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BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
Developers want to tear down offices to build apartments and townhomes next to Highway 101 in Palo Alto. The city has received two applications for housing in the last week along Bayshore Road. Developer William Goodman proposed an eight-story, 261-unit apart-
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Menlo Park residents and business owners were able to tell developers directly what they think about three proposals to build subsidized housing on some of the city’s downtown parking lots. Developers Alliant Communities, Presidio Bay Ventures and Related California were at an open house on Thursday to present their plans despite uncertainty the developments will get [See LOT, page 26]
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Bayshore Road. Each townhome would have a two-car garage and a balcony or deck. Rowe’s proposal is Palo Alto’s secment building and 25 three-story town- at 3350 W. Bayshore Road, plans show. homes on a four-acre property in the Goodman is from Strada Investment ond for housing east of Highway 101. Palo Verde neighborhood. Group in San Francisco, which co- Council approved 145 townhomes on Goodman said he would rent the owns the property with the California the neighboring property at 2100 Geng Road on March 16. apartments and sell the townhomes. State Teachers’ Retirement System. Rowe works for BGO, an investThe complex would include 332 parkDeveloper Jason Rowe proposed ing spaces and reach 89 feet in height 62 three-story townhomes at 2225 E. ment firm in New York City.
GAS PRICES: Gov. Gavin Newsom yesterday rejected proposals for a gas tax holiday, despite California gas prices approaching record highs near $6.16 per gallon.
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RESIDENTS SCOPED OUT plans for housing on three downtown Menlo Park parking lots. Post photo by Adriana Hernandez.
Another city is eyeing housing for a city parking lot see PAGE 6.
Mental health check in brothel case Doctors diagnosed David Davies, is physically wired to misunderstand 61, with autism in 1972, when he was 8 “hidden motives, non-verbal cues and A Palo Alto man who allegedly made years old and a diagnosis was reserved complex social rules,” Smith said. Santa Clara County Deputy District millions off a brothel ring is planning only for those with severe issues, deto withdraw his guilty plea and declare fense attorney Chuck Smith wrote in a Attorney Monroe Tyler asked Judge Meghan Piano to place Davies in cushis mental health in doubt to avoid sev- motion. Although Davies grew up to be a tody until his next hearing on Friday en years in prison, his attorney said at a successful engineer at Broadcom, he hearing yesterday. [See BROTHEL, page 26] BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT
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