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If I understood it correctly, Google has offered to tear down office buildings they currently own in order to make room for residential units to be built on Goo

by troupe 9y ago

If I understood it correctly, Google has offered to tear down office buildings they currently own in order to make room for residential units to be built on Google's property. They are saying that they need to add additional offices as part of this demolition and construction. The article title tries to make it sound like Google is preventing housing from being built on other's land which seems a bit misleading. (Or maybe I just don't understand what the article is saying.)

alistairSH 9y ago
If I understand it correctly, Google originally offered to place new housing on their land. They are now demanding that they be allowed more office space (on, or near, that same land), or they will prevent the housing.
- test6554 9y ago
  As far as I'm concerned, It's their land. They can build office buildings right up to the millimeter of the easement line for all I care. But they are actually going to still build some housing which is generous.
  - ceph_ 9y ago
    This is the continuation of a back and forth between the city montainview and Google that goes back to 2015. The intial request was denied by city officials. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/05/07/why_mountain_view_said_no_to_a_new_googleplex_and_yes_to_linkedin.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/05/07/why_mount...
  - Tempest1981 9y ago
    As long as we agree that "solving" the housing "crisis" is futile at this ratio. This recent study estimates we need 20% more houses to drop prices by 10%. Current rate is maybe 2%/yr. http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/27/building-boom-may-merely-slow-soaring-bay-area-home-prices-economists/ http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/27/building-boom-may-mere...
abritinthebay 9y ago
The main things is that they waited until after everything was approved to add these demands on. Frankly if I was the city I’d block any of their future developments. Screw these kind of dishonest games.

by troupe 9y ago

alistairSH 9y ago

If I understand it correctly, Google originally offered to place new housing on their land. They are now demanding that they be allowed more office space (on, or near, that same land), or they will prevent the housing.

test6554 9y ago
As far as I'm concerned, It's their land. They can build office buildings right up to the millimeter of the easement line for all I care. But they are actually going to still build some housing which is generous.
- ceph_ 9y ago
  This is the continuation of a back and forth between the city montainview and Google that goes back to 2015. The intial request was denied by city officials. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/05/07/why_mountain_view_said_no_to_a_new_googleplex_and_yes_to_linkedin.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/05/07/why_mount...
- Tempest1981 9y ago
  As long as we agree that "solving" the housing "crisis" is futile at this ratio. This recent study estimates we need 20% more houses to drop prices by 10%. Current rate is maybe 2%/yr. http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/27/building-boom-may-merely-slow-soaring-bay-area-home-prices-economists/ http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/27/building-boom-may-mere...

abritinthebay 9y ago

The main things is that they waited until after everything was approved to add these demands on. Frankly if I was the city I’d block any of their future developments. Screw these kind of dishonest games.