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. FACTS 2010-11 GENERAL OPERATING FUND BUDGET: $87 million POPULATION (2008): 73,847 HOUSEHOLDS (2008): 33,134 OWNER-OCCUPIED HOUSING (2008): 13,282 rom an early stagecoach stop and multifamily and 4 percent mobile homes. More RENTER-OCCUPIED HOUSING agricultural center, Mountain View than 42 percent are owner-occupied. (2008): 18,239 Fhas grown since its incorporation in Encompassing 12 square miles, Mountain 85 MEDIAN HOME-SELLING PRICE: 1902 to a thriving city of 73,000+ residents View is surrounded by Palo Alto, Los Altos $908,000 (single-family homes, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Internationally and Sunnyvale. Highways 101, 85 and 237, December 2009 through known corporations make Mountain View as well as light rail and Caltrain, offer quick November 2010)
their home, swelling the daytime population 280 access to the rest of the Bay Area. $549,500 (condominiums, December N eighborhoods to more than 100,000. Mountain View’s diversified population 2009 through November 2010) Today, Mountain View neighborhoods are enjoys superb recreation and arts facilities, ESTIMATED MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD as varied as the housing types, with 28 percent including Shoreline Park and the Mountain INCOME (2008): $88,637 single-family, 11 percent townhouses, 57 percent View Center for the Performing Arts.
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N eighborhoods 9LVLW[[[[EPHSVJTIRMRWYPESVK 8 Monta Loma FACTS CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS: Hobbledehoy hen Janice Heiler and her husband down through generations and stayed in Montessori Preschool, 2321 Jane Lane; Monta Loma faced retirement, they considered families since they were built. Suverkropp Babysitting Co-op (part of Monta Loma Neighborhood W leaving their home in the Monta and his family are in that category; his Association); Kids@Home (run by a neighbor) Loma neighborhood of Mountain View. wife’s parents owned their house when FIRE STATION: No. 3, 301 Rengstorff Ave. Then, a new member of the household came she was young, making his son the fourth LOCATION: bounded by San Antonio Road, along, and all those plans changed. generation to live there. West Middlefield Road, Rengstorff Avenue and “Once we started getting out more walking More than 500 people belong to an Central Expressway the dog, we started meeting neighbors and e-mail list started by the association, which NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: Monta Loma Neighborhood Association, Wouter Suverkropp, president, didn’t want to move,” Heiler said. They haven’t was founded in 1977 as a beautification [email protected], www.montaloma.org looked back. committee, Suverkropp said. The PARKS: Monta Loma Park, Thompson Avenue and Lots of homeowners in the neighborhood association now organizes several annual Laura Lane; Thaddeus Park, West Middlefield Road and come for the location and stay for the events that attract hundreds of people, and Independence Drive community. Monta Loma is bounded by supports a strong Community Emergency POST OFFICE: Mountain View, 211 Hope St. San Antonio Road, West Middlefield Road, Response Team, he said. PRIVATE SCHOOLS: The Girls’ Middle School, Rengstorff Avenue and Central Expressway. More and more families with young children 180 N. Rengstorff Ave. There’s a shopping center in one corner that seem to be moving into the neighborhood, said PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Mtn. View-Whisman School provides a coffee shop, dry cleaning, bank, Marilyn Gildea, who has lived in Monta Loma District — Monta Loma Elementary School, Crittenden restaurants with a Fresh ‘n Easy grocery since 2002. She likes the neighborhood for its Middle School; Mtn. View-Los Altos Union High store coming soon. Just across the freeway is diversity and the fact that generations