HIA Community Meeting Recap

Thank you to the community members who attended our HIA Community Meeting on May 12. We had almost 40 people attend to hear our update on the proposed building heights, building setbacks, and streetscape design for Harbor Blvd. We had onsite simultaneous translation services offered in Spanish, which were used by a handful of attendees.

We are still in the process of compiling the comments we received from the meeting. The meeting materials, including the PowerPoint presentation and the meeting boards, will be posted on the HIA project website next week.

Fuel Reduction Project Update

Belmont’s grant-funded open space fuel reduction project has begun at Waterdog Lake. To ensure the safety of visitors, pets, and our crew, certain trail segments will be closed to the public from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays.

Today, May 16, work began on the upper segment of Lake Road, which will be closed from the Hallmark Trailhead to Waterdog Lake. No passage will be permitted through this area. Please plan your visit to the open space accordingly. For questions about this work, please call (650) 595-7441 or email parksrec@belmont.gov. We appreciate your patience and understanding during this time.

Movies in the Parks Survey

Have you voted for any movies you want to watch this fall yet? We are hitting the road again this year for our Movies in the Parks, and we want to know what movies you want to watch!

Aquatics Registration

Get ready to make a splash this summer! Swim lesson registration is now open for youth ages 4 to 16. Participants will enjoy safe, fun, and skill-building lessons each day of the two-week session. Spots are filling up fast, so be sure to secure yours today!

Virtual Safety Element Community Workshop

Join us and other local partners for a virtual workshop for the Peninsula Resilience Planning (PREP) project on Tuesday, May 21, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. We'll present drafts of policies to help create safer and more resilient communities, share findings from our vulnerability assessment and gather your input on strategies to protect our communities in the face of natural hazards and climate change. To register and learn more, please visit bit.ly/3Z7DKbO.

Belmont Blooms

There are still spaces available for our second annual Belmont Blooms Gardening event! Join us at the Barrett Community Center Garden on Saturday, May 31, at 11 a.m. to start your gardening journey.

Take a tour of the garden led by one of our gardeners, paint your own flowerpots, learn the best time of year to plant your crops, enter a raffle, and so much more. Stations will be led by Parks and Recreation staff, community garden members, and local vendors such as California Native Plant Society, UC Master Gardeners, and Mid-Pen Water. This event is free and open to all ages.

Spring Tea Party

Join us on Wednesday, June 4, at 3 p.m. in the Senior Center for an afternoon Tea Party! Enjoy a selection of delicious food, a variety of teas, and a live flute performance. Bring your own teacup and share a story about it at your table. $5 tickets are available at the Senior Center until May 29. It’s sure to be tea-riffic!

Public Works Highlights

This week, the Public Works Operations staff undertook several important projects. They cleaned illegally dumped debris, refreshed over 250 feet of red curb paint, and addressed street light outages. Additionally, they replaced a failed red traffic signal light bulb and resolved a malfunction in the vehicle detection system at the intersection of Ralston Avenue and Hallmark Drive. The team also repaired a sinkhole in the roadway by replacing more than one ton of asphalt, and replaced an unstable retaining wall and fence in the City-owned parking lot at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Emmett Avenue.