Mayor Nash and Council Members
Please Share this information with the 3 developers:
Taken from the Mercury news
Headline:
Are Californians ready to give up their cars? A San Jose apartment tower put that to the test:
From the newspaper article:
The Fay apartment tower in downtown San Jose was built to draw residents back to the city, a sleek high-rise with rooftop views and luxury amenities. But two years later, the building is 60% vacant, and city officials say one key reason stands out: not enough parking.
Two years after it opened with fewer than one parking spot for every three apartments, The Fay has plunged into foreclosure, changed hands and become part of a city plan to lease its empty units as discounted housing for public employees. The catch: Many of those workers may have to leave their cars at City Hall, seven blocks away.”
My experience:
Every new tenant asks : "Where will my assigned parking space(s) be?
People are reluctant to use Parking ramps above level 2 and below street level.
A 4 or 5 story parking ramp will not replace equivalent ground level open air parking lot spaces.
See my previous emails and photos confirming this.
Drive through the Palo Alto parking ramps: only levels 1 and 2 are used.
The other levels are wasted space.
Time to abandon using our Downtown Parking Plazas for state mandated low cost apartments.
Mike DeMoss
Commercial Real Estate Attorney
Unbiased Resident
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