[quote=spdrun]Considered throwing out the lot requirement and going North Park or Uni Heights?[/quote]
North Park ONLY just north of the City velodrome and swimming pool (“state” streets). Still, the largest homes there are probably only 2600-2700 and these homes, several with a river rock frontage and HUGE front porches, rarely come on the market (for good reason). Their lot size would average 9000 however. In North Park, NYMom would probably want to sent her kids to private school immediately (elem sch) unless she can somehow get them into McKinley. There are private Catholic Elems in South Park/Golden Hill.
Uni Heights is full of substandard lots and otherwise odd-shaped lots due to the corner of the canyon it sits on. And I don’t think NYMom wants her young kids walking in the vicinity of University Ave and Park Blvd. (There isn’t much else to choose from around there.)