Is this article about a lot of housing or land on lots around town that has been approved? Please please please read your headline before publishing it!

[EDITOR'S NOTE: Good point. We changed the head.]

Grammar:

did you consider that they were possibly making a play on words?

Fascinating. Several questions occur:

1) Will MP be sued again if they don't issue the allotted permits for each category of low to moderate income?
2) are the permitted units actually occupied by people in those ranges (once built)?
3) Do the income ranges adjust with inflation
4) What incentives can the town offer to ensure units are built and occupied by the target segments?

Here's a vote for ZPG Bay Area wide (if not statewide). We should be capping total commercial space and/or taxing headcount to stop the demand part of this cycle, not indefinitely increasing housing supply. Let the jobs distribute elsewhere rather than needlessly trying to cram them all into the Bay Area and overrunning infrastructure that was not intended to support this pointless exponential growth.

Best thing about this is how the residents of these homes will permanently change the Menlo Park political dynamic. The "Hey, I got here first!" caucus hasn't been doing themselves any favors (see: how badly Measure M lost in 2014, or how much Chuck Bernstein failed in his 2012 City Council race), but some races have been close. With 1K+ of new voters that understand 4-story apartments are okay, things are only going to get better. Anyone running for the Council in 2018 has got to acknowledge the new dynamic, or lose big.