HILLS 2000

FRIENDS OF THE HILLS

“Los Altos Hills is God’s Little Acre. . .” — Wallace Stegner

April 18, 2021

Senator Josh Becker

Senate District 13
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814

Email: senator.becker@sen.ca.gov

Subject: Town of Los Altos Hills, Hills 2000 -- Friends of the Hills
Opposes Senate Bill 9 and Senate Bill 10

Dear Senator Becker,

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Hills 2000 – Friends of the Hills , in the Town of Los Altos Hills,
2021-2022
represents hundreds of families in Town who oppose SB9 and SB10.
Please see the attached petition, signed by over 600 residents, and the
Jitze Couperus varied comments about the harm that these bills could cause.
President
These bills will end single-family zoning, increase density in our
Duffy Price neighborhoods, increase our risk of wildland fire and fail to provide any
Secretary
additional infrastructure improvements. There will be no room for
Nick Dunckel community input, nor will development be measured against its effects
Treasurer on the environment (CEQA). To cap it all, none of this will yield any
affordable housing. We expect you to vote NO on these bills and set up a
Ann Duwe commission to solve the real problem of affordable housing. We sincerely
request that as our Senator, you meet with local residents and our local
Carol Gottlieb representatives to hear their concerns for yourself.
Dot Schreiner California has an affordable housing crisis, yet Sacramento continues
to introduce legislation, like SB9 and SB10, that allows more market-
Ginger Summit rate housing to be built by developers who reap the benefits of this
John Harpootlian increased density with no affordable housing benefit back to the community.
Both bills encourage land speculation that will destabilize our single-
Scott Vanderlip family neighborhoods. Single-family neighborhoods are not the problem;
they are the victim.

We respectfully request that you allow local leaders to identify

specific locations in their own communities to satisfy local housing
needs. THE MASS DEREGULATION OF ZONING LAWS MUST STOP!
Please stand up for the tens of millions of Californians who will be adversely
impacted by SB9 and SB10.
Sincerely,
Box 31
Los Altos, CA 94023
Tel. 650-941-4808 Jitze Couperus
Jitze Couperus, President
Hills 2000 — Friends of the Hills
jitze.couperus@gmail.com Internet: www.hills2000.org
Oppose elimination of single family zoning: Save Our
Neighborhoods
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/551/594/364/oppose-sb-9-amp-sb-10-%E2%80%93-save-our-
town/

Author: Hills2000
Recipient: California Legislature

Petition:

We undersigned residents of Los Altos Hills and its adjacent neighborhoods OPPOSE SB 9 and
SB 10 -- proposals to rezone virtually all parcels within single family residential zones in
California, forcing local governments to approve plans for 4+ homes per lot (SB 10 encourages
10 homes), with 4-foot setbacks.

SB 9 would force towns into rubber stamp project approval no matter the side effects: to the
environment, to roads and other infrastructure, or to neighboring residents. Increased density
would worsen our already-high wildland fire danger and destroy our privacy and choice of semi-
rural lifestyle.

Specific problems with these bills are:

o Four times the noise, parked cars, and traffic, plus loss of back-yard privacy

o Increased demand on schools, water, power grid

o Increased fire danger. California is suing counties to stop new housing in certain high-risk
wildfire areas but now proposes 4-times denser building in our high-risk area! The fire district
requires us to have 30-foot defensible space -- not possible with 4-foot setbacks. Four-times
density would strain our narrow evacuation and first-responder routes.

o Threatens the environment: more smog, urban sprawl into suburban areas and green belts,
allows politicians to override voter open space initiatives.

o Removes rights of residents: What kind of environment to live in, ability to influence next-door
developments.

These bills would be a boon to developers without providing affordable housing. There are better
alternatives: Page 1

o Give existing accessory dwelling unit policies time to work.

O Convert commercial structures like hotels and vacant big-box stores to housing, and reclaim
blighted areas.

O Consider using public lands that are not designated as open space / parks

O Target development near transit hubs

O Enact policies promoting distance working and satellite work sites, to relieve pressure on
job-rich areas.

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 Name From Comments
7. Dorothy P Los Altos Hills, CA Preserve local zoning control. Save our homes from threat of
wildfire and destruction. Maintain CEQA.
8. Neal M LOS ALTOS HILLS, Encouraging dense housing in a high wildfire risk area like
CA ours would be irresponsible.
9. Bridget M Los Altos Hills, CA CA state government, by passing laws to enable dense
housing in my neighborhood where roads are narrow, steep,
winding, and earthquake faulting is present, would be most
irresponsible.
10. Camilla M Los Altos, CA keep local control
11. Walker M Los Altos Hills, CA Traffic and public utilities will not support a sizeable increase
in housing density in Los Altos Hills. Keep zoning
requirements local and as-is.
12. Raphael O Los Altos Hills, CA The fire danger is already vary high. This would make it
worse.
13. Lester E Los Altos Hills, CA Keep this place rural.
14. Richard P Los Altos Hills, CA SB9 and SB10 will destroy the DNA of this community.
Imposing a one-size-fits all approach that does not account
for the unique situation of a community will wreak havoc, if
not destroy, the very DNA of our communities.
15. Patricia S Los Altos Hills, CA If this passes what about the sewage- we have septic
systems. And what a disaster for high density housing..
16. Linda Gay K Los Altos Hills, CA I own a home and believe we can have single family
residential zones here and still have multiple person
dwellings throughout the state.
17. Barry S Los Altos Hills, CA Who asked the state to take over our local control of our
local zoning? Surprising to see the Democratic Senate be so
utterly undemocratic.
18. Rajiv P Los Altos Hills, CA I do not want high density housing that only lines the pockets
of developers in my city.
19. david m LOS ALTOS HLS, CA this is poorly designed one-sided legislation. it deserves tro
be defeated.
20. Nina A Los Altos Hills, CA
21. Elaine N LOs Altos Hills, CA
22. brian h los altos hills, CA If the goal of the bills is to increase affordable housing, it
won\'t work in Los Altos Hills. Instead it increase the density
of non-affordable housing to the detriment of the city\'s
infrastructure, fire-safety and rural ambience.
23. Francis L Los Altos Hills, CA This will destroy neighborhoods for the benefit of
developers, who care about neither the current residents or
possible future ones. We have no mass transit so more
houses just means many more cars.
24. james d los altos hills, CA Liberty, freedom and independence
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 Name From Comments
25. Jitze C Los Altos Hills, CA The arrogance of Sacramento - knowing what is best for
everyone and imposing that one-size-fits-all vision on
everybody.
26. Steve K Los Altos Hills, CA These bills are a give-away to developers, having nothing to
do with affordable housing! Zoning should be controlled
locally, by communities, for communities, not for developers
who have no cares beyond their profits.
27. Linda S Los Altos Hills, CA Local officials and residents know the town and conditions
affecting development and should control local zoning.
28. Ann D Los Altos Hills, CA Decisions about local zoning should remain in local hands.
29. Buvana D Los Altos hills, CA We need to preserve the rural nature of the hills community.
Many of us house multi generation and have 7 people living
at home.
30. Jay S Los Alos Hills, CA L.A.H., long and short term residents have paid premium
prices to enjoy the benefits that the one acre minimum
requirement here has to offer. These two propositions are
akin to \"bait and switch\", and it is benefiting a few builders
that selfishly want to profit, but at our expense.
31. Mary k W Los Altos, CA
32. April A Los Altos Hills, CA This is a developers dream bill and WILL NOT reduce rents.
Why are you selling out towns, small cities, villages with this
one size fits all approach? Why not use government owned
lands, such as huge parking lots and build near transit?
What are the environmental, water, fire, sewer, schools and
infrastructure impacts after the developers build and leave
taxpayers holding the bag, yet again. Mr Weiner, you’re a
barn burner with no thought for suburban jurisdiction. Shame
on you!
33. Roger S Los Altos Hills, CA
34. Rebecca H Los Altos Hills, CA
35. Ameesh D Los Altos Hills, CA The terrain of Los Altos Hills cannot support higher density
development due to:
1. Excessive fire danger if the density of housing is
increased
2. Narrow roads causing traffic challenges
3. Change of elevation making firefighting impossible
36. Aviva S Los Altos Hills, CA
37. Glen S Los Altos Hills, CA We want to preserve the character of our neighborhood
38. robert m los altos hills, CA
39. Marjorie G Los Altos Hills, CA Maintain our rural environment and local control
40. Thomas G Los Altos Hills, CA
41. Djuki M LOS ALTOS HILLS, These two bills will benefit opportunistic developers who
CA don\'t care about the community and environment. I\'m all for
affordable housing that makes sense and actually help the
people in need. This one does not.

