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Honestly Google and Facebook should just become their own cities. The housing restrictions are so incredibly broken in the south bay/peninsula that I'm not sure
by austenallred 9y ago
Honestly Google and Facebook should just become their own cities. The housing restrictions are so incredibly broken in the south bay/peninsula that I'm not sure there's a solution other than to work around them entirely.
- rhino369 9y agoThey need to lobby the state to take away the city and county governments power to derail construction with bullshit zoning and permitting. If someone wants to build 45 story high rises in sunset district, why should SF stop it.
- acchow 9y agoCity planning is not done well in SF. But it is a real thing. And it can be done well.
- rhino369 9y agoSure, but SF has proved it has no interest in doing it well and the entrenched interests are strongly incentivized to not do well. The current situation is worse than unplanned. I think urban planning makes more sense when you are going from undeveloped to developed. But it's harder to do once you already have developed land that needs to be torn down and redeveloped.
- saosebastiao 9y agoI'm sure it's possible, but at this point getting rid of it entirely would be a net improvement.
- FreakyT 9y agoThey really need to just eliminate all local power and consolidate all zoning decisions with a single housing czar. It's clear that democratic solutions have failed.
- saosebastiao 9y agoIt's possible that democracy hasn't failed, but merely hasn't been structured properly. If zoning and permitting processes were held accountable to the millions of people that have to commute to or through their walled towns, instead of those who merely live in them, they most definitely would act differently.