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Redevelopment forces shakeup of downtown retail scene Independent retailers eye other cities for new space by Sue Dremann and Eric Van Susteren
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owntown Palo Alto’s redevelopment trend and high rents are pushing another longtime retailer to another city. This week, owners of the 65-year-old University Art and its The Annex gift store confirmed the business, which is a destination for artists, will leave Palo Alto and construct its own building at 2550 El Camino Real in
Redwood City. University Art had been looking for a space to buy or move into in Palo Alto for the past two years, said Cornelia Pendleton, the store’s CFO and daughter of one of the founders. They tried to purchase their current building, at 267 Hamilton Ave., in 2008 but were outbid, she said. The move is being forced by the
building owner’s plans to retrofit the Hamilton space, and the store would have had to relocate for at least two years, she said. University Art looked at moving into the old Apple store on University Avenue, but the rent was too high. It wasn’t feasible to stay in Palo Alto, where space goes for at least $4 to $6 a square foot, which is more like $6 to $8 per square foot with taxes, insurance and maintenance, Pendleton said. “It’s very difficult to be a small
retailer in today’s market. ... Economically it does not make sense. There are guaranteed rent increases in the future. It’s not sustainable,” she said. University Art owns its San Jose and Sacramento store buildings. Pendleton’s aunt, Lauretta Cappiello, now 91, and her mother, Virginia Biondi, 89, started the business in 1948 with her grandfather, Anthony Cappiello. The family had moved west from New York.
They purchased University Office Supply store, which was located at University Circle in downtown. In 1957, the store moved to Hamilton Avenue north of Waverley Street and in 1964 to its current location, she said. Anthony Cappiello died in 1957, but Pendleton’s mother and aunt are still on the board of directors. The store and adjacent The Annex gift store will stay open until VÌÕi`ÊÊ«>}iÊ£Ó®
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Report: Realignment drives property crime up But keeping prisoners locked up not the most cost-effective, authors say by Sue Dremann roperty crimes across through realignment, the report the state rose 7.6 percent states. The increase is higher than this year, and Santa Clara in states where crime trends were County was hit the worst, with an similar to California’s before reincrease of 20.4 percent, accord- alignment. Nationwide, property ing to a recent report that pins the crime decreased slightly. rise on California’s controversial The rising crime numbers reprisoner-realignment policy. lated to prisoner early releases The report by the Public Policy are concerning, the authors Institute of California states that wrote. California still has 8,000 the program, which aims to re- state prison inmates more than its duce the state’s overcrowded pris- court-mandated limit of 110,000. ons, didn’t appear to change rates If the state releases prisoners rathin violent crime, such as murder er than transferring them to other and rape. But its effect on auto- facilities, the effect on property theft rates was particularly pro- crime could be 7 to 12 percent nounced, with an increase of 14.8 greater per released offender, the percent — or 24,000 more auto authors noted. thefts per year. Violent crime, including murRealignment went into effect der, rape, robbery and aggravated on Oct. 1, 2011, in response to a assault, did rise 3.4 percent durfederal court order for Califor- ing the same time period, but the nia to reduce overcrowding in its increases appear to be part of a prisons. It shifts responsibility broader trend. They were also exfor nonviolent criminals from the perienced in other states, accordstate to the local level by send- ing to the report. ing some prisoners to jail instead Robberies increased modestly, of prison. It quickly reduced to about 6 per year per 100,000 the state’s prison population by residents, which do appear related 27,000, but two thirds — about to realignment. 18,000 — who would have been Magnus Lofstrom, an Institute in prison or jail before the shift research fellow and report coare now on the streets, according author, took a longer view. to the report. “Realignment has brought enorCrime rates varied widely mous change to California, and across the state, but the 10 largest it appears to have affected auto counties generally saw greater in- thefts, in particular. Nonetheless, creases in crime than in the state despite recent increases, rates of overall, according to the report. property and violent crime rePalo Alto police statistics show main at historically low levels in car thefts rose 26.3 percent, lar- the state, substantially lower than cenies increased 11.8 percent and they were a decade ago,” he said. burglaries rose 15.6 percent beFrom a cost-versus-benefit pertween 2011 and 2012. spective, longer incarceration for Counties with high incarcera- potentially realigned prisoners tion rates experienced higher does not necessarily pay, the aucrime after more prisoners were released back to their counties VÌÕi`ÊÊ«>}iÊ£Ó®
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EDUCATION
Questions follow sudden resignation of Sofia University head Students, faculty seek new leadership, return to school’s historical roots by Chris Kenrick
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tudents and faculty at Palo Alto’s Sofia University are seeking a complete replacement of the school’s board of trustees following budget cuts this fall and a faculty no-confidence vote in President Neal King. Seven out of 10 trustees have resigned in recent weeks and remaining trustees announced that King would resign effective Dec. 31, but demonstrators in front of the school Thursday afternoon demanded King’s immediate departure. “This is a very painful experience for those of us who care deeply about this school,” said Aneel Chima, a doctoral student
and former student representative on the board of trustees of Sofia, previously known as the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Chima said students and faculty want new trustees drawn from past board members and alumni. As students and faculty gathered in front of the school for the protest Thursday, Chima said he has received word that King that morning had fired at least 11 faculty and staff members, including the school’s cofounder, professor Robert Frager, and well-known local psychologist and writer Fred Luskin, author of “Forgive for Good.” Meanwhile, Sofia’s board named
an interim president, former Pitzer College president Frank Ellsworth. Sofia, a 38-year-old nonprofit accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, offers on-campus as well as online degrees in psychology, with a bent toward the discipline’s spiritual, emotional and creative aspects. It reports a full-time-equivalent enrollment of 526 students. Frager, a psychologist, said on Wednesday he has filed a complaint with the California Attorney General’s Office seeking an investigation. VÌÕi`ÊÊ«>}iÊ£{®
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BOUNDLESS CHOICES ... Local bookworms with independent streaks and digital leanings now have a new library at their disposal. Palo Alto City Library just added enKi Library, an e-book platform that offers about 10,000 titles purchased from publishers, many of them independent. The addition of this service raises the library’s existing e-book collection to more than 130,000 titles, according to an announcement from the city. The books can be read on the library’s Chromebooks or on visitors’ personal computers, tablets, smartphones or e-book readers. The new service is being unveiled at a time when e-books are enjoying a boost in popularity. Though they make up just a small fraction of the local library collection, e-book circulation jumped by more than 40 percent, library officials reported. The new platform aims to feed the trend. “We’re excited to support this new model for library e-books,� Library Director Monique le Conge Ziesenhenne, said in a statement. “enKi library offers an ownership model that works for libraries while bringing independent publishers’ collections to our audience of readers.� COVERING PALO ALTO ... More than 100 families in the Palo Alto school district signed up for health insurance last week at a session sponsored by the PTA, Covered California and the Palo Alto Unified School District. Certified enrollment counselors were on hand to help families, who were required to bring paperwork, identify their best options, either through Covered California or the expansion of Medi-Cal. A second enrollmentassistance session was to be held Thursday at Jordan Middle School. The families of about 800 Palo Alto schoolchildren reported at the beginning of the school year that they did not have medical insurance, according to Palo Alto Superintendent Kevin Skelly. “We’re anxious to see our families
get that kind of quality health care that they want,� Skelly said.