stay on School District — Los Altos High School Google’s campus, which has brought in some through the years. SHOPPING: Central Expressway and Rengstorff new neighbors in recent years, said Wouter Heiler especially appreciates the safe feeling Avenue; Monta Loma Plaza, West Middlefield Road and Suverkropp, president of the Monta Loma of the neighborhood. She walks her dog Rengstorff Avenue; San Antonio Shopping Center Neighborhood Association. before sunrise and feels completely safe no MEDIAN 2010 HOME PRICE: $748,500 ($599,000-$876,000) The homes were built in the post-World matter the time of day. “Anywhere I am in this War II boom, mostly by Joseph Eichler. neighborhood I feel like I’m in my backyard.” HOMES SOLD: 30 A number of the homes have been passed — Kathy Schrenk MEDIAN 2010 CONDO PRICE: $317,450 ($240,000-$510,000) CONDOS SOLD (NEARBY): 4 Rex Manor/Mountain Shadows FACTS CHILD CARE AND PRESCHOOLS: YMCA of ocated just off busy Central Swindell added that most residents either the East Bay/Mountain View Child Development Expressway, Rex Manor — a quiet have kids in the house now or did when they Center, 750B San Pierre Way; YMCA — L neighborhood with tree-lined streets were younger. Theuerkauf,1625 San Luis Ave. and numerous parks — is the best of both “There aren’t a lot of young single people FIRE STATION: No. 3, 301 N. Rengstorff Ave. worlds. around,” she said. LOCATION: Rex Manor: between Farley and “You’re close to everything,” said Rex Manor is still fairly social and diverse. Burgoyne streets, Central Expressway and West Frank Gicale, whose family moved to the Neighbors gather for Sunday potlucks and a Middlefield Road; Mountain Shadows: between Burgoyne Street and Shoreline Boulevard, neighborhood in 1959, four years before he yearly block party and ice cream social. San Ramon and Montecito avenues was born. He cited such conveniences as There are a few small drawbacks to living in NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: Safeway and the light rail, and being able to Rex Manor, though. Swindell’s commute — to Lawrence Shing, chair, [email protected] bike to almost anything. Foster City, where she works as a program PARKS: Rex Manor Park, Farley Street and Central For all these nearby comforts, Rex Manor manager at a life-sciences company — can take Expressway; Stevenson Park, San Luis Avenue and is still a restful place to start a family. Gicale up to an hour and a half on her way home, and San Pierre Way works for the City of Mountain View and has sometimes residents take advantage of the POST OFFICE: Mountain View, 211 Hope St. always lived nearby. Today, he’s raising his neighborhood’s quiet, safe atmosphere. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Mtn. View-Whisman own three children in the house where he grew “There’s a lot of speeding through the School District — Theuerkauf Elementary School, up, left to him by his parents when they passed neighborhood,” she said. “I think it’s by Crittenden Middle School; Mtn. View-Los Altos on. residents. They know there’s no cops who go Union High School District — Los Altos High School “A lot of our neighbors are from the old through.” N eighborhoods days,” he said. “They knew my parents. We feel Despite these small annoyances, Gicale feels SHOPPING: Bailey Plaza, Shoreline Boulevard; safe here.” very fortunate to have inherited a house in Rex strip shopping at 112 Rengstorff Ave. and 580 Rengstorff Ave. The neighborhood was built by William Manor. MEDIAN 2010 HOME PRICE: $545,000 Blackfield in 1950. Some of the ranch-style “These houses cost a lot,” he said. “I think ($380,000-$932,500) homes have been remodeled, but many there are a lot of people who would enjoy our HOMES SOLD: 17 haven’t, said Amber Swindell, who moved to neighborhood, and I feel for them.” the neighborhood in 2009. — Emma Trotter 9 Where would you like to plant your roots and watch them grow?
