Lot 12 closed for affordable housing project
Lot 12 in Mountain View is officially closed, the city announced last week.
The lot is located across from City Hall and the Mountain View Public Library, between California Street and Bryant Street.
The city-owned, 1.56-acre parking lot has closed for the construction of an affordable housing project as of 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 20, according to a city press release.
The affordable housing project is 120 units and five stories tall. The project will be deed-restricted to households earning 60% of area median income or less, except for one manager’s unit.
The soundbound lane of Bryant Street will be closed for the duration of the construction period. Visitors are encouraged to use nearby parking garages and surface lots as parking alternatives.
Public survey available for Rengstorff safety project
Officials in Mountain View are conducting a public survey this month to identify safety and beautification improvements for Rengstorff Avenue.
The project is intended to evaluate environmentally friendly transportation concepts which include bicycle facility upgrades, intersection improvements, green streets, speed management and pedestrian improvements. It will extend from El Camino Real to Leghorn Street via Rengstorff Avenue, which is approximately 1.7 miles.
The Rengstorff Avenue project is one of the city’s capital improvement programs currently underway this year. Following the study, there will be a design project to evaluate locations and specifics of the improvement plan.
The city is hosting a community walk and bike ride on Feb. 27 at 7:45 a.m., starting at the Mountain View Community Center, to review the location for the improvements.
A public survey is available online. The survey asks users about the frequency and kind of transportation they use while on Rengstorff Avenue. It further asks about potential safety challenges and polls users about the new additions that would improve the look and feel of the thoroughfare.
At a meeting on June 24, 2025, the City Council authorized the city manager to execute a professional services agreement with Kimley-Horn and Associates, a Bay Area consulting firm, to provide professional services for the study to not exceed $352,000.
In September 2024, the city approved $352,000 in grant funding from the California Department of Transportation for the project, in order to determine new bicycle and pedestrian safety improvements. The council has also approved $71,600 from the Transportation Reserve Fund to the project.
The survey can be found at tinyurl.com/RengstorffAvenueSurvey.
California makes opting out from data brokers easier
The State of California just dropped a new tool residents can use to get a better grip of their online personal information – the Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) – which came as a result of the Delete Act, spearheaded and authored by State Senator Josh Becker. Becker represents Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Mountain View.
DROP allows residents to request that their personal data be removed from more than 500 data brokers. DROP sends a single request on behalf of a resident to the data brokers, which are required to begin processing the requests in August, and must delete the resident’s information within 90 days. Mountain View City Councilmember Lucas Ramirez encouraged residents to sign up for DROP, privacy.ca.gov, in his Feb. 22 newsletter.
DROP helps limit the information that data brokers can both collect and sell about people, including personal information like social security numbers, search history and data about children, according to the DROP government webpage.
When data is no longer sold, residents will have fewer spam calls, emails and texts, and they’ll be safer when it comes to AI impersonations, fraud, identity theft or leaked or hacked data. Ads will also be less targeted and content will be less personalized, according to the same webpage.