COMPLETED ASSIGNMENTS ... Three days after Palo Alto officials approved a large, illuminated sign for the Grocery Outlet store at Alma Village, the city’s architecture board granted sign exemptions to a local company whose brand is all too wellknown. Tesla Motors drove away Thursday morning with the approval of the Architectural Review Board for two signs in its shiny-new showroom at 4180 El Camino Real. One would be an illuminated wall sign and another would be a freestanding “monument sign� (a modest title) along El Camino Real. The board voted 5-0 to approve two exemptions for Tesla. Members agreed that an exemption pertaining to the size of the wall sign wasn’t even necessary because the sign’s 7-foot-4-inchwide aluminum background would wrap around an existing wall. The real sign, board member Randy Popp said, is the Tesla logo, which would only be 32 square feet. The freestanding sign, meanwhile, would be neon red and 8.5 feet tall by 4 feet wide. It would feature a Tesla logo in white acrylic and internally illuminated with LEDs, according to a staff report. The only exemption that the company needed, the board ruled, is the one granting it the right to have two signs. Collectively, they would exceed the allowed square footage in the city’s signage code. But the board swiftly granted the electric-car company its wish. Board member Lee Lippert was one of several members to speak in favor of Tesla’s proposal, framing the vote as an effort to support local businesses. “Our community is served well by having an active, busy, prosperous merchant versus an abandoned automobile showroom, which is what we were faced with as soon as three years ago,� Lippert said. “When you look at adjacent towns, they’re struggling as they’re losing their automobile usages.� N
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Giant sign approved for new Alma Street grocer Grocery Outlet gets green light for glaring sign despite resident objections by Gennady Sheyner
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or decades, Alma Plaza in Palo Alto has served as a graveyard for grocers’ dreams. The reputation stuck even after the plaza at 3445 Alma St. was redeveloped and rebranded as “Alma Village.” Years after Lucky’s and Albertsons shut their doors and left town, the plaza welcomed its latest tenant, Miki’s Farm Fresh Market, which stayed open for less than six months before it closed its doors in April and its owner filed for bankruptcy. Now, the City Council is trying its best to keep the latest entrant into the plaza from suffering a similarly ignominious fate, even if it means ruffling some feathers in the neighborhood. That’s what happened Monday night, when the council voted 6-3 to approve a large, illuminated “Grocery Outlet” sign despite an appeal from neighborhood leaders. At 104 square feet, the sign for the discount grocer would be more than 30 times what is normally allowed for signs in the area. In this case, however, the council agreed that typical rules don’t apply. With Miki’s failure, amid accusations about the site’s poor visibility and insufficient
parking, council members agreed to bow to the grocer’s request for a 3-D “cabinet” sign that some in the neighborhood called excessive and unsightly. The city’s Architectural Review Board and planning staff had approved the sign earlier this year, but the council was asked to take up the issue after an appeal from a group of residents led by Midtown leaders Sheri Furman and Annette Glanckopf. Both argued that while they support the new grocer, they oppose the installation of what would be the largest sign on the Alma corridor. They urged the council to reduce the size, despite an assertion from a Grocery Outlet executive that the store would pull out if it doesn’t have its way. “The sign exceeds all the signordinance limits,” Furman told the council Monday. “We are protesting that excess.” The council ultimately voted 6-3, with Karen Holman, Greg Schmid and Gail Price dissenting, to uphold the architecture board’s approval. Though no one was thrilled about the proposed sign, few dared to call Grocery Outlet’s bluff and risk being once again without a supermarket at
Alma Village. The city had previously approved an even larger “banner” sign for the development, though Miki’s went out of business before that sign could be installed. The newly approved 26-foot-tall sign would be slightly smaller than its approved predecessor, but it would be brighter. Its letters would be illuminated and it would reach 10 feet above the store’s roofline. Tom DuBois, one of the appellants, argued that allowing such a sign would put Palo Alto on a slippery slope. “Small signs work when everyone has them,” DuBois said. “Once we have large signs, it will kick off an arms race. If I owned a store and saw a large sign, I’d definitely want one, too.” Holman agreed with the residents that the sign is excessive and argued that the business could survive with good marketing, even without the giant sign. Others were more cautious, largely because of the city’s recent experiences with the site. Councilman Pat Burt, who was on the planning commission about 15 years ago when Alma Plaza was going through its long approval process, said the question for him
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Most on the council agreed with Burt and approved the large sign despite major reservations. Councilman Marc Berman noted that the site was “cursed” (though he quickly downgraded his assessment to “challenging”) in explaining his willingness to go along with the staff recommendation. Councilman Larry Klein noted that cars typically drive fast up and down Alma, and the larger sign is thus justified. Councilwoman Liz Kniss, who made the motion to approve the sign, said she doesn’t want to risk losing a supermarket but noted that she is (continued on page £x)
EMERGENCY SERVICES
Stanford is shopping for new firefighting services University’s request for proposals threatens long-standing relationship with Palo Alto
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tanford University is looking around for a new provider of firefighting services, a move that could transform or even end the university’s nearly four-decade-long relationship with the Palo Alto Fire Department. The university put out a request for proposals in late November for an agency that would provide fire-department services, including firefighting, paramedic and “specialty-response,” to its 4,000acre property in unincorporated Santa Clara County. The campus includes roughly 700 university buildings and 965 single-family residences. The request has a deadline of Jan. 31, and Palo Alto expects to submit its proposal next month, city Fire Chief Eric Nickel told the Weekly. Stanford’s search could have significant repercussions for Palo Alto’s fire department, whether or not the university agrees to continue to rely on Palo Alto’s services. The two fire departments, Stanford’s and Palo Alto’s, merged in 1976 as part of an effort by the university to save money
and update its force. The merger came in the wake of a 1972 fire that destroyed a wing of Encina Hall and drew about 250 responders from throughout the area. The emergency-services partnership has been in place ever since. In addition to providing Stanford with emergency-dispatch and ambulance services, Palo Alto firefighters staff Station 6 on the university’s campus. For that, the city is amply compensated. The Fire Department draws 30 percent of its revenues from Stanford University, though the campus draws only about 25 percent of the department’s responses, Nickel said. However, Stanford receives in return 30 percent of all of the revenues the department collects from customers, whether or not these calls pertain to the campus. This long-standing but somewhat rudimentary formula will probably fall by the wayside with Stanford’s decision. From the city’s perspective, that might not be a bad thing. Nickel said his department, much like the university, would like to see changes in
by Gennady Sheyner their agreement and noted that the request-for-proposals process will give both parties an avenue for addressing these changes. Nickel said the department fully expected Stanford to shop around for other providers at some point and called the university’s search a “great business practice.” Specifically, Nickel said, the department would like to see more staffing flexibility and more provisions relating to fire prevention and inspections. For instance, the city currently monitors about 500 fire alarm systems at Stanford, Nickel said. Educating the campus community about ways to prevent false alarms would create a “huge opportunity to drop the call volume.” He also noted that the call volume from Stanford falls significantly during holiday periods, when students go home for vacation, and spikes during weekends, particularly when there is a big football game. It would be worthwhile to consider these factors in determining staffing levels, he said. Both Stanford and Palo Alto
acknowledge that the university’s needs have changed since the partnership had begun. Most of the 1,248 calls that the Palo Alto Fire Department responded to on Stanford campus in 2012 related to medical services and false alarms. The request for proposals notes that Stanford “has not suffered from serious fires over many decades.” According to the request for proposals, Stanford is looking for an initial contract with a five-year term, with automatic five-year renewals thereafter for “acceptable performance.” Cancellation of a contract would require at least a 12-month notice. The university is looking to approve the new contract by next April. Even if other agencies submit the bids, Palo Alto would hold several key advantages. The most important is location. Because the city has several fire stations at and near Stanford, it is best positioned to meet Stanford’s response-times requirements. The request for proposals specifies that for medical calls and small fires, the first unit of responders should arrive within
