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A local resource guide published by the Mountain View Voice 2015-16 by the numbers | arts & entertainment | outdoors & recreation education | community | government | mv-voice.com i Mountain View COMMITMENTPROVIDING COMPREHENSIVE CARE TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF OUR COMMUNITY. As an independent, nonprofit community hospital, we are committed to delivering the finest possible healthcare to the people we serve. We provide a comprehensive range of services including prevention, diagnosis, personalized treatment and rehabilitation for illness and injuries of all kinds. Our exceptional outcomes and reputation for high quality care enable us to attract some of the world’s finest medical professionals in behavioral health, cancer, cardiovascular, men’s health, orthopedics, women’s health, and more. These experts collaborate to provide care that is truly above and beyond. Because taking care of this community is more than a job: It’s our mission. 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We appreciate your feedback. education | 16 Jocelyn Dong Le Michelle Editor, Info Mountain View Inside: By the Numbers ...........................6 Community ................................ 34 Arts & Entertainment ...............10 Government ............................... 43 Outdoors ......................................12 Index ............................................. 46 Education .....................................16 On the cover: Biatrice Muller, left, and Anna Endo windsurf during an advanced windsurfi ng and sailing camp lesson held at Shoreline Aquatic Center on Aug. 12, 2015. Photo by Michelle Le government | 43 Michelle Le Michelle www.MountainViewOnline.com Info Mountain View• 5 BY THE NumbersDEMOGRAPHICS AND MORE Michelle Le Michelle Zeroes and ones may have around a stagecoach stop on El Camino of the population speaks a language other Real at Stevens Creek — the city has than English at home, according to the The Knightscope security propelled Mountain View spread out to occupy 12.2 square miles. U.S. Census. robot picks up some friends Today, it is the home to companies of to its current renown as a bustling tech Once the home to scrappy pioneers, now all sizes and to residents of all ethnic at the Technology Showcase hub, but other numbers tell the story Mountain View runs a city government heritages. In the past 25 years, the city’s in downtown Mountain View of the city’s evolution into a diverse, with a general operating budget of nearly Asian population has nearly doubled, and economically vital suburb. $102 million. For more facts and statistics on Aug. 13, 2015. its Hispanic community has grown as about the city that was once full of From its official birth in 1902 — a full well, weaving new cultural threads into orchards, read on, below. 50 years after a settlement first formed the fabric of the community. Almost half FACTS AND STATISTICS ABOUT MOUNTAIN VIEW Miles of city-maintained streets: 140 Education and income Acres of city parks: 196 Median household income (2013): Acres of city-owned open space: $97,338 796.72 (includes Shoreline) Male FT year-round workers (2011- City-maintained trees: 26,166 (street, 2012): $85,219 park and median) Female FT year-round workers (2011- Sister cities: Hasselt, Belgium; Iwata, 2012): $61,333 Japan Adults with bachelor’s degree or Sources: U.S. Census’ American higher (2013): 62.6% Community Survey, City of Mountain View Sources: U.S. Census’ American People Community Survey, ABAG Median age (2013): 35.8 years Land use Median age (1990): 32.8 years Total land area: 6,434 acres (does not Seniors - 65 and older (2013): 10.7% include roads) Seniors - 65 and older (1990): 9.8% Percent devoted to residential: 42.2% Racial/ethnic breakdown (2013): Percent devoted to commercial: 7.3% White: 46.1% Percent devoted to office and industrial: 17.7% Michelle Le Michelle Black: 1.7% Percent devoted to public/quasi- Hispanic: 20.8% public/institutional: 9.2% Asian/Pacific Islander: 27.3% Percent devoted to open space: 19.3% A cyclist crosses Shoreline Boulevard from Shorebird Way on Aug. 4, 2015. Other: 4.1% Percent devoted to transportation/ Racial/ethnic breakdown (1990): utilities/parking: 2.0% City facts Fire Department employees: 85.5 White: 64.5% Percent devoted to agricultural: 0.3% Year incorporated: 1902 Libraries: 1 Black: >4.7% Percent vacant: 2.1% Square miles: 12.2 Source: City of Mountain View Hispanic: 16% Total Assessed Valuation (Jan. 1, 2015-16 city General Operating Fund Asian/Pacific Islander: 14.1 2015): $22.43 billion budget: $101.9 million Vital signs Sources: Mountain View General Plan Population (2013): 77,846 Other: 0.5% City employees: 590.5 2030, Santa Clara County Assessor’s Office Population (1990): 67,460 Source: U.S. Census’ American Community Sworn police officers:91 Survey Parks: 38 Fire stations: 5 (continued on page 9) 6 • Info Mountain View www.MountainViewOnline.com i Mountain View Stanford Primary Care Stanford Primary Care specializes in you. Now in your neighborhood, we offer adult, child, and senior primary care programs customized to fit your lifestyle. Stanford Primary Care offers: • Expert medical attention and care for everyone in the family • Medical care for chronic conditions • Compassionate senior care and caregiver resources • Online and telephone visits More convenient locations in a neighborhood near you! Hoover Pavilion Los Altos Portola Valley Santa Clara 211 Quarry Rd. 960 N. San Antonio Rd. 3250 Alpine Rd. 2518 Mission College Blvd. Palo Alto, CA Los Altos, CA Portola Valley, CA Santa Clara, CA For more information, please call 650.498.9000 or visit us online at stanfordhealthcare.org/primarycare. i Mountain View Mountain View Historic Firsts First high school Google opens first Ohlone Indian opens: 1902 Valley's first offices in Mountain villages first silicon-based The Byte Shop on View: August 1999 encountered Mountain View Mountain View electronics lab El Camino Real by Spanish first forms around incorporates and town Naval Air Station, established at becomes first VTA Light Rail's first explorers near stagecoach stop First grammar haberdasher Daniel Moffett Field 391 San store to sell Apple day of service in San Antonio on El Camino Real: school opens: Frink becomes first commissioned: Antonio Road: computers Mountain View: Road: c. 1769 c. 1852 1857 mayor: Nov. 7, 1902 April 12, 1933 1955 anywhere: 1976 Dec. 17, 1999 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 Francisco Estrada Shop-owner First train Woman's Police NACA (now Mayfield Mall, First concert at City builds the area's Jacob Shumway arrives: Club opens Department NASA) Ames an indoor Shoreline celebrates 100 first permanent appointed first Jan. 18, 1864 first public purchases its Research shopping Amphitheatre: years of residence near postmaster, library: first police Laboratory mall, opens: June 29, 1986 incorporation: First large present-day credited with April 1905 car: 1929 founded: Oct. 6, 1966 Nov. 7, 2002 Rengstorff Avenue officially naming fruit orchards Dec. 20, 1939 planted: and Central town: 1854 First major Computer History c. 1880 Expressway: 1842 industrial plant, Museum's opens the Pacific first public exhibit Press, opens: in current building: April 16, 1905 June 2, 2003 Information compiled by Nick Perry, author of "Images of America: Mountain View and Mountain View: Then & Now." For more information on Mountain View's history, visit the Mountain View Historical Association at mountainviewhistorical.org and facebook.com/MVHistory.