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 Name From Comments
42. Andrew B Los Altos Hills, CA Local government is the most important and responsive form
of government. This state power grab is simply egregious.
43. Sandra M LOS ALTOS HILLS, It is important that individual citizens have input and some
CA control over their home environment. Setbacks, parcel size
and home plans should be a local decision, not a global one.
We live in a very diverse state. Please respect our right to
have single family parcels and retain our semi-rural
neighborhood. We do not have the infrastructure, roads, etc.
to allow for safe growth and a large number of housing
structures per parcel.
44. Nicholas D Los Altos Hills, CA
45. dexter h los altos hills, CA rural small town
46. Kristi c Portola Valley, CA I believe in local contol. I don’t believe in streamlining,
unfunded mandates, ministerial approvals, upzoning,
canceling CEQA mandates we worked so hard to get over
the years, lack of town $ for infrastructure support provided
to towns, lot splitting, increased traffic issues & climate
issues/ increasing wildfire & earthquake hazards with urban
development, one size bills does not fit all in cities/ towns
needs! Let local towns decide their own housing structures
to meet affordable housing needs.
47. Allison T Redwood City, CA
48. Robert M Los Altos, CA
49. ROGER S Los Altos Hills, CA
50. David K Los Altos Hills, CA
51. Linda L Los Altos, CA fire safety and higher density without sufficient support
52. Nancy C Los Altos Hills, CA
53. Thomas M Los Altos Hills, CA It is an irresponsible and ignorant couple of bill that does not
consider natural hazards nor the psychologically negative
impact on our citizens
54. Charu R Los Altos Hills, CA Los Altos Hills is a great example of preserving a rural feel
and preserving the environment. One size fits all is a
backward way of thinking. Local governments can do make
more informed and meaningful decisions.
55. Leslie S Los Altos hills, CA
56. Helga U Los Altos Hills, CA people like single family dwellings to raise a family with a
yard for kids to play in.
57. David L Los Altos HIlls, CA Because it will negatively impact my neighborhood and
community
58. Eduardo A Los Altos Hills, CA Because it removes local controls and it does not create
affordable housing.
59. Thomas G Los Altos Hills, CA
60. John M Los Altos Hills, CA Preserving the rural nature of our town

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 Name From Comments
61. Frank Rumore R Los Altos Hills, CA Removes local control and increases remote government
control thereby increasing the reach of big government
62. Maciej K Los Altos Hills, CA To preserve the unique character of the region.
63. Kathryn G Los Altos Hills, CA preserve environment in hilly terrain
64. Thomas T Los Altos Hills, CA I live on 1 acre for privacy
65. Rosemarie N Los Altos, CA Preserve the rural character of our neighborhood!
Multi-family housing is NOT appropriate in our min 1 acre lot
neighborhood.
66. Roy W Los Altos Hills, CA For the state of California to demand that all cities and towns
in California look more alike and all allow or require duplexes
or four-plexes or ADUs is crazy. Cities and towns should be
able to maintain their own unique character.
In the rush to create more affordable housing, the State
legislature has forgotten about the ancillary problems, or
unintended consequences that greater and greater housing
densities create, such as:
(1) Traffic gets worse and if we have too many people,
freeways and other public roads will grind to a halt. I’ve
certainly sat in more than enough traffic jams on freeways,
and the situation will only get worse if we encourage so
much more housing.
(2) In many areas, including Los Altos Hills where I reside,
roads are narrow and don’t allow for rapid evacuation of
larger populations in the event of a sudden wildfire; it would
be terrible to die from a wildfire because of being stuck in an
evacuation traffic jam.
(3) Sewer capacity is another issue. Los Altos Hills simply
does not have the capacity for many more sewer
connections.
Existing housing density, topography, nearness to public
transportation, etc., vary from city to city, so a
one-size-fits-all approach dictated from Sacramento simply
will not work.
67. Anthony L Los Altos Hills, CA The town should have the right to decide its own planning
rules.
68. Deidre M Los Altos Hills, CA
69. Barbara C Los Altos Hills, CA I want to keep single family zoning.
70. Chad S LOS ALTOS, CA
71. Wm B Los Altos Hills, CA
72. Julie O Los Altos, CA we moved to our home for the connection to nature.
73. Brian C Los Altos Hills, CA There\'s a need for affordable housing, but one-size-fits-all
zoning laws coming from the state is the wrong approach.
74. Stacey N Los Altos Hills, CA Fire safety issues/problems and traffic will increase with
greater housing density. Both bad things.
75. Carol G Los Altos Hills,, CA To preserve the beauty of the land for future generations.

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 Name From Comments
76. brad l los altos hills, CA We moved to LAH 33 years ago because we wanted to live
on 1 + acres and wanted our surrounding neighbors and
neighborhoods to be spread out and be a rural feel. This is
what I bought into and this is what I want to continue to own
and enjoy.
77. Josh M Los Altos, CA
78. joanna S LOS ALTOS HILLS, Takes away all local control.
CA
79. zubin i los altos hills, CA
80. Jennifer M Los Altos Hills, CA
81. Kevin H Los Altos Hills, CA We worked our whole lives to be able to live here and enjoy
Los Altos hills as it currently stands.
82. Sean M Los Altos Hills, CA
84. John H Li’s Altos Hills, CA
85. SCOTT H Los Altos Hills, CA Preserve our quiet rural town and our significant investment
to live here.
86. Susan M Los Altos Hills, CA We live in a fire hazard area and additional population will
create a serious issue for handling wildfires.
87. Leonard P Los Altos Hills, CA
88. Linley L Los Altos Hills, CA The lack of infrastructure to accommodate added residents
of this magnitude would put us in gridlock. Our fire danger is
of most concern as we do not have the egress on our few,
narrow, winding roads to accommodate the need as it IS
today - if we were to have a wildfire accompanied by wind. It
is quite scary already.
89. Tacheng W Los Altos Hills, CA Our town does not have the sewer capacity or road capacity.
It will create an environmental nightmare.
90. Eric C Los Altos Hills, CA
91. Yvonne C Los Altos Hills, CA The streets leading up to our house in Los Altos Hills are
narrow and no parking on the street. Building up in the area
would impact traffic and fire safety in a high fire risk
community. Thank you!
92. Uday K Los Altos Hills, CA
93. SUZANNE C Los altos hills, CA This invades my privacy and could be horrible for fires. It is
also terrible for the environment. Please do not pass this bill.
94. Ralph A Los Altos Hills, CA After many years of working hard, saving and planning, my
wife and I were finally able to buy and live in our community
of Los Altos Hills. Our town has a rural setting and is very
natural and spread out. That is why we moved here, and that
is what we treasure. This new CRAZY and
IRRESPONSIBLE proposal threatens to come in and
eradicate this and the long history of careful planning and
zoning in this community; by allowing much more building
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 Name From Comments
94. Ralph A Los Altos Hills, CA (continued from previous page)
density. It is simply unfair and inconsistent with the history of
this community. It also doesn\'t accomplish the stated
\"politician goal\" of creating more affordable housing. This
town is not near the public transportation routes, does not
have the infrastructure to accommodate a spurt in
population, and will dramatically erode the value of our
properties. There are many more thoughtful and custom
ways to create affordable housing - ruining our community
with clumsy \"one size fits all\" regulations is irresponsible.
Shame on our politicians for putting their ego and desire to
get political points to advance their careers ahead of the CA
citizens. I am appauled.
95. Kathryn W Los Altos Hills, CA
96. Katherine F Los Altos Hills, CA Developers would damage neighborhoods and overwhelm
city services
97. Patricia O Los Altos Hills, CA Would like to preserve the rural character.
98. Kathleen B Los Altos Hills, CA
99. Judy F Los Altos Hills, CA To preserve the natural surroundings for our next
generation.
100. Teresa B Los Altos Hills, CA Please keep my home feeling like country. I have animals(
that need a home)
101. Christine c Los Altos Hills, CA We do need any more governmental control of living here!
102. Joseph K Los Altos Hills, CA
103. Jocelyn B Los Altos Hills, CA Because all we want to continue to have the zoning that we
have that is made Los Altos Hills what it is for many years
and this would destroy the type of town we have. Also, it’s
urgent that we continue with the fire department here
104. rona h Los Altos Hills, CA Would like to preserve the rural aspects of our
neighborhood. Been here 48 years.
105. Guyton J Los Altos Hills, CA
106. WC LOS ALTOS HILLS,
CA
108. Jade L Los Altos Hills, CA This proposal would devalue all the properties in our
neighborhood and ruin our city which our forefathers have
tried to protect through the years. It would be
unconscionable and a huge city planning mistake to make a
rural feeling city to feel more like urban sprawl. There a
reason for city planning and density restrictions- to save
quality of life for everyone.
109. Eleanor C Los Altos Hills, CA Stop the short sighted legislators in their tracks before they
create untold damage to California\'s infrastructure and
environment.

