Planning Department Confirms 75 Percent Of Academy Of Art Buildings Are Illegal: SFist

Planning Department Confirms 75 Percent Of Academy Of Art Buildings Are Illegal: SFist

The day's most popular stories from SFist every evening in your inbox from our newsletter. Istaverse Open external links in tabs Planning Department Confirms 75 Percent Of Academy Of Art Buildings Are Illegal by Jay Barmann in News on Sep 28, 2015 11:30 am Photo: Wikimedia Following on Forbes Magazine's recent takedown of the Academy of Art University and their fast-and-looseness with real estate zoning, and in anticipation of their long-delayed Environmental Impact Report, the Planning Department has issued a new report that breaks down the uses, legal and illegal, of the AAU's 40 buildings citywide. It turns out that of the 40, only 10 are being used for purposes that their currently approved for, while 30 are operating illegally, many of them as student housing. The city is sensitive to the loss of residential space that this represents, and as Socketsite notes , there are nine properties that could not even be approved for their new uses under current planning code.

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