If the inland portion of the Concord Naval Weapons Station closes later this year, massive home developments and office buildings will not sprout up overnight.

"We’re gearing up and trying to position ourselves so we don’t miss issues,” said Concord City Manager Lydia DuBorg.

The world’s largest corporation wants to open a discount store — not a supercenter with groceries — in North Concord that the company says would provide 350 jobs and more than $850,000 in annual sales tax revenue.

Under the terms of the bill, Highway 4 has been deemed a "national priority corridor" and will receive $36 million — $20 million more than anticipated — for lane widening

The increasing use of impact fees and the costs that they may add to the development process raises serious concerns about the effect using impact fees to fund infrastructure will have on the affordability of housing.

If lower-cost housing is so badly needed in Silicon Valley, why don’t more individuals give to affordable-housing programs the way they do to other social causes?