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To: flickerful who wrote (9187)	4/2/1998 8:02:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 71178

Heres Letter #2. To: From: Len Grilli Alex and Caroline Muehldorf PG&E Land Use Department 756 Dona Avenue 111 Almaden Blvd Rm 814 Sunnyvale CA 94087 San Jose CA 95115 Thank you for your responsiveness to my previous inquiries. I would like to take the opportunity to update you on events transpired since we last corresponded. On Monday March 30, an inquiry to the Sunnyvale Public Safety Department gained me a verbal statement that officers would not answer trespassing calls regarding the tract in question. This is the PG&E-owned transmission right-of-way between Dona and Lois Avenues in Sunnyvale. Apparently (and I paraphrase from memory) "PG&E was not interested in being the victim of trespass, and the utility had no plans to fence the area." During this time, juveniles on bicycles have been at the property every day, taunting and harassing me and my wife. Let me assure you, our morale was none too good. Yesterday (Wednesday April 01) a utility employee came to the site and posted "No Trespassing" signs. My wife and a neighbor independently saw the signs present at 3 pm. At 4:30 pm, the signs were gone, and three juveniles on bicycles were on the site. I called the police, who came out and interviewed the boys. Nobody witnessed who removed the signs, so Sunnyvale Public Safety did not treat this as trespass. I described to the officers present that the boys had been harassing my wife and me on a daily basis. The officer who answered the call advised me that the boys were doing "nothing illegal" when they were being noisy and rude from the vantage of this site. So far, no vandalism or outright assault has occurred (although my wife and I have been surrounded by the boys on their bikes on two separate occasions, thoroughly intimidating us). I think that if "No Trespassing" signs are posted, it would be good for them to be made of sterner stuff than staples and cardboard. A concrete-anchored steel sign would be very difficult for casual vandals to remove. And if they tried, the neighbors would notice, and then the police would have a more substantive vandalism case to process. One neighbor, who conversed with me while the police were on site yesterday, said that one day this past month she'd seen boys lay their bodies on the ground behind an improvised earth mound. Then other boys on bicycles jumped off the mound over the prone bodies behind it. I fear that if one of the participants got injured during such activity, PG&E would be exposed to liability questions. I conclude that the desired end point is to fence the site with chainlink, leaving a locked gate for authorized vehicle access. Similar tracts along this same transmission line are fenced in this manner. The tract in question is a 140-foot strip owned by PG&E. Two twenty-foot strips separate this land from the adjacent residential properties. I propose that if the city allows the four residents on the perimeter to purchase the corresponding city areas, the question of where to erect a fence becomes simpler. I am consulting with Jenny Shane at Sunnyvale Parks&Recreation and also with Pat Vorreiter (Sunnyvale City Council) on a proposal to buy out the city tracts. A word of support from PG&E would go a long way here I'm sure. Thank you for the responsiveness to my previous questions. I accept the posting of signs on Wednesday as an initial token of good faith by PG&E. Sincerely Alex Muehldorf