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Where? Downtown Palo Alto is saturated...and building up won't solve saturation on Alma, University, Page Mill etc. Palo Alto has simply maxed out its carrying
by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Where? Downtown Palo Alto is saturated...and building up won't solve saturation on Alma, University, Page Mill etc.
Palo Alto has simply maxed out its carrying capacity...businesses like Palantir would be better off looking at areas like the emerging business park near San Jose Airport, where Apple has already committed to building a campus with even more square footage than the Spaceship campus.
- apsec112 10y agoIt would have more carrying capacity if it let people live closer to where they work, reducing commute distance, and if it didn't keep threatening to sue public transit providers: http://paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/01/27/palo-alto-opts-not-to-sue-caltrain http://paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/01/27/palo-alto-opts-not...
- pcwalton 10y agoDowntown Palo Alto and especially California Ave. have nowhere near maximum density. University Ave. is full of low-rise, often single-story, buildings with a few taller ones here and there. The buildings there (and on Lytton and Hamilton) could easily be replaced with four-story mixed office/retail and residential with no impact to the area's look.
- Keyframe 10y agoHow about dem earthquakes?
- unethical_ban 10y agoIt's easy! Just rip out all existing buildings and redesign the roads and walkways!
- pcwalton 10y agoObviously I'm not suggesting that this be done overnight. All I'm saying is that if a developer wants to build a four-story mixed-use building near the train stations, there's little reason to not let them do so.
- mikeryan 10y agoHow do all those new tenants drive to and from the freeway?
- karma_vaccum123 10y agoWrong. There are codes describing density and building height. Palo Alto city council will never change these rules, indeed, they seem intent on making them more stringent. You go ask the billionaires in ProfessorVille how many of them are interested in changing zoning to triple density in downtown without any corresponding improvement in transportation infrastructure (most of which is not under the control of Palo Alto)
- pcwalton 10y ago> Wrong. There are codes describing density and building height. Palo Alto city council will never change these rules, indeed, they seem intent on making them more stringent. Oh, I'm well aware that there are rules against increased density today.