7 minutes from the receipt of the 911 call 90 percent of the time. Even though at least four personnel from the contracting agency would occupy Stanford’s fire station, incidents that require additional staff would probably involve more driving and a longer response time. The fact that the city already provides other emergency services to Stanford should also strengthen its negotiating position. If the university opts to switch to a different fire department, fire calls would still be dispatched to Palo Alto before being transferred to the new agency, lengthening the response time. Stanford also made it clear in the request for proposals that it only desires to contract with “another full service, public fire department,” which further constrains the potential applicant pool. “I believe at the end of the day we will still be their fire department, but it’s going to look very different,” Nickel said. N Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
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Support our Kids with a gift to the Holiday Fund. Last Year’s Grant Recipients 10 Books A Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Abilities United . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Ada’s Café . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$25,000 Adolescent Counseling Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Art in Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Breast Cancer Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 California Family Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 CASSY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Cleo Eulau Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Collective Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Community School of Music & Arts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Community Working Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Creative Montessori Learning Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Downtown Streets Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 DreamCatchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Environmental Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Family Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Family Engagement Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,000 Foothill College Book Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,000 Foundation for a College Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Friends of Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Hidden Villa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 InnVision Shelter Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 JLS Middle School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Jordan Middle School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Kara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000 Magical Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$25,000 Mayview Community Health Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Music in the Schools Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 New Creation Home Ministries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 New Voices for Youth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,500 Nuestra Casa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 One East Palo Alto (OEPA). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Palo Alto Art Center Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Palo Alto Community Child Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Palo Alto Housing Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Palo Alto Humane Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,500 Peninsula Bridge Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Peninsula College Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Peninsula Youth Theatre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Project WeH.O.P.E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Quest Learning Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Racing Hearts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,500 Raising A Reader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Ravenswood Education Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Silicon Valley FACES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 South Palo Alto Food Closet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,000 St. Elizabeth Seton School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 St. Francis of Assisi Youth Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 St. Vincent de Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,000 TheatreWorks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 YMCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Youth Community Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Youth United for Community Action (YUCA) . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000
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ach year the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund raises money to support programs serving families and children in the Palo Alto area. Since
the Weekly and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation cover all the administrative costs, every dollar raised goes directly to support community programs through grants to non-profit organizations ranging up to $25,000. And with the generous support of matching grants from local foundations, including the Packard, Hewlett, Arrillaga & Peery foundations, your tax-deductible gift will
Give to the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund and your donation is doubled. You give to non-profit groups that work right here in our community. It’s a great way to ensure that your charitable donations are working at home.
be doubled in size. A donation of $100 turns into $200 with the foundation matching gifts. Whether as an individual, a business or in honor of someone else, help us reach our goal of $350,000 by making a generous contribution to the Holiday Fund. With your generosity, we can give a major boost to the programs in our community helping kids and families.
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Please make checks payable to: Silicon Valley Community Foundation Send coupon and check, if applicable, to: Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund c/o Silicon Valley Community Foundation 2440 West El Camino Real, Suite 300 Mountain View, CA 94040 The Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund is a donor advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) charitable organization. A contribution to this fund allows your donation to be tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
Through Dec. 17, 307 donors have contributed $195,345 to the Holiday Fund 24 Anonymous ..............................5,425
NEWLY Received Donations Irene Beardsley & Dan Bloomberg .....200 Michael & Marcia Katz ......................100 Bjorn & Michele Liencres ...............1,000 Robert & Connie Loarie ........................* Rosalie Shepherd .............................100 Markus Asckwanden & Carol Kersten 150 John & Ruth Devries .............................* Chris & Beth Martin..............................* Bonnie Packer & Bob Raymakers .......100 David & Karen Backer.......................250 Gerald & Joyce Barker ......................100 Bruce F. Campbell .........................1,000 Keith Clarke .....................................100 Constance Crawford .........................800 Boyce & Peggy Nute .............................* David & Diane Feldman ....................500 Matt Glickman & Susie Hwang ..........500 Jane Holland ........................................* Bob & Joan Jack ..............................250 Eric Keller & Janice Bohman .............250 Jan Krawitz ..........................................* Harold Luft...........................................* Lani Freeman & Stephen Monismith ..100 Sandra & Scott Pearson ...................500 John and Lee Pierce .........................250 David & Virginia Pollard.....................300 Don & Dee Price...................................* Barbara Klein & Stan Schrier .................* Andrea Smith ...................................100 Anne and Don Vermeil ..........................* Mrs. Marie Viezee ................................* Lee & Judy Shulman .............................* Lijun & Jia-Ning Xiang .......................200 Laurie T. Jarrett ....................................* Lorraine Macchello ...........................100 Bryan & Bonnie Street ..........................* Gary & Dee Ellmann ...........................50 Les and Margaret Fisher ...................100 Judy Ousterhout ...................................* Mandy Lowell .......................................* Nina and Norman Kulgein .................100 Kathleen & Joseph Hefner ................250 Debra Satz and Don Barr ......................* Tobye & Ron Kaye ................................*
In Memory Of Dominic Greening .................................* Our beloved son Samuel Benjamin Kurland ............300 Our son Nick ....................................500 Bob Markevitch ....................................* Ludwig Tannenwald...............................* Bill Roth ..............................................* Dr. Cheryl Gold.................................330 Dr. Virginia Lewis..............................330 Dr. Peter Kono .................................340 August Lee King ...................................* Marty Wood .......................................50 Joshua Alper ....................................150 Harry Lewenstein .............................500 Mary Floyd ...........................................* Betty Meltzer .......................................* Our Dad Albert Pellizzari .......................* Jim Jarrett ...........................................* Amy Fletcher ........................................* Phillip Gottheiner ..................................* Jim Byrnes .......................................100
