Mountain View YIMBY Endorses Lucas Ramirez for City Council
July 20, 2022
Mountain View YIMBY is proud to endorse Lucas Ramirez for City Council! Lucas has been a strong advocate for adding more housing in Mountain View, including affordable housing. He championed the R3 zoning update, so the city could study and solve the problem of missing middle housing not penciling out in the city. A steadfast and studied advocate for protecting renters, Lucas has supported a local SB 330 ordinance to prevent displacement, rent stabilization of Mountain View’s mobile home parks and even pushed for rolling back the base rents to 2019. He has also supported closing the first three blocks of Castro Street into a pedestrian only zone, which has been very successful.
Mountain View YIMBY is proud to endorse Lucas Ramirez for City Council! Lucas has been a strong advocate for adding more housing in Mountain View, including affordable housing.
He championed the R3 zoning update, so the city could study and solve the problem of missing middle housing not penciling out in the city.
A steadfast and studied advocate for protecting renters, Lucas has supported a local SB 330 ordinance to prevent displacement, rent stabilization of Mountain View’s mobile home parks and even pushed for rolling back the base rents to 2019. He has also supported closing the first three blocks of Castro Street into a pedestrian only zone, which has been very successful.
Lucas has supported virtually every important housing project in Mountain View, covering the full gamut of housing types from supportive housing to unsubsidized housing. Some projects of note include:
- 777 West Middlefield (716 new homes, 144 offered at below market rates to teachers and city employees)
- 400 Logue (408 new homes, 62 are affordable units)
- 555 E Evelyn (471 new homes)
- 555 West Middlefield project (323 new homes replacing surface parking, 48 are affordable units). This was a contentious project that’s been delayed for over half a decade, as nearby neighbors continuously found new reasons to oppose the project even after the developer addressed previous concerns. Lucas also defended the project by voting against a motion that was meant to delay the project multiple more years.
- Two separate HomeKey projects with 148 supportive housing units to pull people out of homelessness
