They should let google build dorms for their employees who want that type of environment. They already have the dining facilities and so much more.

How would changes to the plan affect the existing office development proposals? Would they need to adjust to fit the new plan or are they OK if they fit the old plan?

After spending so much time and money on plans for more office space, which will make the jobs-housing imbalance worse, we shouldn't hesitate to spend a little bit more time and money on plans for housing, which will make it better!

As an environmentalist and a humanitarian, I shudder to contemplate a future where tens of thousands more jobs have been added to a location that is primarily accessed by car commutes of over an hour. At my tech job, housing is one of the most consistent concerns voiced by employees. Even well-paid knowledge workers are bemoaning the short supply and the high cost, but they aren't the people I worry about the most; the burden falls hardest on those with lower incomes (who have to live far away where housing is less unaffordable) and those with the least flexible jobs (who can't time-shift their commutes to avoid rush hour). That doesn't sit well with me, but it's already happening and it's already getting worse every year. Those people cannot wait for fifteen more years of job growth outpacing housing growth before we change course.

North Bayshore is a tremendous opportunity to address the housing shortage in a real way. We're tremendously fortunate that this place, at this time, has the energy and the resources to make something really great: an urban village that draws the community together. I hope City Council and Staff are as excited and optimistic to see it happen as I am.

Remember, every person who moves into housing in North Bayshore is a person who won't displace an existing Mountain View resident.

Why do city planners need to pay consultants $1.2 million to do city planning? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this what they are trained to do? Or do they put a high price tag on this because they don't think the city should do it and they are trying to kill the project?

Since North Bayshore is still fully marsh land, we need to protect 24 hours a day residential's FIRST from possible polar ice cap melting soon (Al Gore's dream) which would probably flooding 10 feet deep of bay water close to Hwy 101 area. If so, also all new residential buildings would require a minimum of 140 feet deep x 3 feet diameter reinforced concrete piers foundation for every 10 feet each way plus additional 15 feet from top surface to prevent living quarters being soaked after ice cap gone potentially. PLUS This area still pretty liquified marsh dirt (as just in case of earthquake). Those proposed concrete piers should be prevented from sinking the residential structures. So good luck to newly elected council member dreamers similar to Titanic designer.

I'm just glad I'm moving out of Mountain View in a few weeks: the level of political dysfunction and the sense of entitlement in this city are disturbing.

@Bagg -- "Al Gore's dream" - When you write something like this, you remove your ability to advance the conversation. Al Gore was sounding an alarm, which went essentially unheard by political leaders all over this nation. Turns out he was right. And now you denigrate him for "dreaming" that the ocean's would rise? Talk about shooting the messenger. Geesh.

@Mike -- I completely disagree. The "politics" are working just the way the voters intended. If you are no longer happy about MV, then it is likely a wise decision to leave. I invite everybody who is unhappy about the impending changes to leave MV. You'll free up your living space for someone who needs it and won't be unhappy. Everybody wins!

After Al Gore invented the internet, he invented global warming. And to this very day he continues to generate massive amounts of green house gases every time he flies his personal jet, to say nothing of when he speaks.

Instead of a discussion about Al Gore, how about if we stick to the topic of proposed housing in North Bayshore? Taking climate change into consideration is reasonable, trashing the individual who publicized the concept is irrelevant to the conversation.

Local realtors channel money to the National Association of Realtors who funnel it back to Lenny Siegel et al. and suddenly the city's general plan is thrown out and Mountain View tax payers have to pay more consultants to recommend turning the city's bay shore into something akin to Milpitas or Dublin so that the local realtors have more houses to sell. The realtors and Siegel make out like bandits but everyone else losses.

In 2015 Mountain View has plenty of jobs and not a huge supply of housing so we need to build more housing. When we hit the next economic downturn some of the new residents will be looking for jobs so we will need to allow more office space to be built to attract more jobs. When the economy picks up again we will need more housing again and so it goes ad nauseam. When the schools don't have room for all the new residents and the roads and freeway is choked with all the extra traffic we will wake up and realize that we made a huge mistake but by then the developers and realtors will have made their money and the city council members they are bankrolling and who are doing their bidding will have moved on to other things.

@ Long term MV resident - I did not vote for Lenny Siegel. However, I very much respect his tireless dedication for decades on issues important to our area. Yes, he's pro-housing, but to imply that he's pro-developer is just wrong, wrong, wrong.

Can somebody explain to me how a politician can be "pro-housing" even "pro-housing" in a part of the city where there are no schools, no grocery stores and no services, but not pro-developer?

Does anybody know what the impact of all the new proposed construction will be on the city's water supply?