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N eighborhoods Mountain View | Los Altos | Sunnyvale | Palo Alto | and the Peninsula 10 St. Francis Acres FACTS CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS: veryone seems to like everybody children are avid swimmers and spend lots Mountain View KinderCare, 2065 W. El Camino else in St. Francis Acres. At least of time at the nearby Eagle Park swimming Real; St. Paul Lutheran CDC, 1075 El Monte Ave. Eaccording to Tom Pedersen, Kathy pool. FIRE STATION: No. 1, 251 S. Shoreline Blvd. Lee and Virginia Phelps. They all agreed In addition to having plenty of playmates, LOCATION: bordered by El Camino Real, that their small neighborhood, bordered children attended a neighborhood-wide party Permanente Creek and El Monte Avenue by El Camino Real, Permanente Creek at Halloween — a holiday her street likes to PARKS: McKelvey Park, Park Drive and and El Monte Avenue, is a very tightly knit have fun with. There’s a big party every year. Miramonte Ave.; Eagle Park, Shoreline Blvd. and community and a great place to raise kids. Many streets in the neighborhood have had High School Way. “We have McKelvey Park, which is right problems with commuters cutting through to POST OFFICE: Mountain View, 211 Hope St. around the corner from us,” said Pedersen, get from El Camino Real to El Monte Avenue. PRIVATE SCHOOLS (NEARBY): Canterbury whose two boys grew up playing baseball “Our street used to be the Indy 500,” Lee Christian School, 101 N. El Monte, St. Joseph Catholic School, 1120 Miramonte Ave., St. Francis there. “Talk about convenience.” Many said, “But we put in speed bumps about five High School, 1885 Miramonte Ave. aspects of St. Francis Acres were and are years ago.” PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Los Altos School District convenient for Pedersen, who has lived on Phelps said Gilmore Street used to have — Almond Elementary School, Egan Junior High Todd Street since 1973. It is a short walk to the same problem until stop signs replaced School; Mtn. View-Los Altos Union High School downtown Mountain View and about five the yield signs about 10 years ago. Phelps said District — Los Altos High School minutes from all major freeways. that Gilmore has seen a high turnover rate SHOPPING: Downtown Mountain View, El Monte “I love my neighborhood and so do my in recent years, which she attributed to the Shopping Center (El Monte Avenue near Marich neighbors,” Lee, who lives on Ernestine Lane, housing bubble. Way), Clarkwood Center (El Camino Real) said. “We watch out for one another.” Overall, Pedersen, Lee and Phelps all love MEDIAN 2010 HOME PRICE: $1,086,000 Lee said when her kids were growing up living in St. Francis Acres. “If you live and ($939,000-$2,475,000) they always had plenty of other children work in Silicon Valley you couldn’t do much HOMES SOLD: 21 to play with and would bounce from house better,” Phelps said, noting that especially to house. “They both received outstanding on Gilmore Street, the homes are very educations,” she added, testifying to the reasonably priced for the area. quality of the local public schools. Both her — Nick Veronin
Gemello FACTS CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS: emello, its residents say again to Gemello in 1978. Evilsizer, a Los Altos Childrens Learning Cottage, 675 Escuela Ave.; and again, is an old-fashioned native, was first attracted by the quality of Mountain View KinderCare, 2065 W. El Camino Real; Gneighborhood. It has old-fashioned Excel workmanship and its proximity to her St. Paul Lutheran CDC, 1075 El Monte Ave.; Wonder architecture, old-fashioned plants and, best hometown. Thirty-two years later, she’s still World, 2015 Latham St. (nearby) of all, an old-fashioned feel with neighbors there, one of a group of close-knit long-time FIRE STATION: No. 3, 301 N. Rengstorff Ave.; that know each other, like each other and residents. No. 1, 251 S. Shoreline Blvd. even remodel with each other. “The neighborhood is very established with LOCATION: bounded by El Monte Avenue, Jardin Drive, Karen Way and El Camino Real Gemello — the Mountain View several of our neighbor’s living in their homes PARK: Gemello Park, Marich Way and Solana Court neighborhood located between the Los Altos for 50-plus years,” she said. “We have excellent border, El Camino Real and El Monte Avenue neighbors who you can always depend on. We POST OFFICE: Mountain View, 