Tenants Move into Transit Village after Twenty Years

This is exactly what I was talking about.  According to the Pleasant Hill Patch, this Transit Village, located right next to Bart, is not filled two decades after it was built. 

Not only that, in another article, the management relates how they are being very selective about what type of retail they let in.  It's a little late for that, isn't it?  In the next breath the article talks about an Allstate Insurance Agency that has had its' fees tripled to $900!!  I don't get. ithttp://pleasanthill.patch.com/groups/business-news/p/tenants-may-start-moving-into-the-mostly-vacant-pleasant-hill-bart-office-complex

Why is this happening?  It makes sense because according to the U.S. Housing Census, residents pay less on their mortgages in the East Bay than anywhere else in the Bay area.  This has, of course, increased over the previous year with a jump of 31% in housing prices to date per the Lamorinda Patch today.

Of course, Orinda is higher end, but what I am getting at is that we need to be vigilant about seeing to it that our council approves of and we approve of housing that meets the state mandates, and yet does not exceed them to the point of vacancy. 

Housing that rents to people and businesses that bring in tax revenue, but on a smaller scale.  After all, they are talking about prioritized deeds with respect to mother-in-law units and apt.s that you will be required to rent to people of low income at a rate that the city will determine.  Can you say government interference in our lives? 

As a renter in someone's home/mother in law unit, (something I never thought the council would embrace) it will be almost like living in your own home, cheaply, once again reducing the need for so much mandated high density housing.  Do you think they will make allowances for our own parents to move in, regardless of their financial circumstances?!!!

I'm hoping they won't start telling us what flowers to plant. 

To paraphrase Herb Brown at the Tuesday night meeting, "I want to see what the buildings will look like in Orinda before they go in."

Hopefully, on that score, they will eventually have a scaled 3D display available for the current residents to see, perhaps in the library.  Something to show how the building will relate to the topography of our beautiful Orinda.  And something with parking on a scale that will address the needs of ALL the residents, not just the new ones.