Why the White Bidirectional Arrows?

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Redwood Estates is part of the Lexington Hills Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP). This plan will be adopted throughout Santa Clara County. RESA has been working closely with Santa Clara County Fire, Cal Fire,  the Santa Clara County Office of Emergency Services (OES), and the Santa Clara County FireSafe Council for the past five or six years to continue to improve what is known as our Community Emergency Evacuation Route.

Redwood Estates is one of the few communities that have a main thoroughfare that connects highway 17 to Highway 35 (Summit Road).  These arrows are placed on our roads to direct emergency vehicles as well as traffic that may be diverted if Highway 17 is closed due to an emergency.

Fire season isn’t over yet.  Stay vigilant and create defensible space around your home. Not only does this help protect your home in the case of a wildland fire, it also helps protect our community as a whole.

The Santa Clara County Fire Safe Council will hold another Brush Chipping day on September 27 at the Pavilion parking lot from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Drive-up only; please do not leave piles.

Find more information at the Fire Safe website.

As you know, natural disasters have caused many emergency closures of Highway 17, including the closure following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. During past closures, Santa Clara Mountain Residents were allowed to pass through road blocks after California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers inspected their driver’s licenses to determine that the drivers were indeed local residents.

Years ago, a vehicle identification sticker program for the Mountain Residents living in Santa Clara County was developed. This sticker program is designed to reduce delays at roadblocks, allowing Mountain Residents access when road conditions are determined to be safe for Mountain Resident travel.

Redwood Estates Services Association will be glad to provide a Mountain Resident sticker to residents. Please make a copy of your current vehicle registration verifying 95033 and send in along with a check payable to RESA for $4.00 per sticker. This program was originally paid for with taxpayer money and was canceled for budgetary reasons. The State Assemblyman’s office asked RESA to take on the program. We are asking for a fee to cover our costs for the sticker and the admin time it takes to respond to the requests. For walk-in requests, the RESA office is open Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from 9–2pm. Our physical address is 21450 Madrone Dr., Los Gatos, CA 95033. For mail-in requests, please send request to: RESA – Mtn Sticker Program, P.O. Box 591, Redwood Estates, CA 95044. All information collected will be destroyed. We are happy to continue this valuable program to Mountain Residents.

If you have any questions regarding this Mountain Resident Sticker Program, please contact the RESA office at 408-353-1866, or email the office at [email protected].

Find a pdf of this letter here: Mountain Resident Sticker Program