211 Hope St., Blossom Valley, 1768 Miramonte Ave. — was once a winery owned by John Gemello. are very happy in the neighborhood.” PRIVATE SCHOOLS (NEARBY): The Girls’ Middle In the 1950s, it was sold to San Francisco- The neighborhood park, Gemello Park on School, 180 N. Rengstorff Ave.; Canterbury Christian based Meadow Development Company, which Solano Drive and Marich Way, is a focal point School, 101 N El Monte Ave. promptly starting building three-bedroom, for families and small children, even if cars PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Mtn. View-Whisman School one-bath Blackfield and Excel villages. driving on Marich Way go too fast. District — Bubb Elementary School, Graham Middle Charles Channing is a relative newcomer “People go too quickly on Marich near the School; Mtn. View-Los Altos Union High School to the area, having moved to Gemello from park,” her neighbor and Gemello resident Mark District — Los Altos High School the East Coast in 2001. He and his wife Bubert said. “Everyone flies on that street.” SHOPPING: Downtown Mountain View, Downtown Los
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Oak Ave., Redwood City 11th Ave., Menlo Park N eighborhoods 12 Castro City FACTS CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS: n a neighborhood synonymous with country suburb for Stanford professors and Oak Tree Nursery School, 2100 University Ave.; Mountain View’s earliest history, San Francisco vacationers, using such street Wonder World, 2015 Latham St. (nearby) Ichange is easy to see. names as University and Fair Oaks avenues. FIRE STATION: No. 3, 301 N. Rengstorff Ave. Once an enclave of cottage houses, today Instead, real estate men moved cannery LOCATION: bounded by South Rengstorff Avenue, Castro City features a growing number shacks from Campbell over to Castro City, University Avenue, College Street and of newly built, narrow, two-story homes and Latino fruit pickers and other laborers Leland Avenue squeezed onto tiny lots in the six-square- settled in the bargain neighborhood, where PARKS: Castro Park, Toft Avenue at Latham Street; block area located across the street from homes sold in 1941 for $150, according to a Rengstorff Park and pool, Rengstorff Avenue at Crisanto Avenue Rengstorff Park. Palo Alto Times article. “It’s been a plus because the houses that Surrounded by farms, the unincorporated POST OFFICE: Mountain View, 211 Hope St. were coming down were really old and in nook developed its own civic identity and PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Mountain View Whisman School District — Mariano Castro Elementary need of some serious reconditioning,” said eventually was annexed to Mountain View. School, Graham Middle School; Mountain Chris Burley, who moved to the area in 2000. “I enjoy the neighborhood for the View-Los Altos Union High School District — Yet the upgrading of residences carries compactness of it,” Jim Early, a contractor Los Altos High School a price — greater density and a threat to who moved in the late 1980s to College SHOPPING: Mi Pueblo Food Center, premium street-parking outside older houses Avenue, said. “There’s still some form of 40 S. Rengstorff Ave. at Leland Avenue; Walgreens, stuck with one-car garages. community that you don’t find in a lot of 112 N. Rengstorff Ave. at Central Expressway “Depending on what time you walk through neighborhoods these days. We still all know MEDIAN 2010 HOME PRICE: $656,500 the neighborhood, before 8 or after 5, our one another. Our houses get watched over.” ($399,000-$805,000) streets are lined with cars,” said Burley, who Early added that access to San Antonio was HOMES SOLD: 4 works from home for a data-processing firm. recently restricted because the neighborhood MEDIAN 2010 CONDO PRICE: $425,000 The area’s namesake is Mariano Castro, behind Castro City put up a one-way gate. ($290,000-$750,000) whose Spanish rancho included most of the “We’re a little disappointed that one CONDOS SOLD (NEARBY): 11 land that Mountain View occupies. Two years neighborhood feels like they can shut another after the 1906 quake, a land speculator divided one out,” Burley said. up the area with the hope of turning it into a — Todd R. Brown
