Cubic Air Ordinance

San Francisco is the most expensive city in the world and all started with the Cubic Air Ordinance, protecting tenants so they will have enough air to breath.

I have received today my first rejection in my career (20 years as freelance planning engineer), the Hod Hasharon project. The contratists here profit not from building but law suits, and I may have my first taste of a contractor suing me. All day in a bad mood and I try to calm down drinking wine. I know that all engineers are sued and it is part of the business. I was never sued and may be I shall escape here too. I am so intelligent that I may turn this against the "kablan". I can do it.

American cities have consistently asserted so-called “local control” to increase inequality, establishing exclusionary zoning laws to prevent the construction of denser multifamily housing, redevelop low-income neighborhoods, and push poorer residents from their communities. In San Francisco, residents have exploited “local control” to make development as difficult as possible by lowering building-height limits, expanding zoning regulation, and increasing the veto power of homeowners. These privileged neighbors have often appropriated low-income residents’ fears of gentrification and eviction to block any new housing, despite the fact that studies have repeatedly shown that in markets with high demand, adding housing of any kind typically helps decrease displacement.