tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301407940699570948.post1134839675424633954..comments2023-11-05T02:49:49.453-08:00Comments on 40 going on 28: I'll trade you a moratorium for a 4-story building hereTKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08123364195474763594noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301407940699570948.post-36800649194677854132015-06-04T12:06:49.838-07:002015-06-04T12:06:49.838-07:00I wouldn't live in the Mission for anything. I...I wouldn't live in the Mission for anything. I love living in the Haight.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01211176315316480185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301407940699570948.post-21779139823940634442015-06-04T04:27:15.160-07:002015-06-04T04:27:15.160-07:00what happened to all those businesses there? I use...what happened to all those businesses there? I used to go to the coffee place with my dad, who lived at 25th/Balboa, and it seemed to be doing ok. I just remember taking the 44 bus to the Richmond and it was so weird to see that whole building vacant.<br /><br />People like the missions because it has a lot of BART/Muni access, and it's near SOMA hence why EVERYONE HAS TO LIVE IN THE F*CKING MISSION. I guess for newcomers it's a "cool urban" place to live. Having grown up here you couldn't pay me to live in the Mission, back in the "cheap old days" or now.<br /><br />Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02639710572191340548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301407940699570948.post-9989710175828379702015-06-03T15:08:05.204-07:002015-06-03T15:08:05.204-07:00My bad. Next time, I'll try to put in at least...My bad. Next time, I'll try to put in at least one vicious ad hominem attack and/or reduce at least one of your statements to an absurd distortion.<br /><br />I think the realizable, in-our-lifetime "dream" for the Richmond would be BRT lanes for Muni on Geary:<br />http://www.sfcta.org/delivering-transportation-projects/geary-corridor-bus-rapid-transit-home<br />http://sf.streetsblog.org/2013/12/16/hampered-by-tunnels-center-brt-lanes-on-geary-limited-to-the-richmond/<br /><br />So...hopefully your daughter, TK, can enjoy the magnificent dream of a 30% faster Muni ride from the Richmond to downtown before she graduates from high school.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301407940699570948.post-32150645650732758732015-06-03T14:10:06.870-07:002015-06-03T14:10:06.870-07:00Chestery -
I like to discourage well-thought-out,...Chestery -<br /><br />I like to discourage well-thought-out, interesting, reasonable comments like yours but occasionally one slips through, so we'll let it slide this time.<br /><br />GG -<br /><br />The 31 bus runs in front of that intersection to downtown. I get it a few blocks away and get to Van Ness in about 20 minutes. A few blocks away there's the 5 and 38, both of which have express lines during rush hour. Of course, as you say, adding a couple thousand more people would make the whole system seize up like a garbage disposal with a spoon in it so yeah, BART to the ocean it is.TKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08123364195474763594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301407940699570948.post-72408121291757948032015-06-03T13:52:00.215-07:002015-06-03T13:52:00.215-07:00As usual, I 100% agree with everything you said, b...As usual, I 100% agree with everything you said, but I think the big barrier to building up the Richmond and Sunset is our terrible public transit system. Oh, what CAN'T Muni be blamed for? But seriously, if we raised all those buildings to 5 or 6 stories, Barcelona-style, how would all those people get to work? I'm all for biking to work, but it's not an option for everyone, and from what I understand the N and all the other westward Muni/bus lines are already over capacity. Of course, the answer here (IMHO) is to dig a BART spur tunnel out to Ocean Beach AND increase density, but that plan has been a tough sell thus far. GGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02261527701229835583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301407940699570948.post-51651124716155682032015-06-03T13:22:15.206-07:002015-06-03T13:22:15.206-07:00He won't say it publicly, of course, but I don...He won't say it publicly, of course, but I don't think Campos genuinely thinks that he can get together a plan/funding for turning large parcels in the Mission into affordable housing. I imagine his motive, for the time being, is to simply make sure that no more large parcels get turned into "luxury" housing (even with a ratio of affordable units above current mandates). The rationale being that, once they get redeveloped into a large, high-end residential development, then that determines it's use for the foreseeable future. And there are only a very small handful of parcels left that could potentially be used for medium-density housing.<br /><br />So I think he just wants to throw a wrench into the gears and hope that, somehow, he can figure out a way to get funding for an all-affordable development. Or, perhaps, it's a cynical-idealistic play to exact even higher proportions of affordable units in the developments that are being proposed...or kicking the can down the road, hoping that there will be some big bubble burst in the tech sector. <br /><br />I also imagine that he doesn't see 76% luxury and 24% affordable housing to be a net benefit to those needing affordable, because that kind of proportion continues the big demographic shift in the Mission that, amongst other things, is changing the voter base. The more this happens, the less possible it will be in the future to form a neighborhood coalition to stop this from happening. I don't think any of this will lead to substantial achievement of their goals, but it's not without some logic. <br /><br />Of course, your head-scratching at how this will just put more pressure on existing housing stock is a fundamental problem to moratorium advocates. But they're fighting "gentrification" in the Mission on all fronts, including Ellis Act evictions and etc. I dunno...I kind of see it like blowing up a bridge and burning crops, in desperation, before an advancing army. Just trying to buy time to hopefully figure out a hail mary. Or just dig in heels and outlast a siege via attrition. It's an ugly and loaded analogy, I know.<br /><br />As is Mar's labeling of demographic change in the Mission as "ethnic cleansing." Yeah, it doesn't necessarily imply genocide, but it's demagoguery that would be comical if it weren't so resonant with the choir to which it preaches.<br /><br />We don't need inflammatory analogies to mass murder and eviction at gunpoint. We have a term for what is going on: "gentrification."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com