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They just need to build up.

• surfmike 12y ago
  Yes, and building up is usually blocked by cities like MV.
  • ape4 12y ago
    If google asked to build a tall building in your town... I suspect the bylaw would be overturned.
    • surfmike 12y ago
      I think, at least for the SF peninsula, you suspect wrong :-)
    • TulliusCicero 12y ago
      Then you would be mistaken. Google isn't stupid, they know huge swathes of their employee base want to live close to work and be in walkable neighborhoods. Mountain View isn't like most American towns, they're already overflowing with great tech jobs, so the fact that Google wants something doesn't really faze them.
      • _delirium 12y ago
        That's definitely true, but I wonder why Google is so tied to MV specifically, given that MV is not particularly accommodating of them? San Jose has been fairly open to high-rise development (within the constraints posed by SJC landing paths), and is not far away.
        • surfmike 12y ago
          Because Google already has something like 30K-40K people working in Mountain View. It is opening offices outside of MV, like in Sunnyvale, but physical proximity to the rest of campus is very important for almost all teams. Even the SF office feels like a satellite.
    • secabeen 12y ago
      That has not been the case in the past: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/technology/google-plans-new-headquarters-and-a-city-fears-being-overrun.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/technology/google-plans-ne...