<story><title>Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google&apos;s North Bayshore project (2017)</title><url>https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/12/13/mountain-view-google-north-bayshore-approval.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>salimmadjd</author><text>(Dec 13, 2017) -&lt;p&gt;This is a great start. But I think we really need more like 100,000 new units built. Just to help reverse some of the astronomical housing prices.&lt;p&gt;I have no idea how a teacher would be able to live in SV and plan to have a family and everything else. At this rate, the housing costs are unsustainable. We wont be able to have a functioning city with all the needed staffing like teachers, nurses, sellers, etc.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m rather disappointed by lack of vision from SV and SV companies in this regard.&lt;p&gt;Apple has enough money that they could buy a huge block of land across the hills in Santa Cruz county. Build a large housing community of 10,000+ and hire the boring company to dig tunnel connecting that community to their new campus. Probably using autonomous electric shuttles.&lt;p&gt;That kind of housing project probably lessens the salary demands and I would imagine the project could not only pay for itself in 5-10 years, but it could also help increase Apple&amp;#x27;s retention rate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epistasis</author><text>Unfortunately Scotts Valley and Santa Cruz have anti-housing factions similar to everywhere else in the Bay Area, and the pro-housing faction is in earlier stages of organization than in the Bay Area.  Scotts Valley City Council actually had a member say in open meeting that they don&amp;#x27;t want &amp;quot;those type of people&amp;quot; living there, in reference to renters and presumably others without the means to buy a home. Santa Cruz is similarly non-inclusive, and both are extremely homogenous communities that tend to scare away the typical racial diversity seen in a tech company. Many people of color in tech I&amp;#x27;ve met say they simply don&amp;#x27;t feel welcome here like they do in the Bay Area.&lt;p&gt;Santa Cruz also has a green belt. But instead of encouraging density and all the environmental benefits of density, the aging political crew that enacted it now prefer sprawl, since they have their single family single story homes that continue to appreciate at astronomical rates. (At least until the homes are bought as tear-downs and replaced with single-family two story homes that extend to all corners of the property to maximize square footage.)&lt;p&gt;But if anybody can change attitudes, it&amp;#x27;s probably Apple or Google.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google&apos;s North Bayshore project (2017)</title><url>https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/12/13/mountain-view-google-north-bayshore-approval.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>salimmadjd</author><text>(Dec 13, 2017) -&lt;p&gt;This is a great start. But I think we really need more like 100,000 new units built. Just to help reverse some of the astronomical housing prices.&lt;p&gt;I have no idea how a teacher would be able to live in SV and plan to have a family and everything else. At this rate, the housing costs are unsustainable. We wont be able to have a functioning city with all the needed staffing like teachers, nurses, sellers, etc.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m rather disappointed by lack of vision from SV and SV companies in this regard.&lt;p&gt;Apple has enough money that they could buy a huge block of land across the hills in Santa Cruz county. Build a large housing community of 10,000+ and hire the boring company to dig tunnel connecting that community to their new campus. Probably using autonomous electric shuttles.&lt;p&gt;That kind of housing project probably lessens the salary demands and I would imagine the project could not only pay for itself in 5-10 years, but it could also help increase Apple&amp;#x27;s retention rate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moonman272</author><text>It’s not the industries issue, it’s the NIMBYism that has been at the heart of the Bay Area for decades, especially the peninsula.</text></comment>