I would describe myself as a YIMBY and have been surprised many people online are against this project.<p>I think it comes down to the fact that some YIMBYs (like myself) believe the housing market is bad because central has large (intended and unintended) negative consequences. Others are fine with lots of central planning in theory, just not the car-centric current regime, so they partner with YIMBYs on some urbanist issues.<p>One insult I've seen thrown at this project is that it is "sprawl" or "suburban". I wonder if these people would have been against building in Mountain View in 1950 when its population was 6,000. Or San Jose 100 years ago when it was 1/10th the size of SF (it is now larger than SF). It seems like the only way to create both the medium and large cities of tomorrow is to start relatively small.<p>My worry is that if self-described "urbanists" are able to block this development on ground it is sprawl, that really gives political courage to any future NIMBY to use the "sprawl" argument to veto housing near them.