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Vol. XL, Number 38 Q June 21, 2019
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Palo Alto renews push for a business tax Council Finance Committee backs exploration of options for 2020 funding measure by Gennady Sheyner
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s one of few cities in the area without a business tax, Palo Alto is preparing to shed that label in November 2020. Before it does, though, the City Council has to determine the type of business tax it wants to adopt,
who should be exempt from the tax and what projects it should fund. That process began Tuesday, when the council’s Finance Committee began winnowing down options and hashing out details. Palo Alto has plenty of nearby cities it can look to for examples
of taxes on businesses. Mountain View adopted in 2018 a tax based on employee count, which will take effect next year and requires a payment of up to $150 per employee, based on the size of the business. East Palo Alto also passed its business-tax measure in 2018, based on square footage. Large office developments are required to pay an annual tax of $2.50 per square foot.
San Francisco, meanwhile, supplemented its existing employeebased tax ($1,500 per employee) with one based on gross receipts. The new tax, adopted last November with the passage of Measure C, applies only to companies that generate more than $50 million in revenue, with proceeds going to homelessness services and housing. Palo Alto is seeking to fund the redesign and reconstruction of its
local rail corridor so that the train tracks no longer intersect with local streets, known as “grade separation.” City officials have also talked about using some of the tax funding to support affordablehousing projects and new community projects such as the redevelopment of Cubberley Community Center and the implementation of the city’s parks master plan. (continued on page 10)
CITY HALL
2020 budget to fund more traffic relief Council approves Office of Transportation, money for transit nonprofit by Gennady Sheyner
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A pedestrian-and-bike bridge from Clarke Avenue to West Bayshore Road in East Palo Alto opened May 16, giving residents a way to cross over U.S. Highway 101.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Attempted robberies prompt police to patrol bridge Less than a month after it opened, pedestrian-bike overpass is the scene of two violent crimes by youths by Sue Dremann and Christian Trujano
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ast Palo Alto police plan to patrol the new bikeand-pedestrian bridge over U.S. Highway 101 and are looking into adding surveillance cameras after two people
reported being attacked by groups of youths on the span, police Cmdr. Jeff Liu said this week. The two attempted robberies on the overpass, which
connects Clarke Avenue to West Bayshore Road, occurred on June 13 within 90 minutes of each other, according to police. Around 8 p.m., a man walking west on the bridge encountered
six to seven Hispanic teenagers. One teen asked the man for his backpack and cellphone before the rest of the group attacked him. The pedestrian was treated for moderate injuries at a hospital, police said in a June 14 press release. Later that evening, another pedestrian crossing east was surrounded by six to eight teens of mixed race who asked what he had in his pockets. When the man pulled out a knife to defend himself, the group grabbed bricks and threw them at him before fleeing west on the bridge. He suffered minor
ignaling its renewed push to tackle Palo Alto’s traffic problems, the City Council approved on Monday a budget that establishes an Office of Transportation and adds funding for a nonprofit charged with getting commuters out of cars and using other modes of transportation. By a 6-1 vote, with Councilman Greg Tanaka dissenting, the council approved a budget for fiscal year 2020 that builds on the council’s recent efforts to address mounting pension obligations, infrastructure needs and — most notably — transportation challenges. Specifically, it adds resources to the city’s transportation operation, which is charged with overseeing (among other things) the growing number of residential parking programs and the city’s multiyear effort to redesign its railroad crossings. The budget comes at a time of economic prosperity, with revenues growing by 8.2%, or $17.7 million, since the prior year. Of that amount, $13 million came from new tax revenues, with sales-, property- and hotel-tax revenues all showing healthy growth. The biggest initiative in the new budget is the creation of the Office of Transportation, which will debut with 13.5 positions and add two more in the coming
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There are two Palo Altos: the Palo Alto that you see and the Palo Alto that is. —Judy Kleinberg, president of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, on moving forward with a new business tax. See story on page 5.
Around Town
SHIFTING GEARS ... The Palo Alto City Council will meet this Monday to decide whether to approve a proposal to demolish the Embarcadero Road building that once housed Ming’s Restaurant and construct a car dealership at the site. It will head into the review without a recommendation from its Architectural Review Board, the body charged with vetting all major development applications. That’s because, after three public hearings, the board decided that the proposed Mercedes-Benz and Audi dealership still has too many outstanding issues that need resolving. Board members took issue with the dealership’s black MHƑHKL [OL SHUKZJHWPUN WSHU MVY the dealership’s periphery and the apparent conflict between a proposed bike path at the property and mature trees that stand in the way of the path. The trees would be removed under the proposed plan, which explains that keeping the trees would require the path to be relocated and result in elimination of some display and inventory spaces. The board agreed on June 6 to continue the discussion to a fourth meeting — a deviation from the typically process that seeks to limit reviews to three meetings. The board decided to continue the conversation despite staff’s suggestion that the proposal by Holman Automotive Group could be sent to the council without the board’s recommendation. At that meeting, Vice Chair Peter Baltay pushed back against the idea of the project going to the council before the board completes its deliberation. “We need to take a stronger stand and say, ‘This should not be allowed the way it stands now,’” Baltay said at the June 6 review. Even so, staff is recommending that the council approve the project on June 24, its final meeting before the summer recess. In a new report, city planners concur that the refinements that the board has requested are important and should be addressed. That said, Planning Director Jonathan Lait has opted to send the proposal to the council rather than authorize a fourth meeting before final approval. On June 17, a group of residents urged the council to reverse course and wait for the board’s recommendation. Former Mayor Karen Holman (no relation to the
applicant) noted that the project will be standing near the Baylands for the next half-century. “I don’t know why the rush to get this forward,” she said. ‘HOPE IN THE UNEXPECTED’ ... Apple CEO Tim Cook donned a graduation robe at Stanford University’s 128th commencement ceremony on June 16, when he took the podium to deliver a message that touched on themes of responsibility and humanity. Cook took the opportunity as commencement speaker to speak frankly about technology’s local and global impact — the good, the bad and the ugly. “We see it every day now with every data breach, every privacy violation, every blind eye turned to hate speech,” Cook said. “Fake news poisoning our national conversation.” He urged the graduates to approach whatever they choose to pursue after Stanford, whether or not that’s in the tech industry, with conscious responsibility and a humility for a greater purpose beyond themselves. “From the Garden of Eden to today, it’s our humanity that got us into this mess and it’s our humanity that’s going to have to get us out,” Cook said.
CLINCHING BASKETBALL’S HIGHEST HONOR ... Palo Alto High School alumnus Jeremy Lin broke ground in the sports world by becoming the first Asian American with an NBA championship on June 13 with the Toronto Raptors.” Promise I’ll never stop reppin Asians with everything I have!” he wrote in an Instagram post, sharing photos with his family and younger brother Joseph Lin celebrating the win from Oracle Arena in Oakland. Paly’s Athletic Department congratulated Lin, who was on its 2006 state championship-winning team, through a tweet showing a mural of him at its new Peery Family Gym with #OnceaVikingAlwaysAViking. The win was a milestone for the Raptors, which won its first NBA championship after surpassing the Golden State Warriors in Game 6 of the series. Lin, who joined the Raptors in February, averaged 3.7 minutes in the postseason and played in the final minute of the Canadian team’s Game 3 win on June 5. Q
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EDUCATION
Longtime school bus driver and supervisor leaves legacy of ‘respect’ upon retirement
East Palo Alto approves site for Primary School
Derek Zabaldo plans to continue mentoring drivers while pursuing other passions by Maya Homan
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hen Derek Zabaldo was hired as a bus driver for the Palo Alto Unified School District in 1987, he had no idea what the job would lead to. For the then-22-year-old whom students affectionately called “Mr. D,” the position was temporary. “Originally this was a threeyear job. I thought I would find something better. I was way off,” he said. Before landing the bus-driving job, he spent a year as a truck driver. But with the Palo Alto district, he would be taking kids to school and working alongside people who had driven him around only a few years prior when he was a student. Those three years turned into 31, and Zabaldo, now 53, officially retired this month from his position as bus-driver trainer, a management job that encompassed several responsibilities. “It’s morphed into supervisor, driver, dispatcher, secretary, manager, babysitter. ... It really involves everything,” he said. A few years after he started working as a driver, his thensupervisor encouraged him to become a certified instructor. In 1990, he passed the tests to become a state delegate instructor and began teaching other drivers. He initially worked alongside two other supervisors to teach about 15 drivers. However, as the years passed, the number of drivers increased and the other supervisors moved away or retired. Soon only Zabaldo was left, going from oneon-one lessons to teaching groups of nearly 20 drivers at a time. Even as Zabaldo’s responsibilities expanded, one focus remained a constant for him: figuring out how to connect with his students, both young and old. “That’s part of the passion that’s not in the manual of my teaching,” he said. “Slowly over the years it becomes a life lesson.” As a bus driver, he utilized the time he spent with the kids to coach them by giving them trivia questions, helping them learn their addresses or gently disciplining unruly kids. Zabaldo has only written one citation for a student’s bad behavior in all 31 years he’s worked as a bus driver, preferring instead to mentor the troublemakers he encountered. One tactic he used was giving kids a job, like taking attendance, to divert their attention. “They start learning and they start looking, and they’ve forgotten what they’ve done wrong,” he said. The ability to get down to a kid’s level and communicate with them has been one of the keys to
Thirty-one years ago, Derek Zabaldo thought his new job as a Palo Alto Unified School District bus driver would be temporary. This month, he retired after a career that grew to include the responsibilities of a “supervisor, driver, dispatcher, secretary, manager (and) babysitter,” he said. Zabaldo’s success, he said. It allowed him to develop a rapport with the kids he drove, based on mutual understanding and respect. “Believe it or not, I have no kids myself. And when people say, ‘You don’t have any kids,’ I say, ‘Well, yeah, I do. I have thousands of kids.’ Every child that I transported becomes one of my kids, and that’s how you gain their respect over the years.” Zabaldo’s work has left a distinct impact on the community, from the hundreds of drivers he’s trained to the kids he’s driven safely to school to the co-workers he describes as an extended family. “There’s this legacy that comes with the name Derek Zabaldo, like the Peninsula has known that this instructor has been here from day one,” said Transportation Supervisor Kelly Hubbard, who has worked with Zabaldo for a year and a half. “We were talking about the number of current drivers that we have. Out of the
23, 19 or 20 of them he trained. That’s the whole department.” “The level of respect for the work and the imprint that he’s left on the industry in general is impressive,” Hubbard said. Although Zabaldo has enjoyed his unexpected career with the district, health issues and the opportunity to pursue other passions have convinced him that it’s time to leave. “It’s not that I don’t like my job anymore. I love my job,” Zabaldo said. “I’m not stopping what I do; I’m going to do more mentoring outside of retiring from here.” In addition to mentoring, he’s planning to pursue his passion of cooking by starting a catering business with his wife. “I’ll come by here if they want me to do a class or something,” he said. “Is two hours of your life worth two hundred bucks, or is it worth giving someone some inspiration?” Q Editorial Intern Maya Homan can be emailed at mhoman@ paweekly.com.
Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to adopt an ordinance relating to refuse collection and storage, amend utility rate schedules relating to service connections, consider approving a Mercedes-Benz and Audi dealership at 1700 and 1730 Embarcadero Road, and evaluate next steps for expanding the city’s fiber network. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, June 24, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. HISTORIC RESOURCES BOARD ... The board plans to meet at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 27, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. The agenda was not available by press time. LIBRARY ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission plans to elect a chair and a vice chair, discuss the technology budget allocation, discuss elimination of library fines and prepare for its joint study session with the City Council. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 27, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall.
