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vol . 4, no. 21 : January 22-28, 2025 : losgatan.com
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THIS DEVELOPER BONANZA HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU BY NEW STATE LAWS, TOWN INERTIA
Soquel Demo Forest a lab to study best practices for handling Mother Nature’s fury
Los Gatos boasts of its proud history, but will its charm be harmed beyond repair by development?
Drew Penner, Editor
On the second day of the Moss Landing battery fire to the south—as mask-clad shoppers along North Santa Cruz Avenue took in an especially colorful, if hazy, evening display—Raschel Archambeault, the assistant manager of East Kennedy, helped load about $60,000 in merchandise into my car. While hauling garment bags and boxes filled with beauty products and apparel destined for victims of fires in the Los Angeles area, she couldn’t help but be reminded of the 2020
Faizi Samadani, Contributor
In case you didn’t know, 1887 was the year Los Gatos was established upon a vote of 126-44. Since then, this community has been no stranger to change. Back in the day, the local economy thrived thanks to milling, logging and orchard cultivation—and now largely because of multinational technology companies. Sure, the community has gone through major shifts, both large and small. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake dismantled many structures, for one. But now, the community is set to grow taller than ever before. This change, which doesn’t exactly feel comfortable to many residents, has been ushered in by new State laws. Senate Bill 330 was approved by Governor Newsom in 2020 as “The Housing Crisis Act ➝ SB330, 10
LOCAL RETAILERS JOIN FORCES TO HELP RE-CLOTHE LA FIRE VICTIMS
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PALISADES AFTERMATH Colin Noyes, a forester at Los Gatos’ Soquel Demonstration State Forest, surveys damage in the Pacific Palisades caused by the LA fires. Local shops have been shipping goods to those affected.
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