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 Name From Comments
110. Ye L Los altos hills, CA CA politicians should stop these bills that further destroy CA
middle class\' quality of living. This is not a real solution to
the housing crisis - low income people need housing in
metro area close to public transportation not in rural areas
that have no infrastructure. This is again to abuse the
silenced middle class for political gain and to put money in
the pockets of the politicians\' donor base such as real
estate developers.
111. Sai G LOS ALTOS HILLS,
CA
112. J. W Los Altos Hills, CA It will destroy the character of our town and neighborhood:
more traffic, reducing our services, depleting our limited
resources, and will make our town less \"green\"!
113. Aart d Los Altos Hills, CA Maintain the building density and with it the rural character
of Los Altos Hills
114. pearl c Los Altos, CA overcrowdedness, infringe on rights of residents,
115. Edward S Los Altos Hills, CA
116. Miguel M Los Altos Hills, CA
117. Nese C Los Altos Hills, CA
119. Howard H Los Altos Hills, CA
120. John S Los Altos Hills, CA Keep zoning control local.
121. Vatsal S Los Altos Hills, CA Increased fire related risk due to higher density.
122. Sandra K Los Altos Hills, CA Our narrow roads are already difficult in case of need to exit
quickly to escape wildfire. Don\'t want a neighbor house 4
feet from my property line.
123. Stephen B Los Altos Hills, CA Loss of privacy, noise, crowding, higher traffic. I already paid
a premium and correspondingly higher property taxes over
the years to mitigate these. Changing the zoning here would
take these away and leave no choice but to move out of
state.
124. Monal S Los Altos Hills, CA Removes rights of residents, increases fire danger with
increased density and not really solving affordable housing
125. Janice T Los Altos Hills, CA
126. Susan M Los Altos Hills, CA
127. Anne D Los Altos Hls, CA we need to leave decision making to local authorities
128. Amita S Los Altos Hills, CA
129. Michelle U Los Altos Hills, CA
130. Sushil S Los Altos Hills, CA
131. Margo S Los Altos, CA Our roads are narrow and dangerous as it is now. Plus, we
all want to maintain the rural nature of our neighborhood.
132. Kyth D Los altos, CA
133. Douglas M Los Altos Hills, CA

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 Name From Comments
134. Jo Anne M Los Altos Hills, CA I support peaceful living. Forcing many people to live in small
spaces leads to unhappiness and to physical, mental, and
emotional illnesses. Add all their pets to the problem and it
gets even worse.
135. JX Los Altos Hills, CA
136. Thanh T San jose, CA Less residents means less traffic, less crimes, more safe
neighborhoods
Less people try to move to Cali
137. alice r Los Altos Hills, CA
138. Mai T Los Altos, CA Traffic is already bad in my neighborhood due to the limited
parking we have on the street. And the Street is very harrow.
People are parking when they shouldn\'t and I can\'t even
blackout of my driveway. If folks are allowed to build
additional homes on their lot, parking will be even worse of a
problem than it already is today. Please save our
neighborhood!
139. Diane K Los Altos Hills, CA Home properties would go down if density goes up. There
aren\'t a lot of placing with large lots like LAH.
140. Kate K Los Altos hills, CA
141. Jingjing L Los Altos Hills, CA
142. Patricia R Los Altos Hills, CA
143. George O Los Altos Hills, CA I think we should circulate a new petition SB 11 to banish all
those developers, who bring these reduclous kind of bills to
Sacramento, out of our State.
144. Anne D Los Altos Hills, CA
145. Jean D Los Altos Hillls, CA
146. Sherry Z Los Altos hills, CA We want to maintain the rural feeling of our neighborhood.
This bill is not right for our community!!!
147. susan m Los Altos Hills, CA
148. Mojdeh T Los Altos Hills, CA Rural characters of LAH need to be preserved & agree that
the only beneficiaries are opportunistic developers
149. Jeffrey F Los Altos hills, CA
150. Sylvia J Los Altos Hills, CA This area is not at all suitable for any kind of high density.
Please visit our community and you wil realize why.
151. Alka P Los Altos Hills, CA
152. G&JM LAH, CA Many homeowners chose to live in more rural areas & that
should be respected by our lawmakers.
153. Cassandra G LOS ALTOS HILLS,
CA
154. christiane t los altos hills, CA

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 Name From Comments
155. Thomas B LOS ALTOS HILLS, To oppose the unrelenting shift to socialism and the never
CA ending dumbing down of America. Fianally the immorality
and predatory capitalism of real estate developers.
California is overpopulated now and our natural resources
cannot support more people dependant on water, sewage,
and concrete along with loss of our green environment.
156. Takafumi N Los Altos Hills, CA
157. Esther J Los Altos Hills, CA SB 9 will not lead to affordable housing, it will not help those
in need. Only commercial developers benefit from SB 9
158. joanne s los altos hills, CA
159. Robert M Los Altos Hills, CA This is blatant grab of power from local control to state-wide
control of local zoning. It will dramatically change the nature
of the community we chose to live in, and thereby reduce
options for lifestyle variety in CA. There are other ways to
generate more lower cost housing that do not undermine the
integrity of a citizen\'s investment in their own property.
160. David S Los Altos Hills, CA The semi-rural nature of our town, it\'s winding, narrow
roads, hilly terrain, minimal infrastructure, elevated wildfire
risk, and absence of commercial or public transportation
assets make LAH a poor choice for either higher density or
more affordable housing.
161. Susanne S Los Altos Hills, CA These bills interfere with our local control of the development
of our community, and are far too \"one size fits all\" to be of
broad benefit to Californians.
162. Mary M Los Altos Hills, CA Because we care about our city
163. Raisa C Los Altos Hills, CA
164. Timothy C Los Altos Hills, CA I care about effective city planning. Roads, sewage,
environmental impact all matter. These issues should be
decided by cities. Not at the state level.
165. Fred G Los Altos Hills, CA
166. Ryan K Los Altos Hills, CA Safety, preservation of a rural area for us and neighboring
communities to enjoy, wildlife, quality of life.
167. Jenna E Los Altos, CA
168. Rosemary H Los Altos Hills, CA
169. Gauri P Los Altos Hills, CA
170. Vivek P Los Altos Hills, CA
171. Nancy O Los Altos hills, CA Local governments need to control local issues. This I would
NOT produce affordable housing in any way shape or form
172. Michael H Los Altos Hills, CA
173. Nicholas W Los Altos Hills, CA
174. Rene H Los altos hills, CA

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 Name From Comments
175. Ruthann Q Los Altos HILLS, CA Fire safety
Preserve the LAH property values and rural nature of our
home
176. Lee C Los Altos, CA Because it\'s a bad idea to do this.
177. Michelle W Los Altos Hills, CA One acre zoning for single family home makes up this
community. No subdivide should be allowed.
178. Julie A Los Altos Hills, CA
179. xiaofang L Los Altos Hills, CA
180. Yoko H Los Altos Hills, CA
181. Deborah P Los Altos Hills, CA
182. Shelley O LOS ALTOS HILLS, WE WANT TO PRESERVES HOMES TO BE WITHIN THE
CA GUIDELINES THAT WERE SET FORTH TO 1 ACRE
LIMITATIONS.
183. Peter E Los Altos Hills, CA
184. Joanne S Los Altos Hills, CA Los Altos Hills is not equipped to become a city with
significantly increased population. Our roads are narrow,
hilly, and already dangerous. We have septic tanks in many
properties, no sidewalks, no lighting, limited police, and
wildlife. Limiting development is the only sensible match to
our town. We are not set up to become another San Bruno
which burned up.
185. Kim W Los Altos Hills, CA Respect the local government\'s minimum 1-acre parcel.
Our roads, infrastructure and wildlife are not equipped for
dense population.
186. Yibin T Los Altos Hills, CA
187. Chris W Los Altos Hills, CA Preserve the Town\'s 1 acre minimums and locate dense
housing in urban zones, closer to jobs and transit.
189. Yongbum K Los Altos Hills, CA
190. Jacy L Los Altos Hills, CA Please do not ruin the beauty of our community that takes
generations to preserve.
191. Helen O Los Altos, CA
192. Jacob D Los Altos Hills, CA
193. William C Los Altos Hills, CA
194. Jillian D Los Altos Hills, CA
195. Maria C Los Altos Hills, CA
196. Edward T Los Altos Hills, CA Let\'s put high-density housing in places that are zoned for it
and that have the needed infrastructure. The housing
shortage is not primarily due to zoning, but to the high cost of
building, permitting, CEQA reviews, labor mandates, and all
the other government-imposed red tape.
197. Jean s Los Altos Hills, CA the change is not appropriate. no transportation/it would be a
burden on the utilities and schools

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 Name From Comments
198. Maria M LAH, CA
199. Janice C Los Altos, CA Threatens the environment: more smog, urban sprawl into
suburban areas and green belts, allows politicians to
override voter open space initiatives.
200. Elizabeth L Los altos Hills, CA environment
201. Lyn L Los Altos Hills, CA
202. Lisa S Los Altos Hills, CA This legislation will not create affordable housing.
203. Susan S Los Altos Hilks, CA
204. Sue W Los Altos Hills, CA Our state legislators are being deceived by developers and
YIMBYs into believing they are doing something to address
homelessness and the lack of affordable housing. These
“up-zoning” bills wrest control of planning and zoning from
local communities and give it to the state: ONE SIZE FITS
ALL. They eliminate single family zoning and increase
density 4-8X without any requirement for providing the
necessary infrastructure. Experience in other cities (e.g.,
Vancouver, Chicago) prove that up-zoning increases land
prices, but PROVIDES NO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
Becker and Berman must reject SB9 and SB10 and start
working on serious strategies to create publicly-subsidized
affordable housing in walkable, transit-oriented
communities. SB 15 is a good start.
205. Elizabeth W Los Altos Hills, CA Increased density would seriously increase the risk of
wildfire in my semi-rural location.
206. Felix T Los Altos Hills, CA The roads cannot take the traffic, the value of the
neighborhood will drop drastically. the rain will not have
enough land to absorb the floods and erosion is already a
problem.
207. Matt C Los Altos, CA
208. Jahnavi P Los Altos Hills, CA
209. Betty K los altos hills, CA we have a rural community. we don\'t want it to become a
dense city. and allowing more homes per acre won\'t make
them \"affordable\". so there would be a cost (loss of
ambiance) and no gain (no new affordable housing).
210. Michael G Los Altos hills, CA
211. Shirley C Los Altos Hills, CA
212. Jan F Los Altos Hills, CA
213. Dave S Los Altos Hills, CA So many reasons this is a horrible idea: one size doesn\'t fit
all, no provision for affordable housing, local control handed
off to land developers.
214. sheela v los Altos hills, CA

