Local Government Goes On-Line
Did you know you can view many of Belmont’s planning and council meetings on-line?. Turns out our sleepy little town really delivers when it comes to technology. If you are interested in watching your elected (and appointed) officials at work, read on:
The City of Belmont, in cooperation with The Mid peninsula Community Media Center is currently webcasting City Council Meetings. Viewers can tune in to the live webcasts the second and fourth Tuesday nights of the month beginning at 7:30pm, unless there is a study session, in which case the webcast begins at 6:30pm. Viewers can also see any past meeting since August 2006, or any particular agenda item within those meetings.
Tuesday, October 9th @ 7:30PM ~ City Council Meeting
Location: City Council Chambers – One Twin Pines Lane
City Council meets on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, One Twin Pines Lane in Belmont. Council meetings are broadcast live on Cable Channel 27 in Belmont. If you would like to contact the City Council collectively, please use the following link: CityCouncil@belmont.gov – Please be advised: Our Mail Server does not accept files over 2 megabytes. Planning Commission meetings broadcast live on Channel 27 – Also available on the Internet at: http://www.communitymediacenter.net/watch/belmont_webcast/index.html
The Planning Commission meetings can be viewed on-line on the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. The archives are available on our web site at the link below:
http://www.communitymediacenter.net/watch/belmont_webcast/index.html
Local Politics Goes On-Line
Did you know you can watch many of Belmont’s government meetings on-line? If you are interested in seeing what goes on in planning comission or concil meetings tune into Belmont’s webcast and see what they are uo to.
BELMONT CITY COUNCIL WEBCASTS
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The City of Belmont, in cooperation with The Midpeninsula Community Media Center is currently webcasting City Council Meetings. Viewers can tune in to the live webcasts the second and fourth Tuesday nights of the month beginning at 7:30pm, unless there is a study session, in which case the webcast begins at 6:30pm. Viewers can also see any past meeting since August 2006, or any particular agenda item within those meetings. The Planning Commission meetings can be viewed online on the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. The archives are available on our web site at the link below. Watch The Live Webcasts Now!The Webcasts are now available during City Council and/or Planning Commission meetings by clicking on the "Watch Now" image below. |
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Belmont’s School Force
Belmont’s School force needs your support. Whether or not you have children in the Belmont school system, great schools positively impact your life in many ways. Superior schools provide an environment which engages the student enriching our society as a whole. There is less crime and more community support in cities with excellent academic programs. And if you own a home, your values are directly tied to how well your schools perform.
Please take a moment and read about Belmont’s School Force program which has helped elevate our schools to their accomplished level of excellence.
Welcome to Beautiful Mountain Blog-Belmont’s Open Resource Forum
If you arrived at this page you probably already know what a blog is–if not here’s a brief description as provided by Wikipedia:
A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Here’s your chance to discuss all things Belmont and get feedback from your politicians, neighbors, and industry professionals. Of course our posts will be mostly related to real estate and we encourage you to check in frequently for market updates and commentary, but we also have a thing or two to add about life in Belmont.
Want to be a regular poster? Email us to become and invited guest author–or simply reply to any comment already posted.
Feel free to comment about anything important to you–obviously refraining from expletives, slander or other things which could get you in trouble.
We hope this will provide a unique way for Belmont residents to communicate and improve our city and its attributes.
Sincerely,
Neighborhood Associations
These are the Neighborhood Associations that we are aware of in Belmont. Some have their own web page and others simply a contact.
This PDF file shows the boundaries for the various associations. Click on the name of the association in this document to rech the same links as below.
- Belmont Heights Civic Improvement Association
- Central Neighborhood Association
- Cipriani Neighborhood Association
- Farallon Homeowner Association
- Homeview Neighborhood Association
- McDougal Neighborhood Association
- Plateau-Skymont Neighborhood Association
- Sterling Downs Neighborhood Association
- Western Hills Neighborhood Association
Chamber Events-September 2007
Save the Music Festival: October 14, 2007 11:00 AM-5:00 PM
The Belmont Chamber of Commerce and School-Force, the Belmont-Redwood Shores public school foundation, are pleased to announce that we have joined together to present Save the Music Festival in the Park, a collaboration of the Blemont Chamber’s Festival in the Park and Save the Music with the LIttle District that Could. Together we will create a signature event for Belmont to showcase our community businesses and the musical talents of school district students. Sign up forms will be going out the week of June 17th; any questions call the chamber at 650 595 8696 or Email us at execdirector@belmontchamber.org.
