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Article: Despite Housing Crunch, San Francisco Area Resists Building Apartment Towers.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- May 6, 2002
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Byline: Tracey Kaplan and Mike Zapler
May 6--Hemmed in by mountains and ocean, notorious for its stratospheric housing prices, the Bay Area seems like a logical place for apartment towers.
But as developers trying to build even modest high-rises have learned lately, many residents are enraged by the prospect of the largely low-lying suburban Bay Area going vertical.
A cluster of proposed 8- to 14-story apartment towers expected to be approved this week in San Jose is just one of many high-rise projects from Mountain View to Berkeley to trigger that fury. About 400 San Jose residents have signed a petition urging the city council to chop the ...