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Attendees of this year’s Los Altos Chamber of Commerce-sponsored State of the Cities event Friday endured a 2 1/2-hour marathon of speeches from state, county and city representatives.
Parking, or lack thereof, appeared to be a chief concern among participants at last week’s virtual community forum on Los Altos’ first all-affordable housing project.
Re: “Local officials discuss Los Altos’ first all-affordable housing project” (Feb. 2): For the first time in many years, I feel proud to live in Los Altos. This is because the city council is finally allowing affordable housing to be built. The decision not to stop development of new housing is the responsible, equitable and environmental thing to do. For years now, the Association of Bay Area Governments has asked Los Altos to build our share of new housing in order to solve this terrible housing crisis. I felt ashamed as Los Altos repeatedly refused to do its part. The only way t...
What will we tell kids about pandemic? I have been thinking a lot about how our young people will judge us when they look back on how we responded to this pandemic. Will they ask if we knew in our hearts that many of them were suffering in isolation, but we needed to wait and see the data to prove it? Will we tell them it was so hard that we couldn’t figure out how to safely get them back with their peers in the classroom for a year – or more? Will they ask why we could reopen a restaurant or hair salon but not a school classroom?