For the last twelve days of 2024, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and reflect on the biggest stories we covered. In October, the biggest stories can be measured by floor count, with updates on three San Francisco projects that may rise 33, 65, and 72 floors respectively. Across the Bay, we revealed new renderings for a 23-story UC Berkeley dorm that is now the fourth tallest project in the city’s pipeline. Meanwhile, shifting scales from the tallest to among the smallest projects spotlit by our year review, we covered San Francisco’s retroactive legalization of the headline-grabbing illegal demolition of a Richard Neutra-designed house on Twin Peaks.

For the last twelve days of 2024, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and reflect on the biggest stories we covered. Except for the rising SHoP-designed YouTube offices and the finished Verde in Mission Rock, most of our biggest stories in September were related to the planning process. In San Francisco, FORMA Development Design & Management shocked many readers with two narrow 26-story towers. The potential 30-story tower in Redwood City came as a shocking potential addition to the county seat of San Mateo County. In Berkeley, updated plans for California Theater may now reach 23 floors, while the city has approved the second-tallest tower in the city’s pipeline at 2128 Oxford Street.

For the last twelve days of 2024, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and reflect on the biggest stories we covered. The throughline of August this year has been new high-rises or increasing…

For the last twelve days of 2024, SF YIMBY will look back on each month and reflect on the biggest stories we covered. During July, we reported on the final approval for the Stonestown redevelopment, several large projects in Silicon Valley invoking the Builder’s Remedy, and increased plans for an eight-story apartment complex in the Outer Sunset. However, the most commented-on story of the month and the year for us was a 15-story apartment tower rising over College Avenue in Rockridge, Oakland.