What is wrong with our San Mateo City Council? Whose interests are they looking out for — big out of town environmentalists/construction/union/real estate developers or our fair resident San Mateans? One would have to be deaf and blind to not know that the powers-that-be (AKA California’s High Speed Rail Authority) wants to ram 250 mph trains through the Peninsula, splitting San Mateo in half and taking residents’ property. This paper reported that the Burlingame City Council has serious objections to HSRA bringing 250 MPH trains through Burlingame, splitting their city in half, taking heritage trees and Burlingame residents’ property through eminent domain ("City wants voice on high-speed rail” in the Feb. 9 edition of the Daily Journal). Regarding San Mateo, they stated "I’m not convinced San Mateo’s city manager cares about this” and regarding common interests with San Mateo they stated, "we should be bearhugging San Mateo.” So, who is our City Council serving, and why don’t they "care about this?”
Perhaps it is because certain members of our council are either architects doing work on many of these out-of-control "High-Density Transit Oriented Developments (TOD)” they approve to big developers (think of the monstrosity being built at the old Goodyear store on El Camino Real, Bay Meadows Phase II) or certain councilmembers are tied to construction companies/labor/developers standing to profit from TODs, and they want the HSRA money. Regardless, call councilmembers John Lee/Jack Matthews/Brandt Grotte/David Lim/Robert Ross at 522-7049 to demand they contact Burlingame today and also join Menlo Park’s lawsuit against HSRA’s illegal Peninsula corridor plan.
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