The Regents at Parnassus

Not this one.

No, not the Parnassus in the picture. The one in San Francisco. Readers of this blog, particularly if they follow Regents sessions and the public comments therein, will know that the UC-San Francisco plans for the Parnassus project have raised controversy. From the San Francisco Chronicle:

UCSF has reached an agreement with the city to boost the housing, transit and jobs programs that are part of its massive Parnassus campus expansion plan - a key step ahead of an approval vote this month. UCSF will build 1,263 new housing units for students, faculty and staff, which would more than double the school’s entire housing stock in the city. By 2050, 40% of those units will be affordable for people making less than 120% of the area median income, including half of those limited to 90% area median income. The commitment is an increase from UCSF’s earlier proposal to build 762 housing units... 

The plan is one of the largest real estate proposals on the city’s west side in decades. It has drawn opposition from neighbors who were critical of the university’s earlier growth in the 1970s. UCSF has budgeted $5 billion of spending in the first decade of the plan...

UCSF wants to build 2 million square feet across new buildings, including a new hospital that will replace an aging facility that fails to meet current state seismic regulations. Inadequate capacity also forces the hospital to turn away thousands of patients per year...

The UC Board of Regents is scheduled to vote on whether to approve the project’s master plan environmental review on Jan. 19. A separate environmental review of the hospital is expected to go to a regents vote by late 2021...

Full story at https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/UCSF-agrees-to-build-more-than-1-200-new-homes-as-15843169.php