Bill Cranston

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Mountain View Environmental Planning Commission · Environmental Planning Commission on 2026-04-15 7:00 PM - Apr 15, 2026 · 15 Apr 2026 meeting

I like the idea of a TDM program.

I don't like the program to something, this is actually regressive.

It's actually increasing the cost to a developer on a large project on a residential side,

to the point where it's actually contrary to what we're trying to do and everything else in the zoning and in the housing element.

And so I don't know what the answer is, but it's this going from 20 to 30 to 40 to 50%, to me says we're not gonna get this at all on the projects where we probably need it the most, quite frankly.

If you've got a large number of people there, then we want as many of these things as we possibly can.

And so it feels like there's a disconnect in my mind between the goal of making housing more affordable and getting people out there on the street.

And I just, it doesn't, I couldn't reconcile that as I looked through this.

The relative cost that you listed,

doesn't scale based on the size of the project.

So I think you're underestimating particularly the cost on larger projects.

So that's my, in general, I like the toolkit idea, giving people flexibility on it, the idea that developers could change what they were using in the future, I kinda like.

But we have another goal altogether in the city, which is adding housing, and it should not be something at the expense

of getting transit at the same time.

So I think I'd ask that staff look at that and say, okay, how do you reconcile lowering costs for housing with increasing costs on this program?

That's my worry in what I read.

I have similar thoughts to other commissioners about the structuring with the, having the targets in the ordinance and the mechanisms or the strategies in the evergreen document.

thing that I just noticed is that on the if you have 999 ADT then you have to have a 30% reduction so that's about 300 so that's about 699 but if you have a thousand ADT you have to have a 40% reduction so that's 600 so it like it doesn't it doesn't as you increase the ADT you don't

linearly increase the target.

So you're kind of incentivized.

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