SFist: Presidio Terrace Update: Street View Screenshot

Caroline

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:52:31 -0800

I was leaving a bat mitzvah last Saturday and said to my teenage daughter, "Let's go look at the houses in Presidio Terrace while we're here!" But then we saw the guard at the gate. Didn't imagine him.

Elizabeth

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:40:49 -0800

This recorded map seems to indicate PT is a private road- 209.77.149.9/subdmap/T42/T42134b.TIF

Elizabeth

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:31:32 -0800

Since 2001, California law requires a notice to be attached to CC&Rs stating that restrictive covenants based on protected categories such as race are illegal and void. In 2005 AB 394 made it even easier for county recorders to change all CC&Rs for a particular subdivision when only one representative homeowner goes to the recorders office to make the request for the change.

CRS

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:32:03 -0800

There was (and is) nothing to this piece: 1.) There may be gates to Presidio Terrace, but they remain open 24 hours/day. They aren't ever closed, so it really isn't a gated community. 2.) There is no guard at the gate, or for that matter anywhere near there or inside the subdivision, even when Diane Feinstein lived in the first house on the left. Maybe the guy in uniform in the photo was just passing by, or was hired for some special event, and the person who took the photo saw a chance to spin it into the silly fluffy exageration it's become here. 3.) Are you sure this is a private street? I seem to recollect from somewhere -- DPW maybe -- that it is just another city street.

mariconsoy

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:54:06 -0800

Wow, Diane Feinstein is sure lucky that PT didn't have any restrictions against Ed Jews!

Kevin

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:37:40 -0800

Thank God it's socially unacceptable to discriminate against people based on their skin color. Poor people, however, just fucking suck.

MedusaSF

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:28:33 -0800

Last year there was sort of a mass exodus from PT. Almost a 1/2 dozen houses here went on the market. I guess they sold, but it still looks to me like it's no longer a coveted address.

Treyman

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:24:30 -0800

I love how JT equates living in the city with HAVING to deal homeless people. Like being gay is being homeless a choice or is it inherited??? hmmmmmmmmmmm.

Treyman

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:18:57 -0800

Don't hate on Chris. He's so busy with that sitcom on the WB plus the PGA tour in addition to his wife attacking him in his sleep. oh wait a minute....

patrick

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:11:11 -0800

Two important points: 1) I really dislike Chris Daly, but connecting him to this is ridiculous 2) The editorial staff of sfist has no idea what "irony" is

jt

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:18:57 -0800

And just how does Chris Daly have any conection to a gated cul de sac all the way accross town from his district? Seiously, you've got such a hard on for Chris, we're all a little embarrased for you. I'm so sorry you have to see homeless people everyday, Suckafree. Maybe life in this cold and gritty big city just isn't conducive to your delicate sensiblities.

suckafree

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:50:55 -0800

i love the fact that only the richest people in the city are guaranteed to not have to see homeless people every day. i guess chris daly doesnt think the rest of us deserve that kind of peaceful existence. he probably thinks we should all have to live in fear as we walk around them swearing at us, pissing on themselves, crapping themselves. he's such a great leader.

DC1974

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:35:03 -0800

Rockridge in Oakland (the actual Rockridge, with the fancy gates up past Broadway Terrace) also had racial covenants. Where my parents live in Tennessee (and parts of where I lived in Virginia) still had these covenants which you still have to read when you are buying -- but are unenforceable. But of course, that's the South, so you're probably not surprised.

antoine

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:26:17 -0800

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