Tech companies should

locate where there is land

Re: “BART, housing bills on agenda” (Page A1, Aug. 6):

State legislators will consider a bill that forces cities “to ease the housing crisis by allowing denser development.”

This is a bad bill. People live in suburbs because they don’t care to live in big, overdeveloped cities The housing crisis is a result of tech companies building in the Bay Area with no thought to where their employees can live.

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The problem is not housing, it’s about land and the Bay Area has run out of land. There is land elsewhere — Sacramento and Salinas valleys. Central California. Lots of land. Santa Clara Valley was once home to an agricultural industry with acres of land. It was “The Valley of the Heart’s Delight.” Then Lockheed came and IBM, Intel, Memorex, etc. Our valley became known as “Silicon Valley.”

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Gene McHone

Santa Clara

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