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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The demand for office space is so big in Silicon Valley these days that even rather aged, nondescript buildings are getting gleaming makeovers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re called old dogs,” says Brett McLarney of San Jose’s McLarney Construction. “We clean them up, make them look different and put them back on the marketplace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real estate industry is booming because of tech companies’ urgency to build now and build bigger amid the industry’s rapid expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers from all over the world are flocking to Silicon Valley, backed with money from Wall Street and international banks needed to build at a larger scale than ever before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a ‘build it and they will come’ sort of market. It’s not, ‘Well, we’ll have a building four years from now,’ ” said Phil Mahoney, executive vice president of Cornish & Carey realty in Santa Clara. “The nature of tech is four years from now may as well be 40 years from now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10422950\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14128_photo.JPG-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10422950\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14128_photo.JPG-scr-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Phil Mahoney, executive vice president of Cornish & Carey in Santa Clara shows off the new grill at an old research and development building in North San Jose. It is one of many buildings being modified to make it marketable again.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14128_photo.JPG-scr-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14128_photo.JPG-scr-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14128_photo.JPG-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil Mahoney, executive vice president of Cornish & Carey in Santa Clara, shows off the new grill at an old research and development building in North San Jose. It is one of many buildings being modified to make it marketable again. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles-based Kilroy Realty is among the groups dominating the building scene. The company’s been operating here for four years, and already has an impressive resume of clients: LinkedIn, Box, Synopsys, Audience, Salesforce and Dropbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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A “big” building used to mean thousands of square feet, but today companies sometimes need millions of square feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a scale that almost always requires institutional money,” said John Sobrato, a longtime Silicon Valley developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sobrato.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sobrato’s family business\u003c/a> made billions developing Silicon Valley, including Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10422949\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14126_sobrato-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10422949\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14126_sobrato-scr-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Prominent local Silicon Valley developer John M. Sobrato standing in front of the Apple headquarters he built in Cupertino in 1992. \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14126_sobrato-scr-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14126_sobrato-scr-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14126_sobrato-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prominent local Silicon Valley developer John M. Sobrato standing in front of the Apple headquarters he built in Cupertino in 1992. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The business has changed dramatically, certainly in the 30 years I’ve been in it,” said Sobrato.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in his career, he says the Sobrato Organization’s competitors were other local firms. But now they’re competing with large institutions with access to Wall Street opportunity funds, or foreign pension funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The money and the decision-making rests with the financial partners who are based in New York or far away,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Local Contractors Also Left Out\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scale of today’s development projects requires so much money that building them is not worth the risk for some Silicon Valley general contractors. McLarney said firms need to have the insurance or bonding capacity to handle an expensive project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/189296785&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On any given project you have a potential of an error or making a mistake. And each of those things comes with a price tag. The larger the project the larger the price tag,” said McLarney. “If it goes bad it can close down the company, so we make strategic decisions that [some projects are] simply not worth pursing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the contractors who specialize in these giant projects tend to travel and work outside the geographic area where they’re based, said McLarney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Concern Over Community Impact\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some argue that this outside investment is causing a disconnect between the developers and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re based in the Middle East or Qatar, or you’re based in New York, the problems of San Jose don’t really mean a whole lot to you,” said Mahoney. “It’s whether or not that project’s doing well and I’m making money on it — and once I do, I’ll sell it to the next guy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valley Medical Center is Santa Clara County’s safety net hospital open to everyone. 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"content": "\u003cp>“Morris” is a stocky, friendly young man who works in the cafeteria of the Youth Uprising community center. I meet him there in East Oakland, a neighborhood that police say bears the brunt of the city’s robberies. Morris was recently robbed at gunpoint outside a check-cashing place. He didn’t want to use his real name for fear that speaking out would make him more of a target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody asked me, like, they see my watch, they was like, ‘What kind of watch is that?’ And then another guy came from around the corner, there they both just … ‘Give me everything’. Took my wallet, my watch, all the little stuff I had on me,” says Morris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it wasn’t the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know you feel like a sucker,” he shrugs, “stripped you for all [your] dignity, like, you don’t feel like a man no more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbery — it’s one of the quintessential crimes that we fear when we think of strangers. Overall, robberies in Oakland were down substantially over the past year — by almost a \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak050910.pdf\">third\u003c/a>. That’s after they peaked at 4,838 in 2013, or more than 13 a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That year also registered as the city’s worst for the crime since at least \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak050833.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1969\u003c/a>. Cops, criminologists and community leaders disagree about what is driving the ups and downs in the city’s crime rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gangs or Gentrification?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent says Oakland’s 50 or so gangs shifted the way they make money — from drugs to, in part, robberies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used to get significantly more drug hotline calls than we do now,” says Whent, “many more calls about street drug dealing. And that’s really reduced. And so what have those groups and gangs done? Well, we have seen the increase obviously in the street robberies and fraud crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whent says police had some success curbing those robberies in 2014. He points to Ceasefire, the city’s chief anti-violence strategy. Its purpose is to reduce homicides, which fell 10 percent last year. But Whent says the heavy focus on certain gang members is turning the robbery rate around, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth Uprising Director Olis Simmons is skeptical of Whent’s view that gangs were responsible for the increase in robbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big-time crime syndicates \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Drug-Kingpin-s-Sentencing-Ends-Bloody-Era-in-2946651.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">went away\u003c/a> 20 years ago,” says Simmons, “What we see is acts of desperation. People are robbing their neighbors, their community members, out of hunger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other Oakland community leaders say the surge in robberies was more like a canary in the coal mine. A sign that as Oakland enters its so-called renaissance, the economic gap is widening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While Oakland is realizing the dream of economic vitality — a renaissance right? — sadly, there is a concentration of people who are locked out,” says Simmons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she thinks for many years those people, largely in East and West Oakland, felt that as the city did better, their neighborhoods would also turn around; they’d get a job, maybe a store would open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The realization that it’s never going to happen for (them) is what’s new,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons says the best way for Oakland to fight crime is by helping the community. That means helping kids like Morris, who says he empathizes with the people who stole from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just be the lack of having, like, because if a kid got everything he needs, he don’t need to be in no gang, he don’t need to be out here stealing. Why?” asks Morris, “‘Cause he got his own. But somebody else that ain’t got nothing to take. … ‘Hey, What I’m gonna lose? Go to jail? I ain’t got nothing out here anyway.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A power relationship\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But none of that reasoning convinces UC Berkeley crime expert Franklin Zimring. The first thing to know about robbery, he says, is that it’s usually not about money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You go into a 7-Eleven store and you come out with $93. And for this you’re risking 10 years of your life in Pelican Bay,” says Zimring, a law professor at Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says robbery as a criminal career nets vastly less than minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Robbery is on a risk/reward basis literally the worst way of making a criminal living you can imagine,” he says. “So you have to think that there’s a mix of recreation and power and a playing out of envy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many cities face the pressures of gentrification and displacement, but not all of them can claim Oakland’s distinction of robbery capital of the U.S. for three consecutive years, according to the latest FBI \u003ca href=\"http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how does Zimring explain the uptick? High-status recreation, he says, or put more simply, a fad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when it comes to the drop, he says crediting Ceasefire might be wishful thinking. Zimring says catching even a few robbers could account for last year’s dip. Others who study crime, such as UCLA’s Mark Kleiman, agree, saying that nearly 5,000 robberies could easily be accomplished by just 100 people over the course of a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the statistics reveal just how hard it may be for Oakland to reduce crime overall. As robberies dropped last year, drug crimes rose once again, by about the same percentage.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“Morris” is a stocky, friendly young man who works in the cafeteria of the Youth Uprising community center. I meet him there in East Oakland, a neighborhood that police say bears the brunt of the city’s robberies. Morris was recently robbed at gunpoint outside a check-cashing place. He didn’t want to use his real name for fear that speaking out would make him more of a target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody asked me, like, they see my watch, they was like, ‘What kind of watch is that?’ And then another guy came from around the corner, there they both just … ‘Give me everything’. Took my wallet, my watch, all the little stuff I had on me,” says Morris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it wasn’t the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know you feel like a sucker,” he shrugs, “stripped you for all [your] dignity, like, you don’t feel like a man no more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbery — it’s one of the quintessential crimes that we fear when we think of strangers. Overall, robberies in Oakland were down substantially over the past year — by almost a \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak050910.pdf\">third\u003c/a>. That’s after they peaked at 4,838 in 2013, or more than 13 a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That year also registered as the city’s worst for the crime since at least \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak050833.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1969\u003c/a>. Cops, criminologists and community leaders disagree about what is driving the ups and downs in the city’s crime rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gangs or Gentrification?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent says Oakland’s 50 or so gangs shifted the way they make money — from drugs to, in part, robberies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used to get significantly more drug hotline calls than we do now,” says Whent, “many more calls about street drug dealing. And that’s really reduced. And so what have those groups and gangs done? Well, we have seen the increase obviously in the street robberies and fraud crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whent says police had some success curbing those robberies in 2014. He points to Ceasefire, the city’s chief anti-violence strategy. Its purpose is to reduce homicides, which fell 10 percent last year. But Whent says the heavy focus on certain gang members is turning the robbery rate around, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth Uprising Director Olis Simmons is skeptical of Whent’s view that gangs were responsible for the increase in robbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big-time crime syndicates \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Drug-Kingpin-s-Sentencing-Ends-Bloody-Era-in-2946651.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">went away\u003c/a> 20 years ago,” says Simmons, “What we see is acts of desperation. People are robbing their neighbors, their community members, out of hunger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other Oakland community leaders say the surge in robberies was more like a canary in the coal mine. A sign that as Oakland enters its so-called renaissance, the economic gap is widening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While Oakland is realizing the dream of economic vitality — a renaissance right? — sadly, there is a concentration of people who are locked out,” says Simmons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she thinks for many years those people, largely in East and West Oakland, felt that as the city did better, their neighborhoods would also turn around; they’d get a job, maybe a store would open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The realization that it’s never going to happen for (them) is what’s new,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons says the best way for Oakland to fight crime is by helping the community. That means helping kids like Morris, who says he empathizes with the people who stole from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just be the lack of having, like, because if a kid got everything he needs, he don’t need to be in no gang, he don’t need to be out here stealing. Why?” asks Morris, “‘Cause he got his own. But somebody else that ain’t got nothing to take. … ‘Hey, What I’m gonna lose? Go to jail? I ain’t got nothing out here anyway.