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Last week the city council agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a

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Frances the cat was nine years old and ailing when she was hit and killed by a car in front of her Gilroy home.

City officials and nonprofit leaders are concerned Gilroy could see an influx in homeless individuals with no place to go as a result of recent developments in the northern part of Santa Clara County.

Developers are footing the bill for a variety of local traffic improvements, including the recent installation of Gilroy's first roundabout and the addition of left-turn signals to some of city's busier intersections.

Gilroyans say the Alexander Station Apartments, a $95 million project on the corner of 10th Street and Alexander, will be filled with residents bused in from Oakland and will lower the quality of the neighborhood. They say there aren’t enough classrooms for the kids and the future students will be bused to far away schools, rather than those they can walk to.

The Gilroy City Council will vote on a tentative map and hold a public hearing at the Oct. 21 meeting for a 186 single-family residential lot development located in the East Cluster of the Hecker Pass Specific Plan Area.

For the past three decades, Gary Gillmor has been trying to