Shockingly, a San Francisco government plan to coddle a group that makes the officials running the city go all warm and fuzzy has not quite lived up to expectations. 

  "The law was set up with good intentions, to allow artists to have a place to live and work, so that they didn't have to rent a separate studio," said Paul Lord, a city planner who helped write the ordinance. "But it was very hard to enforce."

You say good intentions, I say... uh, something else. But, don't worry. What San Francisco has given, San Francisco will re-extract. With pliers if necessary.

In 1999, the San Francisco Examiner reported that as a result of the live-work rules, the city was not eligible to collect an estimated $8 million in fees.

  Personally I am quite fond of artists. And I like live-work lofts. We specialize in that around here. I just don't understand why they get special treatment. There are plenty of doctor's who can't afford to live in the city either. Maybe we can give them a hand (but let's not).