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San Francisco Orders Property Owner to Build Exact Replica of Demolished Home

5 points by kyleblarson 8y ago

drugme 8y ago
San Franciscan city officials have a hard time letting go of the past. No - the Reason crowd has a hard time understanding the concept of a democratically controlled city planning process. And in this particular case - the very concept of rule of law, it would seem.
- PaulHoule 8y ago
  Either way it seems another reason why San Francisco should be abandoned to the homeless. It isn't that libertarians or the people the libertarians they are opposing are right or wrong. It is that San Francisco is stuck in an impasse between these kinds of people and it's astonishing that people are still going there because of this. I remember going to Dreamforce and reading Marc Beniof's book boasting about how he ran a business illegally out of his house, and then Gavin Newsom comes on stage and says how Marc represents everything great about San Francisco and don't you know they have an app to help the homeless... For instance, look at how Brendan Eich got kicked out of Mozilla. It's not him or the gay community, it's that California has an unholy combination of people who give money to conservative causes and people who are militant about being gay. Had Mozilla ran an office in any other city in the world this wouldn't have happened; in San Francisco if it had not been that it would have been something else. Mozilla likes to talk about inclusion but the one kind of inclusion they won't consider is opening an office in some city like Chicago or St. Louis or something. A city that can't solve the slightest problem of its own doesn't have anything to say about how other people could solve their problems and should not be in a leadership position -- at most they are going to export chaos to the rest of the world.
  - drugme 8y ago
    A city that can't solve the slightest problem of its own ... To get back to the original subject - it seems that the matter of the illegally demolished house was, in fact... solved quite elegantly.

5 points by kyleblarson 8y ago

San Franciscan city officials have a hard time letting go of the past. No - the Reason crowd has a hard time understanding the concept of a democratically controlled city planning process. And in this particular case - the very concept of rule of law, it would seem.

PaulHoule 8y ago
Either way it seems another reason why San Francisco should be abandoned to the homeless. It isn't that libertarians or the people the libertarians they are opposing are right or wrong. It is that San Francisco is stuck in an impasse between these kinds of people and it's astonishing that people are still going there because of this. I remember going to Dreamforce and reading Marc Beniof's book boasting about how he ran a business illegally out of his house, and then Gavin Newsom comes on stage and says how Marc represents everything great about San Francisco and don't you know they have an app to help the homeless... For instance, look at how Brendan Eich got kicked out of Mozilla. It's not him or the gay community, it's that California has an unholy combination of people who give money to conservative causes and people who are militant about being gay. Had Mozilla ran an office in any other city in the world this wouldn't have happened; in San Francisco if it had not been that it would have been something else. Mozilla likes to talk about inclusion but the one kind of inclusion they won't consider is opening an office in some city like Chicago or St. Louis or something. A city that can't solve the slightest problem of its own doesn't have anything to say about how other people could solve their problems and should not be in a leadership position -- at most they are going to export chaos to the rest of the world.
- drugme 8y ago
  A city that can't solve the slightest problem of its own ... To get back to the original subject - it seems that the matter of the illegally demolished house was, in fact... solved quite elegantly.