By Editorial

The Los Altos Hills City Council is scheduled to consider approval of a revised map for town pathways at tomorrow’s meeting. We ackowledge that significant effort has been made to produce the map, but council should not approve the document as it currently is.

There are too many claims of missing paths or paths put in wrong places for this council simply to ignore, as planning commissioners did in recommending approval to council.

Some residents feel so strongly about the map’s causing permanent damage to the pathways system that they’ve hired attorneys to help state their case. Town officials respond there are bound to be some mistakes in documenting 108 miles of paths, but point out their map is more accurate than the last one done in 1981.

Is the rationale to approve an imperfect map because it is “more accurate” than the 1981 map? We would think the goal is 100 percent accuracy.

The numerous flaws residents point to are well documented. As one council member put it, the council needs to employ “the voice of reason” and send this thing back to the drawing board.