Re: The East Whisman-Summerhill Project:
"SummerHill's project also stands out in that the affordable units included in the development will be available to both low and middle-income families. It's responding to the city's appetite for options for the so-called missing middle -- those who earn too much for subsidized low-income housing but too little to afford market rate units. Of the 270 apartments, 27 will be available to those making up to 80% of the area's median income, roughly $104,000 for a family of four, while 41 units will be available to families making up to 120% of the median income, nearly $153,000 for a family of four."

So basically, Mountain View is telling service workers, teachers and social workers don't bother living here- come here and serve our meals, our drinks, mow our lawns and tend to our landscaping at the big corporations and public buildings, serve our homeless, our poor and our aged,teach our children, but after business hours- go away and get out of town....

Yes! Congratulations!

I hope we can proceed with more of these developments to increase supply, lower rent costs, decrease commute times, and increase our quality of life.

We need about 99 more!

Today's high rise housing solutions - tomorrow's slums.

This isn’t the Mountain View of the 60s and 70s and it’s never going to be a place that’s cheap to live.Yes a family of 4 will have to work two full time jobs in a lot of cases if they want to live in one of the most expensive cities in the country. That is not a guarantee either. That’s the way it should be if we have too many people.

Until you invent a time machine, this is what we got.

The root cause is there are too many people who want to live here and we don’t have roads or parking or enough services and nobody who lives at this giant complex is going to take VTA. Zero. They’ll all be driving those new cars or junkers and parking them on the streets and merging onto highway 101 at rush hour.

A cap on growth is the only solution but nobody wants to talk about that, they all want to jam more people in here. They want to make it easier for people who would live in an affordable town to move here.

This is a monstrous building to put in Mountain View
I hope something will cancel this project, it seems the City Council is a collection of builder zombies.

Traffic, traffic and more traffic. Certainly not affordable. And, a monstrosity to boot. I'd live to see this sort of development in the "nicer" parts of town, maybe along Grant Road or Cuesta. What's good for the goose is never good for the gander.

Anyone notice that all of the high density affordable housing is never located west of El Camino or near downtown? It's pushed as far away as possible while still remaining within city limits, maybe they should build a wall along highway 85.

We need higher density housing and this is an available place to put it without displacing others.
As for affordability, MV isn't that place anymore. Considering the fate of most old farm towns, this isn't a bad thing. We could have been another Gilroy or one of the countless farming ghost towns that dot the nation. The days of MV being a blue collar "Middle class" town ended starting in the 70s and after the 90's it as clear.
Also, my gardener would be able to afford on of these as would 4 of my friends who are MV teachers.

The great minds of local school financing -
Los Altos K-8 district gets $1.3 million in TDR (Transferred Development Rights - guaranteed) while MVWSD and the high school get Together a Total of $1.5 million guaranteed [ and ALL THE NEW STUDENTS - guaranteed! and 'the plan is' - $ to those districts but NO Legal guarantee.

This is partially why reporter writes "development rights dumped," the school age kid's classroom needs will be dumped onto the MVWSD (K-8) and the high school district.

Sounds like I'm going to have a lot more neighbors soon!

Greg,

Please run for Council. The City needs you more than ever. I know you're busy raising a family but you've been successful all your life and its time to give a little bit of that success back by being on the Council.

Please run for City Council.
Thank you. :)

Have the future residents starting complaining yet that the airplanes flying into KNUQ (which are below them) are too loud?

Anyone notice the remodled Whisman school down the street? I'm in favor of the housing, wish the city council would relax or reduce some of the hurdles for developers so we can get more housing. Maybe reduce the funds needed to go to the city (while still trying to keep low and middle income housing available), reduce some of the park requirements other sites have had to deal with, encourage more housing.

Mountain View isn't a sleepy suburb any more. Time to start opening up housing and start opening up all the blocked off streets. Two massive condo and apartment sites off Evelyn, another one coming from the former flower factory, and there are still a half dozen blocked off streets around the area funneling all the traffic on bernardo and sylvan. Open it up, let everyone deal with the traffic.

Another commenter said the city approving this project is Mountain View telling gardeners, social workers, and teachers not to bother living here. I disagree. Looking at the average salaries of teachers, a household with two teachers would likely qualify. Keep in mind two teachers can not afford the existing housing stock that is in mountain view even if it is quite old and poorly maintained. In my opinion, not building this project, leaving this lot commercial, and not trying to build enough housing to catch up to all the added jobs would have been more of a "you are not welcome" message.

I think the other idea expressed in the comments that a new high-density development on some of the most valuable real estate in the world is going to turn into a slum is highly unlikely and kind of offensive. This development is not a poorly designed and poorly funded government project in the 70s; these are homes for our middle class! People who can not afford single-family homes in this area can care just as much about maintaining their homes as single-family homeowners do.

Thank you city council for supporting a job to housing balance and transit-oriented development! I know a lot of people who would be happy to get rid of their car or leave it at home if they could live this close to their work and downtown.

How many school sites has this school district leased out for extra spending money? Move to remote learning. Cut staff.

A magnificent example of the city "managing" unbalanced development. They have been pumping new housing into this corner of the city for years with no accompanying commercial development. All of this while they are claiming to be trying to get us out of our cars and while we are "served" by a transit agency that thinks we are a suburb of San Jose and out to ride there on VTA to do our shopping. More zoning for shopping in the area is needed. 7-11, Roger's Donuts and Dollar General do not make an adequately supportive commercial district, that is unless the plan is for everyone to get everything from Amazon. Oh, are they going to put in parking spots for delivery vans or are they just going to park in the middle of the street like they do in other new developments?ucyUT

Thank you, @GeoffT. I love Roger’s, but our area of Mountain View is a virtual food desert and I haven’t seen any plans to address that. I guess we’ll be adding 400+ households to the neighbors who complain about the Shoreline Safeway on Nextdoor!

Where will the natural resources come from to support more people?
And what about infrastructure - hospitals, parking? It seems no one will use public transportation anymore.

Excellent news! As a long-time resident, I welcome this urgently needed housing to our fair city.

Well thank god for that. It doesn't make up for the Terra Bella vote last year, but at least it's something. Now they just need to approve several thousand more. The only way to save this city is to build, and build quickly. A community that the working classes can't afford to live in is no community at all.

My only but important question:

Isn't this the area that has a TCE plume and will these units be required to have TCE vapor intrusion technology to have a residential unit?

WOW here we go again, placing either offices or homes in a DIRTY environmental zone.

The important thing for us to do is make sure anyone considering buying or renting form this area KNOWS the public air is contaminated with TCE.

LET MAKE SURE NO ONE WILL BUY INTO THIS PROJECTS UNITS THUS MAKING THE PROJECT VANISH.

Looks like such a small parcel of land for such a large number of living quarters. Whats up with all that empty green area along side that land? Where are the outside spaces Console had a meeting while no one else was able to attend was the disturbing news I read .... what else was passed that night?