Via email By Adam Pardew : bizjournals – excerpt

Under pressure from the state, the city is grappling with making space for more homes…

They are eyeing what they describe as “well resourced” neighborhoods.

… Residents of those areas with good resources — Cow Hollow, Pacific Heights and the

Sunset, for instance — have gotten plenty of press for their opposition to the rezoning

effort. Lori Brooke is the co-founder of Neighborhoods United SF, a coalition of

neighborhood groups who are organizing against upzoning. She said there’s no way San

Francisco is going to meet its RHNA goals even with the rezoning, so punishment from

the state is inevitable. Furthermore, Brooke said, the city is already facing unique

penalties, like annual reviews of its progress toward housing construction targets (the

state evaluates other cities every four years)…(more)

Where did this idea of good resources come from? What and who determines which neighborhoods possess good resources? If a neighborhood has good schools, adequate fuel and infrastructure sources now, how far will those resources stretch once the neighborhood population doubles? Will it continue to have adequate resources?

Will the water and fuel and schools continue to be adequate when the population shifts to accommodate a lot of new people?

Look what happened to downtown neighborhoods where density was added for a hint of what is to come. Adding more jobs, housing and resources did not make downtown SF a safer, better more friendly and attractive neighborhood. Removing cars did not improve Market Street, removing traffic removed people.

Show me one neighborhood that was been improved by adding density. I don’t see one. What I see is that most of the taxbase has moved into the stable neighborhoods while the money continues to pour into those new towers in hopes of a new renaissance that resides in the minds of some mega moguls.