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MONSTERs OF THE WEEK
SAFEWAY AT SF MARINA…
DEFINE “NON-URBAN USE”
DEFINE “NON-URBAN USE”
Now 18-22 stories completely changing the open feeling nature of the area, surrounded on three sides by public parks and a marina.
The developer’s request for density bonuses recently went from 39% to 49%, The law doesn’t increase the number of affordable units, it only boosts the others. At 86, the project offers an hair over 10% affordability.
The project has cut a couple of stories from the height from each tower but the unit count climbed from 790 to 848. The developer has given the City 30 days to approve.
DEFINE “NON-URBAN USE”
DEFINE “NON-URBAN USE”
DEFINE “NON-URBAN USE”
AB 2011 grants qualifying housing projects on commercially zoned land If at least 75% of a site’s perimeter parcels be developed with “urban uses.”
Is the project AB 2011 eligible?
The site is almost entirely bordered by open spaces, mostly national park land with historic resources within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
The developer contends that parks are urban uses.
What is a non-urban use?
PROJECT VELA: Turquoise Tower…
…in low-density Pacific Beach
Project Vela (Turquoise Tower) in Pacific Beach.
Project Vela, also known as Turquoise Tower, is a proposed 23-story mixed-use tower in Pacific Beach, a beach community within the City of San Diego. The project includes 74 residential units, only 10 of them affordable, alongside 139 visitor-accommodation units.
The developer is seeking to use the project’s relatively small affordable-housing component to obtain Density Bonus Law concessions and waivers that would not only enlarge the residential portion, but also allow a substantial increase in the number and scale of the hotel and visitor accommodations. This use of housing incentives to expand a predominantly visitor-serving development became significant enough that Senator Catherine Blakespear authored SB 92 to limit the loophole for future projects.
Turquoise Tower would also rise far above San Diego’s voter-approved coastal height limit. In 1972, voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition D, establishing a 30-foot, roughly three-story height limit for most development west of Interstate 5.
For more information about the organization leading the fight against the project, click this link:
Out of scale
SCALE MATTERS
These modest single family home ownership opportunities are dwindling as we become a state mandated rental society in which only the very rich hold land. For everyone else the era of opportunities for generational wealth building will be over.
AESTHETICS GONE
This is the look of the future — cheapest, fastest build now perfect for any neighborhood or situation.
LUXURY BEACH TAKEOVER
Dubbed “Wiener Tower,” this is the first iteration of a skyscraper in the only neighborhood in the city with respite from heavy density. Upzoning immediately increases property prices.
SUNSET HISTORIC BUILDING
Historic Menlo Park headquarters of the magazine that “Built the West.”
…SUNSET REPLACEMENT
One of the massive iterations proposed, park and building destroyed.
SANTA MONICA BUILDERS REMEDY
Santa Monica was the first city to get slapped with builders remedy projects — 13 of them — thousands of units everywhere.
SC HISTORIC CLOCKTOWER…
Santa Cruz, end of Pacific Garden Mall, has come back from the 1989 Loma Prieta Quake.
This gracious terminus is about change, like the rest of the main street.
…SOON TO BE ECLIPSED
This is the new face of Santa Cruz: massive luxury towers. No regard for livability.
TALLEST IN REDWOOD CITY
TALLEST IN REDWOOD CITY
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SAUSALITO…
...12 STORIES ON TOP OF HISTORIC DISTRICT
TALLEST IN REDWOOD CITY
One of the massive iterations proposed, Builders remedy in the extremely constrained coastal city of Sausalito — recently the site of hours long city wide gridlock on 4th of July. celebration. Evacuation route wholly inadequate..
...12 STORIES ON TOP OF HISTORIC DISTRICT
...12 STORIES ON TOP OF HISTORIC DISTRICT
...12 STORIES ON TOP OF HISTORIC DISTRICT
9 stories 70’ of luxury living dumped right on top of the historic district buildings.
FOR SALE, WITH PLANS
...12 STORIES ON TOP OF HISTORIC DISTRICT
...12 STORIES ON TOP OF HISTORIC DISTRICT
Empty lot owned by bankrupt Z&L.
PROBLEMATIC, FAILED, ABANDONED
5 STORIES APPROVED…
SB 35 IN DENSEST LOW INCOME NEIGHBORHOOD
SITED HERE IN MILL VALLEY
No infrasture or traffic light to get them in and out if this driveway onto crowded HWY 1 North — often the only way out on a good day is to take a right into Mill Valley, away from the adjacent freeway. This design shows windows below ground level.
See next panel, siting at pink arrow:
SITED HERE IN MILL VALLEY
SB 35 IN DENSEST LOW INCOME NEIGHBORHOOD
SITED HERE IN MILL VALLEY
The building is sited in a FEMA Flood Zone, known for frequent tidal flooding, compounded by rain and sea level rise. The area is subsiding, and that will accelerate under this weight. How will the residents get out when flooded?
SB 35 IN DENSEST LOW INCOME NEIGHBORHOOD
SB 35 IN DENSEST LOW INCOME NEIGHBORHOOD
SB 35 IN DENSEST LOW INCOME NEIGHBORHOOD
Actual low income residents priced out of this massive development in a high fire hazard severity zone with a single evacuation route for the entire community.
FORECLOSURES, FAILURES, ZOMBIES
ZOMBIE IN LA
NEW APARTMENTS DEFAULT
MODERATE UNITS EMPTY
Oceanwide Towers failed after $1B investment, standing in LA covered in graffiti. Estimated cost to take over and complete: another $1.5B
MODERATE UNITS EMPTY
NEW APARTMENTS DEFAULT
MODERATE UNITS EMPTY
more info soon
NEW APARTMENTS DEFAULT
NEW APARTMENTS DEFAULT
NEW APARTMENTS DEFAULT
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SSU HOUSING FAILURE
NEW APARTMENTS DEFAULT
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FADING RESI MARKET
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TRANSIT ADJACENT FAILURE
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TEACHER HOUSING FAILURE
TEACHER HOUSING FAILURE
TEACHER HOUSING FAILURE
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OAKLAND FORECLOSURES
TEACHER HOUSING FAILURE
TEACHER HOUSING FAILURE
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NEW BUILDING 50% LOSS
TEACHER HOUSING FAILURE
NEW BUILDING 50% LOSS
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WEAK OAKLAND MARKET
WEAK OAKLAND MARKET
NEW BUILDING 50% LOSS
more info soon
STILL LEASING
WEAK OAKLAND MARKET
MANY MORE TO COME
One of three massive developments over the past four years still offering concessions in transit rich San Mateo.
MANY MORE TO COME
WEAK OAKLAND MARKET
MANY MORE TO COME
Stay tuned!