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Approved Tenderloin project now envisioned as group housing with 300-plus beds
By Laura Waxmann – Real Estate Reporter, San Francisco Business Times
Feb 19, 2020, 3:08pm PST Updated Feb 19, 2020, 3:23pm PST

A 176-unit housing development already approved to rise at the current site of the Tenderloin’s Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist, at 450 O’Farrell St. could morph into a workforce-oriented group housing project instead . . . .

But new plans submitted with the San Francisco Planning Department in January indicate that Forge is looking to shift the residential component of that proposal to build a group housing project that would yield 303 beds for San Francisco’s “workforce.”

The new plans would require a conditional use authorization by the San Francisco Planning Commission, but a hearing has yet to be scheduled. The redevelopment of the church has long been controversial.

While the project’s footprint has not changed, the new proposal calls for one bedroom to be built per 70 square feet of the lot area. The church owns three parcels that make up about half an acre of land at 450 O’Farrell St.

Forty-four of the proposed 303 bedrooms would be provided at below-market rates, according to the new proposal.

The new proposal has scrapped plans for 49 parking spaces for residents, and would instead provide just six parking spaces dedicated for use by the church. SocketSite first reported on the change of plans . . . .

Planned for a neighborhood that bears the brunt of the city’s homelessness crisis, it is also unclear whom the workforce housing will be targeting . . . .

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