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Residents urge caution on revising Los Altos Hills view ordinance during work‑plan discussion
Summary
Multiple residents used the council’s Feb. 4 goal‑setting meeting to urge either a full town review of the view/tree ordinance or that the council leave the ordinance alone while encouraging mediation; the council ultimately did not prioritize an ordinance rewrite for immediate staff funding.
Residents with long‑running neighborhood disputes and participants from the Environmental Design and Protection Committee used the meeting’s public‑comment period Feb. 4 to press the council for clearer rules on views and trees — or, alternately, to caution against changing the ordinance while individual disputes remain pending.
Dave Kellett, a Moore Drive resident, asked the council not to rewrite the view ordinance to resolve a single neighbor dispute and proposed a supplemental handout or guide to help residents and mediators interpret and apply the existing ordinance. "How about create a supplement to the view ordinance instead of revising the ordinance?" Kellett said, describing a stalled mediation…
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