The East Palo Alto City Council voted 4-0 on Tuesday to advance a request from The Primary School to build a new campus at 1200 Weeks St. for the private K-8 school started by Priscilla Chan. Vice Mayor Regina Wallace-Jones recused herself because she lives near the project. The Primary School, which is currently located at 951 O’Connor St. near the Ravenswood 101 shopping center, plans to accommodate more than 600 students and 70 staff members in a 61,000-square-foot building. Assuming the school would open in summer 2021, the school would gradually grow grade levels over the next four years. About 243 children from East Palo Alto and Menlo Park’s Belle Haven neighborhood are enrolled this year at the school, which Chan launched three years ago with the belief that merging education with health and support services would dramatically improve outcomes for high-need children. “We are grateful for the work that the Planning Commission and the City Council are doing on behalf of this community, and thank them for thoroughly reviewing our proposal and asking important questions,” Primary School CEO Courtney Garcia said in a statement to the Weekly. “We look forward to moving into the next stage of building a facility that houses infant-toddler, parent, early childhood, and school-aged programs that can provide a long-term benefit for the broader community.” As planned, the new campus just east of Pulgas Avenue would have a two-story main building, 24 classrooms, a 10,800-square-foot gymnasium and several play yards and recreation areas. Some space, including but not limited to the gym, would be designated for community use, according to a staff report. In approving permits and other actions to allow the project to proceed, the City Council added two conditions. The Primary School must create a “robust” transportation management plan (TDM) that would include enforcement, including significant penalties for violations of the plan. The council must approve the plan before issuing a building permit. Council members applauded the innovative Primary School, which they said they hope will be a model for other schools throughout the country. Q —Sue Dremann
City bans new cell towers near schools Bowing to concerns from a group of residents, the Palo Alto City Council agreed this week to ban new wireless antennas from being installed on poles within 300 feet of public schools. The council voted 6-1, with Lydia Kou dissenting, to revise its rules for wireless communication facilities, which are becoming increasingly common and controversial in neighborhoods throughout Palo Alto. The city has already approved dozens of wireless antennas and has more than 100 in the pipeline. The resolution that the council passed also eliminated a provision pertaining to the placement of wireless equipment in relation to second-story windows. The provision specified that wireless equipment on multistory buildings not be placed in a “horizontal plane,” which is defined as a “45-degree angle extending 50 feet from the center point of upper story windows, doors, balconies and other openings.” Planning staff had determined that the standard would “result in little practical impact” because an applicant could easily comply with it by shifting the equipment by just a few inches. As such, the requirement presents “a limited restriction on placement of WCFs (wireless communication facilities),” a report from the City Attorney’s Office states. Kou had urged more stringent requirements, including a 1,000foot setback from schools for new wireless equipment and a 300-foot setback near residences. She also opposed the deletion of the clause pertaining to placement of the equipment in relation to upper-story windows. Her proposal fizzled after no other council member supported it. As at prior discussions of wireless equipment, the council heard from several community members raising concerns about the health impacts of the telecommunication technology. The council, however, did not weigh in on the health impacts of the new equipment (its ability to do so is limited by Telecommunications Act of 1996, which restricts cities’ ability to regulate radio-frequently emissions). Instead, council members focused on aesthetics. The new rules will not apply to pending applications or to previously approved projects, according to the staff report. The new ban falls below the limit outlined in a resolution on placing cell towers near school district campuses that was supported by the Palo Alto Board of Education on Tuesday. The resolution calls for the cell towers to be set back by 1,500 feet from schools and asks the city to notify the district of proposed projects near school sites. Q —Gennady Sheyner www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • June 21, 2019 • Page 7
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Bridge (continued from page 5)
injuries but didn’t need treatment at a hospital, Liu said. The crimes come less than a month after the May 18 grand opening of the bridge connecting the east and west sides of the city. On Wednesday, resident Charmae Martin, a mother of two who lives down the street from the Newell Road/West Bayshore entrance to the overpass, said that she would like to see a greater police presence in the area. “It makes me a little bit nervous,� she said. Her family moved to East Palo Alto last August. Since then, they’ve been waiting for the overpass to be completed. It connects her to the shops east of the freeway and her children to playgrounds, so they don’t have to make a long trip to play areas in Palo Alto, she said. Martin said she can see how such criminal activity would affect people who work at the Ravenswood 101 shopping center, at the bridge’s east end. But such crimes won’t necessarily affect her, she said, because she only uses the bridge during the day and she comes back before dark. She did recently go on a walk at night, however, which could put her in danger whether using the bridge or not.
“You win some and you lose some. I just take it with a grain of salt and keep my fingers crossed; that’s all I can do,� she said. “Things are going to happen no matter where you are.�
‘It makes me a little bit nervous.’ —Charmae Martin, East Palo Alto resident But at the same time, she said she hopes “police activity will be prevalent.� She recently saw an officer parked on the east side of the overpass near the Home Depot and would like the department to have more of that kind of presence. She suggested that East Palo Alto police patrol the area on bikes. “It really wouldn’t be that hard,� she said. Soren Tirfing, another nearby resident, said he would like to see the city install cameras, but he doesn’t think it’s possible due to a lack of funding for the police department. Wednesday was the first time he crossed the bridge, and he hopes to use it as part of his exercise routine. He doesn’t have any concerns about crossing during the day but would have concerns at night, he said. Still, the robberies did happen
while some daylight remained, which gives him pause. “I don’t know what to think about that,� he said, adding that he plans to continue to use the bridge during the day. When East Palo Alto celebrated the bridge’s opening last month, city leaders hailed it as a major step toward uniting the city, which was bisected decades ago when the freeway was built. The crossing is the first of two bridges the city plans to construct to aid biking and walking. The second will be adjacent to the existing University Avenue freeway overpass in the north part of town. With the bridge’s opening, East Palo Alto residents living on the east side of the city now have access to routes to Stanford University, libraries and parks to the west. Westside residents can cross to get to schools, City Hall, the senior center, open space and shopping on the city’s east and south sides. Palo Alto residents can use the bridge to access open space, including the Bay Trail and Cooley Landing; jobs, including at Amazon in East Palo Alto and Facebook in eastern Menlo Park; and shopping center Ravenswood 101. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann and Editorial Intern Christian Trujano can be emailed at sdremann@paweekly.com and ctrujano@paweekly.com.
CityView A round-up
of Palo Alto government action this week
City Council (June 17)
Budget: The council approved the capital and operating budgets for fiscal year 2020. Yes: Cormack, DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Kniss, Kou No: Tanaka Wireless: The council approved a resolution removing a provision on placement of wireless equipment in relation to upper-story windows and added a 300-foot setback requirement for equipment being installed near public schools. Yes: Cormack, DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Kniss, Tanaka No: Kou
Board of Education (June 18)
Budget: The board adopted the 2019-20 budget as presented. Yes: Unanimous Salary schedules: The board approved the 2019-20 salary schedules including for teachers, managers, classified staff and substitute teachers. Yes: Unanimous Legal services: The board approved successful evaluations for its outside law firms. Yes: Unanimous Legal contracts: The board approved contracts for next year with firms Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud and Romo (AALRR) and Dannis Woliver Kelley (DWK). Yes: Unanimous PAUSD Promise: The board approved the district-wide “PAUSD Promise� plan. Yes: Unanimous Cell tower resolution: The board adopted a resolution in support of cell tower placement restrictions in areas in proximity to district schools. Yes: Unanimous Adult School pay: The board approved a one-time bonus and 16% raise for Palo Alto Adult School teachers. Yes: Unanimous Superintendent pay: The board approved a one-time 2% bonus and 0% ongoing raise for Superintendent Don Austin. Yes: Unanimous Superintendent contract: The board approved a one-year extension for the superintendent’s contract. Yes: Unanimous
Council Finance Committee (June 18)
Revenue measure: The committee discussed options for a 2020 measure to raise revenues and agreed to further explore different options for a business tax and to also consider a parcel tax. Yes: Unanimous
Architectural Review Board (June 20)
3000 El Camino Real: The board approved a proposed sign program for Palo Alto Square and directed a subcommittee to work with the applicant on refining the pedestrian signage. Yes: Furth, Lew, Thompson Absent: Baltay, Hirsch
Stanford University Development Project and the General Use Permit Application County of Santa Clara Planning Commission Hearing #3 Thursday, June 27, 2019 / 1:30 PM Isaac Newton Senter Auditorium / 70 West Hedding Street, San Jose, CA 95110
DID YOU KNOW? Stanford University is proposing to add more than 3.5 million square feet of new development and 9,600 people to its campus. The project is the largest ever to be reviewed by the County of Santa Clara in its 169-year history. The process of the County’s consideration of the General Use Permit Application will be fair, transparent and open. The County is seeking input from the community on this General Use Permit Application. The County Administration is committed to ensuring that this development, if approved, does not negatively impact the surrounding EQOOWPKV[ D[ UWDUVCPVKCNN[ YQTUGPKPI NQECN VTCHƂE GUECNCVKPI FGOCPF on housing – particularly affordable housing – or endangering our open spaces.
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Business tax (continued from page 5)
During the Tuesday discussion, the Finance Committee considered a full spectrum of options for a 2020 tax measure, including those not focused on businesses: a sales tax, hotel tax and documentary transfer tax. Ultimately, the committee agreed to strike from consideration all of these options, though members agreed that a parcel tax should remain in the mix for further exploration. But a business tax — a revenue source that the council has been considering on and off for more than a decade — stayed on the table. The city last tried to adopt a business tax in 2009, a time when the city’s revenues were plummeting because of the global economic downtown. That measure was shot down by the voters. In recent years, with grade separations emerging as a pressing community need, council members have renewed their push for
a business tax. “We are one of few cities that doesn’t have one. That’s what the council has been interested in,” Finance Committee Chair Tom DuBois said. The new tax will likely look substantially different from the one in 2009. Whereas the Finance Committee agreed Tuesday not to consider a tax based on gross receipts, it decided to consider measures based on square footage, employee count and payroll. The committee also agreed to survey local businesses and analyze the potential impacts that the new tax would have on them. Preliminary estimates from city staff show a Mountain View-style tax of $150 per employee could generate about $14.6 million in annual revenues in Palo Alto. A tax on square footage could bring in about $31 million annually. In both cases, the estimate assumes that the city will not create any exemptions or create tiers with varying tax rates. Some business leaders are
already raising concerns about the proposed tax measure. Judy Kleinberg, president of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, urged the committee Monday to tread cautiously and get a full analysis of the impacts of the new taxes on businesses before moving ahead. “When all you talk about is gross receipts and gross revenues, you’re talking about potentially a very draconian impact on certain industries, especially the hospitality industry, hotels and restaurants,” Kleinberg said. Each tax that the city is exploring can have a very different — and very harmful — impact on the business community, Kleinberg said. “There are two Palo Altos: the Palo Alto that you see and the Palo Alto that is. ... There are businesses that look like they’re thriving and they’re being held up by a landlord or a property manager or a property owner so that there’s no empty storefronts,” Kleinberg said. Tiffany Griego, managing director at Stanford Research Park, said the companies at the research park already generate about $17 million
in general-fund revenues for the city. Many of the companies arrive at the park as startups, she said. She urged the council not to adopt a tax that would send a message that startups are not welcome. The real estate market at the business park is cyclical, she said, with the vacancy rate at times going as high as 18%. “I’d like to make sure we have a good, strong discussion on fiscal resilience,” Griego said. Vice Chair Adrian Fine said the council should also consider how the new business tax will aid the businesses that pay it, whether through improved transportation services or help with economic development. He also suggested that the city will have an easier time getting the business community’s support if it pursues a “special tax,” which requires 66.67% voter approval and which is dedicated to specific projects, rather than a “general tax,” which only requires a simple majority. Pursuing a tax with the higher threshold will “force us to be more judicious on
decision-making,” Fine said. Councilwoman Alison Cormack concurred and said that pursuing a special tax, which clearly lays out what the money will be used for, is the more transparent route. She also noted, however, that the council’s decision will be ultimately be influenced by polling, which will shed some light on what the electorate is interested in. In the meantime, she said, the council should consider both the Mountain View and the East Palo Alto models. “Last year everyone was talking about head tax. This year, everyone is talking about square footage. I think more research of those would be appropriate,” Cormack said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
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months. Before the move, the city’s transportation planners made up a division in the city’s Department of Planning and Community Environment. The move underscores transportation’s emergence as a top council priority and an area that demands extra attention from City Hall. In another sign of this shift, the council recommended contributing $750,000 this year to the Palo Alto Transportation Management Association (TMA), a nonprofit charged with reducing solo driving in the downtown and California Avenue areas. This is a major increase from the $480,000 that the city contributed last year. It is also $90,000 more than the $660,000 that the Finance Committee recommended last month, during its budget review. Councilwoman Liz Kniss said the TMA, which purchases Caltrain passes for downtown’s lowincome employees and middle managers, is “heading in just the right direction.” She noted that the council had just scrapped its plans to build a downtown garage and that the savings from that project more than offset the additional contribution to the nonprofit. Councilman Tom DuBois, who chairs the council’s Finance Committee, supported her proposal but also suggested that the council look for a different model to support the fledgling nonprofit. Businesses, he said, should help pay for the TMA. “What we have right now is not sustainable,” DuBois said. The 2020 budget reflects the city’s increasing reliance on public-private partnerships to provide key services to the
Caltrain commuters board a northbound train in Palo Alto. community. Over the past year, the council launched partnerships with Team Sheeper to manage the swimming programs at Rinconada Pool and with Pets In Need to oversee animal services. These partnerships allowed the city to eliminate six-and-a-half full-time-equivalent positions from the 2019 budget. The budget also underscores several persistent challenges, including growing labor costs and pension obligations. The council agreed to add a $6.2 million contribution to an irrevocable trust to address the pension problem, which raises the council’s total contributions since 2017 to $22 million. The budget also assumes a far more conservative rate of return on investments in the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) — 6.2%, well below the 7% rate stated by CalPERS — than was used in the past. The change adds about $3.8 million to expenses in the current fiscal year. The new approach on pensions has been championed by Mayor Eric Filseth, who led the push
last year to adopt what many consider to be a more realistic rate. While the council majority supported the budget, Tanaka suggested that the city take advantage of the prosperous economic times by stashing money in reserves. He also suggested the city cut its expenses by $18 million this year, a recommendation that the rest of the council rejected. “I’d love for us to be putting away some money during these booming times because these booming times will not go on forever,” Tanaka said. In addition to adopting the budget, the council also approved increases for utility rates, which collectively will add about $15.62 to the average monthly bill in the coming fiscal year, bringing it to $312.15 per month, according to staff. The rate changes include a 5.5% hike to electric rates; an 8.5% increase to gas rates; a 4.4% increase to the water rates; and a 7% increase to the wastewater rate. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed gsheyner@paweekly.com.
