The city of California’s restrictive building codes have caused many developers to shy away from tackling much-needed housing in the Central City. But a plan released last week by a business advocacy group hopes to make the prospect more attractive to residential builders by streamlining the process. It states that revising certain codes and zoning laws could reduce construction costs by $20,000 to $30,000 per unit.

Affordable Housing Production Incentives: Notwithstanding any provisions of this article to the contrary, density bonus projects, and other development projects with any restricted affordable units or any affordable accessible units, shall be granted the incentives like, in calculating dwelling units or guest rooms, density shall be rounded upwards from fractions of one-half and more from that permitted by the applicable zone to allow one additional dwelling unit or guest room.