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Vol. XL, Number 20 Q February 15, 2019
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INTERO – A BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY AFFILIATE IS PROUD ONCE AGAIN FOR THE $250,000,000 sale of the iconic I. Magnin building in San Francisco’s Union Square by
HALL OF FAME AGENT EFI LUZON! The I. Magnin building, located at 233 Geary St. in San Francisco’s historic Union Square, was sold by Macy’s to Efi Luzon’s client Sand Hill Property Co., the well-renowned and most prolific developer in the Bay Area, located in Palo Alto, CA.
“This is a transaction that was many years in the making,” said Efi Luzon, Senior Vice President of Intero Commercial. “I am proud to have represented my client and effectively navigated such a complex deal for such an iconic property.” Luzon’s $250 million transaction is the third largest transaction in the 16-year history of Intero. In fact, Luzon has the top-three transactions in the history of the company, which include: • Large multi-unit transaction in Palo Alto, CA - $412,500,000 • Vallco Mall Cupertino, CA - $320,000,000 • I. Magnin building San Francisco, CA - $250,000,000 • Number one agent in California Number two agent nationally - 2017 RealTrends & The Wall Street Journal
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Plan stalls for downtown garage City balks at approving design contract, launches broader conversation about parking management by Gennady Sheyner Spurred by concerns about high alo Alto’s multiyear effort to build a new downtown costs and environmental impacts, garage took an unexpect- the council declined to approve a ed turn Monday night, when the design contract that would have City Council backed away from allowed the project to advance. its earlier plan to construct the Instead, by a unanimous vote, six-story structure at the corner the council directed its Policy of Hamilton Avenue and Waver- and Services Committee to delve deeper into downtown’s parking ley Street.
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problems before determining whether the structure is really necessary. The council’s decision is a sharp departure for a project that has been on the city’s priority list since 2014, when the council put together its infrastructure plan and asked the voters to support a hotel-tax increase to fund these projects. The council followed suit with another hotel-tax increase in 2018, at which point it
once again expressed its intention to spend the funding on its infrastructure plan, which includes the downtown garage. Even so, the project has seen plenty of detractors, both on the council and in the wider community. Vice Mayor Adrian Fine has consistently opposed the new structure, arguing that parking is a valuable asset that the city should not be subsidizing by building garages. But while he has
traditionally been in the minority on this subject, that changed Monday, when one colleague after another voiced either skepticism or outright opposition to the new garage. Councilwoman Liz Kniss cited the council’s recent adoption of “climate change” as a top priority and spoke of the environmental impacts of building a facility (continued on page 11)
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Newsom scales back rail plans Governor to limit system to Central Valley by Gennady Sheyner
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education services, court documents show. Crystal Riggins, who with Laura Riparbelli of San Jose law firm Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel represent the female student, said that they feel there are “inaccuracies and mischaracterizations” in the boy’s court filings but declined to comment further. Following an investigation last fall after the girl alleged the boy sexually harassed her, the school district found that text messages he sent to the girl and comments he made about her to other students constituted sexual harassment and decided to remove him from robotics team activities so he and the girl could avoid contact.
alifornia’s decadelong dream of building a highspeed rail system between San Francisco and Los Angeles hit a dead end in Sacramento on Tuesday, when Gov. Gavin Newsom announced his plan to significantly scale back the hugely ambitious but deeply flawed project. Newsom said in his State of the State speech that he plans to focus the state’s attention and spending on the one stretch of the line where construction is already in full gear: the segment between Merced and Bakersfield. He also said he remains committed to improving regional rail projects in the northern and southern parts of the state. The move marks a sharp turn from the direction of Newsom’s two predecessors, Jerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger, both of whom were big proponents of high-speed rail. But with the project’s price tag rising from the initial estimate of about $40 billion to $77.3 billion, and recent audits raising red flags about wasteful spending and insufficient contract oversight, Newsom acknowledged in his speech that the project, as currently planned, “would cost too much and take too long.” Newsom also faulted the project for having “too little oversight and not enough transparency.” “Right now, there simply isn’t a path to get from Sacramento
If these walls could speak Above left, London residents Steve and Margaret Bloom, visitors to Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center, use magnifying glasses to take a closer look at artist Do Ho Suh’s “Who Am We?,” a piece resembling printed wallpaper made up of miniature portraits of Suh’s high school classmates (above right). The artwork is part of Suh’s exhibit “In The Spaces Between,” which is on display through May 27.
EDUCATION
District flips sides in Gunn sexual-harassment case School district reverses boy’s ban from robotics, families seek help from courts by Elena Kadvany
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16-year-old Gunn High School male student banned from the robotics team after being found to have sexually harassed a female classmate has fired back in new court documents, alleging the school district’s enforcement of her rights violated his rights as a special-education student. The female student, also 16
years old, turned to the courts to order the school district to reinstate the robotics ban, which was reversed by the district in January as part of a settlement negotiated with the boy’s family, court documents filed Friday show. Both students are minors, belong to the robotics team and dated briefly. The school district now finds itself in court and will have to
account for how it upheld two distinct federal laws both meant to protect the civil rights of students: gender-equity law Title IX and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Alec Rose, a southern California attorney who has built a legal practice around defending high school and college students and faculty accused of sexual misconduct, filed a motion to intervene on behalf of the boy, who is identified anonymously as John Roe in court filings. In an emailed statement, Rose characterized his client as a “polite, respectful and very quiet young man” who did not want to enter into this lawsuit. The male student has a “significant pragmatic speech disability,” which the district determined in 2016 entitled him to special
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT ... Ohlone Elementary School teacher Janice Stone’s classroom turned into the site for her sixth annual Creative Sandwich Competition this week. The ultimate food challenge is part of her creative writing unit to help students expand their vocabulary. Weeks earlier, her 21 students all wrote blurbs for an original sandwich that couldn’t be ordered at an eatery. She compiled all the blurbs into a list that omitted the creators’ names and distributed them to the class, which selected the top eight sandwiches. On Tuesday, the finalists brought ingredients to create their culinary masterpieces presented to an esteemed panel of local community members: former Mayor Karen Holman, Board of Education Vice President Jennifer DiBrenzia, retired lawyer Jerry Manos and Stone’s school aide Sarah Finley. The first-place winner for a second straight year was Benji Patel, who won over the judging panel with “The Jewish Holiday Special,� which he described as an “exquisite sandwich� that consists of a sliced brisket, San Marzano tomatoes and a fried crunchy russet potato latke in a challah bun. Second place went to Lucy Kim’s “The Green Dream,� a roast beef sandwich with avocado, chimichurri sauce and caramelized onions. Third place went to Lola Patnoe, pictured above, for “The Pig Free Paradise,� made up of turkey bacon “grilled to perfection� alongside spicy baby arugula, fresh blueberries and goat cheese. A HERO FOR THE HOMELESS ... Ending homelessness is no easy endeavor — just ask Downtown Streets Team founder and CEO Eileen Richardson, who was recently recognized for her work in leading the nonprofit founded in Palo Alto. She’s one of six recipients of The James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award,
which honors leaders tackling some of the state’s top challenges. The reward comes with a $250,000 grant benefiting the organization, which has grown to serve more than 1,000 people across 13 communities in Northern California. This year, all of the honorees are women, a first in the award’s 14year history. “Finding concrete solutions to end homelessness can seem unattainable, but Eileen Richardson has shown that there is a path for those seeking a way back into the workforce,� foundation President and CEO Don Howard said in a statement. In a Feb. 10 announcement, Richardson was applauded for creating the organization after volunteering at a local food bank while taking a break from working in the tech industry (she was the former CEO of streaming music service Napster). Volunteers who are homeless spend up to 20 hours a week cleaning streets in exchange for job training sessions, stipends, case management assistance and employment services.
BACK ON THE COUNCIL ... If a disaster happens in 2019 that renders current City Council members unable to serve, their seats will be filled by an “Emergency Council� full of familiar faces and former adversaries. Former council members Karen Holman and Greg Scharff, political rivals who both termed out last year, will find themselves back at the dais. Greg Schmid, an economist who served as vice mayor in 2015 and who led last year’s grassroots effort to adopt a new citywide cap on non-residential development, would sit on the council with Cory Wolbach, who was instrumental in removing the downtown cap on new non-residential construction from the Comprehensive Plan. Rounding out the seven-member roster are three former mayors: Pat Burt, Peter Drekmeier and Bern Beecham. Not everyone on the existing City Council is thrilled about his or her would-be replacements. Liz Kniss and Greg Tanaka both voted against the emergency council. Kniss said she was disappointed that the council wasn’t asked to make its own recommendations for the emergency council. Q
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News Digest Ravenswood could ask KIPP to share campus Courtesy city of Palo Alto
The proposed Restoration Hardware building is one of three new structures proposed for Stanford Shopping Center following the demolition of the Macy’s Men’s store.
BUSINESS
Macy’s Men’s demolition to make way for Restoration Hardware Stanford Shopping Center plans also call for a new Wilkes Bashford building, other retailers by Gennady Sheyner
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tanford Shopping Center plans to demolish the blocky Macy’s Men’s building and construct near the Macy’s site three new stores, including a tiered, three-story Restoration Hardware building with a restaurant and roof gardens. The proposal from Simon Property Group, the mall owner, also includes a new two-story Wilkes Bashford store and two new retail spaces next to Restoration Hardware — spaces that will likely be filled by restaurants, according to Simon representatives. The demolition of the 94,000-squarefoot Macy’s Men’s building and the addition of three retail buildings, which total 78,000 square feet, will also lead to a reconfiguration of the parking area in the section of the mall closest to the intersection of Sand Hill Road and El Camino Real. Under the plan, which the Palo Alto Architectural Review Board reviewed last Thursday, the Restoration Hardware building will be constructed just north of the Macy’s Men’s site, adjacent to Sand Hill Road. The two smaller retailers will be in a single-story building directly across from Restoration Hardware and immediately adjacent to the existing LaBelle Day Spas & Salons, Jeffrey and Blue Bottle Coffee. The single-story Wilkes Bashford store will be built on the current parking lot toward El Camino, east of the Macy’s building and near Pistache Place, according to project plans. The proposal also calls for creating a new elevated parking area near the Restoration Hardware building. The Restoration Hardware building will have an open design with large windows, plantings, lantern-style lights and a tiered design with less massing on the top floor. A restaurant on the third floor will be surrounded by glass and have access to the roof garden. The store will also
include a “design atelier,” a room that the application describes as “an integrated interior design workspace that allows RH design consultants and customers to conceptualize one room or an entire home.” Jordan Brown, representing Restoration Hardware, said the proposed building represents the company’s “next-generation gallery design.” “Over the past several years, Restoration Hardware has reimagined our stores and
transformed them into more inspiring furniture-design galleries with a dynamic hospitality experience integrated into the footprint, with a full cafe offering,” Brown told the board. With Macy’s gone, the new layout will allow Simon Property Group to create a new corridor for shoppers looking to get from the east part of the mall to the west. Matt Klinzing said the layout brings back “urban-village (continued on page 13)
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Animal shelter employees get severance bonuses With Pets In Need taking over Palo Alto’s animal-services operation, the city is raising its severance payments to the five employees who are facing layoffs as a result of the new partnership. (Posted Feb.14, 9:51 a.m.)
HUD funding to help homeless The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Jan. 26 awarded nearly $149 million for 193 previously funded homeless assistance programs in the nine-county Bay Area. (Posted Feb. 14, 9:17 a.m.)
Stanford professor to head state board Linda Darling-Hammond, a longtime Stanford University education professor, will lead the 11-member state Board of Education, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday. (Posted Feb. 12, 6:23 p.m.)
Stanford student’s body found on campus A Stanford University graduate engineering student was found dead on campus on Monday, according to the School of Engineering Dean Jennifer Widom. (Posted Feb. 11, 7:25 p.m.)
Paly science addition to be rebid Facing construction bids that are nearly three times the allocated budget for a Palo Alto High School science classroom addition, the school board unanimously agreed on Tuesday to rebid the project. (Posted Feb. 12, 9:40 p.m.)
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More specific ideas for how to accommodate KIPP Valiant Community Prep’s request for more facilities coalesced at a school board study session on Monday evening, including asking the charter school to share space at the new Ravenswood Middle School campus in East Palo Alto. The board is set to vote Thursday on a preliminary facilities offer for KIPP, which plans to enroll more than 500 students this fall as it grows two additional grade levels — growth that is in line with its original charter petition approved in 2016. KIPP, which is currently housed in 18 classrooms at the contiguous Brentwood and McNair schools, has requested a long-term, single campus. Given its projected enrollment for the 2019-20 school year, KIPP has asked for 27 classrooms and 11 specialized teaching spaces, such as science labs, music rooms and a library. Ravenswood trustees reviewed capacity and enrollment data for each of the district’s schools and other district-owned properties on Monday. Board President Tamara Sobomehin, who said closing a school to accommodate KIPP is “not an option” for her, asked staff to come back on Thursday with a proposal to move KIPP’s middle school students to the Ravenswood Middle School site on Ralmar Avenue and keep their elementary students in the existing classrooms. “Both KIPP and our district, we need to be willing to stretch ourselves and be willing to share,” Sobomehin said. The school board’s Thursday meeting begins at approximately 7:15 p.m. at the district office, 2120 Euclid Ave. Q —Elena Kadvany
Therapists lose home at landmark MRI Tension is building between therapists and the board of directors at a world-renowned Palo Alto mental health research institution after the organization announced it will sell its building — the home of the institution for 61 years — and become an endowment foundation. Mental Research Institute (MRI), located at 535-555 Middlefield Road, said in a Feb. 7 press release that it is selling its building and using the proceeds to fund the endowment because the organization has a new mission: to support advancing approaches to human problems “through innovative research, education and practice by focusing on support for organizations and individuals.” With the sale of the building, which is being marketed with an asking price of $12 million, an estimated 30 psychologists and therapists who rent space will be evicted. In addition, two long-standing mental health centers at MRI — the Brief Therapy Center and Strategic Family Therapy, which have been part of the institution for decades — will likewise need to find new homes and obtain nonprofit status either on their own or through another organization. The therapists and the two mental health centers were given notice last October by the MRI board of directors to leave by this coming Sept. 30, according to a letter obtained by the Weekly. But it’s likely that therapists of at least one of the affiliated centers, the Brief Therapy Center, will not go quietly. Karin Schlanger, director of the Brief Therapy Center since 2008 and a senior research fellow starting in 1994, said that MRI has not planned to guarantee the continuance of the two centers that form its core mission. The institute has provided little opportunity for input from the centers, she claims. Board members and the institute’s executive director declined multiple requests from the Weekly over the past two weeks to discuss the plans. Upon releasing the press release, Executive Director Sophie Suberville said in an email to the Weekly: “The board has just finished a very thoughtful yearlong planning process to reach these key decisions outlined in the press release. Details about exactly how everything gets implemented is part of the Board’s next phase of planning.”Q —Sue Dremann
Police bring back community service officers The Palo Alto Police Department has brought patrol Community Service Officers back to its team after the position was dropped during budget cuts more than 10 years ago, police said Tuesday. The officers are not armed or sworn into the department and cannot make traffic stops or arrest individuals, but are trained to control traffic, maintain a presence at schools and respond to non-emergency reports. They will also make community presentations with officers, conduct neighborhood outreach and collect evidence in cases. The officers went through a training program for several weeks and police will oversee the program for one year to test its effectiveness. Currently, eight full-time officers are employed as regular CSOs. Q — Bay City News Service www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • February 15, 2019 • Page 7
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Palo Alto scraps downtown office cap Despite vocal opposition, City Council removes limit on non-residential development by Gennady Sheyner
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The downtown cap, however, offered an additional layer of reassurance to residents and council members who have long complained about the impacts of downtown’s new office developments. Dozens submitted emails or attended the Monday meeting to urge the council to retain the cap. Greg Welch, a resident of Crescent Park, argued that downtown streets are overwhelmed with traffic during rush hour, as commuters cut through residential neighborhoods that were “never intended to handle this volume or type of traffic.” “Permitting more office development will only increase these impacts and should not be undertaken until the City has deployed a proven-effective plan to improve traffic flow on our arterials and reduce cut-through traffic in neighborhoods,” Welch wrote. Palo Alto Neighborhoods, an umbrella group with members from various neighborhood associations, also weighed in in favor of
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alo Alto’s bitter debate over how much commercial growth the city should accommodate heated up Monday night, when a divided City Council eliminated a 1986 law that limited non-residential development in the downtown area. By a 4-3 vote, with Mayor Eric Filseth, Councilman Tom DuBois and Councilwoman Lydia Kou dissenting, the council repealed a law that set a limit of 350,000 square feet on new non-residential space in the downtown area, with 1986 as the baseline. The city has approved more than 331,000 square feet since that time, leaving a capacity of about 18,000 square feet. Even with the repeal, commercial development in the downtown area remains tightly regulated. Palo Alto still has an annual office cap of 50,000 square feet for downtown, California Avenue and El Camino Real. It also has a citywide cap of 850,000 square feet on non-residential development by 2030.
