Pat Showalter

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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

I do think this is basically a good project, but it isn't the best use of land.

And really, in a sense, if we could have had a project with some

nice, large, stacked flats, we could have had a lot more open space, but that's not what's before us, and everything is in compliance with the rules, even though there's lots of waivers.

I haven't kept track of how many waivers people typically get, but 20 seemed like a lot to me.

But then when I went through the list of them, some of them were very minor and others of them weren't minor.

They were important.

But that said, I really think the pedestrian circulation around row houses is very important.

I grew up in row houses and played as a child in row houses.

We played in the alley, which I don't think in modern row houses works too well because we had backyards behind our row houses before you got to the alley.

And there was sort of this unwritten rule that nobody was allowed to drive in the alleyways.

in the alley, you parked on the front of the street and the only person, anyway, so that's gonna be very different.

But I do think that the pedestrian connectivity is vital and I'm really glad to see that.

Also getting rid of the artificial turf and putting in real grass, that's very, very important.

And I would really ask you to work with the staff to see how many of the trees along the front edge you could save

I mean, as you've said, there's a lot of work left here.

And if that's something you could do, each and every tree that you're able to save would be appreciated by our community.

So with that, I'd like to say I appreciate this, and I plan to vote for it.

Yeah, many of us went to the State of the Valley, and I would just urge everybody to take a serious look at the Silicon Valley Index.

It is just chocked full of information, and you can look at it online, or you can buy a copy from Amazon.

And I also attended a BCDC meeting, and we are working on more of protecting

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