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Correction: No loss of potential affordable housing due to Facebook rezoning

Original post made on Dec 7, 2016

The Almanac inaccurately reported, in a Dec. 6 online story and in the Dec. 7 print edition, that a rezoning of Facebook's east campus from "residential-mixed use" to "office-corporate housing" in the final months of the process resulted in the potential loss of up to 300 affordable housing units in Menlo Park.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 11:04 AM

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Posted by Complex
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Dec 7, 2016 at 4:19 pm

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.

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Posted by really?
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Dec 7, 2016 at 8:15 pm

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.

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Posted by Scott H.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Dec 7, 2016 at 8:48 pm

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.

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