Re:How San Francisco makes it insanely hard to build housing
by rr888 on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @06:18PM
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100 years ago the population of California was 3.4 mil vs 6.7 mil in the Netherlands. Today California has 40 mil vs 17 mil. The problem is not "too many restrictions on development" its too much development, which has ruined the quality of life. You want to add more people? How many more?
Re:How San Francisco makes it insanely hard to build housing
by oblio on Thursday September 15, 2022 @08:09AM
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The Netherlands is about 43k sqkm. California is 430k sqkm. You do the math :-)
It's bad development, not development itself. Car centric, bad public transport, low population densities in cities, etc.
Re:How San Francisco makes it insanely hard to build housing
by rr888 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @09:19AM
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> It's bad development, not development itself. Car centric, bad public transport, low population densities in cities, etc.
If its so bad, how come its so expensive and people want to move there? The population of Amsterdam is the same as it was 60 years ago. It isn't popular, I'm not sure why you think its a good model - esp as it restricts development so strictly.
What I'm saying is that for how much money there is in the Bay Area, it is comparatively crap to other top metro areas around the world. Is there even a city from the Bay Area in the top most liveable cities in the world?