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Online This Week
Google pledges $1B for housing
These and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online throughout the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com/news.
As the housing crisis reaches new levels of despair, Google is launching a $1 billion campaign to reverse the trend. The tech giant is pledging to use its vast capital and land holdings to build tens of thousands of homes throughout its main Bay Area jobs centers. (Posted June 19, 8:25 a.m.)
Assemblyman holding wildfire town hall State Assemblyman Marc Berman, D-Palo Alto, is sponsoring a wildfire town hall meeting this Saturday in Portola Valley that will include a panel made up of representatives from state and local firefighting agencies and PG&E. (Posted June 19, 3:43 p.m.)
Authorities investigating two homicides Authorities have identified the suspect arrested early Wednesday morning for allegedly killing a man found Tuesday night on Skyline Boulevard near where another stabbing victim was found the night before as Malik Dosouqi, 26, of Pacifica. (Posted June 19, 2:23 p.m.)
County to boost rape crisis center funding
Stanford, County remain split over housing Pushing back against Stanford University’s assertion that building more than 2,000 housing units would transform its campus into an “urban apartment complex,� Santa Clara County planners have identified four locations that they say could comfortably accommodate the additional residential development. (Posted June 18, 3:20 p.m.)
Man charged for molesting two children An East Palo Alto man who allegedly molested two children, one of whom was identified as a relative, from 2010 to 2018 has pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges, police and San Mateo County prosecutors said Tuesday. (Posted June 18, 2:41 p.m.)
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors agreed Tuesday to fund critical services for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, saying it’s necessary because the state budget is underfunding the region’s rape crisis centers. (Posted June 19, 12:35 p.m.)
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Board endorses school supe’s plan
One dead following multiple collisions
The Palo Alto school board approved Tuesday Superintendent Don Austin’s overarching plan to guide the district under his new leadership, noting that “the rubber will meet the road next year� with its actual implementation. (Posted June 19, 8:49 a.m.)
Palo Alto police have arrested a San Jose man suspected of burglarizing a home on Oregon Avenue early Saturday morning while the homeowners were still in bed. (Posted June 17, 2:51 p.m.) A wrong-way driver has died, another person has been arrested on suspicion of felony DUI and several people were sent to the hospital following a series of collisions on U.S. Highway 101 in Palo Alto Sunday that started just after 2 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol. (Posted June 16, 8:21 a.m.)
Transitions Donald Tyler Donald Tyler, a longtime resident of Palo Alto, died May 17. He was 63 years old. He was born at Stanford Hospital in 1955 to Charles and Claire Tyler and grew up in Palo Alto. His father was the publisher of the now defunct Palo Alto Times. He graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1974 and attended San Jose State University, where he received his bachelor’s degree in advertising. He worked in marketing at Michael Patrick Partners, Oracle, Dell, Siebel Systems and other tech firms throughout Silicon Valley. He was an avid fisherman, and enjoyed travel and progressive rock. He is survived by his two children, Maia and Liam Tyler of Mountain View; and his siblings, Charles Tyler of Lincoln, California, Janet Wall of Sacramento and James Tyler of Houston, Texas. A private celebration of his life will be held at Lake Tahoe later this year. Memorial donations in his name may be made to Trout Unlimited.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the County of Santa Clara Planning Commission will hold a continued public hearing relating to the Stanford University 2018 General Use Permit (GUP) Application (Application), Stanford GUP Environmental Impact Report (EIR), Stanford University Community Plan amendments, Zoning Ordinance amendments, and Development Agreement application. Project Location: Stanford University Community Plan Area. Supervisorial District: 5. File Nos. PLN98-7165 (7165-98P-99GP-99EIR) and PLN16-7165 (7165-16P-16GP-16EIR). The Planning Commission held public hearings on the Application on May 30 and June 13, 2019 and will hold a third public hearing on June 27, 2019. This continued public hearing is being scheduled to allow the Planning Commission additional time, if necessary, to deliberate on the Application. The Planning Commission shall make a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors on the Application, EIR, Community Plan and Zoning Ordinance amendments, and Development Agreement application at the close of the public hearing. The Application requests authorization from the County of Santa Clara to construct up to 2,275,000 additional net new square feet of academic development, 2,600 new student beds (1,225,000 net new square feet), 550 faculty/ Z[HɈ OV\ZPUN \UP[Z HUK ZX\HYL MLL[ VM JOPSKJHYL [YPW reducing facilities and 50,000 square feet of temporary surge space. ALL INTERESTED PERSONS MAY APPEAR AND BE HEARD relating to the above matter at the following public hearing date: Monday, July 1, 2019, No Earlier Than 1:30 p.m. Board of Supervisors’ Chambers County Government Center, 70 West Hedding Street San JosĂŠ, California DOCUMENTS ARE ON FILE in the Department of Planning HUK +L]LSVWTLU[ SVJH[LK VU [OL [O Ă…VVY H[ [OL HKKYLZZ NP]LU below and are also available at: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/ dpd/Programs/Stanford/Pages/CurrentProjects.aspx Prior to the public hearing, written communications ZOV\SK IL KLSP]LYLK [V .LVɈ )YHKSL` *VUZ\S[PUN 7YVQLJ[ Manager, Department of Planning and Development, County of Santa Clara, 70 West Hedding Street, East Wing, 7th Floor, San JosĂŠ, CA 95110, gbradley@m-group.us, [LSLWOVUL MHJZPTPSL 6/21/19 CNS-3263788# PALO ALTO WEEKLY
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June 12-June 18 Violence related Assault w/ a deadly weapon. . . . . . . . . 1 Attempted suicide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Sex crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 6 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . 12 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . 11 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Animal call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 4 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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Editorial Stanford’s GUP strategy If Stanford can’t accept proposed conditions, it should reduce its expansion plans
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he first test of whether Santa Clara County policymakers are willing to back up the recommendations of its planning staff on strong mitigation measures for Stanford’s future development plans will come next Thursday, when the county Planning Commission is expected to vote on Stanford’s application and proposed conditions of approval. At issue are conditions that require Stanford to “fully” mitigate impacts created by the approval of 3.5 million square feet of new development on the campus over an estimated 20 years. Not surprisingly, the greatest conflict is over housing and traffic requirements, which Stanford believes create unfair, unprecedented and potentially illegal demands on the university. But more generally, Stanford is attempting to persuade the public and county officials that it isn’t being treated fairly and is being held to a higher standard than other property owners or developers. Let’s put that notion to rest so that the substance of Stanford’s concerns can be the focus. Stanford is the only large private employer located in unincorporated county land. It has chosen not to have the campus incorporated into the city of Palo Alto and is therefore overseen exclusively by the county. No other large private institution or company has been given the benefit of operating under a 20-year development permit that exempts it from review of projects as they come along. Stanford benefits immensely from this arrangement, as does the county and public, because it results in careful advance planning and avoids disputes and political battles over every new building. If Stanford didn’t believe it benefited from the current once-every-twodecade review by the county it could always opt to bring its projects in for approval one at a time. Instead of trying to paint a picture of unfairness, Stanford needs to acknowledge this beneficial special treatment and focus on the impacts and how they should be mitigated. Its current strategy appears more designed to throw up as many objections as possible and to influence public opinion than to work constructively to achieve the broad goal of full or nearly full mitigation of its development. Although the seven-person Planning Commission’s action is only a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors, which is expected to make the final decision later this year, a split vote by the commission could fuel Stanford’s efforts to undermine its own supervisor and board president, Joe Simitian, and seek a needed majority of three votes from other supervisors. Such a tactic would be fraught with political danger. Stanford has already engaged in an erratic and ill-considered strategy for cultivating public and political support that has mostly boomeranged. The university has on multiple occasions made assertions in public that differ from statements sources say it has made privately, leading to diminished trust among those whom it needs to achieve approval. The most glaring example of Stanford’s political ineffectiveness was its attempt to reach an agreement with the Palo Alto school district that was conditioned on the approval of a development agreement with the county. The move was carefully calculated to circumvent a promise to not enter into any such deals and to curry favor within the Palo Alto school community. But the university didn’t consider the fall-out — antagonizing Simitian, the person most influential in the county general-use permit (GUP) process, and the county’s decision to discontinue discussions about a development agreement. Stanford now finds itself needing to press its objections to the proposed county conditions while trying to calm the controversies it has created. While some modifications of the proposed requirements after considering Stanford’s concerns are inevitable, the county staff and its consultants have done an outstanding job at firmly yet fairly coming up with appropriate conditions of approval. Stanford’s most persuasive case lies in the transportation area, where new measures to ensure no growth in traffic throughout the day may simply be unachievable given the other requirements. Lost in the debate over the details is the fact that county planners are recommending approval of all the development Stanford has requested. If Stanford finds the required mitigation measures too onerous, then it always has the option of reducing the size of its proposal. One of the good things that has come from this process is that Stanford and the county are engaged in a fully transparent debate of the merits of the proposed development conditions instead of negotiating behind closed doors. That’s a far better process for the public than private meetings in which a development agreement is hammered out and then presented as a fait accompli for approval by the full Board of Supervisors. That has never been done before by the county, and this shouldn’t be the first time. The Planning Commission meeting, its third on the Stanford application, will begin at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 27, at the County Government Center at 70 W. Hedding St. in San Jose. Q Page 14 • June 21, 2019 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com
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The consequences of growth Editor, Diana Diamond’s June 7 Guest Opinion — while overly generous to Stanford University — is correct that Facebook, Google and Apple, along with Stanford, bring great benefits. But clearly none of them have not been required to ameliorate their attendant diseconomies impacting our environment, namely traffic congestion and an appalling housing shortage. It is appropriate for these institutions to mitigate their impact on our communities with housing, pedestrian bridges and improved traffic service. Facebook, for one, should have been required by East Palo Alto and Menlo Park to have built its own bridge in lieu of its employees overloading the Dumbarton Bridge. All businesses blowing out traffic on the Peninsula should be subject to an operations tax computed as a percentage of payroll, a la San Francisco, with the proceeds dedicated to affordable housing and traffic congestion. Kudos to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors for reining in Stanford’s explosive expansion — a terrific example of the power of being a nonprofit, unrestrained by paying appropriate taxes. As for Stanford’s largesse in leasing “the most expensive corner in the city” at Page Mill Road and El Camino Real for $1/year, remember that this corner is a Superfund cleanup site. The underground semi-conductor pollution discovered at that location required a twostory deep excavation with the toxic remnants trucked to Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The severe residual pollution prohibits excavation at that location because of toxic vapors — TCE, among other volatiles, that would penetrate buildings and parking structures. It won’t be safe for commercial use for 55 years, which is the length of the lease. But for the tons of clean dirt imported to fill the hole, it could not be used for anything other than the current recreational use. Richard Alexander Santa Rita Avenue, Palo Alto
This week on Town Square Town Square is an online discussion forum at PaloAltoOnline.com/square In response to ‘Lawmaker behind SB 50 makes case for zoning reforms to address state housing crisis’ Posted June 8 at 1:40 a.m. by Michael Harbour, a resident of Downtown North neighborhood: Sen. Wiener is an articulate and thoughtful speaker who mainly spoke to a friendly crowd that was in agreement that California needs to build more housing to make up for years of underdevelopment. He gave poignant stories of homeless folks and their need for housing, rent control measures and stricter tenant’s rights. He also said that we must curtail urban sprawl in order to mitigate climate change. All of these things are true. However, he did not convince me that he has “the” solution to fix these issues by his SB 50 legislation. He advocated for rewriting statewide zoning laws. He says we must build larger and denser housing in job-rich communities that already have transportation hubs. He obviously thinks that Palo Alto is one such community that fits this description. However, Palo Alto is already being choked with excessive traffic congestion, inadequate and non-existent public transportation, outdated infrastructure and insufficient parking. Palo Alto isn’t even able to plan how Stanford University will impact housing, transportation and school needs for the future. How can this community trust that the state will do it better? With the information that Sen. Wiener gave us, I just don’t see how his plan will work in this community. Until the state can properly address, fund and construct real public transportation options, including convenient rail options, then I don’t feel we can accept additional growth. I want to see comprehensive public-private solutions that can address the community’s local needs, including housing, transportation and infrastructure, before we grow the pie.