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A power relationship\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But none of that reasoning convinces UC Berkeley crime expert Franklin Zimring. The first thing to know about robbery, he says, is that it’s usually not about money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You go into a 7-Eleven store and you come out with $93. And for this you’re risking 10 years of your life in Pelican Bay,” says Zimring, a law professor at Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says robbery as a criminal career nets vastly less than minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Robbery is on a risk/reward basis literally the worst way of making a criminal living you can imagine,” he says. “So you have to think that there’s a mix of recreation and power and a playing out of envy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many cities face the pressures of gentrification and displacement, but not all of them can claim Oakland’s distinction of robbery capital of the U.S. for three consecutive years, according to the latest FBI \u003ca href=\"http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how does Zimring explain the uptick? High-status recreation, he says, or put more simply, a fad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when it comes to the drop, he says crediting Ceasefire might be wishful thinking. Zimring says catching even a few robbers could account for last year’s dip. Others who study crime, such as UCLA’s Mark Kleiman, agree, saying that nearly 5,000 robberies could easily be accomplished by just 100 people over the course of a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the statistics reveal just how hard it may be for Oakland to reduce crime overall. As robberies dropped last year, drug crimes rose once again, by about the same percentage.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Redwood City has long been home to tech companies such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oracle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ea.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electronic Arts\u003c/a>, but until recently it wasn’t really considered part of Silicon Valley. That’s changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been to downtown Redwood City recently, there’s no escaping the construction. Construction cranes crowd the sky as office buildings and condo complexes rise up to meet tech company demand. As Big Tech grows its employment base, Redwood City is proving an attractive place to expand because it sits right at the midpoint of the Peninsula, between San Francisco and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/184932205″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a doubt, the biggest new commercial tenant downtown is \u003ca href=\"https://www.box.com/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Box Inc.\u003c/a>, the cloud storage giant. The site Box is leasing for its new headquarters is \u003ca href=\"http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140916006332/en/Box-Leases-100-Kilroy-Realty%E2%80%99s-Redwood-City#.VKL4rP8Ass%20http://redwoodcity-ca.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">334,000 square feet\u003c/a>. That’s bigger than three average Wal-Mart stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399278\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"At 334,000 square feet, Box Inc.’s new headquarters (in the background) is the biggest commercial office addition yet to downtown Redwood City, in the vicinity of City Hall. (James Tenusan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 334,000 square feet, Box Inc.’s new red-brick headquarters (back left) is the biggest commercial addition yet to downtown Redwood City. (James Tenusan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Why here? Well, to start, there’s a \u003ca href=\"http://www.caltrain.com/stations/redwoodcitystation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caltrain\u003c/a> stop just steps away. That means tech talent is an easy draw, whether they’re coming from San Francisco to the north or any number of cities to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”FxneX50LRxZTF4LMF4Mu3ZaqNztK5jG4″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up and down the Peninsula, tech companies are looking for this combination of a large commercial footprint and easy transit. And it doesn’t hurt that Redwood City has also begun offering the kinds of cultural amenities tech workers have come to expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.beanhunter.com/united-states/california/redwood-city/redwood-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bliss Coffee\u003c/a> opened a few months ago, serving high-end roasts such as Verve and Four Barrel within eyeshot of the Caltrain station and the new Box site. Tyler Hooper admires the view as he sips on a mocha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hooper’s a VP for the commercial real estate company \u003ca href=\"http://www.kiddermathews.com/professionals/hooper-tyler.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kidder Mathews\u003c/a>, and he specializes in representing tech companies. “The companies that are looking at Redwood City,” Hooper says, “are also looking at all the other downtowns, pretty much from Sunnyvale probably to San Francisco, along Caltrain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10397524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10397524 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='From the Redwood City Caltrain station, you can see the iconic sign that says \"Redwood City: Climate Best by Government.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Redwood City Caltrain station boasts the city’s motto on an iconic sign, “Redwood City: Climate Best by Government Test.” And yes, there was a test — an early 20th century climatological survey by the U.S. and Germany. (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But not every town with a Caltrain station is sprouting construction cranes the way Redwood City is. Besides Box, Google just \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/10/03/google-to-buy-big-chunk-of-pacific-shores-iconic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bought close to a million square feet\u003c/a> by the waterfront. That’s going to send local commercial real estate prices up. Even so, Hooper says land values in Redwood City are still far cheaper than in more developed mid-Peninsula markets like Palo Alto, Mountain View and Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve kind of reached capacity in those markets,” Hooper says, “so they’ve spilled over into the adjacent markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason to choose Redwood City: its downtown \u003ca href=\"http://www.redwoodcity.org/phed/planning/precise/FINAL-DTPP/NewDTPPDownload.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">development plan\u003c/a>. Nearly every city has one, but Redwood City did something unusual for the Bay Area. It created an umbrella environmental review, so companies like Box could sidestep the usual lengthy approval process. Mayor Jeff Gee says this plan was 20 years in the making, with lots of community meetings along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that it’s difficult right now because of all the construction, but that will pass,” he says. “And what will evolve and emerge is a new neighborhood [that] will be an addition to our city. Not everyone will probably see the benefits right away. We can’t just stand still and let time pass. We need to evolve and change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics challenge the particular shape of this evolution — and its scale: originally, 2,500 new residential units, 100,000 square feet of new retail and 500,000 square feet of new office space. While that seems like a lot of room to grow, the Box deal alone ate up more than half the allowance for office space, and other companies waiting in line to get their projects approved were disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the City Council recently\u003ca href=\"http://www.smdailyjournal.com/articles/lnews/2014-12-11/downtown-redwood-city-plan-tweaked-in-favor-of-office-space/1776425134820.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> raised its office space expansion limit\u003c/a> downtown from 500,000 to 670,000 square feet. To offset that, the council also reduced the limits for residential and retail space. That kept the totals roughly the same, but it also adjusted the balance to tilt even more heavily in favor of office space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399313\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the change downtown is widely welcomed by locals. Case in point: the Courthouse Square, what Major Jeff Gee likes to call "Redwood City's living room." (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many residents are enthusiastic about some of the changes downtown. Case in point: the Courthouse Square, what Major Jeff Gee likes to call “Redwood City’s living room.” (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Did we get it right?” Gee asks. “I don’t know that yet. If we didn’t, we’ll make adjustments.” As if anticipating blowback, \u003ca href=\"http://www.jeffgee.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gee\u003c/a> promises that this expansion is just about done. After Box, he says, there are three other deals in the pipeline, and that’s it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The redevelopment of downtown started with revamping entertainment venues, and those changes have inspired a lot of praise from locals: the outdoor concerts at Courthouse Square, for instance, and the renovated \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxrwc.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Theatre\u003c/a>. The new restaurants are packed on the weekends. But the scale and crush of the new office buildings and condo complexes has people grumbling about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-to-manhattanize-a-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manhattanization\u003c/a> of Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The skyline is filled with taller buildings. The streets are crammed with traffic. It may not necessarily cost more to shop and dine downtown, but many of the glossy new buildings make some old-timers feel the welcome mat is not rolled out for them so much as it is for well-heeled newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent meeting of the Planning Commission at City Hall, a number of people decried the lack of parks and public art — attributes that offset density.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to say that all this is really bad, because it’s not all bad,” says former mayor Brent Britschgi. “I mean, we’re seeing change. We’re seeing the future. Most of the developments are fair. But we have to have other things that come along with them. And I think we’re not seeing those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s plan does have rules meant to soften the impacts of development. So Box, for example, must have underground parking, retail on the ground floor and landscaping around the building. But Britschgi’s concern about parks remains unaddressed. The city is getting money from downtown developers to buy park land, but it’s using that money to expand parks elsewhere in the city, where the land isn’t selling for $400 to $500 a square foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13886_20150101_boomtown_rwc_jt_002-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13886_20150101_boomtown_rwc_jt_002-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Pardini runs a Facebook group called Redwood City Residents Say: 'What?'. "You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control." (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Pardini runs a Facebook group called Redwood City Residents Say: ‘What?’. “You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control.” (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control,” says Julie Pardini, who runs a Facebook group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/709200909129615/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redwood City Residents Say: ‘What?’\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s retired now, but Pardini used to work in construction and real estate. As Redwood City prices rise to San Francisco levels, Pardini worries about the lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we have [affordable housing], we don’t need to talk about it. But you begin to talk about something when it’s gone,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s something else Pardini misses about Redwood City as it was just three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people are missing the feeling of space around things and between things and above things,” she says. “Everything has a feeling of being cramped — moving traffic, parked cars, buildings stacked one right next to the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, downtown Redwood City used to be so sleepy, locals nicknamed the town “Deadwood City.” Nobody would call it that now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, people crowded into four venues for the \u003ca href=\"http://foxrwc.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2nd Annual Silicon Valley Ball\u003c/a> — the kind of fancy event that’s new for Redwood City’s downtown. It was a party to dress up for, and Jennifer Williams dressed up, wearing a faux fur wrap into which she hot-glued LED lights. When she’s not lighting up downtown, Williams does sales training for Genentech in South San Francisco. She’s lived in Redwood City for about 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it’s so funny,” Williams muses. “When Redwood City started to become developed, one of my neighbors said, ‘I’m so against that development, because it will be crowded.’ And I thought, ‘Right, because people are going to want to go there! You know?’ And I remember the day when there was nothing down here. So, I’m just so excited with everything that’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10397523\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10397523 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438-400x533.jpg\" alt='Jennifer Williams of Redwood City is thrilled with the vibrancy of the new downtown. \"I’m just so excited with everything that’s happening.” (Rachael Myrow/KQED)' width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Williams of Redwood City is thrilled with the vibrancy of the new downtown. (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s something else most development boosters here tonight will tell you. The tech boom is much bigger than Redwood City. The markets for housing and jobs are regional — even international.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant City Manager Bill Ekern says Redwood City can’t fully control its destiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You won’t know how all the pieces fit together till you get enough of the pieces in place,” he says. “That’s where we are now, is, we’re building the first of the pieces. We’ll get to the next phase and we’ll say, ‘OK.’ Cause the economy’s going to slow enough that we all get to take a breath. We’ll go, ‘OK, we’ll built this. Now what happens? We like this. We don’t like that. Now we can fix it going forward.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This boom will end, Ekern says, and Redwood City will have the chance to assess whether it took the best advantage of tech money while it was available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our Boomtown series: \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http://www.kqed.org/boomtown\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Redwood City has long been home to tech companies such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oracle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ea.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electronic Arts\u003c/a>, but until recently it wasn’t really considered part of Silicon Valley. That’s changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been to downtown Redwood City recently, there’s no escaping the construction. Construction cranes crowd the sky as office buildings and condo complexes rise up to meet tech company demand. As Big Tech grows its employment base, Redwood City is proving an attractive place to expand because it sits right at the midpoint of the Peninsula, between San Francisco and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/184932205″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/184932205″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a doubt, the biggest new commercial tenant downtown is \u003ca href=\"https://www.box.com/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Box Inc.\u003c/a>, the cloud storage giant. The site Box is leasing for its new headquarters is \u003ca href=\"http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140916006332/en/Box-Leases-100-Kilroy-Realty%E2%80%99s-Redwood-City#.VKL4rP8Ass%20http://redwoodcity-ca.