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To: Scumbria who wrote (121480)	12/8/2000 6:38:03 PM
From: Barry Grossman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, My house is also 50 years old and was built on an 18,000 sq ft lot. It was a typical CA ranch-type on a flat lot when it was built in 1950. I would put my lot size into the average category for houses built at the same time. Why do you suppose the houses being built at the same time as yours in my valley are built on larger lots than yours was? My hypothesis is that the narrowness of the SV peninsula was a significant factor in the development of small lots in that area. Barry

To: Scumbria who wrote (121480)	12/8/2000 7:44:42 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, re: My house in Silicon Valley was almost 50 years old, yet it was built on a 5,000 square foot lot. That style (Eichler) is one of the most common housing types in Mountain View and Palo Alto. There was no shortage of land back then, so I see the small lot syndrome as a fundamental California issue. Have you never wondered why your lot is so small? They would have had to destroy perfectly good Orange groves in order to build bigger homes. That didn't become economically feasible until the high tech business really got going.