The house Twitter co-founder Evan Williams wants to tear down to make room for a new home for his family.
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Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and his wife were trying to find a nice San Francisco neighborhood for their young family to call home. A year and half ago, they found what they were looking for, a 6,300-square-foot lot occupied by an early 1900s home that they would demolish to make way for a new house.
Not so fast. This is San Francisco, after all, where even little changes are hard, especially in old neighborhoods like this one, which sits near the peak of a picture postcard hill just south of famous Golden Gate park. The planned tear-down has ignited a Page Six controversy, pitting the rights of new tech money against an old community -- albeit one already littered with new tech money -- trying to stop change on one of the city's most idyllic streets.
"We don't want nouveau riches McMansions sprouting up all over our ridges," one resident wrote to San Francisco's Planning Department.
And here, at least, is one local example of the side-effect of a tech boom that the city has fought hard to fuel. San Francisco worked hard in particular to convince Twitter to keep its headquarters in town in hopes that it would amp up the tech scene north of Silicon Valley. Williams, who is 40, was... [Read more]
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