San Antonio is now a useless destination for us. The shoe store, Mervyns, Target, the sports store, Milk Pail, Cal Ave Safeway, were always useful and getting there was always easy. Nowadays we just get stuck in traffic and Target is about the only place we visit (particularly now Bed Bath and Beyond have gone).

San Antonio Road is best avoided nowadays unless one actually lives there.

Everything is extremely compressed and it feels claustrophobic just motoring down this absurdly overdeveloped strip of land.

We cannot turn back time or the visionary aspirations of our civic leaders.

For those who previously resided in countries like India or China where compressed population density is a given, the residential developments along San Antonio Road serve their purpose well by accommodating as many inhabitants as possible.

The buildings are attractive and offer limited shopping amenities for added convenience.

Santana Row in San Jose is the benchmark for this kind of development and Palo Alto is merely following suit.

I do not understand why so many people in Palo Alto are decrying the loss of space.

If space is unoccupied, it is not serving any real purpose and it is my understanding that the earlier San Antonio Road configuration was nothing to write home about.

Some of these new condos should be reserved for low-income renters with Section 8 vouchers.

African Americans are under-represented in both Palo Alto and Mountain View and their resident voices need to be further heard.

Los Altos is another story as few African Americans are welcomed there by its predominantly white populace.

Since most of San Antonio Road has been ruined according to some, what difference would it make now if the entire area was overbuilt with high-rise mixed-use condos and small businesses?

By not traveling down San Antonio Road snymore, what some consider to be a gridlocked eyesore no longer exists in one's mind or awareness.

Just write the area off and let the people who choose to reside there deal with the problems.