Hello Fourplexes – Goodbye Single-Family Neighborhoods? By Brian Wallace
In an effort to increase housing near mass transit hubs, Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is drafting legislation to make it easier to build fourplexes within a half mile of a major MUNI or BART station. Besides new construction of fourplexes, homeowners could legally convert their existing home, at least in theory, into fourplexes. The push for…