In Honor Of Darla Tupper ........................................* The Martin children ..........................100 Superintendent Skelly .......................150 The Gang of 4 ......................................*
Foundations, Businesses & Organizations Rathmann Family Foundation ................*
PREVIOUSLY Published Donors Virginia E. Fehrenbacher ...................100 Zelda Jury............................................* Edward Kanazawa ................................* Donald and Bonnie Miller ......................* Michael and Lennie Roberts..............150 Roger Smith .....................................200 Nanette Stringer ...............................250 Ralph and Jackie Wheeler .................225 Bonnie Berg .........................................* Lucy Berman .................................2,000 Micki and Bob Cardelli ..........................* Ted and Ginny Chu ...............................* Robyn Crumly .....................................50 Hoda Epstein .......................................* John & Florine Galen ............................* Margot Goodman ................................* Stuart & Carol Hansen .........................* Myron and Linda Hollister .................100 Jon & Julie Jerome ...............................* Kevin Mayer & Barbara Zimmer .............* Joan B. Norton .....................................* Helene Pier ..........................................* Dick and Ruth Rosenbaum ....................*
Mike & Ellen Turbow .........................250 Larry Baer & Stephanie Klein ................* Fred Kohler .........................................* Amy Renalds ........................................* Suzanne Bell....................................100 Sally Dudley .....................................200 David and Nancy Kalkbrenner ................* Gretchen Hoover ................................25 Karen Sundback...............................500 Marilyn, Dale, Rick & Mei Simbeck ........* Shirley Ely ........................................500 Patrick Radtke ..............................2,000 Ralph Britton....................................250 Charlotte Epstein .............................100 John Wang ...........................................* Cynthia Costell ...................................50 Hal and Carol Louchheim ......................* Lee Sendelbeck ...............................100 Faith Braff .......................................500 Anthony and Judith Brown ...................50 Luca and Mary Cafiero ..........................* Mike and Cathie Foster .....................500 Jean M. Colby ..................................200 David & Lynn Mitchell .......................300 Tom & Patricia Sanders ....................100 Dorothy Saxe .......................................* John Tang ............................................* Jerry & Bobbie Wagger..........................* Annette Glanckopf & Tom Ashton.......100 Theodore and Cathy Dolton ...............350 Eugene & Mabel Dong .....................200 Herbert Fischgrund ..........................125 Dena Goldberg .................................100 Dr. & Mrs. Richard Greene ................250 Phil Hanawalt & Graciela Spivak ........500 Harry & Susan Hartzell .....................200 Walt and Kay Hays ...........................100 Christina Kenrick ...........................1,000 Cathy and Howard Kroymann.............250 Eve & John Melton ...........................500 Jim and Becky Morgan ...................5,000 Don & Ann Rothblatt .............................* Dan and Lynne Russell .....................250 Martha Shirk....................................500 Lawrence Yang & Jennifer Kuan ...........................1,000 Patti Yanklowitz & Mark Krasnow .......100 Denise Savoie & Darrell Duffie .............* Dr. Jody Maxmin ...................................* Van Whitis .......................................250 Don & Jacquie Rush .........................300 Michele & John McNellis ..............10,000 J.D. & Renee Masterson ...................250 Martha Cohn....................................300 Laura & Bob Cory .................................* Glenn & Lorna Affleck .......................100 Jone Manoogian .................................50 Felicia Levy ......................................250 Gwen Luce ...........................................* Janis Ulevich ....................................100 Solon Finkelstein..............................250 Eric and Elaine Hahn ............................* Teresa Roberts .............................2,000 Craig & Sally Nordlund ......................500 Meri Gruber & James Taylor ..................* Art & Helen Kraemer ............................* Barbara Riper.......................................* Betty Gerard ....................................100 Bob and Diane Simoni ......................200 Carolyn & Richard Brennan ...................* Gerald & Donna Silverberg ................100 Hersh & Arna Shefrin ............................* Jim & Alma Phillips ...........................250 Lawrence Naiman.............................100 Leif & Sharon Erickson .....................250 Mr. George Cator ............................100 Ray & Carol Bacchetti ...........................* Rita Vrhel.........................................250 Steve & Karen Ross .............................* Susan & Doug Woodman ......................* Tad Nishimura ......................................* Tom and Neva Cotter .....................2,000 Al & Joanne Russell..........................250 Alice Smith ......................................100 Caroline Hicks & Bert Fingerhut.........100 Drew McCalley & Marilyn Green .........100 Jan & Freddy Gabus..............................* Joe and Nancy Huber ........................100 John & Olive Borgsteadt .......................* Lynn & Joe Drake .................................* Patricia M. Levin ..............................100 Robert & Josephine Spitzer ...............100 George & Betsy Young ..........................* Harriet & Gerald Berner ........................* Hugh O. McDevitt .............................200 Mary Lorey ..........................................* Nancy Steege...................................100 Sheryl & Tony Klein ..............................* Sue Kemp .......................................250 Andy and Liz Coe ..................................* Ben & Ruth Hammett ...........................* Hal & Iris Korol ....................................* Jessie Ngai ......................................100 John & Mary Schaefer ......................100 Mahlon & Carol Hubenthal ....................* Peter & Beth Rosenthal ........................* Maria Basch ......................................55 Owen Vannatta ..............................5,000 Gennette Lawrence ..........................500 The Havern Family .........................4,500 Brigid Barton ...................................250
Donald & Adele Langendorf ..............200 Gil and Gail Woolley ..........................300 Greg & Penny Gallo ..........................500 Hugh MacMillan ...............................500 Mike and Jean Couch .......................250 Nancy Hall ....................................1,000 Page & Ferrell Sanders .....................100 Peter & Lynn Kidder..........................100 Peter S Stern .......................................* Robert & Barbara Simpson ...................* Scout Voll ............................................* Stephen Berke .....................................* Tom & Ellen Ehrlich..............................* Art and Peggy Stauffer......................500 Bill Johnson & Terri Lobdell ...............500 Carroll Harrington .............................100 Richard Zuanich ...............................200 Daniel Cox .......................................200 Michael & Frannie Kieschnick................* Richard Hallsted & Pam Mayerfeld ....100 Steve and Nancy Levy ...........................* Xiaofan Lin ........................................50 Diane E. Moore ....................................* Ellen & Tom Wyman ..........................200 Roger Warnke ..................................300 Stu & Louise Beattie ............................* The Ely Family ..................................250 Bob & Ruth Anne Fraley ......................50 Ellen Lillington .................................100 Jerry and Linda Elkind ......................250 Linda & Steve Boxer .............................* Tony & Judy Kramer ..............................* Keith & Rita Lee ...............................100 Roy & Carol Blitzer ...............................* John & Barbara Pavkovich .................200 Tish Hoehl .......................................100 Don & Ann Rothblatt .............................*
