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on Wednesday. The city counted 53 RVs on Bohannon Drive, Scott Drive and Campbell Avenue before enforceThe city of Menlo Park has cleared RVs from around businesses, resulting overnight parking ordinance in Febru- city streets and waterways. Council- ment began. Combs said he knows of a couple in a drop in complaints with only one ary 2025 to prohibit RV parking, which man Drew Combs, who represents the tow. was concentrated in a commercial area area, said businesses were dealing with that moved into temporary housing, but “We have not had any significant off Marsh Road and Highway 101. stolen electricity and water, and some he hasn’t seen data about where most of the RV dwellers ended up. The city challenges enforcing our RV ordiThe ordinance’s stated purpose was of the RVs looked abandoned. nance,” police spokeswoman Nicole to improve dangerous views for drivers, “That has been resolved … There has works with San Mateo County and the Acker said in an email on Wednesday. cyclists and pedestrians and to prevent been really clear improvement in that nonprofits WeHOPE and LifeMoves to Menlo Park City Council updated its hazardous materials from going into situation,” Combs said in an interview [See RVS, page 23]
After updating parking rules
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The Palo Alto Police Department has released a video of an officer using a taser on a man at the Stanford Shopping Center, bringing him to the ground and fracturing a vertebrae in his neck. The video from July 19 shows the man sitting on a bench and arguing with an officer and a security guard after they woke him up and told him to leave the mall. The man got up, walked toward the officer and threw his hand out. The officer told the man to back up and asked if he wanted to go to jail. “You’re going to get tased, dude. [See TASE, page 23]
CLANCY MISTRIAL: Jurors in Duxbury, Mass., failed to reach a verdict yesterday on charges that Lindsay Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she killed her three children. It’s likely the prosecution will try her again. HIRING SOARS: The U.S. added 162,000 jobs in August, the Labor Department said yesterday, well ahead of expectations. That compared to 21,000 jobs in July. ‘WHEEL’ VOICE FIRED: “Wheel of Fortune” announcer Jim Thornton was fired by Sony yesterday after a midflight incident. Another passenger said she saw him participating in a chatroom for pedophiles, and took pictures of his computer screen, which she shared with police. Police talked to Thornton but didn’t arrest him. Thorton’s [See THE UPDATE, page 6]
BEFORE — A man charges toward a Palo Alto police officer who has his taser out. Still from video released by police.
City may lose some parking on ECR tions of how they may update parts of El Camino to Belmont’s council on Belmont officials may give Sam- Tuesday. After the presentation, countrans and Caltrans the go ahead to cil will have the choice to officially move forward with plans that include green light the project to go to Caltrans the removal of parking from one side of for approval, which is needed as El its stretch of El Camino Real, to make Camino is a state highway. Options Belmont is considering for room for bike lanes. El Camino involve removing parking SamTrans will present design opBY NORAH SHEPPARD-HUTCHINS
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