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Lawsuit: City wanted old inn BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Managing Editor
The owner of the old Stanford Terrace Inn is asking a judge to overturn the Palo Alto City Council’s order to demolish the building that’s been determined a fire risk, saying it’s in retaliation for not selling the hotel to the city five years ago. Owner Sophia Huang claims in the lawsuit, filed in federal court on Thurs-
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ing rented out to Stanford graduate students, was unsafe for habitation. Emergency exits were blocked, ceilencounters with the city, including ings were lined with plastic film, elecplanning officials allegedly refusing trical wiring was corroded and a balcoto review plans to redevelop the hotel, ny was at risk of collapse, according to once used as extended-stay housing, the notice from the city. the lawsuit states. The city made all of the tenants This ultimately led to a March 21, move out, and Huang had to pay reloca2024, notice of violation from the city tion assistance equaling two months of stating that the property, which was be[See INN, page 18]
Demolition order is retaliation
day, that the city has had its eye on the block-long buildings at 531 Stanford Ave. since 2021, when officials asked if the owners would be willing to sell the building to the city to use as a hotel for the homeless. Huang turned the city down and it led to a series of increasingly hostile
Fire board honors rescues
GAVIN LAWYERS UP: Gov. Gavin Newsom has hired high-powered Washington, D.C., attorney Abbe Lowell as the Department of Justice investigates the millions of dollars of “behested payments” corporations gave nonprofits associated with Newsom and his wife. FRAUD ALLEGED: The Trump administration is deferring more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota over suspected fraud and noncompliance. WORK REQUIREMENTS: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order requiring state employees to work in the office four days a week is facing backlash from government employee unions.
LAST NIGHT the Menlo Park Fire Board honored the rescue team who plucked a lost dog from the Bay last week. It also thanked five plumbers that rescued a woman from a burning home on Willow Road last month. Post photos by Julia Chie. Read story on PAGE 19.
OFFSHORE OIL: The revival of controversial, unpermitted offshore oil operations on California's Central Coast has triggered fierce pushback from environmental groups despite the state’s high gas prices. WAR WIDENS: U.S. forces have carried out a 10th consecutive night of strikes on Iranian military sites [See THE UPDATE, page 4] 153 Stone Pine
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Cubberley campaign has few donors A campaign supporting a half-cent sales tax measure on the November ballot so the city of Palo Alto can revamp the Cubberley Community Center so far has raised $9,875 from three donors. Former Palo Alto School Board member Jennifer DiBrienza has donated $5,600 to the campaign, the forms,
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filed yesterday, show. DiBrienza and Councilwoman Julie Lythcott-Haims led a committee between the city and school district, which own the property, that confidentially negotiated the $65.5 million price tag for the property. Council is asking voters to buy seven acres of the community center for $65.5 million from the school district
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for the revamp. DiBrienza is listed on finance forms as the principal officer for the campaign, along with resident Chris Colohan, who ran for the school board in 2024. The next largest donor was nonprofit organization Palo Alto Community Child Care, with $4,500. The child care [See DONORS, page 18]
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