Shoreline West FACTS CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS: ometimes whimsical and sometimes dog park this year. Castro Preschool, 505 Escuela Ave.; regal, the eclectic houses near Recently residents have grown closer Childrens Learning Cottage, 675 Escuela Ave.; Sdowntown obviously predate cookie- together with a series of monthly potluck Wonder World, 2015 Latham St. (nearby) cutter subdivisions and the subtlety and dinners. FIRE STATION: No. 1, 251 S. Shoreline Blvd. straight lines of the Eichler era. Mike Groethe, the head of the Shoreline LOCATION: bounded by Shoreline Boulevard, People tend to stay put after they move West Neighborhood Association, helped El Camino Real, Escuela Avenue and Villa Street here, residents say. The neighborhood start the potlucks the summer of 2008 with NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: has a wide variety of ages and ethnic Michelle Oppenheimer. “It’s been probably Shoreline West Association of Neighbors (SWAN), Mike Groethe, [email protected] backgrounds, Michelle Decamara said. “It’s one of the best things we’ve ever done,” just a good mix.” he said, adding that it’s a hard-working PARKS: Castro School Park, Toft Avenue and Latham Street; Eagle Park and Pool, S. Shoreline In the 1990s, the neighborhood broke neighborhood and people can use the time Boulevard at Church Street off from the “Old Mountain View” to socialize. POST OFFICE: Mountain View, 211 Hope St. neighborhood to the east and formed — Kathy Schrenk PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Mtn. View-Whisman its own association. Its School District — Castro Elementary School, goal at first was to make Graham Middle School; Mtn. View-Los Altos sure the historic houses Union High School District — in the neighborhood were Los Altos High School preserved, including one SHOPPING: Downtown Mountain View;
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N eighborhoods 14 Blossom Valley FACTS CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS (NEARBY) : t still feels the same way as when house area. All the kids grow up together, Children’s House of Los Altos, 770 Berry Ave.; I was a kid,” said Chris DeMassa, even the older ones,” he said. Little Acorn School, 1667 Miramonte Ave.; St. Timothy’s Nursery School, 2094 Grant Road who moved back in 1997 to the Claudia Osterheld moved in with her “I FIRE STATION: No. 2, 160 Cuesta Drive Blossom Valley neighborhood where he family in 1996 to be a part of a family- grew up. oriented neighborhood. “It was a nice LOCATION: between Springer road and Miramonte Avenue, Marilyn and Lincoln drives. “It’s neat to see it the same as it was then, community with nice schools. It was NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: Eastern Varsity seeing my kids go to Springer just like I friendly,” she said. Get-togethers such as Park Neighborhood Association, Lilly Yi, coordinator, did,” he said of the “special, magical place.” play dates and block parties are common [email protected] Blossom Valley was built on orchard and Varsity Park and Springer Meadows PARKS: Varsity Park, Duke Way and Jefferson Drive; land in the 1950s. Many houses are from have neighborhood associations. Cuesta Park, Cuesta Drive that era, but properties are kept up and Osterheld loves the conveniences. “I like POST OFFICE: Blossom Valley, 1768 Miramonte Ave. remodeling remains energetic. Four smaller to go to downtown Mountain View and PRIVATE SCHOOLS (NEARBY): neighborhoods make up Blossom Valley — downtown Los Altos. It’s half way between St. Joseph Catholic School, 1120 Miramonte Ave.; Springer Meadows, Varsity Park, Blossom them,” she said. There are also plenty of St. Francis High School, 1855 Miramonte Ave. Valley Estates and Gest Ranch. The places to take the kids. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: (Eligibility for school districts neighborhood is bordered by Springer Road “The hospital is close too, not that you’d depends on resident’s address) Los Altos School and Miramonte Avenue and is effectively want to go there,” she said. District — Springer Elementary School, Blach cut in half by Cuesta Drive. Even with the changes new construction Intermediate School; Mtn. View-Whistman School District — DeMassa says that along with people who brings, the appeal of Blossom Valley hasn’t Bubb Elementary School, Graham Middle School; Mtn. View-Los Altos Union High School have been in the neighborhood for 30 or 40 changed since the time when DeMassa was District — Los Altos or Mountain View high schools years, there are plenty of new families as well. going to Springer Elementary. SHOPPING: Blossom Valley