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216. Erica V LOS ALTOS HILLS, I\'m concerned about the impact to fire safety and the lack of
CA appropriate infrastructure for increased density. Many of our
roads are narrow and impassible when people park along
them.
217. John C Los Altos Hills, CA Effective city planning needs to be decided by the city. Our
town infrastructure will not handle the increased density. We
have septic tanks, narrow hilly roads, little street lighting,
and live with the very real possibility of wild fire. One size
does not fit all!
218. Richard B Los Altos Hills, CA LAH was created for it\'s country lifestyle. There will be no
benefit to the housing problem by putting a few extra units in
LAH
219. Kelsey A Los Altos Hills, CA Save the neighborhood and preserve the founding principles
of the Town when incorporated.
220. Pat L Los Altos Hills, CA This will definitely NOT increase affordable housing and it
will ruin our rural atmosphere. Our infrastructure can not
handle the proposed additional housing.
221. Erika A Los Altos Hills, CA
222. Adriana A Los Altos Hills, CA
223. Carrie W Los Altos hills, CA
224. Hsien-Chung W Los Altos Hills, CA
225. Cheryl M Los Altos Hills, CA
226. Atulya S Los Altos Hills, CA These bills would be a boon to developers without providing
affordable housing.
227. Rachel M Los Altos Hills, CA
228. Michael M Los Altos Hills, CA Protect the integrity of local government and personal
liberties in this dangerous time of eroding rights.
229. Ishwar & Sandhya Los Altos Hills, CA
P
230. Anjali R Los Altos Hills, CA
231. Errin S Mountain View, CA
232. Richard G Los Altos Hills, CA
233. Lisa O Los altos hills, CA I live in a bedroom community. We provide many more
homes than jobs in the first place. Also, we do not get the tax
benefits our neighboring towns get from the corporate taxes
they collect. I would like to understand why we need to solve
the problem created in other towns. They want us to share in
solving the problems they create, but dont want to share the
revenue.
234. Dorit P Los Altos Hills, CA density. traffic jams. quality of life
235. Melissa D Los Altos Hills, CA This will ruin the rural aspects of our town, increase fire risk,
and stress our infrastructure.
236. Abhay P Los Altos Hills, CA

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237. Arvind B los altos hills, CA
238. Rosemary M Los Altos Hills, CA
239. Maithili P Los Altos Hills, CA
240. Atam and margo L Los sltos hills, CA Important to continue local ordinances and local control.
241. Michael L Los Altos Hills, CA
242. Josh S Los Altos Hills, CA Los Altos Hills is not equipped to handle increased
population density. Our roads are narrow, hilly, and already
can be dangerous. We have septic tanks in many properties,
no sidewalks, no street lighting, limited police and
fire/rescue. Limiting development makes the most sense for
our town, and this is a decision best left to local control.
243. Rhonda S Los Altos Hills, CA While affordable housing is important. It makes no sense to
ruin the single family dwelling space of Los Altos Hills and
similar neighborhoods by creating high rise apartments. It
would still not be affordable housing. The roads and
infrastructure in Los Altos Hills can barley handle the
population now. It would not be safe or feasible to expand
the population of this community.
244. Marcia M Los Altos Hills, CA This will destroy LAH\'s beautiful enviornment which the
town has worked hard to protect while increasing fire danger
and pushing our rural infrastructure to the breaking point.
245. Mike T Los Altos Hills, CA Keep the community integrity.
246. Hung H Los Altos Hills, CA Local control is very important to me.
247. Lance F Los Altos Hills, CA
248. Nimish M Los Altos Hills, CA
249. Vivek M Los Altos Hills, CA Will destroy the character of our city.
250. Pamela K Los Altos Hills, CA
251. Margaret G Mountain View, CA I have seen what the high rise apartments along El Camino
Real have done to the neighborhoods around them. The
people are walking dogs off leash no masks, jogging on my
private property and just hanging around my private
property. It is a full time job asking them to leave and calling
the cops and following up with police. They don’t have
enough parking as they park in front of my place. It is too
many people. With all the people leaving because of
pandemic we don’t need high density in Los Altos Hills. The
Real Estate People are too powerful!!!
252. NV Los Altos Hills, CA
253. Kerry S Los Altos Hills, CA Allows destruction of designated open space areas and
allows developers to do anything they want.
254. Vasan R Los Altos Hills, CA Infrastructure in town is not setup for more dense housing.
Roads are not wide enough, no traffic lights, no sidewalks.
Town really not setup for denser housing.
255. COURTENAY C C Los Altos Hills, CA Allowing local control is imperative for good governance

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256. Krupa S Los Altos Hills, CA Would destroy the unique nature of LAH and it\'s appeal
257. Moisei T Los Altos Hills, CA There is a reason why this zoning was put in place and why
people chose to pay extra $ and live here.
Keep our town a town. Not a city!
258. Mingzhe Z Los Altos Hills, CA
259. Alex C Los Altos Hills, CA
260. Sanjai P Los altos hills, CA
261. Ramya T Los altos hills, CA
262. Gary P Los Altos Hills, CA
263. Xu D Los Altos Hills, CA
264. Keshav T Los altos hills, CA
265. Tejas T Los altos hills, CA
266. Steve G Los Altos Hills, CA There are no one-size fits all bills for low income housing
problems and SB9 and SB10 strip residential communities
from demanding infrastructure improvements and provide
real-estate developers incentives to subdivide lots in high
value neighborhoods where they can make higher returns
with no real mandate to provide low income housing. These
bills will result in reckless urbanization of our semi-rural
community and not solve low income housing.
267. Krzysztof P Los Altos Hills, CA
268. Wanda W Los Altos Hills, CA
269. Diane C Los Altos Hills, CA I’m all for adding more housing to our county but it needs to
be near transit and retail centers.
270. Hau L Los Altos Hills, CA
271. Denise W Los Altos Hills, CA Local control for our town is vital from our well being
272. Laura S Los Altos Hills, CA SB9 and 10 are ill-conceived blanket proposals that fail to
consider environmental impacts and particular concerns of
individual communities. Instead, incentivize the creation of
affordable housing with a more regional lens.
273. Lakshmi V Los Altos Hills, CA
274. Joe W Los Altos, CA
275. Nancy W Los Altos hills, CA
276. Bill S Los Altos Hills, CA I support building more housing and I also support taking
steps to fight climate change. Subdividing the lots in
communities like Los Altos Hills, increases housing very little
and does it in areas where there is almost a total lack of
pubic transportation. That makes no sense compared to the
volume of housing that could be built along transportation
corridors.
277. Joe S Los Altos Hills, CA Local control of this is Key.

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 Name From Comments
278. mary s Los Altos Hills, CA These bills will strip any Preservation of the land, integrity of
wild life and conservation of natural resources. These bills
will also cause environmental damage. This is big
government greed for increase of taxes.
279. Devra R Los Altos Hills, CA
280. Stephen K Los Altos Hills, CA
281. Abhishek S Los Altos Hills, CA
282. Karen P Los Altos Hills, CA We enjoy the peaceful rural atmosphere of Los Altos Hills. It
is the reason we moved here. We paid a premium to buy a
home here. We would be very sad to see it changed. We
also don\'t think it would accomplish the stated goal of
providing more affordable housing!!
283. Gilbert D los altos hills, CA
284. Mark H Los Altos Hills, CA Minimize environmental impact, retain natural rural
atmosphere. Keep traffic low, safer environment for walking
and biking.
285. Julia D los altos hills, CA
286. Thomas M Los Altos Hills, CA
287. Mir I Los Altos Hills, CA
288. Patrick F Los Altos Hills, CA
289. Rob C Los Altos Hills, CA Local government should decide local issues - including
zoning
290. Slawomir I Los Altos Hills, CA
291. Nicole G Los Altos hills, CA
292. Nara R Los Altos Hills, CA
293. Violetta F Los Altos hills, CA
294. Liz w los altos hills, CA
295. Tom D Los Altos, CA
296. roddy s Los Altos Hills, CA solution proposed a) does not address infrastructure issues,
b) it ignores the constitutional protections prerequisite to
condemnation, ignores adjacent undeveloped land that
should be used first, c) likely to make new homes too
expensive to help those in need, and d) unfairly degrades
the asset value of existing homes due to the impending
threat of constructive eviction.
297. Travis T Los Altos Hills, CA I live in one of the affect areas.
298. Carol M Los Altos Hills, CA We enjoy the rural feel of Los Altos Hills.
299. Rivka D Los Altos Hills, CA Enviromental issues. Not to overcrowd
300. Anil G Los Altos Hills, CA
301. Tulasi A Los Altos Hills, CA
302. roger s Los Altos Hills, CA Over an acre lot is what we decided to move and live in Los
Altos Hills to start with.
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303. Dayita B Los Altos hills, CA
304. Anthony R Los Altos Hills, CA Makes no sense to destroy neighborhoods, and does
nothing to help solve our housing issues!
305. Lois R Los Altos Hills, CA
306. ANITA M Los Altos Hills, CA
307. Denise F Los Altos, CA Los Altos Hills is a hilly community / hence its name. By
eliminating one acre min lots, without considering the hilly
topography, you would radically change the open space so
critical to wildlife, and you would increase fire danger for all
due to the increased housing density AND the installation of
massive overhead utilities necessary to service these
properties. We’D all be sitting ducks for wildfire- just like
Oakland Hills! And worse... we might be the next Paradise....
where people burned to death because there was
insufficient infrastructure ( very limited roads in and out) to
escape a rapidly moving wind fueled fire. Think about it, an
uncontrolled wildfire in Los Altos Hills would be difficult to
fight on the ground and could spread to neighboring , more
densely populated Palo Alto- possibly incinerating the entire
Stanford Medical complex. This would be a colossal
Disaster on many levels.
The majority of LAH is truly UNBUILDABLE due to its
rugged topography. Placing low income homes on “stilts”
just one mile away from the San Andreas fault is truly poor
thinking.
And finally, covering the hills with an increased density of
buildings critically reduces the drainage and
watershed areas....we have very few culverts and rain is
absorbed by the open space. Not having such open space
would flood low lying areas- which are mostly the roads in
and out, essentially isolating us from emergency services,
especially along the Page Mill Corridor.
We also have very few sewers- meaning that we depend on
septic tanks and fields.. which cannot be built upon!
Finally, this idea runs contrary to every sound civil
engineering principle applied to this area for centuries.
308. Sharen S Los Altos Hills, CA
309. SR Los Altos hills, CA
310. Seamus G Los Altos Hills, CA
311. Neerja R Los altos hill, CA Quality of life
312. Riley G Los Altos Hills, CA
313. Brad C Los Altos Hills, CA
314. Carlo P Los Alto Hills, CA
315. Hayley D Los Altos Hills, CA Want to keep Los Altos Hills rural

