Silicon Valley TOD Updates - Early 2025
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Surprise! New video type just dropped. Introducing TOD Updates, these will be videos on any massive TOD Updates throughout the Bay Area. Today's episode will be focused on the South Bay. Let me know what you think about this format!
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Always great to see more dense housing with great transit access!
That’s the name of the game. Build baby build !!
BUILD BABY BUILD!!!
Damn right!!
As long as they keep building apartment complexes the prices will go down.
Market rate. Affordable rate. It all helps!
Theres shitloads of new housing popping up along bascom
I agree, just look at the average rent in Austin going down right now as a result of YIMBY policy
Hey, what about all the new highrises in downtown San Jose and all those five over ones in North San Jose! 😁
Love the video though! I had no idea that there's anything at all happening in NIMBY East San Jose. That's awesome to see, especially with the VTA Orange line extension breaking ground!
Gotta cover downtown stuff in a future video! I know the Fay opened up last month I believe. Shame it’s right by 280 tho
@@todgod You da' man! I knew it more videos are coming! (rubbing hands like a crazed raccoon)
I think focusing on about the last 5 years of downtown San Jose would be very useful. No one has been paying attention, and San Jose somehow sprung an actual downtown with 200-250 story highrises!
Even locally I don't think that most people realize how much downtown has changed in the last half a decade. I myself was recently surprised at how many new buildings just appeared out of nowhere in dt DJ.
Awesome synopsis, I knew about some of these projects, but I had no idea we were getting so much more housing near transit. Thanks for doing the legwork.
As others have said, build baby build. Mixed-use, affordable, market rate, anything, just build up not out.
Build baby build!!
Affordable housing > market rate housing > no housing
At the end of the day, any housing is better than no housing, and we should strive for an ample amount of units regardless of their price range. The only way to bring prices down for everyone is to ensure there's enough supply to go around, so we shouldn't get bogged down by the specifics
Also, the California Ave development is because it's a builders remedy project, meaning it was basically able to get a rubber stamp approval without having to deal with the usual rezoning process, hence why it didn't get stopped by the usual Palo Alto NIMBYism
I agree!
ESSJ represent! Thanks a ton for your updates. So happy to see the development over here and excited for the light rail connector to Eastridge to finish.
Same here! I was lucky enough to make it to the ribbon cutting ceremony for the light rail! There’s a huge amount of progress already being made on the light rail
Now thinking on the matter, I do remember something with Winchester LRV Station, but I honestly have no idea if that still going through. Haven't seen or heard anything for about a year on that project.
Banger
Thanks! I strive for all my vids to be bangers
Thanks for the visuals and recap! First thing I do when I see new development is I look to see what grocery stores and neighborhood necessities are close by. AVE Santa Clara (one of the new buildings by Levis Stadium) just touted on instagram that they are a good 3 miles away from Whole Foods. They called that close. So, to me, complete communities are just as important as TOD. Good planning involves thinking about how residents will go about every aspect of their daily lives. A single building in SF - Mira, the famously twisty skyscraper completed in 2020, has a Sweetgreen, Cafe, Wine Bar, Optometrist and Stretch Lab, across the corner from a grocery store, and across the street from a dentist and new American restaurant. Within a 2 min walk you have quite literally a whole days worth of activity. Honestly the most impressive new build from a livability perspective.
This is why mixed use is so important!
Mixed income is considered better for society. I guess it depends on what you call affordable. Govt assistance type people tend to do better when living alongside those who are more successful. If you consider low income to be: teachers, cops, or any other non tech bro professional, you’re probably safe clumping them all together without creating Cabrini Green West
100% affordable sounds good on paper but in practice it just concentrates poverty. And it makes it easier for NIMBYs to scapegoat "the people in that subsidized building that cause all the problems in our neighborhood". Local governments are also known to mistreat subsidized buildings because they're easy to single out and isolate from the rest of the community.
It sucks that we have to do this, but some people just suck. So we have to make sure that the affordable units are not easy to single out. The only way that I see doing that effectively is by "hiding"/distributing the affordable units in market rate buildings. This way the affordable units get the exact same treatment and facilities as any other resident and the affordable units are impossible to separate out of the rest of the neighborhood for nefarious reasons.
Plus, it's cheaper for the cities to just require some amount of included affordable housing and offer a much needed zoning increase instead of paying for each unit to be built out of grant money. Included affordable just makes more sense than trying to build modern day "projects" and pretending like we learned how to build and maintain them better since the 1970s.
Love this discussion! Yeah it’s especially interesting considering the Bay Area’s high cost of living
Would love an update for Mountain View that explains why the half dozen or more proposed developments in the Downtown and El Camino Precise Plan areas seem to be going absolutely nowhere fast. It’s really hard to come by information about these too.
Mountain View and Sunnyvale are night and day. While I like MV’s downtown, I think they can do so much better to build vertically. The blueprint is RIGHT THERE
Good updates in East SJ!
Sincerely,
Penitencia Creek Station user
Let's go! New tall developments along rail corridors, you love to see it. AB2097 coming through?
Looks like it! 🚊🚊
@@todgod On that note, something that would be interesting IMO would be to look at how much parking these new developments are including. Since AB2097 eliminated minimums, it'd be neat to highlight when it's having a positive impact!
I'm surprised the NIMBYs aren't having a fit over building affordable housing, but then again, what is the definition of affordable in this area.
The NIMBYs don't have a choice anymore. The state has passed a bunch of laws to make blocking affordable housing and TOD much harder. If only the interest rates were to go down, you'd see an insane number of projects breaking ground right now. There has been a legislative tectonic shift toward YIMBY policies in California but you can barely notice it due to the expensive financing right now.
The Palo Alto project brings up a good point: Density is good, affordable housing is good, but we cannot also forget to move past Euclidean zoning. People will still drive if we put all the shopping 3 miles from all the homes, whether they're single-family houses or a 17-story apartment building. Ground-floor commercial is critical to reducing vehicle-miles traveled, as well as improving quality of life - who doesn't love a good corner store/deli or cafe on their block?
Great video bossssss
Thank you! 💪🏽💪🏽
I live near Lawrence station and already have a massive improvement on pedestrian walk ways alone I remember having to walk on the street next to the lumber yard for a little bit and then a side walk or crossing the street under the over pass at Lawrence and car coming around that corner almost hitting you now I don't need to worry and much better lighting as well just amazing and for my old city Palo Alto I hope that the California ave project goes forward as planned
Happy to see that the city made some massive pedestrian improvements! You definitely need that to maintain a walkable atmosphere
Did I miss it or did you skip the Tasman developments Santa Clara?
I’ll cover it in a future vid! There’s just so much TOD here haha
What do you think about that Related Santa Clara development across from the 9ers stadium and near the Ace/Amtrak station? Seems like there is a lot going up in South Bay in general (not saying it's enough, but a lot).
I totally missed that one. I’ll be sure to cover it in a future episode of this series. There’s a LOT going on near Lick Mill especially
$2,900 for a studio? That is completely absurd.
I think it's also worth mentioning how much parking is being built at each of these developments. I know at Bascom and Lawrence stations there are giant parking garages next to the train station and that's probably going to discourage some residents from riding transit. Still, great video and I cant wait to see how these affect transit ridership
While it’s true that these developments might have more parking than necessary, the simple act of placing them right by train platforms I think does a good job of encouraging transit use
$3000/month studio apartment? maybe if it was Dr. Dre's studio...🙄