No one I know is reminiscing about horses and open fields, wishing to go back to those days. Most of us look forward to having more housing, dining, entertainment and shopping options nearby, and again, no one I know is opposed to One Paseo being built in the right way. But it’s all about degrees and dealing with the situation as it is currently (also taking into account plans for near future), not how we wish it would be.

Reality now is that zero public transit is even being proposed for the area until 2035 and even that is unplanned/unsure/unbudgeted. The density of the currently proposed development just won’t work with that.

But still, bring on the housing, dining, retail and entertainment right now in the right density, and it will be a welcome improvement to the area. Most of us are trying to say just that, but that part gets drowned out with all the rhetoric and accusations of NIMBYism, etc. There is more common ground here than most realize.