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  1. Mean Height Zoning | SFM Episode 2 Adam Braus 27:05

Urban planners and urbanites can all generally agree that US cities have a “missing middle,” that is, they are missing houses that are of a middle height between single-family homes and skyscrapers and of a middle price range for working-class people.

Building enough housing and housing that is affordable are critical issues for building a prosperous, equitable, environmentally conscious, and diverse society. NIMBYs and YIMBYs fight back and forth about how much and where to build more housing, but in our backyard here in the San Francisco Bay Area, we just see political gridlock.

95% of SF itself is limited to buildings only 40 feet tall (roughly 3 stories), and more than 80% of the Bay Area is exclusionary single-family zoning. Do the YIMBYs only want more soring towers, and will the NIMBYs grid everything to a halt? Or can we find a solution that resolves this controversy and helps our cities prosper and improve?

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Adam Braus is a polymath professor and professional in San Francisco. He has built many companies and non-profits and currently building a new college called Elton College. He is a lover of big ideas and new solutions.