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Consider spending some quality time with your daughter and make a special connection this summer! The Department of Psychology at Stanford University is seeking mothers and their 10- to 14- year-old daughters for a research study on how they think and process emotional information. s (AVE YOU HAD PERIODS OF SADNESS DURING YOUR DAUGHTER S LIFETIME 4HEN YOU AND YOUR DAUGHTER MAY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT 3TANFORD 5NIVERSITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS STUDY 9OU WILL MEET THE RESEARCH TEAM ENGAGE IN CONVERSATIONS WITH EACH OTHER PARTICIPATE IN INTERVIEWS AND COMPLETE COMPUTER ACTIVITIES **All information for this study is kept strictly conďŹ dential** s 0ARTICIPANTS WILL RECEIVE $40.00 per hour AND AN EDUCATIONAL PACKET FROM THE 3TANFORD 0SYCHOLOGY $EPARTMENT HIGHLIGHTING INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT PSCYHOLOGY THE BRAIN AND OUR RESEARCH s 4HIS SUMMER STUDY IS SCHEDULED AROUND 9/52 AVAILABILITY ^ DAYTIME EVENINGS OR WEEKENDS !ND IT WILL ONLY TAKE TO HOURS OF YOUR TIME OVER TO VISITS s 9OUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS STUDY COULD HELP THE FUTURE WOMEN OF OUR COMMUNITY 4HE MORE WE UNDERSTAND HOW YOU AND YOUR DAUGHTER CONNECT AND HOW YOUR DAUGHTER EXPERIENCES EMOTIONS THE CLOSER WE ARE TO REACHING OUR GOAL OF PREVENTING EMOTIONAL DISORDERS AND IMPROVING TREATMENT OPTIONS Would you like to be a part of this accomplishment? If so, please contact us!
Stanford Mother/Daughter Study Please contact us via email or phone and refer to "Mother/Daughter Study PW" mood@psych.stanford.edu OR (650) 723-0804 We are funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the world’s leading mental health research non-proďŹ t organization.
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$80,961 to $121,440. Nearly all East Palo Alto households earn less than $75,000 a year; 35 percent make less than $35,000 a year, according to city statistics. At Monday’s meeting, residents overwhelmingly voiced their support for permanent affordable housing, for preventing the displacement of existing residents, for preserving the “right of return� for existing residents if they are moved during construction; and for maintaining the city’s rent-stabilization program. They also supported to varying degrees health and safety improvements such as new sidewalks, parks, community centers, lighting and safer access to and pathways across Highway 101, as well as development that could improve the city’s bottom line. Three development scenarios presented Monday — based on research and discussions by the Westside Area Plan Advisory Committee and city planning staff — would increase the amount of low-income housing through the construction of buildings that would range from four to eight stories high. Under one scenario, Westside housing could increase to 3,500 to 4,500 units. Some would be permanent affordable housing and some would be rent-stabilized. The increase would yield 1,000 to 2,000 new units and improve some streets and other infrastructure, enhance retail and gathering spaces, and improve walkways across Highway 101. A second and more popular alternative among residents envisions a hotel, office and highdensity-housing development that would add the same amount of housing as the first scenario but would include the most permanent affordable housing units due to subsidies from the hotel and offices. The plan proposes a 300,000- to 600,000-square-foot office complex with retail along a main street. Revenue from the commercial space would help the city to improve the area’s lagging infrastructure and would add new streets, parks and open space, including a 1- to 2-acre public park, mini parks and a green-belt space along San Francisquito Creek, according to the plan. This scenario also promised increased parking for residents. A third scenario would build mixed-use, high-density housing, adding 1,500 to 3,000 new residential units. The option offers a high number of permanent affordable housing units with retail space, new parks, increased parking and new streets and infrastructure. Residents Monday favored the second and third alternatives, but they wanted assurances that money from the commercial developments would largely stay within the Westside area and not be disbursed to other city projects. Some residents
also questioned whether all commercial development would be squeezed into the Westside area rather than added to east of 101, where there is more land. The meeting also polled residents about the scale of development: Did they prefer 100 apartments in an eight-story building with 20 permanent affordable units; 50 apartments in a five-story building with 10 permanent affordable units; or 20 townhomes in a two- to-three-story building with four permanent affordable units? Residents said they would opt for greater density and building height if it meant more affordable housing. Residents also weighed in on levels of affordability they would like to see in new housing projects. For the same amount of subsidy, an affordable-housing developer could build more units for moderate-income households or fewer units for lower-income households, staff said. The majority of residents wanted the housing mix to largely include units for low-income and very-low-income residents. Millicent Grant, president of the East Palo Alto Senior Center, cautioned that many seniors fall into the extremely low-income category and said there needed to be enough extremely low-income rental units to accommodate them. “What about having senior housing? Don’t forget your seniors. They are the ones who created this city,� she said. In spite of their support for housing, those at the meeting agreed they don’t want a repeat of the University Circle development, which demolished the run down Whiskey Gulch — the closest thing the city had to a downtown — and turned it into offices for law firms. The site has no real access or amenities for the community, residents said. “It’s a barricade to the community; it’s a project that turned its back on the community,� Cook said. Residents also want more overthe-freeway connections that will help unite the west and east sides of the city. The Westside Area Plan Advisory Committee will meet to discuss Monday’s results on June 16 at 6:30 p.m. at East Palo Alto City Hall. The City Council will receive an update on July 2. Another town hall meeting will take place in September, with a meeting about the draft plan in October. The Westside Area Plan can be viewed at vista2035epa.org/westside-area-plan/ N Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.
TALK ABOUT IT
PaloAltoOnline.com What do you think of the proposed Westside alternatives? How should the City of East Palo Alto respond to residents’ desires for more affordable housing? Voice your opinion on Town Square, the community discussion forum on PaloAltoOnline.com.