Last month, during a debate for District 8 supervisor, Gary McCoy responded to a question about affordability with a pitch to build housing on a prominent corner in the Castro currently occupied by a gas station.
“We’ve got two gas stations in the Castro,” McCoy said during the debate at the Commonwealth Club. “Do we need two gas stations in the Castro? Probably not.”
Two weeks later, after winning the seat by sweeping every precinct in the district, McCoy told SFGATE in a phone call on Thursday that he’s steadfast in his goal to create housing from one of the gas stations — either the Chevron or the Castro Gas and Food Mart — in the Castro. “Nothing has changed,” he said…