Posted on 07/09/2018 1:26:14 PM PDT by Hojczyk
At CityLab, Gabriel Metcalf wrote that he specifically moved to San Francisco for its progressive policies but that those policies have caused a housing shortage of epic proportions. “San Francisco progressives chose to stick with their familiar stance of opposing new development, positioning themselves as defenders of the city’s physical character,” he wrote.
And: “Over the years, these anti-development sentiments were translated into restrictive zoning, the most cumbersome planning and building approval process in the country, and all kinds of laws and rules that make it uniquely difficult, time-consuming, and expensive to add housing in San Francisco.”
Likewise, New York’s commitment to rent stabilization and rent control means a lack of the necessary housing development. And in many cases, instead of building more housing, the city is simply “rezoning” areas to produce more affordable homes.
Both San Francisco and New York City are one-party towns. They’re incubators of uber-liberal policies. Both cities have produced astonishing inequality, an ever-shrinking middle class and a deepening homeless problem. Both cities are throwing money at the issue and hoping something works out.
But people generally will only tolerate human poop on sidewalks for so long. New York needs to stop following San Francisco down its poop-filled road before conventions start thinking twice about visiting.
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Although vacant lots are pretty much gone, the SF skyline continues to rise. Used to be that skyscrapers were pretty much concentrated in the Financial district north of Market Street in the northeast corner. Then over the last 20 years skyscrapers jumped south of Market, and over the last 10 years have spread west into the Civic Center area. That's where there were a large number of parking lots, which have now been taken over by skyscrapers in the last 5 years.
New development moved to the eastern side of the city where whole new neighborhoods were built in the last 15 years, with a mix of high-rises. Development continues into the southeast corner of the city. So there still is space for SF to grow vertically.
Meanwhile, the city government has reduced lanes on major streets and replaced them with bicycle lanes or bus-only lanes, massively choking car traffic. Empty lots that were parking lots are gone. Very little street parking available resulting in congestion for those seeking to park and double-parking is an epidemic. Most major thoroughfares are slow-moving messes. Government encourages more people to move in (including illegals who can't afford it), wants to build more housing but chokes traffic flow and restricts law enforcement thereby reducing quality of life for all. Crazy management.
Obama’s objective was to bleed America to death by a thousand cuts. A cut here a cut there and they all added up and hurt the country.
Obama said they were going to “basically transform America”. One doesn’t desire to transform something dear and loved.
20 years ago I had a 12 hour layover in SF and decided to do the tourist thing.
Walking up a street in the Market district I saw a naked man taking a shit in the middle of the road.
I grabbed my camera and stepped out between two cars to get a close up.
Before I could take the photo somebody grabbed me and pushed me against one of the cars.
It was Officer J. who, despite my pointing and gesturing at the naked shitting man, spent the next 5 minutes instructing me in the laws prohibiting jay walking and associated penalties.
I suspect your wife simply needs to spend a little time in that city.
I remember I used to think it was sooooo wonderful and then I went there with friends one time who thought it would be a great idea to go to the Castro district and hang out.
Uh...not, it wasn’t.
Got to see men engaging in sex acts in public, people smoking pot (before it was legal) and then a whole street corner full of naked men sitting out smoking and drinking.
I haven’t been back there since and it’s VERY unlikely I’ll ever see it again.
So true. Did we Americans ask the Kenyan wonder if he could please transform our country for us? No.
Every mentally deranged alien costs us. Every welfare client who needs fully tax paid housing costs us. Every $100,000 medical surgery hospital bill for an illegal costs us. The criminals and gang members running loose who cannot be questioned by police (sanctuary privilege) costs us.
Multiply this by tens of thousands a year of new arrivals.
Chaos, resentment by Americans. Unrest. Voila! Transformation.
City engineers assure the owners & residents that the building is safe, reassuring, no?
I was born in San Franfreako, if I call it Crap City anybody else can call it anything they want.
When that sh!thole starts the next great plague I would recommend that it be nuked into glass.
We can always build another nice bridge across the straight, once it’s been sterilized.
You’re right. death by a thousand (or ten thousand) cuts.
All it will take is one shift of the San Andreas fault in the 7.5 Richter range and there will be a lot of fecal contaminants in the bay.
“I suspect your wife simply needs to spend a little time in that city.”
Surprisingly enough, she has. She lived there (in a nice area called Pacific Heights) for 4 years back in the early 80’s.
Of course, SF has changed a lot since then. She really hasn’t read much about the crap (no pun intended) going on there recently. Nor has she been back since. She also (unfortunately) has a more liberal view than I do about the whole gay lifestyle.
I live here and it is crap city. The crap starts with the crappy Nancy Pelosi and it never ends. The liberals who control everything refuse to do anything meaning about it. I wish Trump would take federal control of SF. He’d remove the crap so fast and do it under budget.
100% correct. My son is 5th generation San Franciscan but likely to be the last. I plan to become a citizen of a 0% tax state as soon as I am off the payroll here.
When I go downtown (which is rare these days) I see feces and homeless everywhere. Reefer pervades the sidewalks, the transit system, the ballpark...
SF will get worse before it gets better, and the city will avoid the natural.implosion thanks to wealthy limousine liberals that fund the communist regime
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