In response to ‘Study recommends widening Newell Road Bridge’ Posted June 14 at 10:38 p.m. by Robert Neff, a resident of Midtown neighborhood: Yes, sidewalks, finally, on both sides. The bridge width under consideration is the minimum that Caltrans will fund. Grants from Caltrans and the water district cover the building costs. The EIR scope did not require any evaluation of usability for bicyclists (other than, “It is a road, and bicyclists can ride on the road”). With the new bike/pedestrian bridge over U.S. Highway 101 linked to this Newell bridge, I think decision makers need some analysis for bicycle suitability, especially where bikes will have to mix into rush hour traffic. What will that be like with these design choices?
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It’s time to take Cubberley ‘co-design’ to a higher level Community Center’s future too complex for current process by David Hirsch
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n editorial p u bl i s h e d by the Palo Alto Weekly on June 7 stated that the emerging conceptual designs for the redevelopment of Cubberley Community Center were “receiving universal praise for the elegance with which consultants seemed to have accommodated the diverse needs identified by community members after a series of public brainstorming sessions.” I am one of the community members who assisted the city’s consultant group Concordia at each of the four public meetings, which included a total of 545 Palo Alto citizens involved in planning the future of Cubberley. Concordia called the series of roundtable discussions “co-design” meetings, meaning that the community participants select the direction of the design by choosing their preferences when presented with various alternatives. The first meeting’s agenda was to imagine preferred program elements, open space preferences and limitations on the height of buildings. By statistical analysis, after the group pasted sticky notes on a large drawing board, Concordia could rank the preferences. This worked especially well on the programmatic elements, but was disorganized and less informative when the community was given blocks of wood, roughly representing buildings and parking modules, with
the plan to create some semblance of site planning. This task, however, did create a consensus that green space was of prime importance, building heights should be limited, playing fields must be preserved, courtyards are desirable and parking should be underground or structured. A more critical aspect of this study was developed during the second meeting when Concordia presented concepts for site planning with a diagram illustrating three possible design directions: a shared village; an independent campus; and building in a park. The community’s overwhelming preference was a shared village. While this description is certainly a cozy expression, it does not really connote a meaningful direction for planning a large community facility with a multiplicity of uses. Designing a complex relationship of various programs is a complicated and timedemanding process that usually requires an in-depth look at: diagrams of related activities; site constraints; topological considerations; neighborhood influences; circulation impacts and so on. It is not a simplistic exercise for review at a few community meetings. To illustrate how complex this design process is at Cubberley — based on combining some of the major active community uses discussed during the co-design meetings — imagine: more than 1,400 cars requiring access to and from Cubberley each day along Middlefield Road; 15 afterschool soccer teams practicing simultaneously; many new adult education programs; a new emphasis on maker-space shared with the school; a youth symphony and active music program;
several separate pre-schools with safe outdoor play space; multiple dance studios; a private organization to support the Palo Alto Library system; studio spaces for numerous artists; and a variety of offices for nonprofit organizations all operating at the site. Now, add a school of undetermined size requiring the standard mix of large and small activities. This is a challenge requiring a high level of professional experience with complex planning and design issues. It cannot be adequately presented to large community group with the expectation that they can make an informed selection. Codesign loses its meaning when the task becomes this complex. In the third and fourth meetings, Concordia followed the will of the community by expanding on the shared village concept organized around a north-south pedestrian promenade from Middlefield to the soccer field. While it resembles the community’s preference, it is a flawed exercise when you look closely at the various functional requirements, site access, parking demand and the logical internal circulation patterns. Almost all community activities are crammed into one huge building that disregards the varying sizes or variety of program uses. Below it is an equally huge parking lot, so access would be disbursed from the parking directly to the specific programs above. Only occasional drop-offs or infrequent bus patrons will enter the circular entry court on the promenade at Middlefield. And the school structures, now several stories high surrounding a major courtyard, also have no purposeful connection to the promenade. The image of a shared village is lost because
of the radical increase in scale to satisfy the program. This would have been an opportunity to reset, to explore other options, but the study was scheduled for four meetings and no reasonable review of the co-design population was planned for. Thanks to Concordia for the successful programming phase and determination of the public preferences for architectural styles and landscape design elements, however, it is time to search for consultants who can develop a more appropriate plan for Cubberley’s future use. And it is time for the Palo Alto Weekly to reserve its accolades until a proper design is developed. On a separate issue, the inclusion of housing on this site, a contentious issue to many, will be an added challenge. Up-zoning does not automatically create available sites. Owners who expect to maximize their return on investment will not consider affordable housing a priority. The most compelling reason to consider this site is that it is not privately owned. My preference would be to combine the 525 San Antonio Road site with a significant portion of the Greendell property — one of the City Council’s options — and temporarily relocate Greendell at Cubbberley’s Junior Museum building when the new zoo facility is completed. Q David Hirsch is a fairly new Palo Alto resident who was an architect in New York City, designed schools and other public structures, and specialized in affordable/ supportive housing. He serves as the most recently appointed member of the Architectural Review Board. He can be reached at davidlhirsch@gmail.com.
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Would you go on a commercial flight to the moon? Asked at Peers Park, Town & Country Village and California Avenue in Palo Alto. Question, interviews and photographs by Christian Trujano and Maya Homan.
Marla Mulkey
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Chris Chen
Stanford Alumni Center Administrator Bonita Avenue, Mountain View
Mathematician Waverley Street, Menlo Park
Psychologist Homer Avenue, Palo Alto
Software Engineer 47th Avenue, San Francisco
Attorney Bryant Street, Palo Alto
“No, I would not. I have three children who need me.”
“I would like to try it. It sounds like an adventure.”
“I definitely would. It’s the moon. It would be extraordinary to experience the lack of gravity. It would definitely be a very unique experience.”
“I would definitely go if the cost was reasonable.”
“No, I’m chicken.”
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On the trail of a killer Leslie Marie Perlov’s body was found on Feb. 16, 1973, under an oak tree in the Stanford foothills surrounding the Dish, near the entrance to the Old Quarry off of Old Page Mill Road. A lab concluded in 2018 that John Arthur Getreu’s DNA matched the DNA evidence from the crime scene. Photo by Veronica Weber.
For decades, while accused serial killer John Arthur Getreu lived an outwardly normal life in Palo Alto and elsewhere, some feared he could be getting away with murder by Sue Dremann Editor’s note: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence.
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he 74-year-old man who has been charged in the 1970s cold-case murders of Stanford University graduate Leslie Marie Perlov and local resident Janet Ann Taylor, both 21, has been a Boy Scout troop leader, the “exalted ruler” of the Fremont Elks Lodge, a businessman, father, grandfather and husband. Some who have known John Arthur Getreu have seen a seemingly normal person, a kindly man who left presents for neighbor kids at Christmas, a medical technician
who worked for Stanford and Mills hospitals, a carpenter who loved woodworking. For at least four years, from 1971-75, Getreu lived in the Midtown neighborhood of Palo Alto. Directories from that time show he resided on Avalon Court, off of Loma Verde Avenue, and at an apartment complex on Alma Street at East Meadow Drive. But others have harbored deep suspicions that Getreu — who now sits in a cell in the Santa Clara County Main Jail — was a violent predator who could be getting away with rape or murder. There was the brother of the teenage girl whom Getreu, then 18, raped and murdered in Germany in 1963.
There was the Palo Alto teenager whom Getreu was convicted of raping in 1975. And then there was the sister of Leslie Perlov, who — even as the murder remained unsolved for more than four decades — always suspected her sister had been the victim of a serial killer. Evan Williams, now a pastor at the Sunnyland Christian Church in Washington, Illinois, was 7½ years old when Getreu raped and murdered his middle sister, Margaret, after a dance at a church chapel in Bad Kreuznach, Germany. Margaret, 15, was a freshman at Bad Kreuznach American High School and the daughter of a U.S. Army chaplain. Getreu, then 18 and the child of a military
being spared,” he said. Williams’ fears resurfaced when the FBI renewed its efforts three years ago to catch the so-called Golden State Killer, a man who had murdered at least 13 people and raped more than 50 women throughout California from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. “When there was a push to find the Golden State Killer ... I was concerned that the California authorities would not have known about (the murder) in Germany,” he said by phone. When the FBI asked for leads, “I let them know that this man who took my sister’s (continued on page 18)
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La Honda resident Janet Ann Taylor’s body was found in a ditch just off the side of Sand Hill Road near Manzanita Road, west of Interstate 280, in 1974. She had been strangled.
member, was a junior. On June 8, 1963, Margaret attended the evening dance and later left for a walk, where she encountered Getreu on the street. She was found strangled and raped in a field behind the chapel early the next morning, Williams said. Getreu was almost immediately identified as a suspect and an arrest soon followed. In court, Getreu claimed she went with him willingly, but he admitted to the crime. “I raped her. But it did not occur to me that I could have killed her. I just wanted to knock her out,” he testified, according to a 1964 article in the Newark Advocate, the newspaper in the Ohio town where Getreu was born. Getreu was sentenced in juvenile court to 10 years in German prison. It is unclear how many years of that sentence he served. Margaret’s murder affected her brother profoundly. Now 63, Williams said that fears about Getreu have haunted him. “I always had this feeling I might be made aware of him committing crimes later in life,” Williams said. From time to time, a memory of his sister or a news story about unsolved serial murders has led Williams to research Getreu and his whereabouts. Williams admitted that he’s had to work on himself to prevent the research from consuming him. “The burden I carried believing that Getreu had likely murdered, raped and harmed more people was one I felt I was meant to carry until any time I might be able to have any influence in justice happening and hopefully some people
This photo from the 1963 Bad Kreuznach American High School yearbook shows John Arthur Getreu, who was 18 when he murdered and raped Margaret Williams, a 15-yearold freshman.