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">334,000 square feet\u003c/a>. That’s bigger than three average Wal-Mart stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399278\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"At 334,000 square feet, Box Inc.’s new headquarters (in the background) is the biggest commercial office addition yet to downtown Redwood City, in the vicinity of City Hall. (James Tenusan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 334,000 square feet, Box Inc.’s new red-brick headquarters (back left) is the biggest commercial addition yet to downtown Redwood City. (James Tenusan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Why here? Well, to start, there’s a \u003ca href=\"http://www.caltrain.com/stations/redwoodcitystation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caltrain\u003c/a> stop just steps away. That means tech talent is an easy draw, whether they’re coming from San Francisco to the north or any number of cities to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up and down the Peninsula, tech companies are looking for this combination of a large commercial footprint and easy transit. And it doesn’t hurt that Redwood City has also begun offering the kinds of cultural amenities tech workers have come to expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.beanhunter.com/united-states/california/redwood-city/redwood-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bliss Coffee\u003c/a> opened a few months ago, serving high-end roasts such as Verve and Four Barrel within eyeshot of the Caltrain station and the new Box site. Tyler Hooper admires the view as he sips on a mocha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hooper’s a VP for the commercial real estate company \u003ca href=\"http://www.kiddermathews.com/professionals/hooper-tyler.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kidder Mathews\u003c/a>, and he specializes in representing tech companies. “The companies that are looking at Redwood City,” Hooper says, “are also looking at all the other downtowns, pretty much from Sunnyvale probably to San Francisco, along Caltrain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10397524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10397524 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='From the Redwood City Caltrain station, you can see the iconic sign that says \"Redwood City: Climate Best by Government.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Redwood City Caltrain station boasts the city’s motto on an iconic sign, “Redwood City: Climate Best by Government Test.” And yes, there was a test — an early 20th century climatological survey by the U.S. and Germany. (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But not every town with a Caltrain station is sprouting construction cranes the way Redwood City is. Besides Box, Google just \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/10/03/google-to-buy-big-chunk-of-pacific-shores-iconic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bought close to a million square feet\u003c/a> by the waterfront. That’s going to send local commercial real estate prices up. Even so, Hooper says land values in Redwood City are still far cheaper than in more developed mid-Peninsula markets like Palo Alto, Mountain View and Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve kind of reached capacity in those markets,” Hooper says, “so they’ve spilled over into the adjacent markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason to choose Redwood City: its downtown \u003ca href=\"http://www.redwoodcity.org/phed/planning/precise/FINAL-DTPP/NewDTPPDownload.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">development plan\u003c/a>. Nearly every city has one, but Redwood City did something unusual for the Bay Area. It created an umbrella environmental review, so companies like Box could sidestep the usual lengthy approval process. Mayor Jeff Gee says this plan was 20 years in the making, with lots of community meetings along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that it’s difficult right now because of all the construction, but that will pass,” he says. “And what will evolve and emerge is a new neighborhood [that] will be an addition to our city. Not everyone will probably see the benefits right away. We can’t just stand still and let time pass. We need to evolve and change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics challenge the particular shape of this evolution — and its scale: originally, 2,500 new residential units, 100,000 square feet of new retail and 500,000 square feet of new office space. While that seems like a lot of room to grow, the Box deal alone ate up more than half the allowance for office space, and other companies waiting in line to get their projects approved were disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the City Council recently\u003ca href=\"http://www.smdailyjournal.com/articles/lnews/2014-12-11/downtown-redwood-city-plan-tweaked-in-favor-of-office-space/1776425134820.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> raised its office space expansion limit\u003c/a> downtown from 500,000 to 670,000 square feet. To offset that, the council also reduced the limits for residential and retail space. That kept the totals roughly the same, but it also adjusted the balance to tilt even more heavily in favor of office space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399313\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the change downtown is widely welcomed by locals. Case in point: the Courthouse Square, what Major Jeff Gee likes to call "Redwood City's living room." (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many residents are enthusiastic about some of the changes downtown. Case in point: the Courthouse Square, what Major Jeff Gee likes to call “Redwood City’s living room.” (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Did we get it right?” Gee asks. “I don’t know that yet. If we didn’t, we’ll make adjustments.” As if anticipating blowback, \u003ca href=\"http://www.jeffgee.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gee\u003c/a> promises that this expansion is just about done. After Box, he says, there are three other deals in the pipeline, and that’s it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The redevelopment of downtown started with revamping entertainment venues, and those changes have inspired a lot of praise from locals: the outdoor concerts at Courthouse Square, for instance, and the renovated \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxrwc.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Theatre\u003c/a>. The new restaurants are packed on the weekends. But the scale and crush of the new office buildings and condo complexes has people grumbling about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-to-manhattanize-a-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manhattanization\u003c/a> of Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The skyline is filled with taller buildings. The streets are crammed with traffic. It may not necessarily cost more to shop and dine downtown, but many of the glossy new buildings make some old-timers feel the welcome mat is not rolled out for them so much as it is for well-heeled newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent meeting of the Planning Commission at City Hall, a number of people decried the lack of parks and public art — attributes that offset density.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to say that all this is really bad, because it’s not all bad,” says former mayor Brent Britschgi. “I mean, we’re seeing change. We’re seeing the future. Most of the developments are fair. But we have to have other things that come along with them. And I think we’re not seeing those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s plan does have rules meant to soften the impacts of development. So Box, for example, must have underground parking, retail on the ground floor and landscaping around the building. But Britschgi’s concern about parks remains unaddressed. The city is getting money from downtown developers to buy park land, but it’s using that money to expand parks elsewhere in the city, where the land isn’t selling for $400 to $500 a square foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13886_20150101_boomtown_rwc_jt_002-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13886_20150101_boomtown_rwc_jt_002-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Pardini runs a Facebook group called Redwood City Residents Say: 'What?'. "You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control." (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Pardini runs a Facebook group called Redwood City Residents Say: ‘What?’. “You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control.” (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control,” says Julie Pardini, who runs a Facebook group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/709200909129615/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redwood City Residents Say: ‘What?’\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s retired now, but Pardini used to work in construction and real estate. As Redwood City prices rise to San Francisco levels, Pardini worries about the lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we have [affordable housing], we don’t need to talk about it. But you begin to talk about something when it’s gone,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s something else Pardini misses about Redwood City as it was just three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people are missing the feeling of space around things and between things and above things,” she says. “Everything has a feeling of being cramped — moving traffic, parked cars, buildings stacked one right next to the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, downtown Redwood City used to be so sleepy, locals nicknamed the town “Deadwood City.” Nobody would call it that now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, people crowded into four venues for the \u003ca href=\"http://foxrwc.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2nd Annual Silicon Valley Ball\u003c/a> — the kind of fancy event that’s new for Redwood City’s downtown. It was a party to dress up for, and Jennifer Williams dressed up, wearing a faux fur wrap into which she hot-glued LED lights. When she’s not lighting up downtown, Williams does sales training for Genentech in South San Francisco. She’s lived in Redwood City for about 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it’s so funny,” Williams muses. “When Redwood City started to become developed, one of my neighbors said, ‘I’m so against that development, because it will be crowded.’ And I thought, ‘Right, because people are going to want to go there! You know?’ And I remember the day when there was nothing down here. So, I’m just so excited with everything that’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10397523\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10397523 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438-400x533.jpg\" alt='Jennifer Williams of Redwood City is thrilled with the vibrancy of the new downtown. \"I’m just so excited with everything that’s happening.” (Rachael Myrow/KQED)' width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Williams of Redwood City is thrilled with the vibrancy of the new downtown. (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s something else most development boosters here tonight will tell you. The tech boom is much bigger than Redwood City. The markets for housing and jobs are regional — even international.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant City Manager Bill Ekern says Redwood City can’t fully control its destiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You won’t know how all the pieces fit together till you get enough of the pieces in place,” he says. “That’s where we are now, is, we’re building the first of the pieces. We’ll get to the next phase and we’ll say, ‘OK.’ Cause the economy’s going to slow enough that we all get to take a breath. We’ll go, ‘OK, we’ll built this. Now what happens? We like this. We don’t like that. 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"content": "\u003cp>At 6 a.m. Tuesday, the teams receive their marching orders at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityteam.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CityTeam\u003c/a> in the Berryessa neighborhood of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Alum Rock!\" calls out a representative with Applied Survey Research, the San Jose nonprofit that's coordinating this \"Point-in-Time\" homeless census for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up step social workers Jen Sandhu and Pauline Bayati of \u003ca href=\"http://www.homefirstscc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">HomeFirst\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helps homeless people in Santa Clara County. They're teamed up with Nick, a formerly homeless guide, before they set off for Alum Rock and Eastside San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might imagine they'll travel by foot, but the trip is mostly by car, slowly cruising down individual streets, looking for what can be spotted without disturbing people living rough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the back side of \u003ca href=\"http://www.olgparishsj.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Lady of Guadalupe Church\u003c/a>, we spot the first encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right there,\" says Nick, pointing at a clutch of sleeping bags and tents huddled against a fence at the end of a cul-de-sac. A neighborhood cat prowls around as the folks inside sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oh, wow,\" says Sandhu, counting \"one, two, three, four, five, six tents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick says many homeless people choose to stay near places where food is distributed or other services are provided. Shelters report their numbers to HUD independent of this street survey. While it's possible this team will double-count some people, the hope is the early hour means there won't be redundancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417472\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Where you see a shopping cart packed with possessions, there's probably a homeless person nearby, and probably an encampment. Behind this cart, back in the bushes, there are signs somebody is living in the greenery by a freeway off-ramp.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Where you see a shopping cart packed with possessions, there's probably a homeless person nearby, and probably an encampment. Behind this cart, back in the bushes, there are signs somebody is living in the greenery by a freeway offramp. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nick points out the telltale signs: holes cut into fences, makeshift sheds, shopping carts packed with possessions. We see quite a few alongside freeway on- and offramps. As cars roar past, we tiptoe past the carts to the bushes that grow along the concrete walls. Sure enough, there are sofas and sleeping bags, as well as cleared spots that indicate someone was sleeping on the ground recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just gives you a new perspective for who’s around you and who’s part of your community,\" says Sandhu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Away from obvious encampments, it proves remarkably hard to identify people who are homeless, other than those deep into addiction and/or mental illness. A disheveled woman on the street in her housecoat and slippers attracts our attention, until she walks up and into a house. There's no way to know a kid wearing a worn hoodie or carrying a backpack too big for him is homeless just because of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417515\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-800x629.jpg\" alt=\"Nick grew up in the Alum Rock area. Family troubles and alcoholism led him to the streets, but he's housed now, working with a local group called Downtown Streets Team. He's also an excellent guide for a homeless survey. \" width=\"800\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-800x629.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-400x315.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick grew up in the Alum Rock area. Family troubles and alcoholism led him to the streets, but he's housed now, working with a local group called Downtown Streets Team. He's also an excellent guide for a homeless survey. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The counters don't try to engage the people they see on the street. There's concern about safety, and an awareness that concern cuts both ways. A homeless person may not trust a stranger to have his best interests at heart. Many of those living on the streets are easy targets for robbery and rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Aguirre, who used to live in the Jungle -- a massive homeless camp dismantled in December -- has another concern: that San Jose city officials are using intelligence they gather to evict people from encampments, like they did at the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\">Jungle\u003c/a>, Aguirre says. \"Since they closed the Jungle, all those people scattered, and now every time they settle down somewhere, the city goes and finds where they are. They clear them out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-day survey, which continues Wednesday, doesn't track specific locations. Only the counters would know exactly where they spotted an encampment, and that's not to say they would share that information with police. That said, local agencies and nonprofits are using information they gather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in other counties, Santa Clara County will send out teams after this count is over to meet and talk with people, gather more information about who they are and what they need, and potentially hook them up with services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Supervisor and Board President Dave Cortese called for a new task force to address the problem in his State of the County \u003ca href=\"http://www.sccgov.org/sites/d3/Documents/SOTC%20Speech%202015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">speech\u003c/a> Tuesday night. \"In a valley among the highest in per capita income, productivity and wealth in the world, it is unthinkable that homelessness is one of our largest challenges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the count found more than \u003cspan id=\"mn_Global\">\u003cspan id=\"MNGiSection\">7,631\u003c/span>\u003c/span> homeless people in Santa Clara County, two-thirds of them in San Jose. HUD will release the official results for 2015 in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417475\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"These maps of San Jose give a sense of how detailed and extensive the survey is.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These maps of San Jose give a sense of how detailed and extensive the homeless survey is. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The numbers are shocking, but not the reasons people become homeless. Bayati, who studied psychology at San Jose State, says: \"A lot of it is mental illness or drug abuse.\" There are also unstable families, as well as work that doesn’t pay enough to cover rent. And even though there are programs like \u003ca href=\"http://www.hacsc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Section 8\u003c/a>, Bayati says a one-bedroom apartment in a rough part of San Jose can run $1,700 a month or more. All this explains the count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandhu says the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development requires the survey every two years to figure out where to spend its money. \"Using an actual head count and having statistically figured multipliers to assess the issue is much better than an educated guess.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s census won’t include everybody. Counters invariably miss people on the streets, especially those living in cars and RVs. It’s also impossible to count the people living on the edge in somebody else’s home, staying indoors thanks to the kindness of friends or family.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At 6 a.m. Tuesday, the teams receive their marching orders at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityteam.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CityTeam\u003c/a> in the Berryessa neighborhood of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Alum Rock!\" calls out a representative with Applied Survey Research, the San Jose nonprofit that's coordinating this \"Point-in-Time\" homeless census for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up step social workers Jen Sandhu and Pauline Bayati of \u003ca href=\"http://www.homefirstscc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">HomeFirst\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helps homeless people in Santa Clara County. They're teamed up with Nick, a formerly homeless guide, before they set off for Alum Rock and Eastside San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might imagine they'll travel by foot, but the trip is mostly by car, slowly cruising down individual streets, looking for what can be spotted without disturbing people living rough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the back side of \u003ca href=\"http://www.olgparishsj.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Lady of Guadalupe Church\u003c/a>, we spot the first encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right there,\" says Nick, pointing at a clutch of sleeping bags and tents huddled against a fence at the end of a cul-de-sac. A neighborhood cat prowls around as the folks inside sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oh, wow,\" says Sandhu, counting \"one, two, three, four, five, six tents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick says many homeless people choose to stay near places where food is distributed or other services are provided. Shelters report their numbers to HUD independent of this street survey. While it's possible this team will double-count some people, the hope is the early hour means there won't be redundancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417472\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Where you see a shopping cart packed with possessions, there's probably a homeless person nearby, and probably an encampment. Behind this cart, back in the bushes, there are signs somebody is living in the greenery by a freeway off-ramp.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Where you see a shopping cart packed with possessions, there's probably a homeless person nearby, and probably an encampment. Behind this cart, back in the bushes, there are signs somebody is living in the greenery by a freeway offramp. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nick points out the telltale signs: holes cut into fences, makeshift sheds, shopping carts packed with possessions. We see quite a few alongside freeway on- and offramps. As cars roar past, we tiptoe past the carts to the bushes that grow along the concrete walls. Sure enough, there are sofas and sleeping bags, as well as cleared spots that indicate someone was sleeping on the ground recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just gives you a new perspective for who’s around you and who’s part of your community,\" says Sandhu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Away from obvious encampments, it proves remarkably hard to identify people who are homeless, other than those deep into addiction and/or mental illness. A disheveled woman on the street in her housecoat and slippers attracts our attention, until she walks up and into a house. There's no way to know a kid wearing a worn hoodie or carrying a backpack too big for him is homeless just because of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417515\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-800x629.jpg\" alt=\"Nick grew up in the Alum Rock area. Family troubles and alcoholism led him to the streets, but he's housed now, working with a local group called Downtown Streets Team. He's also an excellent guide for a homeless survey. \" width=\"800\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-800x629.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-400x315.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick grew up in the Alum Rock area. Family troubles and alcoholism led him to the streets, but he's housed now, working with a local group called Downtown Streets Team. He's also an excellent guide for a homeless survey. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The counters don't try to engage the people they see on the street. There's concern about safety, and an awareness that concern cuts both ways. A homeless person may not trust a stranger to have his best interests at heart. Many of those living on the streets are easy targets for robbery and rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Aguirre, who used to live in the Jungle -- a massive homeless camp dismantled in December -- has another concern: that San Jose city officials are using intelligence they gather to evict people from encampments, like they did at the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\">Jungle\u003c/a>, Aguirre says. \"Since they closed the Jungle, all those people scattered, and now every time they settle down somewhere, the city goes and finds where they are. They clear them out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-day survey, which continues Wednesday, doesn't track specific locations. Only the counters would know exactly where they spotted an encampment, and that's not to say they would share that information with police. That said, local agencies and nonprofits are using information they gather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in other counties, Santa Clara County will send out teams after this count is over to meet and talk with people, gather more information about who they are and what they need, and potentially hook them up with services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Supervisor and Board President Dave Cortese called for a new task force to address the problem in his State of the County \u003ca href=\"http://www.sccgov.org/sites/d3/Documents/SOTC%20Speech%202015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">speech\u003c/a> Tuesday night. \"In a valley among the highest in per capita income, productivity and wealth in the world, it is unthinkable that homelessness is one of our largest challenges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the count found more than \u003cspan id=\"mn_Global\">\u003cspan id=\"MNGiSection\">7,631\u003c/span>\u003c/span> homeless people in Santa Clara County, two-thirds of them in San Jose. HUD will release the official results for 2015 in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417475\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"These maps of San Jose give a sense of how detailed and extensive the survey is.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These maps of San Jose give a sense of how detailed and extensive the homeless survey is. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The numbers are shocking, but not the reasons people become homeless. Bayati, who studied psychology at San Jose State, says: \"A lot of it is mental illness or drug abuse.\" There are also unstable families, as well as work that doesn’t pay enough to cover rent. And even though there are programs like \u003ca href=\"http://www.hacsc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Section 8\u003c/a>, Bayati says a one-bedroom apartment in a rough part of San Jose can run $1,700 a month or more. All this explains the count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandhu says the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development requires the survey every two years to figure out where to spend its money. \"Using an actual head count and having statistically figured multipliers to assess the issue is much better than an educated guess.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s census won’t include everybody. Counters invariably miss people on the streets, especially those living in cars and RVs. It’s also impossible to count the people living on the edge in somebody else’s home, staying indoors thanks to the kindness of friends or family.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Mateo has long been a bedroom community for tech hubs to the north and south. But in recent years, it’s built a niche for itself as a home to tech startups such as \u003ca href=\"http://gopro.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoPro\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.solarcity.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solar City\u003c/a>, among hundreds of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in other cities, such as San Francisco or Redwood City, the boom hasn’t altered the character of San Mateo all that much, says Rafat Haddad, who owns \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/3-Bees-Coffee/145882248783885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3 Bees Coffee\u003c/a> downtown. “It has the feeling of a small town,” he says, “but it’s a big downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/188179768″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddad used to be on the board of the \u003ca href=\"http://dsma.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Downtown San Mateo Association\u003c/a>, and his coffee house functions as a social hub for many of the town’s movers and shakers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube\u003c/a> began in San Mateo, and its founders (PayPal alums Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim) used to hang out at 3 Bees. Haddad remembers when there were just the three founders, then 60 employees, then 100. Then Google snapped them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10406261\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 375px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10406261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-400x362.jpg\" alt='Rafat Haddad, owner of 3 Bees Coffee, says San Mateo has been attracting tech start ups. Large firms? Not so much, \"Because we don’t have big spaces. So if they get big, they move on to another big space. So they keep the opportunity for others to come again.\"' width=\"375\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-400x362.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-800x725.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafat Haddad, owner of 3 Bees Coffee, says San Mateo doesn’t have spaces big enough to attract large firms. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know,” he muses, “you’d never know that they were gonna make it. Some of them, they do, and some of them, they don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Small Spaces Attract Tech Startups\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo doesn’t have the massive commercial footprints that are driving tech development in other cities, such as San Francisco and Redwood City. The downtown is \u003cspan class=\"st\">chockablock\u003c/span> with older buildings that date as far back as \u003ca href=\"http://dsma.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ka_dsm_walking_tour.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1893\u003c/a>. They’re charming, and still functional, but they’re also “very, very small,” says Marcus Clarke, laughing. Clarke is San Mateo’s economic development manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who can fit in those?” he says. “They used to be key shops and those kind of things. And now, a lot of boba tea shops can fit. They’re the only ones who can fit in 300 square feet!”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">Tech is incorporating into the historic structures downtown, which is really fascinating. \u003ccite>Marcus Clarke,\u003cbr>\nSan Mateo economic development manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The commercial spaces upstairs from boba tea shops and other small businesses turn out to be just the right size for tech startups. “If they get big,” Haddad says, “they move on to another big space. So they keep the opportunity for others to come again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddad says it was about five years ago when tech companies starting flooding into downtown. In 2013, 144 tech companies applied for new business licenses in San Mateo. Last year, 151 applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that everything’s small. Venture capitalist Tim Draper spotted an existing large building, the landmark Benjamin Franklin Hotel, and retrofitted it to become \u003ca href=\"http://draperuniversity.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Draper University\u003c/a>, a school for would-be tech entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tech is incorporating into the historic structures downtown,” Clarke says, “which is really fascinating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steering Clear of Corporate Silos\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo’s tech boom is nowhere near as big as San Francisco’s. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/Content.asp?pageid=1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Employment Development Department\u003c/a> reports San Francisco added more than 18,000 jobs last year in tech. San Mateo added 2,000. Still, that puts San Mateo ahead of most cities in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 762px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10408579 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-01-16 at 7.26.34 PM\" width=\"762\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png 762w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM-400x409.