Man, public officials here will do absolutely anything – anything! – to ensure that as little housing gets built as humanly possible (ideally zero in their minds), while the population just keeps trending upward. I, for one welcome our new Sacramento overlords, and am grateful that they will be forced to actually let some things get built.

Could an average person distinguish a 55ft vs 65ft building with all the stepbacks?

Wouldn’t it be great if our city made tweaks that actually INCREASED the density by some small meaningful amount?

Joe,

What are the new little squares where people sign in to check red and green ?

What’s the most of either anyone’s ever gotten and is there a prize ?

h.

In reply to DK.

DK,

I’m really old and looking back on history it seems most conflict is over land use.

Exacerbated by an expanding population that fights for 2,000 years from the Khans to Putin to control the wheat fields of Ukraine.

I’m agreeing with Andrew Yang that a first step is UBI.

Maybe an international sterilization thing ?

‘Cut and Run for Ten Large ??’

Move fast before first Iranian made cruise missile hits a Yankee Flat Top.

You hate, “Local control” ?

Option is Corporate control from Big Pharma via Newsom to overturn 118-0 combined Legislature vote to cap insulin at $20 a month.

Maybe when Quantum Computers from China start dating AGI’s from Chat Gpt on Howard Street.

Niners are fine.

Last couple of games just make you appreciate how important it is to have the best Offensive Left Tackle who ever lived on your team on the field healthy is.

Pardon the grammar but I have a bet with a computer.

lol

h.

It is laughable how frequently SFers (officials, residents, boosters) like to pretend San Francisco is Paris or could soon be Paris, or at least is pretty much like it a little bit, kind of, sort of.

SF can be its own city, with all of its various good and bad bits, but it will never be Paris, or anything like it.

In reply to h. brown.

Local control is how we got in this mess. If anything, I would attribute conscience to those trying to tackle the harms – high prices, homelessness, displacement – inherent in our broken housing market.

Campers,

Planning, in my opinion has the most erudite members than any commission.

Note that when they had a 5-1 votes it was Moore who said ‘no’.

She’s the best schooled in the field, has served longest here and can see furthest down the road.

Still, she’s only voting conscience here as Wiener/Chiu State laws have pretty much disempowered (that a word?) local legislatures in the area of land use.

It happened with cell phone towers and Uber and Cruise and on and on.

Realtors are true Libertarians who want to build anywhere with no rules and no complaints allowed from neighbors (that is actually in a piece of Wiener law).

I try to catch the Cop Commission live or on tape too and I’m calling it, ‘The Max Carter-Oberstone Show’ which it is.

‘Appeals’ can be interesting and watching Peskin’s eternal quest for that Golden Fleece of ‘Shortest Full Board Meeting’ always rewards.

Think Niners will ever win another game ?

h.