By Lindsay Harte
A beautiful parking lot on a busy street could have replaced a lot of things: A patch of dirt, a meadow of flowers, a crumbling building, or one of the many Victorian homes that San Francisco is known for.
For the many reasons that parking lots or tall high-rises are being incorporated into a community there will always be some repercussion — either Bambi doesn’t have a place to graze anymore or a few thousand people are temporarily moved around the city in efforts to make...