{"id":12521,"date":"2023-12-30T22:57:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T22:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12521"},"modified":"2023-12-30T22:57:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T22:57:21","slug":"san-franciscos-can-kicking-on-zoning-reform-could-see-it-lose-all-zoning-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12521","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco&#8217;s Can-Kicking on Zoning Reform Could See It Lose All Zoning Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;It takes San Francisco&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/10\/26\/damning-new-audit-finds-san-francisco-takes-3-years-to-approve-new-housing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three years on average<\/a>&nbsp;to fully approve new housing projects, the longest of any jurisdiction in California, according to an audit published by the state Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The very predictable result is that the Golden State&#8217;s fourth-largest city is also one of the nation&#8217;s most expensive, with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apartmentlist.com\/research\/national-rent-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">median one-bedroom rents<\/a>&nbsp;above $2,000 and a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/constructioncoverage.com\/research\/cities-with-highest-home-price-to-income-ratios-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">median home value<\/a>&nbsp;of $1.4 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That San Francisco is expensive because it takes forever to approve new housing isn&#8217;t a new finding. Whether the city will actually get rid of the regulations gumming up home construction is now coming to a head.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"pEhqlNzyGq\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/12\/05\/san-franciscos-can-kicking-on-zoning-reform-could-see-it-lose-all-zoning-powers\/\">San Francisco&#8217;s Can-Kicking on Zoning Reform Could See It Lose All Zoning Powers<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;San Francisco&#039;s Can-Kicking on Zoning Reform Could See It Lose All Zoning Powers&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/12\/05\/san-franciscos-can-kicking-on-zoning-reform-could-see-it-lose-all-zoning-powers\/embed\/#?secret=NCsc6Cn1m5#?secret=pEhqlNzyGq\" data-secret=\"pEhqlNzyGq\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It takes San Francisco three years on average to fully approve new housing projects, the longest of any jurisdiction in California, according to an audit published by the state Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) in October.<br \/>\nThe very predictable result is that the Golden State&#8217;s fourth-largest city is also one of the nation&#8217;s most expensive, with median one-bedroom rents above $2,000 and a median home value of $1.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>That San Francisco is expensive because it takes forever to approve new housing isn&#8217;t a new finding. Whether the city will actually get rid of the regulations gumming up home construction is now coming to a head.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/12\/05\/san-franciscos-can-kicking-on-zoning-reform-could-see-it-lose-all-zoning-powers\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[961,709,270,1242,759,739],"class_list":["post-12521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-cities","tag-federalism","tag-housing","tag-san-francisco","tag-states","tag-zoning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12522,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12521\/revisions\/12522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}