Chris Clark

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Mountain View City Council · City Council on 2026-03-10 5:30 PM - REGULAR MEETING - Mar 10, 2026 · 10 Mar 2026 meeting

As I think many of you know, I have a particular frustration with the housing typology and the townhouse scale development.

And I think we've seen it in other contexts, but here it's pretty stark.

This is 10 acres of land.

We don't often have projects of this magnitude.

the previous project had more than twice as many units on less than like a third of this property, right?

We could have dedicated six acres of this property for a park.

And then at the far back end, right, had a project that looked more like the previous project with commercial square footage, with even more BMR units.

That's not what is before us today, but I'm frustrated by the opportunity cost of this particular housing typology of this particular project.

And I wish we had a regulatory framework or discretion or something that would allow us to encourage or require projects to progress.

meet the needs of the future residents of this community and also the residents who are very close by in existing neighborhoods who are asking for parks and open space and commercial amenities, city services.

They're not going to get that here.

They're just going to get 10 acres of row houses.

And I think that's too bad.

I'm also sort of less of a concern.

I understand

the rationale, but learning about, this is a lot of waivers.

I think Council Member Showalter had mentioned that in the previous item.

And some of these are non-trivial.

I would love to think about the implications of seeing a project like this and how it might

inspire us to make revisions to precise plans, to the standard zoning districts, to make sure that when we think about things like the street network, that we're not just subject to a waiver, right?

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