Why is parking an issue for an office building and retail that is immediately adjacent to the train station/transit center?

Why is parking a requirement?? Because if you live anywhere west of ECR (most affluent areas) you need a place to park your TESLA and you do not DO public transportation; because if these commerical tenants have clients they will most likely DRIVE to the meetings. City Manager is irresponsible in giving developers a pass on parking requirement.

As much as our city wants to pretend we are Manhattan we are not, we are a suburb with lousy public transportation. Try taking CALTRAIN mid-day or on weekends, once an hour, ridiculous.

Tim McEnery really doesn't know what he's talking about because in reality the last thing this City needs is more office space. Perhaps it even shows that the city council doesn't care as much about housing as they pretend to

Silly City Council. approving construction all over city that will result in a great many unsolvable problems, parking is just one, pollution from all the new cars is worse, then there is blight, crowding, traffic nightmares , eventually there will be water supply problems, and of course lots of other problems
Fight all this nonsense

How the he$$ did this get unanimous approval!? Alison Hicks ran on "save the downtown", iirc.

And love this line from Tim McEnery - "we want to improve the downtown existence...". He really should be in politics. Next he'll be telling us that everyone is going to arrive on the train.

And downtown is just fine WITHOUT the increased density and traffic,TYVM!

Why on earth do we need another office complex in downtown? Didn't some start ups leave downtown because of continuous car break ins? When the Tide House block was considered for the construction of offices an entire group of activists got busy. How is this different, Mrs Hicks? Our downtown is definitely making the list of areas in Silicon Valley to avoid. The congestion, lack of parking and soon big construction sites. I feel sorry for the small business owners adjacent to these projects. Our main problem in MV is the lack of vision and willingness to say "no" to a developer. We seem to think, if we don't allow all projects put in front of us by developers, we will miss out and some other city will profit.

Its all about the money! Commercial properties net more tax $$$ than residential.
The only recourse is to vote them all out of office.

I think it should be mandatory for all public officials to have to use public transportation every week. Maybe then they will understand that it is a joke.

so.... time for a new city council....

Waaaay back in the day,

"Located at the corner of West Evelyn Avenue and Hope Street, the lot where the new office building would go is currently occupied by a Subway franchise"

I do not remember the name anymore of that store, which is now Subway, but I used to buy baby chicks from them. Used to have chickens for the eggs.

Those where the really good old days. But times change, but not always for the best.

This seems early-in-the-process. I also hope Councilwoman Hicks has a better planner-in-the-past way of approaching this TRANSPORTION dilemma. It will not be solved by 'promises of future parking'. Even dear old Lenney did not get the MANDATE of RESIDENTIAL BUILD and Finished before more office build / or TRANSPORTATION BUILT and Finished before more office build.

RECYCLED MATERIAL Public Garages (multi-story). Plan Alto has at least one very interesting 80 recyclable material multi-story downtown public garage. The 7 level steel structure of the Webster/Cooper St. garage is made of massive steel beams. Think - big city steel skyscraper! If the developers - paid for the foundations and steel superstructure of such an edifice (let them design and contract for it) then the city could finish off (floors and ramps and stairways).
street view (Google maps)
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Reuse the existing design style from Palo Alto, maybe 5 total levels (1 below ground level). BTW the PA public parking structure is completely covered with solar-electric power panels! (satellite view Google maps)

what do you think? build "required parking" before office occupancy allowed. ? (that Hope/California lot seems a vast underutilization of a current city investment)

@MV Voice - was the project approved with conditions? If so, what guarantees are there that parking will be provided when office workers move in?

In line with Steven Nelson's post, how about a parking - office linkage, nobody can move in until parking spaces are built (on site or somewhere else as suggested by developer)?

This 28,000 sq ft office is chump change compared to what is proposed at the former Milk Pail site.

On December 3, 2019 at 6:30 pm, Mountain View City Council wild hold a “Gatekeeper” application hearing for a 190,000 square foot office building with ground floor retail to be built on the old Milk Pail location.

The hearing will be at 500 Castro Street in Council Chambers.

Why no MV Voice coverage on this???

Attend the meeting and/or write to council at citycouncil@mountainview.gov

Here is a link to the full proposal: Web Link

@San Antonio Dumping Ground

We've written stories on every leg of this development! See our last story from September:

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A lot of silly comments from non-planners who have no clue about the benefits vs. the costs of development. This development will improve the current site and impose little in costs to the neighborhood, which will benefit by having their homes go up in value.

@Former Planner It would have made a lot more sense to build something like thisWeb Link Centrally located, train station close by and plenty of minimum wage jobs in downtown. More tech workers in downtown will just create more housing issues in our city.