Do you also look for places where you could fit schools, shopping, parks, etc.? Sensible and sustainable growth needs to avoid tunnel-vision. But cities are so

Do you also look for places where you could fit schools, shopping, parks, etc.? Sensible and sustainable growth needs to avoid tunnel-vision. But cities are so controlled by developers that they rarely want to take a systems view when rezoning land. In Palo Alto, they realized that there is no way they can build enough housing and schools to offset more office space, and that housing, especially rental housing, is impractical financially because of the crazy parcel tax system and Prop 13. In San Jose, they desperately want more commercial and retail because they have have too much housing and not enough businesses, which causes more congestion, as well as financial problems since taxes on housing don't pay for city services. There are two policy changes needed at the state level: 1. Prop 13 should apply ONLY to owner-occupied residential housing. Owners of rental property and owners of commercial property will prevent this from ever happening in our lifetimes. 2. Parcel taxes should be assessed per housing unit, not per parcel. The CAA (California Apartment Association) has fought successfully against this. What's happening now in Cupertino is a developer spending tens of million of dollars on ballot measure that bypasses the CEQA required EIR, so he can build 2 million square feet of Class A office space, and a few hundred luxury apartments. He'll make out like a bandit, and the city will be left to deal with the traffic, pollution, school impact, and future ABAG housing mandates. It's extremely short-sighted, but of course the developer doesn't care. It's the same developer being fined by Palo Alto for failing to fulfill a CBA (Community Benefits Agreement), the same developer responsible for the abandoned Sunnyvale Town Center, the same developer responsible for Mowry Crossing. These little suburban cities don't have the expertise to craft development agreements that can be enforced, and they get screwed every time. Look at Santa Clara and the Levi's stadium fiasco.