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This map shows the growth in tech jobs in 2014, over the previous year. Source data: California Employment Development Department. (Courtesy of The Concord Group)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re going through some changes right now because everything changes,” says Rick Bonilla, a San Mateo planning commissioner and former union organizer who’s running for a vacant seat on the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonilla’s big on that favorite phrase of urban planners: “smart” growth. Among other things, that means putting jobs near transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing some higher heights and some larger developments,” he says, “but we’ve been smart in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsanmateo.org/index.aspx?nid=1894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planning \u003c/a>for this to happen along our transit corridor. So all this work is centered around our three train stations on the Caltrain line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means people can leave their cars behind, and the hope is they’d be more inclined to step out and engage with the city. San Mateo has some of those self-contained corporate campuses, silos that provide no reason for employees to leave. But Bonilla says city planners prefer buildings that contribute to the life of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411550\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10411550\" title=\"Rachael Myrow/KQED\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut-400x629.jpg\" alt=\"RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut\" width=\"300\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut-400x629.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo is not immune to the regional effects of the booming economy. That includes high housing costs and awful traffic. This iPhone screen shot was saved on a Friday night at 6:13.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So the people need to come out and walk around and go to our local restaurants to eat,” he says. “If they want to exercise, there are several different spots here downtown. You can just take a walk. It’s a beautiful place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo is a place locals will proudly tell you is ethnically diverse, by which, they explain, they mean Asian and specifically Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century, Japanese immigrants came to San Mateo to work in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/salt-ponds-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">salt ponds\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Japanese-Americans-in-the-Produce-Floral-Industry/1493553414229774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flower industry\u003c/a>. Today, Japanese-Americans make up only 2.2 percent of San Mateo’s population, but they’re still a major cultural influence and a draw for the rest of the region. In the downtown area alone, there are roughly 30 Japanese restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The line forms early outside \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodspotting.com/places/19895-ramen-dojo-san-mateo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramen Dojo\u003c/a> at lunchtime. That’s because if you show up when the place opens at 11:30 a.m., you could be in for an hour-and-a-half wait. On one recent day, the people in line came from Fremont, Mountain View, New York City and Jakarta, Indonesia. The locals were mostly tech workers from Gilead Sciences, Genentech, Oracle, Zinga and GoPro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they waited across the street from — what else? — a construction site, I asked why it doesn’t seem like San Mateo sees the kind of tech-boom blowback you see in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think San Francisco, because it’s such a dense city – in that there’s a finite amount of space – basically, when they develop, it raises rent prices across the board,” says Danny Gold, who commutes from San Francisco for his job at GoPro. “People who have been living there a long time kind of get edged out. San Mateo, because it’s a little bit bigger, I don’t think the effects are as pronounced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limits to What San Mateo Can Do\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people on the Peninsula are getting edged out of the housing market, too. Marcus Clarke worries that an increasing number of people working here can’t afford to live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our workforce lives in Hayward and even farther out,” he says. “They have to leave at 6 in the morning just to make it here by 8. You wonder about the quality of life for that. What kind of region does Silicon Valley want to be and who is it for?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If San Mateo wanted to meet the demand, it would need to build 3,100 units over the next eight years, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/pdfs/Final%20RHNA%20(2014-2022).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments.\u003c/a> At \u003ca href=\"http://baymeadows.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Meadows\u003c/a>, the biggest new development in San Mateo, 1,100 housing units are going up, along with commercial space, 18 acres of parks and a private high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10411513\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Meadows, still under construction, is the biggest new development in San Mateo: 1,100 new housing units, along with commercial space, parks, and a high school, on land that used to house a racetrack.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Meadows, still under construction, is the biggest new development in San Mateo, a 10-minute drive from downtown. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But these condos are not options for the commuters Clarke worries about. Two-bedroom units here are going for $900,000. Ultimately, housing, like traffic, is dependent on regional and international economic pressures far beyond the control of the city of San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boomtown series\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Mateo has long been a bedroom community for tech hubs to the north and south. But in recent years, it’s built a niche for itself as a home to tech startups such as \u003ca href=\"http://gopro.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoPro\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.solarcity.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solar City\u003c/a>, among hundreds of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in other cities, such as San Francisco or Redwood City, the boom hasn’t altered the character of San Mateo all that much, says Rafat Haddad, who owns \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/3-Bees-Coffee/145882248783885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3 Bees Coffee\u003c/a> downtown. “It has the feeling of a small town,” he says, “but it’s a big downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/188179768″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/188179768″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddad used to be on the board of the \u003ca href=\"http://dsma.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Downtown San Mateo Association\u003c/a>, and his coffee house functions as a social hub for many of the town’s movers and shakers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube\u003c/a> began in San Mateo, and its founders (PayPal alums Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim) used to hang out at 3 Bees. Haddad remembers when there were just the three founders, then 60 employees, then 100. Then Google snapped them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10406261\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 375px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10406261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-400x362.jpg\" alt='Rafat Haddad, owner of 3 Bees Coffee, says San Mateo has been attracting tech start ups. Large firms? Not so much, \"Because we don’t have big spaces. So if they get big, they move on to another big space. So they keep the opportunity for others to come again.\"' width=\"375\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-400x362.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-800x725.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafat Haddad, owner of 3 Bees Coffee, says San Mateo doesn’t have spaces big enough to attract large firms. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know,” he muses, “you’d never know that they were gonna make it. Some of them, they do, and some of them, they don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Small Spaces Attract Tech Startups\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo doesn’t have the massive commercial footprints that are driving tech development in other cities, such as San Francisco and Redwood City. The downtown is \u003cspan class=\"st\">chockablock\u003c/span> with older buildings that date as far back as \u003ca href=\"http://dsma.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ka_dsm_walking_tour.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1893\u003c/a>. They’re charming, and still functional, but they’re also “very, very small,” says Marcus Clarke, laughing. Clarke is San Mateo’s economic development manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who can fit in those?” he says. “They used to be key shops and those kind of things. And now, a lot of boba tea shops can fit. They’re the only ones who can fit in 300 square feet!”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">Tech is incorporating into the historic structures downtown, which is really fascinating. \u003ccite>Marcus Clarke,\u003cbr>\nSan Mateo economic development manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The commercial spaces upstairs from boba tea shops and other small businesses turn out to be just the right size for tech startups. “If they get big,” Haddad says, “they move on to another big space. So they keep the opportunity for others to come again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddad says it was about five years ago when tech companies starting flooding into downtown. In 2013, 144 tech companies applied for new business licenses in San Mateo. Last year, 151 applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that everything’s small. Venture capitalist Tim Draper spotted an existing large building, the landmark Benjamin Franklin Hotel, and retrofitted it to become \u003ca href=\"http://draperuniversity.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Draper University\u003c/a>, a school for would-be tech entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tech is incorporating into the historic structures downtown,” Clarke says, “which is really fascinating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steering Clear of Corporate Silos\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo’s tech boom is nowhere near as big as San Francisco’s. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/Content.asp?pageid=1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Employment Development Department\u003c/a> reports San Francisco added more than 18,000 jobs last year in tech. San Mateo added 2,000. Still, that puts San Mateo ahead of most cities in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 762px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10408579 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-01-16 at 7.26.34 PM\" width=\"762\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png 762w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM-400x409.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This map shows the growth in tech jobs in 2014, over the previous year. Source data: California Employment Development Department. (Courtesy of The Concord Group)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re going through some changes right now because everything changes,” says Rick Bonilla, a San Mateo planning commissioner and former union organizer who’s running for a vacant seat on the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonilla’s big on that favorite phrase of urban planners: “smart” growth. Among other things, that means putting jobs near transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing some higher heights and some larger developments,” he says, “but we’ve been smart in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsanmateo.org/index.aspx?nid=1894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planning \u003c/a>for this to happen along our transit corridor. So all this work is centered around our three train stations on the Caltrain line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means people can leave their cars behind, and the hope is they’d be more inclined to step out and engage with the city. San Mateo has some of those self-contained corporate campuses, silos that provide no reason for employees to leave. But Bonilla says city planners prefer buildings that contribute to the life of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411550\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10411550\" title=\"Rachael Myrow/KQED\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut-400x629.jpg\" alt=\"RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut\" width=\"300\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut-400x629.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo is not immune to the regional effects of the booming economy. That includes high housing costs and awful traffic. This iPhone screen shot was saved on a Friday night at 6:13.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So the people need to come out and walk around and go to our local restaurants to eat,” he says. “If they want to exercise, there are several different spots here downtown. You can just take a walk. It’s a beautiful place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo is a place locals will proudly tell you is ethnically diverse, by which, they explain, they mean Asian and specifically Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century, Japanese immigrants came to San Mateo to work in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/salt-ponds-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">salt ponds\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Japanese-Americans-in-the-Produce-Floral-Industry/1493553414229774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flower industry\u003c/a>. Today, Japanese-Americans make up only 2.2 percent of San Mateo’s population, but they’re still a major cultural influence and a draw for the rest of the region. In the downtown area alone, there are roughly 30 Japanese restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The line forms early outside \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodspotting.com/places/19895-ramen-dojo-san-mateo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramen Dojo\u003c/a> at lunchtime. That’s because if you show up when the place opens at 11:30 a.m., you could be in for an hour-and-a-half wait. On one recent day, the people in line came from Fremont, Mountain View, New York City and Jakarta, Indonesia. The locals were mostly tech workers from Gilead Sciences, Genentech, Oracle, Zinga and GoPro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they waited across the street from — what else? — a construction site, I asked why it doesn’t seem like San Mateo sees the kind of tech-boom blowback you see in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think San Francisco, because it’s such a dense city – in that there’s a finite amount of space – basically, when they develop, it raises rent prices across the board,” says Danny Gold, who commutes from San Francisco for his job at GoPro. “People who have been living there a long time kind of get edged out. San Mateo, because it’s a little bit bigger, I don’t think the effects are as pronounced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limits to What San Mateo Can Do\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people on the Peninsula are getting edged out of the housing market, too. Marcus Clarke worries that an increasing number of people working here can’t afford to live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our workforce lives in Hayward and even farther out,” he says. “They have to leave at 6 in the morning just to make it here by 8. You wonder about the quality of life for that. What kind of region does Silicon Valley want to be and who is it for?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If San Mateo wanted to meet the demand, it would need to build 3,100 units over the next eight years, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/pdfs/Final%20RHNA%20(2014-2022).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments.\u003c/a> At \u003ca href=\"http://baymeadows.