When Mr. Stone says “we really don’t have a choice,” he’s including _you_, citizens of Mountain View and Palo Alto. You have given away control of the future of your own towns because of the people you sent to Sacramento in 2018, 2020, and 2022. Enjoy your increased density—with its negative impacts on traffic, overcrowding, and unfunded pressure on your schools. When those effects arrive, you’ll hate it, blame everyone but yourselves, move elsewhere, but keep on voting the same way while expecting a different result. Meanwhile, the developers will have gotten richer, paid off their political allies, and laid their plans to do it all over again.

Bob is right

Building homes will cause pressure to reopen schools that closed years ago because of falling enrollment. Oh, the tragedy. And more people will be able to get to work without sitting in traffic for over an hour from Livermore. How awful.

Both sides of San Antonio are Palo Alto for most of the street north of Central.