Hellenic hospitality WEEKEND | 17 OCTOBER 5, 2018 VOLUME 26, NO. 37 www.MountainViewOnline.com 650.964.6300 MOVIES | 20 Council votes to allow pot shops in Mountain View DOWNTOWN, SAN ANTONIO AND NORTH BAYSHORE AMONG AREAS WHERE STOREFRONTS CAN OPEN By Kevin Forestieri state. Detailed election results showed every single precinct in majority of Mountain the city at least held a major- View City Council mem- ity in favor of the law. Although Abers agreed Tuesday night many of the 68 public speakers to allow marijuana retailers to vehemently opposed the idea of open up shop in Mountain View, pot retailers, he said the city can’t parting company with other cit- ignore the people who didn’t ies in the county that have sought come to the meeting. a ban on the businesses. “I see an opportunity for the The 5-2 vote to allow up to city of Mountain View that four marijuana stores — two extends beyond Mountain View, storefront shops and two delivery given that the progressiveness of NATALIA NAZAROVA businesses — came after hours of this city is not shared by some of Parents in the San Antonio neighborhood listen to Councilwoman Margaret Abe-Koga speak at a public comments, mostly from our neighbors. And yet people meeting in Del Medio Park on Saturday about plans for a new public school campus and playing fields people who were opposed and who live in those cities are going proposed by the Los Altos School District. warned that pot shops would to enjoy shopping here, as they ruin the family-friendly feel of already do,” Rosenberg said. the city and bring a wave of crime “As much as I enjoy Cupertino, San Antonio residents say they and drug use. Several speak- the city itself has no soul. They ers carried signs that said “No try to make a downtown and it’s want a neighborhood school pot store in MTV” depicting a basically a mall. Mountain View crossed-out marijuana leaf. doesn’t have that issue.” COMMUNITY MEETING, SURVEY SHOW SUPPORT FOR NEW CAMPUS TO SERVE LOCAL STUDENTS Mayor Lenny Siegel and coun- Some of the public speakers, cil members Chris Clark, John however, worried that turning By Kevin Forestieri own school and expansive open postage stamp of green space. McAlister, Ken Rosenberg and the city into a magnet for recre- space in a part of the city that The San Antonio area, which Pat Showalter voted in favor of ational marijuana would cause a ozens of parents and currently lacks both. falls within the Los Altos School the proposal, with Margaret whole host of problems. Resident children packed into The small, 0.38-acre park — District, has one of Mountain Abe-Koga and Lisa Matichak Tootoo Thomson told council DDel Medio Park over the the location of the Sept. 29 com- View’s worst residents-to-open- opposed. members that the city isn’t ready weekend to talk about a future munity meeting — gets plenty space ratios in the city and no The council’s action would for the “new can of worms” vision for Mountain View’s San of use by residents in the area allow marijuana retailers, that the marijuana retailers will Antonio neighborhood, with its who have to make do with the See SAN ANTONIO, page 7 through a conditional use per- bring, and that the vote on Prop- mit, to open up a storefront osition 64 shouldn’t be conflated business in downtown Mountain with residents wanting the busi- View, the San Antonio Shopping nesses in their backyard. Oakland man arrested for alleged Center, in North Bayshore and In a statement submitted to along El Camino Real, as well the council prior to the meet- rape, strangulation as in various major shopping ing, Thompson said the city centers throughout the city. City should follow the example set by By Kevin Forestieri sexual assault, consciousness and then sexu- Council members agreed not to neighboring cities and continue according ally assaulted her, police said. allow the shops in the Grant Park the moratorium on marijuana ountain View police to the state- According to the victim, Pow- Plaza, both as a way of appeasing retailers. arrested an Oakland ment. The ell had called her in the early concerns from residents and an “Palo Alto, Los Altos and Mman on Sept. 27 after woman told morning hours Sept. 23 and acknowledgment of how hard it Sunnyvale have not approved to identifying him as the suspect officers that told her that he needed to be is to access and park in the plaza. (sic) open any marijuana outlet. in a rape and strangulation she had picked up from a business near Rosenberg said allowing mari- Please learn from them. Other- Sept. 23, according to a state- picked up the intersection of Dale Avenue juana stores follows through on a wise the drug addicts, criminals ment by the Mountain View a friend — and El Camino Real in Moun- clear mandate by voters in 2016. and homeless people will flock Police Department. identified as Lavel Powell tain View, police said. She Nearly two-thirds of Mountain to our city,” she said in the On Sunday, Sept. 23, the 29-year-old drove Powell a short distance, View residents supported Propo- statement. victim was admitted to a local Lavel Powell — and that he sition 64, which cleared the way hospital with visible signs of had strangled her until she lost See ARREST, page 16 for recreational marijuana in the See POT SHOPS, page 11 INSIDE VIEWPOINT 12 | GOINGS ON 21 | MARKETPLACE 22 | REAL ESTATE 24 2 Q Mountain View Voice Q MountainViewOnline.com Q October 5, 2018 QA+E BRIEFS Healthy Teeth Don’t Lose Your Dental Benefits! and Gums Call for an appointment today! That Last a Lifetime! • Experienced and Gentle Dentist, and Friendly Staff • New Patients Welcome! COURTESY OF GALLERY 9 • Free Consultations and Daniel Meehan’s “Arch Circle Second Opinions 24” (above) and Judi Keyani’s “Cyclamen” (right) are on display at • Saturday Appointments Gallery 9 in Los Altos this month. 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Oct. 5, 5-8 p.m. Go mances will be held every Tuesday to gallery9losaltos.com. evening at the main library, with other events taking place on select afternoons at the main library ‘HONOR & SACRIFICE’ AND and the Belle Haven branch, and ‘PROOF OF LOYALTY’ one Saturday morning program at the Menlo Park City Council Wife-and-husband filmmak- Chambers. Playwright Brenda ers Lucy Ostrander (who grew Wong Aoki, known as “America’s up in Palo Alto) and Don Sellers foremost Asian storyteller,” will will offer free showings of their present tales she calls “Oriental award-winning documentaries Ghost Stories.” “Honor & Sacrifice” and “Proof Other performers appearing of Loyalty” on Sunday, Oct. 7, throughout the month include at 3 p.m. at the Palo Alto Bud- Diane Ferlatte and Olga Loya, dhist Temple, 2751 Louis Road. Tim Ereneta and the mother- According to a press release, daughter team of Ann-Marie “Honor & Sacrifice” tells the Sayers and Kanyon Sayers-Roods. story of Roy Matsumoto, who Sayers is the traditional caretaker fought in Burma with the U.S. of Indian Canyon, the only sov- guerrilla unit Merrill’s Maraud- ereign Indian lands in central ers. Matsumoto is credited with coastal California. The duo will saving his battalion after crawling be sharing traditional folklore across enemy lines and hearing of their ancestors, the Ohlone attack plans detailed in a Japanese people. Also performing are Leo- dialect. While he and a brother na Hoegsberg, Muriel Johnson, fought for the Americans, three Alicia Retes, and John Weaver. other Matsumoto brothers were While some of the performances drafted into the Japanese army. will be family-friendly, others The film includes rare archival will be geared toward adults and footage of Hiroshima, where the teens. 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