Among the newer mixed-use buildings in downtown Palo Alto is 240 Hamilton Ave., which includes office, retail and residential space. retaining the cap. At a meeting on Feb. 7, the group’s members voted unanimously to support keeping the cap in place, group co-chairs Sheri Furman and Rebecca Sanders wrote in a jointly signed letter from the group. The limit, they argued, is an important protection for downtown residents in buildings that might otherwise be converted into commercial space. “Removing it would worsen downtown’s traffic and parking problems, intensify the city’s job/ housing imbalance, and take away much-needed opportunities to build housing,” they wrote. The question of whether to retain
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the downtown cap was among the most divisive issues during the council’s 2017 update of the city’s Comprehensive Plan, a broad landuse document that sets the foundation for local zoning policies. In January 2017, the council split 5-4 on the topic, with the five members who favor more city growth voting to remove the cap and the four aligned with the slow-growth “residentialist” philosophy supporting its retention. On Monday, the council followed up on the January 2017 action by changing the city’s zoning code to remove the downtown cap. Once again, the decision was made by a razor-thin margin, with Councilwoman Alison Cormack joining the council’s pro-growth members, Liz Kniss, Adrian Fine and Greg Tanaka, in supporting the repeal. The debate turned testy at times, with both sides resorting to hyperbole to make their case. Kniss argued that keeping the cap in place would effectively “freeze downtown,” even though the proposal from the “residentialist” side made exceptions for retail. Kou, for her part, called the removal of the cap “extreme” and said it will “wreak havoc” in downtown, notwithstanding the other existing laws constraining commercial development. “The discussion isn’t about freezing downtown growth but to look at it responsibly, not recklessly, as was done in 2017 when it was taken out of the Comprehensive Plan,” Kou said. While the vast majority of public correspondence strongly favored keeping the cap, Kniss sided with Chamber of Commerce CEO Judy Kleinberg, who argued that a vote to remove the commercial office cap is actually a vote for housing. Because building office space is much more profitable than building residential, she reasoned, office developers will have the financing they need to include residential space in mixed-use projects. “If you don’t allow some of the economic office buildings to be built, perhaps in mixed-use, there won’t be the money for housing,” Kleinberg said. “If you get rid of the cap, you’re actually helping build housing downtown.” While Kniss agreed with this
argument, Fine supported the repeal for a different reason. If the council retains the downtown cap, he said, commercial development will simply shift to areas like San Antonio Road, Middlefield Road and El Camino Real, which don’t have the kind of transit and services that downtown offers. Downtown, he said, will be “effectively frozen.” “Future office growth will go anywhere else in the city,” Fine said. Others didn’t buy this argument. DuBois, a strong proponent of keeping the limit, often cited it during his election campaign last year and pointed to the proposed conversion of President Hotel from an apartment complex to a luxury hotel as precisely the type of project the cap aims to prevent. The council’s Monday vote spells a victory for Adventurous Journeys Capital Partners, the owner of President Hotel, by removing one of the barriers that stood in the way of its proposed conversion. Filseth also argued that inviting more jobs downtown will only worsen the area’s parking and traffic woes, which he noted are already pretty bad. The repeal, he said, is also inconsistent with the council’s ongoing effort to encourage more housing downtown. DuBois, Kou and Filseth had all supported a citizen initiative last year to halve the citywide cap on non-residential development, reducing it from 1.7 million square feet to 850,000 square feet by 2030. Filseth observed that the public is generally in favor of restricting commercial development. In voting for the repeal, he said, the council is “in denial on this issue.” “I think we’re chasing a vision for downtown that is not supported by the majority of the community. ... I do think it’s unlikely that a majority of residents in town feel that repealing it is a priority at this time,” Filseth said. “In fact, I’m guessing it’s probably the opposite. It seems like we keep finding ourselves on the wrong side of this issue relative to the residents in Palo Alto.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
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COLLEGE TERRACE MEETING ... The College Terrace Residents Association will hold its monthly board meeting on Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m. The agenda will include preparations for the March 23 annual meeting. The meeting takes place at College Terrace Library, 2300 Wellesley St., Palo Alto and is open to College Terrace residents. POLICE ADVISORY GROUP ... Palo Alto police Chief Robert Jonsen’s new Chief’s Advisory Group met for the first time in January. The group includes 32 members from neighborhoods throughout Palo Alto. The members act as liaisons between residents and the police department to help improve neighborhood quality of life. The group will provide input from the neighborhoods and share concerns and ideas with Chief Jonsen. They also will work with their neighbors to form consensus around ideas and decisions recommended to law enforcement. All members live or work in Palo Alto and underwent fingerprinting and background checks. Last month’s topics included reviewing the department’s policy on body-worn cameras and designing neighborhood traffic plans. The group meets every other month with the chief and his command staff. Q
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UNIVERSITY CIRCLE EXPANSION ... East Palo Alto will hold a community meeting on Feb. 28 regarding a proposal to add a sixstory building to the University Circle office complex, which is located on the west side of U.S. Highway 101 and is adjacent to the northern section of Palo Alto’s Crescent Park neighborhood. The development would be located on the corner of Woodland and University avenues. A parking lot is currently situated on the site. The building would have a four-story underground garage. Depending on whether a law firm or tech company leases the building, it could have as many as 900 employees, project designers estimated. The meeting takes place from 7 to 9 p.m. at the East Palo Alto City Hall Community Room, 2415 University Ave. It is open to the public.
A truck and hauling beds sit at a residential property at 757 College Ave. in Palo Alto’s College Terrace neighborhood. Neighbors allege Stanford University is violating a city ordinance that restricts the storage of unused building materials on outdoor sites.
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tanford University is violating a city nuisance ordinance that prohibits storing building materials on a site where construction is not taking place, according to a city of Palo Alto code enforcement officer. College Terrace neighbors living near two Stanford Universityowned properties slated for new homes have raised concerns about the adjoining properties at 739 and 757 College Ave., which have building permits dating to last September from the city of Palo Alto to build two new homes. But, according to neighbors, since the demolition of the properties’ two structures months ago, instead of new-home construction taking place, the site is being used for the storage of equipment and building materials for other Stanford construction projects. “The fences went up a number of months ago, and they posted renderings of the houses,” said James Cook, who lives across the street from the site. “But since then, nothing has happened.” Cook said the neighborhood has noticed workers occasionally parking their personal cars on the street or bringing work vehicles to and from the site. On Feb. 8, Cook said he saw a number of cars parked in the area. Wherever they were working, it was clearly somewhere else. At the end of the day, he saw the workers return in trucks, which
they then parked on the properties, and leave in their own cars. “It is just used solely as a storage area,” Cook said, who along with other neighbors, believes the site is violating city ordinances that restrict the storage of unused building materials on outdoor sites to 30 days, or 90 days for which a valid permit is in effect and where the construction is “diligently” being worked on toward completion. Brian Reynolds, city code enforcement officer, said that Stanford should not be storing equipment or materials from another site at the property or where there is no active construction taking place. He noted that the two sections of nuisance law referenced by residents do apply and are the ones his department uses regarding code violations at building sites. University spokeswoman Jean McCown acknowledged that materials are being stored there but did not address the potential violation issue. “Stanford is currently constructing five homes in College Terrace. While all of the permits were issued by the city around the same time last fall, they are starting in sequence with the crew working on these homes through staggered construction phases. These two adjoining vacant lots have been used to store and stage some materials as construction on the other homes have started. The
homes on these sites are scheduled for ground breaking at the end of this month,” she said in an email. The university also obtained a building permit for a temporary power pole at the site on Aug. 17, 2018, according to city building records. One neighbor told the Weekly she’s concerned that curious children might enter the site and be electrocuted by outdoor extension cords that are submerged in pools of rainwater this week. “In terms of safety concerns identified by neighbors, these properties are fenced with locked gates and we would expect unauthorized visitors would respect those restrictions and not intrude on the sites, as should be the case with all construction sites,” McCown said in the email. Ann Rosendale, project coordinator for the city who approved the building permits last September, said in an email that the permits will expire on April 30 rather than at the end of March, after the usual 180 days. That’s because the project had an approved preconstruction inspection on Oct. 30, 2018. “For every approved building inspection, the permit is extended for another six months; additionally the contractor/owner can request to extend or reactivate the permit with the building official,” she said.
Stanford’s looming presence in College Terrace, which is situated between the university-owned land from Stanford Avenue on the north to the Research Park at California Avenue on the south, has long irked some residents who say its construction activity and traffic have been disturbing their peace. Residents have repeatedly complained to the city and the university about large construction-related vehicles idling or using their streets during as the University Terrace residential development was built in the research park. The university owns at least 30 properties in the neighborhood, some of which have remained vacant for years. Residents say these “ghost houses” have degraded their sense of community because they have been unoccupied for so long. But the university has been slowly renovating or razing and building new homes on their properties. Staff has previously said Stanford plans to offer the homes to professors on a ground lease. Each of the two properties on College Avenue is slated for a one-story, 1,545-square-foot residence with a 223-square-foot detached garage. They will replace two dilapidated structures. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.
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In December, the boy’s mother sought to block the district’s action by filing a complaint with the California Office of Administrative Hearings, the process through which special education disputes between families and school districts are resolved. The district and the boy’s mother ultimately reached a mediated agreement in mid-January, giving him access to robotics team activities so long as an additional staff member, such as an escort, is present. This reversal prompted the girl’s family to file their legal motion in late January, which resulted in a temporary no-contact order that prohibits the male student from attending robotics. Upon learning of the court order, Rose filed papers last week to intervene in the case on behalf of the boy. He argued that the school district failed to comply with federal law, which states that when inappropriate behavior is a manifestation of a disability, the district cannot implement discipline greater than or equivalent to 10 days, according to the court filings. In November, the district prohibited the boy from
participating in robotics for the remainder of the school year, starting in January, but apparently failed to conduct the required “manifestation meeting” to determine if the harassment stemmed from his disability, according to the court documents. The boy “suffers and will suffer irreparable harm if the January directive (between his family and the district) is not reinstated,” his attorney wrote. “He is being deprived of his educational opportunity in violation of the IDEA and the mediation agreement.” The girl also alleged that the boy sexually assaulted her off campus in January 2018 — which he denied, according to his court documents — and she then ended their relationship, according to her petition. The district did not investigate this allegation “as it occurred away from school,” Title IX Coordinator Megan Farrell wrote in an Oct. 23 outcome letter for the case. According to Rose, the girl reported her allegations to the Palo Alto Police Department, which conducted an investigation before sending the case to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. The boy denied the allegations and submitted to a police interview, including providing
thousands of text messages with her as evidence of “their mutual desire for sexual activity,” court documents state. The district attorney did not pursue charges in the case, according to Rose’s court filings on behalf of the boy. The judge overseeing the current case set a new hearing for early March, also postponing the school district’s required response to the girl’s petition, which was initially scheduled to be filed on Friday, Feb. 8. The new deadline for the district is Feb. 22. In the meantime, the boy will not be permitted to participate in the robotics program. The district has proposed that “this matter be submitted to mediation in the hopes that all claims relating to the students can be resolved informally and without court intervention,” Superintendent Don Austin said. Citing privacy restrictions, district officials have declined to comment further on the case or explain why the district negotiated an agreement with the boy’s family that reversed its earlier actions of removing the boy from the robotics program. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.
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that encourages driving. Council members Lydia Kou and Greg Tanaka both talked about the need to better prioritize its infrastructure projects. Councilwoman Alison Cormack said she didn’t find enough evidence of the need for a garage in the environmental analysis. Fine made the motion to pursue a broader parking-management study, rejecting a staff proposal to approve a garage-design contract and to consider a broader parkingmanagement strategy. “I really haven’t seen the studies about existing supply and demand that support a new structure in this area,� Fine said. “I really don’t think we’re going to manage our parking well as long as we give it away for free. And we’re giving it away for free on street and off street.� Kniss, who on Feb. 2 led the push to adopt climate change as a 2019 city priority, said that times have changed since the council agreed to include the downtown garage on its priority list. “Money is one thing, but we would find the money (to build it). ... But the climate and our commitment now to climate change, to sustainability, is very real,� Kniss said. The six-story structure would have replaced a city-owned,
to see buildings of this size built as homes for people and not cars.� Not everyone was thrilled about the change in direction. Judy Kleinberg, CEO of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, urged the council to stay the course. The garage, she said, is badly needed to address downtown’s parking problems. “There is a significant parking deficit downtown,� Kleinberg said. “All the studies the city has done prove that’s the case. It can only be solved with additional capacity.� Councilman Tom DuBois was the strongest proponent of staying the course. He noted that the council has promised the project to the voters on numerous occasions. “We voted multiple times on this project, and I think we made promises to the community when we raised the transient (occupancy) tax,� DuBois said. “And most of us committed to supporting this plan when we supported that tax.� Despite his desire to see the project move forward, DuBois ultimately joined the rest of his colleagues in supporting Fine’s motion. Filseth, a downtown resident, also voted with the majority and pointed to both the project’s high costs and the neighborhood’s changing demands. “I think we ought to look at if there are other ways to spend $25 million or $29 million or $34
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86-space parking lot at 375 Hamilton Ave. and would have included 324 spaces. For Mayor Eric Filseth, who supported the downtown garage in the past, the most persuasive argument came from the residents of the surrounding neighborhoods. When the council first embarked on the project, its goal was to address concerns from Professorville residents about commuters taking up all of the parking spots on residential blocks. Since then, the city has implemented a downtown Residential Preferential Parking program that addressed some of these concerns. On Monday, some of the residents who participated in the creation of that program addressed the council and made the case against the garage. Downtown North resident Neilson Buchanan was among them. Rather than spending the money on a new garage, the council should pursue a “coordinated area plan� for the downtown area and look for ways to reduce traffic. “The priority you’ve set years ago is out of date,� Buchanan said. L. David Baron, an advocate for housing, lauded the council for finally considering a dense building downtown. He lamented, however, that the council is dedicating the building to parking. “I’d like to see zoning allow building of this size since people think a building of this size is reasonable,� Baron said. “But I’d like
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n the battle over the expansion of the private all-girls Castilleja School, lawn signs have become perhaps the most visible manifestation of the discord between the school, its supporters and some of its neighbors in the past couple of years, with both sides waging aggressive campaigns to garner support for and against the school’s proposed redevelopment. But in a sign of how seriously people are taking the issue, some have allegedly vandalized and stolen the lawn signs of the otherside. The problem became acute enough that Castilleja filed for a temporary restraining order against a Palo Alto man who opposes the expansion, claiming that he is responsible for the repeated theft of and damage to the school’s pro-Castilleja signs. School leaders filed a 38-page request for the restraining order against neighbor James Poppy, 64, which was signed by Head of School Nanci Kauffman on Feb. 1 and filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court on Feb. 7. The court approved the temporary restraining order, which will be in place until a hearing on Feb. 26. In its court petition, Castilleja wrote that it has video evidence and witnesses to show that Poppy engaged in repeated vandalism or removal of signs, including at Kauffman’s home. Poppy told the Weekly that he did remove five signs at one time and admitted the incident to police,
by Sue Dremann but he maintained that he is not responsible for the other acts of vandalism. Castilleja’s petition asks the court to require Poppy to stay at least 50 yards away from the school, located at 1310 Bryant St., as well as from Kauffman and Associate Head of School Kathy Layendecker, and more generally from people who are known to him to be Castilleja students, employees or supporters. He would be barred from directly or indirectly contacting any of the protected persons, including by phone, in writing or by any electronic means, and disturbing the peace of the persons or destroying any personal property. He would also be banned from stalking, threatening, intimidating or assaulting any of the people in the order. The court filing also asks that Poppy reimburse the petitioners for nearly $5,500 in legal costs and filing fees. Castilleja repeatedly reported the vandalism to police, the petition states. The alleged thefts and defacing began on Sept. 12, 2017, when a school banner hanging over the Embarcadero Road overpass was stolen and several signs were vandalized with a sticker stating “Stop the Lies -- Nanci K and Kathy L: Stop Lying to City Hall. What are you teaching students? Get what you want no matter the cost or impact to others?” School security cameras showed a silhouette of a man walking the perimeter of the
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City Council (Feb.11)
Downtown garage: The council voted not to move ahead with further design work on a new downtown garage and directed its Policy and Services Committee to hold a more comprehensive discussion about downtown parking strategies. Yes: Unanimous Downtown cap: The council voted to repeal an ordinance setting a 350,000-square-foot limit on new non-residential development in the downtown area, with 1986 as the baseline. Yes: Cormack, Fine, Kniss, Tanaka No: DuBois, Filseth, Kou
Board of Education (Feb. 12)
Cubberley: The board discussed a progress report on the master plan process for Cubberley Community Center. Action: None Paly science project: The board authorized staff to reject all bids for a Palo Alto High School science classrooms project, modify the scope and rebid. Yes: Unanimous Course proposals: The board approved new course proposals for the 2019-20 school year. Yes: Unanimous
Planning and Transportation Commission (Feb. 13) SPECIAL THANKS TO MASONIC CENTER FOR THEIR SUPPORT!
