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Who is the Candidate for You? – Los Altos City Council Election 2022

lalahpolitico — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 22:18:21 +0000

A look at Los Altos City Council Candidate positions across key issues, HOUSING - our Housing Element rezoning, Objective Standards development, Support for State Housing Laws - DOWNTOWN PARKLETTES, HIGH LEGAL FEES - 40 Main, Wireless Towers ordinance, CLIMATE ACTION ADAPTATION PLAN, - Building Electrification, Gas Ban, POLICE DEFUNDING, Police Task Force, TRAFFIC, El Camino Bike Lanes, HALSEY HOUSE, DOWNTOWN THEATER

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Los Altos Reach Code 2022. Kiss your Gas Goodbye?

lalahpolitico — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 01:21:03 +0000

A new Los Altos Reach Code 2022 could extend the gas ban for most gas appliances in new Construction to include existing houses too. When appliances break, there may be a mandate to replace the old with electric heat-pump versions of furnaces, AC, hot water tanks, clothes dryers, stoves.

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Reach Code Virtual Workshop 06/06/2022 – a transcript

lalahpolitico — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 01:17:47 +0000

Here is a lightly edited transcript of the Los Altos Environmental Commission’s Virtual Workshop of June 6, 2022. The virtual event introduced some information and ideas for the upcoming update of the existing 2020 Los Altos Reach Code, which affects only new constructed buildings now, but could possibly affect existing houses and buildings too in […]

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Los Altos City Council to find Councilmember Lynette Lee-Eng GUILTY

lalahpolitico — Mon, 24 May 2021 19:20:42 +0000

At the upcoming Tuesday May 25, 2021 meeting, the Los Altos City Council is poised to pass judgment on Councilmember Lynette Lee-Eng as GUILTY of lying and ‘negatively impacting’ Los Altos BLM activist Kenan Moos with her spoken words describing texts he sent her during a Nov. 24 council meeting. According to the local paper, Moos believes her words put a target on his back, and he is now more likely to be killed by the police.

Although the proposed council resolution on the agenda May 25, 2021 finds her GUILTY of "negatively impacting" Mr. Moos, it says it will commute any and all sentences on Lee-Eng. It “does not seek to punish, embarrass, or discipline.”

If this verdict passes without a heavy rewrite and a 3-0 vote, it will not heal the community, but do quite the opposite.

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Halsey House Hubris – Monument to 20th-Century Systemic Racism

lalahpolitico — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:59:55 +0000

In fall of 2019, we wrote an in-depth article about the myriad technical issues limiting the future of the Halsey House structure in Redwood Grove – now red-tagged and unused since 2008. Issues like costs, floods, parking congestion were discussed...we compared the new ARG consultant report with the 2015 Sandoval report. We sure didn't get much new from the $50,000 ARG report.

In this article, we examine whether Halsey House actually is locally historic? Maybe. That is if you want a monument to commemorate persons enjoying the privileges of early 20th-century systemic racism and imperialism.

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Musings on the newest Justice Vanguard Operation

lalahpolitico — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 02:04:27 +0000

Justice Vanguard says ...Resign Lee-Eng? Really? If ever there was a misconstruing, a miscommunication between people of different ages, countries, cultures, this it. This is a disproportionate retaliation attempt by Justice Vanguard because of a city council vote on Nov. 24. Lee-Eng was singled out, yet all council members whittled away at the Police Task Force Recommendations. Why is Lee-Eng singled out?

We examine who said what to whom when. We propose healing moves to bring Justice Vanguard and our youth into the community organizations ecosystem.

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LAHS may get New Improved SRO Program

lalahpolitico — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 23:52:57 +0000

Press reports seem to tout the success of the ad hoc Los Altos Police Task Force (PTF) in having its 6 recommendations adopted by the city council. They have used sensational sounding headlines like ‘Los Altos Eliminates SRO’.

Only the Los Altos Town Crier gets it somewhat right in quietly pointing out ‘council members changed some wording…voted to pass IN SOME FORM, every one of the PTF’s six recommendations.’

How much did the council change in the wording of the recommendations? Is this just a little watering down or a gutting or recommendations? You decide.

In this article we will examine only the PTF 6th recommendation – eliminate the SRO Program. [We expect to examine recommendations 1 to 5 about the police complaint process in a separate post.]

Lalah concludes City Council did not so much end the current SRO program as encourage the collaborative design of a new MVLA SRO program at LAHS.

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Most Media don’t come clean on 2020 Prop 19 Losers

lalahpolitico — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:00:12 +0000

2020 Prop 19 is a rerun of the 2018 failed Prop 5 that would have extended "property tax portability" for seniors, and other much smaller 'vulnerable' groups, from one single move to a 'willing receiving county' to - under Prop 19 - a max of 3 moves to any of the counties in California. That's the "carrot" for homeowning seniors, more moves, to more places.

But there is also a big "stick" for some senior homeowners.

That "stick" in 2020 Prop 19 is a reversal of the 1986 Prop 58 that allows heirs to keep their parents' and grandparents' old property tax assessment for first and second residences as well as other property. Prop 19 almost totally crushes the inheritance tax 'loophole.' Some adult kids won't be able to "afford" the family home they inherit and will be economically forced to sell.

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