Mike Dunham

A lot of cities allow bonus floor area ratio and height for multi-family buildings. It would be a reasonable policy to allow a duplex to be a little bit larger than a single-family home on the same lot, so the situation you're describing wouldn't happen. But if duplexes were allowed every…

"San Mateo’s single-family zoning is steeped in racist redlining policy as outlined in a recent New York Times opinion piece" does not equal "referring to San Mateans who may disagree with you as racist redliners."

It's not racist to live in a single-family home. But it's essential …

This was a beautiful piece. Thank you for sharing, Mike!

The title of the column is "Is the movement being co-opted?" and you approvingly cite two Black Trump supporters as part of your evidence. The "point" of the polling data is to show that Black Trump supporters are a tiny fraction of Black Americans, and the fact that you cite them instead…

This column contains a bizarre set of cherry-picked examples of Black Americans who support President Trump, as if their existence somehow proves that the Black Lives Matter movement is some unrepresentative farce. Do these individuals exist and support the President? Sure. Do they repres…

Gap Inc. is actually going through very serious financial trouble (more than the typical clothing retail chain, it seems) and they've actually stopped paying rents on their store spaces nationwide (https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/04/23/gap-inc-has-stopped-paying-rent-and-l…

tbeat, this is a great comment, but not many people read far enough to see things like this. I encourage you to tweak this and submit it as a letter to the editor so more people will see it, especially those who might be inclined to sympathize with Mr. Grocott: https://www.smdailyjournal.…

"San Mateo has never had an issue with race" <-- Says the guy with an image of the Knights Templar as his profile logo

It's not for white people to say whether or not a city has a problem with race, since we aren't the victims of these problems. We should be listening to our blac…

For anyone else who happens to be visiting these comments, the fact that someone like Dirk here -- who benefited from the GI Bill! -- also doesn't see how the system is structurally biased, is the perfect evidence for why our schools need to embrace equity and teaching anti-racism.

Brownrigg's suggestion is in line with best practices being proposed nationwide. Why does someone with a gun need to show up to make a police report for your insurance company? In Europe, virtually all police officers don't carry guns, for instance.

Sadly, we have a disturbingly hig…