“Suppressed housing supply” makes it sound like a neutral party is responsible, and not Menlo City Council which failed multiple tries to meet State requirements and opened the door for this project.

I think the last thing needed is a vastly underutilized space in a HCOL area, but that’s just me.

100%! It’s not until the end that it mentions that the campus it is planned for is on 7 acres, there would be a hotel, plus 2 more large buildings, 90k sf of retail…