California government has a lot of unneeded property. Thanks to technology, we need room for servers, not buildings and personnel. We have HUNDREDS of unneeded schools in California. In Sacramento we have many half empty government buildings could be consolidated and closed down. Finally, a DMV site is going to be torn down and housing built. That also means property taxes on the new housing.
“The parking lot of the Department of Motor Vehicles in San Francisco’s Panhandle neighborhood could be replaced with 372 new affordable homes as part of a deal announced Thursday.
The development, a result of a collaboration between local and state officials, is a big win for The City, said Supervisor Dean Preston, whose district includes the site.
“This is, by far, the biggest affordable housing development in this area of San Francisco in a generation, or maybe multiple generations,” Preston told The Examiner.”
This should be the first step in cutting back on government. Fewer employees, fewer facilities and less in government spending, not more.
Almost 400 affordable homes slated for aging DMV site in Panhandle
By Natalia Gurevich, SF Examiner, 10/3/24 https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/housing/almost-400-affordable-homes-coming-to-sf-panhandle-dmv-site/article_e262d12a-81e2-11ef-ab7b-4b2865ab99f5.html
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The parking lot of the Department of Motor Vehicles in San Francisco’s Panhandle neighborhood could be replaced with 372 new affordable homes as part of a deal announced Thursday.
The development, a result of a collaboration between local and state officials, is a big win for The City, said Supervisor Dean Preston, whose district includes the site.
“This is, by far, the biggest affordable housing development in this area of San Francisco in a generation, or maybe multiple generations,” Preston told The Examiner.
The more than 60-year-old DMV office at 1377 Fell St. has been slated since 2021 to be demolished and rebuilt. Although state officials two years earlier identified the property as a potential site for affordable housing, none was slated to be built there until Preston stepped in.
In January 2023, the Board of Supervisors passed a resolution he sponsored that asked the state to build affordable housing on the site. At that point, San Francisco Assemblymember Phil Ting got involved, helping city and state officials coordinate and come up with a revised plan for the site.
The new plan includes a mixed-use transit-friendly complex. It would include a new DMV field office and apartments that would be reserved for those making between 30% and 80% of the area’s median income. Construction is scheduled for three phases, with the DMV office to be completed by June 2029 and the first section of housing by August 2030.
The state designated the two-and-a-half-acre property as a potential site for affordable housing in response to a 2019 executive order from Gov. Gavin Newsom. Newsom had ordered officials to look for underused state properties on which homes could be built.
“We will continue to use all our tools to create more affordable housing throughout California,” Newsom said in a statement Thursday. “I’m particularly proud of this site for bringing affordable housing to the heart of San Francisco in a diverse and thriving neighborhood.”
