The Central SoMa plan hit by lawsuit

Just a month after the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved the ambitious Central South of Market plan, a nonprofit housing group has filed a lawsuit challenging the rezoning that could jumpstart a wave of unprecedented development in the city’s swelling SoMa area.

The upzoning increases the height limit on some high-rises to 400 feet within the area between Second and Sixth streets, mostly from Howard to Townsend streets. The plan allows for the development of office buildings accommodating…