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Megan V. Winslow/Town Crier File Photo Los Altos Mayor Neysa Fligor will brief senior members of the community during a virtual town hall Feb. 16. LA virtual town hall set for Tuesday Los Altos Mayor Neysa Fligor is scheduled to host a virtual town hall 4 p.m. Tuesday to gauge residents’ feedback on a range of issues. “While the town hall is available to everyone, I want to make sure we cover issues impacting our senior community and hear from you,” she wrote in an open letter Feb. 3. “We know that there is a lot of information being shared on social media that may not be available to...

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?

Council members spar over dubious RHNA presentation Enander The majority of the Los Altos City Council accused Vice Mayor Anita Enander and Councilmember Lynette Lee Eng of doing an end-around at Tuesday’s meeting by presenting a housing analysis from a nonprofit policy group that three council members had already rejected as controversial. Mayor Neysa Fligor and fellow council members Jonathan Weinberg and Sally Meadows were clearly exasperated over what was intended to be a presentation from Enander about crafting a city response to the state’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RH...

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...