Austin Klar examines a proposed 55-story, 646-unit condo tower in Outer Sunset that would replace a garden center. The project is 560 feet tall in a neighborhood zoned for single-family homes with a typical 100-foot height limit. Klar supports more housing but questions whether the tower fits the existing rules.
Illustrations for a proposed 55-story, 646-unit condo building in the Outer Sunset were just proposed, and it's definitely a change. This is Austin Klar, your lawyer turned Bay Area real estate agent and real estate developer. I'm 100% for building more housing and making housing more affordable, but surely there's a happy middle ground between the single-family zoning in the Outer Sunset and what's being proposed with this massive condo building. Now, this proposal, which would see the 560-foot tower replace what was the Slope Garden Center, isn't going to work under the city's current zoning ordinances, which have really strict height limits in place. That that prevent the building being as high as what's being proposed here. In reality, these ordinances would limit it to about 100 feet. What do you think? Should the city allow this high of a building to be built there, or do you think the developers should go back to the drawing board? Let
