1984

• 4 Town merger plan investigated and later dropped (Woodside, PV, MP, PA)

• PV hires 1^st Town Geologist (William Cotton)

• Finance Committee Formed

• Stanford proposes Reagan Library at site of Treeland Nursery (later dropped)

 1985                   

• Utility tax begins; 6.5% to fund maintenance projects

• Committee formed to study Ladera annexation to PV (later dropped)

• Ladera turns 40

• Priory Administrative building gutted in fire

 1987

• First pressure sewer line in PV at the corner of Cervantes/Cherokee Way

• Mid-Pen buys 429 acres of Aries land (Windy Hill) 

1988

• Recycling begins at Town Center

• Town gets a Portola Valley flag

• Plane crashes into PV swimming pool killing pilot

• Mid-Pen proposes to allow hang gliding on Windy Hill Preserve

• Corte Madera MUR destroyed in fire

1989

• 94028 new zip code

• PV’s 25^th Anniversary celebration

1990

• PV gets cable!!

• SM County votes to close upper Alpine road above Los Ciervos gate permanently