All true. By market-driven I mean that limits on housing development in
San Francisco drove demand into the grey market of "live-work," which
allows housing to be developed in areas not zoned residential. The
demand for housing wasn't stopped; it was just diverted. And now we
have all the consequences one might expect from city planning gone
wrong: lots of people now live in industrial areas and are insisting
that industrial activity be curtailed because it's noisy and unpleasant.
All these housing units going up with little or no planning review means
that we have a much worse situation than we would have if the city had
planned for the same number of housing units. The city was unwilling to
allow that much housing development, so housing erupted all over the
place in a completely unplanned manner.
Live-work units going up near Muni yards will probably end up driving
those yards to Brisbane or San Bruno before too long, making Muni even
more difficult to operate efficiently. Muni yards are noisy 24/7
operations. Neighbors aren't gonna put up with it...
-- Daniel