OH COME ON! SAYING ZONING DENSITY DECONTROL = “FAMILY HOUSING” IS JUST PLAIN SILLY
Nope. Mayor Lurie is trying to brand the proposed mega-upzoning of large parts of San Francisco as a “Family Housing Plan.” But allowing developers to stuff more studio and one bedroom apartments into a new building than now permitted via new “density decontrol” rules as included in the same legislation necessarily means there will be fewer large units built, like the three or four bedrooms that families really need.
It's not that no one has noticed this obvious technical oxymoron. So why not call it the “Techie Housing Plan”? Which is what the proposed mega re-zoning really is all about, transforming longtime City neighborhoods into upper-income enclaves for high-paid downtown workers. It's the logical next step in San Francisco’s Manhattanizing Transformation.
I suppose in our new era where fascism is being branded as freedom in our Nation’s capital, we shouldn’t be surprised to hear such outright propaganda double-speak from San Francisco’s City Hall too.
- John Elberling, Editor