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

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,

Preservation of the front half of it is what I think it's talking about, would allow the project objectives to be fulfilled.

And although it would take the building off the listing of the California Register of Historic Resources, it would keep it here in the community for all effects.

So I'm...

I'm sad that that did not come up earlier, the fact that it would have been possible to keep this notable building and make it maybe the

the lobby for the apartments or make it a restaurant.

And also that would allow us to keep the gateway, the garden gateway.

And I feel really sad that this has come up basically at the very last minute.

And I think that it's telling about our process.

When I talked to members of the community who worked very hard on saving the artwork, many of them told me that

The reason they wanted the artwork saved was they thought there was no way the building would be saved.

So kind of coming in with defeat in the beginning.

And I'm hoping we can, when it's possible to save buildings, this is one of the most renowned historic architects in the state.

And council members who voted to have this building built said this will be something that will mark the entrance to Mountain View forever.

So the fact that that's lost so quickly is concerning to me.

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