The complexity of the issue covered in this article illustrates how important it is that these decisions are left to council members and not voters.

Exactly!

And here's the obvious: whether you like it or not, the only way we build massive amounts of housing is through the General Plan process- Not by saying No or Wait and See to every proposal that comes along.

That said, it will be at least 5 years before any new Facebook housing comes to market and by then well be deep in a Trump recession, and Silicon Valley will have collapsed.

Give it a rest. It's been a long long time since the majority of this Council said no to any large scale development project or proposed upzoning. At some point the denigration of any voice but "build it now" gets old - especially to those of us feeling the effects of insane gridlock in our neighborhood. I voted against Measure M but not for unbridled development at any cost. I don't care if the Almanac reporter misunderstood one zoning change on Facebook's properties.