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apartment buildings
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The city’s least dense residential neighborhoods will be zoned for 85-foot apartment buildings, taller than essentially every apartment building erected before 1880.—
Chris Elmendorf,
Mercury News,
5 Dec. 2025
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“Tenement houses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenement%20houses. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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