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Nobody is going to take their homes away from single-family homeowners on the Peninsula. The proposal is to upgrade zoning around El Camino, the 101, office pa
by WildUtah 14y ago
Nobody is going to take their homes away from single-family homeowners on the Peninsula.
The proposal is to upgrade zoning around El Camino, the 101, office parks, and downtowns to allow willing sellers to make even bigger gains by selling to higher density developers. Those developers would be allowed to put up Pacific Heights style tasteful, quality higher density (nothing Manhattan-like).
Or that's the fantasy proposal. I don't think there are any real proposals to make Peninsula development rational or useful to the people who live there. The local politics is content to choke on its overpriced and aging stagnation until some foreign center captures the magic of Silicon Valley.
- aggie 14y agoRather than filling in the land between 101 and 280, which would turn into LA-esque traffic nightmares, why not expand into the East Bay or farther south of San Jose?
- mukaiji 14y agoThere are housing development underway between south San Jose and Gilroy, but unfortunately, the jobs are not located there. While that may remove some pain off of the real-estate market further North, opening more development south of San Jose won't do much good if all the jobs stay in the Palo Alto / Mountain View/ Sunnyvale/ Santa Clara region.
- aggie 14y agoThat's true. I guess I see the "jobs area" expanding. I'm thinking at some point, companies will pitch it as a job perk alongside the arcade machines and catered meals--"our office is located in south San Jose where your rent will be two thirds of what it would be in Palo Alto!" Not to mention the office rent would be lower. I guess this all depends on what exactly attracts the company to Silicon Valley and how much that attraction is degraded by being on the fringes of the Valley.