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316. Tirthankar L Los Altos Hillls, CA Destroying high value real estate neighborhoods with
increased density especially in fire prone areas will do
nothing to solve the housing crisis.
317. Kelly T Los Altos, CA We have made the choice to live in the single family zoning
neighborhood. Please do not take away our right to pursuit
of happiness.
318. Robertta C Los Altos Hills, CA Most of us who own home in Las bought them because we
appreciated the semi-rural environment. Although
McMansions have changed this somewhat, there is still a lot
of charm here. Changing the zoning laws would not provide
affordable housing, only a whole lot more very expensive
housing.
319. Sri R Los Altos Hills, CA
320. Nina L LOS ALTOS HILLS, it will ruin the entire environment of the neighborhood
CA
321. Fengmin G Los altos hills, CA Existing residence has invested so much to preserve the
natural environment and ecosystem, which will be destroyed
with the change
322. Pamela M Los Altos Hills, CA
323. Vijay K Los Altos Hills, CA It will run contrary to everything th etown stands for and our
choice to come live here
324. Vladimir P Los Altos Hills, CA Property value impact, rights of local community must be
preserved.
325. H. B Los Altos Hills, CA
326. Clyde D Los Altos Hills, CA
327. Lisa T Los Altos Hills, CA
328. Wendy Z Los Altos Hills, CA
329. Jai M Los Altos hills, CA
330. dolly s los altos hills, CA I love the privacy we have in the hills. It feels safe and
tranquil.
331. Charles P Los Altos Hills, CA TO KEEP OUR TOWN\'S RURAL NATURE AND
FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE
332. Sonia B Los Altos Hills, CA
333. Gerda C Los Altos Hills, CA Want to save our rural neighborhood.
334. Bill B LOS ALTOS HILLS, These bills over reach. They apply a one size fits all solution
CA to a problem that varies by locale. They usurp the ability of
local municipalities to manage their districts based on the
will of the local population. Enacting this legislation will have
negative impact on property values, for which the state will
be held accountable by property owners and class action.
These bills increase population and building density in fire
prone regions, putting more of the states population in
harm\'s way. These bills will not effectively address their
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 Name From Comments
334. Bill B LOS ALTOS HILLS, (continued from previous page)
CA objective, are ill-conceived, and should be rejected by the
legislature.
335. Joost M Los Altos Hills, CA Local authorities should keep control of zoning
336. Cathy F Los Altos Hills, CA
337. Jennifer B Los Altos Hills, CA We specifically chose to live in our community due to the
regulations in place that go against this. Having lived in a
high density, large city, we understand the importance of
different communities offering different living experiences
and how different people benefit from each.
338. Fumiko M Los Altos Hills, CA Look for areas that need redevelopment, such as vacant
lots, poorly maintained areas that could be improved for
more housing.
339. Irene P Los Altos hills, CA Thiis bill may diminish properly value.
340. Frank S Los Altos Hills, CA
341. Michael S Los Altos Hills, CA Local control is subject to the will of the voters most
impacted. I don\'t like big government dictating what is right
for us with one size fits all.
342. Waidy L Los Altos Hills, CA These bills would greatly affect quality of life, especially
wildlife.
343. Scott G Los Altos Hills, CA The resolutions would completely change our town without
adding any affordable housing.
344. Virginia W Los Altos Hills, CA
345. Vinay P Los Altos Hills, CA We moved from Palo Alto to Los Altos Hills for cleaner air
and country living. We see rabbits in our yard and deer on
the streets. The air is clean, which is great for my underlying
health issues. My wife and I walk regularly and use the
various hiking trails. Please don’t overcrowd our country
lifestyle. Thanks.
346. Ven L Los Altos Hills, CA We chose this town, helped make it what it is. Big
Government should have no right to over-rule what we built.
347. John D LOS ALTOS HILLS,
CA
348. Shiva L Los Altos Hills, CA
349. Sid H Los Altos Hills, CA This would destroy the character of our town.
350. charles s Los Altos Hills, CA Single family zoning preserves our environment and
neighborhoods.
351. Doni H Los Altos Hills, CA Maintain local control of our neighborhoods. Increased
density in our high fire risk area would be dangerous.
352. beatrice r LOS ALTOS HLS, CA
353. Mary D Los Altos Hills, CA Los Altos hills is surrounded by nature and building houses
here would ruin a lovely place to exercise or socialize. Don’t
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 Name From Comments
354. Barbara G Los Altos Hills, CA Legislators in Sacramento should care more about their
constituents than enriching developers. Top-down edicts are
always bad, and in this case, will destroy the fabric of
California communities. There are other, more appropriate
solutions, including conversion of now-unused office space,
etc.
355. Sai R Los Altos Hills, CA
356. Bhavani A Los Altos hills, CA Preserve the serenity of this place.
357. Rita K Los altos hills, CA
358. Marvin T Los Altos Hills, CA
359. Bill W Los Altos Hills, CA
360. Linda D Los Altos hills, CA We moved here for the rural feeling and the love of nature.
361. Ilene S Los Altos Hills, CA
362. Madvi R Los Altos Hills, CA preservation of the acreage, single family zone and the
charming rural setting of Los Altos HIlls
363. Gerald W Los Altos Hills, CA Completely changes the rules that drove our initial purchase.
364. Arthur S Los altos hills, CA The proposed law does not work in LAH. It only works in
high density and high transportation areas.
365. Santosh B Los Altos hills, CA
366. Elizabeth G Los Altos Hills, CA The State has no legal right to enforce density of housing on
private property. Stop the illegals at the border first.
367. Lynette L Los Altos, CA Not every city needs to be urbanized. We need protect the
character and integrity of smaller cities.
368. Christina M Los Altos Hills, CA
369. Tim & Wendy F Los Altos Hills, CA SB 9 & 10:
One size fits all does not address California\'s affordable
housing crisis.
Does not provide for CEQA.
No infrastructure improvements to handle increased
usage/population density.
Adds to already high fire risk in our mountainous community.
Only benefits developers.
370. Amit S Los Altos hills, CA This is outright stealing of local rights and wishes in the
name of solving housing problems
371. Nathan P Los Altos, CA I live in Los Altos Hills. It is very important to allow our and
other local jurisdictions to maintain the character of our
communities. That\'s why we live here. Do not sacrifice our
community to developer interests.
372. Lynn M Los Altos Hills, CA The legislators promoting this are just doing the bidding of
developers. There are no environmental protections.
Developers do not care at all about that. Save our
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373. Barbara R Los Altos Hills, CA This community is a green environment that has historically
provided a place of natural beauty for hiking and biking and
wildlife, that is also accessible to our higher density
neighbors. In fact, it was originally a weekend respite
destination for stressed San Franciscans. Let’s not destroy
that.
374. Carl T Los Altos Hills, CA
375. Sat M Los Altos hills, CA
376. Freddie P Los Altos, CA
377. Paul M Los Altos Hills, CA Local control needed for LAH and keeping with chosen rural
lifestyle
378. Richard W Los Altos Hills, CA Will damage the community
379. Ajay S Los Altos Hills, CA We don\'t want to change the character of the town.
380. Ronda B Los Altos Hills, CA
381. Ashima M Los Altos Hills, CA
382. Jennifer M Los Altos Hills, CA
383. Anthony I Los Altos, CA
384. James M Los Altos Hills, CA
385. Thom G los altos hills, CA Thoughtful legislation will better address the housing issue.
Resist developer $, engage with intelligent urban planners
instead.
386. Brenda M Los Altos Hills, CA
387. Jim J Los Altos, CA
388. Dominic M Los Altos Hills, CA
389. Geraldine O Los Altos Hills, CA
390. Carlene N Sunnyvale, CA This legislation is a favor to the developers who donate
heavily to Weiner and Atkins, and silences the concerns of
residents affected by it.
391. William C Los Altos Hills, CA
392. Ramchand N Los Altos Hills, CA
393. Robert K Los Altos Hills, CA
394. Carol S Los Altos, CA Safety first always, density is not always for the best.
Environmental issues and living on top of one another is not
good for wild fire areas as we saw in Napa and other
surrounding areas like Santa Cruz Mountain range. This is a
one size fits all zoning issue, a mistake. You would be taking
away the rural feel of this beautiful town as well. It is wrong,
very wrong for many reasons.
395. Shyamoli B Los Altos Hills, CA The city infrastructure like sewer, roads, parks are not
sufficient to handle the increase in population.
396. Shichang M Los Altos Hills, CA Local control is important.

