Golden Statements - Is this house in the wrong city?

A case for adjusting municipal boundaries

This is 55 Robinson Drive. By most measures, it is a fairly unremarkable single family home, of the sort one could find in any medium density suburban neighborhood. If you walk half a mile north, you’ll find the Crocker-Amazon Park. One and a half miles Northwest, there’s the Balboa Park BART and Muni Stations that can take you pretty much anywhere in San Francisco.

But the rub is that this house isn’t part of San Francisco. It’s part of Daly City. But if you walk along Robinson Drive, going Northwest to house number 43, or Northeast to house number 71, which takes less than two minutes, now you’re in San Francisco. This is because Robinson Drive, which forms a U shape when viewed from a map, happens to intersect the boundary line that defines the border between the counties of San Francisco and San Mateo

Golden Statements is the Substack of the Bay Area New Liberals.

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