The landslide on Mountain Charlie Road – an area where residents have Los Gatos addresses but roads are managed by Santa Cruz County – had been slowly moving since officials first began tracking it…
Resident Debbie Robinson walks across a collapsed portion of Mountain Charlie Road to get to her home in Los Gatos in March, after an active landslide closed the road and a number of residents had to walk in to their homes or drive the long way around. Santa Cruz County recently completed construction of a temporary road to allow residents direct access.
As of Saturday, Sept. 28, for the first time since February, residents could drive their cars along the affected stretch of Mountain Charlie Road. Many had previously opted to leave their cars parked just before the slide and walked over the dangerous dirt and rock from their homes south of the slide to get to work and school in Los Gatos, but some drove in the opposite direction, south to Scotts Valley, to safely turn back around to head north.
“We definitely feel a lot safer and sleep better at night knowing we have the two exit routes in case of an emergency,” she said. In addition to Mountain Charlie Road, the landslide also destroyed a private driveway just off the road, which county officials have said is not under their jurisdiction to fix. While the county would eventually cover the projected $3 million cost of permanent repairs to the road, residents would have to foot the bill for the estimated $1 million it would cost to repair their private driveway.
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