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It'll be interesting to see how much of an effect this has. Construction in Berkeley is still extremely difficult. Neighbors have many ways to oppose new constr
by lacker 6y ago
It'll be interesting to see how much of an effect this has. Construction in Berkeley is still extremely difficult. Neighbors have many ways to oppose new construction, and something as simple as adding an extra room to a house can end up requiring multiple city council votes.
Still, I'm excited to see things moving in the right direction. Berkeley is fundamentally a university town with one of the best public universities in the world, so making it affordable to live in Berkeley is providing a great opportunity to many people.
- sep_field 6y agotime to confiscate the houses of the rich and give them to the poor.
- cft 6y agoThese comments are better for Reddit. HN is not yet a political platform
- sep_field 6y ago"start ups" are inherently a political topic -- the culture of them promotes hypercapitalism.
- castlecrasher2 6y agoEvery topic is inherently political/religious to cultists.
- sep_field 6y agooh, how silly of me! of course, poisoning the planet and selling out peoples privacy to line the pockets of vultures isn't political at all! gosh what was I thinking.
- dang 6y agoWe've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines. Politics isn't off topic here as such, but all-out flamewar certainly is. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- ed312 6y agoSure! Let's start with you first comrade.
- cft 6y agoI looked up his comment and submission history. All are political propaganda, with no contribution to any technical or start-up topics
- sep_field 6y agoThat's blatantly false and a ridiculous attempt at character assassination. I have posted about lockpicking, a proof that the MOV instruction is turing-complete, and have contributed to a number of technical discussions. Also, I'm not a "he", and your assumptions about my gender are offensive. My pronouns are they/them.
- sep_field 6y agoI'm not rich, and don't live in Berkeley.
- kindatrue 6y ago>Construction in Berkeley is still extremely difficult True for most of the Bay Area
- shuckles 6y agoGut renovating old single family homes is a lot more difficult than demolishing them to build small, newer multi family (think a 2 story quadplex). There was plenty of the former happening throughout the Bay Area, and the latter was largely illegal.
- Tiktaalik 6y agoIt remains very good to remove SFH mandates, but it probably won't result in significant change for a good long while. Purely from the underlying economics, you'd be surprised but in many cases the "highest and best" use of land will still be to maintain an existing detached house. This policy however could make it that in cases where existing property is a tear down, and we're talking about what to build on bare land, it makes more sense to build with intenser uses.