The City Council officially rejected the plan to dump all new development on our neighborhoods. This victory belongs to everyone who showed up to demand equitable housing distribution across all of Belmont. Keep an eye on local zoning meetings to ensure the city sticks to this commitment.
September 15, 2022
Tell the City of Belmont you oppose the draft Housing Element: don't dump on eastern Belmont!
Final supporters
Spread new housing EQUALLY in Belmont!
The City’s new Housing Element plan puts 100% of new 6-story high-density buildings in eastern Belmont (Sterling Downs, Homeview, El Camino) with none in western Belmont. That means around 8,000 people could be added to eastern Belmont over the next decade.
The Housing Element plan is inequitable because it makes 25% of the city’s residents bear all of the burden of new development: traffic, overcrowding, pollution, construction noise, blocked sunlight, parking nightmares, and more.
We need equitable distribution of this new housing to ensure our city is a great place to live for all current and future residents.
Tell the City Council and the Planning Commission:
1. BE EQUITABLE: Spread new housing equally across Belmont. Include western Belmont commercial sites in the Housing Element.
2. LIMIT HEIGHTS: Keep existing height limits in eastern Belmont. If development is spread more equitably across the city, we don’t need to raise height limits.
3. SAVE OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES: Don't rezone Service Commercial Sites on Old County Road to Corridor Mixed Use
4. REDUCE THE BURDEN OF NEW HOUSING ON NEARBY RESIDENTS: Require transitional step backs in all directions (not just from the fronting street) on all housing opportunity sites to mitigate the impact of 4-6 story buildings on adjacent 1-story and 2-story homes.
Make your voice heard now before it’s too late: SIGN THIS PETITION BY JULY 25!
*By signing this petition, you attest that you are a resident of the City of Belmont, San Mateo County, CA, and/or that you own a business or work for a business located in the City of Belmont, and/or your children attend school in BRSSD*
Learn more and join us: www.SaveEastBelmont.org
You can also:
- Share this petition with other Belmont residents!
- Attend (in person or Zoom) and speak up at city meetings about the Housing Element:
- July 19 at 7PM: Planning Commission meeting
- July 26 at 7PM: City Council meeting
- Send a public comment by email to: [email protected], and CC to [email protected] and [email protected]
- Submit public comments regarding specific parcels on the Housing Element map by August 15: http://bit.ly/belmont-map
Note: No need to donate after you sign the petition -- that money goes to the iPetition platform, not to our cause.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
July 24, 2022
July 23, 2022
We hit a significant milestone that proves our neighbors are paying attention to the unfairness of this plan. Post this link on your Facebook neighborhood group right now to keep the pressure high. Send an email to your City Council representative demanding they include western Belmont commercial sites in the housing plan.
Reached 100 supporters
July 15, 2022
July 14, 2022
We are approaching one hundred signatures and need to push harder to get the city attention we deserve. Post this link on your Facebook page right now and tag your neighbors. Pick three people from your contacts and text them this link today.
89 Comments
Spread the housing equally across all of Belmont and limit heights. Don't rezone businesses. Remove the megasite on Old County Rd at Mountain View/Marine View Ave and the Dale View site.
Where is the mitigation for parking, traffic, parks, and schools? Why is it fine to put 6 story apartment complexes in eastern Belmont but not in Western Belmont? This plan is highly inequitable.
Our business is located across the street from the new Artisan Crossing project on Old County where our city has allowed the developer to build 250 units all with just one parking space. When asked where the residences will park their other cars, no one had any idea of what I was talking about.
I'm concerned not only about the traffic and most of the things already mentioned, but also about the logistics of the supply chain. Where are all these people going to shop? There is ONE grocery store in the immediate 'convenient' area. Infrastructure isn't going to support an additional 8,000 people in East Belmont.
This also impacts South San Mateo. Those of us living in the Laurie Meadows neighborhood only have one way in and out, Laurie Meadows Dr. In the event of a disaster we will be trapped by the excessive number of people in the same location.
This is unacceptable. The traffic near Nesbit school is already terrible. I can’t imagine how this would affect it.
Stop the unreasonable growth in eastern Belmont. Traffic congestion is already a problem in the neighborhood.
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The City Council officially rejected the plan to dump all new development on our neighborhoods. This victory belongs to everyone who showed up to demand equitable housing distribution across all of Belmont. Keep an eye on local zoning meetings to ensure the city sticks to this commitment.
