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I believe SF would need way more central planning and not less if we want more housing supply. The transportation issue in SF is crazy at the moment and parking

I believe SF would need way more central planning and not less if we want more housing supply. The transportation issue in SF is crazy at the moment and parking is expensive in both time and money. A city needs to upgrade multiple infrastructural elements simultaneously if it wants to make a successful leap into higher densities. In a democratic culture this means getting enough parties on board to accept a big jump in taxes for huge civic works projects like subways. To make all of this coherent this will take a massive and sustained political momentum which can exercise eminent domain in a very big way.

AlchemistCamp 4y ago
SF tax revenues increased greatly (double, IIRC) over the past decade. How much more revenue do you believe the city needs?
opportune 4y ago
We don’t need more parking. It’s a waste of space and very expensive compared to more public transportation. By all means allow people to build parking if they want to, but there’s no need for parking minimums. I don’t see how more central planning could help. Our central planners love to block housing unless it meets 100 different conflicting requirements they make up on the spot. Just let people build!
- rdtwo 4y ago
  We can’t have public transit because we gave up on public safety during covid. Lots of public transit is now unsafe or much less safe than before