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Between NIMBY antics with housing development and absurd levels of gov overreach in situations like this, SF is going to end up cannibalizing its tech industry.

So many cities would kill to be the center of such a fast growing and high paying industry, and they're squandering it because their old guard is a bunch of gate-keeping snobs.

Oh well. NYC, LA, Austin, and other cities will gladly grab the fruits of tech talent.

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I don't think NYC is much better in that regard. Look at how they created taxi 2.0 recently with driver limits, how e-bikes are illegal and a lot of downright hostile reactions in the press to citi bikes a few years ago.

At least the taxi thing was meant to curb road congestion. SFs scooter regulation seems like the intent is "how dare you run a business without our oversight?".

Regulation surrounding bikeshare/scootershare isn't specific to SF, many cities want a piece of the pie

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