Sundown Skyscraper: 50 Tales, 680 Flats at San Francisco’s Ocean Seaside

Plans for a 50-story skyscraper residence constructing close to San Francisco’s Ocean Seaside have been up to date—and are certain to accentuate debates across the undertaking at 2700 Sloat Blvd. 

Below the brand new plans, the tower would come with 680 residences, nearly half of which might be studios. Of these, 110 could be put aside as means-tested inexpensive housing. The proposal additionally features a “health and wellness spa,” retail house and and a group facility for the general public.

However the huge proposal, first revealed in April, was met with fierce pushback from residents of the sleepy Outer Sundown neighborhood: Greater than 2,200 individuals signed a petition protesting the undertaking. 

The submitting was accompanied by feedback from developer CH Planning that the plans had been submitted “beneath protest” of the San Francisco Planning Division’s interpretation of the State Density Bonus Legislation, which permits builders to extend the scale of tasks beneath sure situations, in accordance with SF YIMBY.

A planning division spokesperson informed The Commonplace that the brand new plans stay “categorically out of compliance with each state and native legal guidelines.”

Earlier renderings of the undertaking at the moment are being utilized in messaging for a deliberate statewide poll initiative that will reverse state housing reforms meant to encourage extra housing. 

In on-line chatter, the Sundown skyscraper has been characterised in on-line chatter as a “spite undertaking,” submitted in response to the planning division’s rejection of an earlier, extra modest 12-story plan. 

The Board of Supervisors lately upheld an enchantment beneath the California Environmental High quality Act of one other alleged “spite undertaking” that will place 10 townhomes on a Nob Hill website overlooking a playground.