"Palo Alto needs over 6,086 units by 2031. As of the end of 2024, they've permitted about 500. ... Palo Alto took two and a half years to approve 55 teacher housing apartments. Imagine scaling that process across over 6000 units."
*so it actually looks pretty much the same for now, since none of those units have been built yet.
‘We’re in horse country’: Esther Clark Park residents fight housing project
By the standards of most recent projects, the development at 4103 Old Trace Road is relatively modest: nine homes, some of them equipped with accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units, for a total of 16 units....located close the intersection of two busy streets, Arastradero Road and Foothill Expressway and a brief walk from Gunn High School.