Artists–sign up here! Sign up form
Restaurants
MARVIN GARDENS
1160 OLD COUNTY RD
BELMONT, CA 94002
CHINA VILLAGE RESTAURANT
600 RALSTON AVE
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-593-1831
CHEZ SAIGON
1316 EL CAMINO REAL
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-596-0878
NARITA JAPANESE CUISINE
1001 ALAMEDA DE LAS PULGAS
BELMONT, CA 94002
AVANTI PIZZA
2040 RALSTON AVE
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-508-1000
TOTOS PIZZERIA AND RESTAURANT
1200 EL CAMINO REAL
BELMONT, CA 94002
HOLA MEXICAN RESTAURAT & CANTINA
1015 ALAMEDA DE LAS PULGAS
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-591-1735
DOCS BAGELS & DELI
Address 1027 ALAMEDA DE LAS PULGAS
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-592-4000
IRON GATE
1360 EL CAMINO REAL
BELMONT, CA 94002
SHORELINE GRILL
2039 RALSTON AVE
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-595-1520
GIN MON RESTAURANT
1079 ALAMEDA DE LAS PULGAS
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-592-3663
SUSHI MONSTER
955 RALSTON AVE
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-595-3965
DIVINO RESTAURANT
968 RALSTON AVE
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-551-1171
AVANTI PIZZA
2040 RALSTON AVE
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-508-1000
LA HIQUERITA RESTAURANT
520 MASONIC WY
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-593-7019
HOBEES
1101 SHOREWAY RD
BELMONT, CA 94022
Phone 650-596-0400
VIVACE RISTORANTE
1920 RALSTON AVE
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-637-0611
AUSIELLOS
864 EL CAMINO REAL
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-595-9531
HONG KONG RESTAURANT
945 RALSTON AVE
BELMONT, CA 94002
CAPRINOS ITALIAN RESTAURANT
1000 6TH AVE
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-591-4156
PAPA MURPHYS TAKE N BAKE PIZZA
1602 EL CAMINO REAL
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-594-4877
LUNAS RESTAURANT
1500 EL CAMINO REAL
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-637-9257
QUIZNOS SUB
1480 EL CAMINO REAL
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-591-6095
THE VANS RESTAURANT
815 BELMONT AVE
BELMONT, CA 94002
WHISPERS CAFE & CREPERIE
390 EL CAMINO REAL
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-594-0000
INDULGE ASIAN BUFFET
1000 EL CAMINO REAL
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-588-9350
VIVACE RISTORANTE
1920 RALSTON AVE
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-637-0611
MOUNTAIN MIKES PIZZA
390 EL CAMINO REAL
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-593-4178
TAQUERIA EL METATE
120 HARBOR BLVD
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-595-1110
IHOP RESTAURANT
510 EL CAMINO REAL
B ELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-992-8887
CAPRINOS ITALIAN RESTAURANT
1000 6TH AVE
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-591-4156
ST JAMES GATE
1410 OLD COUNTY RD
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-592-5923
DOMINOS PIZZA
1501 S EL CAMINO REAL
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-592-2712
SUBWAY
1602 EL CAMINO REAL
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-589-0573
DIVINO RESTAURANT
968 RALSTON AVE
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-551-1171
KELLYS SANDWICHES
1094 ALAMEDA DE LAS PULGAS
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-592-0608
PILGRIM KITCHEN
311 EL CAMINO REAL
BELMONT, CA 94002
THE NEW HARBOR
150 HARBOR BLVD
BELMONT, CA 94002
PEETS COFFEE & TEA
1200 EL CAMINO REAL
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 510-594-2100
WENDYS RESTAURANT #2104
698 RALSTON AVE
BELMONT, CA 94002
HONEY BAKED HAM
210 EL CAMINO REAL
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-595-8551
LITTLE BELMONT COFFEE SHOP
232 HARBOR BLVD
BELMONT, CA 94002
Phone 650-592-6721
Widgets for Sale Anyone?
Most real estate agents at one time or another wonder what planet their local news media is reporting from when it comes to home values in their area. Often time prices are rising when the media is seemingly reporting waning sales; and other times the media appears to be Johnny-come-lately in their reporting of trends such as the latest run up in mortgage defaults.
Unfortunately, as mainstream media becomes more sensational and less informational we’ll all be exposed to more stories on which celebrity is due for another DUI arrest on their way home from a drug rehab program and less stories that matter-ones which actually affect our lives.
Case in point–On the peninsula where we live in the Bay Area, our little town of Belmont has continued to show strong gains in real estate for the past ten years. Yet every January, the media reports that sales were down for that month. That seemingly incongruent piece of information would puzzle the likes of the fine citizens of Belmont and would invariably result in us receiving calls from past clients wanting to know what’s up with the market; every year we’d explain that often times the information they are hearing is the result of national or even statewide reports, and may not necessarily be applicable to the mid-peninsula.
It goes like this: the media gets a wire that the National Association of Realtors reported sales of resale homes were down in January over the prior month. That gets translated into a teaser tag line that says, "Is the real estate market crashing-stay tuned". So you patiently stay up for another twenty minutes when right after they erroneously predict the next days weather and apologize for the previous night’s errors, there’s this 20 sound bite that NAR reported resale home activity slowed in January. Slowed compared to what? Of course no one remembers the details and the next day the water coolers are bubbling over with conversation about a downturn in the value of homes. Even if they did mention that sales were down over the previous month (which they always are) nobody hears that part or knows that that’s par for the course and they mistakenly draw the assumption that slower sales means a downturn in values. And of course the media takes no initiative to interview any agents who are involved in multiple offers and losing home after home due to the low inventory. You don’t have to be the recipient of a Nobel Prize in economics to understand if you have fewer widgets to sell sales will be down and prices may go up if demand is strong.
I almost forgot, every year-months after we’ve sold a half dozens homes for considerably more than asking-the media reports a median home price gain. But were those numbers national or statewide? Who cares, it’s good for the ratings.
San Mateo County Median Price thru August 2007
The graph below is for San Mateo County, California. Notice how steep the trend-line is for this year as compared to 2004. The trend line used is a straight line computation in which the trend illustrated is based upon the previous data points. Of course this predicted outcome can change radically as market conditions change and in fact we would expect that this level of appreciation (given the current issues in the mortgage industry) is not sustainable and in fact it may be the result of more expensive homes selling in the two previous months–September data points should help level off this trend.
