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Planning staff outlines Market Street Hub rezoning to add housing, public realm upgrades
Summary
Planning Department staff presented an informational Market Street Hub study proposing modest rezoning and a public realm plan for the area south of Market Street to increase affordable housing, reduce parking and study transit capacity and wind impacts; commissioners requested design typologies, value-capture analysis and detailed affordability breakdowns before final action.
Maya Small, a staff architect with the San Francisco Planning Department, presented the Market Street Hub study on Oct. 15, describing a two-part effort of rezoning and a public realm plan for the area south of Market Street in the Market Octavia plan area.
“The most important goal of the rezoning effort would be to increase the amount of affordable housing,” Small said, describing pipeline projections of roughly 3,700 new housing units with just over 700 affordable units already proposed and modeling scenarios that could raise the affordable…
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