In a showdown between 63 new units of housing and a shadow, city supervisors unanimously sided with the shadow.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday night resoundingly rejected a large South of Market apartment complex loaded with below-market-rate units because of a shadow the building would have cast on a park for 42 minutes on summer evenings.
The proposal for the 63-unit complex called for the demolition of existing buildings at 1052-1060 Folsom St. and 190-194 Russ St., the merging…