(Residents fear especially that dense projects overburden schools, though the Urban Land Institute, a think-tank based in Washington, DC, points to studies that dispute this).
Indeed, the chapter has a solid track record of opposing dense projects--time and again--that would be located along transit lines either inside or near San Francisco proper.
Under a tiered system, developers including a certain percentage of what staff called diverse housing — two- and three-bedroom units for families and multigenerational households — could also build more dense projects and potentially bypass other restrictions, according to the plan.
It would keep the area "stuck in the development rut that we've been in for so many years," continued the councilman, who represents part of South L.A. Creators of the proposal crafted it to curb what they say is rampant overgrowth of big, dense projects in development-rich parts of the city.
Government officials and housing advocates say they are focused on increasing the pace of development and reforming local laws so that developers are incentivized to construct denser projects.
They're keeping prices down by building townhouses or other denser projects, like that small-lot project in Van Nuys.
By frequently permitting larger and denser projects, the city has frustrated some residents who erroneously believed the established zoning rules dictated what could be built in their neighborhoods.
After voters passed Measure JJJ in November 2016, the city enacted a Transit Oriented Communities incentive program that encourages developers to build taller, denser projects (and with less parking) near transit stops — if the developer includes affordable housing.
As GRO's Nicole Robertson says, "There is sheer economy of scale that emerges as we build a dense multifamily project, and it is the integration of digital technology on both the design and fabrication side that make the end product sustainable".
One Illinois law requires wealthy towns to create affordable housing plans; another measure proposes to reward school districts when dense, cheaper projects are built within their borders.
