Letters to the Editor
Letter From Nick Dellaporta
City governments are motivated to build high density housing developments because they meet the increasing demand for affordable housing and the property taxes that they generate contribute to a city’s revenue. But this creates obvious...
Letter From Rozane Bey-McCurdy
Santa Clarans always had choices. They could have chosen the environment over development; instead they chose a stadium over water. They could have chosen a variety of educational sources for their children, instead they chose...
Letter from Melinda Rosenaur
At 3333 Octavius Drive in Santa Clara, the City Council of Santa Clara approved the removal of many beautiful and majestic Heritage Redwood trees. These Redwood trees had added beauty to an otherwise boring and...
Letter From Vickie Fairchild
When Magnolia was given the conditional lease of the old Milikin site, they were told that SCUSD would be unable to renew the lease because of future enrollment. In the interim, the state mandated grade...
Letter From Kathryn Limprecht
If a soccer field is put in Montague Park, then 220+ children north of 101 will be without a baseball league in their community. The closest league would then be Briarwood, which is already tight...
Letter From Christina Gorokhovsky
I received a notice of the Community Outreach meeting regarding the development of Montague Park. I was disappointed to see that the city has characterized this proposal as a “potential rehabilitation.” The illustrations of the...
Letter From Ray Gamma
The Wutzit Club Alumni Committee (Vivian Burgos Martin, Domenica Talia Morrissey, John P. Silva and myself Ray Gamma) wish to express our sincere thanks to the 150-plus former Wutzit Club members and friends who attended...
Letter From R. G. Johnson
Was disappointed that the city had decided to waive the 10 percent affordable unit requirement on the “Landmark for the Future” project. So many low-income people are struggling to live in this city and the...
Letter From Rozane Bey-McCurdy
The traffic update meeting on January 20th discussed the horrendous issues we currently experience and the gridlock we will have if our corridors are not fixed now. I left after [the] statement was made that...
Letter From Ray Gamma
My sincere thanks to the City of Santa Clara for allowing me to be this year’s official tree lighter at our City’s Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony. It was one fantastic night for not only for...