Rate	Price	Duration
1 Year	$99.00	for 365 days
1 Month	$20.00	for 30 days
1 Week	$8.25	for 7 days

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1 Year	$60.00	for 365 days
1 Month	$12.00	for 30 days
1 Week	$5.00	for 7 days

Bye bye Fish Market, hello townhomes?

Apr 22, 2021
Apr 22, 2021 Updated Apr 13, 2025
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Editor,

An application was submitted to demolish the Fish Market restaurant in San Mateo and build 74 three-story townhomes, but not caused by the pandemic. This is symptomatic of what is happening to San Mateo.

(2) comments

BenToy Apr 27, 2021 11:25am

There are other alternatives to this black or white thought.

That whole area can become a VMT & Form Based Code Planed area.

Instead of just a restaurant, or just bedrooms...it could become a high density housing area with the first floor restaurants/office/retail/etc and above more offices & bedrooms. Bedrooms from rentals to lux condos.

Terence Y Apr 22, 2021 8:43am

Well written, Mr. Isoardi. I agree with your conclusions. Unfortunately, developers have much more money than the average citizen and when they start spreading it around, more often than not, they’ll get their way. And unfortunately for the average citizen, the city and state are responsible for soaring pension payments and need income. Stack and pack housing provides a bigger opportunity for property taxes, and more importantly a method of tacking on additional fees to those property taxes. Is current urban planning colored by the need for income? For both the city and state and for politicians making these planning moves? I guess one bright side is that property values for single-family homes will greatly increase.

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