Cubberley: The commission held a study session to discuss the pending master plan for Cubberley Community Center. Action: None
Historic Resources Board (Feb. 14)
840 Kipling St.: The board held a study session to discuss proposed modifications to a craftsman bungalow at 840 Kipling St. Action: None
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campus with a sheet of paper believed to be the “Stop the Lies” stickers. In October 2017, eight red cyclamen plants that formed a letter “C” for Castilleja were pulled out of the ground and tossed over a hedge and a Castilleja yard sign was stolen. Three more incidents occurred in March 2018, captured on surveillance videos and witnessed by a school maintenance worker. After the worker called Palo Alto police, Poppy was cited for petty theft. In a police report dated April 1, 2018, Poppy admitted to stealing the signs from the school property. “I made a bad judgment,” he told an officer, the report noted. Castilleja’s attorneys then sent Poppy a cease-and-desist letter in May of that year demanding that he not steal or vandalize the Castilleja signs, trespass on school property or misuse the school’s logo. Poppy agreed in writing not to continue the behaviors, according to the petition. In December 2018 and January 2019, additional vandalism took place, including an incident in which someone used stickers to change “We Support Castilleja” signs into “We Support White Privilege” signs. The school then requested the restraining order. When reached by phone, Poppy denied that he is responsible for any vandalism that occurred after a March 31, 2018 incident. “I fessed up to my one incident. I’m sorry about the bad judgment. But I didn’t do any of this. I wanted to do this amicably. I thought about hiring a lawyer, but we’re talking about lawn signs,” he said. “Restraining orders are usually for domestic violence or something like that,” he added. Poppy said he would stay the 50 feet away from Kauffman and Layendecker. “I would gladly do that if I knew what Kathy Layendecker looks like,” he said. Some neighbors, including Poppy, are opposed to the school’s proposed redevelopment, saying they have been negatively impacted for 15 years since the school began enrolling more students than they were legally allowed to. In addition to new development, Castilleja is asking the city to allow it to increase its student body by 30 percent above its current permitted enrollment. Poppy said he thinks the school is using him to make students believe that opposition to the school’s expansion boils down to one person. (continued on page 13)
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Castilleja spokeswoman Lorraine Brown said the school’s attorney has told them not to comment on the case. But school neighbor Nelson Ng said that residents who oppose the school’s expansion have also had their signs targeted by vandals and thieves. They have logged at least 50 incidents of sign theft and damage in the past couple of years. They have since stopped counting. He has video from his home surveillance camera in 2017 and 2018 of such incidents. On Aug. 16, 2017, a man running down the street during daylight can be seen swerving off the sidewalk and swatting a sign flat onto the ground on an adjacent property. On March 18, 2017, a man jogging on the opposite side of the street at night crossed over and ripped a sign out of Ng’s yard, throwing it down into the gutter. On April 8, 2017, also at night, a man jogging on the opposite side of the street looked both ways, crossed the street and ripped the sign out of Ng’s front yard, then ran across the street and down the block carrying the sign. A man walked up at night on July 20, 2017 to Ng’s gate and stole a sign, carrying it away. Ng reported the incidents twice to police, he said. Ng also has photographs of multiple signs that were torn or cut up and discarded at various locations in the neighborhood surrounding the school. He is opposed to the vandalism, he said. “I truly believe in freedom of speech. The signs are a way for the neighbors and Palo Alto residents to voice concerns about Castilleja’s expansion plan and violation of the existing conditional use permit,” Ng said in an email on Friday. “But at the end of the day, the signs are not the issue. The true issue is the impact to the neighborhood by Castilleja’s expansion. In the last couple of years, the school’s stubbornness to push forward with a plan having significant impact to our quality of life impact has taken a major toll on our mental well-being,” he said. His group, Protect Neighborhood Quality of Life, chose not to bring up the sign vandalism in public, but they are discussing it now. “We don’t want to confuse the issue and further divide the community. We just want the school to work with the neighbors to come up with a solution that is good for our neighborhood and the city of Palo Alto,” he said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.
principles.” “By separating what is now Restoration Hardware and the two speculative retail spaces, we have an internal vehicular street that we think connects the east and west a lot more,” Klinzing told the board. In reviewing the project, board members voiced major concerns about the proposed parking configuration, particularly a proposal to include parking spaces between Restoration Hardware and the new building for small retailers. Board members also wondered whether the new parking layout would be “functional” for shoppers and whether it would provide enough spaces. “We seem to be adding attractions without making it easy to get there, except by driving, and then we don’t have enough parking,” board member Wynne Furth observed.
Board member Peter Baltay also said he was concerned about the prospect of removing oak trees to accommodate the new Wilkes Bashford store as well as the proposed design of that standalone store: a flat-roof building with a mezzanine and large windows. But the board also found much to like about the new Restoration Hardware building, which board member David Hirsch said will look “delightful from all sides.” Baltay called the proposed building “wonderful” and emblematic of the changes in the retail industry. He lauded Restoration Hardware for bringing a “real showcase” store to Stanford Shopping Center. “What I see is a high-quality design,” Baltay said. “It’s a really neat way to mix people shopping and dining and checking out their products.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
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to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to L.A. I wish there were,” Newsom said. “However, we do have the capacity to complete a high-speed rail link between Merced and Bakersfield.” The proposed Merced-toBakersfield line is a significant departure from the project that California voters approved in November 2008 through Prop. 1A, which earmarked $9.95 billion for the new high-speed rail system and related transportation improvements. The revised scope will bring some solace, however, to the project’s many opponents in places like Palo Alto, where public sentiment on high-speed rail has gradually soured. Though the City Council initially supported Proposition 1A, it adopted in 2010 a position of “no confidence” in the project, citing unrealistic ridership and revenue projections, insufficient funding and a problematic design, which initially called for four tracks running along a berm through the city. Things settled down in 2012, when the California High Speed Rail Authority agreed to adopt a “blended system” on the Peninsula, where high-speed rail would share two tracks with Caltrain. Since then, the rail authority
The auditor’s office found that has repeatedly changed its strategy for rolling out what was the state rail authority has failed frequently billed as the most to complete “many critical planambitious project in California’s ning tasks before moving forward history. After initially consider- with construction.” The report ing launching the project between cited the rail authority’s failthe Central Valley and Los Ange- ure to acquire sufficient land on which to build, les, the agency determine how in 2016 deto relocate utilclared its inten- ‘We’re going to ity systems and tion to instead obtain needed start the line hold contractors agreements between San and consultants with external Francisco and st a keholder s, Bakersfield in accountable to including local what it called a explain how ove r n m e n t s “Valley to Valtaxpayer dollars are gand railroad ley” segment. operators. But while spent — including “These risks the scope of have contributthe project change orders, ed to more than changed, it re- cost overruns, even $600 million in mained plagued changes to conby the very travel expenses. It’s struction conproblems that going online, for tracts to pay for had haunted it work for which from the start: everybody to see.’ the authority insufficient — Gavin Newsom, governor, had not suffifunding, poor state of California ciently planned contract manor budgeted,” agement and the audit states. flagging political support. The authority had countered In November 2018, State Auditor Elaine Howle released a that it needed to move forward scathing report on the project, with construction to meet the titled “California High-Speed deadline for $3.5 billion in federRail Authority: Its Flawed Deci- al grants, of which it had already sion Making and Poor Contract spent $2.6 billion. The audit also found signifiManagement Have Contributed to Billions in Cost Over- cant flaws in the rail authority’s runs and Delays in the System’s contract oversight, which was outsourced in 2016 to a group Construction.”
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called the Contract Management Support Unit. The unit, the audit found, is staffed by consultants and has “performed only weak and inconsistent oversight.” The rail authority, the audit stated, “has in essence placed portions of its large contracts into the hands of outside consultants, for whom the state’s best interests may not be the highest priority,” the audit stated. Despite his new direction for the project, Newsom stressed in tweets Tuesday that he is not abandoning high-speed rail. Doing so, he said, “means we will have wasted billions of dollars with nothing but broken promises and lawsuits to show for it.” “I’m not interested in sending $3.5 billion in federal funding — exclusively allocated for HSR — back to the White House,” Newsom tweeted. He also said in his speech that he plans to adopt new “transparency measures” and government changes, including the appointment of Lenny Mendonca, his economic development director, as the new chair of the rail authority. “We’re going to hold contractors and consultants accountable to explain how taxpayer dollars are spent — including change orders, cost overruns, even travel expenses,” Newsom said. “It’s going online, for everybody to see.” Newsom said he plans to continue the state’s regional rail projects in north and south, while pushing for more federal funding and private dollars. He also pushed back against the characterization of the proposed system as a “train to nowhere,” calling the description “wrong and offensive.” “The people of the Central Valley endure the worst air pollution in America as well as some of the
longest commutes,” Newsom said in his speech. “And they have suffered too many years of neglect from policymakers here in Sacramento. They deserve better.” After Newsom’s announcement, rail authority CEO Brian Kelly said in a statement that the agency is “eager to meet his challenge and expand the economic impact in the Central Valley,” as well as to complete the environmental work statewide and to pursue additional federal funding for rail. “We welcome this direction and look forward to continuing the important work on this transformative project,” Kelly said. State Sen. Jerry Hill, whose district includes Palo Alto, Mountain View, Menlo Park and much of San Mateo County, called Newsom’s announcement a “wise decision.” Hill, who helped lead the effort in 2012 to adopt the “blended system” plan, agreed with Newsom that the state doesn’t have the resources to pursue the full project at this time. The project’s expectations, Hill said, were too high and the execution has been faulty. He noted that when the project was first proposed, the state was planning to fund the project through a combination of state, federal and private funds. And while some of the Proposition 1A bonds have been sold, the rail authority’s hopes of getting significant outside funding never materialized, he said. “I think there’s still a strong need for a high-speed-train system from southern California to northern California, but this doesn’t seem to be the time to continue that plan,” Hill told the Weekly. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement SALVAJE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN649973 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Salvaje, located at 369 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): COPPERSMITH PALO ALTO LLC 2707 Louis Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 7, 2019. (PAW Jan. 25; Feb. 1, 8, 15, 2019) PALO ALTO TENNIS SHOP FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650248 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Palo Alto Tennis Shop, located at 855 El Camino Real 99B, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): TIMEA TERESTYAK 12 Country Ln Redwood City, CA 94061 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/01/2019. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 15, 2019. (PAW Jan. 25, Feb. 1, 8, 15, 2019) SPRINGBOARD SOLUTIONS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650377 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Springboard Solutions, located at 725 Loma Verde Ave., Suite E, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): SPRINGBOARD IN LLC 725 Loma Verde Ave., Suite E Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 06/27/2016. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 18, 2019. (PAW Jan. 25; Feb. 1, 8, 15, 2019) VITALITY BOWLS #013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650399 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Vitality Bowls #013, located at 209 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): PAMD LLC 209 S. California Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/18/2019. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 18, 2019. (PAW Jan. 25; Feb. 1, 8, 15, 2019) THE CAR DOCTOR FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650609 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: The Car Doctor, located at 710 San Antonio Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): SCHALLER AUTOMOTIVE INC. 710 San Antonio Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant began transacting business
under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/21/2009. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 25, 2019. (PAW Feb. 1, 8, 15, 22, 2019) DEL REY PLAZA FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650819 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Del Rey Plaza, located at 2105 South Bascom Ave., Suite 230, Campbell, CA 95008, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): DEL REY PLAZA INVESTORS LLC 2105 South Bascom Ave., Suite 230 Campbell, CA 95008 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/29/2019. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 30, 2019. (PAW Feb. 1, 8, 15, 22, 2019) AUTO DETAILING CONCEPTS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650826 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Auto Detailing Concepts, located at 3980 El Camino Real #104, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): MAURICIO NARANJO 3980 El Camino Real #104 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/04/2019. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 30, 2019. (PAW Feb. 8, 15, 22; Mar. 1, 2019) NEW WEST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650988 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: New West, located at 555 Bryant Street No. 140, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): WOWA WEST LLC 555 Bryant Street No. 140 Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/15/2019. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 1, 2019. (PAW Feb. 8, 15, 22; Mar. 1, 2019) DisasterAWARE Enterprise FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650960 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: DisasterAWARE Enterprise, located at 2107 North 1st Street, Suite 660, San Jose, CA 95131, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): KAAZING CORPORATION 2107 North 1st Street, Suite 660 San Jose, CA 95131 Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 1, 2019. (PAW Feb. 15, 22; Mar. 1, 8, 2019) KATALYST COACHING KATALYST CONSULTING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN651240 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: (1) Katalyst Coaching, (2) Katalyst Consulting, located at 580 W. Crescent Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94301310, Santa Clara
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997 All Other Legals SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA In re: THE JAMES H. INGLIS TRUST DATED OCTOBER 20, 1994 Case No. 19PR185253 NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF JAMES H. INGLIS, DECEASED NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF JAMES H. INGLIS, DECEASED CASE NO. 19PR185253 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Notice is hereby given to the creditors and contingent creditors of the above-named decedent, that all persons having claims against the decedent are required to file them with the Superior Court, at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113, and deliver a copy to SUE E. SARTOR and THOMAS H. INGLIS, Trustees of THE JAMES H. INGLIS TRUST dated October 20, 1994, of which the decedent was the settlor, at c/o ROBERTA A. BIORN, 2479 East Bayshore Road, #155, Palo Alto, California 94303, as provided in Probate Code Section 1215 within the later of four months after February 1, 2019 (the date of the first publication of notice to creditors) or, if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, 60 days after the date this notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, or you must petition to file a late claim as provided in Probate Code Section 19103. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested. Crist, Biorn, Shepherd & Roskoph /s/________________ Robert A. Biorn (PAW Feb. 1, 8, 15, 2019) NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE T.S. No. 18-20884-SP-CA Title No. 180474804-CA-VOI A.P.N. 182-41-046 ATTENTION RECORDER: THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE TO AN ATTACHED SUMMARY IS APPLICABLE TO THE NOTICE PROVIDED TO THE TRUSTOR ONLY PURSUANT TO CIVIL CODE 2923.3 NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED. YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 07/22/2004. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, (cashier’s check(s) must be made payable to National Default Servicing Corporation), drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or
savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state; will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will be made in an “as is” condition, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. Trustor: Eugene Thomas Wheelock and Ann D Wheelock, husband and wife Duly Appointed Trustee: National Default Servicing Corporation Recorded 08/12/2004 as Instrument No. 17945725 (or Book, Page) of the Official Records of Santa Clara County, California. Date of Sale: 03/07/2019 at 10:00 AM Place of Sale: At the Gated North Market Street entrance of the Superior Courthouse, 191 N First Street, San Jose, CA 95113 Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $1,050,433.77 Street Address or other common designation of real property: 14188 Stanford Court, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The requirements of California Civil Code Section 2923.5(b)/2923.55(c) were fulfilled when the Notice of Default was recorded. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 714-730-2727 or visit this Internet Web site www.ndscorp. com/sales, using the file number assigned to this case 18-20884-SP-CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Date: 02/06/2019 National Default Servicing Corporation c/o Tiffany and Bosco, P.A., its agent, 1230 Columbia Street, Suite 680 San Diego, CA 92101 Toll Free Phone: 888-264-4010 Sales Line 714-730-2727; Sales Website: www.ndscorp.com Rachael Hamilton, Trustee Sales Representative A-4684107 02/15/2019, 02/22/2019, 03/01/2019
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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto Feb. 7-12
Violence related Assault w/deadly weapon. . . . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Criminal threats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession stolen prop. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident minor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Vehicle accident, property damage . . . 5 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Miscellaneous Casualty/fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Concealed weapon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 2 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 1 Possession tear gas/pepper spray . . . . 1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 6 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Violation of restraining order . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . 2 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/major injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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180 El Camino Real, 10/16/2018, 8:12 p.m.; battery. Middlefield Road, 2/4, 10:03 a.m.; child abuse/physical. California Avenue, 2/6, 4:30 p.m.; domestic violence. 900 blk. Quarry Road, 2/7, 10:49 p.m.; battery. El Camino Real, 2/8, 4:27 p.m.; assault w/a deadly weapon. 200 blk. University Ave., 2/10, 2:27 a.m.; felony battery. 400 blk. Emerson St., 2/10, 9:41 a.m.; criminal threat.
