Perhaps the Council should try driving San Antonio road before approving all the additional housing. Bad for kids, bad for the environment, bad for the neighborhoods. The City should be renamed Building View and San Antonio Road should become Gridlock Road.

This is wonderful. We need to build tall housing and create more ownership.

@kyle

Don't be fooled by the perception of home ownership in condos. A large portion of them around Mountain View are purchased by investors and rented out to Stanford students, Googlers and others. This further tightens the market and leaves few opportunities for home ownership. Nothing wrong with entrepreneurship, but at least understand the truth behind the doors.

The council holds the power to really screw up this city. I don't believe they would continue with the over-densification of the San Antonio area if any of them lived nearby.

And when you ask them about traffic mitigation you just get hand waving and talk about shuttle busses. So disingenuous.

It isn't bad enough the Abe-Koga is attempting to strong-arm LASD to do her bidding, she is bound and determined to punish the area further by adding this completely out-of-place high-rise building project in a suburban residential area. The San Antonio Center development was supposed to be 7 stories but the public outcry made them scale back. Now that they have 4 stories, it moves to 7, then 10, then who knows? It's disgusting.

This city council is out of touch with reality. All they see are dollar signs. The quality of life for the people who shell out the high taxes they live to fritter away means ZERO to them. They've sold their souls to the company (Google) store and sold out the citizens of the town in the process.

I support this housing. The 6 stories does not bother me, as long as there is a buffer from it being next to or across from single family homes.

This should be the type of housing for our future where you have it in front of a 4 lane road, but not for a 2 lane road.

IMO 6 stories, in that area, will work given the current building profiles.
I'm not sure if it would work in any other area of the city though. If there has to be a 6 story building, that's the part of town for it.

This is the way to go- building upwards, too bad Palo Alto will never figure that out. Plus, as an added benefit, this will drive palo,alto crazy as it is right near the border.

I'm really happy to see the city approve denser projects. The city, the Peninsula, the Bay Area, and the state have a shortage of housing built up over several decades. This leads to a decrease in financial diversity in the area and slowly forces out lower income individuals and families. This is not good for society. I applaud the city for approving the project. I only wish six story buildings didn't generate controversy because it isn't unusual.

Did anyone ever play the original Sim City

THe problem with Civil Engineering is that sometimes an entire quadrant of a community needs to be leveled in order to revise it to handle the current needs.

For example, you can reroute and reallocate roads. Create parking resources that cannot be built because of existing structures. Provide significant improvements is land allocation.

This is a VERY UGLY truth. In effect, you can have a square mile needing to be systemically destroyed in order to establish the resources neccessry for the current situation or plan ahead for the next say 30 years.

This is why the Consitution has Eminiant Domain. THe fact is that in order for the U.S. to function, there cannot be a permenant lock on land or structures. Since the evolution of resources is unavoidable.

No, I never did. I studied then played outside.
Think better and you may have better more creative ideas than just another anonymous msg boarder.

You did not address what I was discussing.

The fact is that it is VERY difficult regarding having to deal with the very significant problem of Civil Planning.

I know that this will result in serious consequences regarding those who either own proerty or live in the areas that NEED major redesign.

This is the issue I really was discussing.

I know that as a graduate of the Lucas Business School of San Jose State.

Finally, I know my user name is The Business Man, but everyone knows who I really am.

Poster: "Did anyone ever play the original Sim City"
Response: "No, I never did. I studied then played outside."
Poster's reply: "You did not address what I was discussing"

(sigh) That's OK message boarder, never mind.