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397. Sheryl J Los Altos, CA We need to keep our neighborhoods as single family zoning.
Otherwise the government is creating all types of pollution-
noise, air, environment, etc. Not to mention the government
needs to work on infrastructure, health, and environment
immediately. NO to high density housing! What ever
happened to the CA fast train?
398. Sangeeta M Los Altos Hills, CA
399. Susan K Los Altos Hills, CA
400. John C Los Altos Hills, CA
401. Victoria O Los Altos Hills, CA
402. Vivek K Los Altos hills, CA
403. Meera S Los Altos Hills, CA To preserve the beautiful serene landscape
404. Jerry J LOS ALTOS HILLS,
CA
405. Jackie D Los Altos, CA With more homes on lots, our neighborhood streets will be
even more impacted than they are today. Our street received
a no parking line painted on the ground as it doesn’t
accommodate 2 cars to pass each other today. This will
become a greater issue very quickly.
406. nicholas f los altos hills, CA it seems irresponsible to take away a community rural
environment. It seems more appropriate to increase density
in urban settings that are already planned urban. It is
senseless to forever lose rural environments in California
407. Kalpana K Los Altos Hills, CA
408. Vishwanath K Los Altos Hills, CA Los Altos Hills needs to be preserved as a semi-rural space.
The fire danger is already high here - please do not increase
it further. The law may make sense in urban areas but not
here.
409. John O Los Altos hills, CA The effect of this legislation will be to drive up home prices
and will reduce available affordable homes, the exact
opposite of what is needed. Affordable homes in
neighborhoods will be purchase, lots split, multiple units
developed and sold for profit. The obly people that gain are
property developers and people that can afford high priced
homes. Scott Weiner did this in SF and now he is leading the
charge to repeat the mess across California. RECALL Scott
Weiner NOW! The bypass of any and all local ordinances is
frankly stupid! If a city requires new developments to
underground utilities, connect to sewers vs sepetic tanks or
to have offstreet parking, these laws will be useless against
a developer playing his SB9 \'Joker Card\'. SB9 would be
funny if it was a joke, but it is a terrible peice of legislation
drafted by politician we have no say in there continued
presence in Sacramento.
410. Anne O Los Altos Hills, CA All the reasons already mentioned by other signatories of
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411. Malika J Los Altos Hills, CA
412. Vijaya M Los Altos Hills, CA
413. Junaid Q Los Altos Hills, CA
414. Arden N Los Altos Hills, CA Dense housing will damage the character of Los Altos Hills
415. Jessica S Los Altos Hills, CA
416. Philippa A Monte Sereno, CA I purchased in a rural area that will be forxed into
urbanization. I live in an area that is adjacent to a fire zoned
area, Pending legislatio n is too sweeping....\"one size does
NOT fit all\" Some communities have no more open space,
Removes local controls, stresses local infrastructure, does
not guarantee affordable housing--only increases density.
417. Sung-eun L Los Altos Hills, CA
418. Bill R Los Altos Hills, CA
419. robert l Los Altos hills, CA CA must stop eroding city ordinances and get back to
normal governance.
420. Jill J Los Altos Hills, CA SB9 and SB10 (but primarily SB9) would prohibit us, and all
other towns, from enforcing local zoning laws. The 1 acre
minimum and strict requirements put in place to maintain an
open and “nature respecting” town feel would no longer be
possible. I want to retain local control of our Los Altos Hills!
ordinances!!!
421. Mary M Los Altos Hills, CA
422. Christine H Los Altos Hills, CA
423. STEVE H LOS ALTOS HILLS,
CA
424. Shetal D Los Altos Hills, CA
425. Henry M Los Altos Hills, CA
426. Walter W Los Altos Hills, CA Local control is the definition of Community.
427. Ambrish S Los Altos Hills, CA
428. Kawal G LOS ALTOS HILLS,
CA
429. Karishma M LOS ALTOS HILLS,
CA
430. Glen B Los Altos Hills, CA I paid for 30\' setbacks. Receiving 4\' setbacks represents a
\"taking.\"
431. Natalie B Los Altos Hills, CA
432. Jenna B Los Altos Hills, CA
433. Jayaram B Los Altos Hills, CA This will completely change the character of our towns. Each
town and city should set limits on what can be done - not the
state.
434. ERIC B Los Altos Hills, CA
435. valerie m los altos hills, CA
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436. James L los altos hills, CA
437. John P Los Altos, CA I would like to have the current semi-rural atmosphere and
lifestyle of the Hills preserved and protected. Thus, I oppose
the high density housing plans currently under discussion,
i.e., SB 9 and SB 10.
438. Andrea A Los Altos Hills, CA
439. Ashwath N LOS ALTOS HILLS, It destroys California. I will most certainly leave the state if
tm these bills pass. Which I\'m sure will make you very happy.
440. Eric B Los Altos Hills, CA These bills are crude and draconian. They would destroy
much of the more open space, and tbe character of our
town, without resolving low incom housing in tge slightest.
They also come just as expanded work from home promises
to alter housing and transport conditions. Finally, the root
cause of the overall housing problem is cities that woo
industry to raise their tax base and off load housing on other
cites. Those with the industries should be required to house
mre of their workers.
441. Sanjay D LOS ALTOS HILLS,
CA
442. Brigita S Los Altos Hills, CA We chose to live here because of the semi-rural
environment. We should be allowed a CHOICE. Do not spoil
this Paradise.
443. Christine H S Los Altos Hills, CA There is not enough water in California to support all this
housing. We need open space and greenery (not concrete)
to breath and protect wildlife and small family farms.
Devastating fires and tragic results the past three summers
in California will most likely continue. Fire trucks would not
be able to reach a higher dense population in Los Altos Hills.
444. Maryam D Los Altos Hills, CA
445. Brian F Los Altos Hills, CA
446. Suzanne K Palo Alto, CA Because it will eliminate single family homes, take away
what defines each city, covers all the land, takes out trees,
not enough parking etc.
447. Rosa T Los Altos Hills, CA There is not enough room to build multiple houses in one lot
in Los Altos Hills. Los Altos Hills residents like their privacy.
Needless to say, the traffic, the parked cars, vandalism and
crime increasing in our area.
448. Alisa B Los Altos Hills, CA
449. Joshua M Los Altos Hills, CA
450. George L Los Altos Hills, CA
451. Andrew C Los Altos Hills, CA
452. ROBERT E Los Altos Hills, CA This town was founded on the notion of one acre lots with
large set backs and a well defined allowable area for
building. How can the State upend this 60-year old policy.
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452. ROBERT E Los Altos Hills, CA (continued from previous page)
Outrageous. In addition, the state is not listening to the
established community but rather is trying to push through
an ill conceived bill that benefits developers but destroys
neighborhoods.
453. Rabindra S Los Altos Hills, CA
454. Heinz E Los Altos Hills, CA Preserve the right for a town to have its own rules for
property development and not have it dictated by the state
455. George C Los Altos Hills, CA This is a single solution to address the state\'s housing
problem with no flexibility for different areas. Some local
control must be left in place.
456. Arnaud C los altos hills, CA i want to keep the rural and green environnment of los altos
hills
457. Martin L los altos hills, CA
458. John s Los Altos Hills, CA
459. Danessa T Cupertino, CA These bills don\'t address California\'s real housing problem
which is a lack of affordability. All we will get is new luxury
housing that benefits developers and real estate interests.
Also, these bills require zero BMR housing!
460. Ms. Jeffrie P Pacific Grove, CA
461. Ana A Los Altos Hills, CA
462. John Z Los Altos Hills, CA
463. ashley w los altos hills, CA
464. Rajiv B Los Altos Hills, CA Current single family zoned areas do not have the parking,
road, sewer, water, electricity and gas infrastructure to
support drastically more residences.
465. carol c Los Altos Hills, CA
466. Susan S Los Altos Hills, CA There is plenty of land in the Bay Area for construction of
residences that comply with local zoning. Local city
ordinances should not be pre-empted by the state.
467. Alexandria W Los Altos Hills, CA
468. Norman H Los Altos Hills, CA The road traffic/parking/etc infrastructure can barely support
our current needs. This would crush the semi-rural feel we
all worked our lives to realize.
469. Jimi B Los Altos Hills, CA
470. Javed H Los Altos Hills, CA
471. Lidia I Los Altos Hills, CA
472. Victor b Los Altos, CA
473. Roberta P Los Altos, CA I want to save single family homes by keeping the zoning to
reflect one home on a single family lot.
474. Ned B Los Altos Hills, CA

