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Designation can proceed

The Queen Anne Victorian at 55 Hernandez Ave. may not have a legal owner at this point, but that doesn't mean the town can't start proceedings to designate it as part of the landmark historic preservation overlay zone, the Town Council ruled last week.

The house, built in 1887, was nearly destroyed in the 1989 Loma Prieta quake. The owner, Lysbet Wright, agreed to pass on the house to a contractor, Tim Lantz, if he restored the house. He did but before she died last year, Wright sold the house to Wilfredo and Helen Cadiente, who hold the deed to the property.

That dispute is in arbitration.

Meanwhile, neighbors who worried that the Cadientes were gutting the interior of the house and preparing to turn it into a nursing home appealed to the town to initiate proceedings to designate the house as a historic landmark. But the Cadientes say they just want to be able to live in the old house, which is currently vacant, and have no intention of making it into a nursing home.

The Planning Commission is expected to take up the issue in July.

Monte Sereno: tops for turnout

They may live in the smallest city in the county, but Monte Sereno residents have a history of making sure their voices are heard when election day rolls around. In last week's primary election, an amazing 68 percent of the city's 2,308 registered voters cast ballots.

In Los Gatos, more than 47 percent of the town's 18,008 voters turned out on election day-- still a pretty respectable number, compared to the county average of 41 percent.

Lungren was the favorite gubernatorial candidate in Monte Sereno, but Davis was first with Los Gatans.

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