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Looks like my neighborhood explorations around San Francisco brought me to question: which of these two areas can be more expensive to live in:
Well, Linea is a bit over $1100 per square foot.which of these two areas can be more expensive to live in:
http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2014/...ve_of_the_richest_neighborhoods_in_the_us.phpSan Francisco Has Five of the Richest Neighborhoods in the US
Wednesday, March 19, 2014, by Tracy Elsen
Five San Francisco neighborhoods are among the richest 1,000 in the United States based on mean household income. The ranking comes from the Higley 1000, a list that uses Census Bureau information to pick out the wealthiest areas in the country. The San Francisco neighborhoods that made the list, their national rankings, and their mean household income are:
#227: Sea Cliff ($321,878)
#276: Balboa Terrace ($308,244)
#461: Presidio Heights ($281,206)
#644: Russian Hill -Southeast ($263,623)
#940: Inner Richmond ($243,719)
The article talks about gentrification during the dot-com boom and the hate for people moving in. The lack of action by SF to increase housing (which always seemed to be like the official policy), and the hate of tech workers today. You have to like how the activist says it is not about tech workers, but yet doesn't make a mention about having one of them act as a "entitled techie" to spread stereotypes, or how it has become common to put graffiti or stickers advocating the death of tech workers, "Die Techie Scum". Article also doesn't mention anything about the similar sentiments on the other side of the bay in Oakland. But overall a fairly decent article (considering newspapers these days).The flyer tucked on the windshield of a tech worker's car on South Van Ness didn't mince words: "The Mission has been colonized by pigs with money. ... They help landlords drive up rents, pushing working and poor people out of their homes."
The leaflet urged people to key the cars of wealthy new transplants: "Take action now!"
The year was 1999.
Todd Lappin, one of those singled out by the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project's flyer, moved to San Francisco in the early '90s and still lives in Bernal Heights. He's 46, owns a home, has a daughter, runs a neighborhood blog and, yes, works in tech as a product manager at Flipboard.
No one protests him now, and the man behind the flyers has long ceased to rabble-rouse.
In today's rendition of the play, new actors have taken on the roles of protester and protested - but tech remains the villain.
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Of all the things to do with a car. A friend of mine recently bought a motorcycle because he felt kind of trapped in SF, though I'm not sure what is wrong with trying to use Zipcar. Take ZipCar to Walnut Creek so you can experience the joy of parking.^^If I had a car (I don't because you can't park one in SF), I'd drive it to Walnut Creek just to experience easy/cheap parking. :lol:
Cost benefit analysis: The Happiness I would derive from parking in Walnut Creek is not worth the $20 or so in ZipCar rental charges it would cost me.Take ZipCar to Walnut Creek so you can experience the joy of parking.
What on earth gives you the idea I haven't done all that stuff many times? I've lived in the Bay Area for 30 years for gosh sakes and I own 4 vehicles, 2 of which I used to keep in San Francisco until I realized I didn't drive them often enough to justify the costs (so I moved 3 of them to Arizona and parked them all in my suburban garage) or literally often enough to keep the battery charged. I kept one motor scooter in the city because it's handy for some trips across town and I can park it in most neighborhoods (unlike a car).It sounds so weird to me being in the Bay Area, but not being able to really enjoy the natural beauty, spending a day in Napa, or a weekend in Yosemite. Taking the car up part of the way on Mt. Diablo and hiking up the rest. Hiking in the Santa Cruz mountains or Mission peak.
Your homework should you choose to accept will be to take BART to Walnut Creek, pick up a ZipCar there (the pick up spot is 2 blocks north or so). Then try to park it at Broadway Plaza, Walnut Creek's answer to Santana Row! Seriously though, take the car up the mountain, the view is fraking amazing!
This time, they were pretty cooperative, especially on a Friday morning. I even saw Tom Nolan laughing his way as he hears his fellow Supes commenting on the TEP. What matters the most, though: it has been approved. Details on my blog at www.anthonynachor.com/blog.html^^Full Board (which normally meets Mondays) or a committee?
Are the Supes paying attention? I love how when the public speaks in front of them the Board members commonly ignore them, go to the bathroom, talk to each other and generally make it clear they could care less what the plebes think.
Ah yes... I'm also happy that the SFMTA Board of Directors weren't acting like the Board of Supes too where, as you said, they might not listen entirely to what their constituents say.^^Aha! What you were watching was the SF Municiple Transportation Agency Board of Directors. Nolan is on that but he not a city Supervisor (I think he use to be a Supervisor in San Mateo County but he must have moved back into the city).
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Municipal_Transportation_Agency
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-ranked-No-2-most-dense-city-in-U-S-5371625.phpS.F. ranked No. 2 most dense city in U.S.
Kale Williams
. . . Indexed by looking closely at four factors - development density, land use mix, street accessibility and activity centering - the city by the bay had a score of 194.28, just a smidge behind list-topper New York, which scored 203.36. And for those keeping tight score, San Francisco actually outscored New York in both the land-use mix and activity-centering categories measured in the study.
Other notable Bay Area cities on the list include San Jose, ranked 24th in the country, and Oakland right behind it at No. 25.
Beyond avoiding deadly car accidents, the benefits reaped by people who live in cities with higher density include lower rates of obesity and diabetes, as well as lower blood pressure on average, the report said.
It's also cheaper to get around in cities that are more compact. The study found that people who live in dense areas have more transportation options, many of them cheaper than driving or even free . . . .
Children born in dense cities are more likely to climb the economic ladder as well, the study found. For every 10 percent increase in a city's index score there is a nearly 5 percent increase in the likelihood that a child born into the bottom 20 percent of income distribution will ascend to the top 20 percent.
Gabriel Metcalf, executive director at SPUR, an urban policy nonprofit in San Francisco, said the city has done a good job planning for growth, but the job is far from complete.
"We've protected our walkable street grid and we've done a good job of removing some of the highways," he said. "We've been really good in some of the neighborhood planning efforts."
Among the planning successes, he said, are the reconfiguration of the intersection at Market and Octavia streets and the Transbay Transit Center.
But, unsurprisingly, housing still remains a tremendous hurdle that the city has yet to clear, Metcalf said.
"There are appropriate ways to create new housing," he said. "For downtown, that might mean high-rises. When you get to the outer neighborhoods, we need to be looking at secondary housing options like in-law units."
Coincidentally, the city's Board of Supervisors addressed that very subject Tuesday, passing legislation that, if eventually made final by the mayor, would authorize more in-law units. Meaning more (official) density . . . .
To be clear, what is before the Supervisors, I believe, is an appeal of the Municipal Transportation Authority's approval of a proposal to make an agreement with the shuttles to have them pay $1 per day per Muni stop that they use. Neither the Supes nor the MTA have any real authority to regulate them if they stop on private property or some other legal public location. As things have been, it is illegal for them to use Muni stops which are only for public transportation's use. Cars that stop in Muni stops are ticketed."SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco's attempt to regulate those so-called "Google buses" is in the hands of the Board of Supervisors, who met Tuesday afternoon.