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This should be a wake up call to the City Council of Mountain View.

They better stop trying to avoid complying with the new housing laws like SB 330 or they will wind up in the same place.

This was a very foreseeable judgment.

So people in a town are no longer entitled to determine the type of community they want to live in. Good to know.

A government organization and a judge, neither of which reside in the community, get to decide what that community must look like. They get to force the residents to tolerate an ugly high-rise building, despite the fact that the residents don't WANT the ugly high-rise building.

Keep that in mind the next time you vote for these people. They know how to run your town better than you do. They must be brilliant.

On what planet is a five-story building a "high-rise"? People might take you more seriously and be sympathetic to your cause if you didn't act like Chicken Little.

Funny to watch the ebb and flow of sentiments between local, decentralized and federal, centralized governance. Public policy is complicated, cities are not sovereigns, there are overlapping authorities in re: such matters

In response to psr you wrote:

“So people in a town are no longer entitled to determine the type of community they want to live in. Good to know.”

That philosophy inevitably results in housing discrimination via disparate impact, there are almost hundreds of cases to report in the judicial record to prove it. What you are trying to do is use a cloaking device on housing discrimination. Under the idea of the power of community determination of who is preferred to be a member of the community. WOW You said:

“A government organization and a judge, neither of which reside in the community, get to decide what that community must look like. They get to force the residents to tolerate an ugly high-rise building, despite the fact that the residents don't WANT the ugly high-rise building.”

You are first making a assertion that hasn’t even happened yet. You are trying to use FEAR to mask the people’s attention to distract from the real problem which is a lack of housing. That lack of housing has been used to artificially inflate housing values in the state of California as far back as 1970. Show us any high rise in the city of Mountain View that is the results of your claim? You said:

“Keep that in mind the next time you vote for these people. They know how to run your town better than you do. They must be brilliant.”

I cannot argue with this, but the current City Council has NO expertise in urban development, or civil engineering. You are correct that we do not vote the right people into offices, where they do not have the qualifications to perform this task.