In Memory Of Jack Sutorius ...................................300 Robert Spinrad.................................500 Bill Lard ...............................................* Helen Rubin .....................................150 Mr. & Mrs. Max Blanker ....................150 Dr. & Mrs. Irvin B. Rubin ...................150 John F. Smith ...................................150 Ben Swan ............................................* Ryan ...................................................* Jean M. Law ........................................* Carole Hoffman....................................* Fumi Murai ..........................................* Mary Floyd .........................................25 Tomas W. & Louise L. Phinney ...............* Leo Breidenbach ..................................* Bertha Kalson ......................................* Nate Rosenberg ...............................100 Frank & Jean Crist ............................200 Marie Hardin ....................................100 Baxter Armstrong .................................* Bob Makjavich .....................................* Carol Berkowitz ....................................* Bob Donald ......................................100 Alan K. Herrick .....................................* Don and Marie Snow ........................100 Kathy Morris .................................1,500 Helene F. Klein.....................................* Pam Grady .......................................150 Ruth & Chet Johnson ............................* Robert Lobdell .....................................* Henry Radzilowski ................................* John Davies Black .........................1,000 Yen-Chen & Er-Ying Yen .....................250 Ernest J. Moore....................................* Florence Kan Ho...................................* Joe, Mary Fran & Stephen Scroggs ........* Steve Fasani ....................................100 David Sager .....................................100 William Settle ..................................500 Dr. David Zlotnick .............................200 Boyd Paulson, Jr ..................................* Al and Kay Nelson ................................*
In Honor Of Edna Farmer ....................................100 Terri Lobdell .....................................250 Marilyn Sutorius ...............................300 Sallie Tasto ......................................125 Paul Resnick ....................................125 Sandy Sloan ....................................100 The Barnea-Smith Family.......................* Barbara Zimmer ...................................* Gary Fazzino ........................................* Karen Ross......................................100 Shirley Sneath Kelley ........................100
Foundations, Businesses & Organizations Carl King Mayfield Mortgage..............250 Harrell Remodeling ...............................* Attorney Susan Dondershine .............300 Communications & Power Industries LLC ...................500 No Limit Drag Racing Team .................25 Packard Foundation .....................25,000 Hewlett Foundation......................25,000 Arrillaga Foundation .....................20,000 Peery Foundation ........................20,000 The Milk Pail Market .............................* Alta Mesa Improvement Company...1,200
Upfront CITY BUDGET
Palo Alto in no hurry to recoup Maybell loan City Council agrees not to terminate its agreement with Palo Alto Housing Corporation by Gennady Sheyner
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alo Alto’s plan to bring an affordable-housing complex to Maybell Avenue may have dissolved on Election Day, but the city is in no rush to recoup the money it loaned to the developer. The City Council on Monday voted unanimously not to terminate its $5.8 million loan to the Palo Alto Housing Corporation, a nonprofit that builds and manages affordable-housing complexes throughout the city. The Housing Corporation used the funds to purchase a 2.4-acre site at 567 Maybell Ave. and proposed 60 low-rent apartments for seniors and 12 single-family homes to be sold at market rate. The development received the council’s unanimous approval in June but was shot down by voters in a referendum on Nov. 5. With the election fresh on their minds, council members considered on Monday what to do about the loans it had made to the Housing Corporation. Their decision? Do nothing. That was the recommendation from City Manager James Keene, who argued that affordable housing is still a critical need and that the Housing Corporation is the party best suited to address the issue. He dismissed alternative proposals from members of the public, some of whom argued that the city should buy the orchard site and develop it on its own. The city has many other priorities for spending, including a shrinking but still sizable infrastructure backlog, he said, and staff has little expertise or desire to get into the development business. “The city doesn’t, in my view, have the money to buy this property, and it has had years of public process in exploring infrastructure investments and other needs underway that really should not be derailed by ... an ad hoc request to make a public investment,” Keene said. Council members agreed wholeheartedly. “The City of Palo Alto has many strengths and lots of expertise, but we are not an affordable-housing agency,” Councilwoman Gail Price said. “For us or for community members to assume that we can get involved in a protracted discussion and yield a development that really addressed affordable housing or senior affordable housing is, I believe, unrealistic.” By doing nothing, the council effectively agreed to stand by while the Housing Corporation looks for a market-rate developer
who would buy the property. The Housing Corporation had bought the site for $15.6 million, outbidding at least five other would-be buyers. The agency ultimately benefited from its nonprofit status, which enabled the family selling the orchard to receive a tax write-off. With Palo Alto’s home values rising fast — by about 20 percent in the past year alone, according to staff — the city believes the property can now be sold for about $18.7 million. Once the property is sold, the city would be third in line to collect its loans (two other lenders, Low Income Investment Fund and the Local Initiative Support Corporation would be the first to collect, while Santa Clara County would be last). Any proceeds that remain could be applied to a different affordable-housing project. Several Barron Park residents urged the council to work with the Housing Corporation to come up with a senior-housing project at the Maybell site that would be acceptable to the surrounding neighborhood. But Candice Gonzalez, executive director of the Housing Corporation, said Monday the agency was already at the edge of what was financially feasible. The density of the project was necessary to secure state tax credits, she said. Even if the City Council were to agree to kick in a few million dollars to compensate for elimination of the lucrative market-rate homes, the agency would have trouble sustaining the cost of running the facility. “We did not have a scaled-back alternative. There’s just a lack of funds at the city, state and federal level,” Gonzalez said. The housing agency supported a staff proposal not to terminate the loan but to let the nonprofit proceed at its own pace in selling the property, which under the existing zoning could accommodate 34 to 46 housing units. Had the council chosen to terminate the loan, it would have forced the Housing Corporation to immediately sell the property and pay the city back. Price and Councilwoman Liz Kniss both spoke in favor of allowing the nonprofit to explore other options. Councilman Marc Berman wished the Housing Corporation good luck in finding another site. “The sooner you can find affordable housing somewhere else, the better off we all will be,” Berman said. N
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Upfront
Neighborhoods
A roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann
NEIGHBORS SAVE LIVES ... During the recent Bay Area cold snap, four homeless people in Santa Clara County died of hypothermia. But about 50 unhoused people in Palo Alto were ushered in local motels, thanks to the efforts of the Midtown Court Neighbors & Friends’ Neighbors Helping Neighbors, said Caryll-Lynn Taylor, who founded the volunteer program. The group quickly assembled an appeal for money to pay for motel stays, especially for older people and young children who were at higher risk. Neighbors Helping Neighbors has a year-round motel program to help people with chronic illnesses and families with young children, but during the freezing weather it included outreach to all 60 people on its roster who live in their cars. The group provided a two-night stay for 50 people starting Dec. 7, using the donated funds, Taylor said. Some of the most vulnerable then were invited to stay in people’s homes. The group also distributed survival items, including travel mugs with vehicle plugins, foot and hand warmers, and emergency and thermal blankets. Neighbors Helping Neighbors is also hosting a holiday food drive through Dec. 21, in collaboration with Midtown Realty. Canned and packaged items can be dropped off in the food barrel in the office lobby at 2775 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Donations for motel stays can be sent payable to Midtown Neighbors & Friends, P.O. Box 113, Palo Alto, CA 94302. YEAR-ROUND SWIM PROGRAM UPDATE ... The City of Palo Alto Parks and Recreation Department is considering an all-year swim program session, potentially at Rinconada Pool. The swim session would be between 3:15 and 4 p.m. for children who are not in the Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics league, Lacee Kortsen, community services manager, said. The city has launched a survey to gauge community interest in the program. Residents can take part by visiting https:// www.surveymonkey.com/s/ VNZ7373. The survey must be completed by Jan. 31, 2014. It must be filled out only once per person. N
Send announcements of neighborhood events, meetings and news to Sue Dremann, Neighborhoods editor, at sdremann@paweekly.com. Or talk about your neighborhood news on Town Square at www. PaloAltoOnline.com.
