Being a Bay Area native, my opinion is that the push back to increased growth is due to the horrible traffic situation.  More people means traffic gets worse, muni gets more crowded, commutes get longer.  The only people who want growth are real estate developers and recent transplants who are fine with not trying to actually go anywhere besides home and work.<p>There&#x27;s a point where the congestion starts to lower quality of life drastically and people would rather deal with high rents then being stuck in traffic for hours or stuffed into a filled to the gills muni, bart or caltrain with people coughing up flem around them.<p>Getting to work in downtown is awful when there&#x27;s a Giants game going on and they wanted to eliminate pier 30 parking and put another stadium in there?  I&#x27;m glad that got shot down.  San Francisco is full.  Get over it.