Thomas Morgan

I am concerned that simply injecting more money into the system will continue to drive prices up rather than lower them. Cutting government fees alone won’t solve the problem other market participants will quickly absorb the savings, keeping prices high. Given the significant disparities …

Free bus rides could lead to more crowded buses which slows them down, which drive people to other forms of transit. What about the driver's of there are no fares increases where do salary increases come from. The problem with free it works for a while until no one want to do or produce t…

Unfortunately this is funded by debt which at current rates roughly triples the cost. So we are really asking the public for $45M for a $15M facility. And your $360M figure is really $1.1B. And then we ask the question why communities go underserved, When you are paying triple the cost th…

The agency should also target employer provided transit placing fees on those. Google and Meta can clearly pay more than the transit agencies, for a limited number of drivers. These riders could be Caltrain and SamTrans rider, but are not since they use employer provided buses. The buses …

Why not demand more affordable units at Hillsdale Mall. We are short units. Any tenant protections will just be abused and further increase. The State has effectively made evictions a hand slap since you need to have the a

Exact case number to look up. There should be no protections…

It would be great if there were similar distraction pieces on State and Local government. Who are doing many horrible things, but use national issues to distract the harm they are doing.

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I am fine with hours of operations for service providers, but as a property owner do not think theses should apply if the property owner maintains the yard themselves.

This is yet another up zoning effort, but where is the actual housing production. Zoning is beginning to feel a lot like a college or advanced degree in that it is the opportunity but not the guarantee of a better outcome. There has been enough focus on zoning time to focus on financing, …

According to Ray Dalio we we are growing the national debt around 5 trillion a year 3 trillion worth of interest and 2 trillion for expenses in excess of tax receipts. Clearly there is a spending problem and the current trajectory. It is incumbent upon everyone to give up something to avo…