[BTinSF]

^^^Why the opposition? In San Francisco, that's often hard to say. One thing to keep in mind is that the Giants have already announced they want to move to Santa Clara so this is a little late. It could probably be redesigned without the stadium if the city gives up--they haven't given up yet because nobody's sure Santa Clara will be any more cooperative with the Giants than SF has been so far--but then gthere's the simple fact that in San Francisco every Supervisor and every resident has an idea what should be done and how it should be done and they try to insist on things being done "their way". Finally, there's politics and that's probably mpore complicated than you want to know. Suffice it to say that this is SF's last remaining large black majority neighborhood and African-Americans in SF don't have a reassuring history with "redevelopment".

I'm sure other San Franciscans will have ideas about it if they noticed this thread.