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Old 04-02-2016, 10:40 PM
 
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Not really dude. You can't build dense housing on a hill, and you can only build SFHs in certain parts of the hills. Elsewhere it is not practical. Plus we want to preserve some of that as open space. But the hills are a physical limitation just like the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay are for SF. In theory you could build vast numbers of SFHs on floating platforms in the sea. But no one wants to do that, for emotional reasons, and it would be prohibitively expensive.

The only practical way to do it is with dense housing. And that will make the SFHs more expensive.
Preserve the open space? Why not protect parking lots while you're at it.
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Old 04-02-2016, 10:45 PM
 
Location: "Silicon Valley" (part of San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA)
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Preserve the open space? Why not protect parking lots while you're at it.
Because parking lots are an encroachment on the environment, whereas the open space IS the environment. If you build on the parking lots, you're making better use of land which has already been developed.
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Old 04-02-2016, 10:49 PM
 
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Because parking lots are an encroachment on the environment, whereas the open space IS the environment. If you build on the parking lots, you're making better use of land which has already been developed.
You seem very gungho about destroying history but you're very protective of a place (San Jose Hills) with no endangered species.
http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...1_M24735-31354
and here's an opportunity for you to own in the Bay Area Neutrino.
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Old 04-02-2016, 10:57 PM
 
Location: where the good looking people are
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Turn highway 4 into a real highway inbetween brentwood and stockton.

Build a freeway connecting san jose to patterson.

Take all the farmland in between brentwood and tracy, and build 200,000 homes.
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Old 04-02-2016, 10:59 PM
 
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Turn highway 4 into a real highway inbetween brentwood and stockton.

Build a freeway connecting san jose to patterson.

Take all the farmland in between brentwood and tracy, and build 200,000 homes.
Interesting idea, but how will those people eat without the farm land?
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Old 04-02-2016, 11:02 PM
 
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Partially agree Neutrino, but the minute you go into some people need to leave, that reeks of intolerance. I think within the San Francisco city limits, we're find on city services. We have some work to do in regards to the overall Bay Area

San Francisco Ranked the Best American City for Quality of Life

"A survey by Mercer, a "global human resources consulting firm," evaluated 230 cities based on 39 different factors, including things like media prevalence and censorship, currency and banking services, medical accessibility, public services including transportation, politics, and more. The company then released its 18th annual worldwide Quality of Living survey.

While some places on the list are not surprising—first place, for example, has gone to Vienna for the last seven years—some are. San Francisco is the highest-ranked American city on the survey"
Spent a lot of time in Vienna... a car simply gets in the way.

The rail runs in loops... you can stay on and come full circle... lots of underground shopping near the stations... need something for dinner... just pick it up at the station farmer's markets.

It seemed like most of the city was just a few blocks from a rail line and it really works well.
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Old 04-02-2016, 11:08 PM
 
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Spent a lot of time in Vienna... a car simply gets in the way.

The rail runs in loops... you can stay on and come full circle... lots of underground shopping near the stations... need something for dinner... just pick it up at the station farmer's markets.

It seemed like most of the city was just a few blocks from a rail line and it really works well.
I'd rather drive a car than get peed on by a hobo.
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Old 04-02-2016, 11:24 PM
 
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Never seen a Hobo in Vienna... when were you there?
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Old 04-02-2016, 11:39 PM
 
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Never seen a Hobo in Vienna... when were you there?
When I took public transportation I saw many, many homeless
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Old 04-02-2016, 11:48 PM
 
Location: "Silicon Valley" (part of San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA)
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Hard to miss homeless people on public transit at least here in the USA. I have to ride it because I can't afford a car and I don't know how to drive (never learned in high school). I know how to drive a submarine, though. I'm qualified Helm/Planes watch. Admittedly I wasn't very good at that watch, but you're required to train many jobs. My main job underway was sonar.

There are homeless people everywhere. Believe it or not, there are homeless people in Europe, too.

Streets of London | About homelessness
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