By Elizabeth Cloutman

Thursday’s Los Altos Hills City Council meeting will involve a number of decisions, including the council’s vote on the adoption of an amended ordinance to increase the development and floor areas allowable on constrained or sloped lots within the city’s boundaries.

The final vote on the amended ordinance follows months of public debate.

If approved by the council, the allowable minimum/maximum floor area (MFA) of a home on a constrained Los Altos Hills lotsof more than one gross acre will be raised from 4,000 to 5,000 square feet, and the minimum/maximum development area (MDA) from 5,000 to 7,500 square feet.

Other items on the agenda include requests from two city officials seeking the council’s approval of agreements with various contractors for services to the city under the fiscal year 2000-2001 Capital Improvement Program.

James Rasp, public works manager, is slated to request approval of funds for Cartwright Aerial Surveys Inc. to prepare reproducible, aerial topographical maps of the town as part of the program’s Aerial Base Mapping Project.

City Manager Maureen Cassingham is scheduled to seek authorization to sign a contract with Wilsey Ham for consulting engineering services to mark, measure and estimate costs of the program’s Pavement Management Project.