Occasional reminder that the people who downzoned your city in the 70s knew exactly what they were doing.
Occasional reminder that the people who downzoned your city in the 70s knew exactly what they were doing.
@maxdubler @suburbsboring That thread! It’s like the motherlode of SF planning history!
@maxdubler @bellachu10 There's a ton of planning documents from the 70s that warn of the coming housing crisis from restrictive zoning. The 80s recession and 90s boom respectively masked the issues
@maxdubler @bellachu10 Interesting that some retrospectives put Milk on the wrong (majority) side of this issue & White in the right, but this indicates they both voted yes on this particular downzoning
Here are the San Francisco Planning Commission meeting minutes from 1978: “…the project as proposed would reduce the number of housing units that could legally be built in San Francisco. As a result the cost of housing may increase, and that with increasing housing costs, some population groups may find it difficult to live in San Francisco. The proposed zoning will affect the low-and-moderate-income households more than any other group"
@maxdubler Nancy’s BiL, Dan white, DiFi, and Milk on the same side, while Quentin Koop is on the correct side of history? Most cursed vote I’ve ever seen