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City takes $8M hit on North Bayshore park fees

Original post made on Apr 19, 2019

Seeking to bring down the high cost of building housing in North Bayshore, Mountain View City Council members voted last week to cut park fees for a development in exchange for an acre of private open space.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, April 19, 2019, 9:58 AM

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Posted by Bored M
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Apr 19, 2019 at 10:33 am

Dear City Council,
Quit screwing our schools. Thanks.


Posted by The Business Man
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Apr 19, 2019 at 7:09 pm

The Business Man is a registered user.

This is either a PERFECT example of how misinformed, incompetent, or corrupt the city has become.

Misinformed meaning that the City Council is CONVINCED that if they do not act to provide such a gift, they will not be able to move forward on the project. Did the City get a threat to either give them this gifty or give up on the project? The citizens have the right to be ingformaed about it.

Incompetent meaning that they decided to take such an act simply becasue of a notion or a beleife that if they do not do so, the project will be cancelled? Where did they get that idea? Who brought up that question to the City Council? Did anyone in the City Co9uncil bring this up?

Corruption, because this is just another transfer of wealth from the public resources into the private sector, with no equal transfer of services to be provided to the City as a whole. This is the game Google and Developers have been playing with the City. But what is the result? The City simply is at a deficit of the avaiable housing or funding to provide the City citizens.

How is it that the City citizens get the raw end of all the deals that the City Council makes? What explantation did the city use to justify this?

INCREDIBLE!


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