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Meadows\u003c/a>, the biggest new development in San Mateo, 1,100 housing units are going up, along with commercial space, 18 acres of parks and a private high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10411513\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Meadows, still under construction, is the biggest new development in San Mateo: 1,100 new housing units, along with commercial space, parks, and a high school, on land that used to house a racetrack.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Meadows, still under construction, is the biggest new development in San Mateo, a 10-minute drive from downtown. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But these condos are not options for the commuters Clarke worries about. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of our series,\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/boomtown\"> Boomtown\u003c/a>, we're answering questions from KQED listeners and readers. Our first one comes from Chris Tann, who lives in south San Jose and gets stuck in congestion when he commutes alone to his job in Cupertino on Highway 85.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\"When will the city and county planners actually think more than a few years ahead, and put in place the necessary changes to bring Bay Area transportation, both roads and public transit, into the 21st century?\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/185882748\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area transportation planners are actually looking many decades into the future, but the changes, as an Orinda city official once put it, will be \"evolutionary rather than revolutionary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving more people around the Bay Area will require us to make better use of our current infrastructure, expand public transit, build dense housing around transit corridors and make the streets safer for people to bike and walk, according to three experts who study Bay Area transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Express toll lanes, modern trains, buses that run faster and more frequently, protected bike lane networks and communities designed to give people more options to get around are the future. Getting there is going to take a long time, a ton of money and lots of political will.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright noborder\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ViRhsrJIythN0WMOJByhB7a9PpZI5c0YLz2ldvdg0YY/viewform?embedded=true\" width=\"370\" height=\"460\" frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"The Bay Area has the most robust transit system west of the Mississippi, and we need to build on that strength,\" says Jeff Hobson, deputy director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.transformca.org/\">TransForm\u003c/a>. \"We need to use our existing infrastructure better because that’s the cheapest way of serving more people, that’s the most cost-effective way of serving more people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Metropolitan Transportation Commission confirms traffic congestion has gone up in the last six months, a sign the economy is booming. Traffic on the Bay Bridge is the highest it's ever been, while highway congestion across the region has remained relatively steady over the years. There's not going to be a quick fix to the Bay Area's traffic woes akin to the highway boom of the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don’t want to build our way out of this crisis,\" says Randy Rentschler, the MTC's legislative and public affairs director. \"We need some strategic investment, we do. We need to fix some highways, we do. We need to widen some, fix some interchanges, we do. But we don’t want it to be what we are only doing here in the Bay Area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Express Lane Network\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10406366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 730px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.mtcexpresslanes.org/projects/express_lanes/pdfs/expresslanefactsheet_103013.pdf\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10406366\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-14-at-4.39.25-PM.png\" alt=\"Transportation officials envision a 550-mile network of express toll lanes by 2035.\" width=\"730\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-14-at-4.39.25-PM.png 730w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-14-at-4.39.25-PM-400x327.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transportation officials envision a 550-mile network of express toll lanes by 2035. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One way transportation planners want to help ease the commute for drivers is by building a 550-mile network of \u003ca href=\"http://www.mtcexpresslanes.org/projects/express_lanes/\">express toll lanes\u003c/a>, not expected to be completed until 2035. In express lanes, solo drivers pay fluctuating FasTrak tolls based on traffic while carpools, vanpools, buses and other eligible vehicles use them for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will take a few decades to complete the network, but \u003ca href=\"http://bayareaexpresslanes.org/map/#\">work is underway. \u003c/a>There are now express lanes on southbound Interstate 680 between Sunol and San Jose, and on State Route 237 between Milpitas and San Jose. Two new lanes are being constructed on Interstate 580 between Livermore and Dublin. Chris Tann can expect an express route on Highway 85 sometime in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, express lanes don't benefit every solo driver. They benefit those who can pay. TransForm, which advocates giving people of all income levels more options to get around, has urged MTC to consider ways for low-income drivers to get discounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.transformca.org/resource/moving-people-not-just-cars\">a 2013 report\u003c/a>, TransForm suggests \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">toll money be used to expand bus service, instead of building more highway lanes. Existing lanes could be converted to express routes, the report says. \u003c/span>The money could then be used to ramp up a network of public transit buses that would use the same express lanes, and move more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Building Housing By Transit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10407128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13881_20150102_boomtown_rwc_jt_001-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10407128\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13881_20150102_boomtown_rwc_jt_001-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Construction cranes loom near Redwood City's train station.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13881_20150102_boomtown_rwc_jt_001-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13881_20150102_boomtown_rwc_jt_001-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13881_20150102_boomtown_rwc_jt_001-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction cranes loom near Redwood City's train station. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chris Tann is like a lot of commuters in Silicon Valley who don't live close to work, and for whom a bus or train is not always an easy option. The built environment encourages people to drive. Private tech shuttles are one response to the lack of convenient, reliable transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://planbayarea.org/plan-bay-area.html\">Plan Bay Area\u003c/a>, which provides a long-range transportation and housing vision to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, encourages new housing along transit corridors so people have the option of taking a bus or train, instead of driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two-thirds of new housing production will be focused on the 15 Bay Area cities expecting the most growth. Topping the list are San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland, and cities mostly on the Peninsula and in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the new housing will benefit people of all income levels remains to be seen. Bay Area cities are drastically behind on their affordable housing goals, and it will take many years to catch up, barring bold action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Expanding Public Transit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10407141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/10898_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10407141\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/10898_transform-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Transbay Transit Center construction.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/10898_transform-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/10898_transform-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/10898_transform.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transbay Transit Center construction. \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A bullet train that whisks you from the new Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco to Los Angeles. A quiet, sleek BART train that runs 24 hours in a second Transbay Tube. A Muni bus that glides from Union Square to the Outer Richmond in a dedicated transit lane. An AC Transit bus that zips you from San Leandro to downtown Oakland. Transportation planners have got some big transit projects in the works, but some will take decades to complete. However, there is some relief on the horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bus rapid transit\u003c/strong>: By 2018, the first rapid bus lines in the Bay Area should be up and running in \u003ca href=\"http://www.vta.org/scar-brt\">San Jose\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://brt.actransit.org/aboutbrt/maps/\">Oakland\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcta.org/delivering-transportation-projects/van-ness-avenue-bus-rapid-transit-home\">San Francisco\u003c/a>. Bus rapid transit works well because it frees buses from car traffic, allowing them to run faster in their own lanes. Level platforms and easy payment options allow seamless boarding for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BART: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/about/projects/cars/delivery-plan\">BART's $3 billion fleet of the future\u003c/a> will come in installments over several years. The first cars should be running sometime in 2017, but all 775 cars won't be fully integrated into the system until 2021, when the average number of weekday fare-gate exits is expected to increase from 400,000 to 500,000. \u003ca href=\"http://www.vta.org/bart/\">BART service \u003c/a>to Silicon Valley should be partially complete by 2017, but it's not expected to extend all the way to downtown San Jose until 2025. \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2014/12/01/bart-will-study-second-transbay-tube-west-side-extension/\">Building a second Transbay Tube \u003c/a>is gaining\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/mayor-ed-lee-announces-support-for-a-second-bart-transbay-tube/Content?oid=2916966\"> political support\u003c/a>, but is still decades away. While 24-hour service isn't in the foreseeable future, BART has beefed up overnight transbay bus service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 770px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-20-at-1.38.53-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10411686\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-20-at-1.38.53-PM.png\" alt=\"New Muni trains made by Siemens are expected to begin arriving in 2016.\" width=\"770\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-20-at-1.38.53-PM.png 770w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-20-at-1.38.53-PM-400x176.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Muni trains made by Siemens are expected to begin arriving in 2016. \u003ccite>((Photo courtesy of the SFMTA))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Muni: \u003c/strong>The Bay Area's largest transit system is also updating its fleet of buses and trains, and \u003ca href=\"http://muniforward.com/creating-a-rapid-network/\">planning a rapid system\u003c/a> that carries up to 70 percent of passengers. That involves making its most popular lines more reliable and efficient, and street changes that allow buses and trains to run quicker. Big projects include bus rapid transit on Van Ness and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcta.org/delivering-transportation-projects/geary-corridor-bus-rapid-transit-home\">Geary\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.centralsubwaysf.com/\">Central Subway\u003c/a>, now under construction and expected to start service in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caltrain\u003c/strong>: Caltrain is planning to electrify its tracks to run smoother, faster, quieter service with a new fleet of electric trains by 2021 that will replace most of its current diesel fleet. That's not much consolation to Caltrain's growing number of riders, but in the meantime it is planning to run longer trains with cars it recently purchased from Metrolink in Southern California, which will also add \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2015/01/12/caltrain-to-add-third-bike-on-longer-six-car-trains/\">more capacity for riders with bikes.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Smart: \u003c/strong>North Bay transportation officials are currently constructing the first phase of a 70-mile train and bicycle corridor from Larkspur to Cloverdale known as SMART. The first leg from Santa Rosa to San Rafael is expected to be complete by late 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Safe Streets \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10407132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13995_5682289311_963280efff_o-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10407132\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13995_5682289311_963280efff_o-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cyclists ride on green bike lanes on Market St.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13995_5682289311_963280efff_o-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13995_5682289311_963280efff_o-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13995_5682289311_963280efff_o-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyclists ride on green bike lanes on Market Street \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/sfbike/5682289311\">San Francisco Bicycle Coalition/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area doesn't need another highway boom, but what it does need is a boom in bicycle infrastructure, says Bay Area bike advocate Dave Snyder, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://calbike.org/\">California Bicycle Coalition. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connectivity is key. Building low-stress \u003ca href=\"http://nacto.org/cities-for-cycling/design-guide/cycle-tracks/\">protected bike lane \u003c/a>networks around the Bay Area that connect to transit hubs is one way governments can get the best bang for their transportation buck: it's cheaper and healthier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every dollar invested in bike infrastructure comes back to you many times, whereas every dollar invested in transit infrastructure compels further expense in operating. Every dollar invested in motor vehicle infrastructure compels further expense in environmental mitigation and health,\" says Snyder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no reason,\" he continues, \"why any agency should be pinching pennies when it comes to bike infrastructure. That's the definition of penny-wise and pound-foolish.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Bay Area transportation agencies do have new funding to improve street safety for bicyclists and pedestrians, thanks to voter-approved funding measures in Alameda County and San Francisco. That money will help fix potholes and redesign streets that are hostile to people biking and walking. Similar measures may eventually go before voters in other Bay Area counties, says Hobson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, no city or county except Alameda has the funding to actually build out a 21st century bike network over the next 10 years or more, says Snyder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Community Process \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting transit and safe streets projects approved, funded and built in the Bay Area can be a big challenge. Projects face opposition and get watered down. Or sometimes they become mired in bureaucracy, and sit on shelves for years until transportation officials have the political capital to move them forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Folks say they want things but then there’s a whole host of people who say they don’t, and the big challenge in the Bay Area is to try to find a consensus where people can reasonably agree, even though we’re always going to have lawsuits and difficulties,\" says Rentschler of the MTC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, the bottom line: Change will come in increments, but it will take many years to get our transportation system into the 21st century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\">Boomtown series\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of our series,\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/boomtown\"> Boomtown\u003c/a>, we're answering questions from KQED listeners and readers. Our first one comes from Chris Tann, who lives in south San Jose and gets stuck in congestion when he commutes alone to his job in Cupertino on Highway 85.