04 5 / 2009

"Article 10 deals with individual landmarks and historic districts throughout the city, of which there are very few because it is such a lengthy and complicated process to obtain historic designation, Sullivan said. “It’s kind of like the crème de la crème” of San Francisco’s historic architecture, she explained, consisting of somewhere around 250 individual landmarks citywide, and 12 historic districts. New ones can always be designated, but as it stands, “maybe one to two percent of the building stock in the city is subject to 10 and 11.” Beyond these specially designated buildings and clusters, the provisions do not apply, she said. If we’re only dealing with one or two percent of the building stock in the city, then what are the construction-trade workers so fired up about?"

What’s all the fuss about Articles 10 & 11? - SFBG Politics Blog

Also of note:

“preservation is way more labor intensive per construction dollar than new construction.”