Polemics

I wrote an opinion piece today about a proposed tower in SF. My first draft lit into the architect, a fount of mediocrity. After considering the actual audience I'm trying to influence - planning commissioners - I rewrote the piece to give them a reason to stall. I felt, in between the two versions, that the first was playing to the gallery, and its polemical opening would be brushed off as "beside the point." Design quality is strictly optional in most development in SF. The tower ignores a lot of zoning strictures, which the architect says are unwarranted constraints in 2010. Fine, I now argue, let's address that issue first, then we can look at your tower.

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