Another Samsung City like they have in Seoul.

Waiting for the next article where they demand Mountain View to be renamed "Googleville".

Man, when tech and the economy takes a huge downturn MV is going to look like Detroit.

Two problems pop out at me:

1) Prices are driven by supply and demand, and cities for years have not been keeping pace with demand... and it's obvious why, " planning officials are already warning that workload far exceeds what they can handle.
The same dilemma popped up last year when Mountain View officials received 20 gatekeeper proposals. Planning staff culled that list down to just eight projects, of which only four were approved by the council to move forward. Not much has changed since then, Tsuda warned."

If we are constrained on city staff to approve and work with builders on housing projects, why don't we increase staff???

2) Can someone help me understand what difference it makes if Google keeps some of the units captive? Its the same people that would be renting here anyway no? We need more supply across all price levels for all tenants.

Why doesn't the council at least officially state their mission: We want to make Mt. View a city of 100% renters. We hate homeowners, quality of life initiatives and anything creates stability as all of those things detract from our ability to create super giant super dense housing for shorter term residents and line our pockets as our cities most important campaign sponsors, the developers.

This move only reinforces the need to expand access points to North Bayshore. Currently I know of three; San Antonio Rd, Amphitheater Parkway and Shoreline blvd. Building a bridges across Stevens Creek would connect MoffettField and North Bayshore there by doubling the access points to six; adding Moffett, Ellis and 237. Council should consider Google development approval contingent on multiple bridges across Stevens Creek. To not do this would force traffic onto Middlefield.

This is what we need; more horrendous traffic---but now on E. Middlefield. Or for that matter, on W. Middlefield as well up to Shoreline Blvd. I'm sure this massive traffic would happen. More cars, more congestion...despite all the buses.

But a great idea to expand access points onto N. Shoreline Blvd.

What a great problem to have - people want to live and work in Mountain View, a capable company wants to build housing in Mountain View, it's just that city government doesn't have enough staff to work on this. Not even a problem of funding more city planning staff since there are vacancies. Maybe Google can help the city hire more staff, Google has expertise in that.

Yeah, I see no potential for conflict if Google were to fund the hiring of additional city staff - or more likely city planners - to help manage Google projects down at city hall.

Who are we kidding, Google is ultimately going to get pretty much everything it wants out of Mountain View, it's only a matter of time. I guess the only thing the city is really arguing over at this point is the price they are will to sell out for in terms of the bargains it makes with Google. A sellout is still a sellout.

Yeah, I am a cynic.

@Jim the city can't hire more staff because it's too expensive to live here and nobody wants to relocate.

@Bob Google has been asking for the permission to build those bridges for several years. The city won't let them, because environment.