Love the on-site bike parking and showers. You can store hundreds of bikes in the same space that would be a parking lot for only a few cars, and people who bike get some exercise and free up space on the road for people who need to use a car, so it's win-win.

This sounds like a reasonable tradeoff of paying the city to develop the parking, as long as it happens BEFORE the construction starts on this and the existing parking is removed. There have been several Fridays where I couldn't find parking and gave up and left. Wish the city shuttle bus worked past 6pm.

On a different aspect, this is a 5 story building. That is taller than pretty much every tree around. I bring this up because if you are out at, say Rancho San Antonio and look across our city, it is lush and green with many mature trees taller than the buildings hiding them completely. It's a big part of what keeps this area beautiful. But, those few taller buildings stick up past the trees and leave a big bare patch. I hope our planners keep these all in one small geographic area, preferably near others that already exist and have already fractured the green-space.

What "city park" is it next to? It looks to me like it's next to a parking lot, but surely we haven't begun referring to those as parks?

I don't know what it cost to build 3 stories of underground parking but I'm going to risk a wild guess, more than $8M.

Developers love Mtn View. And Mtn View loves them, evidently.

Don't know what type of retail there will be but it could be questionable to transport purchases by bike. Any thoughts about that in the planning?