Anti-density zealots can seemingly find value in anything, no matter
how run-down or humble, that is proposed to be replaced by housing,
and come up with vital reasons why it must be preserved. In Mountain
View, they called an office park a civic resource. In Menlo
Park, Foster's Freeze is suddenly part of the city's cultural
heritage. And now in San Mateo, where transit-oriented housing has
been proposed for the site of a Kmart, they worry (see
this letter in the 8/23 SM Daily Journal) that the city's poor
will have nowhere to shop, without "Kmart's huge selection and low prices".
Never mind that San Mateo's housing crunch is turning it into a city
totally unaffordable to ordinary working people--but I suspect that's
really the point.
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