Council to mull skate park plan

Los Altos city councilmembers are scheduled to consider a recommendation Tuesday for creation of a permanent skate park.

Councilmembers will discuss recommendations from the city’s Parks, Arts and Recreation Commission to direct staff to prepare a capital improvement project description for a permanent skateboard park. Pending approval, the park plan would be added to an unscheduled project list.

Creston neighborhood to be returned to LA

Residents of the Creston Improvement Association remained at the June 27 council meeting almost five hours to request the neighborhood’s return to the city’s sphere of influence. The council granted their request with only Curtis Cole dissenting.

The Creston neighborhood is located south of the city between Interstate 280 and Foothill Expressway.

Built in the mid-’50s, Creston patterned itself after Los Altos with every expectation it would be annexed, according to former president Ishmael Perez. The Local Agency Formation Commission of Santa Clara County (LAFCO) declared Creston within the “sphere of influence” of Los Altos. In the late 1970s, LAFCO transferred the area into the Cupertino sphere without notification.