The Glenridge Park Firewise community program works best when all members of the community participate. If the house next-door to yours remains in a high-fir...

While all homeowners living in single-family homes in Los Gatos have high property values, some are better financially equipped to invest in fire safety than...

Many of us remember the movie The Perfect Storm in which lives are lost when the seas turn into a nightmare of massive waves created by the perfect combinati...

The California legislator has recently enacted the groundbreaking AB38, which addresses the life and property threatening wildfire issues facing people who l...

Firewise USA is a nationwide program, created by the NFPA (National Fire Protection Association), that empowers residents to take property-specific actions t...

As I know you are aware, Governor Newsom issued a wildfire emergency proclamation stating that homes in the WUI (wildland urban interface) are at ‘extreme ri...

After years of complaining by Los Gatos residents (and businesses) about the Waze directed traffic that has at times brought Los Gatos life to a complete sta...

By now, a large number of residents of the Bay Area, including 4,000 in Los Gatos, have experienced their first of what will likely be many power blackouts r...

As I write this post, there are PG&E triggered power outages in several towns, perhaps for days, hitting high-risk communities in the bay area - Los Gatos is...

This past weekend I had an up-close, personal encounter with what little remains of the town of Paradise, devastated by the engulfing flames that rapidly inc...

Los Gatos Historical Society (www.losgatoshistorical.org) Initiated legislative efforts this week with California Assemblyman Evan Low's office to legally ba...

Following on the heels of the publication of the 2019 Los Gatos Historic Survey, which found that 16.5% of historic homes existing in 1991 have been demolish...

It’s clear the owners of historic properties benefit from the adoption of the Mills Act, and hence so does the town itself given the 1250% ROI that the town ...

Beyond the fact that many people in our governing body were not familiar with the Mills Act previously, there are several concerns that have been raised by v...

The Mills Act was originally created by Senator Jim Mills, who in addition to being a California Senator, was also a historic preservationist. The Mills act w...

The Los Gatos Historical Society was created in 2019 to bring focus and attention to the much-neglected topic of historic preservation, and the declining eco...

The Mills Act, which was enacted in 1972, to save the historic Hotel Del Coronado, is the single most important legislative act in California. The Mills Act ...