Margaret Williams, 15, seen here in her yearbook photo, lived in Bad Kreuznach, Germany. Both she and Getreu were children of members of the U.S. military.
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Leslie Marie Perlov, a Stanford University graduate, was found strangled in the Stanford University foothills in 1973. DNA testing in November 2018 linked Getreu to the crime scene. DNA was a match, noting: “The probability that a random, unrelated individual could be included as a possible contributor to this deduced profile was approximately 1 (in) 65 septillion. “I’m just so glad they caught this guy,” she said. (Editor’s note: While accused, Getreu is still presumed innocent until proven guilty.)
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nother person who has held deep concerns about Getreu knew him as a Palo Alto Scouts leader. “Ellen Doe,” whose name has been changed to protect her identity, was 17 years old when Getreu was charged with raping her at her parents’ Palo Alto home in 1975 — one year after Taylor and two years after Perlov had been murdered. She was a member of the Boy Scouts Explorer troop at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Palo Alto, which included girls, she said
June 1963 Getreu is arrested in Germany for the rape and strangulation murder of Margaret Williams, 15.
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Criminal or civic volunteer? A brief timeline
February 1973 Leslie Marie Perlov is murdered by strangulation in the Stanford foothills.
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1971 Getreu is living in Palo Alto, according to a San Mateo Times article about his sister’s wedding.
1970 Getreu marries his first wife in Reno, Nevada.
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Aug. 26, 1944 John Arthur Getreu is born in Newark, Ohio. During his childhood, the military family lives in Germany, Japan, Hawaii and North Carolina.
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life was living in California.” Williams’ concern did not subside, even after authorities in April 2018 charged Joseph James DeAngelo, a 72-year-old U.S. Navy veteran, with the Golden State killings. “The search for the Golden State Killer had served me notice. My feeling about (Getreu) was on the rise,” Williams said. While Williams had Getreu in his sights ever since his sister’s murder, Diane Perlov, the sister of Leslie Perlov, has lived for decades not knowing who killed her sister. Nonetheless, she said she has always thought the person responsible could be committing additional murders. “Absolutely, I was concerned. I knew about Arlis Perry (who was slain in Stanford’s Memorial Church) and Janet Taylor and my sister. They were all killed around the same time at Stanford. I had always considered this to be a serial killing, and I was very concerned he continued to assault other women,” she said by phone earlier this week. Media reports at the time had also portrayed the crimes as a rash of killings. There was a tremendous amount of fear on the Stanford campus. Students felt a serial killer was on the loose, Perlov recalled. She said she has kept in touch with investigators for the past 45 years. “They were constantly chasing down leads and chasing this case,” she said. It wasn’t until DNA technology was used in a pioneering way to solve the Golden State Killer case that her sister’s case began to break open. The lab that analyzed DNA samples gathered from the crime scene in the Stanford foothills, where Leslie’s strangled body was discovered, found that Getreu’s
during a recent phone call. It wasn’t unusual for youth groups to need parents and other adults to drive youth to events, she said. Getreu and his first wife — who married in 1970 — became involved in the troop, even though they did not have any children. As a Scouts leader, he took the children to dances and other events and acted as a guardian, according to Doe. “He was a friend with all of the guys, and the guys were all friends with me,” she said of Getreu, whom she’d known for about six months at that point. “Sometimes in high school you have a teacher who you can relate to, and he was one of those styles,” she said. According to court documents, on the night of Jan. 19, Doe picked up Getreu and three boys from the troop and went to a pizza dinner and a late movie. Afterward, they returned to her home and talked until about 4:30 a.m. Her parents were not there. Her 14-year-old brother, who was at home, went to bed, and Doe drove everyone home. She dropped Getreu off first, about a five-minute drive away. When she returned home, Getreu had pulled up in his car. He said that one of the boys had called him to say they were coming back to her house, though he didn’t say how the boys planned to get there. She and Getreu entered the house to wait, talking for about two hours. They talked about the troop and people and, according to the court transcript, about male-female relationships. The boys never returned. Getreu began kissing her, she said in preliminary-hearing testimony. She protested, telling him to think about his wife. He said they were not getting along and continued to kiss her. Getreu pushed her down on the sofa, put his hand around her throat and began to rape her. As she tried to get up, she told him she would call out to her brother if he didn’t stop, she said. Getreu instead began to squeeze
Janet Ann Taylor, 21, was last seen on the night of March 24, 1974, when she hitchhiked from a friend’s home at Stanford University to her La Honda residence. her throat, she told the court. “Don’t do that. I have my hand at your throat and I could hurt you,” she testified he said. Doe said she submitted because she was afraid. Afterward, Getreu said, “I’m sorry; it will never happen again,” she said during the court hearing. He told her not to tell anyone, saying that doing so “would probably ruin my reputation,” she testified. She told him that she wouldn’t because she didn’t want to ruin the reputation of the troop. But after he left, Doe drove to her best friend’s house, where she became very upset and told her friend and her friend’s mother about the rape. The friend’s family called the police. Getreu was arrested that same day. He pleaded not guilty to two charges: sexual perversion and rape by threat of great bodily harm. His defense attorney asked the court to dismiss the case during the preliminary hearing, claiming that Doe had been “drawing him forward.” The court instead granted an added statutory rape charge requested by prosecutors, according to preliminary hearing documents.
1988 Getreu buys property in Alameda County and may have moved there with his family. In successive years, county records tie him to additional properties.
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1975 Getreu pleads guilty to statutory rape of a 17-year-old and is sentenced to six months in jail, with five months suspended. He pays a $200 fine.
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That May, a trial-court judge dismissed the sexual perversion charge after a defense motion argued that Doe could not recall sex acts sufficient for that charge. The next month, Getreu agreed to a plea deal and admitted to the statutory rape. He received a six-month sentence in county jail, a $200 fine and two years of probation. The court suspended five months of his sentence and allowed him to serve the remaining 30 days in jail on weekends, according to court documents. The case file does not elaborate on why the judge reduced his jail time, and Doe also said she didn’t know why he received reduced time. Despite all she went through with the court case, however, she said: “I’m very glad I did what I did. I was afraid he would do this to others.” Standing up to Getreu wasn’t easy. He told the troop members things about her that made them blame her, she said. “He was a social engineer, talking to the boys. He still had access to them — and they believed him,” she said. At the time, she didn’t sense that Getreu would have killed her, she said, even though he had his hand on her throat. Recently learning of the murder charges against Getreu — and of his prior conviction — was “very unexpected,” she said. “I was very surprised that he was a convicted murderer.” In February, the sheriff in her small Pacific Northwest town knocked on the door to let her know San Mateo County authorities, who were investigating the Taylor murder, wanted to speak to her. She agreed to talk to the arresting officer. “There was a little bit of, ‘Oh, my God — I was right,’” she said. “He is a scary, violent man. He is scary because he hides it so well.” She also received a heartfelt letter from Diane Perlov asking her to make a statement to Santa Clara
November 2018 Getreu, based on DNA evidence, is charged in the murder of Leslie Marie Perlov.
May 2019 Getreu, again based on DNA evidence, is charged in the murder of Janet Ann Taylor.
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s news of Getreu’s arrest last November and again in May for the murders of Perlov and Taylor has spread, some people who knew him in daily life said they are shocked by the charges. But others said they didn’t trust him. Getreu was born and lived in Newark, Ohio, until he was 4 years old. His military family visited Newark throughout his youth, according to news reports in the 1960s. He and his second wife moved there in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Jay Mathy, 48, of Newark, Ohio, recalled knowing Getreu and his second wife when they moved to his neighborhood. He wasn’t aware of Getreu’s criminal past and had no knowledge of the current charges against him, he said. “They were the kindest, nicest, most rational people. No sign of crazy, no sign of mental illness. I never heard them fight. They never yelled at us — and we were bad,” said Mathy, who was 8 to 12 years old when the Getreus lived next door at 550 Mount Vernon Ave. The couple rented the home for about three years. Mathy remembered them with fondness. “John and (his wife) did not have children, so they would give
Getreu is charged with the 1973 and 1974 strangulation murders of Leslie Marie Perlov and Janet Ann Taylor. He lived in the Midtown neighborhood of Palo Alto in the early 1970s. us gifts (at Christmas), and they would come over and they would just sit. I remember there was a couple New Years’ they came over and just hung out with us,” he said. Getreu was also friends with Mathy’s father and may have built cabinets for a local Boy Scouts camp, he recalled. Getreu was a very nice, calm person who was intelligent and did not cause people to see any red flags, Mathy said. “I think it goes to the fact that you really don’t know people. And some people are incredibly clever at concealing their past — you know, moving clear across the country, getting out of the media’s attention. The ‘70s were a very different time and you’ve got to remember, this is almost the same time when Ted Bundy started his killing rampage. (It) was right in the middle of the ‘70s when you didn’t have the internet and you didn’t have huge amounts of communications between police departments of various communities,” he said. Despite his criminal record, Getreu and his wife joined a Scouts troop while in Ohio.
According to an April 1, 1980, Newark Advocate newspaper article, they were in the Hanta-Yo Society, an Explorers Post open to all youth ages 14 and older and adults, which was dedicated to teaching Native American traditions. After moving back to California, Getreu lived a seemingly unremarkable life in the East Bay from the 1980s to the present, raising a family and joining civic organizations such as the Elks Lodge. Members of the Fremont Elks Lodge said he was still a member last November. Getreu was the lodge’s leader — known as the “exalted ruler” — in 2007-2008, according to a lodge newsletter. Lodge officials declined to comment on Getreu’s tenure as exalted ruler. Luis Arrelanes, lodge inner guard, explained that an exalted ruler is elected by all the members after serving in all of the elected-chair positions, starting as a knight. The process to become exalted ruler takes four years, and the ruler must be chosen unanimously. A few lodge members who were willing to be interviewed had mixed reactions to his arrest. “Shock. Surprise. Just kind of in shock,” Sharon Van Horne, lodge chaplain, said. They had been close friends for a time. “He seemed OK. He was pleasant enough to be around.” But another Elks member, who asked to remain anonymous, described him as “creepy” and said she never trusted him. She was friends with Getreu and his second wife because their sons were in high school together. She was also friends with his third wife. “I think very much of his wife now. I don’t think she knew what she was getting into. She’s absolutely wonderful. This has got to be a true blow for her,” she said. Reached by phone, the third wife said she never knew about her husband’s past. She said she was
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Getreu was married and living in an apartment complex at 3553 Alma St., at the intersection with East Meadow Drive, in Palo Alto at the time of Janet Ann Taylor’s murder in 1974.
not granting interviews regarding their time together. Other members of Getreu’s family did not return multiple phone calls and messages requesting interviews or comment.
