Editor,
For 12 months, outside forces with no stake in our neighborhood mounted a very public effort to keep Glazenwood from getting back what was taken from us — our historic district status. They wrote letters to the city. They wrote letters to the editor.
Turns out, they picked a fight with the wrong neighborhood.
Eighty-three percent of Glazenwood homeowners signed their names to a petition. We wrote dozens of letters. We showed up at two City Council meetings. We hosted a community meeting with the mayor and our City Council representative. All to affirm what this neighborhood has always been: a recognized historic district documented by the city as far back as 1989.
What were they trying to take from us? One-hundred-year-old Spanish Colonial Revival homes with genuine architectural character, preserved for the generations that come next. In a city filling up with glass towers and soulless modern construction, Glazenwood stands as a living record of what San Mateo looked like at its founding.
The opponents had an agenda. The residents of Glazenwood had everything that mattered — the truth, the signatures and the spine to fight back and win.
On a rainy Monday night in April, Glazenwood residents filled the council chambers and spoke with one voice.
This Monday night, the San Mateo City Council voted 5-0 to reaffirm Glazenwood as a historic district.
Turns out, they picked a fight with the wrong neighborhood. And lost.
Doug D’Anna
San Mateo
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