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Lyle Weaver and his family have lived in Woodside for 24 years, and he’s spent 10 years volunteering with the Alpine Little League, local scouting groups and has volunteered on Valley Presbyterian Church’s financial audit team.
Now that his kids are in high school and college, Weaver said he’s putting his volunteerism into civic affairs. Weaver has been on the Woodside Planning Commission for four years and served as its chair for a two-year term. He also represents District 2 on the Town Center Area Plan Citizen Advisory Committee.
Weaver said he hopes to contribute his decision-making skills to the Town Council as it prepares to update the Town Center Area Plan, which outlines policies and standards for the area, and to meet growing demands for more housing from the state. Weaver said his engineering background in medical devices gave him the experience to make decisions under physical and regulatory constraints.
“We do have some hard decisions that we’re going to have to face over the next few years, and I think I can contribute to that by being a person that has a lot of experience in collaborative decision-making,” he said.
Weaver said he foresees traffic circulation, deciding where to locate new housing and adapting to the growth of the Bay Area as being crucial challenges that will need to be addressed in the update of the Town Center Area Plan.
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View the Voter Guide ➔“Having alternative forms of housing that would have a lower price point would provide an opportunity both for younger couples with children and also for seniors that maybe don’t want to have the burden of having a larger property,” he said.
While on the Planning Commission, Weaver said he’s worked with municipal codes, variances and making recommendations for the housing element. He said he is proud of being able to work with a team that addresses matters before the commission in a “calm, collegial and straightforward manner.” “It is always better to be proactive rather than reactive,” he said.
For District 2, which includes neighborhoods near Kings Mountain Road and a small portion of Emerald Lake Hills, he aims to address various infrastructure improvement projects that have been long stalled including drainage and bridge repairs. Weaver said he also wants to prioritize improvements to the walking path along the south side of Woodside Road between Woodside Elementary and Kings Mountain Road.
“We have a bridge on Kings Mountain Road that was identified 15 years ago as being in need of long-term infrastructure improvements, and that hasn’t happened yet,” said Weaver. “I think it would be good to see Woodside have a long-term prioritized list of infrastructure improvements that the town would work on.”
Information on Weaver’s campaign is at weaver-for-woodside-town-council.org.
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Editor’s note: This article has been edited from a previous version which stated an inaccurate detail on Woodside Elementary’s enrollment rates.
