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Highlights from CHA Annual Meeting

ACTION: Urge Support for CHA's Revisions to Map

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Highlights from CHA Annual Meeting

Thank you to all who attended our 2025 Annual Meeting. We had a full house, with neighbors engaged about the issues facing Cow Hollow and the broader community.

Mayor Lurie and Supervisor Sherrill provided updates and stayed for a Q&A. We covered board elections, safety, clean-ups, and other key issues.

The main topic was Mayor Lurie’s proposed upzoning plan and the serious concerns that it would disrupt this neighborhood’s rare blend of historic architecture, neighborhood-serving shops, housing stability, and the walkable commercial corridors that draw millions of visitors each year.

President Lori Brooke opened the meeting with a strong message:

"This upzoning plan claims to address affordability — but it doesn’t. Instead, it cuts out community input, and paves the way for unchecked speculation and sweeping land use changes that could reshape our neighborhood in ways that are both permanent and misaligned with our housing needs.

Once Mayor Lurie's map is adopted, there’s no going back. The state has banned downzoning. If we get it wrong, we may be legally barred from undoing it."

That’s why it’s so important to speak up now and advocate for changes that truly reflect our community’s values and needs, as outlined in the next article.

Urge Mayor Lurie and Supervisor Sherrill to Support CHA's Revisions

Mayor Lurie's upzoning plan would create a massive wall severing the continuity between Cow Hollow and the Marina forever.

The Cow Hollow Association has submitted a detailed letter urging Supervisor Sherrill and the Lurie Administration to stand with their constituents and revise the city's proposed upzoning map.

Read the full request to Mayor Lurie and Supervisor Sherrill

The letter calls for preserving the long-standing 40-foot height limit on Lombard Street from the Golden Gate Bridge to Webster, as well as along Chestnut, Fillmore, and Union Streets.

As proposed by Mayor Lurie's Administration, the plan would double Lombard’s height to 8 stories, creating a wall completely out of scale with the neighborhood. This would sever the natural flow between Cow Hollow and the Marina, overshadow the Palace of Fine Arts, and threaten longtime residents and businesses.

Meanwhile, Chestnut, Fillmore, and Union — our sunny, walkable commercial corridors — would be upzoned to 6 stories, casting shadows, displacing small businesses, and permanently altering the character of these vibrant streets.

Even worse, if these zoning changes prove harmful, state law now blocks us from reversing course — locking in damage that cannot be undone.

The City aims to fine tune these plans over the next two months, and then finalize and approve this upzoning map by fall — making it critical for residents to speak up now, before these sweeping changes become permanent.

ACT NOW!

Click to Zoom in and see colored legend for Mayor Lurie's Upzoning Map

Visit NeighborhoodsUnitedSf.org to stay informed and get involved.