It took NINETEEN years to plan, approve, and build 1,100 housing units (550 affordable) on a parking lot in San Francisco, and apparently it's a hot take for thinking this should take quicker to happen.
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Can you break down the approval timelines on this. I was just looking at the Oceanside Transit Center redevelopment and it's really unclear why it took 8 years from proposing a center to get to the CEQA phase. Wondering the same here. https://www.osidetransit.com
Well tell that to the anti-abundance people, who think literally the only reason we don't build anything is due to the oligarchy and has nothing to do with localism.
Im sure the military builds houses on their bases fairly regularly, and they are not that expensive. Maybe the byrd rule stopping the federal government from building public housing has alot to do with it.
The battles about housing there go back at least 40 years. Then-Mayor Feinstein pushed for housing there back in 1983. After multiple ballot measures in 80s & early 90s, housing proposals fell to wayside for years. Fortunately, ultimate project is much larger than 200-unit proposals from the 80s.
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The regulations in question:
- jumbo sized single family homes only
- no poor people housing allowed
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/bastyr-university-to-sell-kenmore-campus-but-stay-in-the-seattle-area/