Ten years ago, it would have been unthinkable: An apartment tower with hundreds of units rising above Fort Mason. The wealthy homeowners of the Marina would surely have rallied together to save their bay views with little more than angry emails and a few speeches at public hearings.
Today, there’s not much they can do.
Align Real Estate’s proposal to build a 25-story building on the site of the Marina Safeway appears to comply with the law. The developer, by all accounts, has the money to build it. And neighbors no longer have bureaucratic monkey wrenches like discretionary review appeals to throw into the process and halt the behemoth…