The Pocket-Size Buildings Of San Francisco

Mapbox's Asheem Mamoowala has a solution to San Francisco's housing crisis - taller buildings. It turns out that most San Francisco buildings are non every bit tall every bit they could be. We know this because Asheem has mapped a comparing of San Francisco actual edifice heights amongst their allowed edifice heights.

The San Francisco Allowed Building Heights map uses Mapbox GL's 3d together with polygon extrusion properties to demo the departure betwixt actual edifice heights together with the peak allowed nether edifice regulations. On the map actual edifice heights are shown using grayness edifice footprints. The 'unused peak allowance' for each edifice is shown using a yellow-blue color ramp - amongst the colors indicating the set out of floors that could hold upwards added to the edifice nether zoned peak regulations.

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