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Details about proposed emergency center kept from City Council

October 13, 2020 11:57 pm

BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos City Manager Chris Jordan scheduled a public hearing for the City Council to look at designs for a new Emergency Operations […]

Los Altos

Looks like city will ban natural gas after councilwoman gets go-ahead from state agency

June 28, 2020 2:27 pm

BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer It appears likely Los Altos will ban the use of natural gas in new homes and businesses after a state agency ruled that […]

Los Altos

Hundreds ask mayor to remove councilwoman who made racist remark

June 10, 2020 8:00 am

BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos Mayor Jan Pepper said last night (June 9) that hundreds of residents have sent her emails asking for the removal of […]

Los Altos

Los Altos isn’t requiring masks

May 23, 2020 4:32 pm

BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer The Los Altos City Council has rejected a last-minute proposal by City Manager Chris Jordan to require people to wear masks in public […]

Los Altos

City manager wants to control the news

February 17, 2020 2:39 pm

BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer In the past year, Los Altos city employees and elected officials have been told not to speak to the media on certain subjects. […]

Los Altos

City spends $5,000 per council meeting for a rented stage, audio equipment

January 17, 2020 7:12 am

BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos spends $5,000 per city council meeting at the youth center to rent audio equipment and the foot-tall stage on which the […]

Los Altos

Opinion: This story gets weirder and weirder

November 22, 2019 4:00 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The controversy over why Los Altos residents can’t watch their City Council meetings on TV just gets weirder by the day. I’d say […]

Los Altos

Los Altos joins the parade of cities banning natural gas

November 21, 2019 11:10 am

BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Add Los Altos to the list of local cities that plan to ban natural gas in new homes and businesses. City Council split […]

The Los Altos City Council dais. Photo courtesy of the city.
Los Altos

Los Altos City Council meetings will be televised live again

November 12, 2019 7:30 am

BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos will start broadcasting City Council meetings on cable television tonight, following months of complaints about a blackout from residents. Council meetings […]

The Los Altos City Council dais. Photo courtesy of the city.
Los Altos

Council chambers passes air test — what was bothering Councilwoman Bruins?

October 16, 2019 7:30 am

BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer There’s nothing wrong with the air in Los Altos City Hall Council Chambers, according to an air quality test the city ordered. The […]

Los Altos

Opinion: Odor complaint sends city hall into a tizzy

September 27, 2019 7:00 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s been a strange few months at Los Altos City Hall, and I’m sure residents are scratching their heads, trying to figure out […]

Los Altos

City manager was paid to leave previous job

September 23, 2019 5:02 pm

BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos City Manager Chris Jordan, who has ignited controversy for ignoring a 4-1 council directive, was paid $141,652 to leave his last […]

Los Altos

City manager clashed with council members in his previous job

September 6, 2019 5:02 pm

BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos City Manager Chris Jordan, who disregarded a 4-1 council decision, has a history of clashing with the council members to whom […]

Los Altos

Developer sues city over rejected plans for homes

September 5, 2019 8:00 am

BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent A developer is suing the city of Los Altos after the City Council rejected a proposal to build two single-family homes in the Montebello […]

Los Altos

City spends $50,000 on councilwoman’s asthma claims; City manager overrides council decision

September 4, 2019 8:28 am

BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer A dispute over Councilwoman Jeannie Bruins’ asthma has cost Los Altos $50,000 and spurred the city manager to override a council majority vote. […]

This is an example of a “node” antenna located at Newell Road and Hopkins Avenue in Palo Alto. At left is the equipment box. At right is the top of the antenna. Photos were provided to the city by Verizon.
Los Altos

Los Altos bans ‘node’ antennas for the most part in residential areas

August 8, 2019 7:30 am

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos became the first city in the mid-Peninsula to largely ban small cell antennas, or “nodes” in residential neighborhoods, but not all […]

Los Altos

Councilwoman Bruins calls Mayor Lee Eng’s lobbyist idea ‘naive’

July 12, 2019 6:00 am

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos Councilwoman Jeannie Bruins said she thinks other council members are being “naive” when they say the city should hire its own […]

The Los Altos City Council dais. Photo courtesy of the city.
Los Altos

Council considers nicer chambers, but decides to look at city’s priorities first

July 3, 2019 8:00 am

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Some Los Altos City Council members obviously aren’t happy with their current council chambers. Six months after deciding to spend $1.2 million to […]

Los Altos

Los Altos residents turn down new fee for storm drains

June 20, 2019 4:31 pm

By the Daily Post staff Los Altos residents have voted down a $1.1 million storm drain fee that city officials said was a critical need, and critics said was unnecessary […]

In the news

Regional housing agency formed, tax increases eyed

December 20, 2018 5:21 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer An effort to create a regional government agency to tax residents to build high-density housing took a step forward yesterday (Dec. 19) over […]

In the news

Local officials meet at posh resort to discuss housing crisis

November 28, 2018 5:55 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Bay Area agency that hands out transportation funds is holding a $29,000 taxpayer-funded retreat on the housing crisis tonight (Nov. 28) at […]

Los Altos

Los Altos council gets behind ‘vision’ plan for downtown parking plazas

August 30, 2018 7:01 am

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos City Council voted unanimously last night (Aug. 28) to move forward with a nonbinding “vision” plan that would transform downtown by […]

Los Altos

Los Alto council drops idea of putting competing land measure on the ballot

August 9, 2018 3:12 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A citizens initiative to keep the city of Los Altos from selling city land without voter approval will not face a competing measure […]

Los Altos

Los Altos council to offer alternative to citizens initiative measure to protect city land

June 14, 2018 10:14 am

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Now that 2,900 Los Altos voters have signed a petition for a ballot measure to prevent the City Council from selling public land […]

Santa Clara County

VTA says bus-only lanes on El Camino are dead

January 30, 2018 5:51 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer VTA’s unpopular plan to block off two lanes of traffic on El Camino Real for dedicated bus service between Palo Alto and Santa […]

Santa Clara County

Bruins out, McAlister in as North County’s VTA rep

November 10, 2017 11:13 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View Councilman John McAlister yesterday (Nov. 9) defeated Los Altos Councilwoman Jeannie Bruins for a seat on the VTA board, a critical position […]

Los Altos

Councilwoman flies to Amsterdam, Barcelona to study transit

September 13, 2017 12:11 am

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Taxpayers and a political advocacy organization paid for Los Altos Mayor Jeannie Bruins and other officials to go to Barcelona and Amsterdam this […]

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