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This might be true in an area with gentrificiation but this is unlikely to be true in wealthy areas. Cupertino, as an example, is struggling with the last gener

This might be true in an area with gentrificiation but this is unlikely to be true in wealthy areas. Cupertino, as an example, is struggling with the last generation not moving out. The end result is a lower population of kids. https://patch.com/california/cupertino/cupertino-councilmembers-make-unusual-request-school-board https://patch.com/california/cupertino/cupertino-councilmemb...

yongjik 4y ago
This. Many of those vilified "high-paying tech jobs" are young and have school-age kids. I am one of them (well, except I'm not that young), and almost all my friends in the SV area are the same. I go to work and half of the team have a kid or two. It's not tech workers pushing out parents: they want to be parents and settle down. It's old grandmas in three bedroom single houses refusing to move out.
- kspacewalk2 4y ago
  To be clear, the grandmas can refuse to move out, and it's their right to refuse. What's not their right is to have veto powers over what is built on adjacent properties they don't own.
jxramos 4y ago
Wow, this bit was pretty surprising > The school board had cited declining enrollment, funding issues and voters’ rejection of a parcel tax as reasons for closing the two schools. I'm very intrigued that the Cupertino voters rejected a parcel tax, I've seen so many of those in my town and they all pass. They typically go something like "shall the City of Cupertino collect a parcel tax at rate XYZ for the next ZZZ years to replace aging air conditioning and plumbing and other aging building facilities?".
- rcpt 4y ago
  It's possibly because of Prop 218. One of Howard Jarvis's more insidious laws which requires that local taxes get 2/3 of votes to pass.
  - jxramos 4y ago
    that's interesting, I wonder why it never changed. Been on the books since the late 90s it sounds like. Ratified November 5, 1996 Date effective November 6, 1996; 26 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_California_Proposition_218 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_California_Proposition_21...
    - rcpt 4y ago
      HJTA is extremely powerful in California. Voting demographics skew towards anti tax property owners and they have zero problem crushing everyone else.

yongjik 4y ago

This. Many of those vilified "high-paying tech jobs" are young and have school-age kids. I am one of them (well, except I'm not that young), and almost all my friends in the SV area are the same. I go to work and half of the team have a kid or two. It's not tech workers pushing out parents: they want to be parents and settle down. It's old grandmas in three bedroom single houses refusing to move out.

kspacewalk2 4y ago
To be clear, the grandmas can refuse to move out, and it's their right to refuse. What's not their right is to have veto powers over what is built on adjacent properties they don't own.

jxramos 4y ago

Wow, this bit was pretty surprising > The school board had cited declining enrollment, funding issues and voters’ rejection of a parcel tax as reasons for closing the two schools. I'm very intrigued that the Cupertino voters rejected a parcel tax, I've seen so many of those in my town and they all pass. They typically go something like "shall the City of Cupertino collect a parcel tax at rate XYZ for the next ZZZ years to replace aging air conditioning and plumbing and other aging building facilities?".

rcpt 4y ago
It's possibly because of Prop 218. One of Howard Jarvis's more insidious laws which requires that local taxes get 2/3 of votes to pass.
- jxramos 4y ago
  that's interesting, I wonder why it never changed. Been on the books since the late 90s it sounds like. Ratified November 5, 1996 Date effective November 6, 1996; 26 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_California_Proposition_218 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_California_Proposition_21...
  - rcpt 4y ago
    HJTA is extremely powerful in California. Voting demographics skew towards anti tax property owners and they have zero problem crushing everyone else.