C’est magnifique WEEKEND | 20 NOVEMBER 13, 2015 VOLUME 23, NO. 42 www.MountainViewOnline.com 650.964.6300 MOVIES | 23 Council opts for maximum housing in North Bayshore CITY’S TECH HUB ALONG SHORELINE BOULEVARD COULD BE THE SITE OF 9,100 NEW HOMES By Mark Noack buildings of up to 12 stories high that would be filled mostly with he Mountain View City “micro-unit” apartments for tech Council on Tuesday workers. Tpushed to maximize new Council members explained housing development in the that they want to take a flexible bustling North Bayshore tech approach to encourage speedy corridor. If realized by private development. developers, the city’s vision for “All this housing probably isn’t the area would add about 9,100 going to be built,” said Council- new households next door to the woman Pat Showalter. “But the offices of some of Silicon Valley’s max (area) where it’s allowed, the corporate giants. better.” The idea to inject housing It was abundantly clear at the MICHELLE LE into what has essentially been a meeting that much of this new Ryan Chester, winner of the Breakthrough Prize’s junior challenge, talks with reporters at the awards sprawling office park has grown housing development would be ceremony that brought together top names in the sciences, Silicon Valley big-wigs and Hollywood stars in popularity over the last year, spearheaded by Google, which at Moffett Field. among both council owns hundreds of members and other acres in the area. The stakeholders, espe- company sent two cially Google. The ‘I see this as letters to the city in Science and math shine at 2016 consensus is that workforce advance of the meet- Mountain View ing, urging city lead- needs to provide housing.’ ers to provide incen- Breakthrough Prize awards more housing if the tives for rapid hous- city is to continue COUNCILMAN ing growth. Google By Kevin Forestieri Walking down the red carpet Actors and actresses, televi- as a job magnet for MIKE KASPERZAK representatives just outside of Hangar One at sion producers, singers and the region. Build- particularly wanted t’s not often you get to see Moffett Field, the unlikely trio entrepreneurs all made an ing new residences assurances that any actor B. J. Novak, tech was just a sample of some of appearance at the third annu- in the heart of North Bayshore office space demolished for hous- Iinvestor Yuri Milner and the big-name celebrities who al Breakthrough Prize event, is seen as a way to alleviate the ing could be rebuilt elsewhere. former CIA director David showed up in Mountain View which was started by high-pow- daily traffic jam of workers fun- Any new housing that is built Patraeus in the same room Sunday night to support some neling into the area, and perhaps would include the number of together. of the world’s top scientists. See AWARDS, page 12 open the possibility for more tech affordable units required by city expansion. regulations, said Google spokes- At a Nov. 10 study session, man Davis White. council members gave direction Most council members on a variety of tweaks to the endorsed the idea of giving Few students expected, city’s land-use plans in what they some perks to speed up housing described as a “high-level” vision growth, although they hinted for future development. Through that some disagreements may despite city’s housing growth a series of straw votes, council be ahead — the question of who members made clear they want would live in these new housing SECOND STUDY SHOWS SMALL BOOST IN ENROLLMENT FOR MV WHISMAN DISTRICT to study as much housing as the units among them. area could sustain. They picked “I do want to incentivize the By Kevin Forestieri kids are expected to enter the picked apart demographic data the largest area proposed by staff property owners to create the city’s public schools could largely for months, insisting there are — a cluster of parcels totaling 60 neighborhood we want,” said n the Mountain View Whis- determine whether the district enough kids in the pipeline to acres near Shoreline Boulevard Councilman Lenny Siegel. “But man School District, nothing opens a school at Slater Elemen- support a new school. Others north of Highway 101. as far as what kind of housing Ihas been more of a political tary. fear an extra school could drain For those properties, the coun- and who would live there, I think football this year than enroll- Parent groups lobbying for a cil laid out a neighborhood vision ment projections. 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