Why are we even listening to Google, when they have not produced any housing in the 6+ years of promising to do so in Mountain View?

This whole plan is going to disappear once AB5 is signed into law. Google and the rest of the valley has been breaking the laws regarding misclassifying independent contractors instead of employees. The TECH companies have been using 60%+ contractors in the valley for more than 20 years. This new law will force these companies to either transform these contractors into employees, not hire contractors for more than 6 months, or simply fire all of them and build a new town outside the state.

The result will be even less stable employment in the valley, a spike in unemployment, and the significant shrinkage in needs for housing in the area. But whose fault was it? It was not the workers, it was these companies trying to cheat both the IRS and the state of California. And what do these companies do, try to put the blame of their misdeeds on everyone else.

The fact is with $15 Billion they can build a state of the art city in Kansas, Nebraska or other states, with the ability to design on fresh land and practically no obstacles regarding existing streets, plumbing, and energy infrastructures.

This is again the Carrot tied to the stick strapped to the Horses Head of Mountain View. When are the people going to realize this is never going to happen, like the forever postpones Google Complex, that hasn’t even being starting to shovel. It’s the famous Valley motto: “Fake it until you make it”. This has been going on for 6 years plus.

I tried to post my comment on Saturday but it seems both the Weekly and the Voice had problems and nobody was able to post.

What will this mean to bringing more people to live and work in the Bay Area from Australia? More H1b visas? More people to house?

So once again Google cannot find any local Bay Area or California company to work this project for the next 10 to 15 year????? Really???? This constant outsourcing of every single aspect of Google's workforce has got to stop. This area cannot sustain the tremendous number of employees they are forcing on the Bay Area and our city.

And at the end of the second paragraph is what this generous offer is all about: "corporate office space needed for Google's regular operations." They couldn't get the additional office space so now they're offering some housing.

The city council needs to develop serious backbone and realize that they are the ones to define the type of city we want to live in -- not Google!

Well, if the California Supreme Court enforces the Dynamax decision RETROACTIVELY, then the valley is in for a heck of a shock.

Imaging all of the tech companies having to RETROACTIVLY pay the IRS, the state of California, and all their contractors back payments to the Contractors they tried to cheat?

Let the stampede out of California begin.

AND SAY GOODBYE to the Google proposal