San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection issued a stop-work order Monday on a contested 51-story high-rise where transit planners want to erect an expanded Transbay Terminal.You can't build a rabbit hutch in San Francisco without arousing the ire of the NIMBYs and the professional protesters. It's amazing that most of the rest of us are permitted any place to live at all. Posted by The Daily Pundit at June 8, 2004 02:03 PM | TrackBackThe work suspension immediately halts excavation and pile driving at 80 Natoma St. That is the parcel adjacent to the current terminal where developer Jack Myers has legal entitlements to build a 432-unit condominium tower.
The suspension will last two weeks while city building inspectors figure out whether site permits for 80 Natoma expired before work began on the tower, as alleged by a transit advocacy group.