Class Guide in this issue | P.18 AUGUST 6, 2010 VOLUME 18, NO. 31 INSIDE: WEEKEND | PAGE 14 650.964.6300 MountainViewOnline.com HSR station: where will it fit? CITY OFFICIALS SAY 3,000 PARKING SPACES ARE NEEDED By Daniel DeBolt town train station, possibly with rough outline of what a high- portions underground. speed rail station would look “There are pros and cons to it,” Alike in downtown Mountain said council member Jac Siegel. View is starting to take shape, and “If a lot more people come to our it’s going to need a lot of parking. city and park and spend money City officials say it would require here, that helps the economy. The 3,000 parking spaces within a three- con is that traffic is going to be mile radius, among other things. pretty bad unless we figure out Mayor Ronit Bryant and Pub- how to handle it.” lic Works director Mike Fuller The Mountain View City recently met with California High Council has yet to support Speed Rail Authority officials who the station idea, but it voted laid out some basic requirements in March of 2009] to have the of an “intermediate” station in CHSRA study a potential stop downtown Mountain View. Basic in Mountain View, putting the LIMBER SPINES PHOTO BY MICHELLE LE requirements include a main sta- city up against Palo Alto and Karin Bricker, Mountain View’s supervising librarian for youth services, holds the limbo stick at one of the tion building with the floor area Redwood City as candidates for library’s summer events on Thursday, July 29. The event brought local children and their families to Pioneer of a large grocery store — 65,000 a mid-Peninsula station. HSR Park for a performance by ZunZun, a Latin music group. The library’s summer reading program had about square feet. See , page 6 3,720 kids and parents participating this year. Unlike a larger “terminal” sta- tion, like those planned for San Francisco and San Jose, trains would stop and go downtown No place like Large field teed up for council much like commuter trains do now. But the train platform would demolished THREE PULL PAPERS TO RUN AGAINST THREE INCUMBENTS have to be much longer than the current Caltrain station, Fuller By Daniel DeBolt Meanwhile, pot club operator garet Abe-Koga, Jac Siegel and said, in order to accommodate old home Matt Lucero had yet to pull papers, Ronit Bryant. trains as long as 1,300 feet. That is o far, four people have despite the big splash he made Many of the prospective candi- roughly the distance between Cas- By Daniel DeBolt expressed interest in chal- about running several weeks ago. dates have potential conflicts of tro Street and the Stevens Creek Slenging the three incumbents He did not return the phone calls interest in decisions the City Coun- Trail. oretta Pangrac is still look- for their seats on the City Council. from the Voice by the press time. cil will make over the next year. But the most “problematic” piece ing for a new home after Friday is the deadline for entering Mountain View resident Greg Waylonis may be prohibited from of information disclosed, Bryant Lhers was demolished in the race. David has submitted his paperwork voting on actions directly related says, are the parking requirements November by a city concerned The newest to express interest is to become a candidate, but little is to Google, such as office develop- and the potential traffic impacts. that her roof was falling in. planning commission chair and known about his intentions, as he ment, but may be allowed to vote on According to Bryant and Fuller, In a February interview, Pan- slow-growther John McAlister. has not returned phone calls from things indirectly involving Google, about 1,000 parking spaces would grac was enraged, saying that she McAlister, who owns Mountain the Voice. He is said to be on vaca- such as the city’s general plan be needed adjacent to the station, felt the city had “stole” her house View’s Baskin Robbins. He was a tion this week. update, said City Council member while 2,000 more located within and that she wanted to be left to serious contender in the 2008 City David is the brother of Bri- and lawyer Mike Kasperzak. three miles. Passengers would likely deal with it herself. The elderly Council race, losing to John Inks an David, who wants to open a City Attorney Jannie Quinn said be ferried to and from those 2,000 woman has been living in a local by 3 percentage points and about medical marijuana dispensary, the the issue required extensive analysis spaces via shuttles, Fuller said, hotel ever since. 2,000 votes. But while he had gone Shoreline Wellness Collective, in before she could weigh in on each much like long term parking at an Pangrac was able to sell the now to the trouble of “pulling papers” Mountain View. Their family ran candidate’s situation. airport. vacant lot at 913 Boranda Avenue recently, McAlister said Monday Eddy’s Sport Shop on Castro Street Similarly, it may appear to the To put the parking requirements for almost $400,000 a few months that he was still weighing his for many years. public that David and Lucero have in perspective, the new five-story ago, her real estate agent said. options and may or may not enter As reported last week, Google a conflict of interest in voting on parking garage at Bryant and Cali- Despite this she has been unable the race, which would put him up software engineer Dan Waylonis medical marijuana-related actions. fornia streets has 405 spaces. 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