Editor,

According to the state of California and to the San Mateo City Council, we need to build more housing. Density bonuses are granted to developers for transit-oriented projects.

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BenToy
BenToy

IMHO…too many…most are still living in the past…AKA 20th Century and that century was based on automotive everything.

Meaning to do most anything…you needed to drive to do it, get it, etc.

But…we are 21 years (more than a decade) into the next century…the 21st Century and the young live life very differently than those stuck in the Nixon Era

Take recently ‘barely’ passed Measure Y…impediments to limit the growth of our designated high density areas.

Human society is based on growth and change. Take any societal measure and they are all based on growth/change…GDP, Inflation, etc…or ‘stagnation’ if it isn’t changing/growing.

Walkability score for a bedroom anyone? Those who live in the past either wont’t are or do not understand what that represents…as they wouldn’t walk to public transit, or to shop, or restaurant, or whatever and prefer to drive….

To be fair, our current societal setup is based on over a century of ordinances that are mostly based on an LOS metric…almost a chicken or egg situation, but until we move out of an LOS based Planning/Public-Works ordinances, will we move forward

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