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"I'm kinda a Zillow-watcher, because new property taxes help our school district." "And they've gone up?" (Giggles) "Yes, they've gone up."
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Talk about how great the Cupertino schools are and how "mitigation fees" will help them deal with things. When every district manages their own public schools and their own housing regulations, exclusionary suburbs maintain invisible barriers to opportunity.pic.twitter.com/BBtIQU2EWy
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Discussion about how people report that they want to leave, but population doesn't go down. That's what happens when you attract people with jobs and amenities and then make them miserable with artificially high housing costs.
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"..So many of us moved here for the excellent public schools, and frankly many of us are homeowners..." Councilmember makes (somewhat circuitous) point that astronomical housing costs make it hard for teachers and workers to live in the city, reducing everyone's quality of life.
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So many people are here to fight for their piece of the community benefits. But it feeds a nasty cycle that housing is a negative that needs to be "offset." This kind of process is not going to get us the housing we need.
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"I hope that we're at the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning..." -
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Talks about the cost of develoment weighed against the cost of NOT developing, that cost of displacement, the cost of people commuting in from Manteca.
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City Councilmember who isn't proposing upzoning Cupertino for housing asks folks to comment on jobs/housing balance of the project. Seems not to recognize his direct oversight of the current disaster is maybe a factor...
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"We're pretty balanced now." Cupertino has an average home value of more than $2.2 Million.pic.twitter.com/EDYcfDucel
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Replying to @yimbyaction @TProphet
Is this still going? Where? I might walk over...
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