Shopping Center, The large front yards and the broad, “It’s stayed the same. It’s always been a Miramonte Avenue and Cuesta Drive; Rancho clean streets make it easy to run into friendly, safe neighborhood,” he said. Shopping Center, Foothill Expressway and Springer neighbors. “There are 14 kids in a four- —John Squire Road; Grant Road Plaza Shopping Center, Grant Road and Phyllis Avenue MEDIAN 2010 HOME PRICE: $1,300,000 ($908,000-$1,950,089) HOMES SOLD: 37 North Whisman FACTS CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS: German isa Burns knew the first day she “Our biggest concern is the growth International School of Silicon Valley, 310 Easy St.; moved into her house on Walker development,” said Peggy Prendergast, Kiddie Academy, 205 E. Middlefield Road; NASA Ames L Drive that she had found a home in who has lived on Flynn Avenue since 2005. Child Care Center, Mail Stop N-270-1 Moffett Field North Whisman. With boxes packed into She emphasized that while she didn’t FIRE STATION: No. 4, 229 N. Whisman Road her garage, she closed the door and left to want to see large complexes added to the LOCATION: bounded by Walker Drive, Leong Drive, run some errands. neighborhood, she understood the appeal of Evandale Avenue, Easy Street “What I didn’t know is that the door North Whisman’s proximity to so many major NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: North Whisman bounced back up,” Burns said, “leaving all my highways. “I really believe this is an up-and- Neighborhood Association, Jessica Gandhi, 650-969-2429; [email protected] earthly possessions in full view for whoever coming area because of the location.” might want to come take them.” Neighbors agree that another one of the PARKS: Whisman Park, Easy Street and Middlefield Road; Devonshire Park, 62 Devonshire Ave. When she returned, however, she found her main draws to North Whisman is its diversity. POST OFFICE: Mountain View, 211 Hope St. neighbor, Frank, waiting to assure her he had “There’s a good mix, a good diversity,” been keeping an eye on her garage. Prendergast said. She pointed to her complex, PRIVATE SCHOOLS: German International School of Silicon Valley, 310 Easy St. “Your garage door is malfunctioning,” he and listed each family and their country of PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Mtn. View-Whisman School told her, “but I think we can fix it.” origin: the Philippines, Equador, China, District — Huff, Landels or Monta Loma elementary And he did. Algeria, Japan, India, Bulgaria. schools, Crittenden Middle School; Mtn. View-Los “It’s just been like that the whole time I’ve “I like Mountain View because it seems to be Altos Union High School District — Mountain View been there,” Burns recalled. She speaks from a little bit more diverse,” said Lisa Moore, who High School
experience — since she’s been in the same moved to North Whisman 16 years ago from SHOPPING: Strip mall on Leong Drive; retail N eighborhoods house for nearly 22 years. Palo Alto. centers on Middlefield Road and Whisman Road Bordered by Evandale Avenue, Whisman “It’s been a nice, peaceful neighborhood. MEDIAN 2010 HOME PRICE: $688,400 Road, Middlefield Road and Moffett Boulevard I’ve got a good friend across the street, another ($315,000-$854,000) to the north, North Whisman encompasses a around the corner,” she said. “People feed each HOMES SOLD: 10 visible dichotomy of business complexes, and others’ animals. It’s small stuff like that.” MEDIAN 2010 CONDO PRICE: $407,000 an eclectic range of town houses, apartments, — Kelsey Mesher ($178,000-$692,000) single-family homes and condos. CONDOS SOLD: 19 15 SOLD Experience
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Cuesta Park FACTS CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS: Little Acorn ith its eclectic mix of old-style Neighborhood gatherings abound in this Preschool, 1667 Miramonte Ave.; St. Timothy’s cottages, apartment complexes Mountain View locality, and many of them Preschool, 2094 Grant Road; YMCA Kids Place, Wand new single-family homes, take place in the sprawling 25-acre park 525 Hans Ave. the Cuesta Park neighborhood feels like a bearing the neighborhood’s name, Cuesta FIRE STATION: No. 2, 160 Cuesta Drive 1950s-era suburb. Park. LOCATION: bounded by El Camino Real, Grant Road, And, the people of Cuesta Park exemplify The park plays host to summer concerts, Cuesta Drive, Miramonte Avenue, Castro Street the traditions