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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by gretch on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @01:10PM (#34599092)
I'm not going to argue if this is generally true or not, but in my N=1, I don't see how this applies at all to something like sunnyvale or santa clara (where I live).

Which 'metropolitan core' are we leeching from? It's not San Jose - it famously has a higher nighttime population implying people leave to work (and it's obvs to locals based on traffic patterns). It's probably not San Francisco, we're 1 hour away.

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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by uoaei on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @07:29PM (#34604486)
The metro area in the Bay Area is a bit of an outlier as regards things like commute-sheds, etc. The problem with bandying about a one-size-fits-all label like "suburb" should be obvious.

If you need an explicit answer, generally speaking, SF is "the metro core" for the bay. Travel distances matter little compared to macro-economic "correlation" distances when considering metro areas.

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