"Over the next three decades, the city wants to add more than 30,000 new homes and 80,000 jobs within walking distance of a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light-rail line on North First Street.

Compact and transit-oriented building is among the most effective means of reducing driving, cutting greenhouse gas emissions and creating better functioning cities.

The Chronicle reports that many Bay Area cities are pursuing similar models, and these advocates say many more should do as the region struggles to absorb what the Association of Bay Area Governments predicts will be 1.6 million new residents over the next 25 years.

CEOs for Cities member Paul Krutko, San Jose's Chief Development Officer, shared these plans with CEOs for Cities members at one of our recent meetings.  Paul told us that, in part, the move toward density is to satisfy tech executives who say their people are too valuable to spend time in traffic.  He also noted that a parallel movement is taking place in tech companies where sprawling campuses are being abandoned to more vertical space.

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