More housing, with saleable ADUs, may be coming to Sebastopol, plus construction at Park Side School, Vineyard Table, and kudos for Hillcrest Middle School
One thing that has not been adequately explained is why if California's population is flat or even declining, why a housing shortage? Could it be short term rentals, vacation homes, residential to commercial conversions (S Main St.) or pied a terres for a few? We all know that most ADUs are really just short term rentals. A property will increase in value with an ADU so taxes will go up and it will cost more for someone to buy.
The Valentine project is only 'promising' to the developer. It's more nail in the coffin of a sweet small town that developers are hell bent on destroying with more 'infill' and crowding. Very sad that Sebastopol always needs more tax revenues for 'giveaways' and that politicians almost always cave to developers who maximize the number of units on every parcel they get their sweaty hands on. Call us NIMBY's....we don't care.
Once again, the Times delivers. Now the recent ADU decision makes sense. The Valentine project looks promising, and is a creative solution for community improving suburban infill.
Thanks for the update on school construction.
One thing that has not been adequately explained is why if California's population is flat or even declining, why a housing shortage? Could it be short term rentals, vacation homes, residential to commercial conversions (S Main St.) or pied a terres for a few? We all know that most ADUs are really just short term rentals. A property will increase in value with an ADU so taxes will go up and it will cost more for someone to buy.
The Valentine project is only 'promising' to the developer. It's more nail in the coffin of a sweet small town that developers are hell bent on destroying with more 'infill' and crowding. Very sad that Sebastopol always needs more tax revenues for 'giveaways' and that politicians almost always cave to developers who maximize the number of units on every parcel they get their sweaty hands on. Call us NIMBY's....we don't care.
Once again, the Times delivers. Now the recent ADU decision makes sense. The Valentine project looks promising, and is a creative solution for community improving suburban infill.