r/bayarea • u/reddituser84838 • 1d ago

Work & Housing Daniel Lurie’s new SF housing rezoning map is a winner. Let’s make sure it stays that way

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/daniel-lurie-san-francisco-zoning-map-20257146.php
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u/blbd San Jose 1d ago

Towers towers everywhere and not a NIMBY to see. It's so refreshing that they finally elected a more clueful mayor that can make sure that the entire 6x6 heads toward mixed use instead of the existing completely brain dead development allocation approach that does not make any sense. It's been killing the city since the pandemic. 

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u/bitfriend6 1d ago

Hold on, he hasn't built them yet! I will believe it when I see it. But I want to believe. If Lurie can make SF affordable he is good enough to be our Governor.

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u/Icy-Cry340 1d ago

Watch costs not go down.

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u/Key-Art-7802 1d ago

I'd be at least somewhat happy if they even just go up slower.

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u/echOSC 1d ago

Great, then they should build as many as they can. How much rent a building can charge directly affects how valuable a building is. If rents don't go down, then the building's value doesn't go down.

Which means infinite property tax revenue.

Lets go, infinite money machine.

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u/Icy-Cry340 1d ago

Lmao they'll waste it, just like they wasted the monster budgets of the pre-covid era.

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u/Tossawaysfbay San Francisco 21h ago

They won’t go down enough to make the insane people not whine and complain and vote against housing all over again.

It’s not dissimilar to the delusional people hoping a market crash means they could afford all sorts of houses.

Building housing does combat price increases, that’s just math, but it doesn’t make everything magically $1.

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u/kosmos1209 1d ago

He’s not even proposing towers, just taller and denser buildings on high transit corridors like Geary. He also made lots of concessions as most of the upzoning and taller upzoning is on the east side of the city.

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u/blbd San Jose 1d ago

I was partly kidding. But the more towers and the more defeated NIMBYs we get the happier I will be. 

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u/Decent-Rule6393 1d ago

We can thank the state government for tuning the screws to force Bay Area cities to implement good faith zoning plans unless they want the state to seize zoning control.

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u/blbd San Jose 1d ago

Agreed. I hope they do even more even faster. And every time it gets blocked they should 'doze a mansion and put up a tower. 

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u/Czarchitect RWC 1d ago

Just imagine SF as the Manhattan of the west coast. That would be so fucking rad. 

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u/Icy-Cry340 1d ago

You can already go and live in Manhattan. I did, it sucked.

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u/lake_of_1000_smells San Mateo 1d ago

You can always... move to Brooklyn. Where there's no sleep. 

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u/Icy-Cry340 1d ago

Also sucks.

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u/KoRaZee 1d ago

Manhattan is the most expensive city in the world

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u/GiraffeGlove 1d ago

Oh, is SF cheap or something?

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u/KoRaZee 1d ago

The only way to make SF more expensive is to be like manhattan

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u/stayfrosty 1d ago

No it wouldn't. It would be Manhattan and not SF. Why do we need to change the city? I know I know...you can't afford the rent. Then go live in Fremont. Go live in Sacramento. Don't ruin everyone elses life in SF to make it into Manhattan or Hong Kong

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u/Watchful1 San Jose 1d ago

Ah yes, don't ruin SF by letting the poor people live there.

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u/Bubbly-Two-3449 East bay 1d ago

The city used statistical models to gauge the amount of housing likely to actually be built as a result of the proposed rezoning, Hillis said — and arrived at a little more than 36,000 units. That’s the amount of homes San Francisco is required to accommodate through zoning changes.

If the city doesn't do this, it may face builder's remedy. This housing will be very expensive, there is no affordability requirement AFAIK. And it's about the least he could do, just meeting but not exceeding the state building requirement. NIMBYs should be happy.

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u/TooOldForThis5678 1d ago

You can always count on NIMBYs to have paid absolutely no attention to how well what they’re about to try worked for other cities’ NIMBYs, so I’m expecting plenty of whine

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u/lampstax 18h ago

Happy that the state is shitting on local residents wishes and forcing in things most of those who lives there dont wants. Cool. Let's force in nuclear plants next since cities are now powerless to fight back from a state decree.

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u/4123841235 17h ago

Hell yeah, let’s! Maybe my PG&E bill won’t be as high… tho don’t have much faith in that

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u/lampstax 16h ago

It will be owned by pge and you will get a rate increase for infrastructure improvements.

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u/4123841235 15h ago

maybe the city builds a nuclear plant and no more pg&e. they can put it under my apartment :)

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u/Sad-Relationship-368 16h ago

Where does Lurie live? (The neighborhood, not his address.) Is his neighborhood being upzoned?