> That's a rather uncharitable characterization. SF is just trying to tie jobs to adequate housing construction.
I’m a San Francisco native. I’ve learned to be uncharitable when it comes to the Board of Supervisors. They are masters of saying one thing and doing another.
Increasing the fees on office space is going to make even more projects infeasible, which would lead to fewer offices being constructed. Which, in their minds, will justify the fees. For the longest time, the self-styled “anti-corporate” faction in San Francisco politics have said that the cap on office space construction that Elberling helped to pass back in 1986 is not a real burden because so few offices have been built that the cap has rarely been the limiting factor.
Limiting offices in San Francisco isn’t even going to help with the jobs-housing imbalance. As we see here, the limited office supply in San Francisco is driving companies to move to other Bay Area cities that don’t pretend to care about the jobs-housing imbalance.
The workers still need somewhere to live, and many of them will live in San Francisco. But instead of using our extensive investment in transit to downtown San Francisco, they will use the more limited transit and freeways going to the outskirts of South City.
Enough with this every-county-for-itself race to the bottom. If the San Francisco supervisors were serious about the jobs-housing balance, they would not be making offices harder to build in San Francisco. They would be ceding local control of land use to a regional authority, in exchange for the rest of the Bay Area counties ceding their control, too, so that we could build an integrated and equitable region. Solve the jobs-housing imbalance for the whole region by building a lot more homes.
https://cayimby.org
I’m a San Francisco native. I’ve learned to be uncharitable when it comes to the Board of Supervisors. They are masters of saying one thing and doing another.
Increasing the fees on office space is going to make even more projects infeasible, which would lead to fewer offices being constructed. Which, in their minds, will justify the fees. For the longest time, the self-styled “anti-corporate” faction in San Francisco politics have said that the cap on office space construction that Elberling helped to pass back in 1986 is not a real burden because so few offices have been built that the cap has rarely been the limiting factor.
Limiting offices in San Francisco isn’t even going to help with the jobs-housing imbalance. As we see here, the limited office supply in San Francisco is driving companies to move to other Bay Area cities that don’t pretend to care about the jobs-housing imbalance.
The workers still need somewhere to live, and many of them will live in San Francisco. But instead of using our extensive investment in transit to downtown San Francisco, they will use the more limited transit and freeways going to the outskirts of South City.
Enough with this every-county-for-itself race to the bottom. If the San Francisco supervisors were serious about the jobs-housing balance, they would not be making offices harder to build in San Francisco. They would be ceding local control of land use to a regional authority, in exchange for the rest of the Bay Area counties ceding their control, too, so that we could build an integrated and equitable region. Solve the jobs-housing imbalance for the whole region by building a lot more homes. https://cayimby.org