In recent years, Mountain View has struggled with high retail vacancy rates, despite efforts to revitalize the downtown corridor. Now the city has a clearer picture of why so many storefronts are vacant, after commissioning a consulting firm, The Retail Coach, to investigate the reasons for the empty spaces. The upshot is that property owners and...

For nearly a decade, Mountain View has poured money into programs and services to try and turn the tide of homelessness in the city. But it still has not been enough to stave off housing insecurity for a large number of residents. Now Mountain View is looking to address the situation with updates to its homeless response...

Mountain View’s mobile home park tenants scored a big win Tuesday evening, following a yearslong effort to get the city to offer more rent control protections and cap annual rent increases below the rate of inflation. In a split 4-3 vote, the City Council approved limiting rent increases to 60% of the Consumer Price Index, with a...

Mountain View Whisman’s school board approved the ground lease for its staff housing development at a Thursday evening meeting, paving the way for local educators to start moving in as soon as next month, as well as signing off on an agreement that gives the district the chance to negotiate a deal to buy the property. At the...

Karen Noryko had not lived in Mountain View for long before she started to notice a lot of items that she wanted to recycle were not eligible for curbside pickup outside her home. So, Noryko looked into options other than what the city offered and discovered Ridwell, a company that collects and recycles materials not taken...

Mountain View’s longstanding Kohl’s store is set to close this week, making it the final retail outpost to shutter in a shopping center where the Los Altos School District hopes to build a new school. The department store, located at 350 Showers Drive, is scheduled to close on Saturday, Jan. 18, according to a sign posted...

Mountain View is taking steps to close a massive funding shortfall for a new public safety building after the cost shot up to $210 million, an amount that far exceeds what the city budgeted for it. In a 6-0-1 vote, the City Council approved a recommendation on Tuesday evening to revise the project scope by reducing the...

Magnussen Toyota of Palo Alto, a longtime dealership and service center, is planning to relocate and redevelop a site for a new auto center less than half a mile away on Old Middlefield Road in Mountain View. But it is facing significant opposition from a nearby residential community that is concerned the auto center will severely erode...

It has been three years since Mountain View approved a rent control ordinance for its mobile home parks. Now it is looking to update the ordinance to offer more protections for tenants who are struggling to keep up with annual rent increases. In a 2-1 vote, the Rental Housing Committee (RHC) recommended at their Dec. 12 meeting...

Making some tradeoffs to get more homes built, Mountain View backed an affordable housing development that will support lower-income residents, but will have very few parking spaces for them. CRP Affordable Housing is proposing to build an eight-story apartment complex at 334 San Antonio Road, replacing a Valero gas station and auto repair shop. The City Council...