Seventy-four more units, 62 more, 166 more, 80 more, 23 more units going up in San Mateo. Stop, get up from your desks and drive through our once-fine, people-friendly city and drive down Third, Fourth or Fifth avenues at 5 or 6 p.m. Stop on the Third Avenue freeway overpass, look south over the Bayshore parking lot to the traffic jam on State Route 92 crossing over Highway 101, drive along El Camino Real or 25th Avenue to Delaware Street. Try taking Hillsdale Boulevard to Norfolk Street.
Maybe you will realize that even though one development alone will not hurt, the sum of the development is suffocating us. Our streets can’t handle it, our sewage system, already failing, can’t handle it (we are already looking for a place to store millions of gallons of sewage). More than 300 homes add up to 450 more cars plus a lot more sewage and plenty of water. Start thinking outside the box. It’s nice to help everyone live in San Mateo, but the new developments are being filled with more outsiders and the low-income locals still have nowhere to live around here.
When you are making two to three hundred thousand a year, the $600,000 condos are reasonable and qualify as low-cost, but try it on $15 per hour.
(The number of units are just examples to make my point. The real numbers are much higher).
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