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Doing good deeds for others and for each other in December is part of the Christmas tradition for the Galbraith family. Upper row, from left: Jacqueline, 11; mother Jessica; father Benjamin; Alexis, 10. Lower row, from left: Zachary, 7; Abigail, 4; Victoria, 6 months; Jonathan, 2; William, 8.
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Under the tree, a gift for Jesus The Galbraiths and their children celebrate Christmas with acts of kindness
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hen the Galbraith family of Palo Alto unwraps Christmas presents on Dec. 25, the first box they’ll open is one for Jesus. There won’t be a baby blanket symbolizing swaddling clothes, or three gifts from the Wise Men. Inside Jesus’ beautifully giftwrapped Christmas present, there will be numerous slips of paper. Each will list an act of kindness, service and volunteerism a member of the family of nine has done for someone else and for each other since early December. As the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood family gathers around the Christmas tree, they won’t do a power-rush of present opening. They’ll carefully unwrap Jesus’ gift and read each note — “sharing the joy of what everyone has done and how happy it makes everybody feel,” Jacqueline, 11, explained. Benjamin and Jessica Galbraith established this family tradition with their seven children, Jacqueline, Alexis, Zachary, Abigail, Victoria, Jonathan and William, ages 11 to six months. Jessica similarly shared the giving-box tradition with her five siblings while growing up in Massachusetts and
by Sue Dremann Utah. They would open the gift others, they are serving Jesus. box in their parents’ bedroom be“We can give Jesus a present by fore they even went downstairs, serving our fellow men,” she said. she said. Jessica holds up a wrapped box “It’s something I did the whole that looks like a beautiful present. time I was growing up. As adult It has a slit in the top and some slips children, talking about our favor- of paper. The family has two differite things about Christmas, this ent types of service: one is service was it.” to those in the community, includJessica explained how, three ing playing music at Lytton Garyears ago in the beginning of De- dens, donating to a toy drive, parcember, the Galbraiths introduced ticipating in a canned-food drive, the tradition to their children at a helping at the Palo Alto Unified family meeting. School District toy store, bringing “Who gets presents on their soup and cookies to the Ronald birthdays?” she asked the kids. McDonald house, having mission“We do,” they said. aries to dinner, and inviting a new “Yes. Whose birthday are we family to their home. The second is celebrating on Dec. 25th?” service to members of the family. “Jesus’ birthday.” “I encourage them to make “Who gets presents on Jesus’ each others’ beds, write notes and birthday?” leave them on pillows, do each “Hm. We do!” others’ chores, help each other “Maybe we could give Jesus a with homework, give someone present for his birthday this year,” a ‘heart attack,’ where they tape she suggested. hearts all over a person’s car or Jessica reads the scripture verse: bed,” she said. “When you do it unto the least of When they finish their service, these ... ye do it unto me.” the children write it on a slip of She often tells a story about ser- paper and put it in the box. vice from the scriptures: clothing “On Christmas morning, bethe naked, feeding the hungry or fore opening our gifts, we open caring for the sick — a Good Sa- Jesus’ gift and read all the ‘gifts’ maritan-type story — and she tells we’ve given him over the month,” the children that when they serve she said.
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One son’s favorite act is helping to sort toys at the school district’s toy drive, she said. Zachary, 7, knows right off his favorite act of family love: “Snuggling with Mom,” he said. For Alexis, 10, it is playing “Secret Santa.” The children go to Toys ‘R’ Us or Target and purchase toys for kids in need whom they have heard about through their church. Then they secretly leave the wrapped gifts on doorsteps at night. “I feel really happy and overjoyed, and I feel like I want to do them over and over again,” she said. For Jacqueline, the eldest, doing something nice for somebody that might make a difference in their lives brings the greatest joy, she said. On Christmas day, when the box for Jesus is finally opened, reading what her siblings have done is inspiring. “The whole thing is really nice. It gives you an idea of the nice things we can do for other people,” she said. N Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.
