No Parking Zone

UC's Hastings College of the Law proposes a huge Tenderloin garage; most everyone else gags

A A A Comments By Matt Smith Wednesday, Mar 20 2002

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Developers and planners I've spoken with say the Hastings lot could support at least 200 units of housing -- many more if a significant portion were dorm-size. By making it easy for students and faculty to live on campus, Hastings could eliminate the 300 additional parking spaces it claims to need.

Seward's preference for building student housing will surely anger the Tenderloin activists. Political power in that neighborhood, after all, revolves around controlling money derived from various types of subsidies aimed at the poor.

Scott Musgrove

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But I think putting 300 more law students in the Tenderloin is a grand idea. In the smaller scheme of things, it will free up apartments all over the city for the rest of us to live in. In the larger scheme of things, I imagine a future in which generations of assistant attorneys general and corporate counsel recall their halcyon school days living in the Tenderloin. Their futures were wide open with possibilities then, and they didn't need to own cars.

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