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\"When will the city and county planners actually think more than a few years ahead, and put in place the necessary changes to bring Bay Area transportation, both roads and public transit, into the 21st century?\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/185882748&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/185882748'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area transportation planners are actually looking many decades into the future, but the changes, as an Orinda city official once put it, will be \"evolutionary rather than revolutionary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving more people around the Bay Area will require us to make better use of our current infrastructure, expand public transit, build dense housing around transit corridors and make the streets safer for people to bike and walk, according to three experts who study Bay Area transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Express toll lanes, modern trains, buses that run faster and more frequently, protected bike lane networks and communities designed to give people more options to get around are the future. Getting there is going to take a long time, a ton of money and lots of political will.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright noborder\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ViRhsrJIythN0WMOJByhB7a9PpZI5c0YLz2ldvdg0YY/viewform?embedded=true\" width=\"370\" height=\"460\" frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"The Bay Area has the most robust transit system west of the Mississippi, and we need to build on that strength,\" says Jeff Hobson, deputy director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.transformca.org/\">TransForm\u003c/a>. \"We need to use our existing infrastructure better because that’s the cheapest way of serving more people, that’s the most cost-effective way of serving more people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Metropolitan Transportation Commission confirms traffic congestion has gone up in the last six months, a sign the economy is booming. Traffic on the Bay Bridge is the highest it's ever been, while highway congestion across the region has remained relatively steady over the years. There's not going to be a quick fix to the Bay Area's traffic woes akin to the highway boom of the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don’t want to build our way out of this crisis,\" says Randy Rentschler, the MTC's legislative and public affairs director. \"We need some strategic investment, we do. We need to fix some highways, we do. We need to widen some, fix some interchanges, we do. But we don’t want it to be what we are only doing here in the Bay Area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Express Lane Network\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10406366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 730px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.mtcexpresslanes.org/projects/express_lanes/pdfs/expresslanefactsheet_103013.pdf\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10406366\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-14-at-4.39.25-PM.png\" alt=\"Transportation officials envision a 550-mile network of express toll lanes by 2035.\" width=\"730\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-14-at-4.39.25-PM.png 730w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-14-at-4.39.25-PM-400x327.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transportation officials envision a 550-mile network of express toll lanes by 2035. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One way transportation planners want to help ease the commute for drivers is by building a 550-mile network of \u003ca href=\"http://www.mtcexpresslanes.org/projects/express_lanes/\">express toll lanes\u003c/a>, not expected to be completed until 2035. In express lanes, solo drivers pay fluctuating FasTrak tolls based on traffic while carpools, vanpools, buses and other eligible vehicles use them for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will take a few decades to complete the network, but \u003ca href=\"http://bayareaexpresslanes.org/map/#\">work is underway. \u003c/a>There are now express lanes on southbound Interstate 680 between Sunol and San Jose, and on State Route 237 between Milpitas and San Jose. Two new lanes are being constructed on Interstate 580 between Livermore and Dublin. Chris Tann can expect an express route on Highway 85 sometime in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, express lanes don't benefit every solo driver. They benefit those who can pay. TransForm, which advocates giving people of all income levels more options to get around, has urged MTC to consider ways for low-income drivers to get discounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.transformca.org/resource/moving-people-not-just-cars\">a 2013 report\u003c/a>, TransForm suggests \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">toll money be used to expand bus service, instead of building more highway lanes. Existing lanes could be converted to express routes, the report says. \u003c/span>The money could then be used to ramp up a network of public transit buses that would use the same express lanes, and move more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Building Housing By Transit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10407128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13881_20150102_boomtown_rwc_jt_001-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10407128\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13881_20150102_boomtown_rwc_jt_001-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Construction cranes loom near Redwood City's train station.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13881_20150102_boomtown_rwc_jt_001-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13881_20150102_boomtown_rwc_jt_001-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13881_20150102_boomtown_rwc_jt_001-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction cranes loom near Redwood City's train station. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chris Tann is like a lot of commuters in Silicon Valley who don't live close to work, and for whom a bus or train is not always an easy option. The built environment encourages people to drive. Private tech shuttles are one response to the lack of convenient, reliable transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://planbayarea.org/plan-bay-area.html\">Plan Bay Area\u003c/a>, which provides a long-range transportation and housing vision to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, encourages new housing along transit corridors so people have the option of taking a bus or train, instead of driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two-thirds of new housing production will be focused on the 15 Bay Area cities expecting the most growth. Topping the list are San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland, and cities mostly on the Peninsula and in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the new housing will benefit people of all income levels remains to be seen. Bay Area cities are drastically behind on their affordable housing goals, and it will take many years to catch up, barring bold action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Expanding Public Transit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10407141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/10898_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10407141\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/10898_transform-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Transbay Transit Center construction.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/10898_transform-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/10898_transform-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/10898_transform.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transbay Transit Center construction. \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A bullet train that whisks you from the new Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco to Los Angeles. A quiet, sleek BART train that runs 24 hours in a second Transbay Tube. A Muni bus that glides from Union Square to the Outer Richmond in a dedicated transit lane. An AC Transit bus that zips you from San Leandro to downtown Oakland. Transportation planners have got some big transit projects in the works, but some will take decades to complete. However, there is some relief on the horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bus rapid transit\u003c/strong>: By 2018, the first rapid bus lines in the Bay Area should be up and running in \u003ca href=\"http://www.vta.org/scar-brt\">San Jose\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://brt.actransit.org/aboutbrt/maps/\">Oakland\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcta.org/delivering-transportation-projects/van-ness-avenue-bus-rapid-transit-home\">San Francisco\u003c/a>. Bus rapid transit works well because it frees buses from car traffic, allowing them to run faster in their own lanes. Level platforms and easy payment options allow seamless boarding for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BART: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/about/projects/cars/delivery-plan\">BART's $3 billion fleet of the future\u003c/a> will come in installments over several years. The first cars should be running sometime in 2017, but all 775 cars won't be fully integrated into the system until 2021, when the average number of weekday fare-gate exits is expected to increase from 400,000 to 500,000. \u003ca href=\"http://www.vta.org/bart/\">BART service \u003c/a>to Silicon Valley should be partially complete by 2017, but it's not expected to extend all the way to downtown San Jose until 2025. \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2014/12/01/bart-will-study-second-transbay-tube-west-side-extension/\">Building a second Transbay Tube \u003c/a>is gaining\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/mayor-ed-lee-announces-support-for-a-second-bart-transbay-tube/Content?oid=2916966\"> political support\u003c/a>, but is still decades away. While 24-hour service isn't in the foreseeable future, BART has beefed up overnight transbay bus service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 770px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-20-at-1.38.53-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10411686\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-20-at-1.38.53-PM.png\" alt=\"New Muni trains made by Siemens are expected to begin arriving in 2016.\" width=\"770\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-20-at-1.38.53-PM.png 770w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-20-at-1.38.53-PM-400x176.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Muni trains made by Siemens are expected to begin arriving in 2016. \u003ccite>((Photo courtesy of the SFMTA))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Muni: \u003c/strong>The Bay Area's largest transit system is also updating its fleet of buses and trains, and \u003ca href=\"http://muniforward.com/creating-a-rapid-network/\">planning a rapid system\u003c/a> that carries up to 70 percent of passengers. That involves making its most popular lines more reliable and efficient, and street changes that allow buses and trains to run quicker. Big projects include bus rapid transit on Van Ness and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcta.org/delivering-transportation-projects/geary-corridor-bus-rapid-transit-home\">Geary\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.centralsubwaysf.com/\">Central Subway\u003c/a>, now under construction and expected to start service in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caltrain\u003c/strong>: Caltrain is planning to electrify its tracks to run smoother, faster, quieter service with a new fleet of electric trains by 2021 that will replace most of its current diesel fleet. That's not much consolation to Caltrain's growing number of riders, but in the meantime it is planning to run longer trains with cars it recently purchased from Metrolink in Southern California, which will also add \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2015/01/12/caltrain-to-add-third-bike-on-longer-six-car-trains/\">more capacity for riders with bikes.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Smart: \u003c/strong>North Bay transportation officials are currently constructing the first phase of a 70-mile train and bicycle corridor from Larkspur to Cloverdale known as SMART. 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That's the definition of penny-wise and pound-foolish.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Bay Area transportation agencies do have new funding to improve street safety for bicyclists and pedestrians, thanks to voter-approved funding measures in Alameda County and San Francisco. That money will help fix potholes and redesign streets that are hostile to people biking and walking. Similar measures may eventually go before voters in other Bay Area counties, says Hobson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, no city or county except Alameda has the funding to actually build out a 21st century bike network over the next 10 years or more, says Snyder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Community Process \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting transit and safe streets projects approved, funded and built in the Bay Area can be a big challenge. Projects face opposition and get watered down. 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Santa Clara County lost about \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Census-Bay-Area-counties-shrink-Santa-Clara-2654647.php\">12,500 residents in one year\u003c/a> and San Francisco nearly that many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand why that happened -- and whether we're in for a repeat -- let's take a quick trip back to that giddy, effervescent era.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/8F4LiqYzBZY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Britney Spears' \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CduA0TULnow\">Oops! ... I Did it Again\u003c/a>\" played over and over on the radio. President Bill Clinton declared the state of the union the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg_qI3yzCLk\">strongest it's ever been.\u003c/a>\" And America's favorite TV pitchman was a sock puppet -- the manic mascot for Pets.com, a new pet food and supply delivery company based in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://techland.time.com/2012/02/01/super-bowl-tech-ads-survivors-and-casualties-over-the-years/slide/pets-com-2000/#./?&_suid=142179893279608677293582612844\">multimillion-dollar commercials\u003c/a> made the puppet so popular that he appeared on prime-time talk shows and even had his own balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. But Pets.com imploded the same year it went public. 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Excitement over the mere potential of the Web swept up both seasoned investors and the eager young college and business school graduates who flocked to the Bay Area for jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pennsylvania resident Jessica Downey said she was just 23 when a startup technology magazine lured her to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had huge launch parties,\" Downey recalled. \"There were runway models and sword swallowers. It was completely surreal and unbelievable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the magazine went bust about seven months after it launched, Downey said. Bay Area rents plummeted as she and thousands of other unemployed tech workers headed back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Going across 80, you would pass five or six other Ryder Trucks going back to the East Coast,\" she said. \"There just weren't jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bubble 2.0?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jobs are back. So is heavy venture capital investment in tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But are we on the verge of another massive industrywide bust?