Executive Director @yimbyaction. Outside agitator. (she/her)
Mar 2, 2018 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
Today we have an Indian-American family with an architect mother fighting to be able to build a 2 unit building in Noe Valley.
They bring out Grandma and the 2 kids, all to prove that they are worthy of building a "large" home.
12 ft has already been taking off the rear. And now staff wants to set things back and take more off the rear, wanting the mass to be reduced because the Planning Commission has previously indicated that they don't like large homes.
Mar 1, 2018 • 44 tweets • 9 min read
I'm at the Board of Appeals tonight for a little one unit house on a vacant lot.
The primary objection is that "no one could have expected that this lot be a home."
Well, why was it zoned for housing? Someone clearly expected it to be a home...
Concern for "scale" with neighborhood got a bedroom lopped off, in order to cater to the housing secure who live on his block.
What are the rules? What are the hight limits? Why are they arbitrary?
