JR

Good question! Me thinks it has something to do with ROI requirements of the City/County versus what tech is willing to invest in affordable housing.

They will not choose to live somewhere else if this is where the jobs continue to be created. Meanwhile the people staffing community backbone jobs like police, fire, teachers are forced to commute 2 hours in. It's not a sustainable model to keep adding high paying jobs without adding comm…

@ Jeff Regan - appreciate your concern about character, but that's the thinking that created a city where no teacher can afford to live. Not every household needs a 2,000sf single family detached home. My wife and I would love to be able to afford an 800-1,000sf townhouse in FC. And then …

Hmmm, so this group resist density claims to support affordable housing on the coast but opposes this project. If the concerns really are a sewer and traffic, why not say - great, let's build this and upgrade the sewer and conditions on the hwy?"

Wow, Genentech is opposing housing proposed by someone else, on that company's own land, and on their own dime. Even though they are already the reason traffic is so bad here? The fees we're charging them to build their research space must be far, far, far too low if this sort of publicity…

You forget Hill and Mullin are elected by and to represent tens of thousands of people, many of whom would line up to live there in new housing, some affordable, next to a Caltrain stop, Muni and loads of jobs on your own waterfront and SSF's. But next to none of those people will show up t…