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Has anyone SEEN a typical SF plot? They’re basically enough for a small 1000-2000 sq ft home, a parking spot, and a little back yard. No one ain’t building a
by xivzgrev 5y ago
Has anyone SEEN a typical SF plot? They’re basically enough for a small 1000-2000 sq ft home, a parking spot, and a little back yard.
No one ain’t building a four plex on that, unless a) the height restriction is also raised b) one parking space per unit no longer required and c) some fancy footwork somehow incentivizing adjoining plots to combine.
If you had two plots and lifted the restrictions, then I could see making 4 units comfortably out of that. But seeing how unlikely it is two neighbors sell at the same time, seems unlikely
I think this would be more meaningful in other cities, where there are a lot of ranch style homes / bigger plots
- seibelj 5y agoIn Boston and surrounding areas the “triple decker” is very common - three 1000 square foot condos, driveway leading to compact car parking in back, small yard or none at all. The buildings are not connected but the space between is the driveway on one side and a small path on the other to store trash cans. There are tens of thousands of these if not hundreds of thousands.
- mercutio2 5y agoSan Fransisco has already removed (b) as an issue [0]. When SF made that change, you had people saying the same thing “this won’t change anything because you can’t build the housing that’s needed”. No one is saying that this, by itself, with zero other changes, will resolve the issue. I prefer to applaud individual incremental improvements than belabor the fact that this one change is not enough. [0] https://www.livablecity.org/time-san-francisco-say-goodbye-minimum-parking-requirements/ https://www.livablecity.org/time-san-francisco-say-goodbye-m...