Bay area town Brisbane looks to provide commercial development to cater to San Francisco residents, but resists building housing.
San Francisco suburb Brisbane is wasting valuable transit-adjacent land by not allowing residential development, argues an editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle.
The piece concerns a development planned near the 101 Highway and a Caltrain station, in which the Mayor of Brisbane would like to include only commercial space. He would like for San Francisco, already deep in a housing shortage, to "provide the housing."
The Chronical has little patience for what it deems Mayor Clifford Lentz’s NIMBYism, saying, "The combination of open land, prime transit location and willing developer shouldn’t be passed up."
A sentiment this reader can’t help but agree with.
FULL STORY: Brisbane shouldn’t hide from Bay Area reality
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