Kudos to the Willow Glen Resident for its coverage of Alma Bowl (the proposal for 11-story twin condominium towers near Tamien Station). The Resident ran several articles on the controversy, as opposed to the Mercury News, which issued six editorials but never reported on the proposal. But your latest coverage had inaccuracies—there is no low-income housing in the proposal, nor is there any money for traffic calming—but the newspaper deserves congratulations for taking on this complex story.

You should have mentioned, however, that this is just the beginning. Alma Bowl will be developed into approximately 242 units on three acres; next comes 250 units on the vacant lot north of Alma Bowl, and maybe 600 units on the Elks Club site at Alma Avenue and Lelong Street. That totals over 2,000 new cars added to an area that has no shopping to speak of. If people want to see low-income housing or additional traffic-calming efforts, or fewer units or no more high-rises at Tamien, they will need to take steps to remain informed. The North Willow Glen website, http://www.northwillowglen.org, is a good place to start.

—Ken Eklund, Fuller Avenue

—Editor