Firefighters from Station 13, one of the busiest firehouses in San Francisco, regularly respond to calls from high-rises across the north Financial District.
Now, Supervisor Aaron Peskin is hoping the property, at 530 Sansome St., has the potential to help mitigate another emergency: the city’s affordable-housing crisis.
In a dense neighborhood where available development sites are scarce, Peskin is proposing that the city take advantage of the property’s 200-foot height limit to build an affordable-housing tower above a new fire station.
On Tuesday, Peskin will introduce legislation that separates out the property’s air rights, so that the Fire Department could continue to own the land and the station, while the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development would own the air rights.