If there was a connector line from there to say Sunnyvale Caltrain, the downtown would be able to handle more density.
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Almost all other Bay Area cities have similar requirements, as far as I'm aware. (And they're so painfully misconceived.)
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Mountain View is experimenting with lowering theirs. But the main objection in Cupertino is often that there's no Caltrain, VTA or BART.
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Apple is also an $800B co and if they were able to pressure the city to let them build a $5B donut, they could have pressured them to do
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Other things like plan shared transit better. It's a two-way negotiation and this one turned out poorly from a systems perspective (but
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Then again, Jobs always liked having closed, wholly controlled systems that didn't play with others).
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Stripe isn't an $800B co, but our experience has been that proposing even slightest deviation to code is miserable, soul-sapping experience.
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It's not impossible. Menlo Park is planning 6K units, collaborating on build 1.5K w FB, dropped discretionary review for 100% affordable.
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Mtn View is exploring 10K units by Google HQ with minimal auto transit. This has all changed enormously within the last 4 years.
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Cupertino (and to some extent PA, Los Gatos) are the last holdouts with major HQs and large #s of jobs.
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There is always Rochester?
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Los Gatos for sure. North 40 was only hope for a real dent. Now LG is getting sued.
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