Bay Area

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emilyhoeven/article/menlo-park-affordable-housing-20390001.php

"“Hoping to squeeze large apartment buildings into narrow, heavily used downtown parking lots … is not a path to success,” Save Downtown Menlo organizer Alex Beltramo told me in an email. When I pointed out that the Menlo Park City Council has pledged to replace most, if not all, of the 556 parking spaces that would be impacted, Beltramo argued it wouldn’t be sufficient for residents and shoppers and replacing surface lots with parking garages would be “more difficult to navigate and far less convenient.”"

NIMBY always has an excuse. They need to convince fence-sitters they're reasonable. It's still NIMBY.

Build on two lots instead and add a multistory parking garage on the third?

Helpful context. Was wondering why a local business group would be opposed to 700+ new customers - that’s where a lot of the current customers probably park.

At the same time, this is NIMBYism. The Bay desperately needs housing near transit at scale and it’s brutal to see every single project face this kind of resistance.

I grew up in SJ, lived in SF for 10 years, and moved to Detroit last year. My mom is “concerned” about the larger apartment buildings building up near Meridian and Fruitdale because “people won’t be able to see the mountains behind the big buildings”.

Well congrats mom. You got your spot but I and the other people making under 120k/year won’t be there to enjoy them.

That's the point, unfortunately.