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A future aerial view looking southeast on Mountain View’s Mayfield neighborhood. IMAGE COURTESY OF CITY OF THE MOUNTAIN VIEW
with the tunnel.� She said Summit wanted an outclause on the requirement if the tunnel was found infeasible because of plans to add to high-speed rail tracks to the Caltrain corridor. Summit will soon begin a yearlong demolition of the 500,000square-foot building that was once the Mayfield Mall. The property is being sold by Hewlett Packard, which more recently used it as an office building. Development partner William Lyon Homes will build up to 260 homes with an estimated average price of $913,000. The city expects to see an increase of $154,000 in property taxes from the $235 million project. Instead of including 26 belowmarket-rate homes in the project, the city will be paid $7 million in fees to go toward subsidized belowmarket-rate housing elsewhere. The plan includes two-story, single-family homes around the north and east edges of the site and the rest as three-story condominium buildings. The condos have individual garages, 39 percent of which have controversial tandem parking (cars park front to back, increasing on-street parking), the highest percentage of any development in the city. There is space for two public parks that have yet to be designed. The total size of the parks, 3.62 acres, is more than twice the size of what would normally be required. Monta Loma neighborhood residents who have long complained of a relative lack of park space in the area.
A lot about trees In total, 456 trees will have to be removed from the Mountain View side of the project, including 163 large heritage trees and 55 coastal redwoods. Summit proposes to add 613 trees. The City Council received a petition from 36 people and several letters from neighbors decrying the loss of trees and lack of native and drought-tolerant trees proposed for the project, with arborist Dave Muffly noting an “almost total lack of drought tolerance among the trees selected.� Summit’s Tim Unger noted that the existing redwoods are relatively thirsty. Other trees that neighbors expressed dismay about losing are not native, he said. Nevertheless, Neely said Summit has “no motivation not to work with the community of Monta Loma� in selecting proper trees for the project. Dozens of redwood trees would be relocated on site, and an arborist hired by Summit predicted a 95-percent survival rate for the redwoods. A survey of bird’s nests would be conducted to make sure that no birds are harmed as trees are removed. About a dozen of the redwoods on the site could remain in one of the two parks, Mayfield Park, but that may require an unattractive 6-foot retaining wall on the edge of the park. Neely said Summit is hoping to remove and replace the trees lower in the ground, but the feasibility of such a plan is uncertain.
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