Re:Is there a housing shortage or not?
by ceeplusplus on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @11:08PM
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Half the peninsula is forests and grass fields with nothing there. You can't be serious? There's huge NIMBYism preventing those areas from being developed.
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Someone owns that open space land. It cannot be developed unless one buys out the owners like San Francisco Water District (most of the open space visible on 280 for a long stretch is Crystal Springs Reservoir and the drainage into it even though a lot of the water comes from far away like Hetchy Hetch.) or the Mid Peninsula Open Space District or Santa Clara Water District (several large reservoirs and the drainage into them are only for recharging the underwater aquifers - if one builds over it, the reservoirs do not recharge and subsidence will be much worse like the Central Valley) or park land. The NIMBYism is people preventing high density development in places like Palo Alto.