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n <br />-2- <br />in state route A. -alternate, and might follow portions <br />of state route A in the vicinity of Arastradero. <br />Los Altos objections to routes A and B are under- <br />standable, but a minor adjustment of these routes <br />might move the freeway to the edge of Los Altos at <br />the outskirts of that city's business center. The <br />B route proposed by the state generally skirts the <br />perimeter both of Los Altos and Los Altos Hills <br />and does not cut either community in half. The <br />access roads for either the A or B routes would <br />also create a minimum problem and expense to Los <br />Altos Hills. <br />3. The freeway, no matter where it is located, can be a <br />noisy and visually disturbing nuisance to nearby <br />property owners. The Committee therefore strongly <br />recommends that any portions of the freeway passing <br />through, or adjacent to, Los Altos Hills be landscaped <br />with tree screens and shrubs. <br />4. Proposals of a higher level foothill route were <br />considered by the committee (among them the "F" <br />route recently suggested by Cedric McAbee). Such <br />a route interested the Committee, but did not seem <br />practical in the light of the state's ecpressed <br />purpose to build a road which will serve maximum <br />traffic needs. Route F would also be so remote as <br />to necessitate a four land expressway along the <br />railroad with stop light traffic control. <br />BACKGROUND <br />The Freeway Committee is com.nosed of townspeople repre- <br />senting the different neighborhoods and geographic <br />areas within the town limits. Included in its membership <br />is one representative of the Town Council and one repre- <br />sentative of the Planning Commission, also a civil <br />engineer and a subdivider. <br />The Freeway Committee has met at regular intervals since <br />the middle of December and members of the Committee <br />have in addition carried out numbers of individual <br />interviews and investigations in preparation for this <br />report. Among those consulted or interviewed have been <br />engineers of the State Highway Department, officials <br />and planners of our own and adjacent towns, and numerous <br />townspeople living in the vicinity of different proposed <br />freeway routes. <br />The following matters received discussion <br />and consideration.! <br />-2- <br />