The Chronicle’s John King agrees with what I wrote earlier, that we should give up on a stadium and make the area where the stadium is now a real neighborhood, rather than a huge, windswept waste of empty parking lots.

So here’s my advice to the Newsom administration. Don’t waste time trying to revive a plan for Candlestick Point that the San Francisco 49ers already have rejected. Instead, count the would-be anchor tenant’s departure as a blessing — and get serious about using 80 acres in the south corner of San Francisco to create a new neighborhood that will help revive nearby Bayview-Hunters Point.

Neighborhoods work best when they make sense, when they have an internal logic — even if it’s the crazed logic of Manhattan’s verticality. That’s why cramming a football stadium and parking garages alongside 6,500 housing units is not the best way to bring life to this odd but promising spit of land.

It’s not often that I agree with the Chronicle, but this is one of those times.

image from the Newson/Lennar proposal