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Letters
No way around it,town needs more parking
Nothing short of constructing new parking facilities will solve the parking problem in downtown Los Gatos. These facilities should be built to solve the merchant's problems of what to do with their out-of-town customers who patronize their businesses.
The creation of this traffic problem should be solved by those who have created it and benefit from it. Way back in 1965 when then-Councilman Dr. Charles DeFreitas proposed this solution, land was much cheaper and construction was much more reasonable.
The town council is trying once again to avoid this long-term solution. I have watched this ongoing saga since 1964. The downtown merchants also have managed to delay the only long-term solution that is feasible.
Los Gatos taxpayers deserve a courageous decision by a town council and not these stopgap measures that cost all of us more and more every year this goes on.
Molly Sullivan
Los Gatos
Monte Sereno is paying more than it's share
As one of those "outsiders" who lives in Monte Sereno I was especially disappointed with the tone of Mr. Egon Jensen's letter in the Dec. 12 issue of the Los Gatos Weekly-Times regarding the use of Los Gatos taxpayer money to help fund a safe pedestrian environment on Winchester Boulevard--especially at the Daves Avenue school crossing.
I doubt if Mr. Jensen's Los Gatos neighbors agree with his view that pedestrian and child safety has "little or no benefit to Los Gatos."
If he doubts the need for increased safety I'd ask him to walk across the existing crosswalk at about 8:15 a.m. on a school day.
Would he suggest that Monte Sereno pick up all the costs for safety and not let Los Gatos children share in the benefits?
It is also important to point out that while less than 15 percent of Winchester Boulevard is controlled by Monte Sereno that the city has agreed to pick up 50 percent of the cost.
Although some economists may equate our children's net worth to the discounted cash flows of future earnings, and I'm told that on average the median income in the city of Monte Sereno is higher than in the town of Los Gatos, I doubt that this has little to do with us paying more than our fair share of the costs. Maybe it has something to do with the healthy neighborly spirit between our two municipalities even though Los Gatos is a mere town that is fortunate enough to be juxtaposed to our mighty city!
I encourage both the Los Gatos Town Council and the Monte Sereno City Council to continue to work through to a mutually acceptable solution to a difficult issue that involves both the ambience of our towns and most importantly the safety of our children.
Philip Levine
Monte Sereno
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