YES, we need more housing--for everyone. As Art Agnos explains: [In SF] a top-down attitude [is] all too often enthusiastically embraced by City Hall. Politically connected big developers propose only lucrative high-rise developments that shut out the ordinary San Franciscan from affordable housing. If City Hall won’t listen, won’t act, or only acts for developers, then citizens have shown they have the solution: It is citizen initiative power or ballot-box planning. Example: Last November voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition F, a measure to allow a moderate increase in height limits for a Pier 70 project. Agnos: This is the first new major development passed on San Francisco’s waterfront in modern history. Why? Because it responded to the four things San Francisco needs: • 2,000 units of housing — with 30 percent guaranteed for affordable housing — including for middle-class people earning up to $125,000. •Parks and open space on one-third of the land, paid for and maintained by the developer. •10,000 new jobs, including low-tech jobs and businesses based in San Francisco. •Sea-level-rise solutions.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 18:02:38 +0000
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