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Year in Review: Weathering changes, Mountain View pushes ahead with housing growth, school agreements and novel technologies

Original post made on Jan 3, 2024

The year started with an onslaught of unexpected challenges, from extreme weather conditions to a housing plan that was not on track to win state approval, ending in some difficult negotiations with a local school district.

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Posted by J
a resident of North Whisman
on Jan 3, 2024 at 11:26 pm

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Moffett Field isn't in Mountain View. It is in Santa Clara County. It only exists because Sunnyvale purchased the land back in 1930 then sold it to the Navy for $1 so they would base dirigibles there.


Posted by LongResident
a resident of another community
on Jan 5, 2024 at 2:39 pm

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That is an interesting point that Moffett Field is unincorporated. The Navy turned that property over to NASA which has developed offices and universities along with Google as tenants. Significant housing growth is planned there. It lies within Mountain View Los Altos HIgh school and Mountain View Whisman School districts. For that housing absolutely no tax revenue will flow to either district.

That's kind of the point of the state wide housing push for both more housing and more tax exempt affordable housing. All districts throughout the state have to contend with the costs of educating residents of the new housing. At the same time though housing units are producing many fewer students than they once would have..... something like 35% fewer students per unit.

It's worth noting that more of the student growth is expected to come from the below market rate units. Google and developers recently switched things around to where there are two large all affordable projects of housing being built up there. Neither of theose projects will produce any revenue in the way of property taxes. Something like 25% of new houses being built in the state will be exempt from paying property taxes......


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