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Yuletide trees spread joy in Old Palo Alto
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ebbie Nichols’ remembrances of her Old Palo Alto neighborhood at Christmas time do not include colored lights and boughs of holly. As a child, one memory stands out. “It was always pitch dark,” she said. Nichols moved back to the family home on Bryant Street near Santa Rita Avenue after her parents died, but the neighborhood was as black and silent as ever, she said. So three years ago she started a new neighborhood tradition. With neighbors Paula Rantz and Margaret Lawrence, Nichols knocked on doors to invite neighbors to edge their street with small, lit Christmas trees, expanding on a tradition that began in 1940 with the now-famous Christmas Tree Lane in the adjacent Embarcadero Oaks neighborhood. The first year, they had 18 trees; the second year, 78. This year, there are more than 160, and the streets are glowing with lights. “Now it’s come alive,” she said. The transformation of her neighborhood has spread beyond the Christmas season. Taking the courageous step of knocking on strangers’ doors to ask them to host holiday trees and lights has opened the community to new relationships. “My neighbors used to never talk to each other. We didn’t know each other. There was no camaraderie,” she recalled. “Last year, we knocked on a man’s door and he said, ‘I’ve lived here 25 years and I’ve never spoken to any neighbors.’ At first, he was taken aback, but then he said, ‘Sure,’ he would take some trees,” Nichols said. A block party on Santa Rita became the impetus for Nichols’ inspiration, she said. The newly formed Old Palo Alto Neighborhood Association started in 2011 by Nadia Naik and Camelia Sutorius got people talking. A series of block parties brought people out from behind their closed doors. “We found that people were really friendly and we got to know each other,” Nichols said. She ordered the same-sized trees from the Palo Alto High School Christmas tree lot, and lights from Hassett ACE Hardware. On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, the trees were hand-delivered to all of the neighbors who had agreed to sign on. “We had a party and delivered them with wheelbarrows and Christmas bells,” she said. Now people put up the lights themselves. Many are decorating their homes where no lights shone before, she said. Sutorius said the transformation is amazing. “What joy it brings. I think it has brought a lot of love. It extends beyond Christmas. We’ve grown quite a bit through the block parties, as we’ve grown
by Sue Dremann together, and that’s what’s allowed this to happen,” Sutorius said. “Debbie has been building this neighborhood feel. We connect on something in December, and when we see someone on the sidewalk, now we stop and talk. It really builds community.” The neighborhood of trees is a nod to the late Judge Edward Hardy, in whose home the idea for “Christmas Fairyland Lane” was created by four friends playing bridge in 1940, Nichols said. Now called Christmas Tree Lane on Fulton Street near Embarcadero Road, the idea came from “a common desire to promote Christmas joy throughout the holidays, particularly for the children of the 1700 and 1800 blocks on Fulton Street, and to foster a similar spir-
it throughout the community and Palo Alto,” according to the original committee proclamation. “We’re not trying to be Christmas Tree Lane,” Nichols insisted. But the spirit of good cheer is spreading. The trees with two strands of colored lights and a white light on top are popping up on Tasso and Waverley streets and Seale Avenue, and Nichols and her friends are getting calls from residents on other streets who want to know how they can get in on bringing the holiday glow to their blocks. Sutorius said she is delighted by the neighborhood transformation. “People put their own kinds of dreams and wishes into their displays. Some of the lights are really spectacular,” she said.
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Residents Debbie Nichols, left, and Margaret Lawrence show some of the lit Christmas trees that they and fellow resident Paula Rantz (not pictured) have helped place along their Old Palo Alto neighborhood streets. The decorating tradition is now in its third year and has grown to include about 170 trees. She first started connecting neighbors while trying to build an emergency-preparedness network. The block parties, neighborhood email lists and holiday trees are all part of building a strong and resil-
ient neighborhood whose residents can band together in any crisis. “Knowing each other is what it comes down to,” she said. “At the end of the day, who has your back?” N
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town Palo Alto. She’ll miss stepping out the door to talk with merchants or strolling to one of the many restaurants or coffee shops. But Palo Alto’s popularity has made it increasingly difficult to find parking in downtown. The
new location will have plenty of parking, she said. The 11,000-square-foot Redwood City store will have an open floor plan, an improvement over the current layout that is divided into small rooms.
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“It will be everything we are now, and more. And it’s only four miles door to door (from here),� she said. University Art joins several other downtown retailers that have closed or moved in the past year or whose future is unclear. In June, Stanford Electric Works, a 99-year mainstay, moved from High Street and Everett Avenue to Mountain View after reportedly being outbid by a $3 million dollar offer for the property from the owner of California Skin Institute, a dermatology chain. Palo Alto stationer Congdon and Crome, a downtown fixture for 109 years, closed its store on Waverley Street this year. Empire Vintage Clothing, located at 443 Waverley St., is moving to Mountain View after the Christmas season, the store announced on its website. The fate of the downtown gift and jewelry boutique Shady Lane, a fixture for 38 years, is up in the air. A proposal to redevelop the 441 University Ave. site went in front of the city’s Architectural Review Board last month. A twostory, 24,750-square-foot mixeduse building is proposed. The architect is the Hayes Group, two of whose modernist building plans have recently been
appealed to the City Council and survived. Owner Alice Deutscher said the store’s lease is up in February, and that she does not know if they will be allowed to stay on. “We have known for a long time that the building could be torn down. The writing is on the wall. We’re just part of what’s happening in downtown,� she said. “We would love to go on and be part of the community as we have. ... People love finding a local store that is connected to a community. There’s less and less of that now,� she said. Shady Lane is looking for another place, preferably on University itself. “It’s hard to be off the avenue. It’s kept us vital in many ways,� Deutscher said. House of Bagels, which has been in Palo Alto for 30 years, is also looking for a new location. Its building in the 500 block of University Avenue is slated for redevelopment. The new building at University and Cowper Street will include ground-floor retail and office space. N Staff Writer Sue Dremann and Online Editor Eric Van Susteren can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com and evansusteren@paweekly.com.
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vent $11,783 in auto-theft-related costs. But the annual cost of incarcerating a prisoner is $51,889 in California, according to the state Legislative Analyst’s Office. Alternatives could improve public safety at lower cost. Spending an additional dollar on policing would prevent more crimes — 3.5 to 7 times as many — than spending it on prison incarceration, the study found. N
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thors said. Each prison year served by an offender who would otherwise be realigned prevents 1.2 auto thefts, the authors estimate. An auto theft costs on average $9,533, according to a RAND Corporation study. One prison year would pre-
CityView A round-up
of Palo Alto government action this week
City Council (Dec. 16) Grocery outlet: The council rejected citizen appeals of an illuminated sign for Grocery Outlet at Alma Village. Yes: Berman, Burt, Klein, Kniss, Scharff, Shepherd No: Holman, Price, Schmid 636 Waverley: The council rejected a citizen appeal of an approved four-story building at 636 Waverley St. Yes: Berman, Burt, Klein, Kniss, Price, Scharff, Shepherd No: Holman, Schmid Vehicle habitation: The council opted to delay enforcement of the recently adopted vehicle-habitation ordinance for a year. Yes: Unanimous
Finance Committee (Dec. 17) Overtime: The committee heard a presentation about the Fire Department’s overtime expenditures in the first quarter of fiscal year 2014. Action: None PaloAltoCLEAN: The committee voted to continue the city’s CLEAN program at the rate of 16.5 cents per kilowatt-hour and a program cap of 3 megawatts. Yes: Unanimous
Architectural Review Board (Dec. 19) Tesla sign: The board approved a proposal from Tesla Motors for one wall sign and a freestanding sign at its dealership, 4180 El Camino Real. Yes: Unanimous 3877 El Camino Real: The board discussed a proposal for a new three-story building with 4,365 square feet of commercial space and 17 housing units at 3877 El Camino Real. Action: None
Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The City Council has no meetings scheduled this week.
