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Written by Bruce Barton State officials assured residents at a Los Altos forum last week that new housing goals imposed on the city, though daunting, could be met. Colin Cross, a land-use representative with the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), suggested the city could meet its targets – 1,959 new units by 2031, 789 for very-low and low-income residents – through strategies ranging from encouraging construction of accessory dwelling units to building more high-density housing in areas such as the El Camino Real corridor. T...

Eric He/Town Crier The city of Los Altos plans to partner with Santa Clara County to redevelop a property currently owned by the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District into a 90-unit affordable housing project. An all-affordable housing project in Los Altos, the first in the city’s history, is projected to break ground by the end of next year. At a community meeting Jan. 27, officials from the city and Santa Clara County presented a brief overview of the proposed development – which could contain as many as 90 new units – and took questions from the public. The project, located at 33...

Los Altos council talks RHNA data, disagrees on housing report Written by Eric He In a debate that could signify a divide in the Los Altos City Council’s approach to housing, the council last week was split on whether to invite representatives from a group that penned a report suggesting state-mandated housing allocation figures in response to the affordable housing crisis are based on faulty data to a future council meeting – sparking an exchange between the mayor and vice mayor. Toward the end of the Jan. 26 council meeting, Vice Mayor Anita Enand...