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The town of Woodside is blocking new housing from being built under a new state law, arguing the residential growth would encroach on the habitats of mountain lions, a protected species.
Outgoing Woodside Mayor Brian Dombkowski handed the "official mayoral license plate frames" to Dick Brown this week.
After two days of manually recounting ballots, Measure A has still passed, the county Elections Office said. The Woodside initiative changes land use restrictions on two sites in the Town Center area.
It's not over yet. A Woodside resident has requested a manual recount of the ballots in the narrowly passed Measure A contest.
Since the CZU fires, Cal Fire's San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties division, Cal Fire CZU, as well as other county groups have been working on various projects to protect against wildfires. Woodside and Portola Valley have both stepped up their fuel reduction efforts, said Denise Enea, former Woodside Fire Protection District fire marshal and president of Fire Safe San Mateo County, the organization dedicated to protecting property and the environment for county residents in the wildland/urban interface. “It's not just going to be more engines, it’s not just going to be more hand crews, it...