing element—to accommodate 82,000 new homes by 2031. Last week, the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) told the Board's land use committee to pass Mayor London Breed's landmark housing element implementation law in …
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San Francisco's storefront businesses help residents and build jobs. But too many businesses are blocked or dissuaded from using ground-floor commercial spaces because of bans and tortuous application hurdles. Let's make San Francisco a great place to do business to open more amenities, bring more jobs to the city, and liven up our streets.
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The Port Commission is going to decide if they will renew the Embarcadero Navigation Center.The Embarcadero Navigation Center stands as a testament to San Francisco's innovative and compassionate approach towards addressing homelessness. Sending a letter to the Port Commission is vital for multiple reasons:First, advocacy and collective voice make a difference. The Port Commission needs to hear f…
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We are excited to support 40 homes replacing a gas station in a transit-rich area of the Outer Mission. Please write the Planning Commission that you support it!
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A Noe Valley homeowner wants to remodel an abandoned, vacant home into two homes for people to live in a transit-rich, high-opportunity neighborhood. However, the neighbors next door have filed a Discretionary Review appeal based on light concerns. In a city with a housing shortage, we need to allow more buildings at the zoned and allowed height, even if it casts a little more shadow. Please writ…
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San Francisco does not have enough housing and rents are still too high. Part of the reason is that the city has heaped on barriers in restrictions, government hearings, and notices that make housing harder to pass.Thanks to Mayor London Breed, Supervisor Joel Engardio, and Supervisor Matt Dorsey, we have a piece of legislation called "Constraints Reduction" that would remove many of these impedi…
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Transit is in danger!YOU can make a difference by emailing Governor Newsom and asking him to:Approve the budget proposed by the legislature reversing the $2 billion in transit capital cuts and providing $1.1 billion for operationsSupport using one-time federal highway funds for transit operations.
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If SF MTA does not move forward with its plan to extend parking meter hours, it would be in a worse financial position, resulting in significant service cuts to much-needed Muni transit lines.
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This Thursday, April 20, two major housing projects will be heard by the SF Planning Commission: 469 Stevenson and 3832 18th St. Do these addresses sound familiar? It's not just you—469 Stevenson made headlines and enraged voters when the Board of Supervisors chose to preserve a valet parking lot over transit-oriented affordable housing. And 3832 18th St was illegally modified by the Planni…
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Everyone should have the power to speak up on issues that matter to them. After COVID-19, the city made it easier for people to share their opinion on public matters by allowing people to call in and share their opinion. The ability to call in (remote public comment) has given a voice to people who can't easily show up in person to City Hall on a weekday afternoon. The people who have benefited f…
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This Monday and Tuesday, January 23 and 24, the Board of Supervisors will vote whether to adopt a new housing element of the general plan. The housing element is an eight-year plan which lays out how San Francisco will accommodate over 82,000 new homes by 2031. Every city in California writes a new housing element each year, and the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD)…
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Over the past two months, the Planning Department has been playing games with the 2022 housing element—an eight-year plan that says how the city will accommodate new housing, and which has to be reviewed by state bureaucrats. We are frustrated by the city's willingness to blow off state rules around this plan over and over in the last few months. We have one last shot to get this right befo…
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On November 10, the Planning Department released what it is calling its final draft of the 2022 housing element—an eight-year plan that says how the city will accommodate new housing. It is a plan with major problems.At SF YIMBY, we are alarmed. City officials have shrugged off crucial feedback from the State of California to keep the Board of Supervisors happy. They are playing chicken wit…
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On November 15, the Board of Supervisors will hold a hearing on the housing element—San Francisco's next eight-year housing plan. This plan is in dire straits. The housing element lacks clear details for funding affordable housing, and it does not do enough to streamline housing or make it easier to build. We will need to double or even triple housing production to meet the targets set by t…
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Last night, the Elections Commission took the unprecedented step of considering the removal of their three appointees to the Redistricting Task Force. Though the Commission worked tirelessly in a transparent, thorough, and democratic process to appoint Raynell Cooper, Chasel Lee, and Ditka Reiner to the Task Force, the same Commission may now throw them out, in the face of meritless accusations a…
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A project to bring up to 100 new homes at a range of sizes and affordable rents to the Sunset District of San Francisco, a district that has lost a disproportionately high number of affordable rental homes with too few new units being built despite being home to many working and growing families. NIMBYs want the affordable housing project sponsor to reduce the number of stories and take away home…
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SF YIMBY believes that San Francisco needs a rental registry, a database that clearly presents what number of apartments are occupied, what number are vacant, what the rental rate is, and helps identify people who might be able to benefit from various tenants protections. In addition to helping San Francisco better understand our real-time housing statistics, a well-designed rental registry will …
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As we all know, new apartments are prohibited on nearly every parcel in and around Glen Park. As a result, we don't often get a chance to support an increase in the neighborhood's housing supply. Today is one of those days.In 2014, a petition was circulated decrying “The Manhattanization of Glen Park” because the owners of 95 Nordhoff, a 1908 farmhouse on a quadruple-size lot, proposed to demolis…
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We are in the midst of a decades-long housing crisis. We need to be doing everything we can to build more housing. Small infill projects are critical to addressing our shortage. Exclusionary zoning in wealthy neighborhoods mean $5M McMansions are easily approved, but apartment buildings and missing middle housing are delayed and denied. The Board has decided to indefinitely delay a four-unit proj…
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Mayor Breed nominated safe streets advocate Jane Natoli for SFMTA board and we couldn’t be more thrilled with the choice. She’s someone who understands our need for safe streets, for better transit, for living up to our ideals as a transit first city.She brings her experience serving numerous other organizations in our City like the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, YIMBY Action, and the SF LGBT C…
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Mayor Breed nominated safe streets advocate Jane Natoli for SFMTA board and we couldn’t be more thrilled with the choice. She’s someone who understands our need for safe streets, for better transit, for living up to our ideals as a transit first city.She brings her experience serving numerous other organizations in our City like the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, YIMBY Action, and the SF LGBT C…
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