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City pays VTA
for bridge work
on Mary Avenue
The city of Sunnyvale is cutting a $250,000 check to the Valley Transportation Authority to pay for engineering and environmental analysis on the Mary Avenue Extension project.
The Sunnyvale City Council approved the payment 6-1 on April 22. Councilman Dave Whittum cast the dissenting vote, saying he would like to see alternatives to the proposed four-lane bridge over Highway 101 and Route 237 into Moffett Park.
The city is obligated to pay according to an agreement it signed with the VTA. Lockheed Martin paid the city the sum in June 2006 as part of a 1985 development agreement.
On April 29, the council also approved a subdivision of Lot 3 of the Moffett Towers development, which the bridge is proposed to serve.
City studies
access to
Kaiser center
The city will begin studying the traffic impact of drivers entering and leaving the Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center at Lawrence Expressway and Homestead Road.
The plan, which Sunnyvale City Council approved 6-1 on April 22, is to ask Kaiser to fund the traffic studies. Otherwise, the council would have to identify other funding.
Councilman Dave Whittum dissented, saying that Kaiser should be required to commit to funding and that there is no reason to rush.
The council plans to make a decision in December after community meetings, which will likely include objections from neighbors who fear increased cut-through traffic.
Armed robbery Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety officers responded two a report of an injury hit-and-run auto accident and a robbery at gunpoint outside of a bank on April 26 at 11:42 a.m.
When they arrived on the scene at the Bank of America at 444 S. Mathilda Ave., they discovered that the suspect in both incidents was the same individual and had fled on foot.
They located Antonio Nava and arrested him on suspicion of robbery, hit and run and being under the influence.
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