“Lu has been on the Planning and Transportation Commission since last April. He said in his announcement that he’s “seen first-hand how challenging it is to move the needle” on issues like traffic safety and housing affordability.”

Well, duh. One only has to look at the price of land alone and think about what adding a mandated 2,000,000 NEW residents to the Bay Area will do to traffic safety, esp. with all the lane reductions!

Remember that it already costs almost $1,000,000 to build a unit of “affordable” housing.

“Lu said on his campaign website that he wants to make it less expensive and less complicated for small businesses to operate in Palo Alto. ”

Can’t wait to see how he waves his magic wand to reduce the price of LAND — forget about anything built on the land — and how removing parking downtown and on El Camino is going to help small business…

But common sense and the state and county deficits won’t stop the big developers from funding these fairy tales.