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Today's building restrictions are literally driving Bay Area homeowners into the ground. With planning commissions cracking down on monster homes, residents are building basements--not the little dark, dank storage cellars where scary things go bump in the night, but big sprawling basements where the things that go bump are likely to be billiard balls or the soundtrack from a horror movie. "I'll bet 80 percent of houses I see on the drawing board now have basements," Paul Mehus, president of Mehus Construction in Los Gatos, says. Darlene Moore, Los Gatos senior building inspector, says there's a surge of plans, that include basements, coming through her department. Chuck Page says the first plans he looked at when he was appointed as a Saratoga planning commissioner in 1998, was a subdivision of 15 homes, all with basements.
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News
Fire demolishes home
A home on Sarahills Drive that was slated to be demolished and then rebuilt , was gutted by a fire caused by a severed a gas line.
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Housing crunch
With the astronomical rise in housing costs, Saratoga's firefighters and police find they can't afford to buy homes where they work.
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Business
El Paseo Day Spa
The successful spa plans to expand to new locations and offer customers more relaxation and beauty treatments.
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Gardening
Farmers' Markets
Some vendors offer wholesale plants to the general public, while some are private plant enthusiasts who want to share their hobbies.
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Education
Amnesty International
The Saratoga High School chapter of the worldwide human rights organization uses letter writing to help free political prisoners.
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