Re:Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart
by SilasX on Thursday July 21, 2016 @05:14PM
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Agreed. I hate how people keep casually mentioning that "oh, you could just build up n% of the low-rise areas", as if convincing all those neighborhoods to go along with it and replacing all those buildings were somehow easier -- politically or otherwise -- than 20 SoMa/FiDi high-rises.
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Re:Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart
by baddox on Thursday July 21, 2016 @05:30PM
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Ideally the political solution would be only a single step that allows property owners to build x-story buildings in certain zones. That shouldn't require the persuasion of every single neighborhood, because "neighborhood" shouldn't be a political unit with the ability to stop a property owner from building a structure that is permitted by the larger government's (i.e. the city's) zoning laws.