Comments on: Palo Alto Officials Rethink Zoning Program Meant to Draw Housing

By: CynthiaR

CynthiaR — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 03:32:39 +0000

How about this. You guys and gals in Palo Alto and Saratoga want to keep your SFHs? Pay up. Big time. Make it hurt. Not just “fees in lieu of”, but pay for actual homes/townhouses somewhere. And, compensate the neighbors where you are putting said homes. There has always been high income neighborhoods that avoid putting in housing for their “staff”.
Here’s the problem guys. No affordable housing = no lattes, no child care, no teachers, no grocery staff. You pick.
I guess if you have Doordash, private school, Instacart, etc, you are immune to it all. But, that is also a sad story.

By: Local Yokel Reprise

Local Yokel Reprise — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:33:36 +0000

Well, most new construction is ugly, but these people will go crazy about anything over three stories or can host more than say, six or eight households. Yes, it’s out of place by the standard formed for ages, especially in tonier places, and many find the activists and developers tiresome, but these are classic NIMBYs, too.

A number of them are idiots about Caltrain and the high-speed rail project and want Caltrain and any high-speed rail (which won’t be at high speed there) all put underground, either in a tunnel or in a capped trench, paid for by others, of course, never mind the physical problems with trying it as well as their unwillingness to pay. A minority are “sophisticated,” suggest things like rerouting trains to (of course) underneath El Camino Real on the entire Peninsula, or completely removed. (That includes the remaining freight trains, too, of course.)

By: Definitely Not SJ Kulak

Definitely Not SJ Kulak — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 20:54:35 +0000

but but but

muh traffic

no no no

muh sprawl

no no no

muh smelts

no no no

muh gentrification

chumps