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Mary Carlstead Longtime Palo Alto resident Mary Carlstead died Dec. 15, 2018, at Gordon Manor assisted-living facility in Redwood City. She was 89. Carlstead was born in Quincy, Illinois, to Milton John and Marie Louise Braxmeier. She moved to California in 1957, where she met her husband, Robert, while working at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company. The couple settled in Palo Alto, where they raised three children and she carved out a career as a research contracts administrator at Stanford University. Prior to moving to California, Carlstead received a bachelor’s degree in history from Quincy University in 1951. After graduation, she worked as a hostess on the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad (GM&O), traveling routes between Mobile and Chicago. She loved to share humorous stories about famous celebrities, baseball players and unusual incidents on board. She later received a master’s degree in education from Marquette University in 1955 and taught high school in the Milwaukee area. After her retirement from Stanford in 1997, she became a docent at Filoli in Woodside, sharing her love of art, history and gardening with visitors. She and her husband also spent much time traveling the world, touring Europe and visiting historic sites and battlefields. Carlstead is survived by her husband of 58 years, Robert Carlstead; and two daughters, Martha Carlstead of Seattle and Carrie Carlstead of Mountlake Terrace, Washington. She was preceded in death by her son William Carlstead in 1997. Memorial services have been held and a private burial took place at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Los Altos.
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David P. Hill David P Hill, PhD, age 83 of Palo Alto, CA passed away in the presence of family and friends at Stanford Hospital on the 26th of December, 2018. After earning his Eagle Scout Award, he attended San Jose State University and received a Bachelor of Science in Geology. He earned a PhD in geophysics from the California Institute of Technology in 1971, and worked at the USGS in Menlo Park for his entire career. Dave was an internationally recognized expert in the fields of theoretical and observational seismology. Dr. Hill published more than 90 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, and was an Elected Fellow of both the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Beyond his scientific achievements, Dave was also an accomplished artist and was committed to a life-long love of learning. Dave will be sorely missed by his wife Ann, son Peter, daughter-in-law Hope, grandchildren Sarah and Nicholas, and his brother Rich and sister-in-law Diane. He will also be missed by his countless friends and by a large and diverse community of earth scientists across the globe. As one of his friends wrote: “He was a gentle man, a scholar, a steady and ethical leader, and the finest of humans.” A private memorial service was held in his honor, with a public celebration of his life to follow, he will be interned at the Alta Mesa Cemetery, Palo Alto. In lieu of flowers, the family request that donations can be made to either K.U.R.E (kure4eyes.org), or Young Minds Advocacy (ymadvocacy.org). PAID
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James Weeks Lyons, a Palo Alto resident, died on February 9, 2019. He was 86. He grew up in Jamestown, New York. After high school there he attended Allegheny College where he received his Baccalaureate degree. He pursued his graduate studies at Indiana University where he earned his Master’s and Doctorate degrees in the School of Education. While there he served as Assistant Director of the Indiana Memorial Union. In 1962, at the age of 30, he was appointed Dean of Students at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and served in that post for ten years. In 1972 he was appointed University Dean of Student Affairs at Stanford University and served in that position for eighteen years, the longest to serve in that position to date. Halfway through his tenure as Dean he was appointed Lecturer in Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. He continued his research, writing, and teaching for seven years after becoming Dean Emeritus in 1990. Lyons and his wife, Martha, regularly opened their home to students and faculty for weekly dinners and events to celebrate students’ service and achievement. In 1981 Lyons established the Deans Award for Service to recognize students who served Stanford and nearby communities in distinctive ways. When Lyons left the deanship the University renamed the Award to the “James W. Lyons Award for Service.” It has become a distinguished award presented each year. Lyons was an active contributor to his profession. He regularly served on program and leadership councils of his professional organization, directed a graduate program in Student Affairs Administration at Stanford, published books and journal articles, and served as a consultant or an accreditation evaluator to more than 75 colleges and universities. In 1988 he received the annual Scott Goodnight Award for outstanding performance as a Dean. Lyons also received distinguished alumni awards from Allegheny College and Indiana University. Mr. Lyons was passionate about the outdoors, camping and hiking with his family. He was an avid bee keeper. He rode his bike to work every day and would often be seen still wearing his bicycle helmet walking into his office. He was always more concerned for the feelings of others than himself. He was one of a kind. Mr. Lyons was preceded in death by his wife of 47 years, Martha Wichser Lyons. He is survived by his son Mark Lyons, his wife, Valerie, and grandson Adam of Portland, Oregon. Also, by his daughter, Amie Lyons Clarke, granddaughter Alyssa Clarke and grandson Nicholas Clarke of Raleigh, North Carolina, and his deeply loved partner of 16 years, Mary Ann Green Olson. A memorial service will be announced at a later date. The family has requested that, in lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Jamestown High School Class of 1950 Scholarship Fund, Chautauqua Region Community Foundation, 418 Spring Street, Jamestown, NY 14701 (https:// crcfonline.org/?s=jamestown+high+school+class+of+1950). PAID
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Editorial A housing setback In repealing cap on non-residential development downtown, council chooses the wrong path
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onday night’s 4-3 decision to repeal a decades-old downtown growth policy designed to trigger a oneyear pause on non-residential development when a cap is reached, as it will be this year, is a setback for both housing advocates and those concerned about traffic congestion and parking. The action only benefits commercial developers and property owners, whose profits are maximized when they develop uses other than housing. The council majority has bought into the idea, promoted by developers, that housing will only be built if the city allows a substantial office component that “subsidizes” a few housing units. There is no evidence for this supposition. The so-called “mixed use” projects that combine ground floor retail, one or two floors of offices and one or two floors of housing have provided so little housing — and none of it remotely affordable — as to make it meaningless. The housing doesn’t even provide a full offset to the employees that work in the offices below. With every such project, we actually lose ground in the fight to lessen our housing-jobs imbalance. But even worse, repealing the downtown cap removes another barrier to the conversion of the President Hotel apartments back into a hotel, since the square footage of the conversion would have exceeded the cap. It is one of the actions that the new owner of the President, A.J. Capital, demanded of the city in secret communications last fall so it could proceed with its plans. By its vote Monday night, the council is enabling the elimination of 75 apartments that are among the most affordable on the rental market in downtown Palo Alto at a time when each council member has publicly advocated for more aggressive policies to encourage such housing. It would take 10 new mixed-use office buildings with five housing units each to simply replace these 75 apartments with high-priced condos or apartments. Significant affordable housing will only be built in Palo Alto by nonprofit housing agencies or if the city offers density bonuses and height exceptions that create incentives for developers to pursue residential-only projects. Those options should be the focus of policymakers. But they won’t work if the city doesn’t close off the opportunity for developers to build office buildings with a few very expensive housing units that do nothing to address our housing needs. The deciding vote to do away with the downtown non-residential development cap came from the council’s new member, Alison Cormack, who along with Councilwoman Liz Kniss and Vice Mayor Adrian Fine characterized the one-year moratorium as an effort to “freeze downtown as it exists today.” (Councilman Greg Tanaka, who didn’t utter a word during the discussion, was the fourth vote to repeal the cap.) Cormack’s vote was especially disappointing because it contradicted the position she took just four months ago in the election campaign, when she told the Weekly that although she needed to do more study on the issue she “didn’t see any reason to remove” the downtown cap and that growth caps “have served us well.” Proponents of repealing the downtown cap argued that another cap — which limits office development each year to 50,000 square feet in the downtown, California Avenue and El Camino corridor — effectively renders the downtown cap unnecessary. They ignore the fact that not covered by the 50,000-foot cap are any non-office uses, such as hotels, financial institutions, fitness centers, restaurants and others. Following the council’s action on Monday, it’s now open season for unlimited downtown development of anything other than offices, plus up to 50,000 square feet of office space each year. Mayor Eric Filseth was right when he questioned how long the council majority could continue to ignore the majority view in the community that city policies should strongly discourage any new development other than affordable housing. What the council majority did Monday is the opposite of smart pro-housing policy. The fact that the downtown cap will be reached later this year was a fortuitous opportunity because it offered a simple way to slam the door shut on the conversion of the 75 apartments at the President and reassess what new limits should be established going forward. Instead of seizing that opportunity, the council put flexibility for property owners above the community’s desire to tightly limit non-housing development in downtown Palo Alto. Q
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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions
Letters Key differences in sign vandalism Editor, As head of Castilleja School, I would like to respond to your recent article about steps we were forced to take last week to curtail years of trespassing, vandalism, and theft on school grounds. First of all, I want to point out the difference between the random sign stealing that has taken place throughout our community, and the protracted illegal activity we have been subjected to on campus by what appears in our security video to be a single person. It is true that lawn signs expressing views from both sides of the debate have been stolen from private homes around the city, mine included. I am disappointed to learn that Mr. Ng’s were among them. We will continue to remind our large base of supporters that respect and freedom of speech are essential to Castilleja’s core values and mission. While this behavior is completely unacceptable, it is not the reason that Castilleja recently sought and was granted a temporary restraining order. That action was taken in response to a single individual’s repeated and escalating illegal activity on our campus. We had hoped a Cease and Desist letter, sent in May 2018, would deter the individual. Unfortunately, video footage of continued activity prompted the Palo Alto Police to recommend that we request a restraining order; a judge subsequently issued the temporary order last week. The difference between the actions of this individual and those occurring randomly around the city is a very important one when we consider that Castilleja is a school, where campus security is paramount. I feel it is essential to add that distinction to this conversation. This is not a story about sign stealing; it is about maintaining campus security and protecting our students. Nanci Kauffman Bryant Street, Palo Alto
Train trench would be better Editor, Regarding the Weekly’s Feb.1 editorial, “The case for a train viaduct in Palo Alto”: Such a plan with grade-level crossings at Charleston and Meadow Drive is easy to execute but would be hard to live with. A viaduct would
visually slice through town for the next 100 years. In the future, jet backpacks may move commuters or they may be shot through vacuum tunnels, but trains will always be needed to transport bulk materials at low cost. Consider this: Three miles of elevated rails from San Antonio to just south of downtown. Three miles of concrete pillars. Or three miles of sound walls 25 or 30 feet tall. If the sound wall is carried by the viaduct, it has to be designed to survive a powerful earthquake. This means more concrete pillars to support the viaduct. Hardly an inviting green space underneath for bikers or pedestrians. Palo Alto is not a country village with one or two trains coming through daily. Placing the Caltrain rails in a modest trench, say 15 feet deep, would not scar the town visually. It would cost a lot, but City Hall could tighten its belt and think about a hundred-year solution. Here’s an idea: Do we need five libraries in this day when we have the internet that provides an information revolution that spans the world? Or an airport that serves a tiny segment of our population but allows city leaders to puff out their chests as they say,”Palo Alto has an airport!” These or similar decisions are hard choices for our leaders. Will they survive a hundred-year judgment? Bob Roth Middlefield Road, Palo Alto
Stop the President Hotel conversion Palo Alto has for several years made efforts to deal with the jobs versus housing and parking imbalance, particularly in the downtown and California Avenue business districts. The President
Hotel was one of the last bastions of reasonably priced downtown housing. We are now faced with a national real estate developer whose vice president of development, Tim Franzen, is in pursuit of the AJ corporate mission: “exploiting misalignments between low-quality, highly commoditized offerings and the consumers’ appreciation and desire for authentic experiences.” Toward that end, the President would be converted to a 100 room hotel with just 12 parking spaces. There’s no apparent concern for the housing and parking for customers or staff (housekeeping, maintenance, food service, etc.) or impact on Palo Alto. . I urge the City Council to stop this conversion and look for ways to serve those who elected them: Keep the President for housing residents on limited incomes, who contribute daily to the positive quality of life we all hope for in Palo Alto. Mr. Franzen’s Illinois real-estate license does not entitle him to tell the City Council and/ or the Planning Commission how to manage Palo Alto’s problems, but those officials can tell him to pursue his goals elsewhere. Many of us would be happy to give him directions!. Barbara Bowden Webster Street, Palo Alto
A more enlightened world? Editor, I recently saw the remarkable film “Greenbook,” about troubled race relations in the South of the 1960s. In the theater near me was a family with a boy about 11 years old. The boy was polite and wellmannered, but as this story of segregation unfolded I observed that (continued on next page)
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Off Deadline Why don’t more people care about the stealing of their privacy? by Jay Thorwaldson
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rotecting — or losing — one’s personal privacy is becoming a political hot topic. After literally decades of warnings about loss of personal privacy without too much public response, a new push is emerging to emulate what Europe has done. The European Union (EU) has adopted stringent privacy-protection laws that allow individuals to actually really truly control and even delete information about them stored in vast private and governmental computer databanks. Now some citizens and leaders in the United States, the bastion of personal freedom historically, would like to adopt similar laws to curtail what has been called a “Wild West” of unregulated anarchy. Former state Senator Joe Simitian of Palo Alto, currently a member of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, has been one of those leaders. In July 2011, he sponsored a bill to provide what was termed “21st century privacy protections” to library users, including use of internet communications on library computers, and in November 2011, he spearheaded a resolution recognizing the 10th anniversary of the California Office of Privacy Protection. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook, in a break from other “Big Tech” leaders, actively promoted better privacy protections on a recent episode of “60 Minutes,” which revealed how vast and insidious computer-assisted monitoring has become with the rise of tech-based huge firms such as Facebook and Google.
