Reusing toxic, contaminated properties? That's what a cartoon villain would do.

Nice to see Rosenberg's term as "Mayor" come to an end. Now just eagerly awaiting his departure from the council.

I'd suggest to Mr. Siegel that if he's focused on transportation, he should be thinking about our smaller streets - not just the main highways and thoroughfares that non-Mountain View folks use to reach our fine town. Speeding on neighborhood streets, cut-through traffic, and school zone safety have a big impact on quality of life. This seems especially true for Mountain View, where we talk a big game about encouraging biking, walking, and alternative transportation but do little to actually facilitate change.

What a propaganda piece for Lenny. Would it have hurt Noack to spend a little time introducing MV Voice readership to the new Vice Mayor and the top vote getter last election?

Why isn't housing affordability Lenny's priority? It's still expensive to live in Mountain View. Measure V did nothing.

You seem familiar with the Vice Mayor, what is it you think she will do for housing affordability?

Lenny has worked tirelessly for housing while the Vice Mayor campaigned initially against housing in North Bayshore, and she has been generally opposed to development.

Lenny Siegel is very interested in a adding thousands of residents to Mountain View but doesn't care what the impact that would have on current residents.

Lenny is a great guy. He may seem too far left for some, but many of us have learned over the decades that Lenny is usually RIGHT. Even protesting the War in Southeast Asia 50 years ago was actually the RIGHT position. Donald Trump must have thought so too. He dodged the draft with student deferments and then conveniently diagnosed "bone spurs" that made him physically unfit for service. Avoiding the draft was the "smart" thing to do for Trump. He probably thought killing would be fun but getting killed - not so much.

Some of us voted for both Lenny Siegel and Ken Rosenberg (and maybe even Lisa Matichak).

I would love to see an extension of the VTA light-rail into more parts of Mountain View and Sunnyvale (good luck getting anything done in Palo Alto) instead of yet another train system. Between VTA, Caltrain, BART, Muni and others, there needs to be more consolidation and streamlining, not more convolution.

Congratulations to Mayor Lenny and Vice Mayor Lisa! Wishing you both the best of luck this upcoming year. Former Mayor Ken, thanks for your leadetship this past year.

I’m newish to the Bay, coming from the Midwest and East Coast. I’d like to think this gives transplants like me —- who are a majority of this community — a fresh perspective on issues California has historically struggled.

Traffic congestion is a classic sign of growing pains from high job growth… not a bad problem as it also also gives MV its extraordinary wealth and high tax base. So one cannot simply blame tech companies and outsource problem-solving to them because they “have more money than god”. They do their part by taking thousands of cars off our roads with their own commuter buses. Every else in the country, bus transportation is the responsibility of public Govt.

High housing costs are symptoms of imbalanced supply & demand. New development on brown field space is good land use.... and so is higher density. Suburban sprawl typifies MV but was abandoned in progressive regions of the U.S. for the well documented problems they bring to the environment and social fabric.

Mr Siegel represents an older generation, but I hope he has the courage to embrace change in his own back yard and see MV as a 21st century city and not a town who’s hay days were in the 70s.

Glad to see the council giving reasonable leadership turns to all who were elected. Now, elementary school district board, and particularly weasel word Wheeler, what about your political shenanigans?