September 15, 2022
Tell the City of Belmont you oppose the draft Housing Element: don't dump on eastern Belmont!
Final supporters
Spread new housing EQUALLY in Belmont!
The City’s new Housing Element plan puts 100% of new 6-story high-density buildings in eastern Belmont (Sterling Downs, Homeview, El Camino) with none in western Belmont. That means around 8,000 people could be added to eastern Belmont over the next decade.
The Housing Element plan is inequitable because it makes 25% of the city’s residents bear all of the burden of new development: traffic, overcrowding, pollution, construction noise, blocked sunlight, parking nightmares, and more.
We need equitable distribution of this new housing to ensure our city is a great place to live for all current and future residents.
Tell the City Council and the Planning Commission:
1. BE EQUITABLE: Spread new housing equally across Belmont. Include western Belmont commercial sites in the Housing Element.
2. LIMIT HEIGHTS: Keep existing height limits in eastern Belmont. If development is spread more equitably across the city, we don’t need to raise height limits.
3. SAVE OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES: Don't rezone Service Commercial Sites on Old County Road to Corridor Mixed Use
4. REDUCE THE BURDEN OF NEW HOUSING ON NEARBY RESIDENTS: Require transitional step backs in all directions (not just from the fronting street) on all housing opportunity sites to mitigate the impact of 4-6 story buildings on adjacent 1-story and 2-story homes.
Make your voice heard now before it’s too late: SIGN THIS PETITION BY JULY 25!
*By signing this petition, you attest that you are a resident of the City of Belmont, San Mateo County, CA, and/or that you own a business or work for a business located in the City of Belmont, and/or your children attend school in BRSSD*
Learn more and join us: www.SaveEastBelmont.org
You can also:
- Share this petition with other Belmont residents!
- Attend (in person or Zoom) and speak up at city meetings about the Housing Element:
- July 19 at 7PM: Planning Commission meeting
- July 26 at 7PM: City Council meeting
- Send a public comment by email to: [email protected], and CC to [email protected] and [email protected]
- Submit public comments regarding specific parcels on the Housing Element map by August 15: http://bit.ly/belmont-map
Note: No need to donate after you sign the petition -- that money goes to the iPetition platform, not to our cause.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
July 24, 2022
July 23, 2022
We hit a significant milestone that proves our neighbors are paying attention to the unfairness of this plan. Post this link on your Facebook neighborhood group right now to keep the pressure high. Send an email to your City Council representative demanding they include western Belmont commercial sites in the housing plan.
Reached 100 supporters
July 15, 2022
July 14, 2022
We are approaching one hundred signatures and need to push harder to get the city attention we deserve. Post this link on your Facebook page right now and tag your neighbors. Pick three people from your contacts and text them this link today.
89 Comments
I’m in favor of housing but it needs to be spread throughout Belmont or we will create a segregated community. And there needs to be some parking as well as maintenance of community, not just people and more people all in one small area of town.
Spread the housing equally across all of Belmont and limit heights. Don't rezone businesses. Remove the megasite on Old County Rd at Mountain View/Marine View Ave and the Dale View site.
Where is the mitigation for parking, traffic, parks, and schools? Why is it fine to put 6 story apartment complexes in eastern Belmont but not in Western Belmont? This plan is highly inequitable.
Our business is located across the street from the new Artisan Crossing project on Old County where our city has allowed the developer to build 250 units all with just one parking space. When asked where the residences will park their other cars, no one had any idea of what I was talking about.
I'm concerned not only about the traffic and most of the things already mentioned, but also about the logistics of the supply chain. Where are all these people going to shop? There is ONE grocery store in the immediate 'convenient' area. Infrastructure isn't going to support an additional 8,000 people in East Belmont.
This also impacts South San Mateo. Those of us living in the Laurie Meadows neighborhood only have one way in and out, Laurie Meadows Dr. In the event of a disaster we will be trapped by the excessive number of people in the same location.
This is unacceptable. The traffic near Nesbit school is already terrible. I can’t imagine how this would affect it.
Stop the unreasonable growth in eastern Belmont. Traffic congestion is already a problem in the neighborhood.
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I’m in favor of housing but it needs to be spread throughout Belmont or we will create a segregated community. And there needs to be some parking as well as maintenance of community, not just people and more people all in one small area of town.