of the era it resembles. Genuine fall picnics, wildflower planting, and every NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: Cuesta Park kindness and respect for each other and their May it’s the location of the Mountain View Neighborhood Association (CPNA), vice president and acting President, Russ Jones, 650-961-9682 neighbors is an everyday occurrence. chapter of the American Cancer Society’s In 2001 Sarah Donahue discovered Cuesta Relay for Life. PARKS: Bubb Park, Barbara Avenue and Montalto Drive; Cuesta Park, 615 Cuesta Drive Park in her search to find a neighborhood that Pam Lehner, Cuesta Park resident POST OFFICE: Blossom Valley, 1768 Miramonte Ave. provided good schools and pleasant people. since 1972, plays a crucial part in this “I’ve found that in spades,” Donahue said. event as the Cancer Center Concierge at PRIVATE SCHOOLS: St. Joseph, 1120 Miramonte Ave.; St. Francis High School, 1885 Miramonte Ave. “I was thrilled to rediscover that there were El Camino Hospital. “I love that it’s in our PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Mtn. View-Whisman School people who know their neighbors, and they neighborhood,” she said. District — Bubb Elementary School, Graham Middle talk to each other.” The neighbors of Cuesta Park help her School; Mtn. View-Los Altos Union High School A key component to the sense of throughout the year by dropping off donations District — Mountain View High School community that resounds in the Cuesta of items that she can take to the Cancer Center SHOPPING: Grant Park Plaza, Grant Road at El Camino
Park neighborhood is the Cuesta Park patients including hand-knitted hats. Real; Blossom Valley Shopping Center, Miramonte N eighborhoods Neighborhood Association or CPNA. “We really watch out for one another,” Avenue at Cuesta Drive; Downtown Mountain View Kim Merry, a resident since 1964 Lehner said of her Cuesta Park neighbors. MEDIAN 2010 HOME PRICE: $940,000 and previous neighborhood association The same can be said for the entire ($655,000-$1,325,000) president, credits the creation of the CPNA community of Cuesta Park, as Kim Merry puts HOMES SOLD: 33 to the neighborhood’s struggle to keep the it, “it’s like Mayberry RFD.” MEDIAN 2010 CONDO PRICE: $758,000 Cuesta Park Annex, an additional 12 acres of — Kimberly Ewertz ($440,000-$908,000) underdeveloped land, in its natural state. CONDOS SOLD: 7 17 I can see your house from here!
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Old Mountain View FACTS CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS: YMCA Kids’ tephen Lacy likes his Old Mountain sure that businesses do not push into the Place at Landels School, 115 W. Dana St. View home for many reasons. For surrounding residential areas, even as it FIRE STATION: No. 1, 251 S. Shoreline Blvd. Sone, he is able to bike to work along encourages growth of retail that serves the LOCATION: bounded by El Camino Real, Shoreline the Stevens Creek Trail. Lacy also enjoys community. Walking down Castro from Boulevard, Evelyn Avenue and Highways 87/237 taking his son to nearby Mercy-Bush one end of the neighborhood to the other, NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: Old Mountain Park, one of six parks located within the one will find City Hall, a multitude of View Neighborhood Association, Laura Lewis, neighborhood, which is bounded by El restaurants and coffee shops, as well as the [email protected]; omvna.org Camino Real, Shoreline Boulevard, Evelyn Mountain View Center for the Performing PARKS: Dana Park, West Dana Street at Oak Street; Avenue and Highways 87/237. Arts. Eagle Park & Pool, S. Shoreline Boulevard at Church Lacy, who has lived in Old Mountain Bruce Karney, former chair of OMVNA, Street; Pioneer Park, Church and Castro streets; Mercy-Bush Park, Mercy and Bush streets; Fairmont View since 1999, likes the aesthetic of the has lived in Old Mountain View since 1987. Park, Fairmont Avenue and Bush Street; Landels Park, neighborhood. “Every house is different,” The association works with the city council West Dana Street near Calderon Avenue he explained. He did note that traffic to ensure that the neighborhood maintains POST OFFICE: Mountain View, 211 Hope St. can be a concern on Dana Street, where a balanced diversity. Karney said the PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Mtn. View-Whisman School commuters are heading to and from the association also holds community events District — Landels Elementary School, Graham freeway. such as ice cream socials, which are highly Middle School; Mtn. View-Los Altos Union High Many choose the neighborhood for its attended — the past two bringing in about School District — Mountain View High School proximity to downtown Mountain View. 400 residents. SHOPPING: Downtown Mountain View,
