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A comment on San Francisco's zoning makes it illegal to build apartments in 73.5% of the city. Parent comment

Re:San Francisco's zoning makes it illegal to build apartmen... by SCAQTony on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:18PM (#17567762)
Why not? Rich people do. Bill Gates lives in a 66,000 square foot "house" with collectibles in it. Larry Ellison on a 23-acre estate.

Why does the everyone below them have to be forced into cell block apartments?

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Re:San Francisco's zoning makes it illegal to build apartmen... by bytematic on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:28PM (#17567862)
Any apartments that go up in san fransisco will be nicer than most houses in the world
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Re:San Francisco's zoning makes it illegal to build apartmen... by greedo on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:29PM (#17569520)
I'm sure they will, considering that a large percentage of houses in the world are completely unlike Western housing. The real question is how nice will they be compared to most houses in the US?
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Re:San Francisco's zoning makes it illegal to build apartmen... by bytematic on Friday July 20, 2018 @03:02PM (#17577878)
Nicer.
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Re:San Francisco's zoning makes it illegal to build apartmen... by Karrot_Kream on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:23PM (#17567818)
What is your definition of a "cell-block apartment"?
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Re:San Francisco's zoning makes it illegal to build apartmen... by reaperducer on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:46PM (#17568097)
http://time.com/4581230/hong-kong-apartments-property-sale-r...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-430649...

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Re:San Francisco's zoning makes it illegal to build apartmen... by SCAQTony on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:50PM (#17568131)
My definition of a cell block apartment is any outside wall[s] and/or a ceiling/floor which are the only barriers that separate you from your neighbor. I think having a garden or a porch, even a side yard is important to middle class.

I am getting severely voted down for having this opinion, but I think my definition and the history of density in urban areas is on my side. When you put a bunch of young males in a crowded urban center, crime, violence, drug addiction happens.

https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...

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Re:San Francisco's zoning makes it illegal to build apartmen... by rsynnott on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:22PM (#17568512)
In most of Europe, the majority of the middle-class lives in housing where at least one wall is shared with a neighbour (whether it be apartments, semi-detached or terraced houses). For that matter, most middle-class New Yorkers live in apartments or other high density housing, and seem to survive.
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Re:San Francisco's zoning makes it illegal to build apartmen... by mjevans on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:47PM (#17569652)
Just replying about 'balconies' - I //hate// them as sources of noisy neighbors and neighbors that smoke and thus ruin the air around where I live.

I also dislike how MDU exhausts, particularly the laundry exhausts, are not sent out a scrubbed (E.G. water filtration) negative draw system to remove the fine particulates. I have never in my life even seen an MDU with such a setup, let alone filtered air ingress delivered to each unit.

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