The Historical Association needs to find another location for their museum building. They will never be able to raise the funds to put it in Cuesta Park Annex. Who wants to be a major donor for a very unpopular development? And with so many opposed, they will never be able to raise the funds on small donations.

What in the hell is so wrong with some people that makes them continually want to build things in the Cuesta Annex?

Leave it alone!

There are plenty of old buildings in Mountain View that could be refurbished or scraped and rebuilt at a lower cost with much less environmental damage.

As I understand it, the museum wouldn't even be a historical museum as most of us would probably envision it. I was at a public meeting where it was asked if the museum would take many of the documents/artifacts that are currently housed at the MV Library. The answer was "no", that this was going to be more related to the agricultural history of MV.

Ask the folks who run the Computer History Museum. If they are honest with you, they will tell you they've been running in the red since day 1. If it weren't for the special events and rentals, and they have several there a week, they would not be afloat, even with all the huge tech donations. This is in a first class facility in the dead center of Silicon Valley paying homage to what now largely supports this valley. And the city is/was going to fund a blast-to-the-past homey museum? Just how often is every citizen of 75,000 paying their way through the turnstiles a second time? How many times can the schools repeat field trips there? If they think their having fundraising issues now, wait until it's up and running. Thankfully it looks like cooler heads are prevailing. Time to go back to the drawing board. Do we even need to do that? What's wrong with leaving it as it is? It's becoming the lone slice of Mountain View where would be artists can take their oil paints and easel and look like they're part of an old time Mtn. View postcard. That's the blast-from-the-past I want to keep. Is this city, which seems to doing fine compared to others even during these trying times, that desperate to develop every square foot in its coffers?

It sounds like there are lots of people vocally opposed to the museum. The historical people say the silent majority is in favor of the musuem. Apparently, the people in favor just aren't willing to make any donations or to even make any noise.

@Jane, it seems that the silent majority indeed wants a history museum ..... as long as others pay for it .... and it's located in somebody else' backyard :)

Please remember to communicate your feelings about the Mountain View History Museum at the Cuesta Park Annex directly to the City Council Members. Here's a link <Web Link I thought they had their minds made up already so I'm shocked, but very pleased, that they voted like this. Maybe it's not too late to "save the annex"...

My link didn't work... just go to the city of mountain view home page, choose city council from the main menu and under related links (on the left), choose Email Council (bottom of list). Thanks! "Web Link

I find it interesting that the same city council was more than willing to pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a day workers center, and millions into pedestrian overpasses and other various pet projects but is unwilling to support a museum that would conical our cities rich past- Regardless of location, the city should take the lead on a project that we could all enjoy and benefit from.

It just goes to show you how hypocritical the Council is regarding listening to the people of Mountain View. The homeowner's in my community signed a petition against the BMR housing. BMR DID LOWER OUR PROPERTY VALUES, and the council never once considered any kind of compromise (mixed housing, etc.). (Portion removed, terms of use.) I guess people who live near the Cuesta Annex are more important than us.

I wonder why my comment was censored, all I said was that some people suggested mixed type housing - seniors, regular, low income. WEIRD!

@DCS: The sentence that got excised from your comment can be paraphrased as, "It makes me mad." The expression you used to convey that sentiment was more profane, and so it didn't pass muster with the site monitor.

@Andrea - But I didn't use profanity...it still seems weird to me. If you have a list of words that cannot be used, maybe this should be posted somewhere.

@Andrew - The sentence that got excised was the suggestion that was given to city council about considering mixed-use housing. If I did say something else in that sentence, why did the part about the suggestion get kicked out? It just seems like my voice was being cut-off, and the point about writing comments is to get public opinion heard.

@DCS:
I think posting a list of words that shouldn't be posted defeats the purpose, don't you?

I looked again at your original comment, and it looks like the parenthetical phrase at the end of your sentence was inadvertently cut off when the more colorful four-word sentence that followed it was removed:

(mixed housing, etc.)

I restored it to its rightful place.

@Andrea - Thank you, and sorry for misspeling your name! I Still don't agree that I was being profane in anyway.

Isn't it ironic that the History Museum would have destroyed one of the last open spaces in Mountain View?