“It’s the perfect distance from downtown,” And, while the community takes pride Grant Park Plaza N eighborhoods said Aaron Grossman, former treasurer in the aesthetic of its classic architecture, MEDIAN 2010 HOME PRICE: $885,000 of the Old Mountain View Neighborhood the highly modern is not discouraged. In ($699,000-$1,500,000) Association (OMVNA), who moved into the September 2008 Shannon Madison’s home HOMES SOLD: 27 neighborhood in 1995. on Eldora Drive earned the second highest MEDIAN 2010 CONDO PRICE: $714,500 Although the bustling Castro Street green rating for a home in the Bay Area ($517,000-$975,000) bisects the neighborhood, the highly active from Berkeley-based Build It Green. CONDOS SOLD: 16 neighborhood association works to make — Nick Veronin 19 COLDWELL BANKER SERVING MOUNTAIN VIEW, LOS ALTOS AND LOS GATOS AREA BUYERS AND SELLERS
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Waverly Park FACTS CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS: El Camino rian Toby has lived in Waverly Park when I was growing up,” Diamond said. “A YMCA, 2400 Grant Road; Mountain View Parent since 1988 and likes the community back-to-basics, fundamentals-of-raising-a- Nursery School, 1299 Bryant Ave.; Primary Plus, Bfor its stability and because, as he family kind of neighborhood.” 333 Eunice Ave.; St. Timothy’s Nursery School, puts it, “everybody knows everybody.” The Practicality is another reason Diamond 2094 Grant Road; YMCA Way to Grow Full-Day Preschool, 1501 Oak Ave., Los Altos (nearby) neighborhood celebrates the Fourth of July enjoys Waverly Park. Easy freeway access each year with a big party, which he said is means that her reverse commute to South FIRE STATION: No. 2, 160 Cuesta Drive always well-attended and fun for the whole San Jose only takes 25 minutes. There is also LOCATION: bounded by Grant Road, Highway 85 and Sleeper and Bryant avenues family. plenty of shopping close by, including a Nob PARKS: Cooper Park, Chesley Avenue at Yorkton Drive At the heart of the neighborhood — which Hill and Safeway just minutes away. The is bounded by Grant Road, Highway 85 and lively Castro Street is also a relatively short POST OFFICE: Blossom Valley, 1768 Miramonte Ave. Sleeper and Bryant avenues — lies Cooper drive from her cul-de-sac. PRIVATE SCHOOLS: St. Joseph, 1120 Miramonte Ave.; St. Francis High School, 1885 Miramonte Ave. Park, where Toby remembers enjoying many “It’s just a great neighborhood for kids afternoons with his children before they flew and families,” Ann Martin said of Waverly PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Mtn. View-Whisman School District — Huff Elementary School, Graham Middle the coop. Park, where she has lived since 1994. School; Mtn. View-Los Altos Union High School Though Toby may be an empty nester, he “There’s a bunch of neighbors that hang out District — Mountain View High School says that there’s been a “real turn around together, and they’re always watching out for SHOPPING: Blossom Valley Shopping Center, recently, and we’ve got a whole new group of each other’s kids.” Miramonte Avenue at Cuesta Drive; Grant Park people with young kids” moving in. Her daughter’s school is about a mile Plaza; Nob Hill Shopping Center, Grant Road;
Camille Diamond, who moved to Waverly away, and like Diamond’s route to Cooper Downtown Mountain View N eighborhoods Park from Los Altos in 2006, loves the fact Park, Martin doesn’t have to take any main MEDIAN 2010 HOME PRICE: $1,275,000 that there is a park within walking distance streets, except Grant Road, to drop her ($970,000-$1,800,000) of her home. An added bonus for her, is that daughter off. HOMES SOLD: 30 she feels comfortable letting her seventh- “The kids can’t get away with anything, grader walk there on his own, since there are because the neighbors are always watching, no major streets he would have to cross. family-friendly,” Martin said. “It’s just the kind of neighborhood we had — Nick Veronin 21 WE MEASURE QUALITY BY RESULTS Is Quality Important to You?
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