The latest from the City of Doom: the Board of Supervisors is considering yet another bit of reactionary legislation, this one aimed at the owners of the Fairmont Hotel, who want to convert a 1960s-era tower annex (not the historic, original hotel) into condominiums. It would apparently become illegal now to convert transient hotel rooms into residential units. Of course, there are already prohibitions against turning residential SRO hotel rooms into transient units as well…
Perhaps there should just be one city ordinance which forbids any change of usage whatsoever within any building in San Francisco. Unless, of course, that building is to be turned into a homeless shelter or a medical marijuana dispensary…