SAN FRANCISCO: Bigger, taller apartment buildings surrounding your neighbourhood BART station? More than 100 California tech leaders are enthusiastically saying yes, please.
Tech titans including the CEOs of Salesforce, Twitter, Lyft, Yelp and Mozilla on Jan 24 signed a letter applauding SB 827, the controversial bill Senator Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, proposed earlier this month. The bill would usurp cities' building rules by requiring them to allow denser housing developments within a half-mile of transit hubs such as BART, Caltrain and Muni stations, and within a quarter-mile of bus lines.