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Alex Amoroso
U.S. Army Reserve Officer | alex4council.com
Top priorities
- Protecting the environment and conserving natural spaces
- Creating job training programs
- More affordable housing, while maintaining parking and existing neighborhoods
Community involvement
- Friends of the Mountain View Library
- Mountain View Rotary Club
- Friends of Stevens Creek Trail
- Hope’s Corner volunteer
Alex Amoroso, a U.S. Army Reserve Officer, sees public service as a calling and a duty, one that has propelled him to run for City Council.
“I have a number of very disciplined, very pointed leadership based goals in mind I would absolutely love to bring to the council,” Amoroso told the Voice. “To not only advance this community that I have come to know and love but also preserve it for what it is.”
In this November’s General Election, Amoroso is one of eight candidates vying for three seats on the Mountain View City Council, which sets policies and the overall direction of the city. There are seven Council members in total.
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Candidate Comparison Grids: Mountain View City Council
To help voters compare and differentiate between the people running for Mountain View City Council, the Voice sent a questionnaire to all the candidates, asking about their policy positions across a wide range of issues. Check out their side-by-side responses.
View the comparison grid ➔Amoroso wants to ensure Mountain View works for everyone, which he said includes more affordable housing. He is a proponent of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, a bipartisan federal law that seeks to fast track housing development by cutting red tape.
Amoroso also supports Senate Bill 79, a state law passed last year that allows for denser housing to be constructed near major transit stops. However, Amoroso has reservations about the implementation of SB 79, describing the legislation as needing “guard rails” because it is not specific to Mountain View.
“SB 79 doesn’t really give us a good specific site picture when it comes to building for our community,” Amoroso said.
He wants the city to come up with a plan to respond to SB 79 that prevents the development of high-rise apartment buildings in areas that currently consist mostly of single-family homes and parks. Amoroso would rather see duplexes and quadplexes in those neighborhoods.
Tall apartment buildings can be constructed in other parts of the city, Amoroso said. This would include areas that are currently made up of largely apartment buildings and other multi-family homes. He also wants more parking to be included when new housing is built. State law currently prohibits cities from imposing minimum parking requirements when a project is located within half a mile of a major transit stop.
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Amoroso also opposes replacing public parking lots with affordable housing, unless other parking is provided, he said. Amoroso gave the example of Corso, a 120-unit apartment building that is being built on a downtown parking lot.
“If it’s affordable housing here that doesn’t affect parking, I have no issue with it,” he said.
On the issue of homelessness, Amoroso supports further restricting oversized vehicles from parking on city streets. Amoroso described himself as being sympathetic to the situation of RV residents, noting that he has volunteered at organizations like Hope’s Corner that support unhoused populations, but said he doesn’t see allowing RVs to park on streets as a sustainable solution. Rather, Amoroso wants to see more structures built for RVs to park, including the creation of additional safe parking sites.
With respect to the city budget, which is projected to face modest deficits over the next few years, Amoroso thinks Mountain View should prioritize projects that are geared towards supporting residents. That includes affordable housing as well as public transit, parking and environmental and mental health initiatives, he said. If the city needs to trim expenses, some programs can be put on hold, he said, giving the example of visual arts projects.
Amoroso also favors raising taxes on large tech companies to generate more revenue as well as asking voters to pass a general obligation bond to fund projects, provided that it’s transparent to the public, he said.
Amoroso identified protecting the environment and conserving natural spaces as another top priority. He thinks the city is doing a good job making strides towards its carbon neutrality goal and would like to see the city “hit carbon negative” by 2045.
Amoroso wants Mountain View to install more charging docks for people who drive electric and hybrid vehicles, he said. Parks and other green spaces, including trails, should also be expanded throughout the city, he said.
Amoroso does not support the changes made to California Street, which included reducing driving lanes to make space for protected bike lanes. The redesign has created problems like traffic pile ups at lights, Amoroso said. Those issues should have been addressed before the pilot project was approved by the council, Amoroso said.
“Talking about these problems after the fact doesn’t do anyone any good,” he added.
At the same time, Amoroso said that he would back the addition of protected bike lanes on other streets, like Rengstorff Avenue.
Amoroso opposes the idea of reinstating automatic license plate readers in the city, whether with Flock Safety or another company. He is concerned that agencies could use the data for immigration enforcement or other tracking purposes. The police department removed Flock cameras earlier this year after discovering major security and privacy breaches involving the technology.
Amoroso also supports Mountain View’s efforts to protect immigrants, including not allowing federal authorities to conduct civil immigration enforcement on city property.
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