No development at Ace Hardware site
My family and I have been living in Los Gatos for over 35 years now.
The housing development is out of control! (And overdevelopment in general.)
It’s bad enough with the construction of the North 40. And traffic is horrendous, especially during the weekends on Highway 17. Now, they want to demolish the Ace Hardware store in Los Gatos near Lark Ave. Shame on you!
Ace Hardware has been around for many, many, years, and it’s a Los Gatos treasure! They want to build a seven-story building in its place.
By the way, I live near Vasona Park and they plan on opening a new retirement community around there. Of course, this will only lead to more congestion!
The Whole Foods will move as well and expand near Nob Hill. My family and I are devastated to see that Los Gatos is no longer a town!
Andra Erdei
Los Gatos
Reaction to hiring of new Town Manager
In response to the “San Dimas City Manager named Los Gatos Town Manager” article posted on LosGatan.com on Aug. 15.
“Great hire for Los Gatos!
I had the pleasure of working for and with Chris in Chico. His knowledge, expertise, efficiency, effectiveness, and care for the people of Chico helped take Chico from near bankruptcy, natural disasters and other operational strains, to a thriving local government. No doubt that he will continue to do great things for the Town of Los Gatos!”
Brendan Ottoboni
Chico Taxpayers Association
“This man goes from one town to another leaving disaster in his wake.”
Juanita Sumner
Chico, Calif.
As long time San Dimas residents, we are sad to see Chris Constantine leave our City.
Over his tenure, he has shown excellent financial stewardship including saving our City well over $30 million related to metro light rail parking. He brought forward the “My San Dimas” app, allowing residents to quickly report and resolve a myriad of issues.
Chris helped rectify and update municipal code issues and he improved transparency within our City government.
Los Gatos has made a very positive hire. Good wishes.
Robert and Jean Olander
San Dimas, Calif.
While there are these things that we call progress, the way to that means often is not. Story Poles were indicative of a vague aspect of a project (height, scope of size, etc.), signage often touted the scope of the project also. The developers should care about the community, if they don’t protest, file for additional requirements via under CEQA or other environmental laws, federal and state. “Builders Remedy” isn’t the end all. Pretty sure there’s some kind of endangered species that exist in that area or in the green space running up the PG&E easement on Gateway Drive that will be impaired by this development and further south on LG Blvd.. If you care, if you have concerns, then make them known. Everyone has known that this area was ripe for re-development when the Chevrolet dealer left, when the GMC dealer left (recently and the knife in any anti-development effort), shucks even when the McDonald’s was renovated. Los Gatos is still a town (even if you can’t access it) from the North end but people still are coming here, want to live here, want to speculate. The amount of Real Estate companies are sure wanting of this speculation and under the radar software companies still are within walking distance that make this an alternative to driving. Cryptic underpinning of what should be our future communities where the businesses and the residences are within a distance that precludes cars is what is coming and has been told to us is our future. We asked for it and we got it. So if you are complaining now, you forgot (never got) your civics lessons in your schooling. Pretty sure home schooling omits this, nah! Probably won’t happen because we are committed to the CAR CULTURE, but were part of the communities that we wanted. If everyone else is stuck in traffic and the weather permits, just walk, bicycle, cycle, scooter, etc. and this abhorrhent traffic mess will not matter in the least. Maybe stop getting car washes too!