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BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
A business owner in Palo Alto wants council members and the city manager to allow RVs to park indefinitely outside of their houses. “Only then could you honestly say you’re part of the solution you’re proposing for the rest of us,” said Bill McLane, owner of Palo Alto Glass at 4085 Transport St.
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City’s RV plan faces backlash McLane is one of dozens of residents and business owners who aren’t happy with council’s proposal to give RV dwellers permits and allow them on one side of the street. McLane said RV dwellers have tapped into his water and power and dumped their waste tanks and trash in
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his yard. “My taxes pay for street maintenance, sanitation and code enforcement — not to have my neighborhood turned into an unregulated RV lot,” McLane said in an email. McLane asked council and City Manager Ed Shikada to provide their home address so he could tell RV
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
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dwellers where to go. “If this policy is good enough for my block, it’s good enough for yours,” he said. Loren Brown, who owns two properties on Park Boulevard, said the city will face a “huge backlash” during its Monday discussion on RVs, and the issue will become a campaign issue in the fall. He said council didn’t vet its pro[See RV, page 18]
Districts ditch teacher housing
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TEACHER HOUSING at 231 Grant Ave. in Palo Alto. Photo from architect Van Meters William Pollack.
Two school districts are pulling out of a teacher housing project in Palo Alto because their apartments weren’t filled. “It’s a little disappointing that this didn’t work out,” Los Altos school board member Bryan Johnson said at a meeting on Monday. The Los Altos School District filled only six of its 24 apartments at 231 Grant Ave., next to the Palo Alto Courthouse. So the board voted on Monday to give up a preference for its employees in 18 vacant apartments. The apartments were too small, didn’t have enough storage and parking was “not that great,” Assistant Superintendent Erik Walukiewicz told the board. Rents were still too high despite the district’s extensive marketing efforts, Walukiewicz said. “A lot of people that we’re hiring already [See HOUSING, page 18]
District hit with third abuse lawsuit
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Bryan Rios, 45, of Santa Clara, allegedly assaulted a 6-year-old The Mountain View Whisman girl in his classroom at Theuerkauf School District has been hit with Elementary School in fall 2017. The girl’s attorney said the disa lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by a former teacher who has al- trict should’ve known Rios was ready cost the district $675,000 dangerous because a teacher’s aide had reported him for raping in settlements. BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
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her at his apartment, but former Principal Ryan Santiago didn’t investigate. “Many of the teachers and administrators at Theuerkauf Elementary were aware of Mr. Rios’ reputation as a sexual predator,” [See LAWSUIT, page 19]
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