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Too bad you can't build more in SF because of the building height limits, which is the principle reason housing rates are absurd. If the city made sense they'd
by zanny 13y ago
Too bad you can't build more in SF because of the building height limits, which is the principle reason housing rates are absurd. If the city made sense they'd build some highrise condos downtown and house the entrepreneurs in studio apartments.
- ivanca 13y agoYes, many big cities are (state-sponsored) trying to grow vertically instead of horizontally.
- muzz 13y agoYou'd better tell that to builders who are putting up thousands of units in high rise buildings right now.
- 31reasons 13y agoThe earthquake in 1906 nearly ruined the entire San Francisco. It can happen again at anytime. Limiting the building heights and number of housing is a precautionary measure. The best thing the SV tech community should do is realize the limitations and move out to other cities. LA/San Diego could be the great replacement/extension for SV.
- natrius 13y agoModern building codes prevented that from happening again in '89. If you think earthquakes are a legitimate reason to limit density, Tokyo and Osaka would like to talk to you.
- 31reasons 13y agoI worked in Seismology related field for 8 years and visited Tokyo construction companies to see how they build and retrofit existing buildings to make them earthquake proof (to some extent). Let me tell you, they are way more prepared for the earthquakes than SF is.
- jlgreco 13y agoSo SF can't have nice things because they currently do not have nice things?
- foobarbazqux 13y agoYes, but at a less abstract level, SF can't have nice thing A (tall buildings) because they currently do not have nice thing B (the ability to build earthquake proof buildings).
- jlgreco 13y agoThey have the ability to build those buildings, even if they have to contract with Japanese companies to do it. What they apparently don't have is the infrastructure to regulate and inspect such buildings. They probably don't have that infrastructure because they don't actually want tall buildings regardless... They don't have a chicken because they don't have an egg.. they don't have an egg because "Fuck chickens; move to Manhattan if you want chickens."
- jlgreco 13y agoAnother earthquake should worry San Francisco no more than another fire should worry Chicago.
- aet 13y agoWishful thinking..
- pcwalton 13y agoLos Angeles has earthquakes too.
- 727374 13y agoThe nice parts of LA are just as expensive as SV (e.g. $1mm Santa Monica cottages) and transportation is equally bad.
- 31reasons 13y agoI know but there is plenty of space between LA and San Diego. Irvine, Huntington Beach, Orange County should be enough to accommodate most of SF!
- angersock 13y agoThere have been no advances in structural engineering since 1906.