Not sarcasm, though I chuckled— it can be hard to tell from across the aisle! At first glance I thought the page was pro-development, the projects looking so obviously good and vibrantly rendered. (I'dve chosen ugly desaturated grays for an overbuilt hellscape I were against.)
I agree with you on the highway, incidentally. Certainly you can agree with me that an Alcatraz Space Museum sounds good?
That's mostly because a Federal judge (specifically, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Martin vs. City of Boise) ruled that a local government cannot punish the homeless for camping on public property unless the City is able to offer the homeless person an alternative (i.e., at least a bed in a homeless shelter).
Guide to becoming SF:
Step 1. Ban any mitigations on the homeless.
Step 2. Ban new housing.
I’m actually with you, but it’s crazy that this seems to go over the heads of people crafting legislation. Lots of parks filled with homeless people is the only possible outcome.
Take a look at the demographics of Marin and the neighborhoods of SF and you will get an idea of what the people who stopped all the freeway construction wanted to “preserve”:
http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?bayarea
Another dishonest false alternative from anti-growth advocates.
There's an ocean of middle ground between "not a park or tree in sight" and the current state of affairs, wherein every new building is fought tooth-and-nail.
Anytime these people speak they should reminded they have been directly responsible for the inequality in the Bay Area and turning California into a neo-feudal society comprised of those whose families owned property before Prop 13 and everyone else.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 35.2 ms ] threadIt's a real shame those regressive activists prevented progress.
I agree with you on the highway, incidentally. Certainly you can agree with me that an Alcatraz Space Museum sounds good?
Nay to the Victorian theme park part of Alcatraz.
I’m actually with you, but it’s crazy that this seems to go over the heads of people crafting legislation. Lots of parks filled with homeless people is the only possible outcome.
There's an ocean of middle ground between "not a park or tree in sight" and the current state of affairs, wherein every new building is fought tooth-and-nail.
Anytime these people speak they should reminded they have been directly responsible for the inequality in the Bay Area and turning California into a neo-feudal society comprised of those whose families owned property before Prop 13 and everyone else.