I have parked in this parking lot, and it is *shocking* how much it wants to be apartments. That is the inescapable vibe of it. Like, you don’t even need a graduate degree in psychogeography there. The future just screams at you.
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the life work of the progressive no-growth and anti-housing movement has come to its inevitable conclusion
“I’m so sorry I went to Yale Law and they’re not allowed to give us bad grades when we are wrong on the law.”
a lot of people, wealthy educated people, are in denial the-lookout.org/danger-in-pl...
Berkeley is mandating home fireproofing — and sparking a backlash in the hills www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti...
quelle surprise!
the rezoning, which is a good first step, is going to be slanged six ways till Sunday as a destructive wrecking ball, which it isn't. stop listening to NIMBYs and naysayers on housing www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... 3/3
"but the infrastructure" isn't a serious argument. it's a sort of verbal cosplay that seeks to cloak a subjective personal preference against housing and urban development.
our schools, our transit, our local businesses need *more people* using them, not fewer 2/
big day in #SF today as the Board of Supervisors takes a first crack at Mayor @daniellurie.bsky.social's upzoning to allow more housing.
you might hear a lot of nonsense in statements and comments about whether we have "the infrastructure." this, ICYMI, i discussed at length in yesterday 1/
we're well past the point where the madness has taken over the housing debate. enough nonsense about whether we have "the infrastructure" for more homes and neighbors.
stop listening to NIMBYs and naysayers
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Does S.F. have the ‘infrastructure’ to support Lurie’s housing plan? Let’s consider—In September, the San Francisco Planning Commission voted to approve, with modifications, Lurie’s proposal — by only one vote… www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... @srlazarus.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com
quelle surprise
Another note about that map 👆🏼. Alongside higher ceilings denoted by pretty colors, the steel-gray of every block in those neighborhoods = "density decontrol." That is, no height increase but more density within each parcel. So a single-family mansion might become a bldg with several apts
@myrnamelgard7.bsky.social takes on Chan's "pitting west side vs east side" comment (award for top demagoguery of the day). Melgar: SF *downzoned* the west side in the 70s. Racism/segregation contributed to that prohibition of multifamily housing and concentrated development on the east side.
One more thing. When I wrote about this study showing one-third of Americans don't drive, people were messaging me saying this cannot be true for LA.
In LA County *23 percent* of the population is under 16. Kids are people! We must plan for their movement, just like all nondrivers. Hope that helps!
whoever says #SF doesn’t have something about it is not to be taken seriously
Fun fact, Calvin Welch, Sue Hestor and co tried to NIMBY my multi-family home before it could be built.
They failed, but they killed some housing for seniors along the way.
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the last speaker is demagoguing and blathering
130+ comments the night is young
welcome to the future! with SB 79 and the rezoning plan from Mayor Daniel Lurie, #SF enters a new pro-housing, pro-transit era that will be more inclusive and more affordable.
the status quo wasn't working. it's kind of messed up that there was so much resistance to changing it
i began my transit advocacy ~25 years ago when a few neighbors and embittered merchants had epic meltdowns over improving our Geary bus line thefrisc.com/the-ballad-o...
NIMBYs and dead-enders can still bellyache all they want. but now #SF and other cities have now entered a new era
pretty much yeah
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Astonishing how many people can’t tell the difference between “loved debate and free speech” and “carried out an effective PR campaign for specific, previously unpopular ideas”
imagine that
love it how the article mentions "an aging population living in aging homes." which all screams cheap af to me www.wsj.com/real-estate/... (free link) 2/2
GOOD NEWS: California's housing reforms are defanging NIMBYs and their bogus and subjective claims about "aesthetics."
building housing is a lot of things, but it is not cheap. (in fact, if you want it to be cheaper, you have to have more of it.) 1/
Lighting buildings and gardens during the Golden Hour (or Magic Hour) of early evening make a place even more magical for photographers & cinematographers, but also makes for enchanting Walk Appeal at close of day while people walk home or to dinner.
god forbid the whole city would get a vote on idk closing Columbus to cars, a new college in the Marina, a subway in the Richmond, whatever. fricking train wreck t.co/24a8DRYTxG