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“Our own information from the everyday to the deeply personal, is being weaponized against us with military efficiency. It is time for the rest of the world, including my home country, to follow your lead,” Cook said of the EU laws. The program also contained interviews with officials from Facebook, Google and others accused of rampant violations of privacy — the secretive dark side of Silicon Valley high-tech innovations. “A consensus is developing that something has to change and once again the impetus is coming from Europe which is becoming the world’s leader in internet privacy and data protection,” Steve Kroft reported, citing “a tough new law that has Silicon Valley scrambling to comply, and pressuring lawmakers here to do something about protecting your data.” The program, complete with a written transcript, is at bit. ly/PrivacyDebate. “Is 2013 the year that should be engraved on the tombstone of privacy?” was the lead question in a Jan. 3, 2014, “Silicon Beat” report by Levi Sumagaysay on the implications of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA privacy-related tracking of individual’s electronic communications. “Can some semblance of privacy be reclaimed in 2014, or is it forever lost?” he asked. This is not the first, or the last, time that question will be raised. But another question is vitally important to ask also: Why isn’t there more public outrage and resistance about the corporate and government “harvesting” of personal data? One reason is that people are just so busy with day-to-day living there is an exhaustion barrier. Another is that individuals feel there’s not much they can do about it anyway — the so-called grain-of-sand-on-a-beach
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at least outwardly he did not seem at all engaged by the subject. So I turned to speculation, and my mind rejected the too-easy inference that he was bored; instead, I imagined that perhaps the movie did not really register with him because he had grown up in an enlightened and integrated world, so that he simply had no conception of how the world depicted in the film could even exist. Yes, I know my somewhat whimsical thought may seem naive and unrealistic, but I’m glad I indulged it. At least while in the theater I enjoyed and found hope in the notion that there will be a generation soon for whom that world will seem like it’s from another planet. Susan Weisberg Mayfield Avenue, Stanford
Editor, I’m writing to share a perspective that I feel wasn’t included in your reporting about Castilleja School. As a parent of a Castilleja student, I had noticed signs disappearing or being damaged around campus. However, discovering that the activity included slicing signs with box cutters and covering them with troubling (if not hateful) stickers convinced me that the school had no other option but to take swift legal action. I am grateful there is now a restraining order in place. Students walk to and from school every day, crossing the edges of campus where all of this was happening, and the school leadership took all the right steps to safeguard campus. I remain grateful to and impressed by the adults in the Castilleja community as they weather
“What can I do?” barrier. There are personal steps one can take, such as encryption programs. But those tend to be cumbersome or at least complicated, and take time in a rushed era. Most states have laws against “cyberstalking.” But there are regular revelations about new technology, such as digital “facial recognition” programs that may be implemented to speed check-ins at airports and, almost certainly, numerous other applications not too far down the road. My personal interest in privacy protection dates back to 1991, when my thenhousemate Jim Warren of Woodside spearheaded the so-called “First Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy.” At his request, I handled media relations for what became a nationally publicized conference. We made it a point to encourage interaction between attendees and participants, and those involved ranged from legal and illegal hackers to representatives of the CIA and Secret Service. There were privacy advocates and libertarians and lawenforcement people attending. One illegal hacker (some called those “crackers”) introduced Warren and me to “my arresting officer and prosecuting attorney” as we headed to lunch. That was in 1991, approaching three decades ago! So another question I have is why, despite the good efforts that have been made in California and elsewhere, hasn’t more been done in the privacy-protection arena? Heavy lobbying by heavy hitters such as Facebook and Google and others has been cited to explain the studied silence and paralysis on the topic nationally and at state levels. In Europe, the EU coalition of multiple nations, were substantially more immune
this process while keeping their mission and the girl’s well-being at the very center of their thoughts and actions. A campus is not a place to overlook illegal activity. No parents would want that for their children. Kenna French Kipling Street, Palo Alto
More traffic jams coming Editor, I have owned a home opposite Castilleja School for 50 years. Our family watched helplessly as it regularly swelled enrollment, created traffic congestion, noise and parking issues. Now the privately owned business in a residential district is proposing a multi-million dollar expansion while adding 30 percent more students (to what is already the most dense student/ acre school in Palo Alto).
to the lobbying efforts of the big-tech firms and more strongly aware perhaps of the evils that can happen with totalitarian regimes with universal information about individuals. That all has a George Orwell “1980” ring to it, but 1980 was a long time ago technologically speaking, and checking in to Big Government once a day is nothing compared to being tracked everywhere you go with your Android smartphone. At the 1991 CFP1 conference, I made the comment that I wasn’t so much concerned with “Big Brother” as “with the 10,000 Little Big Brothers” out there: the private companies that increasingly can (and will) mine your information to manipulate you and your family members and sell you anything from soap to political candidates. I don’t think I could say that about Big Brother today, post-Snowden’s revelations about the vast extent of governmental secret-spying programs. Now the real challenge is to move past the years of talk about protecting privacy and see if there’s a constituency out there that will demand that real, effective action be taken. Americans may hate to admit that someone else might be ahead of them in terms of innovation or action on any subject. But in this case, perhaps the fledgling discussion relating to enacting EU-stule laws on protection — actually meaning “restoring” protections — on privacy may become on of the political hot topics of the next year or two. Even, or especially, in influential Silicon Valley and the Palo Alto/Stanford University axis. Q Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be emailed at jaythor@well.com.
Our city has been strangely complicit in Castilleja’s longstanding over-enrollment in violation of its current conditional-use permit. Want more traffic jams from Embarcadero Road to Town & Country Village? Folks, they are coming. Vic Befera Bryant Street, Palo Alto
Why the opposing vote? Editor, Last week, in a 4-1 vote, the Palo Alto school board decided to request mediation in its dispute with a high school student who filed a Title IX complaint last year. It would be interesting to know why board member Ken Dauber, who has been an outspoken supporter of exhaustive efforts to ensure that the school district “stays on the right side” of the
Obama administration’s aggressive interpretation of the Title IX law, decided to cast the lone dissenting vote. Seth Knoepler Cambridge Avenue, Palo Alto
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A LEGACY OF LAND
After decades spent saving open space, conservationist Nonette Hanko retires
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by Sue Dremann Francisco Bay and from north of Half Moon Bay to south of Los Gatos. The organization operates on a roughly $70 million annual budget. As a young woman, Hanko — an aspiring concert pianist and mother of four — seemed on the surface an unlikely candidate for mounting political battles against Stanford University, developers and city councils. Hanko’s son, Val, characterized his mother in the 1950s: “Mom in her 20s was extremely emotional. If she went in a grocery store and someone didn’t treat her right she’d start crying,” he recalled during her retirement party on Jan. 31. But that sensitivity, strongly emotional nature and passion is what enabled her to be so successful, he added. And it was Hanko’s passion for open space that initially propelled her — and kept motivating her — to action. Her love of land began in her childhood in Burlingame, where her parents’ home backed up to the Santa Cruz Mountain foothills. She played on the grounds of the 1,500acre Darius Ogden Mills estate, the home of the Gold Rush adventurer, president of the Bank of California and one of the founding fathers of Burlingame. No one ever bothered her there, she said. Hanko would climb through the barbed wire and try to roll down the hills on her roller skates. She would sit under a large oak tree where an owl roosted. It was silent — an immersive experience of just being. Among the trees and flowers, she was able “to enjoy how nature intended it to be,” she said. “I grew up thinking that people’s gardens should be left to themselves. I assumed that any place I lived would be the same
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i g h t y- s e ve n -ye a r- o l d Nonette Hanko stepped out of a Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District SUV last week into a blisteringly cold wind, under boiling clouds that threatened a storm at Monte Bello Open Space Preserve. Perched behind her walker, the pioneer of open-space preservation took in breathtaking views of the picturesque mountains and valleys. “Home, sweet home,” Hanko said. For most of her adult life, the petite woman with steel-gray hair and a soft, perky voice has done more than admire these grasslands, forests and hidden creeks. She has set about preserving them in perpetuity for her children and grandchildren, and for all of those who now immerse themselves in these wild spaces but who have never heard her name. After 46 years on the board of directors of Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, she retired on Feb. 1, leaving to others the task of acquiring and preserving land. Riding up the serpentine Page Mill Road on her way to Monte Bello, she had gestured across the expanse of verdant forests. “All of this is district land,” she said. Nearly five decades earlier, in 1972, such a reality seemed like an impossible dream to Hanko and others who joined her to get voter approval to create the district and obtain funding for land acquisitions through a property tax. In those days, powerful developers had wanted to cover the foothills with houses, she said. Today, the district includes 63,495 acres in 26 preserves from the Pacific Ocean to the San
Nonette Hanko, whose efforts led to the creation of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, sits at the Monte Bello Open Space Preserve in the Palo Alto foothills on Feb. 6. way,” she said. Her initial forays into political action began by trying to protect her own literal backyard when county leaders wanted to extend and expand Central Expressway through her Palo Alto neighborhood, removing houses and pushing the noisy roadway toward her property. (They didn’t succeed.) From there she began to make contacts, attend Palo Alto Planning Commission meetings and learn about development plans for the open spaces that she loved. Hanko recalled how her passion once caused her to cry when she went before the planning commission to present her views on a consultant’s report for a housing-development plan in the foothills. Early on, she was a novice at public speaking, she said. But one quality she did have was persistence, honed of a discipline
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Creating an open space district
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Nonette Hanko and Herb Grench, the first general manager of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, look at a map at the first district-acquired land, the Foothills Open Space Preserve, in 1974.
the initiative to do their homework on their own and pretty much let her do what she needed to do. They realized, she said, that she was doing something that was meant for them as well. “I had to get used to making speeches and addressing groups. Because you have strong feelings about something, it just needs to be done. (When you) make the effort, the issue kind of solves itself. There were so many people who wanted this to succeed,” she said.
that came from her training as a concert pianist. Hanko spent countless hours at meetings, going to city councils throughout Santa Clara County for support, canvassing the public and strategizing with environmentalists and attorneys. “Nonette went from this ‘I don’t know what to do; I’m a piano teacher’ to basically realizing what she had to do,” said retired Palo Alto Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson, who was a reporter for the Palo Alto Times and has known Hanko since the 1960s. “She just took the bit in her teeth and formed that district. She had lots of allies. She just became the most powerful politician in the area. I told her, ‘You do things that everybody agrees with — except the developers.’” Her family supported her work. It got to be a joke at home that she had a “fifth child.” But her children were smart enough that they took
Wallace Stegner, Nonette Hanko and her mother, Edna Close, talk at the University Club in Palo Alto during an event of the nonprofit Committee for Green Foothills, of which Hanko was a leader.
rom Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve in south Santa Clara County to Ravenswood Preserve in East Palo Alto, countless places people enjoy every day were acquired by the district: Bear Creek Redwoods; Fremont Older; Los Trancos and Monte Bello; Rancho San Antonio; Russian Ridge; Windy Hill; Picchetti Ranch, which still has a working winery and tastings, and others. Monte Bello remains one of her favorites. Hanko walked down the Stevens Creek Nature Trail and took a seat on the Frances Brenner bench, named after a Palo Alto planning commissioner who first brought Monte Bello to her attention for preservation. The bench affords a look down the San Andreas Fault rift zone. The fault over the years has left a stunning rip in the earth that today is filled with oak forests and grasslands teeming with rabbits and deer. Stevens Creek runs south along this zone, watering a canopy of California bay trees and others in the forest. Hanko co-founded the Palo Alto Civic League to advocate for residents’ conservation concerns before the City Council and met
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idea of residents taking on that task. She felt it was the city’s job to form the district, which she and members of the Palo Alto Civic League planned to support. But Thorwaldson told her the city would not form such a district. It was more worried about things such as garbage and the undergrounding of utilities, he said. In a Feb. 16, 1970, Palo Alto Times editorial, Thorwaldson wrote that it was time for residents who lived in the flatlands and who were looking to regulate land use in the mountains to set up a district rather than wait for the city to do so. Palo Alto was already spending $144,000 on a two-year environmental-design study pertaining to the Palo Alto hills area, but while each side was trying to work its own angle in response to the outcome, other broad-reaching developments were in the wings: a 530-acre proposal for high-density housing in the lower foothills was making its way through the city approval process; property owners in the upper hills were putting together an investment group that would combine development and environmental protection where it would do the least amount of damage; and San Mateo County officials were ignoring or unable to control development and logging interests. The overall effect: Conservation groups were fighting their battles piecemeal and would not effectively be able to save open space. Hanko read the editorial and cried, she said, knowing from their previous arguments about a district that Thorwaldson was directing the editorial at her. But by the next morning, she’d had an epiphany. “It was just something that hit like that, and I said to myself, ‘God, what a wonderful opportunity. So let’s see what I can do,” she recalled in a 2015 oral history of her work with the open-space district, which was published by the U.C. Berkeley Bancroft Library. Hanko put together a group in her home, meeting over her blueberry coffeecake. Members included Brenner, Mary Gordon and Herb Grench of the planning commission (Grench later became the district’s first general manager); attorney Larry Klein, who later
served on the city council; and lawyer Fadlo Mouslalam, among others. They set about having the League of Women Voters, local Boy Scouts and other groups help them with a poll to determine what uses people wanted for the hills and mountains. To be fair, they also included development as an option, she said. A whopping 79 percent of people wanted open space, she said. They decided on a district that would cover San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. But the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, it turned out, wasn’t interested. Many supervisors were receiving their support from landowners who wanted to develop their properties, she said. So the group went to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors to form the district, she said, which would also require buy-in from the city councils within the county. They spent an exhausting amount of time going to the different councils to get their support, eventually winning agreement, she said. But there was one hitch: The county wanted quid pro quo support from the group for one of its own initiatives, which it placed on the June 1972 ballot. The group backed up the county, and the
Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District employees hike in INE Ranch, which was added to Monte Bello Open Space Preserve by the district in 2014. people,” she said, liked to take measure won. Then the district supporters put their clothes off. They were upset at first when the Measure R, the “Room to Breathe” initiative, on the November 1972 land was acquired, but the ranger ballot for a property tax of 10 cents didn’t think there were any laws per $100 of assessed value. Dis- preventing their nude gathering, trict board members representing so he didn’t see a reason why they five wards were also to be voted couldn’t carry on. “I thought that was nice,” Hanko on: Bill Peters, Dan Condron, Dan Wenden, Kay Duffy — and said. Hanko. It wasn’t difficult to convince her On using eminent to run for a board seat, she said. With a presidential election that domain same November, Hanko said, there was a big turnout. And Measure R he formation of the district passed by 67.71 percent. was the first of many batA tiny 212-acre piece of land tles, victories and prolonged across from Palo Alto’s Foothills skirmishes that Hanko and her colPark was the first property the dis- leagues have navigated. trict purchased. Called Foothills In November 1976, the district Open Space Preserve, it was just put a ballot measure before voters 90 acres in 1974. to annex the southern portion of Hanko remembered how it used to be a place where a group (continued on page 22) of young men, “counterculture
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Brenner at that time. The council and planning commission were grappling with what to do with the Palo Alto foothills. Brenner — who had done a study on the impacts of development on the Columbia River watershed in Oregon for the League of Women Voters — took commissioners and other interested residents to the area now known as Monte Bello. The visit was an eye-opener, Hanko said: She was staring at the bulk of the Stevens Creek watershed, which fed the land all the way to the bay. Though the City Council had already denied a proposal to build 1,776 homes and a supporting commercial area in the lower Palo Alto foothills, other proposals were being pushed for the upper Skyline Ridge and beyond, Thorwaldson said. “After the huge development push of the 1950s that supplanted the apricot and prune orchards of what once was known as ‘The Valley of Heart’s Delight’ with subdivisions and businesses, developers began looking at surrounding areas to keep up the expansionist boom,” he said at Hanko’s retirement party. “Dean & Dean Construction quietly began acquiring land options along the San Mateo County coast. County officials — especially San Mateo County officials at the time — were strongly pro-development,” he said. One major strategy to slow down or discourage development was through zoning, he said. Palo Alto tried to rezone the minimum lot size along Skyline from 10-acre to 40-acre minimum lots, which landowners opposed but for which Hanko and others advocated. She lobbied the point with Thorwaldson, insisting that he write articles about open-space preservation. “In self-defense, I said to her that zoning was a defeatist approach because it could be overturned easily by some future board or council and because it was unfair to landowners,” Thorwaldson recalled. “I told her environmentalists needed to do what they did in the East Bay in 1933 — the depth of the Great Depression — and form a park district and buy the land at fair market value, in order to safely preserve it in perpetuity.” Hanko initially rebuffed the
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A sign notes the trailhead of the newly named Nonette Hanko San Andreas Fault Trail at Los Trancos Preserve above Palo Alto.
