Town schedules strategy session
Town Council members and staff will discuss the most important issues facing the town--the housing element, hotel-related issues and the town's strategic five-year plan--at an all-day strategy session Jan. 25.
The meeting is open to the public, and a short public input session will begin the meeting.
The session is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. in the R.J. Bryant Service Center, 41 Miles Ave.
Council upholds planning decision
No food outlet can occupy the retail space at 22 S. Santa Cruz Ave., the Town Council decided Jan. 6, upholding a Planning Commission ruling.
Los Gatos Pastaio was asking for a conditional-use permit to open a "food emporium" in place of a nail parlor. The emporium could have been a takeout place, a fast-food restaurant or a place selling prepackaged food to cook and eat at home--whatever would be acceptable.
The town code forbids conversion of retail space to a restaurant, but Pastaio representatives argued that the shop wouldn't be a restaurant, exactly, if people didn't sit down and eat in the shop.
The council majority feared that the shop would expand into a full-service restaurant. Members voted 3-2 to uphold Planning Commission denial. Linda Lubeck and Steve Blanton dissented, saying they doubt the shop would become a restaurant.
Cunneen named legislator of year
The Faculty Association of California Community Colleges will honor state Assemblymember Jim Cunneen as their "First-Term Legislator of the Year."
FACC praised Cunneen for leadership in legislating tax incentives for college students and for helping the association author legislation.
Cunneen will be honored at a Feb. 28 FACC conference in San Francisco.
Cunneen has also been named legislator of the year by the American Electronics Association, Girl Scouts of California and Planned Parenthood of California.
This article appeared in the Los Gatos Weekly-Times, January 15, 1997.
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