Site of Project Blocked by Supes to Be Sold Rather Than Developed

Site of Project Blocked by Supes to Be Sold Rather Than Developed


While plans for the 5-story building with 14 apartments were approved to rise upon the Hyde Street parcel last year, “after assessing the current and future [strength of the] housing market,” the project team changed directions and decided to build a tourist hotel, as we first reported a few months ago.

And while the change in direction was approved by San Francisco’s Planning Commission last month, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors sided with a public appeal of the project and unanimously voted to overturn the required conditional use authorization for a hotel, publicly arguing that the hotel’s approval would set a precedent for developers to avoid rebuilding housing after a residential fire (such as the one which claimed the former 4-story Chatom Apartments building on the site back in 2010).

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824 Hyde Street Site