Mountain View City Council to protect homeowners!!!
Mountain View Voice: City may limit housing growth (February 9, 2007)
After years of rapid development in Mountain View, a newly formed City Council may halt housing development until a comprehensive update is made to the city’s 15-year-old general plan.
Finally! The City Council is taking the right action and looking at reducing the growth of housing in Mountain View. Good work! Right now, we really need to do something to make sure property values don’t erode any further. If we don’t have 10-15% annual appreciation, the terrorists have won.
Let me propose a plan: Levy a tax on all renters. As we all know, renters are selfish – they don’t buy real estate, and therefore they are bad.
This will help close the gap 2x price gap between renting and buying – so that people who don’t want to commute 2 hours a day will have no choice but to buy. And that’s good because it helps Mountain View residents retire.
Finally, where would the Selfish Renters Tax go? Well, it would go to people who have owned property for more than 5 years. After all, they deserve it – they lived here and by doing so, contributed to the vibrancy and specialness of Mountain View. It would also go to local employers to help them move out of the city. Like this resident said in August: Mountain View has too many jobs.
What do you think?
February 9th, 2007 at 11:23 am
I hope you’re tongue is planted firmly in your cheek
February 9th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Hi,
I just came across your clog – brilliant !!
Totally off the topic -
I cant stop myself from giggling, your comments about someo fthe Mt View home are so aptly funny.
Having seen the Mt View sections, what to you think about the new Sierra Greens home http://www.sierragreens.com?
February 9th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Welcome to socialism.
Keep ‘em coming California. And so much for the concept of a free market. I guess that only applies to people who bought homes before Prop 13 was enacted.
February 10th, 2007 at 8:15 am
Just to show you how BAD and EVIL renters and poor people are, some information on the 291 Evandale Ave project:
http://www.mv-voice.com/story.php?story_id=2163
” The 64-unit apartment complex at 291 Evandale Ave. houses about 250 people who pay rents of $800 to $900 a month. But a development proposal — which will soon go before the city council — would replace this affordable housing with a 144-unit structure, featuring homes that are expected to sell for $500,000 each.
“A number of families came,” said council member Laura Macias about the Sept. 20 planning commission meeting. “Many had not been contacted in their first language.”
Macias said she was concerned about turning affordable rentals into what could be called “affordable ownership” housing.”
*snip*
“Just adding bright new housing doesn’t really fix things,” Macias said. “These people have invested in our city, many work here. Just because they aren’t making $100,000 a year doesn’t mean we should dispose of them so easily.”
I don’t know what gives them that idea- these people bring disease like TB and rickets to our Fair City. We need to cart them out as fast as possible.
And you know what? Mountain View HAS A PLAN TO DO JUST THAT! Yes! They could make all these people wear big emblems on the front of their clothing, you know, like a yellow star or something, but they are going to be exporting all the tired, poor, huddled masses, yearning to breathe the aroma of a newly built Starbucks.
If you delve into the meeting minutes for the upcoming City Council meeting of 13 February on the Mountain View city website, you’ll see something called “Tenant Relocation Assistance” which will outline how they can get rid of these icky people that stand in the way of 291 Evandale and “future redevelopment projects”. Sort of like a Wansee Confrence for Silicon Valley, ya know?
October 4th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Teehee…poopy. ;D