'We know that the children will be forced to play in the shadows,' said one impassioned activist at a recent public hearing on the project. Rodriguez school for two hours a day.Īccording to Mission District activists from the city-recognized Latino cultural district Calle 24 however, neither study spent enough time considering the developmental impacts of asking children to spend recess in the shade. Two shadow studies have already been conducted, finding that Tillman's project, if built, would cast shadow on a quarter of the playground of the nearby Zaida T. 'You could just as easily ask me to do a study on the breakfast eating habits of the kids, or whether the building might affect their texting use,' says Tillman. In San Francisco, he is now being asked to perform yet another study, this time to measure the effect of shadow on a nearby school. In a sane world Tillman would be allowed to proceed with his project. Tillman consented, paying $23,000 for a 135-page report which determined, several months later, that his property was not in fact a historic resource.

When Reason last spoke with Robert Tillman in February, the city of San Francisco was demanding that he study the historical significance of his coin-operated laundry before he be allowed to demolish it and put up a 75-unit, mixed-use housing development.

Anti-development activists in San Francisco are raising an increasingly ridiculous set of objections to prevent the owner of a laundromat in the city's Mission District from converting his building into an apartment complex.

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