Also has any data been presented about the actual number of affordable housing projects that have been stalled specifically by discretionary review? Seems like it's easy to figure out if that's really been the obstacle. @EskSF @noah_arroyo @laura_waxee
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Great question. I'm assuming this would be hard to figure out — tho I'm running the risk of speaking out of school. Track down all aff.hsing. projects and then see when DR was used; when slowdowns occurred, check for presence of other potential factors, of which there are many.
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Ultimately you'd need to just talk to a ton of people to get the lay of the land, as well as understand the particular stumbling blocks each project faced.
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Idk people are on here suggesting discretionary review is a poison pill for affordable housing. Seems like that’d be easy to verify.
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Replying to @natogreen @noah_arroyo and
Quite rare, a few cases. All rejected. And since SB35 went into effect Jan 2018, state law makes projects fully ministerial, so no DR appeal. It is the rezoning of sites, triggering EIR, that is the real delay and vulnerability to potential appeal. ie, Booker; Forest Hill; FSK.
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See? This is what happens when I publicly wade into territory that's opaque to me:
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Replying to @noah_arroyo @pcohensf and
SB 35 only works if you're 100% compliant with the local zoning. Almost all affordable projects need some kind of variance which means they don't qualify.
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Replying to @noah_arroyo @pcohensf and
Basically: until you upzone the West Side etc, you aren't going to see SB 35 projects on the West Side, which means they're going to continue to get DR-ed or -- more likely -- never be considered because a developer knows it would be a death trap
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @noah_arroyo and
Yep, which is what the Affordable Homes for Educators & Families NOW measure by Supes Walton, Haney, Fewer and Peskin does. That'll be a game-changer for westside/outside lands nhoods affordable housing. Hopefully after cooling off from Thrs, folks'll come together around that.
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sure, with their excellent track record of changing the zoning on the West side. How are those four sites for affordable housing that Fewer promised several years ago going?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @pcohensf and
they are imaginary. one is atop the existing library on 9th Ave., another is on the neighborhood center on 30th Ave. each will have to be demolished and rebuilt ... requiring elaborate EIR, countless meetings, likely DRs. these aren't happening in the next decade
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Replying to @Sr_Lazarus @kimmaicutler and
Are you telling me that demolishing and rebuilding a library that was completely renovated 5 yrs ago isn’t cost effective? /s
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