Plans have been approved for an eight-story apartment infill at 230 Anza Street in San Francisco’s Lone Mountain neighborhood. The project is the first such proposal to receive approval from the city’s planning commission under the recently enacted San Francisco Family Zoning Plan. Krystal Dong of Oakland-based Ivy Hills LLC is listed as the property owner.
The 95-foot-tall structure is expected to yield nearly 16,000 square feet, including around 11,000 square feet of housing and 1,750 square feet for the basement garage. Unit sizes will vary, with a one-bedroom, a two-bedroom, five three-bedroom units, and one four-bedroom apartment. Parking will be included for five cars and eight bicycles. Two apartments will be deed-restricted as affordable housing.
230 Anza Street vertical cross-sections, illustration by C.M. Wong Architecture
CM Wong Architecture is responsible for the design. The design scheme has not changed since previous coverage from the Castro Valley-based studio, showing the structure wrapped with fiber cement panels and wood-look siding. The Anza Street-facing facade will feature thick, bold balconies.
The Family Zoning Plans for the site were first filed in late February this year. Prior to that, the Oakland developer was seeking to replace the site with three units across a four-story building.
230 Anza Street circa 2024, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson
The 0.06-acre parcel is located on a block bound by Anza Street, Collins Street, Woods Street, and Geary Boulevard. Residents will look out onto the tree-lined northern edge of the scenic University of San Francisco Lone Mountain campus.
Construction is estimated to cost around $2 million, a figure not inclusive of all development costs. The timeline for work has not been shared.
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I love the way it fits right in with the existing neighborhood.
LOL – it will when the rest of the neighborhood is also 5-8 story small apartment buildings. Think of Greenwich Village or Paris.
Bring it on. This is the kind of Japanese-style organic growth we need to see so new density isn’t all block-sized buildings.
These apartments are like 100′ long tunnels, with no windows on the sides, no recessed light shaft (in plan) on the sides, no natural light in the middle of the units. Depending on which way is pointing south, these are horrible living spaces.
Are you familiar with the townhouses of NYC? Exactly the same and yet among the most expensive in the US.
I’m impressed that anyone can manage to (pretend to) think this is building is a good idea. Also puzzled by this: “Construction is estimated to cost around $2 million . . . ” Seven apartments in SF each over 1500 square feet with construction costs under $300,000 for each? What am I missing?
This does feel a little too tall considering the residential neighborhood. I’d be completely fine if we snapped our fingers and every unremarkable single story home in the Richmond, Sunset, Anza Vista (like this one) became four stories total (a garage, entry level area with an ADU in the back, and three full floor flats. Basically, turning it into a typical building in the Haight area. If you wanted to argue for another level (five total, four residential) I’d be fine with it. Eight feels a little much.
I’d prefer if the residential demolitions were left to 4-5 stories total, and we really leaned into the commercial corridors for 10-60 stories.
A mix of Manhattan and Brooklyn, basically.