The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) invites Campbell residents to become trained volunteers who can assist police and fire departments in major natural disasters. These individuals are also known as first-responders.

CERT is offering seven free evening classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays from Aug. 30 to Sept. 24. The classes are at one of the Campbell fire stations and cover procedures for disaster medical operations and preparedness, fire safety, light search and rescue, and terrorism.

The program is sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Graduates of the program will be trained to aid their families, neighbors and city in a natural disaster.

To register, call Jon Hackely at 408.871.5115 or via email at john@ci.campbell.ca.us.

Four townhomes
Ok'd on Hacienda

Campbell Planning Commission unanimously approved Richard Morgan's request on Aug. 9 for a zoning change at 725 W. Hacienda Ave. that will allow construction of a proposed townhome development.

The zoning change enables Morgan to construct four townhomes on a 0.42-acre site. The project will include one common lot. The townhomes will be designed as three bedroom, 2 ¹/2 bath units ranging in size from 1,572-square feet to 1,622-square feet.

The property is located between Virginia Avenue and Capri Drive. A single-family residence and detached garage on the lot will be demolished.

Plans for a mirror image of the development on the adjacent lot to the east, 705 W. Hacienda Ave., were approved by the city council in 2002 and will be under construction shortly.

Church near Bagby
will get enlarged

The Covenant Orthodox Presbyterian Church got the go-ahead to build a 1,739 square-foot addition on its property. The church, located at 2350 Leigh Ave. in San Jose, borders Bagby Elementary School and single-family homes.

The San Jose Planning Commission approved the church's conditional use permit application on Aug. 10. The addition will include church offices and one classroom.

The addition's design will match the architecture of the church. The church will also add seven trees to the parking lot and along Leigh Avenue.

The 2-acre site houses a 9,800 square-foot church and a 600-square foot temporary storage building constructed in the early 1970s. As part of its approval, the planning commission is requiring the storage building become a permanent storage structure or be removed.