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> If Menlo Park wants to allow Facebook to build an office complex to support 2,000 more Facebook employees than it needs to create 2,000 more residential optio

> If Menlo Park wants to allow Facebook to build an office complex to support 2,000 more Facebook employees than it needs to create 2,000 more residential options for those employees. Careful, the solution might be to make work kingdoms in the future. Google, Facebook, Apple castles, the Apple spaceship is already ready for a moat around it. My guess is a requirement like that will lead to residential/apartments being build on campus like at Foxconn or in company cities like in the past, essentially work dorms. I also feel like this would be horrible for ageism and family life impacts. In places like that it is a work/life balance problem and they'll just work you til you are dead in their kingdom and then bring out the cart and yell "Bring out your dead!" [1] When you have companies that are in cities, you need to find a way to get that revenue and income dispersed around the city/community, not just a walled off kingdom. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDnS4pkmzis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDnS4pkmzis

jpao79 8y ago
Definitely didn't mean to advocate for campus based housing or worker warehouses. The proposal was that Mountain View (Google), Menlo Park (Facebook), Cupertino (Apple) are all big enough such that equivalent high density housing could have been built within those cities at the same time of the construction of the high density open office space. Instead, the Apple Campus was built across the street from single family homes and Cupertino got to get the big tax increase without any additional city services or having to share that tax base with San Jose which now has to house and educate all those additional employees. https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3378192,-122.0061169,3a,75y,243.27h,84.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1soZjdEIRep792t9bp06Z_ow!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3378192,-122.0061169,3a,75y,...
- Redoubts 8y ago
  > and Cupertino got to get the big tax increase without any additional city services or having to share that tax base Simple, dissolve every municipality smaller than a County in the Bay Area.
stale2002 8y ago
Why would I be opposed to the option of on campus housing? If I don't want to live near work, I wouldn't be required to. An OPTION is never bad, especially when we are talking about engineers making 200k+. I'm sure that these high paid engineers can negotiate their own preferences for work environment, or at the very leaast, go work at places that share their values.

jpao79 8y ago

Definitely didn't mean to advocate for campus based housing or worker warehouses. The proposal was that Mountain View (Google), Menlo Park (Facebook), Cupertino (Apple) are all big enough such that equivalent high density housing could have been built within those cities at the same time of the construction of the high density open office space. Instead, the Apple Campus was built across the street from single family homes and Cupertino got to get the big tax increase without any additional city services or having to share that tax base with San Jose which now has to house and educate all those additional employees. https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3378192,-122.0061169,3a,75y,243.27h,84.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1soZjdEIRep792t9bp06Z_ow!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3378192,-122.0061169,3a,75y,...

Redoubts 8y ago
> and Cupertino got to get the big tax increase without any additional city services or having to share that tax base Simple, dissolve every municipality smaller than a County in the Bay Area.

stale2002 8y ago

Why would I be opposed to the option of on campus housing? If I don't want to live near work, I wouldn't be required to. An OPTION is never bad, especially when we are talking about engineers making 200k+. I'm sure that these high paid engineers can negotiate their own preferences for work environment, or at the very leaast, go work at places that share their values.