From today’s Examiner.com,

A patch of land with trees and flowers on a steep embankment of upper Market Street may be the first piece of surplus property The City sells to help pay for low-income housing — but neighbors are fighting to protect what they call a park.

The potential sale of 3184 Market Street, a 12,700-square-foot plot of land northeast of Twin Peaks, is under consideration as part of the Surplus City Property Ordinance, passed in 2002 by the Board of Supervisors, as a way to create housing for low-income individuals, including homeless people.

Although several parcels of land are currently being considered for development, the steep slope of the Market Street plot, which reaches up to Corbett Street, would make it difficult, and thus more expensive to develop, which wouldn’t be cost-effective for low-income housing, Joel Lipski, housing development director for the Mayor’s Office on Housing, told The City’s Planning Commission Thursday. [more...]

Surplus property ordinance may soon bear fruit [SFHomeBlog]
SFGov: Real Estate Division [SFGov]

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