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sam
@sam_d_1995
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
@jespow
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.
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sam
@sam_d_1995
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.
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Jesse Powell
@jespow
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@sam_d_1995
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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sam
@sam_d_1995
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@jespow
lol, nobody would force anyone to sell their mansions. all upzoning does is make it legal for someone who lives in a mansion to turn that into apartments if they wish.
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Jesse Powell
@jespow
Yeah but you may effectively force a sale by significantly downgrading the quality of life for a neighboring property through overbuilding. Let’s say your neighbors on both sides tear down their 4br houses and build 40br sky rises? Now you’re dealing with 10x noise, traffic, etc.
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