Thank you Allison MacQueen for your Letter to the Editor of the San Mateo Daily Journal!
Editor,
Fact: California state law requires San Mateo to plan for growing its housing stock by 7,015 units by 2031 and have a certified housing element (a plan how housing growth could be achieved). With the passing of Senate Bill 423 in 2023, the state of California has shown it is not messing around. If there is not a credible plan to achieve housing growth targets, the state of California will exert state control over development projects in San Mateo, as it recently did in Menlo Park and San Francisco.
Why vote yes on T?
More housing inventory means our neighbors have real options at all levels of affordability for living.
San Mateo retains local control of where denser development is located
Development areas encourage healthy lifestyles — more walking, biking and transit use.
Small local businesses will benefit from neighbors living around them.
Measure T is the best way for San Mateo to keep our housing element in good standing to maintain local control of development. This is a smart and sensible plan that concentrates denser development in a few select areas near existing businesses and transit and allows our downtown to evolve into a neighborhood with more affordable units than we would have had otherwise.
Who knows better where to put smart and strategic housing development in San Mateo? You or Sacramento? You are choosing between these two options, and nothing else.
Yes on Measure T on or before Nov. 5.
Allison MacQueen
San Mateo
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