Darn liberals! 
Hmmm, sounds like one of our new SF supervisors is at least reasonable (not aligned with Kim)… could be worse
http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-propose-new-affordability-requirements-housing-developers/
Wow, 66 units in all. We got this housing shortage problem in the Bay Area licked in no time!!!
What??? Homeless housing or affordable housing???
Nope, game is tied now… NIMBYs come roaring back in the 3rd Quarter…
Politics
Berkeley 4th Street developer plans to use new housing law to bypass review
A sign claiming the historical significance of the West Berkeley Shellmound hangs at a parking lot across from Spenger’s restaurant on Fourth Street in Berkeley. Opponents of a housing complex say the site is a sacred Ohlone Indian burial site. Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle
Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle
IMAGE 2 OF 6 A sign claiming the historical significance of the West Berkeley Shellmound hangs at a parking lot across from Spenger’s restaurant on Fourth Street in Berkeley. Opponents of a housing complex say the site is … more
The battle over a proposed housing project on a parking lot across the street from Spenger’s Fresh Fish Grotto restaurant in West Berkeley escalated Thursday when the builder became the first in California to invoke a new state law that allows residential developers to bypass local environmental review processes in exchange for providing more affordable units.
On Thursday, developer Blake Griggs Properties of Danville, after five years of contentious debate and political squabbling, said it would invoke SB35 at 1900 Fourth St… American Indian groups, as well as North Berkeley antidevelopment forces, have long opposed building on the 2.2-acre parcel, contending it is the site of an Ohlone burial ground.
The new state law, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, allows an over-the-counter approval process for zoning-compliant projects that provide certain levels of affordable housing. In Berkeley — as well as in San Francisco and Oakland — a development must be at least 50 percent affordable to take advantage of the law.
Blake Griggs plans to construct a 260-unit apartment complex, half of which would be affordable to households earning 80 percent of area median income, which is $80,400 for a family of four. The development will also have 27,000 square feet of retail, a 7,000-square-foot park and a small community center.
Passed in January, SB35 “establishes a streamlined, ministerial review process for certain multifamily affordable housing projects that are proposed in local jurisdictions that have not met regional housing needs,” according to the legislative summary.
Projects that comply with the law’s requirements are guaranteed approval within 180 days, unheard of in a region where even straightforward housing developments can take three or four years.