Then get innovative with engineering. Build down. Silly that for an area that's supposed to be the centre of high tech, the options are overpriced city, or essentially suburbia.
And fighting over real window space is a far cry better than fighting over any space. As-is, there are even parking garages taking up nice window space in buildings here.
The geography looks a bit hilly in SF; it might be cheaper to dig under those hills than just going straight down from a flat area.
Maybe I'm just completely naive, but anything seems better than the current solution of doing nothing.