Special to the Town Crier
Los Altos Hills residents will be surveyed about land-use issues to help the town develop its general plan, the city council decided at its meeting last Thursday.
The council formed a committee to determine the most pertinent issues and relevant questions to include in the survey. The 12-person committee will consist of five residents - one person appointed by each council member - and a representative from each town committee and the town Planning Commission.
It was important to the council that the number of people on the committee be kept to a minimum. Council member Bob Johnson pointed out a previous general plan committee was unsuccessful largely because it comprised 23 members. Chris Clark, a consultant with Crawford Multari Clark & Mohr, which is working to update the general plan, added, "Above 12, the dynamic changes - it becomes more formal."
Town committee members will determine which issues and questions they wish to include in the survey and then send one representative to the general plan committee.
The decisions of the general plan committee will then be forwarded to the consultant, who plans at this point to send a written survey to every Los Altos Hills residence.
"We want to go out into the community in written form ... and get information back from as many people as possible," Clark said. People can, "in their own homes, think through the questions we pose to them."
The survey will cost $15,000.