At the JANUARY 17, 2012 Mountain View City Council meeting, The Mountain View Historic Association's announcement that it will no longer pursue building a museum in the Cuesta Annex due to a lack of funds was greeted by applause from the audience.
But despite over 20 speakers opposing the proposed Cuesta Annex flood basin, (with one speaker supporting it and one speaker supported the annex water collection pipe), council members: Kaspersak, Means, Abe-Koga, and Bryant approved the Santa Clara Valley Water District's revised Cuesta Annex flood basin . Not a single council member supported leaving the annex as is, or challenged the questionable Water District flood data used to justify this unwanted public works project.
The revised 7 acre flood basin is reduced from 22 feet deep, to 12 feet deep (still 3 times deeper than the empty artificial lakes dug in Cuesta Park) It will require the clear cutting of all existing fruit trees growing between the far end of the tennis center parking lot to the sidewalk along Cuesta Drive. One more environmental impact report is required to be approved before 37 acre feet of soil is removed from the front half of the annex in 2013. email us for more information.