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San Mateo County — Atherton, Redwood City, Portola Valley, Menlo Park, Woodside, San Carlos and East Palo Alto — with the help of another grassroots group, Committee for Green Foothills, spearheaded by Lennie Roberts and Harry Turner. Proposition D appeared on the ballot in November 1975 and passed by 500 to 600 votes, Thorwaldson recalled. It had also received the support of the Palo Alto Times. The district also helped create a nonprofit organization, the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST), which bought properties from landowners who wanted to avoid disclosing the sale amount to the public, which would have been necessary had the district made the purchase. The district took over management of some of these POST-owned lands, Hanko said. Though Midpen has acquired some land from donations and others through purchases, it has also on occasion taken land through eminent domain. In 46 years, it has exercised eminent domain just 16 times out of an estimated 800 or more land deals, the district confirmed. Hanko does not take eminent domain lightly. It is taking property away from someone for the greater public good, she said, but it still needs to be used rarely. “It should only be used as a last resort. It’s not a law we like to use,” she said. But when a major development threatens an area or when it is a benefit for the seller, Hanko is not against using eminent domain. In 2015, after three years of fruitless negotiation, the district board voted 7-1 to start eminent domain proceedings for the first time in
20 years against private landowners on Mt. Umunhum in the Sierra Azul Preserve in Los Gatos. The district sought to acquire 19 acres of property and a 40-foot-wide easement of more than 1.5 miles and a 200-yard-long section of roadway that would provide access to the mountain’s summit. The district eventually used eminent domain to purchase those properties for more than $1 million. One of the district’s more perilous attempts at eminent domain was in acquisition of 284 acres from a group of elderly, cloistered nuns. In 1998, the nuns of the Russian Convent of Our Lady of Vlad-
‘Nonette went from this ‘I don’t know what to do; I’m a piano teacher’ to basically realizing what she had to do. … She just became the most powerful politician in the area.’ — Jay Thorwaldson, former reporter, Palo Alto Times imir wanted to build a 100-acre monastery overlooking the ocean on a pristine ridge on Skyline Boulevard, south of Route 92. For 50 years, the nuns had already been persecuted in Russia and China. The nuns rejected all kinds of negotiations, including a land swap in Los Gatos, Hanko recalled. The nuns wanted a view of the ocean. “There were no knock-down, drag-outs with them, but they were in charge. They wanted to do everything their own way. They were all very independent women,” she said.
The district board voted 5-1 to acquire the property through eminent domain at fair-market value, according to news reports. The decision sparked outraged, and eventually the eminent domain idea was scrapped. The church decided to sell the property to the district after realizing the nuns — already in their 80s and 90s — wouldn’t be happy living in the wind and fog, Hanko recalled. The battle with the nuns came at a bad time for the district, which was also seeking to expand its boundaries to preserve open space in coastal San Mateo County in an area south of Devil’s Slide near Pacifica. “There was a great deal of fear about our use of eminent domain,” Hanko said, especially from the agricultural community. Then-Supervisor Mike Nevin, who represented the coastside, blasted the district as “property predators in conservationists’ clothing,” according to news reports. But Hanko said she spent much time talking to people on the phone and in person after public meetings. She always took a collaborative approach rather than an adversarial one as a way to achieve everyone’s goals. “We gave them reassurance that we weren’t really out to get them. It took a little time and convincing. We wanted everybody to succeed,” she said. Thorwaldson remembered her persuasive powers: “All alone on her own initiative, she meets with the ag people and says, ‘We love agricultural open space. We will agree not to use eminent domain on the coast.’ She won them over virtually single-handedly.” The district finally passed its Coastside Protection Program in September 2004 after seven years, extending its boundary to
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From left, Ed Shelley, Herb Grench, Dick Bishop, Craig and Melany Britton, Margo Britton, Nonette Hanko and Jim Bollend celebrate at Monte Bello in 1981 the district’s preservation of 10,000 acres. the Pacific Ocean from Pacifica to the Santa Cruz County line.
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anko said she never thought that saving the open spaces would take decades. “It’s something you just fall into,” she said of her life’s work. But it’s gratifying that “the longer we’ve existed, the more people seem to care about their open space,” she said. Public confidence was borne out when two-thirds of voters in June 2014 approved Measure AA, a $300 million general obligation bond for the acquisition of open space and for opening up and improving existing preserves. But she noted that a new generation will have to remain vigilant and carry on the vision of so many of her friends and neighbors. “Many of my friends have died. Almost every name of people I knew who were excited about saving open space are gone,” she said. Hanko, in fact, was just one of a group of women — also including Betsy Crowder and Mary Davey — whom today’s environmentalists credit with protecting the spaces many now take for granted. “They laid the foundation for POST’s work,” Walter Moore, president of POST, said. Their efforts “resulted in the legacy of preservation of the beauty of the area.” And that legacy still needs protecting, Hanko observed recently. With concerns over Stanford University’s current proposed revision of its general-use permit and suspicions by some that the university could have a long-term goal of expansion into the foothills, Hanko said the district holds a key to keeping such plans in check. Theirs is a wary relationship that dates back decades. In 1965, as vice president of the Committee for Green Foothills, Hanko and the nonprofit engaged in a protracted fight against Stanford University, which wanted to build an animal research lab at Coyote Hill, a large greenspace on the south side of Page Mill Road across from the Dish. Ultimately, Coyote Hill was preserved as open space because of public pressure and the Palo Alto Planning Commission, which
curtailed the university’s plan. The district does have the ability to obtain university land through its eminent domain powers, but Hanko said the university isn’t taking any actions thus far that would cause the district to intervene. “So long as they stay where they are, they’re OK,” she said. At Los Trancos Open Space Preserve last week, Hanko and her granddaughter Rebecca Rush rested beside a newly installed sign on a trail that is now named the Nonette Hanko San Andreas Fault Trail. Hundreds of schoolchildren have visited the faultline trail to learn about California’s most famous geological feature. Having a place that offers educational opportunities that can deepen public awareness and appreciation makes her glad, she said. The rift zone has long fascinated Hanko, with its varied plant life and geologic formations, including granite that migrated with the fault over eons from southern California to make up parts of Windy Hill. “Grandpa and I took that trail as far as we could,” she said of the fault that comes out of the Pacific Ocean at Point Reyes and goes all the way to Los Angeles. “It goes through private property and government property,” she told her granddaughter. Asked what her plans are for the future, Hanko said she wants to work on projects closer to home to make sure that city leaders follow through on protecting Palo Altans’ quality of life. But she also has a grander scheme in mind for the foothills, and it’s one she hopes the new district board will take seriously. She’d like to see all of the San Andreas rift zone trail area acquired by the district, from its beginnings in Marin County to southern California, so that people can hike the entire length. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com. About the cover: Nonette Hanko, whose efforts led to the creation of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, looks out at the foothills of the Monte Bello Open Space Preserve on Feb. 6. Photo by Veronica Weber.
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FLIGHT PATHS Stanford Art Gallery presents ‘Michael Richards: Winged’ 1963) was an emerging artist, just on the cusp of being discovered by the all-important New York art scene. He had taken part in the Studio Museum in Harlem Artist in Residence Program as well as a residency at the Bronx Museum. His work had been displayed at Francis Nauman Fine Art and he was active in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He was working in the LMCC World Views Studio on the 92nd floor of the World Trade Center when the planes struck on Sept. 11. He, along with thousands of others, perished that day Flash forward to 2016, when Stanford curators Alex Fialho and Melissa Levin were researching an exhibition about the LMCC residency program and became aware of Richards’ work. They found out that his estate, which included a substantial volume of his artistic output, was in the care
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In Air Fall 1 (His Eye is on the Sparrow, and I Know He’s Watching Me), airplanes nosedive toward the floor and are reflected back upward with a circular mirror.
of his cousin who lived in upstate New York. Embarking on a sort of “forensic curating,” they visited the cousin and found boxes of art and documentation stored in a garage. According to the exhibition catalog, the cousin, Dawn Dale, stated that she held on to the archive, knowing that his work would be seen again. “He wanted to say something to the world, but he’s still saying it. His work is saying it for him.” What Richards had to say was remarkably prescient and sadly ironic. On view in the center of the gallery is his best-known sculpture, Tar Baby vs. St. Sebastian (1999). Cast from his own body, the gold resin figure is clad in the uniform of a Tuskegee Airman. The simple read on the piece might be that the artist was honoring the famed African-American pilots who fought so valiantly in World War II. But the figure is under attack, pierced by small airplanes, a reference to the martyrdom of the arrow-pierced St. Sebastian and the fact that, although the black airmen were recognized for their bravery in the air, once back on land they faced exclusion and segregation. In a statement about his work, Richards wrote that his art, “allows for an examination of the psychic conflict which results from the desire to belong to and resist a society which denies blackness even as it affirms.” Needless to say, the piece also conjures up feelings of eeriness, given the circumstances of the artist’s death. A religious reference is also found in Air Fall I (His eye is on the sparrow, and I know he is watching me) from 1998. A large circular disc installed on the ceiling is the base for 50 small, suspended airplanes that nosedive towards the floor. The disc and planes are covered in black hair, a material often used by Richards as a metaphor for the standard of “how people judge me for my hair.” While it might, at first, be perceived as dark symbolism of death and destruction, a circular mirror on the floor reflects the planes and their flight path back upward. Just as in the familiar hymn, there is faith and hope in a greater, redemptive power. While the idea of flight is dominant in his sculptural work, Richards’ drawings reveal his interest in the idea of transcending
Henrik Kam/courtesy The Michael Richards Estate
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hen Vincent van Gogh died in 1890, his work could have easily fallen into obscurity had it not been for the tireless devotion of his sister-in-law, Johanna van Gogh. Thanks to her methodical marketing of his paintings and letters to galleries and museums, van Gogh has become a household name, both for the beauty of his artwork and his sad, turbulent life. One might make a similar comparison to the work of Michael Richards, whose sculptures and drawings are now on display at the Stanford Art Gallery. “Michael Richards: Winged” (on view until March 24) is a somber tribute to a young artist whose life ended too soon but who left behind a powerful and important body of work that is as relevant today as it was in 2001. At that time, Richards (born in
by Sheryl Nonnenberg
Tar Baby vs. St. Sebastian was cast from artist Micahel Richards’ own body and represents a Tuskegee pilot under attack. the bonds and boundaries of life. Gathered from various museum collections, the series “Escape Plan” reveals that the artist was a careful draftsman and a poet. Images of burning buildings and parachutes are accompanied by thoughtful handwritten notations that address feelings of anxiety and dread. The last in the series, however, reflects the artist’s sense of humor, as he drew the ultimate escape plan, a (winning) lottery ticket. Fialho, himself an alumnus of Stanford’s art history program, acknowledged that undergraduates exist in the “Stanford University bubble” and, to them, the events of 9/11 may seem distant. Both curators feel, however, that the message of Michael Richards’ art is timely and, perhaps sadly, just as reflective of society today as it was during his lifetime. Their catalog essay states, “Materially and conceptually, Richards used the language of metaphor to investigate racial inequality and the tension between assimilation and exclusion in his art. Aviation, flight and escape were central themes of Richards’ work, gesturing towards both repression and reprieve from social injustices, and the simultaneous possibilities of uplift and
downfall, often in the context of the historical and ongoing oppression of black people.” The exhibition ends with insight into the artist himself. A wall of testimonials from artists, curators, gallery and museum directors reveal that Richards was an intelligent, talented and well-loved figure. Among many glowing tributes is a touching comment from a fellow artist, Sam Seawright, who wrote, “It’s devastatingly sad poetry that he was in the studio, giving everything he had to his art, on the morning of 9/11.” Thanks to the efforts of Fialho, Levin and the Stanford Department of Art and Art History, the work — and life — of Michael Richards will not be forgotten. Q Freelance writer Sheryl Nonnenberg can be emailed at nonnenberg@aol.com. What: “Michael Richards: Winged.” Where: Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lasuen Mall, Stanford. When: Through March 24; Tuesday-Sunday noon-6 p.m. Cost: Free. Info: Go to art.stanford.edu/ exhibitions/michael-richardswinged.
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Gunn group releases second album Students and alumni collaborate on musical project ‘Airborne’
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group of 75 students and several alumni from Palo Alto’s Gunn High School released a full-length album on Jan. 9. The 16-track, hip-hop heavy “Airborne” is the second album from the Gunn collaborative, following “Liftoff,” released in 2017. “Airborne” is filled with personal stories based around the perspectives of Gunn students. “Wings” comes from the point of view of a senior student stepping out into his second semester and diversifying into the arts — joining the school play, dancing and rapping more. “Tides” describes familial and academic pressures stacking up and hurting mental health. The sound of the album is unified by rock guitar riffs, symphonic and airy production, and hip-hop sampling, true to the style established in the “Liftoff.” The project began with Zac Sanders (now a film student at Biola University), who first aspired to produce an album as a Gunn underclassman. Citing Kanye West as his biggest musical inspiration, he began making tracks for “Liftoff” in 2016. Midway through, a song gaining traction on Soundcloud led him to the
artist, another Gunn student. Sean Yu joined him in producing “Liftoff.” Shortly after, Yu started on the tracks for “Airborne.” After making backing tracks, testing melodies and drum patterns and establishing the album theme, Yu gathered artists using a Facebook group, where the producers posted instrumentals. Members were welcome to add friends and other musicians, as long as they were Gunn students or alumni. Several vocalists were handpicked based on their posted Soundcloud covers — the same way Sanders had inducted Yu into the making of “Liftoff.” If multiple artists wanted to rap on the same instrumental, the team of four producers modified the beat to accommodate new ideas. “I don’t think anyone was ever cut,” Yu said. “The goal of the album was to make quality music and get as many people involved as possible — it’s a balance.” The participation of so many meant that the recording phase stretched beyond the two-month timeline Yu had anticipated. Some students had their own mics and sent Yu recordings. For the others, Yu drove from house to house
with his portable Audio-Technica AT2020 mic, often coaching his fellow artists to inspire their best singing or rapping performance. “I’d say to do it in this voice, think about that emotion, or make a ‘stank’ face — it helps!” Yu remembered. While the album was created without any official school affiliation, the students benefited from a quiet private gathering place. The school library’s audio conference room was furnished with sound absorbers, a studio microphone and a desktop computer running Logic Pro X, the production software that all four producers used. Librarian Daljeet Gill, “an advocate for student podcasts and music-oriented production students are interested in, went to the district for a grant,” Yu explained. Half the recording took place in that room during flex periods. “The third step was the most boring,” Yu said. He and another producer, Michael Zhang, used mastering plug-ins to ensure the track volumes were balanced. Some of the artists brought them chicken nuggets for moral support as they labored for two days, pulling near all-nighters to meet their set deadline.
Courtesy Sean Yu
by Esther Young
A group of 75 Gunn High School students and recent alumni collaborated on the musical project “Airborne.” On Jan. 9, the official release date, the students gathered in the library audio room during flex period. “It was a magical day,” Yu said. “This project has changed the attitude towards music at Gunn and around Palo Alto — the goal being to inspire creativity in high school students and the Palo Alto community in general,” collaborator Thomas Burton told the Weekly in an email. “This album is set to increase the quality standard of what teens can create independently, and give
people a glimpse of what large collaborative efforts can accomplish.” The album is available on Spotify (search Yu’s artist name, “soyybean”) and is also available on Soundcloud at soundcloud.com/ soyybean/sets/airborne. Q Contributor Esther Young can be emailed at eyoung@alumni. scu.edu.
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Eating Out State of Mind Public House and Pizzeria’s “grandma pie” is a double-proofed and double-baked pan pizza with mozzarella, organic sauce, pecorino cheese and fresh basil. by Edward Gerard Fike Photos by Magali Gauthier
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ritical acclaim came quickly to State of Mind Public House and Pizzeria, the bustling family-owned eatery located at the site of the former Maltby’s in downtown Los Altos. The restaurant’s audacious “What the Duck” pizza, which combined duck, pickled cherries and foie gras, won Best Non-Traditional Pizza at the International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas in 2017, securing State of Mind an awardwinning pedigree nine months before it opened. Judging by the sizeable crowds that have packed the 100-seat restaurant since its debut last January, that victory in Vegas was no mirage. My two recent visits to State of Mind confirmed that the menu indeed offered some show-stopping
pizza and beer choices, though some side dishes missed the mark. State of Mind is an unusual name for a restaurant, but co-owner Lars Smith convincingly sold it to me, explaining that it is a celebration of California and its spirited inhabitants, drawing particular inspiration from the Golden State’s bounty of fresh ingredients. “Our food is made from scratch and sourced locally to take advantage of the diversity of agriculture,” said Smith. “We serve only the type of high-quality food that we would eat ourselves.” The “Made in California” stamp appears most visibly at the restaurant’s centerpiece bar, which features a whopping 30 craft beers and ciders on tap, all produced by independent brewers in-state. Coproprietor Andrew Smith, Lars’ brother, has curated an expansive, eclectic local line up which includes IPAs, lagers, stouts, sours and more.
State of Mind offers an array of beers on tap, including the above dark lager and berline weisse from Modern Times Beer, red ale from Karl Strass Brewing Company, double IPA with grapefruit from Stone Brewing and a Mexican-style lager from Pizza Port.
