Height limits are also specified in the City’s General Plan. Sometimes they match the Measure A limit, sometimes they are lower. Measure A was a quickly thrown-together and imperfectly written citizen’s backlash in response to the City raising height limits to approve 10-story office buildings north of the BART station. The General Plan, on the other hand, was developed over several years with a lot of thought and citizen input going into it. The General Plan is the City’s vision of what it should become. Measure A was more of a reflexive swipe by the voters against a 1985 City Council that went too far ... but it matters, because nothing much has changed since then.
