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Originally Posted by fflint
Rob Anderson is the purest embodiment of post-war SF's corrosive and self-aggrandizing Baby Boomer obstructionists
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There are "Baby Boomer obstructionists" and there are obstructionists of other generations. Anderson and I are similar ages but I think he's totally wrong (at least about density and design).
It may be true that a desire to restrict change comes upon most of us in late middle age and Baby Boomers are at that point now. But it happened to the previous generation as well when, in the 1960s and 1970s, they passed SF's height restrictions and building limitations and all manner of other regrettable rules. I'll go out on a limb and predict that you too will find something about this or some other city where you happen to be living that you will resist seeing changed when you reach Anderson's age.
In my case, as I said, I'm all for high rises and density and public transportation and the full gamut of SSP wet-dream inducers EXCEPT that I'm well past the age of being able to navigate SF by leg power on 2 wheels so I have a certain sympathy for Anderson's desire to impede the tyranny of the young, fit and traffic law ignoring on their bikes. I need the continued ability to move about the city on as many powered wheels as it takes (currently 2 but eventually that will change) because I'm also losing the ability to schlep things like multi bags of groceries on Muni.
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