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After lay offs announcement BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
Menlo Park’s mayor yesterday attended a meeting thinking she would get an update on Meta’s massive Willow Village development, only to find out the project has been shelved. Mayor Betsy Nash told the Post yesterday that Meta isn’t outright canceling the project, but it doesn’t have a timeline for when it will restart the development approved in December 2022. The project was slated to FORMER PLANS — This rendering from 2022 shows the proposed Willow Village Complex.
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FATAL ID: A man who drove into a wall along an off-ramp at Highway 85 and Central Expressway in Mountain View has been identified as Venkatesan Narayana Rajachengamaraja, 46, of San Mateo. He died in a solo accident from blunt force injuries on Monday around 3 a.m., the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner said yesterday. MAY FETE: Palo Alto’s 102nd annual May Fete Parade is today at 10 a.m. Floats and marching bands will go down University Avenue and Waverley Street before a fair at Heritage Park with booths, food trucks and games for kids until 1 p.m. BECKER ARRESTED: State Sen. Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park, was among the Bay Area officials arrested yesterday during a May Day “ICE [See THE UPDATE, page 4]
Supe defends tax proposal the Post yesterday that voters will to go to the voters,” Speier said. The be able to decide whether to increase sales tax increase would bring the San Mateo County Supervisor the sales tax at some point over the tax rate above 10% in most San MaJackie Speier says her proposal to next five years for any special need if teo County cities, including Belmont, support a bill that would let the coun- the majority of the board on Tuesday East Palo Alto and Redwood City. ty raise its sales tax by a half-cent, backs a bill Speier has been working The lowest tax rate would be 9.875% should be seen as an “insurance pol- on with Assemblyman Marc Berman, in cities such as San Carlos, Atherton and Menlo Park. The tax would icy” to help the county rebuild in the D-Menlo Park. “If the sky is falling and we need also be on top of the county’s current event of an emergency. [See TAX, page 22] Speier said in an interview with to do something, it would allow us BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
Group wants to turn cameras off posed in Palo Alto were not a one-time fluke, but reflect a pattern of repeated Community organizations are call- negligence,” 23andMe engineer Austin ing for the city of Palo Alto to cancel its Marshall said in a statement by Indiviscontract for license plate-reading cam- ible Palo Alto Plus, an activist group. eras after the police chief revealed the The statement comes ahead of council’s database could be searched by federal Monday meeting, which has a memo about the Flock cameras attached to it, agencies. “The Flock data leaks that were ex- but council is not expected to discuss BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT
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include 1.6 million square feet of office space, 1,730 homes, a hotel, a grocery store, a pharmacy and parks. Nash and Councilwoman Cecilia Taylor, who represents the area of Menlo Park Willow Village will be built in, attended a 10 a.m. meeting yesterday thinking they would get routine updates, only to be hit with the disappointing news. “It’s very disappointing for many reasons, but especially from the housing that it was going to offer,” Nash said. Meta has until 2032 to start construction on the project be[See META, page 22]
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