They should build 25,000 or more apartments at Moffett Field / NASA Ames. Use the runways as streets, build 10-15 story buildings with retail at the base. Sheath Hanger One with transparent solar panels. Then many can walk / bike / scooter northwest to Google land over a new pedestrian bridge, or southeast to Amazon / Yahoo etc. The VTA light rail runs alongside. The proposed CA law wants to force high density housing along transit corridors. The empty fields at Moffett are next to a transit corridor.
Focus on making it easy for people get to work quickly without a car. Make it easy for people to live without a car.