“Twin Peaks Falls…” The Battle of Vista Francisco

As debates about SF’s housing crisis and high-density zoning rage on, let’s take a look back at how one viciously contentious development was approved in the early ‘60s.

Devin Smith

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A map of the three neighborhoods in the Twin Peaks area: Clarendon Heights, Midtown Terrace, and Twin Peaks/Upper Market.

Twin Peaks is, in some ways, like a small mountain town dropped right in the middle of San

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