[LWV] League of Women Voters®
of the Los Altos-Mountain View Area

Housing Positions

League positions on local housing issues.

  • Support for ordinances against age discrimination in housing.
  • Support for retention of city ability to refuse conversion of apartments to condominiums when such conversion is not in the best interest of the city.
  • Support of the following ways to cope with jobs/housing imbalance and related transportation problems:
    a. Increased densities where appropriate if a feeling of open space is retained.
    b. Cluster zoning which provides open space.
    c. Retention of non-conforming use dwellings.
    d. Rezoning commercial to residential or mixed use.
    e. Improvement of CalTrain passenger service.
    f. Improvement of present freeways without expansion of system.
    g. Encouragement of car pooling, company buses, use of bicycles.

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