Residential Growth

We know that access to Caltrain can greatly improve quality of life for those commuting up to San Francisco or down toward San Jose, so thinking proactively about higher density transit-oriented housing helps us grow the community with convenience and traffic oversight in mind.

We’ll need a range of housing options for new and existing residents, ensuring that our first responders, teachers, police and fire personnel are living in this community, as they always have. By finding ways to push developers to build more affordable units versus offering the City in lieu payments, we can guarantee that a portion of all new development is offered at below market rates for families and individuals that qualify. We can also ensure that developers add public parking and green spaces for the City.

Likewise, East San Carlos has a thriving and growing new biotech hub, many small businesses, and an Industrial Arts Zone – together these create a new ecosystem for restaurants and retail, and distribute traffic further across the city. By encouraging more restaurants and retail businesses in this area, and connecting this key neighborhood to West San Carlos via bike lanes, more sidewalks, pocket parks and more street lights, we can extend the corridor of retail, restaurants, and walking areas from downtown into East San Carlos.