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"Wait, you have a problem with a city government trying to serve the people who actually live in a neighborhood rather than potential new residents?"

I am not sure if you are asking this as a rhetorical question, but if not ...

This aspect of the housing (and democracy) debate in the bay area is now framed in terms which reject local decision making ("local control") if those local decisions reinforce existing, exclusionary housing policies.

Which is to say, we like local control when it delivers results we agree with - like non-federal legalization of marijuana or so-called "sanctuary cities" but we don't like local control when it delivers results we disagree with.

Or, more succinctly:

"Democracy for me, but not for thee".