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> For years the city restricted building height to 500 feet in most neighborhoods. Surely that’s a typo? Because that is kind of insane.
by briandear 9y ago
> For years the city restricted building height to 500 feet in most neighborhoods.
Surely that’s a typo? Because that is kind of insane.
- chrisseaton 9y agoThat's 150 m, or around 40 stories - that's pretty tall for outside the centre of a city.
- darkerside 9y agoWhy? That's about a 50 story building.
- briandear 9y agoBecause “for years” that was the restriction. That doesn’t sound like much of a restriction. The implication is that it’s restricted less now. The story talked about how San Francisco resisted high rises for a long time, so that restriction doesn’t follow the story — that’s why I think it’s a typo.
- Zarel 9y agoYes, which is way higher than I'd expect, given SF's general opposition to high-rises. According to Google, the actual limit is 40 feet. Example article I found: https://recklesslyoptimistic.com/san-franciscos-height-restrictions-and-the-city-s-dark-future-c7796fafb07c https://recklesslyoptimistic.com/san-franciscos-height-restr...
- jandrese 9y agoYeah, if the limit were 500 feet you wouldn't have builders constantly complaining about it.
- darkerside 9y agoHere's another article cutting a height restriction near 500 feet. http://www.structuremag.org/?p=11635 http://www.structuremag.org/?p=11635 There are probably more height restrictions in different areas, and a 500 foot limit is actually quite restrictive. It would have prevented Salesforce Tower. The Empire State Building is over 100 floors.