An aside, the story you link doesn’t seem like a good example of anything. SF’s housing shortage was never going to be solved by building weirdly luxurious, two story dwellings in the middle of courtyard gardens of three story dwellings. That’s not a class of building we should really care about. That you’re pointing at this weird marginal kind of incident makes me wonder things.
I picked an extreme example of over regulation as a caricature, not to prove the general case. But needless to say California has also rejected well-reasonedproposals with an ability to make a real impact.
An aside, the story you link doesn’t seem like a good example of anything. SF’s housing shortage was never going to be solved by building weirdly luxurious, two story dwellings in the middle of courtyard gardens of three story dwellings. That’s not a class of building we should really care about. That you’re pointing at this weird marginal kind of incident makes me wonder things.
I picked an extreme example of over regulation as a caricature, not to prove the general case. But needless to say California has also rejected well-reasoned proposals with an ability to make a real impact.