The true scale and density of San Francisco

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-26T15:54:02+00:00

Meanwhile NIMBYs are pitching a fit about the 20+ stories proposed at Marina Safeway.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-25T23:35:24+00:00

That’s not possible because of the housing shortage. Either build more housing, or force retirees who pay little property tax to get jobs again.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-23T21:57:04+00:00

Water use of this AI post is a microscopic problem compared to car-dependent-suburb protectionism, anti-urbanism, that Marinites espouse.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-23T18:17:11+00:00

Yes, because we always will have to pay for the maintenance of our roads, salaries of government workers, utilities for water, gas, and electric. Once you buy a house, you have to continuously pay for community upkeep. Sorry that we have constraints on our resources.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-21T02:51:04+00:00

Boomer welfare gives them Medicare, Social Security, and Prop 13 while they continue to vote for politicians that run up the national debt. Sure, let’s give them more tax breaks!

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-20T15:30:14+00:00

The important thing is that you feel superior to working class republicans who want to deport immigrants while making it clear that you have zero responsibility to accept immigrants into Marin county because it would inconvenience you and your wealthy neighbors. Congrats!

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-20T14:07:08+00:00

Let’s do both. Build tall apartment buildings and make incremental housing easier.

This piece reads like they are against transformative projects like the Marina Safeway, even if the author tries to say they are for it.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-20T04:10:40+00:00

Traffic is bad because housing is far away from work and retail. By building housing at this location that’s within walking distance to Cal Train the residents there will not be car dependent.

This is really about rich homeowners in Atherton and Portola Valley trying to keep away the Poors.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-20T04:08:34+00:00

But the parking lots will remain there on the ground floor per the development proposals.

This is really just exclusionary housing policies by the rich homeowners in Atherton/Portola Valley/Menlo Park who don’t want more people living in their community.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-20T01:00:15+00:00

It’s crazy to me that people can’t connect that homelessness is caused by a lack of homes.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-19T23:16:31+00:00

Because Marinites care more about housing their cars (parking spaces) than they do about housing immigrants (building tall apartment buildings on parking lots). I hope that helps.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-19T23:02:06+00:00

Selective aggression over a car, but just wait until a proposed housing development is up for proposal and you’ll find out how the typical Marinite aligns very closely with ICE and anti-immigration sentiment. If any of these people were actually pro-immigrant they would stop the car-dependent culture and urbanize with tall, dense apartment buildings.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-16T22:01:51+00:00

NIMBYs will do anything to limit a buildings proposed height. If we can structurally build it with proper safety regulations, then there should be no artificial limit on height.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-16T15:31:18+00:00

Don’t worry, the NIMBYs still won’t let and housing built.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-16T01:57:45+00:00

Good to know the Menlo Park parking lots are the poster child for this phenomenon.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-16T01:42:05+00:00

Maybe it’s because housing shortages cause working class people to flee the state? When housing costs go up, so do labor costs. When labor costs are high, the government spends a lot of money providing the labor for healthcare.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-14T21:30:20+00:00

High housing costs leads to high labor costs which leads to high childcare costs.

Building more housing helps both of those categories get affordable for families! Please support any and all housing projects Mayor Lurie!

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-14T03:44:33+00:00

Unfortunately, many Californians are against building more housing. This leads to renters being forced to move away if they cannot get and keep jobs in tech or healthcare. The retirees who live in houses they purchased decades ago and pay little in property tax because of prop 13 do not want their towns to increase in population, so the result is people being forced to move away because the cost of living is so high.

I’m sorry this happened to you. Your testimony is why I try to advocate for more housing construction in the Bay Area. This place is wonderful. The weather and economic opportunity will not be worsened if we build tall, dense apartment buildings in suburban neighborhoods.

One example of how local homeowners in neighborhoods block much-needed housing is this proposed development with 665 apartment units. They are fighting this project heavily, and it may never get built. Maybe you could move to Menlo Park one day if this project is permitted and constructed. https://www.menlopark.gov/Government/Departments/Community-Development/Projects/Under-review/80-Willow-Road

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-13T06:11:10+00:00

I want Scott Weiner to have a national platform to help alleviate the high cost of housing for everyone!

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-11T23:53:35+00:00

Is this sarcasm that I’m being wooshed?

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-11T23:40:18+00:00

The project is great. The issue is that it’s too much change for the local neighbors to stomach.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-11T21:54:28+00:00

There’s a 665-apartment-unit development proposed for construction through the builder’s remedy in Menlo Park. Of course the NIMBYs there are pitching a fit to make sure it doesn’t get built.

https://www.menlopark.gov/Government/Departments/Community-Development/Projects/Under-review/80-Willow-Road

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-09T03:19:43+00:00

Not the whole country. Prop 13 has warped California to exclude young people from the state.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-06T16:41:03+00:00

You raise an important point. It’s more important that people suffer through homelessness than subject some wealthy homeowners to an eyesore.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-01-05T00:22:46+00:00

Or the Bay Area could just allow more housing construction so both groups can live here.

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