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Originally Posted by wakamesalad
I think it is so odd that there have been no lawsuits to block the construction of this tower. The NIMBYs have been very quiet on this, yet they are incredibly worked up over the midrise on the Washington st. waterfront. I wonder why that is, the plans for this tower seem to have proceeded so much more smoothly than I expected.
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Because 8 Washington is in the NIMBY stronghold part of the city. It slightly affects the views of some of the "telegraph hill dwellers", who are a bunch of extra NIMBY-ish wealthy people that hate change. The Transbay tower is too far away and hidden from their domain to be of much concern to them. Despite cases like 8 Washington, I think the lack of NIMBY opposition towards all the new Transbay/Rincon hill towers proves that NIMBYism is not quite as strong in SF as it used to be.
I remember reading a few years ago that the NIMBY queen Sue Hestor was against the Transbay tower and wanted to stop it (of course), but I haven't heard any NIMBY stuff since, from her or anyone else. Maybe they were paid off.