Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Local Government
A state law signed Sept. 30 will allow Burlingame and Hillsborough to prohibit children under 12 from operating Class 1 and Class 2 e-bikes beginning Jan. 1, 2027. Each community must adopt its own restriction.
Local Government
A state law signed Sept. 30 will allow Burlingame and Hillsborough to prohibit children under 12 from operating Class 1 and Class 2 e-bikes beginning Jan. 1, 2027. Each community must adopt its own restriction.
A state law signed Sept. 30 will allow Burlingame and Hillsborough to prohibit children under 12 from operating Class 1 and Class 2 e-bikes beginning Jan. 1, 2027. Each community must adopt its own restriction.
Local Government
The FAA approved staggered parallel landings at SFO on Aug. 12, raising hourly arrivals from 36 to 40 over Burlingame and Hillsborough flight paths, with capacity expected to reach 42 by month's end.
Local Government
The Town of Hillsborough launched a broadband survey on Aug. 5 asking residents about their wireless and internet experiences, with results set to inform the town's first telecommunications master plan.
Local Government
The Burlingame Planning Commission will vote Monday, Aug. 10, on Bay Rise Park, a proposed 9.4-acre nature and recreation park with an education center at 410 Airport Blvd., after five years in the approval process.
Local Government
San Mateo County will hold its first-ever Purple Heart Day flag-raising ceremony Friday, Aug. 7, at County Center in Redwood City, with a Board of Supervisors proclamation expected to follow Aug. 11.
Local Government
The Burlingame City Council canceled its Monday, Aug. 3 meeting, the second straight cancellation after July 20, leaving residents without a regular council session for six weeks until the next meeting on Monday, Aug. 17.
Local Government
San Mateo County's four 10-day public review periods for the Nov. 3 election open starting Friday, Aug. 7, giving Burlingame and Hillsborough voters a legal window to challenge candidate statements and ballot measure language before the voter pamphlet goes to print.
Local Government
The Burlingame Beautification Commission will vote on seven Business Landscape Award nominees and hear a contested appeal over removing a protected Coastal Redwood at 1347 Montero Avenue at its Thursday, August 6 meeting.
Local Government
Hillsborough's Architecture and Design Review Board meets Monday, August 3 with seven residential projects on the agenda, including a continued review of an 11,299-square-foot Contemporary home on Uplands Drive that neighbors flagged for privacy concerns in June.
Local Government
San Mateo-based developUrban proposes demolishing the Chase Bank at 1430 Chapin Ave. in Burlingame and building a five-story, cross-laminated timber office complex with a café and 117 parking stalls; the city's 30-day environmental review comment period runs through Aug. 25.
Local Government
Horizon Treatment Services is requesting an additional $500,000 from San Mateo County to cover higher construction costs at the Burlingame Mahler Road site, while a new investigation finds crime data does not support neighbors' safety fears about the project.
Local Government
San Mateo County and its 20 cities secured $77 million of the $150 million the state owes them in vehicle license fee funds, leaving a $73 million gap that could force service cuts, according to Supervisor Jackie Speier's July 2026 newsletter.
Local Government
San Mateo County will turn a former Ramada Inn in South San Francisco into 45 apartments for formerly homeless seniors, its fifth hotel-to-housing conversion using state Homekey funds, a strategy that could eventually reach Burlingame's hotel-heavy Bayshore Highway corridor.
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