Light at the End of the Tunnel for Upzoning

Gladstone says the board of supervisors may vote on the plan before Thanksgiving.

SAN FRANCISCO—Those who follow the fastest-growing US cities know that San Francisco has been a leader in population growth, growth in the number of businesses and growth in office construction since 2000. The first San Francisco gold rush of the 21st Century took place from 2000 to 2007, and generated a great deal of tension between old-timers and the new younger population of tech workers, says M. Brett Gladstone, partner, Hanson Bridgett, whose practice focuses on land use law and real estate transactions.

“The fear of displacement and too-rapid change prompted a downzoning of much of the city’s eastern neighborhoods with an eastern neighborhoods plan that encouraged  housing but little new office development,” Gladstone tells GlobeSt.com.