800 residential units with "some" retail space sounds like code for "99% of the things you might need to live in one of those units will involve a drive into town" What happened to the idea of creating a community over there with a downtown all it's own?

I love the way that the City Council and the Planning Commission post crap on Mtn. View Voice (partner in crime) that pretends the people of Mtn. View actually have a choice in how their hometown is being destroyed by them. I really do not know how these people sleep at night.

Really sucks.

@Jamie, do you mean the City Council that we elected, and that hosts open meetings where citizens can and do provide feedback on projects, of which the MV Voice provides ample notice?

Cool. Thanks for being a constructive member of the community.

You are welcome K.

@K - Yes, they were elected, on a build-build-build platform, with a lot of help from the Voice and very generous funding from developers. A lot of people responded to the promise of affordable housing, a promise that will not be kept.

Yes, anyone can go to a council meeting and "provide input". You will be given 2 minutes to talk, unless there are more than a few people lined up to talk, in which case you will be granted one minute. The council will endure your input, then vote however they were going to vote anyway.

Who will really benefit from 9100 new apartments and 3.4 million sf of new office space in North Bayshore? Follow the money.

My long range hope is that this is the beginning of housing and development that YES will become modern middle class communities that will eventually totally reform and transform East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park. As we develop other areas this is a must to finally end the sixty plus years of communal tolls of crime, lack of public schools and banks, supermarkets and businesses and the depreciative area it stays in it's stagnancy of being unable to improve for the better. This long range plan is imperative to finally have the South Bay become a full metropolitan technological world class center of learning, production, and development of the future. It may take a generation but what is going on now is a great start.

Quick question Dennis: Where will all the people of the lower class now calling East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park home live under your vision?

@dennis - Your wish for EPA and East Menlo Park will be reality, and pretty soon at that. It won't take a generation, just a few years. The marketplace will take care of it. EPA and East Menlo Park will soon be filled with expensive apartments to siphon money from Facebook and Google employees, and the present residents (not all criminals, by the way) will be priced out.

The South Bay is already a "technological world class center of learning, production, and development." Who could ever say otherwise? The other part of your vision, the "full metropolitan" part, doesn't sound so good.

This amorphous proposal is why I am working toward electing city council members who care about Green space, transportation and safe bike routes and truly affordable housing for our community. Vote for Thida Cornes!

Looks like the talk of vibrant communities / places that remind city council members of Europe is gone and we get to see the true vision: dormitories for Google.

Wasn't Ellen Kamei (now a planning commissioner) one of the 2014 city council candidates promoted by "dark money" from landlords and developers?

Ellen is a bought and paid for politician. She looks at it as her career, her job, and she will do anything, represent anyone, as long as she can maintain a job in gov't.
The voters in MV didn't want anything top do with her. She's the "Insider" to make sure the developers don't get locked out by people seeking quality of life over building all the time.