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If by mixed do you just mean residential over retail? Is the Bay Area actually opposed to that?
by jsolson 9y ago
If by mixed do you just mean residential over retail?
Is the Bay Area actually opposed to that?
- pkaye 9y agoNot sure about Mountain View but I've seen a bunch of new complexes in San Jose and Santa Clara with the residential over retail construction.
- kevinburke 9y agoyes, it's opposed but it's not usually for that reason, more often has to do with height or traffic. two recent examples: - adjacent to Millbrae BART/Caltrain https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/millbrae-station-project-draws-community-ire/article_f00f6358-0190-11e8-a734-6f2b5bdb2c6b.html https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/millbrae-station-p... - adjacent to Hayward Park Caltrain in San Mateo https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/major-mixed-use-housing-proposed-for-san-mateo/article_d9171ca4-e476-11e7-be8a-77367bc1a1a4.html https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/major-mixed-use-ho...
- DrScump 9y agoThe "Two Worlds" development on El Camino in Mountain View, which is residential over ground-floor retail, is at least 30 years old.
- refurb 9y agoI'd be worried you'd never fill the retail on the ground level. The small neighborhoods that have the retail/residential buildings have a ton of vacancies even now due to high rents.
- pchristensen 9y agoFinancing development is a big constraint - loans that conform to existing types can be resold. This is why strip malls, industrial parks, malls, and housing developments look the same all over America. If a developer wants to build a multistory, mixed use development, they have to negotiate exceptional financing as well as zoning variances. Even if a city greatly loosened single use zoning, it would still probably be slow and expensive to redevelop.