Planners trying to cope in wake of tech downturn

As many neighborhoods face re-zoning, the SF Examiner has an article discussing the continued fall-out from the housing crunch of the dot-com era.

"Today's housing crisis is only increasing the pressure on The City to find more land for housing without sacrificing these businesses, many of which offer high-paying blue-collar jobs."

"In early September, the Planning Commission will consider temporary zoning to deal with the problem until permanent rezoning for the Eastern Neighborhoods — Mission, SoMa, Bayview, Visitacion Valley, and Showplace Square/Potrero Hill — is in place, probably in about a year."

As I have mentioned before, if you want to have a say in how your neighborhood is zoned or redeveloped, now is the time to ask questions. If you wait, as the residents who live under the reconstructed Central Freeway did, to complain about something that has already been decided, you'll almost always lose out.