San Francisco planners have five months to sell state housing officials on one simple idea: that the city has a realistic plan to build 82,000 housing units by 2030. That effort will in part succeed or fail based on the city’s ability to convince the state that the 72,000 units in San Francisco’s pipeline can be converted from architectural plans to actual apartments. In other words: How real is the plan to redevelop Parkmerced, slated for 5,600 apartments, which sits dormant more than a decade after it was approved? Will the dream of the 12,000-unit community at the Shipyard and Candlestick Point — stalled due to economic downturn and a scandal involving the clean-up of toxic waste — ever get back on track? What about the 1,700 unit at Schlage Lock, on the Brisbane border? Read more at the link in our bio.