SF to developer who tore down landmark house: Rebuild it exactly as it was

>“We want to preserve iconic, historic structures, but even more important, we want to protect our reservoir of more affordable housing stock...”

SF is a lost cause. The city will never have affordable housing so long as people with this type of attitude have all the power.

tldr:

The house was originally built by a now famous architect. Over the years it had been extensively remodeled and was in poor shape. The city is using a dispute to force a private citizen to restore the building to its original state, even though it was far from that and not in good shape when he bought it.