Home equity will increase for local home owners allowing them to remodel their homes, send their children to college, and increase their family's net worth. The increased property tax collection from home sales will benefit San Jose and the local school system. The entire Bay area will benefit from additional educational facilities and additional housing. Since the campus will be virtually deserted at night and on the weekends, permanent local traffic will only minimally increase. Light rail can be extended down Capitol Expressway providing an alternative commute vehicle.
Local residents can either walk or bicycle to school or work.
All county residents will benefit from a revitalized East San Jose. Developing Reid-Hillview will delay and minimize housing development in Coyote Valley, Gilroy, Morgan Hill, etc. No more pilots flying in circles, over and over and over, practicing takeoffs and landings and disturbing thousands of eastside residents. The inevitable fatal plane crash into a school, apartment, Eastridge, or a house will be avoided. A slight increase in local traffic during school hours Monday through Friday.