The State - News from Sept. 17, 1985

Mayor Dianne Feinstein has scheduled a ceremony today to sign the Downtown Plan, an ordinance that will shape San Francisco’s skyline for at least the next three years. The ordinance was approved last week by the Board of Supervisors after two years of debate and hearings. The plan places a 950,000 square-foot annual limit on the amount of high-rise office space that can be constructed on 470 acres that includes the Financial District and the area immediately south of Market Street. It also allows the city to shape that development and places restrictions on the way new skyscrapers look, their effect on the streets nearby and how they fit into the skyline.