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Originally Posted by M II A II R II K
Isn't Oakland notorious for making sure tall proposals never see the light of day though...
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Not that I know of. You are perhaps thinking of my fair city across the Bay. I'd say that of the 3 cities bordering San Francisco Bay (SF, Oakland and San Jose) Oakland is the most positive about highrise development, but it is also the least economically successful and so doesn't get that many really good (and certainly really tall) proposals by developers with the actual resources to carry them out. If the developer of this building can pull it off, especially in the current economy, I doubt the city would stop him.
FYI, SF, of course, gets plenty of proposals but has strict height limits and a strong Planning Dept., intense NIMBYism and a view of itself as a charming Victorian village that is incompatible with the highrise development its actual economy needs. Highrises get built, as a check of the threads here shows, but each one is a struggle. San Jose probably would be happy to build tall but can't because of FAA height restrictions due to the location of its airport.