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Mountain View city officials are worried about losing property taxes be- al appeal is uncertain, the number and cause of an influx of RV dwellers. value of pending appeals provide an WELLNESS Property owners in areasSPONSOR with a indicator of property owners’ concerns concentration of RV dwellers have ap- regarding property valuation and marpealed $2.4 million in property tax bills ket conditions in these areas,” Assistant to Santa Clara County Assessor Neysa City Manager Audrey Seymour said in Fligor, according to a city memo. a June 22 memo for Mountain View “While the outcome of any individu- City Council.
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The city’s RV dwellers are concentrated in nine commercial areas that are struggling to attract tenants, Seymour said. The city counted 392 people living in their vehicles in these nine areas and 46 elsewhere, in March, Seymour said. Property owners have until Sept. 15 to appeal their property tax bills.
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CANOER PLEADS INNOCENT: A former Olympic canoe racer has pleaded not guilty to deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. David Hearn, who competed in three Summer Olympics, faces a felony count of property destruction. Hearn’s attorneys argue the charges are based on a “concocted narrative” and criticize the administration’s handling of the situation.
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iff’s oversight has been a hot topic in their job,” police auditor Mike GennaSan Mateo and Santa Clara counties, co said in an interview about the court’s The California Supreme Court has where Sheriff Christina Corpus and decision yesterday. Gennaco has audited the Palo Alto decided county supervisors can estab- Sheriff Laurie Smith were kicked out Police Department for the last 20 years. lish oversight agencies to investigate of office in the last four years. “For those sheriffs who continue to The Santa Clara County Board of Sucomplaints and subpoena records from be reluctant to provide information, I pervisors hired his company in January the sheriff. The court’s decision looked at Sono- think it will be much more difficult to 2020 to look into Smith’s handling of [See OVERSIGHT, page 30] ma County but applies statewide. Sher- block oversight agencies from doing BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
NEWS VS. AI: The New York Times, the Daily News and other media outlets are asking a federal [See THE UPDATE, page 4]
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The city of Palo Alto has received six applications for a total of 247 apartments from developers using a new state law that allows taller and denser buildings near Caltrain stations. The author of the law — state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco — is celebrating Palo Alto’s projects using Senate Bill 79. “It’s fantastic to see the first applications moving forward,” he said on social media yesterday. Wiener said SB79 projects can use another law that he wrote, Senate Bill 423, that allows housing projects to skip public hearings and environmen[See CELEBRATES, page 30]
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KIRK’S SHOOTER’S REGRETS: A video played in a Utah court reveals the defendant in Charlie Kirk’s killing told his roommate “he wishes he hadn’t done it” the day after Kirk was shot in the neck while speaking to a crowd at Utah Valley University.
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About half of property taxes go to local school districts, and the rest fund other government agencies like the city and the county. Property owners have complained about RV dwellers scaring off tenants, and 8,708 employees are affected, Seymour said. Wisk Aero, a company trying to build the world’s first self-driving air taxi at the end of San Antonio [See INCOME, page 30]
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