https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBMriOspUvA
The building industry term “net zero” is a green-wash term designed to confuse the issue about growth per se.
Here is a good article on it, about San Francisco’s first “net zero” building.
To me the context of this is: powerful special interests are pushing leadership to not amend, revise or update Comprehensive Plan but UNDERMINE it, specifically to negate the Downtown Cap on office space.
To the extent we are invited to comment at all is just a show.
Maybe I’m a wee bit cynical, but that is what I read in the staff reports and hear at the various versions of this I have attended in person, plus putting it in context of watching policy fairly closely for the last five years plus taking into account the Grand Jury Report of 6/6/14 which says Palo Alto is corrupt in at least two cases both involving one developer: do you expect us to believe the corruption is limited to those two cases? How deep is the rot?
(I posted this on GS story from last week, a preview of PATC meeting about Comp Plan review, which I missed; I found the link while sussing Dan Minkoff, of Minkoff Group, the ones who want to over-build at 385 Sheridan: they have a building in Mountain View that is so-called Green, and there was a link from that to “net zero” SF discussion — article by Nathan Weinstein in Biz Journal — that’s the nature of the internet and search…outro, because this is, after all, a music blog, not “How deep is your love / rot?” but “Have you ever seen the rain?”
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 