Alison Hicks

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Mountain View City Council · City Council on 2025-11-18 5:15 PM - SPECIAL MEETING · 18 Nov 2025 meeting

five to six years fizzle out and we've also seen two precise plans

pretty much fizzle out,

that they can

so that the developer can secure the

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to extend it more than four years to make it six years extension. podcast-host

I don't think that's reasonable and I thank the city staff for podcast-host

really no need to give a public right of way on a street for delivery podcast-host

So I'll start by echoing what other council members have said about thanking staff, the applicant, and the community for all the hard work to produce this project.

What I'm happy about, of course, the housing, the amount of housing we'll be getting, and the affordable housing in particular.

for the work with the community on a number of things, safe routes to school, circulation of students is important to me, on the artwork.

And then on, you know, previous to this, in this parking lot, the applicant had a Peet's coffee that was very popular.

as a meeting place for people both, at least this is how I used it, both North and South, living North and South of El Camino.

So establishing another hopefully gathering place for people.

So those things I'm all very happy with.

I'm confident the council will approve the project.

But at the same time, I'm concerned, and I'm kind of on a very different page with some of this, I'm concerned about the treatment of both the historic Gateway Park and the historic building by the renowned and influential architect, Millard Sheets.

I think it comes up as the one thing in the CEQA process that we would have to make a statement of overriding considerations on.

This comes up in some questions we asked that council members asked staff.

The supplemental environmental impact report says that full preservation of the building would not have allowed the applicant to meet project objectives, but that partial preservation, in other words,

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