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UC Berkeley plans to build $2 billion research center at NASA’s Moffett Field

Original post made on Oct 17, 2023

As part of a joint venture with the University of California at Berkeley and real estate developer SKS Partners, NASA is preparing to launch a $2 billion research center at Moffett Field, according to an announcement Monday.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, October 16, 2023, 10:50 PM

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Posted by Steven Nelson
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Oct 17, 2023 at 5:00 pm

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and so now, good old UC Berkeley is going to partner to build 1)office + R and D, 2) "market rate" housing, ...
And no build of community public school facilities, or operations revenue?
FEDERAL LAND is really hard to extract school funding from. It might be possible by ? general property tax on the private buildings (not the land), parcel tax PSF on the private buildings, school (building) bonds against the value of the private buildings.
- check me - but I think private leases of public land, and private building on public land Do Not Escape the property tax. Something about 'private interest'.


Posted by sarahdox
a resident of Monta Loma
on Oct 17, 2023 at 5:49 pm

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Hope this brings good jobs. Still this puts the burden on the City of Mountain View to address housing, transportation, and public services, as all involved on the new campus will not be living in a closed bubble!


Posted by SRB
a resident of St. Francis Acres
on Oct 17, 2023 at 6:01 pm

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Sounds like a terrific research partnership, alas pushing all the impacts (housing, emissions, transportation and public services (inc.school)...) onto Mountain View.

If the Berkeley Space Center is not providing any remediation .... can we petition the US Post Office to change their address to SunnyVale? :)


Posted by Ray
a resident of Monta Loma
on Oct 18, 2023 at 6:19 am

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Could you print a map, in any follow up articles? Where do they plan to put it in the Moffett area?


Posted by njwyenth
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Oct 18, 2023 at 11:53 am

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How come there is nothing from MV City Council on this?


Posted by Seth Neumann
a resident of Waverly Park
on Oct 18, 2023 at 9:34 pm

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well just what we DON'T need: more high paying jobs, bringing in more people with too much money bidding up housing prices, putting demands on the schools and water supply. Can't they do this in Modesto or say Huntsville, AL?


Posted by Steven Nelson
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Oct 19, 2023 at 12:17 pm

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I'd rather have it here, with the population and Silicon Valley gestalt, than in the Reactionary State of AL. The public impacts can be mitigated. There were federal impact compensations to the Whisman School District when naval-air families at Moffett Naval Air Field sent their kids to that (old) district. The giant GOLF COURSE! Ah, is that the best use of that green space? Probably not if 'a fuller community' is out there.
Swap Tees 4 Trees!


Posted by Steven Nelson
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Oct 23, 2023 at 9:51 am

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So SORRY! I realized I made a very major mistake in my first posting. There is No Way the school districts can tax ANY University of California 'education' linked buildings. EXEMPT as an education institution! Just like Stanford University escapes regular Santa Clara County or Palo Alto regular taxation.

Too bad, a comming century of legal/fiscal fighting about special Mitigation measures, and almost always delays in the public entities getting $,$$$,$$$ revenue that they IMO rightly deserve.


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