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If you would like more information about the City’s water system flushing program or have questions or concerns while City personnel are in your neighborhood, please contact the Public Services Division at (650) 903-6329 or visit the City’s website at www.mountainview.gov.
Andi Sandstrom lives on Tulane Drive.
Public hearing
2011/2012 Groundwater Production Charges
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April 12, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. – open hearing April 19, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. – continue hearing – South County April 26, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. – close hearing
EDITH LANDELS ELEMENTARY 115 West Dana Street April 7, 2011 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
April 12, and April 26, 2011 Santa Clara Valley Water District Board Chambers 5700 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA
The Santa Clara Valley Water District has prepared an annual report on the Protection and Augmentation of Water Supplies documenting financial and water supply information which provides the basis for recommended groundwater production charges for fiscal year 2011/2012. The report includes financial analyses of the water district’s water utility system; supply and demand forecasts; future capital improvement, maintenance and operating requirements; and the method to finance such requirements. The water district will hold a public hearing to obtain comments on the report which will be available at the hearing. Based upon findings and determinations from the public hearing, the water district Board of Directors will decide whether or not a groundwater production charge should be levied, and if so, at what level, in which zone or zones for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011.
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This is an opportunity to make a difference in the future of your neighborhood, and express your thoughts about ways to improve city services. For further information, please call the City’s Neighborhood Preservation Division at (650) 903-6379.
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Reasonable efforts will be made to accommodate persons with disabilities wishing to attend this public hearing. To request accommodations for disabilities, arrange for an interpreter, or obtain more information on attending this hearing, please contact the Office of the Clerk of the Board at (408) 265-2600, ext. 2277, at least three days prior to the hearing.
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All operators of water-producing facilities within the water district or any person interested in the water district’s activities with regard to protection and augmentation of the water supply may appear, in person or by representative, and submit comments regarding the subject.
The City of Mountain View Council Neighborhoods Committee will be meeting with residents in the Central Neighborhoods area on April 7, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. (area designated on the map below). Residents are encouraged to participate in a forum to discuss:
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April 19, 2011 Morgan Hill Council Chambers 17555 Peak Avenue, Morgan Hill, CA
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For more information on the public hearing, please visit our website at www.valleywater.org, or contact Darin Taylor, (408) 265-2607, ext. 3068.
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The City of Mountain View will be flushing the water system south of Cuesta Drive in April, 2011. Flushing helps to maintain water quality by removing accumulated sand and sediment from water lines. Signs and barricades will be posted in neighborhoods the day before flushing begins. Flushing south of Cuesta Drive is anticipated to be complete by May 15, 2011.
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uniqueness of the natural open space at the Annex can then kiss it good-bye. If one looks at all the elements now proposed for the Cuesta Annex, it is easy to see that the City Council considers it a dumping ground. Since no suitable city land for the Historical Association to build its museum was determined, the council suggested that the association vie to be in the Annex. That’s why the museum is to highlight the agricultural past, since the Annex at one time was an orchard. Isn’t the city’s history more than agricultural? Since the history association seeks to promote the agricultural past, then the museum should be near the historic Rengstorff House at Shoreline. It can be placed to the west of the Rengstorff House near the lake — a seldom-used area of Shoreline Park. Between the two structures along a connecting pathway, sheds can house the agriculture equipment that is now proposed as another structure at the Annex. If it is at Shoreline, students on one field trip can see how the city’s pioneers both lived and worked. If at the Annex, additional land will be needed for more parking for museum customers. Is the footprint of the proposed museum complex at the Annex actually 10,000 square feet as stated for the large twostory museum, secondary building of agricultural equipment, courtyard, and walkways with landscaping? What initially was conceived as a one-story building of 1,000 square feet has certainly expanded. A quarter-acre orchard will also be planted to show fruit trees to visiting students. Unfortunately, while they bloom in spring, the fruit will be ripe when school is out and the trees leafless during the winter months. If the museum complex is built at the Annex, then fruit trees should be part of its landscaping since a few trees of each variety are all that are needed. This will eliminate an unnecessary, quarter-acre orchard taking up more of the existing natural area. If the council is serious about a city museum, the best site for it would be downtown. The Annex
water retention basin takes up the entire front portion, and a museum complex is in the back, with an orchard is next to it, and picnic tables are somewhere, what land is left that is not manmade or altered? The Annex is a much-loved natural area that costs the city very little to maintain — just seasonal mowing, no irrigation, little garbage pickup and no additional parking needed. That would certainly change with all the alterations proposed. While some people only value places that humans have created, others cherish that which is natural and relatively untouched. It’s a shame that we have so little left in the city of the latter, and that proposed plans will significantly alter one of the few that remains.
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is in the far southern border of the city and in a park where people specifically go to play and picnic. The museum could be built on land next to the west wing of City Hall, with the two possibly connected. Its footprint would be smaller than now proposed at the Annex, since it could have a basement level and two or three floors above for museum and meeting spaces, while matching the architecture of City Hall. There is downtown and library foot traffic, and parking should not be an issue. Most of historic Pioneer Park would not be disrupted if the history museum were next to City Hall. If the museum fails as an enterprise, that building could become part of City Hall. If it fails at the Annex, it would be an albatross for the city. It is time for the City Council to rethink what it has proposed at the Cuesta Annex. If the large
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