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Building Specs Change, Maximize Land Supply

SAN DIEGO-A local architect says property owners and developers can follow one local company's example and capitalizing on new city guidelines that allow space-starved companies to expand.

By Randyl J. Drummer | Updated on June 14, 2001

SAN DIEGO-With the shortage of developable land driving real estate prices sky high, a measure quietly adopted by the city could make it easier to accommodate the space needs of fast-growing companies, according to a local architect.

The city’s decision to increase its floor-to-area ratio for industrially zoned buildings allowed one company–BAE Systems, an aerospace technology and military systems firm–to expand at its current site in Rancho Bernardo rather than move out of the area, according to John Turpit, president of Turpit & Potter Architects.

The company scoured the area for a suitable expansion site and found nothing, Turpit says. But Turpit & Potter found that the new ratio, adopted by the city council in December, would allow BAE Systems to build a new six-story, 213,000-sf office/engineering structure and an adjacent five-story, 340,000-sf, 1,009-space parking structure at its current site.

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