Very true, and I definitely didn't mean to imply in the article that the areas around SF should "make the sacrifice." What I'm advocating for is regional ("met

Very true, and I definitely didn't mean to imply in the article that the areas around SF should "make the sacrifice." What I'm advocating for is regional ("metropolitan") leadership and planning. We all have to make sacrifices. That doesn't mean we can't have planning - I think urban planning is essential to building a city that works. But we need to do the planning at the level we're having the problem - which is, the Bay Area level. Maybe high-rises do make sense on Golden Gate Park, but then we'd better have BART stations there taking people down to Mountain View and Sunnyvale (or wherever they're working).