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Yeah, it’s absurd. But good luck fixing it. Whenever I tell people “the fix to SF’s housing problem is to upzone the Sunset to allow 5-story buildings full of
by jacobolus 8y ago
Yeah, it’s absurd. But good luck fixing it.
Whenever I tell people “the fix to SF’s housing problem is to upzone the Sunset to allow 5-story buildings full of studio & 1-bedroom apartments with little shops on the ground floor and improve transit, so that 20-somethings aren’t forced to sleep in bunk-beds 5 people to a rented 2-bedroom house with a back yard they don’t use and ride Ubers to work in heavy traffic”, they look at me like I’m crazy, and insist the solution is stricter low-income housing requirements and stronger protections against eviction.
This “world class city” is zoned to be a sleepy beach town.
Doesn’t help that the whole rest of the Bay Area is mostly zoned the same way.
- DrScump 8y agowith little shops on the ground floor There's tons of vacant ground floor retail spaces already. In the Amazon and on-demand era, viability is tough if you aren't moving primarily liquor and lottery tickets. Even fast food isn't viable in much of SF (something like 9 McDonald's alone have closed in the last few years... including the longstanding one at 3rd and Townsend).
- jacobolus 8y agoHaving mixed-use zoning doesn't mean every available space must be used for retail.