A street sign for Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google’s growth has brought the city loads of tax dollars, but also skyrocketing home prices and traffic problems, which are likely to get worse as the company proposes new headquarters.

When Google moved to Mountain View in 1999, it had a dozen employees and a search engine known only to computer aficionados. Now, its 20,000 workers make it the city’s biggest employer, and a proposal for new headquarters is causing a stir in a city bursting at the seams.

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