Santa Clara to Great America: Talk with your neighbor

Posted September 17, 2008, 9:48A | Contributed by Jeff

Voting 6-1, Santa Clara's city council Tuesday ordered Great America to sit down with its neighbor, Prudential Real Estate, and try again for a compromise. The mission: Find a way for the 111-foot-tall ride to go up while at the same time mollifying Prudential's concerns that shrieks from delighted riders would substantially disrupt workers at its office complex west of the park.