Any reader of this website should understand that housing is a matter of supply and demand. If supply is allowed to increase enough to meet demand, the price to buy or rent goes down and becomes more affordable.
Where to put this new housing? The new City General Plan says it should be multifamily housing grouped around “Village Centers” so that people can walk to work, stores, restaurants, and public transit. The plan says that where we don’t already have village centers, like Carmel Valley, we need to start building them.
We can’t follow the old 1975 zoning plan for Carmel Valley, it’s 40 years out of date. It assumes that residents will use cars to go everywhere forever. It also didn’t foresee that Carmel Valley would become an upscale neighborhood that would want an upscale mixed use shopping, not another dumbed strip mall.
One Paseo is good for the housing supply, for the environment, and for people; because it starts to build an upscale village center for Carmel Valley.