The taps — with the exception of the first five positions reserved for Firestone Walker, Sierra Nevada, Drake’s, Anchor Steam and Stone Brewing — are in constant rotation. During my visits, I discovered the crisp MadeWest Pilsner and the golden, citrusy Penske File Ale from Faction Brewing Company. Even seasoned beer enthusiasts are apt to make appealing new finds among State of Mind’s roulette wheel of singular craft beers. Past the bar in the far west corner, an arcade showcasing about a dozen classic ‘90s pinball and video games (hello, Simpsons and Ninja Turtles) draws a mix of youngsters and older nostalgia trippers. The remainder of the airy, rectangular space contains both high top and communal seating. The understated, comfy décor features framed vintage Californiathemed beer labels and posters mixed among three jumbo, sportsstreaming televisions. As one might expect, State of Mind’s pizza and beer tandem exert a stubborn superiority over the rest of the menu. A newbie ordering at the bar — there’s no table service here — will likely cede his or her place in line at least once while attempting to settle on one of the obscure craft beers or the temptingly-described pizzas. I swooned over the heirloom goat pizza ($22, serves two to three people) which was layered with creamy chevre, garlic, mozzarella, fresh basil and a liberal sprinkling of juicy, vibrantly colored heirloom cherry tomatoes. The hand-stretched dough was cooked to yield a soft, slightly chewy center and a New York-style crust that had just the right amount of crunch. The limited quantity “grandma pie” ($20.50)
— only 10 are sold each day — was a dense and delicious double-baked, double-proofed, pan-style pizza with mozzarella, red sauce, extra virgin olive oil and pecorino. I was glad I added some piquant pepperoni for additional heat. Surprisingly, my least favorite of the trio was a modified version of the prize-winning “What the Duck” ($26). The pizza was composed of an unwieldy frisée salad dressed with a beer-based vinaigrette served atop a layer of mozzarella and toma cheese, meager servings of shredded duck and a potent pairing of pickled cherries and cherry relish. The acidic dressing and tart cherry flavors heavily obscured a final ingredient designed to be the standout: the savory foie gras and black garlic cream sauce. (Alas, readers hoping to get their initial taste of this item are out of luck for the foreseeable future: The owners pulled it from the menu following the recent court-ordered reinstatement of California’s ban on foie gras.) Selections from the “Bites and Fries” sections of the menu veered unsatisfyingly into Midwest comfort food territory. The “Almost World Famous” jalapeño balls ($8) arrived lukewarm, the soupy cheese filling overshadowing the much too mild peppers. Dirty fries ($10.50) were a gooey concoction of Kennebec fried potatoes, beer cheese sauce, bacon and jalapeño peppers. The soft, thinly-sliced fries could not stand up to the morass of thick, chalky cheese. A pair of exquisite salads marked a return to West Coast fresh. I savored the winterland salad ($10.50), a bountiful bed of crunchy greens laden with slightly sour pomegranates, quinoa, fennel and crumbled
ricotta salata. My dining companions enjoyed their classic wedge ($11) with iceberg lettuce, Point Reyes blue cheese and copious bits of crisp, salty bacon. Considering its carb-centric, generously portioned mains and sides, State of Mind is wise to keep its dessert menu simple. The sweets section is comprised of root beer floats, true beer floats for those 21 and over and seasonal cookies. State of Mind’s service was genuine and welcoming, though bussers struggled to keep up during one peak-hour Friday evening visit. Bar staff exhibited the owners’ passion for local craft beer, offering pairing suggestions and dispensing sample pours of recommended drafts. Despite the prominence of acoustic ceiling tiles throughout the restaurant, Lars Smith was candid about the noise level. “It’s loud,” he said, “but people come here to celebrate, and that’s a wonderful sound.” Q Freelance writer Edward Gerard Fike can be reached at egfike@gmail.com. State of Mind Public House and Pizzeria, 101 Plaza North, Los Altos; 650-383-5210; stateofmindpublichouse.com Hours: Monday-Sunday 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Reservations
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Movies Mads Mikkelsen plays a man stranded in the Arctic after an airplane crash in “Arctic.”
On thin ice
‘Arctic’ a chilly showcase for Danish actor 001/2 (Aquarius)
Energy Resources Engineering Special Seminar Town Hall Meeting Measure G, San Luis Obispo County, CA BAN ON OIL AND GAS DRILLING IN SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY IS IT SAFE, DOES IT AFFECT THE LOCAL ECONOMY (A dramatization) February 20, 2019 ( Wed) 5:30 – 7:30pm Lecture Hall C102, Knight Management Center Graduate School of Business San Luis Obispo County is located on the Central Coast of California and extends from just north of Santa Maria on the South, to Paso Robles on the North, to Kern County on the East, and West to the Pacific Ocean. It has a beautiful coastline with white sand beaches and numerous tourist attractions such as Hearst Castle, vineyards and wineries. Farming and ranching are prominent and the county is home to California Polytechnic State University. The area is also home to several oil fields, the largest being the Arroyo Grande Oil Field which has been producing oil for over 75 years. Some concerned citizens and environmental groups have claimed that the use of “fracking”, acid well stimulation treatments and disposal of oil and gas wastewater in ponds and wells, and the unabated drilling of new oil and gas wells have and will cause harm to the County’s citizens and environment. The oil and gas operators say that oil and gas operations have been conducted for over 75 years without any detrimental environmental or health effects and that cutting back and eventually ceasing oil operations will have a serious negative effect on the local economy. They point out that hundreds of jobs are at risk and declining tax revenues will exact a severe economic hardship on local school district budgets. In 2018, local residents drafted an initiative to ban fracking, limit future drilling, well stimulation, and operations and restrict disposal of water produced with oil. They collected 20,000 signatures and got an initiative on the November 2018 general election ballot known as Measure G. The Town Hall seminar will address each of these issues and involves students assuming the roles of key players including oil company executives, environmental organization leaders, California state regulatory agency officials, state and local legislators, and royalty owners. Local business owners and nearby residents will voice their concerns about economic effects, health and safety. The seminar is sponsored by the Department of Energy Resources Engineering. The Seminar is part of the Winter Quarter Classes, ERE 267/266, Oil and Gas Property Evaluation taught by Professors Warren Kourt and Kiran Pande. Members of the Stanford Community and the public are invited to attend. For more information, contact yolandad@stanford.edu.
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“Hannibal.” American Few films have ever OPENINGS audiences are more kept it simpler — in terms of plot and character — than used to seeing Mikkelsen play “Arctic,” a calling card from Bra- second fiddle but “Arctic” — an zilian YouTube sensation and first- American-Icelandic co-production time feature filmmaker Joe Penna. — puts the quietly powerful actor Granted, the 19-day shoot in Ice- front and center as a man already land probably wasn’t very simple, stranded in the titular region when but this showcase for Danish actor the film begins. Mikkelsen’s Overgard proves Mads Mikkelsen features almost no dialogue in its single-minded enormously resourceful at sustaining himself in the bitter cold, focus on a trek toward survival. Best known as a character ac- taking shelter in his downed plane tor, Mikkelsen may not quite be and keeping just ahead of starvaa household name but he has a tion by fishing and rationing. familiar face. Moviegoers will Matters take a yet more alarming remember him as Bond baddie turn after a failed rescue mission Le Chiffre in “Casino Royale,” leaves Overgard in the company for substantial roles in “Doctor of an unconscious young woman Strange” and “Rogue One,” or for (Maria Thelma Smaradottir). playing Dr. Lecter on the TV series Miles from an outpost, Overgard
assesses his limited resources, calculates his limited time and decides to trek toward rescue instead of waiting around for more disaster. To do so, he must load the young woman on a makeshift sled and haul her, no small task. And that’s it. “Arctic” is defiantly minimalistic. The screenplay by Penna and Ryan Morrison doesn’t go the way of the James Franco survival pic “127 Hours” and offer character-building visions or flashbacks, nor does it allow the meditative voice-over of the Robert Redford survival pic “All is Lost.” So there’s a kind of rigor in “Arctic” that forces one to be there now with Overgard, but there’s also a total lack of context for the characters — context that might heighten our identification and involvement. And perhaps that’s the point: Do we really need any more rooting interest than human beings in distress? Perhaps not, but “Arctic” is on thin ice. The film skates its icy surface without ever aspiring to be more than one more prolonged “can this guy survive?” tale. And while Penna shoots and edits the material well enough, its familiar paces probably wouldn’t be tolerable were it not for Mikkelsen, whose grim visage crucially gives the film a racing mind and a beating heart. He’s a study in minimalism all on his own, and thus a perfect fit for Penna’s lean adventure. Rated PG-13 for language and some bloody images. One hour, 37 minutes. — Peter Canavese
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Home Front TALK ON RHODODENDRONS ... On Wednesday, Feb. 20, the DeAnza Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society will hold a free program by Tim Walsh on rhododendrons in Germany and Wales. The talk will be at 7:30 p.m. in the basement of the Los Altos Masonic Lodge, 146 Main St., Los Altos. Walsh, who lives in Eureka, served as president of the Eureka Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society, played a major role in the establishment of the Humboldt Botanical Garden and also is a University of California master gardener.
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REPOTTING ORCHIDS ... Learn how to keep your phalaenopsis orchids (the scientific name for the common household orchid) healthy at Summerwinds Nursery’s free, 30-minute class on “Repotting Your Orchid” at 9 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 24. The class will demystify what can be an intimidating task. Summerwinds Nursery is located at 725 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto. To register, go to summerwindsnursery.com. AGE IN PLACE ... If you’re thinking ahead and want to make sure your remodel or retrofits help you stay in your home, sign up for a workshop by Harrell Remodeling on “Designing Your Home Today for All Your Tomorrows.” Learn to do updates that provide accessibility for all ages and abilities. The 2-hour workshop will be held Saturday, March 2 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at 944 Industrial Road in Palo Alto. To register go to harrell-remodeling.com.
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by Elizabeth Lorenz 44 percent of the natural gas use in the city, Tam said. Electric heat pump water heaters powered by Palo Alto’s carbon neutral electricity have a zero carbon footprint, according to the city’s website. Elvert said if the city can get residents to start thinking about their water heaters, they can begin to consider options well before the 10-year lifespan on their traditional gas water heater is up. “The challenge is that when your water heater goes out it’s an emergency. People often don’t do research in advance. When it stops working, it’s a crisis,” Elvert said. About 90 percent of Palo Alto residents have water heaters fueled by natural gas, said Hiromi Kelty, a utility program manager for Palo Alto Utilities. Kelty said calling gas “natural” is kind of a misnomer. Natural gas, which is actually a fossil fuel, leaks from homes and other buildings into the atmosphere and contributes significantly to greenhouse gases. As electric power is being generated by cleaner and cleaner sources, the scales are tipping in favor of electric power and thus many utilities are promoting electrical home
Heat pump water heaters, which are powered by electricity, work best in a garage or in a space where it can get maximum air flow. These heaters pull in ambient warm air and use it to heat a tank of water.
appliances over gas ones. A heat pump water heater works like a refrigerator or air conditioner, but in reverse, Kelty explained. It takes the warm air out of a room and uses it to heat a tank of water. At the same time, by taking the warmth out of the air, it also cools the immediate area around it. This type of system is very energy efficient. “For every unit of energy input, you get three units of output,” Kelty said. The main trick with heat pump water heaters is they need air space around them (about a 2-foot minimum all the way around) to draw ambient air into the pump, which is used to heat the water. A furnace or dryer nearby can heat the nearby air and help with the water heater’s efficiency. Heat pump water heaters work best in places like garages, but its possible to install them in water heater closets that are vented to the outside, or indoors in utility rooms, as long as there is a way to vent the air. The U.S. Department of Energy recommends installing the water heaters in a space with excess heat, such as a furnace room, because the HPWH system works more efficiently in a warm climate. Kelty said not only are electric water heaters more cost efficient, but they are easy to use. HPWH have a “very friendly user interface” that can be adjusted remotely and put on different modes, depending on the needs of the household. New Palo Alto homes are not mandated to have this new type of water heater, but Tam said: “We all agree that electrification is the wave of the future.” For more information about the Palo Alto Utilities’ HPWH pilot program, go to bit.ly/ PAHPWH. Q Elizabeth Lorenz is the Home and Real Estate Editor at the Weekly. She can be emailed at elorenz@embarcaderopublishing. com.
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Home sales are provided by California REsource, a real estate information company that obtains the information from the County Recorder’s Office. Information is recorded from the deeds after the close of escrow and published within four to six weeks.
East Palo Alto
211 Verbena Drive Y. Li to E. & E. Brimhall for $880,000 on 1/11/19; previous sale 4/10/2015, $600,000 2442 Fordham Street J. & M. Godinez to E. Pulido for $970,000 on 1/11/19; previous sale 7/15/2010, $346,000 777 Avelar Street Chahal-Singh Trust to M. & G. Shoham for $1,200,000 on 01-11-19; previous sale 12-29-2003, $624,950
Los Altos 150 West Edith Avenue #4 D. Ratner to P. & U. Anand for $1,060,000 on 1/11/19; previous sale 12/7/2012, $565,000 889 North San Antonio Road #2030 Eben 818 LLC to E. & A. Zhu for $1,799,000 on 1/11/19 1433 Miramonte AvenueWilliam Yao Trust to Craftsmens Guild Inc for $2,200,000 on 1/8/19 324 Cherry Avenue Menlo Funding Corp to Mssp Trust for $2,595,000 on 1/7/19; previous sale 10/2/2018, $2,350,000 695 Berry Avenue H. & J. Woo to Moin Family Trust for $3,000,000 on 1/10/19; previous sale 8/23/2001, $860,000
Los Altos Hills
27800 Edgerton Road Gary & Lisa Elliott Trust to B D A Trust for $4,200,000 on 1/9/19; previous sale 7/10/2003, $1,950,000 12538 Briones Way J. Frailong to Raman Trust for $5,000,000 on 1/11/19; previous sale 9/13/2010, $2,540,000
SALES AT A GLANCE East Palo Alto
Menlo Park
Total sales reported: 3 Lowest sales price: $880,000 Highest sales price: $1,200,000 Median sales price: $970,000 Average sales price: $1,016,700
Total sales reported: 3 Lowest sales price: $771,500 Highest sales price: $3,300,000 Median sales price: $2,400,000 Average sales price: $2,157,200
Los Altos
Mountain View
Total sales reported: 5 Lowest sales price: $1,060,000 Highest sales price: $3,000,000 Median sales price: $2,200,000 Average sales price: $2,130,800
Total sales reported: 6 Lowest sales price: $497,000 Highest sales price: $2,550,000 Median sales price: $1,433,750 Average sales price: $1,453,300
Los Altos Hills
Palo Alto
Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $4,200,000 Highest sales price: $5,000,000 Median sales price: $4,600,000 Average sales price: $4,600,000
Total sales reported: 9 Lowest sales price: $555,000 Highest sales price: $6,000,000 Median sales price: $2,600,000 Average sales price: $2,689,800 Source: California REsource
Menlo Park
797 Live Oak Avenue G. Gallo to 797 Live Oak LLC for $771,500 on 1/8/19; previous sale 3/24/2017, $2,410,000 1330 University Drive #81 P. Mills to A. & J. Barkal for $2,400,000 on 1/11/19; previous sale 6/18/2007, $1,451,000 1350 Elder Avenue J A Rees Prop Trust to Shreibati Family Trust for $3,300,000 on 1/8/19; previous sale 3/31/2017, $2,995,000
Mountain View
473 Hope Street #1 P. & L. Wang to L Wang Family Partners Lp for $497,000 on 1/11/19; previous sale 7/9/2003, $42,500 505 Cypress Point Drive #122Anita Marmouget Living
Trust to Wsz Trust for $668,000 on 1/11/19 853 Donovan Way J. Wong to L. Peng for $1,255,000 on 01-0919 (previous sale 08-13-2008, $633,500) 3906 Degree Lane Pulte Home Co LLC to Y. Liu for $1,612,500 on 01-08-19 1861 Montecito Avenue S. & J. Mcphie to Luthe Selfgutierrez Family Trust for $2,137,000 on 1/7/19; previous sale 2/26/2013, $1,110,000 900 Madison Drive Day Harbor LLC to S. & D. Kim for $2,550,000 on 1/9/19; previous sale 10/27/2015, $2,300,000
Palo Alto
562 Kelly Way P. Wang to L Wang Family Ptshp Lp for
$555,000 on 1/11/19; previous sale 12/18/1997, $446,000 765 San Antonio Road #37 Michell Hogan Trust to C. Wang for $1,160,000 on 1/10/19 4147 Park Boulevard T. & A. Nguyen to T. Dang for $1,850,000 on 1/8/19; previous sale 8/10/2004, $770,000 289 Fernando Avenue Kevin Hall 2017 Trust to K. & M. Zhu for $1,900,000 on 1/7/19; previous sale 1/1/1988, $145,500 3414 Kenneth Drive Raman Trust to B. & M. Kutscher for $2,600,000 on 1/7/19; previous sale 9/15/1999, $620,000 1074 Moffett Circle Connolly Family Trust to Y. & Y. Lu for $2,718,000 on 1/7/19 2053 Princeton Street Stewart Tinsman Trust to C. Zhong for
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$3,625,000 on 1/8/19; previous sale 2/18/2016, $3,600,000 1130 University Avenue University J LLC to Y. & S. Liu for $3,800,000 on 1/11/19; previous sale 6/13/2018, $76,000 2017 Oberlin Street O. Mizrahi to Stanford Jewish Center Inc for $6,000,000 on 1/11/19
BUILDING PERMITS
A listing of building projects approved by the city of Palo Alto. 3582 Arbutus Ave. Revision to change to radiant heat floor and replace existing tankless water heater. 11 Tulip Lane Tub overflow and closet bend replacement for hallway bathroom. $4,077. 1301 Bryant St. Install 300 sf concrete slab with drains and retaining walls for future pool. $23,000. 2041 Alma St. Residential sewer line replacement, 35 feet. 1862 Edgewood Drive Remodel residential interior hall bathroom (52 sf) and relocate door and window on first floor. $5,540. 957 Embarcadero Road Sewer replacement. 831 Timlott Lane Repair water damage (860 sf). Remodel two and a half bathrooms, replace interior drywall on all exterior walls of second floor, replace exterior sideing on second floor and ceiling drywall in two bedrooms. Replace two furnaces, reconnect existing water heater, replace wiring on second floor, replace drywall in den. $99,889. 1766 Fulton St. Residential interior remodel including kitchen and three bathrooms, along with LED lights in living room. $15,000.
