A couple skinny mid-rise developments with ground floor retail have recently been proposed for a neighborhood in SF (western SOMA). It's not a new neighborhood getting built from scratch, but it is full of old warehouses, car repair shops, and small-lot lowrise commercial buildings that can be replaced with residential, and its height limits were recently raised in anticipation of future redevelopment (not enough IMO, but enough for midrises up to ~100' in height). Of course these new buildings won't give quite the same kind of vibe you get from older buildings with that type of small footprint, and who knows how many will get built, but it's better than giant block-sized buildings.
The buildings in question:
