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“You do need interest by a landowner to make something happen,” Abe-Koga said. “You do have CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) laws that say you have to consider impacts,” Logan said. “Mr. Pear has not expressed interest in this, people have talked to him.” Pear was present Tuesday and was noted as the landowner by Dewes, but did not speak. He was known for opposing eminent domain and other impositions on property owners that he frequently referred to as
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space” and “leave a long term legacy for our community,” she said. Council member Margaret Abe-Koga had an intense back and forth with Logan as Logan said there is “not anything the school district can do on our own.” “We can’t mandate anybody to do anything,” Abe-Koga said of Pear’s apparent lack of interest in making a deal with the school district.
“takings.” In response to a grilling from Mayor John Inks, Logan said the district had discussed acquiring Pear’s property with a “real estate professional” but she could not reveal details. To say, “’We’re going to take eminent domain and buy that property whether you like it or not,’ I don’t think that would solve the problem,” Logan said. “That would take years and be outside our budget.” V
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Online at www.DeMartiniOrchard.com NOTICE OF PROPOSED PLAN AND PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD FOR SITE 26 FORMER NAVAL AIR STATION MOFFETT FIELD MOFFETT FIELD, CALIFORNIA The Department of the Navy, in coordination with state and federal environmental regulatory agencies, encourages the public to comment on the Proposed Plan for Installation Restoration Site 26 at the former Naval Air Station Moffett Field in Moffett Field, California. The Proposed Plan presents the Navy’s preferred remedial alternative to modify the Site 26 groundwater cleanup remedy. The current remedy in place at Site 26 is “pump-and-treat”, which consists of groundwater extraction, aboveground treatment, on-site discharge, groundwater monitoring, and industrial controls. To optimize cleanup of the groundwater, the Navy proposes to implement an alternative remedy of biostimulation/bioaugmentation in portions of the groundwater plume, along with monitored natural attenuation, and institutional controls. PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD The Navy invites interested members of the public to review and comment on the Proposed Plan during the 45 day public comment period from April 15, 2013, through May 29, 2013. Public comments may be submitted in writing and postmarked or e-mailed no later than May 29, 2013. Please send comments to Mr. Scott Anderson, BRAC PMO West, 1455 Frazee Road, Suite 900, San Diego, California 92108-4310, scott.d.anderson@navy.mil, fax: (619) 532-0940, phone: (619) 532-0938. PUBLIC MEETING The Navy will host a public meeting to present the Site 26 Proposed Plan and will accept verbal and written comments at the meeting. The Navy will conduct a brief formal presentation at 7:00 p.m. and then take public comments. Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013 Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Location: Mountain View Senior Center 266 Escuela Avenue Mountain View, California 94040
FOR MORE INFORMATION The Site 26 Proposed Plan is available on the Navy Base Realignment and Closure Program Management Office website, www.bracpmo.navy.mil. The Proposed Plan and other site documents, including the focused feasibility study and the treatability study technical memorandum, are available for review at: Mountain View Public Library 585 Franklin Street Mountain View, California 94041 (650) 903-6337
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■ Mountain View Voice ■ MountainViewOnline.com ■ April 19, 2013
By Daniel DeBolt
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hoppers take note: Mountain View’s ban on plastic grocery bags begins Earth Day, Monday, April 22. The City Council-approved ban is designed to encourage shoppers to use re-usable bags for groceries, and keep plastic bags from polluting waterways and hurting wildlife. Paper bags will still be allowed at grocery stores, but at a price: 10 cents for the next 18 months, and 25 cents thereafter. “Protective” plastic bags will still be allowed for such items as meat, nuts and bolts at hardware stores, prescriptions, newspapers, dry cleaning and greeting cards. Juan Origel, co-owner of Ava’s downtown Market and Deli, said he’d heard a few complaints about the ban from people who say “it’s a freedom that’s been taken away,” but people from cities that have already have such bans in place, including San Jose and Palo Alto, are “shocked that we are still giving bags out.” The ban is a financial relief for his business, Origel said, saving
the store hundreds of dollars a month to give out about 300 bags a day. “It’s one less expense for us,” said Origel, who bought the Castro Street store with his wife Ann in 2011 and have at times struggled financially to transform it into a neighborhood-serving grocery store. “Most retailers I’d say are pretty happy about it. It helps us.” Ava’s is selling reusable bags for 99 cents each. Council members voted 5-2 in favor of the ban in December as part of a regional effort lead by San Mateo County. Council members Tom Means and John Inks were opposed, saying it limited personal freedom. Environmentalists, government officials and other council members said the move would protect local wildlife and keep bags from polluting the ocean and clogging local creeks. For more details, see the city’s web page about the ban at tinyurl.com/MVbags. V
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COUNCIL ASKS CONGRESS FOR POD-CAR FUNDS The City Council decided Tuesday to push for federal money to help get “automated transit network” technology — also known as pod cars — off the ground, possibly in Mountain View. The council voted 6-1, with Mayor John Inks opposed, to ask local Congress members to request that the Federal Transportation Administration offer a competitive $4 million grant to American companies developing the technology, which allows driver-less transit vehicles to run along automated guideways. The Council passed a resolution in support of what was then called “personal rapid transit” in 2010, and a route was even proposed by one company between downtown, Google’s North Bayshore offices and NASA Ames. One local company at NASA Ames is developing a system called “SkyTran” that allows pod cars to ride on magnetic overhead rails. “There is support within the FTA to do this,” said council member Mike Kasperzak, who once called himself “the pod car mayor” of Mountain View. “There is a $20 million fund the administration has for this sort of thing.” The request the council approved says that ATN technology is a missing link that can “boost ridership of existing public transit systems and lower capital and operating cost of new systems.” It adds that “the emerging ATN industry is dominated by EU and Asian companies. However, the most advanced ATN technology is under development in the U.S. Without FTA support, the U.S. is unlikely to gain leadership in ATN technology and will lose critical manufacturing jobs.” Since the council approved their resolution in 2010, commercial PRT systems have been deployed at Heathrow Airport in London, Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates and Suncheon Bay, South Korea, Kasperzak writes in his report. He adds that the Valley Transportation Authority also supports the development of ATN. Daniel DeBolt