Shame to lose a chance at getting another mass transit cross across the Bay.https://twitter.com/alevin/status/1264609565355597824 …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
Menlo Park council was thinking you small when they pushed to downsize the Willow Village project. Rather than make it smaller and complain about lack of housing, they could have taken a regional approach.
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Replying to @regulatorynerd @kimmaicutler
Imagine if they said “you can make it as big as you want, but tie it to housing and transit.” Facebook could have partnered with East Bay cities and SamTrans to leverage the bridge project.
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Replying to @regulatorynerd @kimmaicutler
I’m also disappointed with the Bay Area’s inability to work together as a region. The Minnesota twin cities are had a great regional approach to these types of issues, creating a regional solution to growth and transit.
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Replying to @regulatorynerd @kimmaicutler
For them, it started with sewer lines. One regional planner once told me — you can always put another car on the road, but you can only put so much shit into the sewer before it stops working.
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Replying to @regulatorynerd @kimmaicutler
Housing, and the prop-13 tax revenue that continues to weaken with inflation, feel like they should be the “only so much shit” moment for peninsula city councils. But prop 13 acts like giant septic tanks for the landed gentry that was able to buy houses in the 70s, 80s and 90s.
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Basically. They complain about tech but the *only* reason they can pay tax rates from the 1970s and have millions in home equity is because tech subsidizes them. That’s the NorCal system.
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