San Francisco’s Big Seismic Gamble

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San Francisco’s Big Seismic Gamble
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San Francisco lives with the certainty that the Big One will come. But the city is also putting up taller and taller buildings clustered closer and closer together because of the state’s severe housing shortage. Now those competing pressures have prompted an anxious rethinking of building regulations. Experts are sending this message: The building code does not protect cities from earthquakes nearly as much as you might think.

 

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Prices for rents are already sky-high in San Francisco, if they increase structural requirements prices will go even higher, as it is only the wealthy can afford to live there, it is the policy of One Bay Area, the unelected body that governs the entire area, to move "humankind" into the urban cores, we have a bill in the legislature now requiring cities with mass transit to allow building without height restriction.

I won't even go into the city any more it is so filthy, there was an article in the paper yesterday about the filth scaring tourists away.

People injecting themselves with drugs in broad daylight, their dirty needles and other garbage strewn on the sidewalks. Tent camps. Human feces. The threatening behavior of some people who appear either mentally ill or high. Petty theft.

“The streets are filthy. There’s trash everywhere. It’s disgusting,” D’Alessandro said, adding he’s traveled the world, and San Francisco stands out for the wrong reasons. “I’ve never seen any other city like this — the homelessness, dirty streets, drug use on the streets, smash-and-grabs.

“How can it be?” he continued. “How can it have gotten to this point?”

Remember, this is the man whose job is to glorify San Francisco, which tells you something about how far the city has sunk.

“We can’t be quiet anymore,” D’Alessandro said. “We’ve got such a glorious history, such a beautiful setting, and the fact is, we’re letting it all slip away into this quality of life now that is not good for anybody. We’ve become complacent, and I think we’ve taken this as a kind of new normal, and it’s not. It’s wrong, and we have to do something about it.”¹

In the meantime they are allowing all kinds of illegals into the state further exasperating the overpopulation problem, the governor even refusing to obey federal government orders. Maybe a large earthquake thining the population in these overcrowded areas might be the best for all.


¹ https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Clean-up-San-Francisco-s-streets-tourist-12839281.php