linux.poet
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- Sep 26, 2023
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San Francisco has one of the worst building building permit processes in the nation. If you thought that the City of Poway was bad, they have nothing on the long building permit process that San Franscisco requires for development, which can take up to 3 years to approve.
Problems that developers face in San Francisco:
1. Post-entitlement appeals: While there is legislature in the works to end them, this allows the neighbors to appeal and stop building projects, or at least delay them. All building processes are political and can be stopped by competing political interests.
2. Lengthy environmental reviews - Environmental laws require that all housing projects are disclosed to the public, which means that more appeals can be filed on environmental grounds.
3. Large amounts of meetings with all of the departments - about 1,000.
4. After the discretionary period with all of the appeals, 87 permits need to be filed in sequential order and fees paid. This can take more than 600 days.
5. Non-profit housing projects need to be completed within 18 months of starting or they lose all of their bonds. Thus, many affordable housing projects that are proposed for the city are never built.
You can read more here.
Problems that developers face in San Francisco:
1. Post-entitlement appeals: While there is legislature in the works to end them, this allows the neighbors to appeal and stop building projects, or at least delay them. All building processes are political and can be stopped by competing political interests.
2. Lengthy environmental reviews - Environmental laws require that all housing projects are disclosed to the public, which means that more appeals can be filed on environmental grounds.
3. Large amounts of meetings with all of the departments - about 1,000.
4. After the discretionary period with all of the appeals, 87 permits need to be filed in sequential order and fees paid. This can take more than 600 days.
5. Non-profit housing projects need to be completed within 18 months of starting or they lose all of their bonds. Thus, many affordable housing projects that are proposed for the city are never built.
You can read more here.
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States
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