| SAN FRANCISCO, CA --The Home Builders Association of Northern California (HBANC), the Bay Area's largest association of home builders has opened an urban division at 660 Mission Street in San Francisco.
"We have opened a new urban division with an office in San Francisco to address in part - the city's initiatives toward higher density housing," said Joseph Perkins, HBANC President & CEO. "Policy issues that impact urban builders are unique to environments like San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose where there's a premium on space. Infill, mixed-use, multi-family, and transit-oriented development is the preferred method of growing our supply of residential housing. Since we are also a source for consumers to learn about current housing issues, it makes sense for us to be in the city."
The new division's goals are also synergistic with San Francisco's own Building Inspection Commission's move to adopt the greenest building codes in the country by 2012. Urban infill is compatible with the concept of green building by reducing land acquisition needs, Bay Area counties can focus legislative efforts on cleaning up former military bases and toxic sites, and reducing people's transit requirements shrinks overall energy consumption.
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