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Town Council <br />Town of Los Altos Hills <br />Sirs: <br />Your Freeway Committee respectfully submits the <br />following report and recommendations with regard to <br />the proposed Junipero Serra Freeway: <br />GENERAL CONCLUSIONS <br />We believe that the projected freeway is a necessary <br />traffic facility and we favor its construction. <br />We believe that the freeway route should be so loca- <br />ted as to cause minimum cutting and destruction of <br />natural land contours, minimum removal of existing <br />buildings, and minimum damage to already developed <br />property. <br />We believe that the freeway route, as far as possible, <br />should go between, rather than through, existing <br />municipalities. <br />RECOMMENDATIONS <br />We make these specific recommendations: <br />1. In the interest of the Town of Los Altos Hills <br />the route designated as C (Blue Route) is <br />absolutely unacceptable to this committee. This <br />route literally cuts the Town in half. The <br />eastern half, trapped between the Freeway and <br />the railroad would find it difficult if not <br />impossible to retain the country type of living <br />for which the town was incorporated. <br />Furthermore, in the viewpoint expressed by <br />the state highway engineers, this route is <br />located too far away from the source of traffic <br />r to accomplish the purpose for which it is to be <br />built. It also traverses 21,000 feet of Los <br />Altos Hills as against 3,700 feet for the A <br />route and 8,500 feet for the B route. It <br />destroys more houses than either the A or B <br />routes, and it would permanently disfigure the <br />natural landscape with cuts .and fills. <br />2. The freeway route, as far astpossible, should <br />rr pass between Los Altos and Los Altos Hills. Such <br />a route for the most part might follow state <br />route B, but might conceivably pass to the west <br />of the old Los Altos church area as suggested <br />13 <br />