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I don't have a whole lot of respect for guidelines like the building being no higher than 45 feet - well I don't mind it as a guideline but as a hard limit it's a kind of bullshit constraint. You couldn't accuse his proposal of looking like old-fashioned architecture so I presume they're fighting over the former issue.

But honestly. I think constraints like that are just a bargaining chip in San Francisco's social power game, where Lucas has the money and the political support but not the elite social pedigree of San Francisco's philanthropic set (who in turn suffer an inferiority complex relative to their competitors on the east coast): http://www.greenwichtime.com/bayarea/place/article/Major-pla...

Let's not forget that right now the site is occupied by a sportswear outlet and 20 years ago was little better than a parking lot. Tech billionaires show more interest in space, hospitals, and vehicles (perhaps because those fields offer quantifiable metrics of success) so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for someone to come along with a check & collection for a more obviously highbrow museum in a city that's already amply supplied with such options.