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Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M
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Re: Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M
#12I think we should have a letter writing campaign to shame residents of Atherton. There's not that many of them.
Atherton residents include people like founders of A16Z, Stephen Curry and others. The funny thing, 10-15 years ago, a number of residences were second houses and generally empty.
Back about 15-16 years ago, there was an international incubator BlackBox based out of one of the properties in Atherton.
Re: Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M
#13I think we should have a letter writing campaign to shame residents of Atherton. There's not that many of them.
> we should have a letter writing campaign
The state should be able to collect damages for frivolous NIMBY lawsuits. I don’t care if they’re ashamed. If they’re fine paying more taxes to behave like idiots, who cares.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
A big reform passed in 2025: https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/06/ceqa-urban-developmen...
Unfortunately it does not works as intended all the times. From what I have personally observed, everything falls down to the city planners on the interpretation of the code changes.
I'm confused; AB2503 does specify some building standard changes ... to be studied and then adopted by 2032.
We're talking about how it exempts many things from CEQA litigation. Since it's been less than a year, I'm not sure how well we can gauge its effectiveness.
Re: Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M
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It would take like two minutes to cross Atherton on a horse.
Re: Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M
#18I agree completely and empathetically and vehemently with the idea behind the message.
The slop & aggressively poor argumentation, the kind that I think would have caused me to fail it if I tried it in speech & debate in middle school, leaves me feeling empty.
They keep saying $400M, $400M, $400M, $400M, and the only cost they came up with is $20M. It makes me uncomfortable to support the overall cause if this is how it'll be played, because, setting aside morality of tactics, it's not playing to win. Anyone who is at the margins will see it plainly and be given a reason not to listen.
Re: Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M
#19Can the county remove Atherton from its services coverage boundaries until the $400M of costs have been recouped?
Re: Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M
#20Atherton resident Marc Andreessen Apr 18th 2020: "It's Time To Build" "We can’t build nearly enough housing in our cities"[0]
Andreessen family 2 years later: "IMMENSELY AGAINST multifamily development! I am writing this letter to communicate our IMMENSE objection to the creation of multifamily overlay zones in Atherton... They will MASSIVELY decrease our home values"[1]
[0] https://a16z.com/its-time-to-build/
[1] https://therealdeal.com/san-francisco/2022/08/08/marc-andree...