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

While I hear my colleagues' comments, I think just the different product types that we're able to produce in Mountain View is what I am encouraged by because we can show density, we can show a variety of units, we can, with row homes at different affordability levels, for ownership.

I think as a portfolio, we should all be able

have some positive feelings about that because we're doing our part, I think, to meet the very complex needs of our community.

And so that's why I'll be supporting the project.

And I think one of the things that was very illuminating for me is I think some of us attended the Joint Venture Silicon Valley.

They do their kind of annual State of the Valley.

And they reported that in Silicon Valley, the average median home price is over 1.9 million with 20% down at 396,000.

So your monthly payment, including tax and insurance is $11,900.

Then they put forward a slide that said childcare was about 2,800 a month and preschool was about 2,500 a month.

Yeah, well, it says tax and insurance here, right?

It didn't have an asterisk with HOA, so we don't know what the HOA on that is.

But just all to say, just thinking about all of that, you have someone who's at market,

probably contributing $20,000 or more towards being able to have their children in some sort of preschool or daycare, plus their mortgage, and that's not even the property tax.

And so I think that you have to pay twice a year.

So I just think,

I hear what my colleagues are saying but that's the reality of home ownership right now in our valley and so anything we can do to create more opportunities for our residents to have some sort of entry into home ownership is encouraging to me and I just really want to

I believe the applicant did it.

Just want to really thank staff.

It was such a collaborative process to come forward with this kind of creative solution.

And I know that at the end of the last year, the council talked about our middle income housing and really appreciate that here we are

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