1972: “A New Spirit Afoot in the Haight”, the NYT celebrates the successful downzoning of the trendy Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. www.nytimes.com/1972/08/10/archives/a-ne... #DownZoning #SF

map of 2-to-4 flats in the North Center community area. Yellow properties have more units than zoning allows, and blue properties have a legal number of units.

the vast majority of 2-to-4 flats in North Center are nonconforming

#downzoning

The March 11, 1969 code was #Durham’s first instance of technocratic planning, based on the predominance of #SingleFamily zoning, large lots, with large street frontages, off-street parking minimums, a radical #downzoning for wealthier districts…