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NOVEMBER 3, 2017 VOLUME 25, NO. 41
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Landlords balk at rental fees START-UP COSTS SWELL BUDGET OF NEW RENT CONTROL ADMINISTRATION program’s hefty startup costs, but said said they had little option t would be hard to find a and hope for those expenses will more expensive rental market drop in future years. “We’re mindful of the fees that than Mountain View’s. But for local apartment owners who you’re paying, and we’re trying to came before the city last week, keep that as low as possible,” said Committee Member Matthew thriftiness was the big theme. Focusing their frustrations Grunewald. “This first year is on the city’s new rent con- going to be the most expensive year, I hope.” trol law, landlords The Oct. 23 blasted what they described as a ‘Rental property meeting had a strong and orgabloated $2.5 milowners have nized turnout from lion budget to apartments ownadminister the program that will suffered enough.’ ers, many of whom urged the commitbe funded entirely JOSHUA HOWARD, tee to impose up to by new fees on CALIFORNIA APARTMENT 75 percent of the apartments. Many ASSOCIATION new fees on tenants. landlords comMany landlords plained the program’s budget will unfairly give brought up familiar warnings renters all the benefits but none that the mounting costs would lead them to either reduce mainof the costs. In spite of those concerns, tenance or exit the local market. Joshua Howard, spokesman the five-member Rental Housing Committee unanimously for the California Apartment approved the new program, Association (CAA), blamed the including a new $155 annual fee new measure for forcing landthat will be levied on every apart- lords to recently pay “an average ment in Mountain View starting reimbursement of $1,000” to in January 2018. Many committee members acknowledged the See RENTAL FEES, page 9 By Mark Noack
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Dan Woods, the new CEO of El Camino Hospital, says the passion of its community and staff convinced him to leave his post in Georgia and relocate to Mountain View.
Hospital’s new CEO says patient care is top priority By Kevin Forestieri
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l Camino Hospital’s new CEO, Dan Woods, says he’s still getting used to Silicon Valley after moving into Mountain View from Marietta, Georgia. Everything costs
more, the patients are younger and there’s an entrepreneurial and tech-centric spirit driving innovation in the world of health care. But the longtime hospital executive says he hasn’t lost sight of his top priorities while
he adjusts. During a recent interview with the Voice, Woods said it remains a high priority to make sure hospitals provide top quality services and give patients easy and timely See CEO, page 8
Complaints spur city crackdown on O’Malley’s Sports Pub By Mark Noack
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or some, O’Malley’s Sports Pub off Old Middlefield Road is one of Mountain View’s few remaining melting pots, a true public house. But to others, the pub
is more like a public nuisance. Facing a growing number of complaints about noise and garbage, city officials last week threw the book at the neighborhood drinking hole. At an Oct. 20 Administrative Zoning hearing, city staff ordered the pub to
rein in its weekly events and tear out a backyard patio deemed inappropriate for the business. “This came from multiple directions and multiple complaining parties,” said Stephanie Williams, the assistant city planner who reviewed the case. “The
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city reached out to them numerous times and explained what was wrong. But they still did stuff without permits.” A bar receiving complaints for rowdy patrons and latenight noise is fairly common, but Williams said it was rare
for these quibbles to lead to a full public hearing. In the case of O’Malley’s, various city departments, including police, fire and code enforcement, each had a list of violations See O’MALLEY’S, page 7
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