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Goal
Provide 186 urgently needed rental apartments with 20% on-site BMR housing, 8,100 square feet of neighborhood-serving retail, and a greatly enhanced, pedestrian-friendly public realm.
ZONING
In response to the City’s housing crisis, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors unanimously changed zoning along the Divisadero corridor. This approach used “form-based zoning” to allow more units within the same height and size building in order to create more new homes, while preserving neighborhood character. In contrast to the previous zoning which limited the site to 50-60 large, expensive condos, the new zoning allows 186 smaller apartments. These include both “affordable by design” market rate homes and on-site Below Market Rate (BMR) homes. This provides housing for the “middle” who want to live in San Francisco, solving the gap where they do not qualify for subsidized affordable housing, yet are unable to afford to purchase a condo.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
The proposed project complies with the Divisadero NCT affordability legislation for pipeline projects to include 20% on-site affordable housing units. 400 Divisadero will create 36 new on-site BMR units.
BY THE NUMBERS
65’
DIVISADERO HEIGHT
(40′ on Oak)
186
NUMBER OF APARTMENTS
36 On-Site BMR
107,832 sq ft
TOTAL RENTABLE SPACE
57
PARKING
170
BICYCLE STORAGE
8,100 sq ft
RETAIL
