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Originally Posted by eschaton
By national standards, allowing 13-story residential buildings is remarkably lenient zoning.
Hell, by San Francisco standards that's pretty lenient too, considering how many neighborhoods cap development at three stories.
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The 13 story buildings were there which is why the height limit was set at that level--this is a downtown urban neighborhood after all and that 13 stories contrasts with much taller limits on Russian or Rincon Hills or around Union Sqaure nearby. The Tenderloin was developed mostly well before WW II. Actually, in the transition zone between the Tenderloin and Nob Hill (sometimes called "Baja Nob Hill" by real estate people) there are some great old prewar apartment buildings from the 20's and 30's--Dashiell Hammett country. This one, on Post St., is where Hammett actually lived while writing The Maltese Falcon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashiell_Hammett