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Re:Silicon Valley’s Economic Indicator: Caltrain Ridership by seiji on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @03:48PM (#10261164)
height minimums would be great.

It's almost disgusting walking around ~8th st soma and seeing single story car maintenance places or strip malls take up entire blocks. Tear them down and build rows and rows of 5 story to 20 story apartments.

As for Dallas (err... THE METROPLEX), it isn't a peninsula with restricted growth, crappy highways, and old money refusing anything new that doesn't look like a quaint bombed out city from the old country. I still don't understand why south san francisco looks like a 3rd world country. Eminent domain the whole area and build neotokyo on top of the existing shanty town.

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Economic Indicator: Caltrain Ridership by Reedx on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @04:11PM (#10261349)
Indeed. Unfortunately there is a lot of pushback on anything that increases building height. I've received notices in the mail urging residents to oppose new constructions that could set a "dangerous precedent" in this regard.

Argh.

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Economic Indicator: Caltrain Ridership by roghummal on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @12:42AM (#10263345)
But it's "the city"!
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