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The NIMBYism is what makes San Francisco a nice place to live. You know Marin Headlands? They had plans to cover that whole area with a subdivision[1]. A bun
by narrator 11y ago
The NIMBYism is what makes San Francisco a nice place to live. You know Marin Headlands? They had plans to cover that whole area with a subdivision[1]. A bunch of NIMBYs got together back in the 60s and blocked that and now all these people who left some overbuilt sprawl to live here want to live near there. However, they want it to be cheap and want to drastically expand the urban footprint to make it cheap. Go figure.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marincello https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marincello
- refurb 11y agoThe NIMBYism is what makes San Francisco a nice place to live. So the next time someone complains about how expensive the city is I should point across the bay at Marin and say "that's your trade off"?
- narrator 11y agoYeah. Tell them they could live in a nice big apartment tower in the Marin Headlands and have a quick commute to the Presidio and Chrissy Fields across the Marin BART, which also got shot down in part by Marin NIMBYs concerned about population density[1]. Of course, Chrissy Fields and the Presidio would just be quaint names as they would be massively built up and look like SOMA if there weren't all these darned NIMBYs around. [1].http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2013/04/23/imagine_hopping_on_bart_to_get_to_marin_county.php http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2013/04/23/imagine_hopping_on_...