Committee Overview

The membership of this Committee shall consist of a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 9 members. The mission of the History Committee shall be the preservation of the Los Altos Hills heritage. The History Committee currently has 6 members. Four members are required for a quorum.
(updated: 8/23/2019)

Responsibilities

The charges to and duties of this Committee shall be to:

• To implement policies that preserve the historic and cultural fabric of the Town;
• To protect the historic and cultural resources from inappropriate destruction;
• To preserve community input into the policy-making process;
• To research and document best practices and model preservation policies;
• To organize and make available to the public the historic artifacts that have been preserved and to continue to collect historic artifacts for future generations.

Nothing in the aforementioned goals shall be interpreted as authorizing the mandatory historic preservation of private residences or require property owners to submit their pending site developments plans before the Committee.

Presentations sponsored by the History Committee

​The First 50 Years of LAH - October 10, 2019

• Video of Presentation

​The Tales of Moody Road - September 29, 2019

• Video of Presentation

Innovators of LAH - ​September 24, 2017

• Video of Session

Growing Up in Early Los Altos Hills

Watch this video presentation by Children of the Packard Family presented on September 21, 2014:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6