Comments on: Former Santa Clara Mayor Gary Gillmor Trying to Develop 2,050 Acres Outside Gilroy—Again https://www.sanjoseinside.com/the-fly/former-santa-clara-mayor-gary-gillmor-trying-to-develop-2050-acres-outside-gilroy-again/ A look inside San Jose politics and culture Sat, 23 Oct 2021 16:23:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.12 By: Next Gen https://www.sanjoseinside.com/the-fly/former-santa-clara-mayor-gary-gillmor-trying-to-develop-2050-acres-outside-gilroy-again/#comment-1711686 Sat, 23 Oct 2021 16:23:09 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201189594#comment-1711686 Politicians like Matt Mahan who limit opportunities to build housing on land already zoned for housing are forcing us towards this future of abandoning our greenbelt and using sprawl to meet our housing needs.

]]> By: Not Suckered https://www.sanjoseinside.com/the-fly/former-santa-clara-mayor-gary-gillmor-trying-to-develop-2050-acres-outside-gilroy-again/#comment-1711514 Sat, 23 Oct 2021 02:49:07 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201189594#comment-1711514 Everything flat, and into the hills, where not disallowed, will likely see development.

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]]> By: not him https://www.sanjoseinside.com/the-fly/former-santa-clara-mayor-gary-gillmor-trying-to-develop-2050-acres-outside-gilroy-again/#comment-1711486 Sat, 23 Oct 2021 00:20:54 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201189594#comment-1711486 no brained, build it out

]]> By: Not Suckered https://www.sanjoseinside.com/the-fly/former-santa-clara-mayor-gary-gillmor-trying-to-develop-2050-acres-outside-gilroy-again/#comment-1711416 Fri, 22 Oct 2021 21:40:01 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201189594#comment-1711416 Of course! This is a ranch. No mere housing tracts of amerikanskaya khrushchyovka will do in this case. It was meant for, in 1980s lingo, “yuppie ranchettes.” Tech types with more money could live there, or buy multiple sites to form larger estates, maybe dabble in rich people’s California McWineries, etc.

What now? These days, detached homes with a full 1000 millimeters between each of them, wow!, could find their way there (Mini-Newhall Ranch Lite) even those apartment blocks.

If nothing else, withholding Coyote Valley (at least for now) from development redirects developer and buyer interest southward as well as northward toward downtown and other sites in San Jose proper.

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