Victim’s brother: ‘My heart goes out to them’
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Neighbor: ‘You really don’t know people’
Courtesy San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office
County prosecutors. Reading the letter brought back the trauma of the assault and also made her think about how Perlov and Taylor died — and how she had survived. “When I saw his name in writing, I couldn’t finish the letter. It took me a couple of hours to read it,” she said. “I try very hard not to watch the news about him. I was not expecting that from him. “I thought, ‘Oh, my God. I have a life. I have a husband. I have children. I lived. I don’t know why I lived.’”
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illiams, who lost his sister so many decades ago, said he was unable to find much information about his sister’s convicted killer over the years. He sought contact with some of Getreu’s former high school classmates, even purchasing a copy of the Bad Kreuznach high school yearbook for 1963. There’s a photograph in it of Getreu as a junior, clean-shaven and with closely cropped hair. Margaret’s picture is there too. Like the Palo Alto teen in 1975 and the two women Getreu is accused of murdering, Margaret was a pretty, fresh-faced girl with dark hair. Williams recalled his sister with great fondness. “I had nearly eight years with her. My experience of my sister had a lot of impact on me,” he said. “Margaret was really good at playing the piano. I had a little toy instrument, and she was always glad for me to sit next to her while she practiced, and I played beside her. “She was good at helping me when my parents upset me in the way that parents sometimes do,” he continued. “She soothed and explained in a way that was calm. She was very nice and pleasant.” While he lost his sister in a terrible way and had to shoulder the grief that followed, his sister’s life and the connection they shared, however brief, was a great blessing in his life that has helped him carry the tragedy of her violent death, he said. He stressed that his life has been far more blessed than burdened. Williams feels a mixture of sadness and relief that Getreu has been arrested. His suspicion that Getreu would one day be charged with other crimes has come to fruition, but that validation doesn’t bring Williams closure. He expressed empathy for Taylor’s and Perlov’s families. “My heart goes out to them. I think (of) the madness of not knowing who (committed the murders) for so many years. We knew quickly who had committed the crime. It did not feel like this terrible loose end,” he said. “My prayers continue for the Perlov family and Taylor family and the rape victim in 1975 and my family and the Getreu family and all others badly touched by the disturbed mind and evil hands of John Getreu,” he said in a followup email. Williams said he has often thought about Getreu’s family and the impact of his actions on their lives. “I care about them. It’s not good
Evan Williams, the brother of Getreu murder victim Margaret Williams, has lived for decades worried that Getreu was committing additional murders. He says the recent arrests of Getreu for the deaths of Leslie Marie Perlov and Janet Ann Taylor have brought a sense of relief but not closure. to be a family member of someone who was murdered, but it’s got to be horrible to deal with your feelings about a family member who has murdered someone. From day one, my family cared about what the Getreu family went through,” he said. Santa Clara County prosecutors on Nov. 26, 2018, charged Getreu in the Feb. 16, 1973, strangulation murder of Perlov, and San Mateo County prosecutors charged him on May 16 for the murder of Taylor, who on March 25, 1974, also died by strangulation. Their bodies were found on Stanford University land. Investigators said both crimes were sexually motivated, although they did not conclude the women had been raped. Getreu pleaded not guilty in Taylor’s murder on June 14 in San Mateo County Superior Court. He is scheduled to enter a plea in the Perlov case on July 15. Detectives are working to piece together where he has lived to investigate if he could be a suspect in other cold-case murders. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com. Associate Editor Linda Taaffe, Interns Maya Homan and Christian Trujano and Newark Advocate (Ohio) Reporter Michaela Sumner contributed to this story.
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ABOUT THE COVER: After Leslie Marie Perlov went missing in February 1973, searchers found her body under an oak tree in the Stanford foothills off of Old Page Mill Road. Getreu was living in Palo Alto at the time. Photo by Veronica Weber.
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Anat Cohen feels good at Stanford
For Midpeninsula jazz lovers, the season looks bright by Yoshi Kato
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ith Friday, June 21, marking the first official day of summer, the days are long and the local live jazz offerings particularly plentiful. Shervin Iainez
Anyone who has caught clarinetist Anat Cohen in concert can attest to her unbridled musical enthusiasm. It’s a trait that extends off the bandstand, even to a routine phone interview from her home in Brooklyn. “You don’t have to remind me, man! It was an absolute beautiful night,” she replied, when reminded of a concert she did during the 2017 Stanford Jazz Festival (SJF) in which pianist George Cables led an all-star quintet that also featured tenor saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Kendrick Scott. “I’ve been in a lot of different musical situations on stage with a lot of different people, and I still talk about that night. “There was something so magical about George’s compositions, the swing, the way everything felt,” she said. “I mean, I felt like I was inside a classic jazz record!” Cohen returns to both the Stanford Jazz Workshop (SJW) and Festival, happily taking on the double duty of educator and performer. She’ll be performing thrice at Dinkelspiel Auditorium: Brazilian music with Trio Da Paz on July 27; in a first-time supergroup with guitarist Sheryl Bailey and drummer Dafnis Prieto (as well as trumpeter Marquis Hill, keyboardist Jason Linder and bassist Matt Brewer) on July 29; and as part of the SJW AllStar Jam on Aug 2. “They’re guys I love to play with,” said the Tel Aviv native, of Trio Da Paz. “And since I have such a big affinity for Brazilian music, we’re going to find the right repertoire, and it’ll be great.”
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Left, Charged Particles (left to right: Murray Low, Aaron Germain and Jon Krosnick) will perform at Portola Vineyards on Aug. 18. Right, Cécile McLorin Salvant will perform at Bing Concert Hall as part of the Stanford Jazz Festival on June 22.
Musician Anat Cohen will return to the Stanford Jazz Workshop and Festival this summer for three performances. First performing at the Stanford Jazz Festival with her brothers Avishai (trumpet) and Yuval (soprano saxophone) as the 3 Cohens back in 2009, Anat returned two years later with her own quartet. She then both taught and performed in 2015 and again from 2017 through the present. As far as summer gigs go, the SJW setting is hard to beat, she said, adding that she feels proud to be on the Stanford University premises. “It’s so great! I love it. I learned you can rent bicycles and go around. And you can go to the café if there’s enough time to take a little lunch break, though usually the teaching schedule is quite intense. Or you can take an Uber to Palo Alto and have a nice dinner if you want to get out,” she said. “This part of California reminds me a lot of Israel in the summer — the sounds when you step on all the dry leaves. I relate to it. It feels good to me.” — Yoshi Kato
A long-running favorite for jazz fans, The Stanford Jazz Festival continues its newish tradition of having opening and closing weekend concerts at Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall. Vocalist and multiple Grammy Award-winner Cécile McLorin Salvant and pianist Sullivan Fortner bring their duo magic to the 6-year-old bandstand on June 22. Still Dreaming, the collective led by saxophonist Joshua Redman (whose quartet opened the Stanford Jazz Festival last year) makes its Bay Area debut with drummer Dave King (of The Bad Plus fame) to conclude the festival at Bing on Aug. 3, with trumpeter Ron Miles and double bassist Scott Colley rounding out the all-star quartet. In between, there are both intimate and larger-scale concerts by Stanford Jazz Workshop faculty and others in Dinkelspiel Auditorium and Campbell Recital Hall, including the beloved SJW AllStar Jam on Aug. 2 (see sidebar for an interview with clarinetist Anat Cohen). Jazz at Filoli has pretty much perfected the art of live jazz (and more) on a Sunday afternoon. The base level ticket includes a drink ticket for beer, white wine or flavored sparkling water, and lunch boxes can be pre-ordered. Vocalist Jamie Davis’ offers his “The Great Baritones” program on June 23, with vocalist Sara Niemietz and guitarist/composer
W.G. Snuffy Walden headlining on July 14. Pianist Larry Vuckovich and his Contemporary Swinging Hard Bop Ensemble play July 28, and vocalist Nicolas Bearde pays tribute to Nat “King” Cole’s centenary on Aug. 11. Conguero, educator and all-around good guy John Santos closes at the 2019 live jazz season at Filoli on Aug. 25 with his sextet.
Ska” purevyors Makru (Aug 1); R&B/soul/funk/ska practitioners Stymie & the PLJO (a.k.a. Pimp Jones Luv Orchestra, Aug. 8); blues harmonic maestro Aki Kumar (Aug.15); and Flamenco Gypsy dance and music octet Barrio Manouche (Aug. 22). Q Freelance writer Yoshi Kato can be emailed at yoshiyoungblood@earthlink.net.
Portola Vineyards in Portola Valley is offering a quartet of stylistically varied concerts for its Summer Jazz series (paired with wine tasting) starting Sunday, June 23, with organist Pat Bianchi from New York City and his trio. Cabanijazz, led by conguero and Pacific Mambo Orchestra member Javier Cabanillas, performs July 14, while on Aug. 4 the Five Ten quintet out of the East Bay (with its 510 area code) will offer its brand of globally electrified fusion featuring steel pans and Brazilian percussion. Local favorites Charged Particles close out the series on Aug.18 with a tribute to the iconic pianist, composer and bandleader Chick Corea.
What: 2019 Stanford Jazz Festival. Where: Various venues on the Stanford University campus. When: June 21 through Aug. 3. Cost: $8-$110. Info: stanfordjazz.org/stanfordjazz-festival-2019/.
Free outdoor jazz concerts are once again presented every Thursday at the Stanford Shopping Center (except on the Fourth of July), starting at 6 p.m. through Aug. 22. Attendees can sit in the courtyard outside of Nordstrom to hear Stanford Jazz Workshop Faculty AllStars (June 27); harpist Destiny Muhammad (July 11); the fusion quartet Mino Yanci (July 18); ‘50s West Coast jazz-meets-bossa nova singer/songwriter Avi Wisnia (July 25); “Spanglish Rumba/
What: Jazz at Filoli 2019 Where: Filoli Historic House & Garden, 86 Cañada Road, Woodside. When: June 23, July 14, July 28, Aug. 11, Aug. 25; 1 p.m. Cost: $85/$75 for Filoli members. Info: filoli.org/jazz/ What: 2019 Portola Vineyards Summer Jazz. Where: Portola Vineyards, 850 Los Trancos Road, Portola Valley. When: June 23, July 14, Aug. 4, Aug. 18, 6 p.m. Cost: $12-$24. Info: portolavineyards.com/events. html. What: Stanford Shopping Center 33rd Annual Summer Jazz Series. Where: Stanford Shopping Center, 660 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto. When: Thursdays, June 20-Aug. 22 (except for July 4); 6 p.m. Cost: Free. Info: sfjazz.org/stanford.
