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A Plague of Caterpillars Hits Mountain View Spring has sprung WEEKEND | 21 APRIL 13, 2018 VOLUME 26, NO. 12 www.MountainViewOnline.com 650.964.6300 MOVIES | 24 City accountants regret business license mess OWNERS DIDN’T GET FIRST NOTICE OF HIGHER FEES By Mark Noack said it was the second and final notice, but we never received ountain View’s anything before.” finance department So in late March, Lehner went Mis sending out a mass to City Hall with his wallet, apology after thousands of and he found he wasn’t alone. local businesses were sent let- A crowd of other frustrated ters warning they were delin- business owners was lining up quent in paying a new fee. outside the Finance Depart- The pink warning letters ment office, angry about the were mailed in mid-March abrupt warnings over $3. City to about 2,700 businesses, staff seemed to be struggling to or roughly two-thirds of the control the livid group, he said. licensed businesses in the city. The city did offer an online Business owners were notified payment system, but many JAMES TENSUAN in the letter that they were business owners were miffed Western tussock moth caterpillars had a population explosion this spring and are infesting Mountain behind $3 on their license pay- that they would be charged a View and neighboring cities. ments. If the business didn’t $1.25 convenience fee for using immediately rectify the unpaid it. bill, owners would face addi- Finance Director Patty Kong A plague of caterpillars tional fines or penalties, the agreed it was quite the mess. letters said. The last week of March her Mountain View resident team had to deal with hun- hits Mountain View Mike Lehner said he was dreds of irate business owners, baffled as he read the notice in person and over the phone. UNUSUAL WEATHER FUELS AN EXPLOSION OF HAIRY CRAWLERS ALL OVER TOWN sent to his wife Jennifer’s health “It was an unfortunate event consulting business. He felt like that this had gone out in this By Kevin Forestieri all over Mountain View and crawling critters tend to make the city was about to revoke manner,” she said. “There were neighboring cities dangling their debut around this time their license. quite a few people who had t’s hard to get around down tree branches and wrig- every year, Mountain View “This was the first we heard thought they had paid their town without running into gling on cars, playgrounds and parks staff acknowledge that about this,” he said. “It gave us Ithem. Hordes of hairy cat- garbage bins, leaving behind there’s an usually high number less than a week’s notice, and it See BUSINESS LICENSE, page 8 erpillars, freshly hatched after trails of stringy silk. a warm February, can be found And while the hairy, See CATERPILLARS, page 9 Family plans to sue over Tesla crash LAW FIRM ALLEGES FAULTY TECHNOLOGY LED TO DEATH OF SAN MATEO MAN By Kevin Forestieri collided with a median on High- Tesla, and could potentially extend way 101 in Mountain View on the suit to any subcontractors he family of a man who March 23. Vehicle logs recovered involved in the design and con- was killed in a fiery crash by Tesla showed that Huang had struction of the Autopilot system. Tinvolving a Tesla Model been using the vehicle’s Autopilot An early review by the law firm X vehicle plans to file a wrong- function at the time of the crash, indicated that the Autopilot sys- ful death lawsuit against the car when the vehicle hit a cement tem installed in the Model X may company over allegations of a barrier between Highway 101 and have misread painted lanes on the faulty Autopilot system, accord- the Highway 85 carpool flyover, roadway, failed to detect the con- ing to an announcement by a according to the company. crete median and failed to brake legal firm representing the family. In an online post Wednesday, the car, according to the post. NATALIA NAZAROVA San Mateo resident Walter the law firm Minami Tamaki “The firm believes Tesla’s Jennifer Lehner was one of about 2,700 owners who received a Huang, 38, suffered major injuries stated that the family intends to surprising warning notice claiming they were behind on paying business and later died after his 2017 Tesla file the wrongful death suit against See TESLA, page 12 license fees. Mountain View city officials later apologized for the misfire. 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