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Perfect quiet neighborhood location
for one or two people, who have
not accumulated much "stuff." |
The Examiner (San Francisco), Chris Roberts, 3/5/15. "Cottage industry: the ups and downs of building backyard hones."
"The simplest solution to San Francisco's housing crisis, development
advocates say, is to
build more housing units and more buildings to
house those units.
But in a city with strict height controls, little undeveloped land and
nowhere to expand, that solution — and Mayor Ed Lee's goal of getting
30,000 new housing units on the market by 2020 — begs a simple and often
stumping question: Where? For an answer, a growing number of city officials and
housing activists are looking at backyards.
...."..."Tuesday, Supervisor Katy Tang, who represents the Sunset, asked the
City Attorney's Office to
craft a law to legalize backyard cottages in
areas zoned for single-family
homes. That could mean cottages would be allowed in much of the Sunset and
Richmond, along with Ingleside, Excelsior, Visitacion Valley and
Bayview-Hunters Point."
Read article.
Note: photograph from You are my Fave.com, "Little backyard bungalows are my fave."
Posted by Kathy Meeh
1 comment:
While this idea might provide some relief to the housing shortage, it will undoubtedly result in even more difficulty with parking. In a city already beset with parking issues, any increase in population would mean additional cars to some degree.
Consider the impact in Pacifica if only two houses per block in Linda Mar were to be allowed backyard cottages. What impact would that have on parking and on traffic?
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