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Los Altos Hills Environmental Design and Protection Committee Board
Meeting Minutes
March 11th, 2014 at 5.30 pm
Town Hall, 26379 Fremont Road, Los Altos Hills, Ca. 94022
Roll Call Pat Ley (Chair), Carol Gottlieb, Kjell Karlsson, Wai Lee Wong,
Nancy Couperus (sent her regret)
Council Liaison: John Harpootlian
Next Board Meeting Date: April 8th, 2014
Next Field Trip Dates: March 14th. March 28th
Next Site Development/Fast Track Assignments: March 18th (Neela), March
25th (Carol), April 1st (Pat), April 8th (Nancy)
Review of Site and Fast Track Assignments: Feb.18th (Pat-1), Feb.25th
(Nancy-2), March 4th (Neela-0); March 11th (Pat)
• Nothing of significant to report
Review of Planning Commission Meetings: January 9th. February 6th
• March 6th, meeting cancelled
Next Planning Commission Meeting: April 3rd.
Other Business
1. Should Associate Member be on LAH committee such as ED&P,
Pathway, Open-space? This issue was discussed at the Council Meeting
(Feb. 20 @ 6PM).
• Neela Shukla is only an Associate Member of ED&P because she
does not now live in LAH. Her professional qualification as an
architect make her an extremely valuable contributor to the work of
the Committee and we all, including Council Liaison Harpootlian,
support her membership of the EDPC.
2. Graffiti on property
• Property owner should be asked to clean-up graffiti as soon as it
appears in order to discourage the vandals. Mary Ann Malcolm will
deal with this task. Mary Ann was not presence at the meeting to
provide update
3. Coyote Forum: On Feb. 12 meeting concluded to leave the Coyote as
they are and protect your pets
4. West Wind Barn: Two shade trees was taken out and need to be replaced
as it provide excellent shades.
• ED&P Chair, Pat, had recommended to Richard Chiu to replace them
with 2 scarlet oaks.
• Pat will followed up on the reason why the trees were cut down by
asking Richard Chiu for the Arborist’s Report
5. Save the Tree: A property owner wants to cut down 25 trees on his
property for new construction and there is a need for clear definition
of “Heritage Tree”
• John to ask Debbie for the Ordinance.
6. Old Water Tower preservation
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Adjournment: Meeting adjourned at 7:00 PM