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A British invasion Palo Alto Players’ ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ delivers laughs, tomfoolery and songs by Karla Kane
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arlo Goldoni’s 1746 commedia dell’arte-inspired play “The Servant of Two Masters” gets a swinging ‘60s, ohso-British makeover in “One Man, Two Guvnors,” an adaptation by Richard Bean (with songs by Grant Olding). The madcap farce was a big hit in the United Kingdom in 2011, Broadway in 2012 (earning comedian James Corden a Tony Award) and now seems poised to be an audience favorite at the Lucie Stern Theater, if the roaring laughter greeting Palo Alto Players’ opening night is any indication. Set in the seaside town of Brighton in 1963, Doug Santana plays leading buffoon Francis Henshall, a former member of a skiffle band (he also claims responsibility for
The Beatles) who was tossed out of the group and is desperate to earn some bread so he can get, well, bread. He’s taken a job as a lackey for London gangster Roscoe Crabbe who, unbeknownst to him, is actually Roscoe’s twin sister, Rachel, in disguise (Katie Champlin). Rachel is on the lam down the coast after her brother’s murder, at the hands of her betrothed, the posh Stanley Stubbers (Brad Satterwhite, also on the lam, also hiding in Brighton). Rachel-asRoscoe hits up Charlie “The Duck” Clench (Ray D’Ambrosio), a fellow crime lord, for getaway money. An added complication is that Roscoe, who was gay, had an arrangement with Charlie to marry his dimwitted daughter Pauline (Michelle
Skinner) but in the meantime, she’s fallen madly in love with pretentious wannabe actor Alan Dangle (Drew Benjamin Jones), the son of Charlie’s sesquipedalian lawyer Harry Dangle (played by Troy Johnson and from the law firm Dangle, Berry and Bush; it’s that kind of show). Also in the mix is Charlie’s pal-from-Brixton Prison Lloyd Boateng (Fred Pitts), who’s like a second father to Rachel and now owns the local pub, which is where much of the show’s slapstick action takes place. We also meet Charlie’s bookeeper and Francis’ proudly feminist love interest Dolly (Pear Theatre Artistic Director Betsy Kruse Craig), Alfie (Chris Mahle), a demented, elderly Great War veteran with a wonky pacemaker and a new job as a waiter at the pub, and Bryan Moriarty in a variety of small-but-humorous roles. While clownish Francis is meant to be dedicated to working only for Rachel/Roscoe, she hasn’t yet paid him, so when he happens to meet
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Stanley Stubbers (Brad Satterwhite) instructs Francis Henshall (Doug Santana) in Palo Alto Players’ “One Man, Two Guvnors.” in-need-of-a-dogsbody Stanley — not realizing his connection to his other employer — he decides to secretly try serving both of the titular two “guvnors.” Mayhem and, for the most part, hilarity, ensue. If you, like me, cringe and cower at the prospect of any kind of “audience participation,” this show may make you rather uncomfortable. If
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you revel in fourth-wall breaking and improvised comedy, however, you’ll love Santana’s exuberant, interactive performance, which also entails tossing off references designed to appeal to local audiences. Director Patrick Klein and physical-comedy director Carla Pantoja keep the ridiculous antics moving along nicely, even if the key scene in which Francis attempts to serve two dinners at once does go on a bit long. I enjoyed everyone’s performances but for me the MVP award goes to Satterwhite, who is absolutely pitch-perfect as cheerfully sadistic, uppercrust-boardingschool-damaged toff Stanley. The most charming, and special, aspect of “One Man, Two Guvnnors,” though, is the fact that it boasts original songs sprinkled throughout, performed by an ace band (Pauline Sampson, Brietta Gregerm, Nathan Howland, Nicholas Martin and Drew Weber, directed by Lauren Bevilacqua) as well as the cast, who occasionally sing and turn up for solos on increasingly humorous instruments. The pastiche music itself moves along from skiffle — acoustic, jazz/folk/blues-influenced pop tunes played often on homemade instruments — to British Invasion rock ‘n roll in the style of the early Beatles. Highlights include the wonderfully harmonized trio number by the three ladies of the cast (“Lighten Up and Lay Low”) and the rollicking “The Brighton Line.” Costumes by Patricia Tyler include nicely matching retro cardigans for the band and give a neat nod to Franics’ roots in the commedia dell’arte Harlequin character by outfitting him in argyle. Klein’s scenic design evokes the early ‘60s era and the whimsical look of Brighton pier and pavilion. If you’re looking to laugh (and you’re not terrified by the possibility of — shudder — audience participation), “One Man, Two Guvnors” may be just your cup of tea. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com. What: “One Man, Two Guvnors.” Where: Lucie Stern Theater, Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. When: Through June 30 (showtimes vary). Cost: $31-$46. Info: paplayers.org.
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Eating Out Summer openings abound A roundup of what’s new in food and drink on the Midpeninsula by Elena Kadvany
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ooking for something new? From vegan fare and organic wine to pho, sushi and pupusas, there are a lot of new places on the Midpeninsula to tempt you. Read on for our roundup of recent openings.
Verve Coffee Roasters is opening its first Peninsula location this Friday, June 21, at 162 University Ave. in downtown Palo Alto. Verve’s coffee is sourced directly from farmers all over the world and roasted in Santa Cruz. The new cafe will have all of the company’s typical coffee offerings, plus pastries from Manresa Bread and food like avocado toast, chia seed pudding and a breakfast sandwich. The light-filled, 1,400-square-foot Palo Alto cafe is meant to evoke an Eichler home, with floor-toceiling windows, an open floor plan, angular lines and flow between the inside and a large outside patio.
Pizz’a Chicago, Palo Alto Deep-dish pizza fans, say farewell to the longtime location of Palo Alto’s Pizz’a Chicago next week — and say hello to its new home just down El Camino Real. A three-story mixed-use project has been proposed for the site of the existing 4115 El Camino Real restaurant, so owner Juan Lorenz has moved to 2305 El Camino Real. He plans to close the current location on Monday or Tuesday and open the new one mid- or late-week.
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Natural, small-production wines from France to Chile, Sonoma to the Willamette Valley are on the menu at Salvaje in Palo Alto, the city’s first dedicated natural wine bar. Salvaje officially opened to the public on Wednesday at 369 Lytton Ave. The wine bar is a passion project for Kasim Syed, owner of Palo Alto Brewing Co., The Rose and Crown and the Tap Room in Palo Alto and QBB in Mountain View, and his wife Guldem Tanyeri Syed, who love drinking natural wine and wanted to bring it to the Peninsula. Salvaje, which means “wild” in Spanish, offers an ample selection of bubbly, orange, white and red wines by the glass and bottle, as well as snack food like a vegan
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Avocado toast is among the offerings at Verve Coffee Roasters. katsu bao and a potato waffle with crème fraîche, smoked salmon and roe.
Daigo, Palo Alto The owner of Daigo Sushi in San Francisco has officially expanded south with a new location at 2363 Birch St. in Palo Alto. The dinner menu includes traditional Japanese appetizers, nigiri, sashimi, maki and hand rolls. Omakase is also available, as are daily nigiri and sashimi specials from Japan. At lunch, the restaurant serves donburi and teishoku, a Japanese meal set.
Pupusas El Torogoz, East Palo Alto This new East Palo Alto food truck, run by two sisters from El Salvador, serves a small menu, with most items less than $3. There are pupusas with cheese, beans, and pork as filling options, plus quesadillas, tamales, tacos — and hot dogs. The truck is located at 1885 Bay Road and is closed on Sundays.
Crawfish Bros, Mountain View Throw on a bib and dig into a bag of crawfish at Crawfish Bros at 124 Castro St. in downtown Mountain View. Customers have their pick of crawfish, clams, shrimps, mussels, crab and lobster, which can be made with different sauces (cajun, “torpedo,” lemon pepper and garlic butter) and at three spice levels (mild, hot and screaming). If you’re feeling ambitious, there’s the “ultimate combo,” with 3 pounds of crawfish, 3 pounds of head-on shrimp, 1 pound of half-shell mussels and 1 pound of clams with sausage, corn and potatoes for $100.
HeyOEats, Mountain View The recent surge of companies that make plant-based alternatives to meat and dairy products, including the locally founded Impossible Foods, has transformed vegan cooking and eating. For evidence of that, look no further than the 100% vegan menu at the newly opened HeyOEats in Mountain View: vegan beer cheese with pretzels, a vegan Reuben sandwich and biscuits topped with a mushroom and Beyond Meat sausage gravy. HeyOEats is located inside Ava’s Market at 340 Castro St.
Menlo Tavern, Menlo Park What was once Menlo Grill reopened in March with a new name, chef and menu at the Stanford Park Hotel at 100 El Camino Real in Menlo Park. General Manager Patrick Lane said in a previous interview that he decided to run the restaurant as its own business separate from the hotel, which prompted the revamp. Now Menlo Tavern, the updated menu skews toward American comfort food, like skillet cornbread, deviled eggs, cast iron-seared salmon, burgers and filet mignon.
Pho Cabin, Los Altos Pho Cabin, a traditional Vietnamese restaurant, opened in late April at 200 State St. in Los Altos. Owner Doan Tran is Vietnamese and has worked in restaurants since he was 20 years old. Pho Cabin serves typical Vietnamese fare — pho, banh mi, rice plates, spring rolls — but Tran wants to specialize in pho and vermicelli. Q Staff writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.
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‘Toy’-ing with your feelings Pixar’s fourth (and final?) ‘Toy Story’ hits the road 0001/2 (Century 16 & 20, Icon) High-tension action-adventure has always been a key ingredient in the “Toy Story” films, but “Toy Story 4” may well be the most consistently anxiety-inducing of them all. There’s a palpable sense that the characters are pushing their luck, not unlike the creative personnel of Pixar Animation Studios. Conventional wisdom among the filmmakers, fans and even casual filmgoers accepted 2010’s “Toy Story 3” as a perfect, emotionally satisfying ending for the series, but “Toy Story 4” makes a convincing case for Sheriff Woody saddling up again. Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) and the rest of their toy family continue to be the playthings of young Bonnie, but Woody no longer has the security of being a favorite toy. When Bonnie creates a life by
fashioning a googly-eyed friend named “Forky” (Tony Hale) out of a spork, a popsicle stick, and other arts-and-crafts odds and ends, Woody grants himself a new lease on life by becoming Forky’s much-needed protector. The compulsive search for a purpose, then, defines the characters of newborn Forky and aging Woody alike. The movie’s philosophical bent has always set the standard for Pixar, keeping it a cut above other animation studios with its intellect and knack for emotional storytelling. Soon after Bonnie gathers up her toys for an RV road trip with her parents, Forky’s desire to take his life into his own hands winds up separating him and Woody from the RV. “Toy Story 4” offers two contrasting new settings for toy adventure: the forbidding (if hopefully
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Architect Peter Baltay redesigned this Stanford home so that all of the public spaces share a view of the Stanford foothills through huge windows and floor-to-ceiling slidingglass doors.
Home Front OUTDOOR EXPO ... Spend the day on a guided tree walk, bicycling, gardening and mingling with beekeeping experts during Sunnyvale Public Library’s Outdoor Expo on Saturday, June 22, 1:30-4 p.m. The annual event provides residents an opportunity to spend time outdoors while learning about local trails, walking groups, camps and volunteer opportunities at parks and open space preserves. Trail maps and other outdoor resource guides will be available. This year’s event features garden craft activities for children and the opportunity to explore an outdoorsy virtual reality world with Oculus Go. About a dozen organizations, including Hidden Villa farm in Los Altos Hills and Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County, will be at the event. The library is located at 665 W. Olive Ave. For more information, go to sunnyvale.ca.gov (search “Outdoor Expo”). LOW-WATER ORNAMENTALS ... Learn about plants from around the world that will thrive alongside your garden’s California natives during a free talk at Los Altos Library on Wednesday, June 26, 7-8:30 p.m. Master Gardener Martha Carpenter will discuss how to grow low-water ornamental plants from other areas of the world with a climate like the Bay Area’s. The library is located at 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. For more information, call the library at 650-948-7683. SUMMER PRUNING TIPS ... Learn what types of pruning need to be performed over the summer months during a twohour seasonal pruning class at Filoli gardens in Woodside on Friday, June 28, 10 a.m. to noon. The class will target various pruning techniques on a range of plants, including spring flowering shrubs, roses, wisteria and fruit trees. Cost is $60. Filoli is located at 86 Cañada Road, Woodside. For more information, go to filoli.org/ event/summer-pruning. Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email editor@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.
