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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

@jespow

Nov 17, 2020

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.

Cliff Bargar

@thecliffbar

Nov 17, 2020

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

Jesse Powell

@jespow

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@thecliffbar

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

3:01 AM · Nov 17, 2020Twitter for iPhone

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Transportation mode share has changed a little bit since 1918. But whether or not it was dense enough to justify building a subway there isn't the question Sam is asking

Cliff Bargar

@thecliffbar

Nov 17, 2020

fwiw it was also legal to build much denser housing in most of San Francisco in 1918 than it is today