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I was just in San Diego for GopherCon and, boy, what a beautiful place. This change will ensure San Diego can keep growing and prospering, meanwhile San Francis

• dmode 7y ago
  As much as I hate NIMBYs in SF, the City has built a lot of housing over the last decade, and I would say more than San Diego. The SF skyline is completely new, and places like SOMA, East cut, Mission Bay, Dog patch are entirely new neighborhoods. Sure, we need to build more on the West side and iPhone Sunset and Richmond, but we will definitely get more bang for our buck by up-zoning San Mateo, Palo Alto etc
  • tmh79 7y ago
    "City has built a lot of housing over the last decade" The city has build a lot less housing than office space over the course of the last decade, and that is the metric that counts (jobs-housing balance). "The SF skyline is completely new" - Salesforce tower (office space), 181 freemont (2/3s office space) etc etc. "SOMA, East cut, Mission Bay, Dog patch are entirely new neighborhoods", and yet still 77% of the land in SF is zoned for single family homes. SF recently passed the Central Soma rezoning plan which creates an amazon HQ2 worth of office space (space for about 50k workers) but only housing for about 7k people.