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475. Rachel G Los Altos Hills, CA We value living in the country and the one acre minimum lots
keep it that way. High density buildings belong in cities.
476. Taylor V Los Altos Hills, CA
477. Pamela T Los Altos Hills, CA
478. Tia J Los Altos Hills, CA There are better options for solving the housing shortage.
479. Francis G Los Altos Hills, CA High density housing is inappropriate given the limited road
capacity in the hills. Traffic is already too dense for this area.
480. Cathi L Los Altos Hills, CA
481. Petra D Los Altos Hills, CA Keep Los Altos Hills rural!
482. LOIS C LOS ALTOS HILLS, I LIKE OUR CURRENT 1 ACRE MIN. TO PREVENT MORE
CA DENSITY OF POPULATION.
483. Lall J Los Altos, CA Infrastructure cannot support high density housing in Los
Altos hills
484. Anne B Los Altos Hills, CA As a long time homeowner, I cannot believe that the CA
Senate is even considering these bills. Has Josh Becker
even talked to “we the people”
485. Dave M Los Altos Hills, CA
486. Stephen C Los Altos Hills, CA The rural nature of our neighborhood is the key reason I
have lived here for 25 years. I would be extremely upset if
this bill changed the zoning regulations. It would dramatically
impair my quality of life and financially ruin me.
487. Frank D Los Altos Hills, CA I live here because the large lot size affords my family
privacy. Increased density will just spoil our town - and will
not solve any problems as new homes, regardless of lot size
or home size, will still not be low cost.
488. sandy a los altos hills, CA
489. Kristin S Los Altos Hills, CA
490. Peter W Los Altos Hills, CA The power of Sacramento needs to be curbed
491. Bernice M Los Altos Hills, CA
492. Frances W Los Altos, CA Overbuilding would destroy more of the natural habitat. This
area was never intended to be a crowded place.
493. Sara M Los Altos Hills, CA
494. Hugh P Los Altos Hills, CA To maintain local jurisdiction.
495. Luanne D Los Altos Hills, CA
497. Maxwell G Mountain View, CA The state of California should not usurp local control of
zoning laws - this should be done on the community level as
it always has been
498. WILLIAM K LOS ALTOS HILLS, We specifically bought a house in Los Altos Hills to avoid the
CA overcrowding and density in the surrounding Bay Area
towns, where over development appears to be conducted
without sufficient considerations to infrastructure (such as
mass transportation and schools).

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 Name From Comments
499. Ilan B los altos hills, CA
500. Diana R Los Altos Hills, CA There are better ways to meet the housing needs in our
communities. Cities should be the ones to decide zoning for
new developments
501. Eric I Los Altos Hills, CA
502. Albert M Los Altos Hills, CA
503. Ingrid K MOUNTAIN VIEW, Don\'t ruin what little space we have in the Bay
CA Area/California - let our ecosystems survive without
additional overpopulation.
504. Robert S Los Altos Hills, CA
505. George T Los Altos Hills, CA
506. Carol P Los altos hilld, CA
507. Marcos A Los Altos hills, CA
508. Sara F Los Altos hills, CA
509. Catherine C LOS ALTOS HILLS,
CA
510. Marc T Los Altos Hills, CA
511. Farah T Los Altos Hills, CA I want to keep 1 acre
512. Shawn R Los Altos Hills, CA This threatens the very charm of rural Los Altos Hills that
has drawn us and wildlife to live here.
513. JOAN S Los Altos Hills, CA
514. michael d Los Altos Hills, CA Los Altos Hills is beautiful because of the lack of sense
housing and expansive open spaces that allow nature to
flourish. So much of the Bay Area is over built. Please keep
this part of California beautiful.
515. Denise R Los Altos Hills, CA
516. Maria S Los Altos Hills, CA To leave our beautiful community the way it is.
517. Nancy M Los Altos hills, CA
518. Steve D los Altos Hills, CA
519. Linda S Los Altos hills, CA LAH is wonderful as it is. No need for more density.
520. Merry E Cupertino, CA Los Altos HIlls is unique and small. It cannot be forced to
change.
521. Richard B Los Altos, CA
522. Meagan J Los Altos Hills, CA We need to preserve our open spaces, natural habitats and
minimize risk to all involved. We have worked incredibly
hard as residents to secure these properties because we
wanted a life within nature. The infrastructure in place does
not support expansion as well.
523. Julie P Los Altos Hills, CA Far too radical a solution to the very real need for more
affordable housing.

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 Name From Comments
524. Carsley B Los Altos Hills, CA Our narrow, winding, no outlet streets cannot handle extra
traffic, especially during emergencies like wildfires.
525. Jon S Los Altos, CA
526. Sirpa H Los Altos Hills, CA Privacy, noise, traffic
527. Jeannette F Los Altos Hills, CA streets not designed for dense population in high risk fire
neighborhood
528. Peter F Los Altos Hills, CA basic property rights
529. Barry T Los Altos Hills, CA
530. CAROL A Los Altos Hills, CA WE LIVE IN AND LIKE LIVING IN THE COUNTRYSIDE.
OTHERWISE, WE WOULD HAVE BOUGHT IN TOWN
OVER 30 YEARS AGO1
531. Najwa T Los Altos hills, CA
532. Gordon H Los Altos hills, CA
533. Mark W LOS ALTOS HILLS,
CA
534. Chris C Los Altos Hills, CA
535. Joan S Los Altos Hills, CA
536. Bruce M Los Altos Hills, CA
537. Janet S Los Altos Hills, CA This would ultimately devalue our property. We like the
quiet....and to hear the birds sing.
538. Jane S Los Altos Hills, CA We moved specifically to Los Altos Hills because we liked
the open, rural feel. We oppose the state trying to rezone our
neighborhood without our consent.
539. Michelle M Los Altos Hills, CA
540. Jasmine A Los Altos hills, CA
541. Rajan P Los Altos Hills, CA The state should not impose a one-size-fits-all housing law
for all of its communities that may have serious harmful
effects on many communities.
542. margie s los altos hills, CA
543. Kerry L Los Altos, CA
544. Dana M Los Altos Hills, CA Although I don\'t think think upzoning is in and of itself a bad
idea, I don\'t think it\'s the one size fits all master solution it\'s
held up to be. There needs to be a more detail-minded and
well-rounded plan for solving California\'s housing issues.
545. Jehan G Los Altos Hills, CA The environmental cost is far too great and outweighs any
potential benefits of SB 9 & SB10.
546. Lisa M Los Altos, CA
547. Shari E Mountain View, CA Environmental disaster!!
548. Cam C Los altos, CA
549. Richard H Los Altos Hills, CA
550. Gail S Los Altos Hills, CA

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 Name From Comments
551. Ida C los altos, CA
552. Harold k Los Altos Hills, CA This kind of legislation is very inappropriate for some
communities. Smaller communities don\'t have the resources
for handling high density traffic, fires, water/sewers.
553. Pamela R Los Altos, CA It\'s an EXTREME overreach of the state in local zoning not
to mention the effects it would have on water and electrical
usage as well as overcrowding. What are these politicians
thinking and it would devastate local neighborhoods.
554. Birgitta I Los Altos Hills, CA Keep housing control local. Does nothing for affordable
housing!
555. Marjorie S Los Altos Hills, CA
556. Laura M Los Altos Hills, CA Our town is already in a huge fire risk area. We cannot add
more houses and more people. Too much of a risk We are a
town of 1 acre lots and that should continue.
557. Donald M Los Altos Hills, CA Having spent the last 55 years at my present location,
complying with it\'s local ordinances regulations and
restrictions, and paying not only the taxes but also vast
amounts for maintenance and improvements to achieve the
kind of neighborhood that my surrounding residents and I
desire to live in, I deeply resent the State attempting to
destroy it all with the effective takings allowed by SB9 and
SB10.
558. Ty C Los Altos Hills, CA
559. Robert A Los Altos Hills, CA It is broad brush reactionary legislation that disrupts local
government planning and infrastructure management. And
solves nothing.
560. Lisa S Los Altos Hills, CA It’s more important now than ever to ensure open spaces
and the environment as much as possible.
561. Jyotsna B Los Altos Hills, CA Reduce crowding and air quality, preserve trees and nature
and space for wildlife
562. Mei-Ling S Sunnyvale, CA SB 9 and SB 10 are misguided policies. Upzoning raises the
price of land, and makes it harder for homebuyers to
compete with the bidding of developers and corporate
investors. The idea that deregulation to encourage
developers to solve the affordable housing issue is like
asking the fox to guard the hen-house.
563. Shida J Los Altos Hills, CA I like to preserve the small town feeling of LAH. This was the
reason we moved here almost 30 years ago.
564. Todd M Los altos hills, CA It would change the fundamental makeup of our city which
has large lots.
565. Mary G Los Altos Hills, CA
566. Nancy T Los Altos, CA I want my family heritage to remain Open landscape areas
567. Sarah H Los Altos Hills, CA We the people know what’s best for our towns.

