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Dean Preston is the head NIMBY of the city next to Aaron Peskin. Dean spends approximately all his time denying housing project applications.

He doesn’t even only block them in his backyard; they’ve ignored member deference to block one in Matt Haney’s district before.



Preston talks all about progressive housing on Twitter all the time, so does heroin Haney. Neither of them can get it together to practice what they preach so it's all useless YIYBY performative posturing anyway. In the past SF has wound up building disasters like Geneva Towers based on somewhat similar utopian ideals

https://youtu.be/7DZI5kqUJ_g


No, he's your comrade, he’s very effective at stopping things.

https://nimby.report/preston

The language he uses makes him a left-NIMBY, but that’s just what they look like in cities. Found in NYC too. In suburbs the same people switch to talking about property values and 50s rural neighborhood character.


I absolutely think affordable housing should be getting zoned and built, but the execution is so often a disaster.

https://youtu.be/KYOtsuTw65Q


If you were to remove the YouTube link from your comment, it could have come directly from Dean Preston.


how so?




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