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A 78-year-old East Palo Alto man has broken bones and a possible head injury after a car hit him in a University Avenue crosswalk Wednesday morning in East Palo Alto, police reported. Marciano Garcia was walking alone at about 6:39 a.m. along University at Runnymede Street when the vehicle, traveling south, ran into him. The driver fled the scene, leaving Garcia injured on the street. A United States Postal Service worker stopped and called 911, the East Palo Alto Police Department stated in a press release. Garcia was transported to Stanford Hospital where he is receiving treatment. The police are asking that witnesses, who may have been commuting through the area, or people with any knowledge of the incident contact the department. Officers are actively investigating the crime, but at this time they have no suspect or vehicle information. Police are asking witnesses to contact the department by calling dispatch at 650-321-1112, sending an anonymous email to epa@tipnow.org, sending a cell-phone text (which will be anonymous) to 650409-6792, or leaving an anonymous voice mail at 650-409-6792. N — Palo Alto Weekly staff
Modernist building survives appeal An eclectic block of Waverley Street is about to get an infusion of glass-and-concrete modernism, a development that has downtown’s brick-and-stucco traditionalists fuming. For the second week in a row, the Palo Alto City Council on Monday rejected an appeal by downtown residents of a glass-heavy development set to make its way downtown, the four-story building at 636 Waverley St., between Hamilton and Forest avenues. The building received the blessing of the city’s Architectural Review Board in October after several months of design revisions. It will have office space on the bottom two floors and one three-bedroom apartment on each of the top two. In giving the project the green light, the architecture board and city planners agreed that the Waverley block is architecturally varied, with no strong pattern. The new building, with its angular design and glazed façade, would bring a little more diversity. It would also bring more height, mass and in-your-face geometry to a peripheral downtown block that consists largely of one- and twostory buildings, many of which are designed in the traditional Spanish Revival style associated with popular architects like Birge Clark. This modern design irked Douglas Smith, who lives on Forest and has decidedly traditionalist leanings when it comes to architecture. He joined several block residents on Monday in arguing that the new building is poorly designed and completely incompatible with the surrounding area. They noted Monday that most buildings on the block are one or two stories in height, are amply set back from the sidewalk and are composed of wood, brick or stucco. The new building, as well as a companion building eyed for an adjacent parcel at 640 Waverley, would stick out like a sore thumb, he argued. The council, by not agreeing to take up the appeal, disagreed. N — Gennady Sheyner
Fire Department braces for retirement wave More than a dozen Palo Alto firefighters, including many in leadership positions, are expected to retire in the next year or two, prompting the department to ramp up its succession planning, Fire Chief Eric Nickel told a City Council committee Tuesday night. The new wave of retirement is expected to hit double digits, roughly equal to the one that hit the department two years ago, when the city trimmed pension benefits for the fire union and began requiring employee contributions for medical care. This time, demographics are largely to blame. The average age in the department is 42 to 43 years, senior analyst Ian Hagerman told the Finance Committee Tuesday. He said 17 employees are currently eligible for retirement and 49 can retire within the next five years. The trend helped fuel the department’s higher overtime expenditures this fiscal year, in part due to increased training. Last week, the department reported that it had spent $718,000 on overtime in the first quarter, which started July 1 — 50 percent of its annual budget and $133,000 more than it had expended last year during the same period. “We anticipate another round of retirements in the next 18 months. Our goal is to prepare battalion chiefs and captains to fill those roles,” Nickel said. The increased training accounts for about $40,000 in the overtime increase, he said. Other factors include the department’s assistance with the Rim Fire in Yosemite, which added $20,000 to overtime cost (the funds will be reimbursed by the state) and an increase in worker-compensation claims. Last year, Nickel said, the department had four claims. This time there were eight. N — Gennady Sheyner
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“There’s been an atmosphere of secrecy from the top down, so the board refused to give us a budget for this year and the president refused to give us a budget or clear figures about what’s going on,” Frager said. King “has been at the school two and a half years and one major complaint is that he does not provide adequate information to people,” he said. Frager said he believes Sofia’s enrollment numbers suffered because the admissions office was disorganized and “failed to respond to inquiries in a timely way.” In a written statement Wednesday, King said that despite “a revenue shortfall this year, Sofia University is not on the brink of insolvency. “The board and I are fully engaged in a due diligence process to address enrollment and revenue, and to balance the budget for the current fiscal year,” the statement said. Frager said discontent began to emerge at the end of the summer when King announced he was imposing across-the-board salary cuts of 10 percent because of a $1.2 million shortfall. “Our budget is about $10 million so we’re talking about over 10 percent,” Frager said.
The last straw came in November when King announced a second budget shortfall, Frager said. “The way he was planning to make up the funds was an additional pay cut, cutting medical and retirement contributions and firing faculty and staff, among other things,” he said. At that point, Sofia’s 50 fulland part-time faculty members delivered a no-confidence vote in King’s leadership, Frager said. As faculty leaders explained their vote in a series of meetings with trustees, all but three of the trustees resigned. Turmoil at the school — which allegedly has included the preemptive cancellation of some faculty Neal King email accounts, including Frager’s, the hiring of security guards and a lock-out at the campus Tuesday afternoon — has caused problems for students, many said. “The hiring and firing practices of Neal King had been mostly secretive,” said a graduate student who asked not to be named. “I would only notice because new people were coming into senior positions so often. Over time, certain critical areas of the school like financial aid and accounting had so much turnover that mis-
takes were constantly being made on students’ financial aid accounts, disbursement checks started coming late and tuition adjustments and increases became the norm. “Students, above all, have suffered from these actions.” Despite the troubles, many expressed allegiance to the school’s mission of teaching psychology from a spiritual angle and said they hope past leaders will return to rebuild the institution. “In spite of all the pain I and others have suffered I remain a loyal advocate for all of the wonderful things this school is and can bring,” said a former senior manager, who said he was hired by King and later fired, as were the 11 staff members he hired in his year at the school. King, a psychologist and former president of Antioch University in Los Angeles, was hired to lead what was then known as the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, which is housed in former office buildings on East Meadow Circle. The year after his arrival the school rebranded itself as Sofia University. The restructuring — in which the school said it would begin offering undergraduate studies — was based on research into social and economic trends in higher education, according to a statement from the university at the time of the name change. N Staff Writer Chris Kenrick can be emailed at ckenrick@ paweekly.com.
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