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It’s absurd that we have mansions like this just a few blocks from the Forest Hill Muni Metro station that offers a 15 minute, one-seat ride to downtown SF. Exclusionary zoning literally makes it illegal to build apartments here. Time for the Board of Supervisors to fix this!

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Jesse Powell

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@sam_d_1995

I don’t know if a 1-car garage house can qualify as a mansion but they probably didn’t want the muni stop in the first place. There is some value to zoning rules being predictable. If the city wants to change, it should give decades of notice or compensate zoning change victims.

1:56 AM · Nov 17, 2020Twitter for iPhone

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an upzoning would make this land far more valuable. there are no victims, only people who have the ability to build more on their existing land.

Jesse Powell

@jespow

Nov 17, 2020

Maybe. Increased housing density isn’t always good. Rich people might leave your city entirely if they can’t have a big house on a big lot. You have to put them somewhere too. And where do you draw the line with unit size minimums, building height maximums, parking, etc?

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The Muni Metro station that Sam is referring to opened in 1918

Jesse Powell

@jespow

Nov 17, 2020

And the current state was probably considered sufficiently dense at the time to justify the stop. So, why is it no longer sufficient?

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I realize this is not really the point here, but I wouldn’t assume that a single width garage door equals a “1 car garage” here. I’ve seen SF houses where a door like this opens to a big basement garage easily with space for 2, and I wouldn’t be surprised by more.