Can't help but wonder if this project really needs to be in downtown Mountain View. Aren't the residents going to spend most of their time on the property itself? Maybe this large a project would be more easily and economically located in the open spaces of Milpitas, Pleasanton or Fremont?

A great place for this project, close to about everything you need, the is more for active seniors. Downtown seems to me is getting a mix of residents.

The title of the article is about the historic house, but none of the 5 pictures shows that house. I hope they can find a way to preserve one of Mountain View's oldest houses.

It's so simple: put the house up for sale. If nobody wants it, then it must have zero value, so therefore the concern about preserving it is misplaced. We may have an emotional attachment to the past, but if it can't be expressed as a desire to pay to have it preserved, then it can't be all that strong. I know there are laws about preserving historic houses, so of course this will have to go before the planning commission. However, the fact remains that is nobody wants it, it isn't wanted!

When I become a senior I certainly don't want to be relegated to some backwoods place away from contact with society just for the convenience of others who think of me as being disposable. Instead, like these seniors, I'd like to be part of a community and contribute, which means being located in the core of the community.

Seer:

If you have no monetary value when you're a senior, then I guess we'll just have to get rid of you. We have such emotional attachments to the past and old people anyway.

I would love it if the historic Bakotich home were moved to the vacant lot across from our home at Bush and Yosemite. Our 4-block tract was not developed until the 1940's, so an 1880's home would look unusual, but we're only 3 blocks from Castro St. and there are very few vacant R1-zoned lots near downtown.

I believe the lot is owned by the two sisters who own the "Pumpkin Patch" property at Grant and Levin. If anyone knows them personally, please share the suggestion with them.

There's just nothing better than telling other people how to spend their money or use their property.

Turn the tables, and I bet you'll have different suggestions.

I would like to add some information. Although the house represents an example of a simple farmhouse built for the orchard farming economy of the early 20th century, other homes in Mountain View and in nearby cities of Santa Clara Valley date from this time period as well.