471 Channing Ave. Add airconditioning unit to mechanical distribution. 3846 Magnolia Drive Install residential level 2 electricvehicle charger outside garage. $800. 335 Ferne Ave. Replace tankless water heater. 320 Guinda St. Updated site plan to show 118 sf shed. 724 Arastradero Road Sewer line replacement , garage ceiling in apartment complex. 381 Stanford Ave. Upgrade main panel to 125 amps, rewire lights in whole house, as well as switches and outlets. 527 Maybell Ave.Temporary power, 100-amp temporary post so substation has power while new relays are installed at existing switch gear. 3720 Ortega Court Residential electric-vehicle charger (50 amps) installed in exterior of home near driveway with an associated subpanel. 1763 Park Blvd. Residential sewer line replacement. Scope of work includes new house cleanout. $14,000. 192 Lytton Ave. Vivo: install 2 non-illuminated wall signs. $22,000. 1501 Page Mill Road HP: Interior non-structural demolition (3,245 sf) 316 Waverley St. Fix two union joints for gas leak repair. 568 Kelly Way Electric service upgrade to 200 amps. $3,500. 518 Bryant St. Structural revision: add footings in basement, strengthen beams on first and second floors, replace damaged joists and add new post. 2847 Kipling St. Furnace replacement in garage and add air-conditioning unit at rear. $20,000.
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WHERE THERE’S A WILLS ...Freshman Bryce Wills continues to develop at a rapid pace and it showed during the final minute of Stanford’s 79-76 victory over visiting USC on Wednesday night. He scored four of his 11 points in the final 14 seconds to give the Cardinal men’s basketball team a much-needed boost following its one-sided loss at Oregon on Sunday. “We got smashed in the mouth and didnít take it very well,” Wills said. “This game was a redemption game for us. We had to get back on track.” Marcus Sheffield, who has hardly been heard from this year, added a season-high 16 points for Stanford (13-11, 6-6). It’s not a stretch to think the Cardinal can win four of its remaining six games, with four home games and a two-game trip to Arizona left. Sheffield, who missed of all last year with an injury, hit a key 3-pointer to help Stanford rally from a 14-point deficit. “I stay prepared, come in and play defense,” Sheffield said. “The shots are going to come.” KZ Okpala added 18 points before fouling out and Josh Sharma continued a hot streak with 14 points and nine rebounds for the Cardinal, which has won four of its last five. Sharma is averaging 11.1 points, 8.1 rebounds and over 70 percent shooting from the field over his past eight games for Stanford. He averaged 7.8 points and 4.9 rebounds over his first 16 games. Wills hit a layup with 14 seconds remaining to put Stanford ahead 77-76. He missed an ensuing free throw and USC called time to set up a play. “Coach tells us to keep fighting,” Wills said. “We fought back.” Sheffield hit a 3-pointer to bring the Cardinal within 76-75 and Sharma made a key steal at the other end. “It was a set play,” Sheffield said. “I came off my screen and knocked it down.” The Cardinal trailed by as many as 14 points before bouncing back. Stanford took its first lead of the game with 12:02 remaining to play when Sharma sank a short jumper for a 52-51 advantage. Stanford played without point guard Daejon Davis, who missed his second straight game with an upper body injury. The Cardinal hosts UCLA at 7 p.m. Saturday. The Bruins beat Cal in overtime on Wednesday.
ON THE MAT ...Menlo College junior Solin Piearcy earned TheMat.com Athlete of the Week honors after winning her division of the Womenís Collegiate Wrestling Association national championships over the weekend in Georgia. Piearcy, a former Cupertino star, was instrumental in helping Menlo College win its first national title of any kind. A threetime All-American, Piearcy, won the 136-pound title, earning technical falls in all five of her matches en route to her first WCWA individual title. Piearcy, ranked No. 2 going into the weekend, opened the tournament with threeconsecutive 10-0 shutouts. In the semifinals, she shut down 2016 Cadet World bronze medalist Kayla Marano of Emmanuel in a dominating 14-4 performance. The final paired Piearcy with top-ranked Nicole Joseph of King, a 2018 All-American. After a slow start, Piearcy led, 1-1, on criteria, going into the break. In the second period, Piearcy got a chance on top, taking down Joseph with a low single attack. The Oak rattled off four leg laces to end it with an 11-1 tech fall. The win clinched the title for Menlo, which entered the final round trailing Simon Fraser.
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Menlo-Atherton senior and team captain Lauren McDonnell (right) is one of four Bears who will be defending a Central Coast Section title this weekend at Independence High in San Jose. The championship round is scheduled to begin 7 p.m. Saturday.
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he girls wrestling program at Menlo-Atherton has come full circle, having grown from a single wrestler to one on the verge of capturing its third consecutive Central Coast Section title. Senior Folashade Akinola will be going for her fourth straight title, something only Gunn grad Cadence Lee (2011-14) has achieved. Until last year, M-A had a total of three CCS champions in its history (Akinola, Chelsea Wilson and Kendra Wiley). The Bears produced four CCS champions last year and two others reached the championship match. With all six returning, it could be another record year when the tournament opens Friday at Independence High. The boys get going at 10 a.m. while the girls start at 6 p.m. On Saturday, everybody starts wrestling at 10 a.m. and the boys and girls finals will run concurrently beginning at 7 p.m. Akinola (189), Anna Smith (131), Lauren McDonnell (137) and Abby Ericson (160) are defending champions. Evelyn Calhoon (121) and Angie Bautista (126) were CCS runner-ups a year ago. All six are seeded first or second and Paola Ramirez is the fourth
seed at 116. For Palo Alto, Ashley Wang is second second in 121, behind Calhoon. Alexandra Lee is the sixth seed at 126 and Zoe Wong-VanHaren is an alternate seed at 111. Gunn’s Kayla Lin (126) and Mikayla Silverman are both alternate seeds. On the boys side, Palo Alto’s Andrew Wang (126) is a second seed and Adar Schwarzbach (132) is a four seed. Dara Haydorpour (138), Max Felter (106) and Charlie Williams (160) are alternates. Gunn does not have a seeded wrestler but SCVAL champions Timothy Waymouth (152) and Dash Lee (182), Cadence’s younger brother, are experienced wrestlers at this level and have the chance to qualify for state. The top three in each weight class automatically qualify. “For me it’s been a strong support system, a lot of hours on the mat and in the weight room, working hard,” Akinola said. “I have a vision of what I want. All I want is to wrestle and I love doing it.” Akinola finished second in the state meet last year and it seems appropriate that she has a chance to win a state title, joining Wilson as M-A’s only female state champs in the sport.
“She was a great leader,” Akinola said. “She was well-grounded, amazingly disciplined and a great technician.” Akinola followed her older brother, a wrestler and football player at M-A, into sports. She’s good enough to be recruited but has her priorities are centered around her senior year. “I want to get through state and be proud of that,” Akinola said. “I’m focused on grades and doing well academically before I start looking at colleges. Calhoon didn’t need to wrestle -- soccer is her first love -- but was attracted to the energy, the outright enthusiasm, of the wrestling room. “Wrestling is what I call my offseason sport,” said Calhoon, who recently signed with Brown for soccer. “I love this time. It’s good for cross-training. The sport is so grueling. There aren’t 10 other players around you.” Calhoon wrestled her older brother but stopped after twisting an ankle a couple years ago during a snow trip to the Lake Tahoe region. Calhoon plays with the Mountain View-Los Altos soccer team, surrounded by Division I candidates. She will join former MVLA teammate Sara Bermudez, who
attended Mercy Burlingame, at Brown in the fall of 2020. Calhoon is taking a year off before beginning her college career. McDonnell placed fifth in last year’s state meet. She withdraw in the placement round of her last tournament because of illness. She said she was healthy and ready to go. Ericson has never finished lower than third in the CCS and qualified for the state meet the previous three years, placing sixth last year. Calhoon won three of her five bouts at the state meet. Ramirez was a CCS quarterfinalist last year. Practices at M-A can get pretty intense, as recent Menlo College graduates Cady Chessin, a former CCS champion from Los Gatos, Melanie Cordero and Lahi Kanakanui are coaches and sparring partners to the team. “You see it all in our room,” Calhoon said. “We don’t need to go anywhere else to find sparring partners. You feel so prepared.” “It’s a gift to be in a room with so many dedicated female coaches,” Akinola said. “They’re also some of the top wrestlers in the nation. That’s a good level of sparring.” Which could lead to success this weekend.Q
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Hannah Jump will help lead Pinewood into the CCS Open Division with an eye on playing Mitty in the championship game next Friday at Santa Clara University.
CCS basketball brackets loaded with local teams M-A boys are seeded fourth in the Open Division by Glenn Reeves
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CCS public schools as they are the only non-private selected for either the boys or girls Open Division. In the girls Open Division bracket, Pinewood (22-2), as expected, received the No. 2 seed. The Panthers will play No. 7 St. Francis on Friday at 5:30 p.m. at Gunn. St. Francis (14-8) is coached by Sami Polisso, who played at Pinewood for longtime Pinewood coach Doc Scheppler. The two teams have played once before this season. Back on Dec. 22 Pinewood blew out the Lancers 72-27. In other CCS Open girls quarterfinal matchups, No. 5 Menlo School (21-3) will play No. 4 St. Ignatius (15-9) on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Gunn. St. Ignatius defeated Menlo 66-51 on Dec. 1 in a tournament at Marin Catholic. The Wildcats are one of two teams, with Pinewood, to beat the Knights this year. Eastside Prep (13-11) was also selected for the Open Division as the No. 8 seed. The Panthers have the arduous task of taking on No. 1 seed Archbishop Mitty (22-2) on Friday at 5:30 p.m. at Christopher High in Gilroy. Eastside finished third in the West Bay Athletic League, behind Pinewood and Menlo. The three-time Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division champion Palo Alto girls received the No. 1 seed and the Palo Alto boys, who finished second in the SCVAL De Anza Division, are the No. 3 seed in Division I. Both Palo Alto teams will play their first games on Tuesday in a doubleheader at Paly, the girls at 5:30 and the boys at 7. Menlo-Atherton received the No. 5 seed in girls Division I and will play Saturday at home at 7 p.m. against the winner of the Friday game between Homestead
Sports Half Moon Bay (14-10) and No. 9 Menlo (15-9) will play at No. 8 Terra Nova (16-9). Both games are on Saturday at 7 p.m. And after winning the West Bay Athletic League regular-season title, the Eastside Prep boys (16-7) received the No. 1 seed in Division V. Pinewood (10-14), the No. 8 seed, will host the Pacific Point-Oakwood winner on Saturday at 7 p.m. The winner of Saturday’s game will play at Eastside on Tuesday at 7. No. 6 seed Priory (8-16) will host the Crystal Springs Uplands-Summit Shasta winner on Saturday at 7 p.m. Unseeded Kehillah (12-7) will play at No. 10 Mountain View Academy (17-3), FriJustin Anderson helped Menlo-Atherton grab a fourth seed in day at 2 p.m.Q the Open Division.
ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Klara Astrom
Timothy Waymouth
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The senior scored 65 points in two games last week as the Panthers clinched the WBAL Foothill Division title. She also had 13 rebounds and five assists. She recorded seven steals in a win over Menlo.
The senior won the 152-pound weight class at the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League championships over the weekend and Gunn finished fifth. Waymouth pinned four opponents en route to the title.
Menlo soccer
Carly Martin Palo Alto basketball
Hannah Jump* Pinewood basketball
Linnea Lindblom Menlo-Atherton basketball
Ria Rajput Gunn basketball
Jacob Anderson Sacred Heart Prep soccer
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Saturday College women’s swimming: Stanford at California, noon., Pac-12 Networks College softball: Portland State at Stanford, 4:45 p.m., Stanford Live Stream College men’s volleyball: Concordia at Stanford, 5 p.m., Stanford Live Stream 2 College softball: Colorado State at Stanford, 7 p.m., Stanford Live Stream College men’s basketball: UCLA at Stanford, 7 p.m., ESPN2
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College women’s basketball: Stanford at USC, noon, Pac-12 Networks College women’s basketball: Oregon at Stanford, 1 p.m., ESPN2 College wrestling: Cal Poly at Stanford, noon, Pac-12 Networks
Honorable mention Sophie Jones*
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and Piedmont Hills. The Gunn boys (9-16) received the No. 10 seed in Division II and will host unseeded Yerba Buena on Friday at 4 p.m. Woodside (11-10), the No. 10 seed in girls Division II, will play at No. 7 Oak Grove on Saturday at 7. Sacred Heart Prep is the No. 1 seed in girls Division IV and Priory the top seed in girls Division V. Both will be looking to defend CCS championships won a year ago. Both begin play with 7 p.m. home games on Tuesday. Castilleja (13-9), the No. 4 seed in Division V, also gets underway on Tuesday. The Gators were the CCS runner-ups to Priory last year. In boys Division IV, No. 7 Sacred Heart Prep (13-11) will host No. 10
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Custom Contemporary in College Terrace
Constructed by one of Palo Alto’s finest builders, this custom home offers a grand, yet intimate, style of living in the heart of Midtown. Spanning three levels, there are 7 bedrooms and 5 baths thoughtfully arranged with flexibility in mind for office, fitness, guest, and/or extended family needs. Details throughout are classic and timeless with maple floors, crown moldings in every room, and perfectly selected stone and tile finishes. Outdoor living unfolds on a huge barbecue terrace with built-in heating or on the lower terrace beside the soothing sound of a waterfall.
Perfectly located in sought-after College Terrace, contemporary design by renowned architect Robert Williams, an outstanding 4-bedroom, 3.5-bath floor plan with great natural light. Gorgeous maple wood floors unify the two-level, open layout, which integrates living and dining into one large space and extends to a dramatic granite-appointed kitchen with lacquered European style cabinetry and stainless steel appliances. Outdoor recreational opportunities are everywhere with its wraparound yard plus numerous parks and the nearby Stanford dish walk. This is Silicon Valley dream living.
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