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Community Your Home Business & Take a ride back in Use mirrors as a design Real Estate time on the Peninsular element to create the Serial plaintiff accuses Railroad’s ‘Big Red’ effect of natural light local small businesses of ADA violations Page 10 Page 21 Page 24 Vol. 74 No. 30 • 50 cents losaltosonline.com WEDNESDAY • July 28, 2021 Community news for Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Mountain View since 1947 LA’s legal fees mount amid flurry of litigation FAA won’t By Bruce Barton islation to cellphone technology is based on historic trends and budgeted was the appropriate Staff Writer/[email protected] and downtown development . analysis for the coming years ”. amount for the lawsuits that are reroute flight According to the recently ap- Los Altos Mayor Neysa Fligor currently active,” Fligor said in egal fees owed by the proved city budget, fees jumped and Councilmember Jonathan an email to the Town Crier . paths over city of Los Altos have in- from approximately $800,000 in Weinberg, who cited the exces- The Los Altos number stands Lcreased by more than $2 fiscal year 2018-2019 to a project- sive fees during his 2020 council in stark contrast with the city of Silicon Valley million over the past two years ed $2 9. million for 2021-2022 . campaign, could not comment Saratoga, an affluent community as city officials grapple with le- “Legal costs continue to in- based on pending litigation . of roughly the same 30,000 pop- By Megan V. Winslow gal challenges involving issues crease year after year,” the budget “I will say, however, that ulation as Los Altos . Saratoga Staff Writer/[email protected] ranging from state housing leg- staff report stated . “The increase council believed that the amount See LEGAL FEES, Page 6 efore Eduardo Arias pur- chased his Los Altos Hills Employers Bhome in 1996, he checked Cheers for beers local flight paths, just as he had before buying each of his prior urged to homes . At the time, he noted, air- planes passed by approximately mandate every three to four hours . Starting in 2014, when the Federal Avia- vaccination tion Administration deployed the Next Generation Air Transpor- By Zoe Morgan tation System, however, the fre- Staff Writer/[email protected] quency of buzzing, humming and ith COVID-19 cases rumbling overhead skyrocketed rising and the delta to every two or three minutes . Wvariant spreading, lo- On July 15 of this year alone, cal health officials are now urg- Arias filed 23 reports about the ing businesses to require that noise via an app specific to San their employees get vaccinated . Francisco International Airport . Health officials from Santa His reports were among 3,777 Clara, Contra Costa and San Fran- logged that day, he said . cisco counties jointly announced “I will continue to report last week that they strongly rec- flights overhead because I think ommend employers consider it’s a good thing to do, but I don’t mandating employee vaccination, have any faith in it,” Arias said . though the counties stopped short “My wife looks at me and says, of making it a requirement . ANDREW YEE/SPECIAL TO THE TOWN CRIER ‘You’re doing this again?’ Yes, The increase in COVID-19 Los Altos Beer Stroll vendors pour glasses of Wenlock Nitro Stout outside Chase Bank in I’m doing it again . I can’t stop ”. downtown Los Altos Friday. The Los Altos Village Association, which hosted the event, sold cases puts those who haven’t more than 500 tickets. Sixteen breweries participated, serving a total of 25 beers. Arias isn’t alone in his frus- See VACCINES, Page 6 tration . Last week, he was among a few hundred Bay Area Group keeps dialogue going on new downtown theater residents who tuned into vir- tual workshop sessions hosted By Bruce Barton ing forward with its overarching in March, discussing past theater Reeder and former Los Altos by the FAA . Panelists, includ- Staff Writer/[email protected] goal to build a performing arts plans and reviewing current the- Mayor Roy Lave led the group ing reps from the FAA; the San center downtown . ater activity and needs . that launched Bus Barn Stage Francisco, San Jose and Oak- os Altos’ ad hoc New The group, comprising ap- “We’re keeping our eyes on Company in 1995, which has land airports; and the airlines Theater Working Group, proximately 17 members, has the theater prize,” said group since become Los Altos Stage that frequent them, presented Lbereft of any financial met four times virtually since its leader Vicki Reeder, a longtime Company . information about current local support from the city, is mov- city council-approved formation theater supporter in Los Altos . 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