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today is different,\" said Stephen Levy, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsce.com/Steve_Levy.php\">Center for the Continuing Study of the California Economy\u003c/a>, a nonpartisan think tank based in Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy has been studying the state's boom-bust cycles for more than 40 years and is considered a leading thinker on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">Companies like Apple, Google and LinkedIn have real sales, products and profits.\u003ccite>Stephen Levy, Director, Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It has taken companies like Apple and Google and LinkedIn and eBay years and years to build a customer base, he explained. \"They have real sales and products and profits,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the tech spectrum, the growth is more robust and solidly founded. For the most part, startups have real business plans, which investors scrutinize with a much more skeptical eye than they did in the Pets.com era. And, even if there were a crash, tech now overlaps with so many other business sectors that it's too diverse and complex to bring down in one fell swoop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy said he's not worried about a sudden burst. What does keep him up at night is the state of the Bay Area's infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I worry that we're not going to build enough housing, that we're not going to increase transportation capacity either on the roads or Caltrain or BART,\" Levy said. \"I worry that companies that want to be here won't be able to because we can't or are not willing to house the growth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if you're among those hoping to see your rents drop suddenly like they did back in 2001, sorry to burst your bubble. 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I picked up some broken glass and things like that,” says Fiona Wilmot, who moved to the neighborhood last year. Wilmot is part of a wave of new arrivals. Many came as the mortgage meltdown made homes more affordable in Oakland, especially compared with San Francisco's high prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I often see people drinking with open containers,\" says Wilmot, who lives only a few houses away from the plaza. \"After about an hour and a half, two hours, things get very loud. ... It may calm down sometimes after dark, sometimes not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Department of Public Works has received almost two dozen complaints about the plaza in the past year and a half, and that doesn’t include complaints handled by other departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address some of those issues, Moore and some supporters paid to have a portable toilet installed at the plaza. But they didn’t have a permit. In fact, the city doesn't grant permits for permanent portable toilets, according to Joe Devries, assistant to Oakland’s city administrator. So, the city has forced the toilet's removal on two occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Short of having not filled out a permit or going through any of the right procedures even for a temporary Porta-Potty ... we kinda need to see that before we could even entertain something long term,\" Devries said. \"And based on the neighbors' concerns, I don’t know that they would get it granted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10380979\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10380979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Aunti Frances Moore led a City Hall protest last fall demanding a portable toilet at Driver Plaza.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aunti Frances Moore led a City Hall protest last fall demanding a portable toilet at Driver Plaza. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In October, Moore and others protested outside City Hall, chanting, \"We want the Porta-Potty back!\" and holding signs saying, \"Where can we pee?\" The group has met with city officials, but thus far there are no plans for a temporary or permanent toilet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For plaza regulars like Dwight Hill, the toilet isn't really the issue. It’s about the continued existence of their longtime cultural space, in a neighborhood that dropped from 53 percent African-American in 2000 to 36 percent in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a losing thing. We’re gonna lose,“ said Hill, while digging into some of Moore's roasted potatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why would anyone want a Porta-Potty out in front of their apartment complex, or their condo? Why would anyone want someone who ain’t got a job, ain’t generating no money, ain’t contributing nothing to society, just hanging around?” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of people out here on Driver Plaza feel that the newer, often non-black, residents have a vision for the neighborhood that doesn’t include them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stuck somewhere in the middle is Nate Williams, director at \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/genoastreet/?ref=br_tf\">Santa Fe CAN\u003c/a>, the local neighborhood association. He would like to see the space improved for the whole community, with trees, benches and tables. But when he looked into the permits and legal requirements, he put those plans on hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sometimes feels inevitable about gentrification, and there’s always gonna be tension between the newer and the older residents that are around,” Williams says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes I think those issues are much bigger than we, as residents or volunteers, can handle,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a rainy afternoon, Kedar Akbar was one of at least a half-dozen men sitting on benches and rolling office chairs. He said that when he was in fifth grade, there were some barbecues and a play structure out here. Now he comes to learn from his elders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of wisdom that is also here that you can’t get in books or you can’t Google it. Because racism isn’t just social, it’s structural. So we don’t have these things intact for us, and this is one of the ways, unfortunately, that it’s preserved, is through the oratory things and them telling stories. A lot of these people are from Mississippi, they’ve gone through the '60s. This is a \u003ca href=\"http://creosotejournal.com/2011/07/black-panthers-guide-to-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Panther\u003c/a> neighborhood, Nation of Islam and all of these -- and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/\" target=\"_blank\">SNCC\u003c/a> and things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Akbar said the city could at least install a water fountain to make it feel like a park. But even that would take a while to get permitted and built. Meanwhile, the porta-potty is gone and the neighborhood continues to change. A three-bedroom home is listed for sale up the street \u003ca href=\"https://www.redfin.com/zipcode/94608/real-estate\">for $700,000.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\">Boomtown series\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It may calm down sometimes after dark, sometimes not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Department of Public Works has received almost two dozen complaints about the plaza in the past year and a half, and that doesn’t include complaints handled by other departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address some of those issues, Moore and some supporters paid to have a portable toilet installed at the plaza. But they didn’t have a permit. In fact, the city doesn't grant permits for permanent portable toilets, according to Joe Devries, assistant to Oakland’s city administrator. So, the city has forced the toilet's removal on two occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Short of having not filled out a permit or going through any of the right procedures even for a temporary Porta-Potty ... we kinda need to see that before we could even entertain something long term,\" Devries said. \"And based on the neighbors' concerns, I don’t know that they would get it granted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10380979\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10380979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Aunti Frances Moore led a City Hall protest last fall demanding a portable toilet at Driver Plaza.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aunti Frances Moore led a City Hall protest last fall demanding a portable toilet at Driver Plaza. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In October, Moore and others protested outside City Hall, chanting, \"We want the Porta-Potty back!\" and holding signs saying, \"Where can we pee?\" The group has met with city officials, but thus far there are no plans for a temporary or permanent toilet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For plaza regulars like Dwight Hill, the toilet isn't really the issue. It’s about the continued existence of their longtime cultural space, in a neighborhood that dropped from 53 percent African-American in 2000 to 36 percent in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a losing thing. We’re gonna lose,“ said Hill, while digging into some of Moore's roasted potatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why would anyone want a Porta-Potty out in front of their apartment complex, or their condo? Why would anyone want someone who ain’t got a job, ain’t generating no money, ain’t contributing nothing to society, just hanging around?” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of people out here on Driver Plaza feel that the newer, often non-black, residents have a vision for the neighborhood that doesn’t include them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stuck somewhere in the middle is Nate Williams, director at \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/genoastreet/?ref=br_tf\">Santa Fe CAN\u003c/a>, the local neighborhood association. He would like to see the space improved for the whole community, with trees, benches and tables. But when he looked into the permits and legal requirements, he put those plans on hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sometimes feels inevitable about gentrification, and there’s always gonna be tension between the newer and the older residents that are around,” Williams says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes I think those issues are much bigger than we, as residents or volunteers, can handle,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a rainy afternoon, Kedar Akbar was one of at least a half-dozen men sitting on benches and rolling office chairs. He said that when he was in fifth grade, there were some barbecues and a play structure out here. Now he comes to learn from his elders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of wisdom that is also here that you can’t get in books or you can’t Google it. Because racism isn’t just social, it’s structural. 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"content": "\u003cp>About a dozen volunteers -- mostly in their 20s and 30s -- are gathered around a dining table in a sleek high-rise apartment near downtown San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those eating pizza and settling in for the evening's meeting are recent college graduates, a business executive and a few real estate professionals. Several had parents who were public school teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"None of us are teachers, but everybody in this room -- a teacher has touched their life,\" explained Azalea\u003cbr>\nRenfield, 32. \"That's the common thing that keeps us all together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/186030402\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfield is the leader of this fledgling nonprofit, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.ueaah.org/\">United Educators Association for Affordable Housing (UEAAH)\u003c/a>. She said she started it because she believes teachers deserve to live in or near the communities they serve, even if it's pricy San Francisco or Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UEAAH members ultimately want to develop and oversee several teacher housing programs. For example, one would help find low-interest home loans; another would connect teachers with landlords willing to give educators a break on rent. Right now, their primary concern is boosting their tiny budget. Ready or not, though, the group is already hearing from teachers who need help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cindy's Story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy Lundberg said she was feeling pretty panicked when she first contacted UEAAH this fall. Lundberg is the mother of three girls, is separated from her husband and works at \u003ca href=\"http://graham.mvwsd.org/\">Graham Middle School\u003c/a> in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"5iICCFdvmNNpNGuAO5HEU2HmLd0JQLhL\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average teacher salary in this district is $65,000 -- not bad in many parts of the country. But in \u003ca href=\"http://www.mountainview.gov/\">Google's hometown\u003c/a>, the median home value is $1 million and the average rent is just under $3,000 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's no rent control in Mountain View either. Lundberg said she learned that the hard way, when her apartment complex posted a note on her door informing her that her monthly rent was going up -- by about 30 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just made me cry, because I was like, 'How can someone do this to me? How can they just raise the rent that dramatically and put a little note on your door?' It just felt really cold,\" Lundberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apartment managers wouldn't negotiate, she said. But the receptionist was sympathetic and passed along a business card from Renfield's organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was starting to get panicked because I knew I had a month to get out,\" Lundberg said. \"And I was like, 'I can't find a place and maybe these guys can help me.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UEAAH volunteer Olivia Casey spoke with Lundberg about where she wanted to look and then jumped in with the search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was mainly looking at Craigslist, and I helped her look at some other places and some other websites I knew about in Mountain View,\" Casey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They ran into roadblock after roadblock: Rents were too high, landlords wouldn't negotiate and the competition for rental properties was intense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10405309\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10405309\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rising rents in Mountain View pushed school teacher Cindy Lundberg out of her apartment complex.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rising rents in Mountain View pushed school teacher Cindy Lundberg out of her apartment complex. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Martin Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lundberg worried that she might have to move out of the area altogether. Graham Middle School Principal Kim Thompson said, unfortunately, that's not unusual in Mountain View. A special education teacher recently left for Sacramento because she wanted to buy a house and couldn't find anything nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was a solid, solid special ed, which are hard to come by,\" Thompson said. \"It's hard on me, it's hard on kids when you find someone of top quality and they're wanting a house,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Lundberg met a landlord in nearby Cupertino who agreed to negotiate a lower rent. She found the place herself but, she said, she's still really grateful for the extra help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it was really neat that there was an organization out there that wanted to reach out to teachers like that,\" Lundberg said. \"I thought that was really, really powerful and great to see.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group admits it doesn't yet have the power to help every teacher -- it still needs a lot of money and support to make its work sustainable. Renfield said their most ambitious goal reaches far beyond the Bay Area: They want to convince Congress to give every public school teacher a basic housing stipend,\u003ca href=\"http://militarypay.defense.gov/pay/bah/index.html\"> just as it does with the military\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Texas Boomtown Tries Teacher Stipends\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, public school teachers in Midland, Texas, were facing a similar housing crunch -- although it was the booming oil and gas industry, not technology, pushing apartment rents out of reach. 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