Comments for Felton housing planned in wrong place at http://pressbanner.com , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://pressbanner.com Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:43:50 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://pressbanner.com/content/view/1169/41/#comment-857 Constituent is right. More kids in the San Lorenzo Valley opt for private school and homeschool than go to public school. This is in part due to a reckless and corrupt school board for the past several years. The worst board member has left, fortunately. There is zero job growth in the valley. And regarding the VWC's senseless babbling about housing for teachers...there's a waiting list for teachers at the school. Our valley schools are not suffering from lack of teachers, they are suffering from lack of decent leadership. The money they have is misspent. Hopefully that wound will stop bleeding with the strong oversight committee in place now. As to the tired canard about families not able to afford to live here. Perhaps if "local" above, and others like her, got a decent education, stayed away from negative substances, and made better lifestyle choices she would be able to afford to buy a home here. Or get her mom to buy her one. Or look at the MLS listings and realize that home prices in the San Lorenzo Valley are dropping to well below South County Housing's "affordable" rate for a poorly built, rules-driven, semi-deeded, government subsidized housing units. - Bryan Thu, 08 May 2008 12:33:21 +0100 http://pressbanner.com/content/view/1169/41/#comment-855 Actaully it's more a case of no lcoal jobs than "afford to live here." But even with that the valley has managed to become completely overly built out with commuters going to jobs offered in San Jose. There are more teachers and firefighters than this valley knows what to do with. Enrollment is actually up, almost double the kids than 20 years ago, but now with all the choices in alternative education about half our student population is out of the public school. San Lorenzo Valley is built out according to Mt Hermon's CEQA report from 1999 for their dry building. This project is proposed down the road and yet SCH is able to forge through. This is an environmental disaster just waiting to happen. - constituent Thu, 08 May 2008 09:13:54 +0100 http://pressbanner.com/content/view/1169/41/#comment-854 Actually, Bill, "They" are closing all the schools because enrollment is down due to the fact that families can't afford to live here! - local Wed, 07 May 2008 17:05:55 +0100 http://pressbanner.com/content/view/1169/41/#comment-850 South County Housing says the Felton Faire project will be the gateway to the valley. That we should want lots of development like this up here. What's next? Government housing at Redwood Elementary? Quail Hollow? Is that why they're closing all these schools? so South County can get their hands on the land. - Bill H Mon, 05 May 2008 13:42:15 +0100 http://pressbanner.com/content/view/1169/41/#comment-838 Why would the County and the developer keep at this, when it is so obviously an overly expensive bad idea? How can the project pay for all the necessary infrastructure, and yet remain affordable? Who will gain money if this is built, and who will lose if it is not built? I have these questions and more. - Alfredo Vargas, Ben Lomond Sat, 03 May 2008 11:57:04 +0100 http://pressbanner.com/content/view/1169/41/#comment-828 Thanks Steve. A rational, concise assessment of the issue. It's a position shared by the majority of the residents here, a few vocal boycotters notwithstanding. - Marcus Fri, 02 May 2008 10:04:47 +0100