The Daily 02-01-23 Atherton adopts housing plan over tears, Steph Curry complaints

On Tuesday evening, political leaders in Atherton — the Bay Area town near Stanford best known as the wealthiest ZIP code in the United States — reluctantly adopted a meager housing plan through 2031 that the state of California may very well reject as inadequate.

For the uninitiated, Atherton — population 7,200 — has long been made up of single-family homes with 1-acre minimum lot requirements. It has no sidewalks or commercial spaces. Affordable housing in California is defined by area median income, meaning "low-income" earners in Atherton's county of San Mateo still make more than six figures of income.

The meeting was light on substantive discussion or community input about housing, but it did feature tearful pleas, scornful finger-pointing and the specter of Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry, who recently usurped venture capitalist Marc Andreessen as the neighborhood's most prominent representative of the "not in my backyard" crowd.

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