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he couple rented on the Stanford University campus for two years while searching for a home to buy. They had come from Chicago and thought they could find something with a comfortable, east coast feel. What they ultimately found was a “Like-ler,” a one-story, midcentury modern home nestled between a park across the street and a stunning view of the hills near The Dish. In their quest, they came across a spec house by architect Peter Baltay, who worked with them to locate, then remodel their ideal home. “It was a horrible mess,” the owner said, but the duo “liked the way it sat on the lot,” with plenty of light and greenery abounding. “Peter had a vision right off the bat,” the owner said, understanding that “we wanted an indoor-outdoor home, with an open entertaining space.” Today, one enters down wide, but shallow, concrete steps. Looking through a glass panel adjacent to the front door, one can see straight through to the backyard and hills beyond. What was once a compartmentalized house, unchanged since it was built in 1962, now features a massive great room, with all public spaces facing the Stanford hills. The living room is furnished with parallel sofas opposite the woodburning fireplace. The highlight of the kitchen is a huge, uncluttered island, with informal seating at one end. Tucked
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into the island, which is topped with quartzite by Caesarstone, is a pullout drawer microwave, bookshelves and plenty of storage space. All the appliances are Thermador, including two ovens, a five-burner gas cooktop with a pop-up downdraft vent and refrigerator cloaked to blend in with the cabinetry. Throughout the house, cabinets were crafted by a San Diego-based company. The owner said it was more cost-effective to fly the cabinetmakers to Stanford than to hire a local company. The walls are All Weather glass sliding doors in the living room. In the kitchen, the windows stretch from countertop to ceiling, and the open windows become a passthrough to seating outside. The only problem was where to install electric outlets when there are no real walls. The solution: mount them in the countertop itself. Tucked between the kitchen and living room areas is a flexible spot with a built-in bench and two wrought-iron chairs, plus a slatetopped table brought from the owners’ previous home. A roomy dining room, again with major windows and views, serves the family at dinnertime, and is also used for entertaining or doing homework. Behind the fireplace is a wall that goes almost to the ceiling; on the other side is a large-screen TV and seating area, perfect, the owner said, for sneaking a peek at a football game on Thanksgiving
— while not fully deserting guests still dining. A lot of thought went into maximizing each room’s purpose. A powder room, with pedestal sink and toilet, becomes a full bathroom with shower, a second sink and vanity when one opens the pocket door. An office is connected to another bedroom with a pass-through bathroom and a passthrough closet (with doors at each end), making it flexible for use as a guest room. The garage is actually “a crash room for kids,” the owner said, noting the sofa, TV, desk, foosball table and workout equipment. The forced-air furnace is hidden behind cabinet doors. Forced-air was not the owners’ ideal — they were used to radiators — but the budget simply did not run to installing radiant floor heating. The master bedroom takes advantage of the view and includes a large, walk-in closet and bathroom with double sinks set in a Halila honed-limestone counter, glass shower doors and a rain showerhead. Outdoors, a large concrete patio extends behind the house, with seating and a circular fire pit, all taking advantage of the view. Three tiers of plantings, mostly native grasses that don’t require much watering, supply drainage down the hill. At the front of the house, the owners also paid attention to drainage, putting in McNear permeable concrete pavers with spaces for greenery.
Although the owners decided to part with most of their east coast antique furniture, they did manage to incorporate a few pieces in their updated midcentury modern home. Q Freelance writer Carol Blitzer can be emailed at carolgblitzer@ gmail.com. Editor’s note: For privacy issues, the Weekly has chosen not to publish the homeowners’ names.
Resources: Design/Build: Peter Baltay, TOPOS Architects, Palo Alto, 650-327-7573, toposarchitects.com. Cabinets: Imperial Custom Cabinets, Lemon Grove, 619461-4093, imperialcustomcabinets.com. Goal of project: Open the house to become more indooroutdoor and less compartmentalized, while focusing on view. Challenges: Mounting electric outlets where there were no “walls.” Size of home, lot: 1,985-sqft, 3 BR, 2 BA expanded to 2,828-sq-ft, 4 BR, 3 BA on .29acre lot Year home built: 1962, remodeled extensively in 2013. Time to complete: 6 months for design, permits; 6 months for construction. Budget: Between $600,000 and $800,000.
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ON THE FAIRWAY … Recent Stanford graduate Brandon Wu got an early start on his advanced degree this past week during the U.S. Open Championships at Pebble Beach Golf Links. After Wu completed his final round, a 3-over par 74, on Sunday, he was handed a graduation cap along with his diploma by future USGA president Stu Francis, who earned his MBA from Stanford. He couldn’t make the ceremony so the ceremony came to him. Wu finished in 35th place. AN All-AMERICAN … Stanford junior right-hander/designated hitter Will Matthiessen has been named a third-team All-American as a utility player by the American Baseball Coaches Association it was announced Saturday. Matthiessen earned the recognition at both positions, leading the Cardinal in batting average (.310), hits (67), RBI (52) and on-base percentage (.389) while finishing the season slugging .532 with 12 home runs.
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SOFTBALL HONORS … Menlo College softball players Ariana Belarde and Sarah Reyes were named to the NAIA All-Region team by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association. Belarde earned firstteam honors while Reyes received second-team recognition. It’s the first all-region selection for both players. Belarde led the Oaks with a .407 batting average, including 24 multi-hit games. Belarde also recorded five doubles, four triples, and two home runs while finishing second on the team with 15 stolen bases. Reyes hit .383, with a career-high 12 home runs, recorded an .804 slugging percentage and drove home 44 runs, both career-bests. She also pitched a career-high 131 innings and led the Oaks with an 11-10 record, while striking out a career-best 65.
Stanford goalie Thea Walsh looks to stop a goal attempt by the Chinese national team, which visited Stanford for an exhibition in February.
WOMEN’S WATER POLO
Stanford to make historical trip to China Women’s water polo team travel for training, competition, culture by Christian Trujano
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t’s more than water polo. It’s history. And the significance is not lost on John Tanner and his coaching staff. Stanford University’s women’s water polo team travel to China on Sunday to train and compete with the Chinese national team, which is preparing for the FINA Aquatics World Championships
in Gwangju, Korea, July 12-28. The upcoming China trip holds historical significance as Stanford looks to uphold themselves as sports diplomats and Stanford ambassadors while integrating with the Chinese national team, according to Tanner, the Dunlevie Family Director of Women’s Water Polo. The trip is set to run
Regular-season champ Dutch Goose is top seed
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League tournament begins Saturday
Alpine-West Menlo’s Matty Wolf is about to deliver a pitch.
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Saturday CONCACEF men’s soccer: USA vs. Trinidad & Tobago, 4:30 p.m. Univision
team chemistry after ending the past season as NCAA champions with a record of 23-2. Stanford graduated four seniors and Olympians Makenzie Fischer and Aria Fischer are taking a leave of absence to train with the U.S. national team, which also competes in Korea, ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. There’s a long connection in sports diplomacy between the campus and China. In 1972,
BABE RUTH BASEBALL
USA MEN FALTER … Former Stanford All-American James Shaw had seven kills and Kyle Dagostino recorded a team best 10 digs as the Libero. Shaw recorded a hitting percentage of .667 but the United States men’s Pan American volleyball team fell short of reaching the Final Four, dropping a 25-23, 25-22, 25-22 decision to Argentina in the quarterfinals of the Pan American Cup at Multifunctional Auditorium in Colima, Mexico on Wednesday.
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through July 8. “We’re thrilled to be going there and being in this position where we can be great ambassadors,” Tanner said. “We know the players, we know the coaches ... after all these years of having them visit us here in California, watching them on our home turf, to visit them in their country and see them in their home turf is something we’re really excited about.” With six incoming freshmen, the Cardinal also hopes to rebuild
Little League all-star tournament set Palo Alto plays host at Middlefield Park by Rick Eymer enlo-Atherton, which reached last year’s championship game, opens the District 52 11-12 Majors Little League all-star tourna-
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ment Saturday with a 9 a.m. game against Hillsborough at Middlefield Park in Palo Alto. Host Palo Alto plays the winner (continued on page 34)
by Staff Report Dutch Goose, which has won he Palo Alto Babe Ruth eight straight and is undefeated baseball league played in nine straight, averages 8.4 its final regular-season runs a game and allows 3.3, the games Wednesday, with Dutch best in both categories. Alhouse (7-8) enters the tourGoose claiming the title. It starts nament with two playagain Friday when the ers each hitting .500 league tournament in Charlie Grech and opens at Baylands. Junior Soliman. Top-seeded Dutch Old Pro’s Dominic Goose (12-2-1) opens De Feo went 1-for-1 against No.4 seed Alwith two runs scored house, which beat the in his team’s win over Goose earlier in the Guy Plumbing on season. That game is Wednesday to finish scheduled for 5 p.m. as the league’s top hitand will be followed by an 8 p.m. contest Dominic De Feo ter with a .568 average. Dutch Goose’s Danny between No. 3 Sundance (7-8) and No. 2 Old Pro Peters was next in average at .519. (9-6). Goose’s Josh Donaker recorded The league tournament continues through Tuesday, with all games slated for Baylands. (continued on page 34)
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at 3 p.m. Sunday, also at Middlefield Park, where most of the tournament will be conducted. Alpine-West Menlo also opens Sunday (12:30 p.m.) and plays the
winner of Saturday’s 7 p.m. game between Pacifica National and Foster City. Defending district champion Half Moon Bay plays at 10 a.m. Sunday against either San Mateo National or Pacifica American, which plays Saturday at 11:30 a.m.
Other opening match ups on Saturday are Redwood City vs. San Carlos at 2 p.m. and Belmont vs. San Mateo American at 4:30 p.m. The tournament continues through July 2, with the possibility of an extra game, if needed, the following day. Q
District 52 Little League 11-12 Majors All-Stars Rosters Alpine-West Menlo Kyle Chai Jackson Coleman Max Courson Mateo Cuellar-Koh Ronan Cutright Nate Fowler Isaac Hutchinson Antonio Madrigal Carlo Thomsen Matty Wolf Aidan Wong Jimmy Zaharias Coach: Kevin Wolf Coach: Sean Cutright Coach: Nick Zaharias Coach: Chad Hutchinson
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Babe Ruth (continued from page 33)
three hits We d nesd ay night to pass De Feo for the league lead in hits, 22-21 and stole four bases to finish second in Ted Jung that category. Goetz Brothers’ Ted Jung struck out four against Dutch Goose and led the league with 41 strikeouts. Sundance’s Jake Foster and Guy’s Plumbing Palo Silva are among the league leaders in stolen bases, behind Goetz Brother’s Nolan Kim, who led the league, and Donaker. Q
Palo Alto Babe Ruth Final standings
Dutch Goose 12-2-1 Old Pro 9-6 Sundance 7-8 Alhouse 7-8 Goetz Brothers 5-9-1 Guy Plumbing 4-11
League tournament All games at Baylands Friday Dutch Goose vs. Alhouse, 5 p.m. Sundance vs, Old Pro, 8 p.m.
Saturday Friday winners, 11 a.m. Friday losers, 2 p.m.
Monday Elimination game, 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday Championship, 5 p.m. If necessary, 8 p.m.
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Water polo (continued from page 33)
Stanford’s ping-pong team played an exhibition match against the Chinese. The match was built around diplomacy between both countries with the idea that one day they could begin a student exchange program.
Apart from training and competing with the Chinese, both teams will be side by side as they explore the culture through local food, practicing Mandarin and diving into the rich history of Chengdu, the city where both teams will be spending most of their time. The trip will also include a visit to the Panda Research Center and
meetings with university students in Chengdu to host a clinic for school children alongside their Chinese counterparts. Another benefit of competing and training with the Chinese team is bonding and building chemistry amongst each other. The experience will also give the newcomers a chance to experience competition at a collegiate
level. “We’re going to get up to speed really fast and they are going to be playing at a really high level,” Tanner said. A level the returning players are also excited about playing. “We’re going to have a pretty young team and we haven’t played together a lot so this will be good to get experience,” said Sarah Klass, a returning junior attacker for the team. For Klass, playing water polo at Stanford is a family affair. Her sister Kat, who graduated this year, was her teammate for the past two years. They both followed in the footsteps of their father, who played for the Stanford’s
men’s team. Klass said the chemistry with the new team will “come with time,” adding that although they have “a lot of work to do,” she is confident the trip to China will help them bond as a team and push them to work harder. Tanner said the “opportunity to go someplace and do something that is innovative and distinctly different” will be the main takeaway from the visit. He said he wants the team to understand how great of an opportunity this will be, not just for the sport or for the team building, but for the experience of traveling there. Q
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Stanford and the Chinese national team share the hot tub at Avery Aquatic Center following an exhibition game in February.
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