Comments on: Call for Regional Coordination of Land Use and Transportation http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/06/11/call-for-regional-coordination-of-land-use-and-transportation/ Covering San Francisco's livable streets movement Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:16:44 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: marcos http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/06/11/call-for-regional-coordination-of-land-use-and-transportation/comment-page-1/#comment-6231 marcos Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:28:49 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=2378#comment-6231 San Francisco is governed citywide by a downtown-westside alliance. Part of that pact is that there will be no increased development envelopes on the west side of the City, and that all development will take place disproportionately on the east side. The Greenbelt Alliance is another example of environmental elitism that continues the pattern of disdain for poor folks and communities of color (GA is the fiscal sponsor for the development lobbyists at the Housing Action Coalition) and further enables displacement by funnelling massive developer injections of political cash into paving the way for the entitlement of highly profitable luxury condos. This new development, according to the Planning Department's own studies, will not pay for its impacts on infrastructure, will not pay for its own increased drain on city operations, and, on the east side, will degrade the performance of two handfuls of Muni lines. How about if we see the densification around the BART and CalTrain lines to the 45' San Francisco average before we go off making San Francisco residents subsidize developer profits under the misapprehension of Metcalf'e fallacy, that luxury condos in San Francisco stops exurban tract sprawl? -marc San Francisco is governed citywide by a downtown-westside alliance. Part of that pact is that there will be no increased development envelopes on the west side of the City, and that all development will take place disproportionately on the east side.

The Greenbelt Alliance is another example of environmental elitism that continues the pattern of disdain for poor folks and communities of color (GA is the fiscal sponsor for the development lobbyists at the Housing Action Coalition) and further enables displacement by funnelling massive developer injections of political cash into paving the way for the entitlement of highly profitable luxury condos.

This new development, according to the Planning Department's own studies, will not pay for its impacts on infrastructure, will not pay for its own increased drain on city operations, and, on the east side, will degrade the performance of two handfuls of Muni lines.

How about if we see the densification around the BART and CalTrain lines to the 45' San Francisco average before we go off making San Francisco residents subsidize developer profits under the misapprehension of Metcalf'e fallacy, that luxury condos in San Francisco stops exurban tract sprawl?

-marc

]]> By: ZA http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/06/11/call-for-regional-coordination-of-land-use-and-transportation/comment-page-1/#comment-6226 ZA Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:22:45 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=2378#comment-6226 @Jose - my $0.02 ... I suspect a lot of the Avenues already are relatively densely populated (for the available housing stock), with a lot of owner-occupiers (which locks up that housing stock), and the entire area is primarily committed to cars, with few alternatives. If there were fewer well-salaried people there, the space would be vulnerable/more available to development as the Mission has become. Had John Daly not killed a BART line down Geary 30 years ago, we might have a different picture of development today, and perhaps not one we'd like either. @Jose - my $0.02 ... I suspect a lot of the Avenues already are relatively densely populated (for the available housing stock), with a lot of owner-occupiers (which locks up that housing stock), and the entire area is primarily committed to cars, with few alternatives. If there were fewer well-salaried people there, the space would be vulnerable/more available to development as the Mission has become.

Had John Daly not killed a BART line down Geary 30 years ago, we might have a different picture of development today, and perhaps not one we'd like either.

]]> By: Josh http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/06/11/call-for-regional-coordination-of-land-use-and-transportation/comment-page-1/#comment-6203 Josh Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:58:52 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=2378#comment-6203 Why isn't the West side of SF a suitable site for infill development? The lowest-density regions of the city have three light rail lines and a BART station on the border with Daly City, but those are not smart places to put TOD? WTF? Why isn't the West side of SF a suitable site for infill development? The lowest-density regions of the city have three light rail lines and a BART station on the border with Daly City, but those are not smart places to put TOD? WTF?

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