California’s next bold step on climate should be building near transit
A better rule than SB827 would be a rule for every office worker employed in the city, there must be an equivalent housing unit provided by that same city such that the jobs per resident ratio is maintained.<p>If Menlo Park wants to allow Facebook to build an office complex to support 2,000 more Facebook employees than it needs to create 2,000 more residential options for those employees.  Otherwise Redwood City and East Palo Alto have to shoulder the burden of housing, education and other services for those new residents without the benefit of the tax basis.<p>Or if San Francisco wants to build 5 more Salesforce Towers, San Francisco should be required to present a plan to build 5 neighboring residential towers to support those office towers.  Or pass on the opportunity and encourage Salesforce to take a look at Oakland&#x2F;San Jose&#x2F;Sacramento&#x2F;Fresno.<p>Let&#x27;s put it this way, if Wiener really had concerned about housing, then the really good solution would be to let Brisbane build the Salesforce&#x2F;Uber office towers in Brisbane and then for Wiener find a transit rich location within San Francisco for the housing development to support those office towers.  From an outsider perspective, it just seems like SF is perfectly happy to scoop up the office&#x2F;commercial rent tax revenue and let Brisbane do the heavy lifting of housing those office workers [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sf.curbed.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;1&#x2F;16&#x2F;16897174&#x2F;brisbane-city-council-silicon-valley-land" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sf.curbed.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;1&#x2F;16&#x2F;16897174&#x2F;brisbane-city-counc...</a>