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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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