San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft

Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber... by emodendroket on Thursday August 30, 2018 @11:54PM (#17882828)

"It technically complies with the law"seems like cold comfort. Anyway you're just moving the locus of struggle from the approval process to the zoning regulations, since anyone with their head screwed on is going to demand that the city council use the law to block a development like this.

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Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber... by saagarjha on Friday August 31, 2018 @01:17AM (#17883135)

Yeah, I understand that zoning is often used as a way to discourage building things that people don’t want built. But my idea was that hopefully there’s a way to make zoning “work”. I have no inherent issues with a nightclub; I just think it would be better from a noise perspective to put it downtown where it’s not going to bother other people.

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Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber... by emodendroket on Friday August 31, 2018 @09:33AM (#17885423)

I don't really get what you mean; that's the whole point of zoning and an approval process. What's your objection to that way of doing things?

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Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber... by saagarjha on Saturday September 01, 2018 @08:28PM (#17894674)

Nothing, as long as it's not abused to make sure that nothing ever gets built.

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