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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by astrange on Friday August 05, 2022 @03:23PM (#32360746)
Dean Preston is the head NIMBY of the city next to Aaron Peskin. Dean spends approximately all his time denying housing project applications.

He doesn’t even only block them in his backyard; they’ve ignored member deference to block one in Matt Haney’s district before.

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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by olivermarks on Friday August 05, 2022 @03:40PM (#32360965)
Preston talks all about progressive housing on Twitter all the time, so does heroin Haney. Neither of them can get it together to practice what they preach so it's all useless YIYBY performative posturing anyway. In the past SF has wound up building disasters like Geneva Towers based on somewhat similar utopian ideals

https://youtu.be/7DZI5kqUJ_g

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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by astrange on Friday August 05, 2022 @03:58PM (#32361219)
No, he's your comrade, he’s very effective at stopping things.

https://nimby.report/preston

The language he uses makes him a left-NIMBY, but that’s just what they look like in cities. Found in NYC too. In suburbs the same people switch to talking about property values and 50s rural neighborhood character.

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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by olivermarks on Friday August 05, 2022 @04:25PM (#32361568)
I absolutely think affordable housing should be getting zoned and built, but the execution is so often a disaster.

https://youtu.be/KYOtsuTw65Q

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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by epistasis on Friday August 05, 2022 @09:37PM (#32363978)
If you were to remove the YouTube link from your comment, it could have come directly from Dean Preston.
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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by olivermarks on Saturday August 06, 2022 @12:55AM (#32364949)
how so?
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