* Silicon valley elites - let's spend billions in building a transit friendly urbanist utopia.
* Also Silicon valley elites - let's try our darndest to ruin the pre-existing transit friendly urbanist utopia by putting the worst politicians in power.
* Also Silicon valley elites - How dare you try to build a transit friendly urbanist utopia anywhere near where I live.
I'm jaded. Californians have done everything in their power to ruin every genuine attempt at dense-urbanism and transit friendly development.
Marc Andreessen (associated [1] with this project) had a great mask off moment [2] last year.
> Subject line: IMMENSELY AGAINST multifamily development!
> I am writing this letter to communicate our IMMENSE objection to the creation of multifamily overlay zones in Atherton … Please IMMEDIATELY REMOVE all multifamily overlay zoning projects from the Housing Element which will be submitted to the state in July. They will MASSIVELY decrease our home values, the quality of life of ourselves and our neighbors and IMMENSELY increase the noise pollution and traffic.
Thanks for supporting dense urbanism 100s of miles away from you Marc.
When was any transit in California ever utopian? There’s an entirely consistent position that holds urbanism to be a good thing, but views California’s government-run systems as incapable of achieving a functioning system.
California had some of the world's best street car networks before they were bulldozed over. [1] [2]
SF-proper's public transit & walkability is still utopian (by US standards). If only it wasn't destroyed by the most incompetent politics on crime and drug enforcement in the entire country (and maybe world?).
* Also Silicon valley elites - let's try our darndest to ruin the pre-existing transit friendly urbanist utopia by putting the worst politicians in power.
* Also Silicon valley elites - How dare you try to build a transit friendly urbanist utopia anywhere near where I live.
I'm jaded. Californians have done everything in their power to ruin every genuine attempt at dense-urbanism and transit friendly development.
Marc Andreessen (associated [1] with this project) had a great mask off moment [2] last year.
> Subject line: IMMENSELY AGAINST multifamily development!
> I am writing this letter to communicate our IMMENSE objection to the creation of multifamily overlay zones in Atherton … Please IMMEDIATELY REMOVE all multifamily overlay zoning projects from the Housing Element which will be submitted to the state in July. They will MASSIVELY decrease our home values, the quality of life of ourselves and our neighbors and IMMENSELY increase the noise pollution and traffic.
Thanks for supporting dense urbanism 100s of miles away from you Marc.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/business/land-purchases-s...
[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andre...
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