IMPACT OF INTENSIVE HIGH-RISE DEVELOPMENT IN SAN FRANCISCO

This report contains a description of the methods used and findings from an economic and environmental impact assessment of intensive high rise development additions to the San Francisco central business district. Impact analysis areas covered are employment, transportation, municipal revenues and service costs, noise, views, winds, air quality, park and plaza use and city and neighborhood livability. A number of the impact analyses techniques, particularly those in the environmental area, are innovative. Guidance is offered to other cities or researchers interested in performing impact analysis on high rise developments in several retrospective essays on the impact assessment methods.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared in cooperation with Keyser/Marston Associates, San Francisco, Calif., and Dornbusch (David M.) and Co., San Francisco, Calif.
• Corporate Authors:

  San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal Assoc

  San Francisco, CA  United States 

  Department of Housing and Urban Development

  Office of Policy Development and Research
  Washington, DC  United States  20410

  Keyser/Marston Associates

  San Francisco, CA  United States 

  Dornbusch (David M) and Company, Incorporated

  1736 Stockton Street
  San Francisco, CA  United States  94133
• Publication Date: 1975-6

Media Info

• Pagination: 741 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aesthetics; Air pollution; Central business districts; Costs; Dwellings; Economic impacts; Employment; Environment; Environmental impacts; Evaluation; Finance; Level of service; Multistory structures; Neighborhoods; Noise; Quality of life; Sound level; Surveys; Transportation; Urban areas; Urban development
• Uncontrolled Terms: Services
• Geographic Terms: California
• Old TRIS Terms: Central city; Environmental surveys; Noise sound; Skyscrapers
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00093685
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: SPUR-HR-109-75 Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: HUD-CALIF PD-10
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 4 1976 12:00AM