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Originally Posted by pseudolus
I thought it was because of John Burton and other Potrero Hill residents. Pretty sure he threatened funding to UCSF if they went any higher.
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Yes, he threatened to hold the entire UC system budget hostage because he wanted UCSF to knock two floors off of the housing tower, and they of course relented.
UCSF is doing some other taller buildings clustered around 3rd/16th like the vision neurosciences facility that has a 12-story tower component.
But yeah, UCSF generally doesn't want to go very high anyway. It quickly gets difficult and expensive to build high-rise lab buildings with all of the ventilation and other utility needs, so they mostly go with 5-6 floors and an 85-foot parapet on those. It's mostly going to be office space and ancillary uses like housing that can go a bit higher, but even then nothing truly high-rise thanks to Burton and the rest of the Potrero folks.