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Beware of First Street mailboxes

A new chapter in the Los Altos Municipal Code establishes regulations for leaf blower use – and non-use – through introduction of an ordinance OK’d by the Los Altos City

Back in 1991, the city of Los Altos banned the use of gas-powered leaf blowers. Now, 32 years later, their continued use remains a problem.

If the Los Altos Police Department is going to gain city council approval for automated license plate readers, department officials must supply more data that supports the technology’s crime-fighting capability

Condos do not make downtown ‘vibrant’

Why oppose sincere efforts to serve public?

Don’t reward privileged EV drivers

Job well done on Foothill Expressway We need to commend the powers that be who cleared up the roads on El Monte Avenue and Foothill Expressway. After years of horrible traffic 4-6 p.m. daily at the intersection of San Antonio Road and Foothill Expressway, trying to get past the El Monte backup, it is finally a breeze. Surely we all recall the frustration of sitting in traffic to move the one block from San Antonio to El Monte. We want to thank the super planners who put in the extra lane where ...

What’s the benefit of Foothill widening? Has anyone else pondered what benefit we have experienced in the road changes (on Foothill Expressway between San Antonio Road and El Monte Avenue) compared to the taxpayer cost and many months of construction and traffic inconvenience? Sure, the median has been made narrower, and the inside lanes widened, but to what end? The parts that have been widened seem to be unusable – they are still sectioned off with traffic barriers. What was the goal –...

Divided council opts to regulate, rather than ban, boardinghouses Written by Bruce Barton The Los Altos City Council capped a two-hour-plus discussion March 9 over a proposed boardinghouse ordinance by rejecting an outright prohibition in favor of a regulatory one. The council majority directed city staff to work on several tweaks to the proposed regulations over the objections of two members who favored a ban. The discussion was fraught with myriad and c...