Posted on 12/15/2022 7:52:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind
One builder had to completely redesign the parking area of his townhome development because an "environmental study" had determined that the driveway entry points into the building's underground garage weren't where the councilmembers would have put them.
The redesign would limit the amount of cabinet space in the garage that the developer could provide to the owners.
This is the type of silliness that would drive most sane people crazy.
Really? they can’t just buy a house in Oakland?
While I agree that 3 years for a building permit is criminal, anyone who talks to ‘the homeless’ for 5 minutes knows immediately that more housing WILL NOT solve the problem, in fact it won’t even be noticed on the street.
San Francisco is only 47 square miles and it’s been built out for 100 years. Los Angeles is 500 square miles. Go build there.
BS No homeless person could afford anything built in Frisco.
Majority voted for it. That’s the government they wanted.
Leftards screw up everything they touch.
They can re-purpose the Twitter building once Musk moves out.
The delays are one thing. What is the cost of the necessary bribes?
Here’s the thing about the homeless and house permit problems in San Francisco (and elsewhere): if the residents of the city actually wanted the problems solved, they would have solved them a long time ago.
The residents don’t want the problems solved though. They just want the problems to be someone else’s problem and they want to keep their own scams and their own petty scolding and nagging feifdoms in positions of influence.
Good grief. It took 4-1/2 years to build the Golden Gate Bridge.
I can build a house in Alaska without any building permit needed. That’s the difference between a free state and a leftist hellhole state.
My aunt and uncle added an addition to their home back in the 1990s in Rancho Palos Verdes near Long Beach, Calif. They had a corner of the house where it was a patio with a pole in one corner.
All that needed to be done is add 2 walls, remove one wall to the family room, On the outside walls a sliding door on one side and double doors on the other side with big windows in between. This allowed a lot of light in to the family room connected to it. Plus add a skylight in the family room. Like 2 weeks work.
They had to wait 6 months for the homeowner association to approve the design of the windows as someone did not like them. They would have already matched the other windows on the house.
The relatives had about 2.5 acres and no one could see their home from the street or nearby so it was just arbitrary on someone’s part.
You could build an entire house in in under 6 months!
Finally some thing or some one to blame, I was getting worried they usually have the finger pointed immediately at the target
In “Seattle Is Dying” people point out there is no homeless problem; there is a DRUG PROBLEM - and housing won’t fix it. The people interviewed also make it clear the problem can never be fixed because they won’t even name the true problem.
The “homeless” interviewed openly admit 100% of the people on the streets are addicts.
While housing costs may be a problem for normals, there is no relation to the homeless addicts; they won’t pay rents or mortgage, or maintain any housing provided.
The homeless problem is not a result of not enough houses. It is that rents are too high for people who have expensive drug habits. If a normal person is confronted with a choice between rent and a going to the movies, they will pay the rent. If a drug addict has a choice between rent and a habit, the habit wins every time. Quickly the rent ceases to be a choice and the only housing problem becomes having to move their tent when the city decides they are a nuisance.
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