Not related to developments but SF is proposing a build it or lose it way to get things going.
City Hall has a message for developers sitting on stalled office projects: Use it or lose it.
In a memo shared with the San Francisco Planning Commission on Thursday, Planning Department Director Sarah Dennis Phillips laid out a dramatic policy shift: Commercial office projects that have not shown a good-faith effort to move toward development could immediately lose their Proposition M allocation — a limited pool of office space that the Planning Department doles out each year.
http://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/office-towers-downtown-real-estate-22339474.php