Posted Jan 31, 2019, 5:45 AM
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/...t-city-report/
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SAN JOSE — Office, residential and hotel towers could be 260 feet tall — roughly 25 stories — in parts of downtown San Jose, including the development area of a proposed Google transit village, according to a new city staff proposal.
The proposal is designed to unleash a dramatic increase in the heights of buildings in downtown San Jose yet still preserve robust airline operations at the nearby international airport, and create 4,900 new jobs, the city staff report stated.
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The proposal would allow buildings to be 75 to 150 feet higher than is currently allowed by municipal ordinance in the area of the Diridon train station and the SAP Center, ...
In other parts of the downtown that are more directly beneath the flight paths of jetliners using San Jose International Airport, buildings could be five feet to 35 feet higher than they are now, which could add two or three stories to existing height limits.
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“The economic impact is overwhelming,” said Scott Knies, executive director of the San Jose Downtown Association. “When you double the building capacity on the west side of the downtown, what you gain in density and potential new employees and potential tax revenue, that completely offsets the aviation-related losses. We can have our cake and eat it too.”
An estimated 27 aviation jobs would be lost, and aviation-related economic activity would suffer a loss of $2 million if the city adopts the scenario proposed by the city staff, the report stated.
However, taller towers would create 4,900 jobs and increase economic activity in San Jose by $747 million, according to the city report.
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“Under federal law, the FAA must be given the opportunity to review every proposed tall structure near an airport, and any proposed structure over 200 feet high, to determine if it would pose a hazard to air traffic or navigation aids,” FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said. “The FAA’s determination is only a recommendation. We don’t have authority over local building decisions.”
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