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Anyone who lives in the Bay Area owes it to themselves to visit some of these areas. The Santa Cruz Mountain communities and Coastal communities are amazing, an

by ac29 9y ago

Anyone who lives in the Bay Area owes it to themselves to visit some of these areas. The Santa Cruz Mountain communities and Coastal communities are amazing, and close by. As far as the contents of the article, well, there is an affordable housing crisis just about everywhere in and near the Bay Area. People commute from as far away as Tracy, Los Banos, Modesto, Stockton, and even Sacramento into the Bay Area. Its understandable that these beautiful, relatively close by communities are seeing housing prices quickly become unaffordable for those who live there. As someone working in Silicon Valley, I'd much sooner live in La Honda, Half Moon Bay, or the other assorted coastal and Santa Cruz mountain communities than the cities in the San Joaquin Valley.

sjg007 9y ago
The coastside needs another highway near Pescadero and to upgrade 91 to four lanes. Ton of land as well that nobody will ever build on. There's talk that marajuana might turn the area around. Flowers were a huge business and I thought the revenues were higher than 140m. Still the need for housing is desperate. But it is NIMBY central and then you still have the costal commission, and various other lawsuits that will prevent any type of development. Even infill is a difficult. It's sad. A beautiful place, a lot of inaccessible areas (by design) and a no growth mentality.
- dmckeon 9y ago
  The demand for housing is high enough that agriculture is getting squeezed - high rents make labor cost more than growers can afford. Details covered in the report TFA mentions: https://flipflashpages.uniflip.com/2/88537/377983/pub/html5.html https://flipflashpages.uniflip.com/2/88537/377983/pub/html5.... It is the same problem as the rest of the Bay Area - every place wants the tax revenue of businesses and jobs, and expects workers to commute, but no place wants the expense of housing and schools - or roads. Nimby, yes, but also permits: proposals to address a recurring road flooding problem near Pescadero needed ~12 approvals or permits from ~9 agencies. See page 17 of: http://sanmateorcd.org/PescaderoFlooding/Pescadero%20Rd_Butano_Flood_Solutions_Final%20Report%202014.pdf http://sanmateorcd.org/PescaderoFlooding/Pescadero%20Rd_Buta... The SR 92 traffic is very commute dependent. Prohibiting left turns during commute hours might help, but the 92 West to SR 1 North (2 lanes to 1) would still be an afternoon bottleneck. Widening 92 to 3 lanes, and running 2 East/ 1 West in the AM, and reversing that in the afternoon might be a possibility. What endpoints did you have in mind for "another highway near Pescadero"? I can't find a good land use map for the South Coast at the moment, but finding a technically feasible alignment might be challenging, even before the permit/Nimby/EIR/lawsuit rodeo gets started. There are a lot of parks & open space areas in the hills.
  - sjg007 9y ago
    Well make highway 1 four lanes as well.
- Animats 9y ago
  The coastside needs another highway near Pescadero and to upgrade 91 (probably meant CA-92; CA-91 is in Anaheim) to four lanes. The local opposition would be huge. Half Moon Bay, which is mostly a tourist town, has objected for decades to widening CA-92. The plan in the 1960s was to make it a freeway, which is why the CA-92 / I-280 interchange is so overbuilt. CA-92 isn't the real bottleneck, anyway - it's that Half Moon Bay is too small to absorb more cars. In the 1990s, there was talk of expanding Half Moon Bay airport into a major commercial airport. That was unpopular. Tall hotels along the coast are really unpopular. [1] http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Flap-Over-Half-Moon-Bay-Airport-Residents-fear-2836217.php http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Flap-Over-Half-Moon-Bay-A...

by ac29 9y ago

sjg007 9y ago

The coastside needs another highway near Pescadero and to upgrade 91 to four lanes. Ton of land as well that nobody will ever build on. There's talk that marajuana might turn the area around. Flowers were a huge business and I thought the revenues were higher than 140m. Still the need for housing is desperate. But it is NIMBY central and then you still have the costal commission, and various other lawsuits that will prevent any type of development. Even infill is a difficult. It's sad. A beautiful place, a lot of inaccessible areas (by design) and a no growth mentality.

dmckeon 9y ago
The demand for housing is high enough that agriculture is getting squeezed - high rents make labor cost more than growers can afford. Details covered in the report TFA mentions: https://flipflashpages.uniflip.com/2/88537/377983/pub/html5.html https://flipflashpages.uniflip.com/2/88537/377983/pub/html5.... It is the same problem as the rest of the Bay Area - every place wants the tax revenue of businesses and jobs, and expects workers to commute, but no place wants the expense of housing and schools - or roads. Nimby, yes, but also permits: proposals to address a recurring road flooding problem near Pescadero needed ~12 approvals or permits from ~9 agencies. See page 17 of: http://sanmateorcd.org/PescaderoFlooding/Pescadero%20Rd_Butano_Flood_Solutions_Final%20Report%202014.pdf http://sanmateorcd.org/PescaderoFlooding/Pescadero%20Rd_Buta... The SR 92 traffic is very commute dependent. Prohibiting left turns during commute hours might help, but the 92 West to SR 1 North (2 lanes to 1) would still be an afternoon bottleneck. Widening 92 to 3 lanes, and running 2 East/ 1 West in the AM, and reversing that in the afternoon might be a possibility. What endpoints did you have in mind for "another highway near Pescadero"? I can't find a good land use map for the South Coast at the moment, but finding a technically feasible alignment might be challenging, even before the permit/Nimby/EIR/lawsuit rodeo gets started. There are a lot of parks & open space areas in the hills.
- sjg007 9y ago
  Well make highway 1 four lanes as well.
Animats 9y ago
The coastside needs another highway near Pescadero and to upgrade 91 (probably meant CA-92; CA-91 is in Anaheim) to four lanes. The local opposition would be huge. Half Moon Bay, which is mostly a tourist town, has objected for decades to widening CA-92. The plan in the 1960s was to make it a freeway, which is why the CA-92 / I-280 interchange is so overbuilt. CA-92 isn't the real bottleneck, anyway - it's that Half Moon Bay is too small to absorb more cars. In the 1990s, there was talk of expanding Half Moon Bay airport into a major commercial airport. That was unpopular. Tall hotels along the coast are really unpopular. [1] http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Flap-Over-Half-Moon-Bay-Airport-Residents-fear-2836217.php http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Flap-Over-Half-Moon-Bay-A...