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Re:Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. ... by pakyr on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @01:44PM (#35877876)
Unfortunately, this is becoming less and less true as GOP-run states strip autonomy from cities and steadily increase state control over them. Take Texas as an example,[0] where they've banned cities from

  -enacting paid sick leave

  -enacting mandatory heat and water breaks for manual labor jobs

  -modifying their police budgets

  -restricting fracking within city limits

  -restricting greenhouse gas-intense products
Among other things.

[0]https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2023/04/18/texas-house-appro...

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Re:Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. ... by hotpotamus on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @04:33PM (#35880022)
Wow - apparently a 10 minute cooling break every 4 hours is too much to ask.
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Re:Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. ... by dumbotron on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:22AM (#35884662)
There's an argument that you want consistency across the state. Having snowflake jurisdictions is a headache for businesses.
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Re:Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. ... by sangnoir on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:40AM (#35884764)
Cities can compete against each other to attract businesses - no? If businesses can deal with a patchwork of sales taxes and building codes, they can handle other bylaws just fine. These laws have the hallmark signs of a partisan power-grab on red-meat issues.
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Re:Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. ... by dumbotron on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:23PM (#35889600)
> Cities can compete against each other to attract businesses - no?

We've seen this with Walmarts. They get cities to compete for their stores. Amazon did it for HQ2. The problem is the winner's curse. The winning city will often bid so low they take a net loss.

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Re:Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. ... by sangnoir on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:09PM (#35891091)
I mostly agree with you, but let's be honest: this is not the motivating factor for republican state legislatures grabbing power from cities. If it were, the legislatures would be getting rid of tax rebates and tax holidays cities offer to attract businesses, and instead have a uniform tax structure across the whole state for "uniformity"
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