By Eric Simons, Bay Nature
Palou Phelps Natural Area is a 4-acre grassy hill in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood, rising out of a children’s playground and mini-park into a toyon-and-wildflower dotted crest with a panoramic city view.
Houses flank the natural area, rising along with the hill, and one of those property owners would like to build two additional houses — three stories, roughly 5,000-square feet each — in what are now two undeveloped private back lots bordering the open space area. This is where it gets complicated: There’s no road to those lots. So a developer building houses also has to build a new road across city-owned public land.
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