I haven't lived in Oakland too long, so I don't have memory of these fires, but they certainly haven't stopped the momentum of 1+5's in my neighborhood. Just i

I haven't lived in Oakland too long, so I don't have memory of these fires, but they certainly haven't stopped the momentum of 1+5's in my neighborhood. Just in the last ~2 years I've seen 3-4 (block-sized) buildings like these go up in my immediate vicinity. Honestly, I'd never considered them to be negative; they're quick to build and encourage street-level retail and walkable neighborhoods. That seems like exactly what the Bay Area cities (and many other US cities) need right now. To me, they seem like a strict improvement over large residential-only blocks popular in the last 25 years.