To the Editor: Thanks for your piece today about the Small Business Commission. I have a couple of questions about this whole building thing that I’m hoping you could cover.
1) It seems that most cities are unhappy with Wiener’s buildathon law. Why aren’t they getting together to do some kind of lawsuit based on the state encroaching on local governments’ rights? If this was truly low-income housing that would be one thing, but it is clearly not, and I imagine most people support local autonomy.
2) Has there been any kind of audit of current available (as in unoccupied) units in San Francisco. Aren’t there over 1,000 units in Park Merced that aren’t rented out because they need work? There is something seriously wrong with the condos down at 3535 Wawona. They have been empty for years, a