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 Name From Comments
568. Robert G Los Altos Hills, CA i want to maintain the rural nature that has been Los Altos
Hills since incorporation.
569. Kourosh S Los Altos hills, CA crowding and air quality . Creates traffics in small town of
LAH. We bought in LAH to avoid crowding neighborhood.
570. Penelope I Los Altos Hills, CA
571. Joe S Los Altos Hills, CA Unbelievably, this will usurp local control over our own
community and undermine the decades of planning and
implementation to preserve its semi-rural character. If the
objective is low-cost housing creation in a community such
as ours, these destructive bills have no provision for
ensuring that end result, and will only diminish the quality of
life for everyone. Do the math! Other than enriching
developers, these bills present a lose-lose scenario.
572. Julia S L Los Altos Hills, CA It is an overreach for the state to regulate local zoning
regulations. Limited water resources in the Bay Area and
California should preclude increasing the density of housing
in the region. Let\'s not repeat the issues that were seen in
the Paradise fire, including increased development in foothill
areas, as well as lack of adequate road infrastructure to
handle fire escape routes.
573. Myrna M Los Altos, CA
574. Dru A Los Altos Hills, CA SB 9 and 10 are poorly thought out and smack of political
expediency in support of a land grab. They undermine and
negate the role of local government to be responsible for
planning and management of infrastructure, utilities, and the
environmental impact. Random development serves no one
well. In this case, the purported reason for affordable
housing will only benefit developers looking for higher profit
margin. Don’t destroy our state. Work with, not against, local
governments and its residents.
575. Naila Q Los Altos Hills, CA
576. Margaret M Los atos, CA
577. Kris M Los Altos Hills, CA
578. Dena E Los Altos Hills, CA I\'m a private person.
579. Gay K Los Altos Hills, CA We need a variety of options in our area, but we also need
single family zoning in LAH.
580. MUKUND T Palo Alto, CA
581. Tom L Los Altos Hills, CA
582. Steven E Los Altos Hills, CA If creation of housing is the goal, legislating higher densities
for new development or new communities is the answer.
Going back that re-engineering existing communities is
politically correct in some circles, but is just bad planning.
We all know that going back and doing major remodeling is
way more expensive than starting from scratch. The same
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 Name From Comments
582. Steven E Los Altos Hills, CA (continued from previous page)
analogy applies.
Also, this legislation is tone deaf to current megatrend,
including working at home, that will reduce pressure on the
need for long commutes from communities further out from
ground zero of Silicon Valley.
583. Jane H LosAltos, CA
584. Dennis D Los Altos Hills, CA Crowding. Lack of privacy (which is why most of us moved
to \"The Hills\". Increased traffic. Overloading the contracted
Sheriff\'s office policing. Additional residences will ncreasw
need for fire protection.
585. Brent B Mountain View, CA Preserve this area as is.
586. victor m los altos hills, CA zoning provides clear guidance when making lifestyle
choices when determining where to establish your home.
587. Edwin and Los Altos Hills, CA Our town is almost completely built out, with infrastructure
Catherine B and fire prevention plans build to match the current
population density. We are not near public transit or
shopping areas. It would not make sense to add additional
high density housing.
588. Michael B Los Altos Hills, CA I enjoy country living with more privacy.
589. Connie Y LOS ALTOS HILLS,
CA
590. Sharon B Los Altos Hills, CA
591. David R Los Altos Hills, CA Los Altos Hills is a rural community with no commercial
activity and limited infrastructure, roads, and schools.
592. Debarag B Los Altos Hills, CA Want to see Los Altos Hills maintain its rural ambience, with
less density in housing
593. Duncan M Los Altos Hills, CA Our hilly streets can not safely accommodate so much
density. This is a bonaza for developers and a disaster for
homeowners.
594. Catherine A Los Altos Hills, CA The fact that I have to subdivide my land and the sub
dividers will not have to improve the infrastructure such as
environmental review and other subject matters.
595. Matthew S Los Altos Hills, CA Local governments should maintain control over what
housing density is allowed.
596. Nidhi S Los Altos Hills, CA The town’s urbab-rural lifestyle is a rarity. The high density
that rezoning will bring will be disastrous for the town, the
homeowners and the environment.
597. Karen R Los Altos Hills, CA We live in the hills for the privacy.
598. Diane C Los Altos, CA I do not want to change the character of my community.
599. Charles K Los Altos Hills, CA
600. Patsy D Sunnyvale, CA State should not control local zoning

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 Name From Comments
601. Lionel B Los Altos Hills, CA Our family chose to live in Los Altos Hills to PURSUE
happiness, and we have very happily lived in LAH. Zoning
dynamics must be a local responsibility, and locals as well
as non-locals can decide on the appropriateness of a given
locale\'s development statutes.
602. David Z Los Altos Hills, CA
603. Rajan B Los Altos Hills, CA
604. Richard L Los Altos Hills, CA
605. Alexis H Los Altos Hills, CA
606. Mary Y Los Altos hills, CA Very important
607. Michael C Los Altos hills, CA
608. Danielle R Los Altos Hills, CA
609. Ratnajee A Los Altos Hills, CA environment and maintaining the green space
610. Sarah H los altos hills, CA
611. Volney V Los Altos Hills, CA
612. Kipp H Los Altos Hills, CA
613. Harjit S Los Altos Hills, CA
614. Carol J Los Altos Hills, CA Los Altos Hills allows ADUs. Use that to address affordable
housing rather than these 2 bills which don\'t even address
affordability.
615. Robert T Los Altos Hills, CA Like the privacy and yard
616. William A Los Altos Hills, CA
617. Karen L Los Altos Hills, CA
618. Kuei-wu T Los Altos Hills, CA We bought the property 40 years ago because we enjoy the
countryside environment.
619. Leslie T Los Altos Hills, CA We bought the property 40 years ago because we enjoy the
countryside environment
620. Chun To T Los Altos Hills, CA
621. Robin D Los Altos Hills, CA We are opposed for all the reasons articulated in the petition
PLUS we are opposed to the State\'s attempt to
unnecessarily subsume our right to govern our local
community.
622. Lorraine B Los Altos, CA
623. sanjay u los altos hills, CA do not want to lose the rural character of our town
624. Robert C Los Altos Hills, CA Zoning should be left to local jurisdictions and the people
that reside in them. Not appropriate for politicians in
Sacramento to try to force a one-size-fits-all approach on the
many diverse municipalities of CA.
625. Inga d Los Altos hills, CA I don’t believe local government should be forced to approve
plans that increase the density of homes per lot.
626. Frank W Los Altos Hills, CA Local government is the best form of government.

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 Name From Comments
627. Gary O LOS ALTOS HILLS,
CA
628. Roxanne V Los Altos Hills, CA Increased density could and would dramatically change the
nature of LAH. We\'ve worked very hard and for many years,
to afford a home in this peaceful, quiet and peaceful
community. While we respect the need for affordable
housing, it need to be properly considered in areas that
make the most sense for all.
629. Mrie B Los Altos hills, CA
630. Kristen D Los Altos Hills, CA
631. Dale N Los Altos Hills, CA This is an unconstitutional \"taking\" of property. It is being
expropriated and devalued by government without just
compensation.
632. mingfang l Los Altos Hills, CA
633. Lohith C Los Altos hills, CA
634. david c los altos hills, CA SB 9 and SB 10 are the wrong solution to the issue of
housing costs. They disenfranchise homeowners and will not
solve the problem, but will only destroy local city
environments by allowing greedy developers to build without
limitations. DO NOT pass this legislation.
635. April W Los Altos Hills, CA
636. Dolores F Los Altos Hills, CA Increased automobile traffic endangers our children and
animal pets, not to mention the danger related to many
elderly needing to exercise by walking on our roadside
pedestrian walkways!
637. Jay S Los Altos Hills, CA
638. chong t los altos hills, CA this is a hilly town, town has good policy in place to maintain
the balance of like and environment, it is best the town retain
the power to do what is the best for our town.
639. Susan N Los Altos Hills, CA
640. Christie H Los Altos Hills, CA
641. TJ M los altos hills, CA I want to preserve the peaceful neighborhood.
642. Emilie C Los altos hills, CA
643. Grant M los altos hills, CA I love LAH and grew up here
644. Pooja S Los Altos hills, CA
645. Richard M Los Altos Hills, CA
646. James W Los altos hills, CA
647. John h Los altos hills, CA Keep local ordinances local. Don’t abuse your power.
Housing is not a state emergency, it is manufactured. These
bills address market rate housing not low income.
648. Nancy M Los Altos Hills, CA

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 Name From Comments
649. Jasmeen P Los Altos, CA We moved into LAH for the rural feel. Increasing density will
not help the neighborhood and not fair to people who are
current residents who bought the houses especially for the
rural feel and low density.
650. Iris C Los Altos Hills, CA
651. Amarelle M Los Altos hills, CA
652. Praveen M Los Altos Hills, CA
653. Josy R Los Altos Hills, CA We didn\'t move to be in a city. I agree with all the listed
problems
654. Sally R Los Altos Hills, CA It has to remain the decision of those who have bought and
reside there, as a one acre minimum, single family
neighborhood, if they want to completely change the feel of
the neighborhood.

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