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Originally Posted by yuriandrade
On this discussion about San Francisco’s love affair with SFH, what if the upzoning started around Downtown and slowly eats from the edges the SFH zones?
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That's largely what's happening. A lot of the close-to-downtown single family home areas burned down in 1906 and were replaced with denser construction. But now it's being replaced with denser still in places like South of Market and on the eastern side of the city along the Bay. And those areas are mostly light industrial regions now so only the die-hard NIMBY's object.
In the 1950s they bulldozed large swaths of the Western Addition which was single family homes that survived the fire and much of that is now midrise multifamily too.
But the historic and now upscale close-to-downtown neighborhoods like the Haight, Noe Valley, the Castro, and parts of the Mission Districts are where the fight will be intense and I think the developers will lose in those areas. Then there's the western half of the city which is single family housing of more recent vintage. There are numerous places there where multifamily could be built without being very disruptive and it should be . . . . on commercial streets and in places like the Balboa Reservoir about which I recently posted. There's no need to plop a midrise apartment building down on a street of single family homes.