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Developer John Mozart’s proposal for a car museum on Pear Avenue was approved last Wednesday during a meeting that lasted a whole minute.
The meeting, an administrative zoning hearing, adjourned one minute after it convened. Its minutes read: “The zoning administrator asked the applicant if she had a presentation. The applicant did not. The zoning administrator opened the public hearing. No one was present to speak on the item. The public hearing was closed. The zoning administrator then moved to approve the project with standard conditions.”
Mozart’s 25,000-square-foot glass building, situated near the Computer History Museum at 1326 Pear Ave., will house 60 of his 100 vintage cars, including Concours-winning Ferraris, Duesenbergs, Porsches, Alpha Romeos and specially built race cars.
“It’s one more big feather in Mountain View’s cap,” said City Council member Jac Siegel, an avid car buff who toured a part of the collection along with the
“It’s supposed to start construction this fall,” he added. “We’ll see what happens. Certainly he’s got the wherewithal to do it. He’s quite well off.”
Mozart is the owner of Mozart Industrial Development Company, which includes a housing development arm called Classic Communities. He currently keeps many of his cars at the company’s Palo Alto office.
The new museum is expected to “make a statement,” Mozart said, with black granite floors, walls made of interlocking beams of translucent glass, and special lighting designed to make the cars “pop.”
City manager Kevin Duggan said the lot for the museum was an appropriate location. He said he was “pleased that Mozart is talking about having it open for special events in the future, even though it won’t have regular hours.”
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