[quote=The-Shoveler]Funny, SD and San Jose, are run very similar in a lot of respects, why do you think SJ companies started to move here in the late 80’s early 90’s.
It has more to do with the policies in a very small city really.[/quote]
I have been visiting relatives in SJ since about 1968. Only in the eastern portion of the city (flatland) and a small area in the southern portion that is not open space and abutting Morgan Hill has been filled with residential tracts since then.
Not sure, but I don’t believe there have been any CFD’s formed within the city of SJ. The residential tract construction east of the Capitol Exwy (former avocado groves) was actually “infill.”
The eastern hills overlooking SJ’s eastern flatland (fmr avocado groves) were developed with custom homes little by little in the ’50’s/’60’s.
To this day, these residents are still on septic and the current building code there requires fire sprinklers in every room of the house.
Even though the populations of both cities are similar, SJ’s leaders did NOT give Big Development permission to bulldoze every square inch of their city (as SD’s leaders did). Why? In the first place, they never had the land available for massive CFD formation, due to mtns and abutting other well-established cities.
Those companies branched into SD or moved to SD because there was land available for *new* headquarters (or bigger, newer digs avail for them) and, most importantly, they could get away with paying much less here for the same jobs.
