Interestingly San Jose has had some controversy over the opposite issue. The city has a bit of an inferiority complex about not being perceived as a "real city"

Interestingly San Jose has had some controversy over the opposite issue. The city has a bit of an inferiority complex about not being perceived as a "real city" despite having ~1m people, so has been trying to encourage more high-rise development and fewer sprawling office parks. The goal seems to be to turn itself into a globally known tech hub, rather than being perceived as just the southern suburbs of San Francisco. Part of the city (the North San Jose redevelopment area) is targeted as a new high-rise central business district adjacent to the BART extension, and part of that redevelopment plan included minimum height guidelines, in which new developments were supposed to be at least 14 stories tall. There was considerable pushback from developers, though, because they wanted to build office parks rather than 14-story buildings, so the guideline has since been waived.