A Bay Area developer wants to build 4,400 homes where they may be sorely needed

Re:A Bay Area developer wants to build 4,400 homes where the... by deathanatos on Friday July 28, 2017 @08:22PM (#14878682)

I (as someone who supports building more in the Bay Area) don't want the onus to be just on Brisbane. I want it to be on the whole Bay Area, and all of its townships.

That one of the major issues I think the Bay Area faces: each township passes the buck to the next: "Why should we build housing, when township X is completely unwilling to do so?" Yes, and they say the same thing about you! With this attitude, nothing will ever get built, anywhere.

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Re:A Bay Area developer wants to build 4,400 homes where the... by pizzetta on Friday July 28, 2017 @08:42PM (#14878778)

I think we should recognize that SF and Brisbane are not in the same league. Anything Brisbane would build would be a drop in the bucket. SF can potentially add a hundred thousand units --two hundred thousand units, no problem without changing the character from village to full-blown city. 4,00 units more than doubles the pop of Brisbane. If we added 200,000 units to _only_ SF, that would add 25% to their pop. Another 200,000 would add 20% to SJ.

The Problem is SF, Oakland and SJ --localities which can/could build if they wanted to but simply don't.

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Re:A Bay Area developer wants to build 4,400 homes where the... by closeparen on Saturday July 29, 2017 @11:40PM (#14884326)

Oakland seems to be approving residential towers at a decent clip. I'm not sure it belongs in the same breath as SF and SJ.

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Re:A Bay Area developer wants to build 4,400 homes where the... by wbl on Friday July 28, 2017 @09:02PM (#14878871)

It also increases the built area of Brisbane.

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