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I hope they also invest in roads and mass transit. A lot of residents in those 10K new homes will be working outside of North Bayshore. Heck, even if one is working at Google, it could be at any other myriad campuses across Sunnyvale / San Jose / Mt View. There would also be kids, who need to be transported to schools.

Without roads and transit improvements, North Bayshore can easily turn into a nightmare.



Building roads/auto-dependence will exacerbate said nightmare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

It's time for a serious change to building around transit, walking, and biking.


The peninsula isn't really walkable.


For it to become walkable, we would have to build buildings close together.


Agreed, but

>There would also be kids, who need to be transported to schools.

We should be building neighborhoods such that kids can walk to school. Even my single-family-home dominated 2.5 square mile "village" could manage that.


Yeah, 10k homes is more than enough to support a school of it's own. They shouldn't need to be bused anywhere until middle or high school.


10k apartments (20-30k residents?) is plenty enough for a high school too


  A lot of residents in those 10K new homes will be working outside of North Bayshore.
Yes. And they will all be jamming already-gridlocked Shoreline Blvd. and Amphitheatre Parkway, since US 101 separates them from the rest of civilization.




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