PS: Well not kill, companies would end up packing more people into the same space up to a point.
I’ve since moved out of Soma, as the commissioners and supervisors made it clear that while they understood the problem, they also didn’t have anywhere else to plop down tens of thousands of jobs.
They hem and haw about building in the city, but they’re okay with bullying a neighboring community[1] in a different county into building (they threatened Brisbane, down the road, an independent jurisdiction in another county!!)
[1]https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/04/san-francisco-supervi...
As the N-Judah line runs through it, the SB 50 bill would immediately cause entire swaths of his District to be upzoned fairly dramatically.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Yee
[2] https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/resources/2018-08...
[3] https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/resources/2019-02...
https://sfgov.org/ccsfgsa/sites/default/files/2000%20Census%...
which does seem to show that 7 borders the Judah line (on Judah itself). But to be fair, I'd assumed District 7 went to the park and that it included part of the UCSF area.
So he's getting hit by MUNI lines on both sides :).
> But Board President Norman Yee said San Francisco should be exempted altogether from Wiener’s proposal.
> He said that SB 50 “does not take into account the nuances and intended impacts that comes up upzoning entire neighborhoods” and he noted that there are large developments planned in the district he represents.
> "We’re actually building our share of housing,” Yee said. “Maybe we could better. But we certainly are probably doing better than most places in California. We have motivated communities that want to plan. We should be exempt from SB 50.”
It's definitely true that San Francisco is building more housing than the other counties in the Bay Area, and that they should also do better. But that isn't a license to ignore the need for more housing directly in San Francisco. If anything, it's almost a non sequitor to the basic challenge facing any major city: how do you have enough housing within a reasonable commute of the jobs in your city?
Just earlier today [1] the mayor decried the lack of housing in the city that our public transit employees can afford. Over 250k people were already commuting in back in 2013 [2]. For a city of under 1M people where job growth has outstripped housing growth, that seems like a fairly high "deficit".
[1] https://medium.com/@LondonBreed/fixing-muni-ecb536aea50e
[2] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2013/cb13-r22...