New building permits have been filed for a new eight-story affordable housing infill at 850 Turk Street in San Francisco’s Fillmore District. The mid-rise project will create 92 new apartments. Cahill is listed as the general contractor.
850 Turk Street, image via Google Street View
The only further detail provided is that the application expects to be provided priority processing. Given that the property is currently occupied by a single-story commercial structure capped by surface parking, it will likely utilize the Cars to Casas legislation introduced by Mayor London Breed and approved by the Board of Supervisors early last month.
Beyond that, the permit filing has no more information. The most recent planning applications filed for the property were submitted in the summer of 1987 when the city passed a new zoning map for the area that reduced height limits and altered bulk limits “in and around portions of the Western Addition Redevelopment Areas.” The property height limit was reduced from 130 to 80 feet.
807 Franklin Street east elevation from Franklin Street, rendering by Kerman Morris Architects
The vacant property abuts the rear portion of 807 Franklin Street, a project by Brown and Company that has been dormant since YIMBY checked last year. The project gained headlines in 2021 when the developer moved a Victorian home from the site to 635 Fulton Street.
The property is half a block from the full-block Jefferson Square Park and a block and a half away from the major Van Ness thoroughfare. The project is also close to the four-block Freedom West masterplan led by the 2,387-unit MacFarlane Development Company.
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According to the building permit it’s on state land, so it’s not under the city’s planning jurisdiction and wouldn’t use C2C.
More housing being created hopefully “utilize the Cars to Casas legislation” in transit available area is a good idea.