Palo Alto Weekly October 13, 2017

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Vol. XXXIX, Number 2

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Local news, information and analysis

Cities rush to prepare for new marijuana era Some along the Midpeninsula look to ban dispensaries; others to encourage them

by Gennady Sheyner

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here’s something about marijuana that makes even the most enterprising cities procrastinate.

Consider Palo Alto, where — with the looming legalization of recreational-pot sales on Jan. 1 — the City Council is preparing to

approve later this month a moratorium on pot dispensaries. This will be the second time in two years that the council will pass such a ban — the first is set to expire in November.

It’s not that Palo Alto council members hate marijuana — a

position that would make them a minority in a city where twothirds of the voters supported Proposition 64 last fall. It’s just that they’d rather put off answering the question that every municipality is now wrestling with: How do we feel about having pot shops in our city?

Palo Alto is one of many Midpeninsula cities taking a conservative, wait-and-see approach.

Since September, Menlo Park,

Cupertino, Woodside and Sunnyvale have all adopted anti-pot ordinances, an action that Palo Alto is scheduled to consider on Oct. 30. Los Altos and Milpitas adopted bans on sales and cultivation of recreational marijuana earlier in the year, while Sunnyvale and Los Gatos are revising their zoning codes to prohibit commercial marijuana activities. Campbell voters went to the polls in April to approve a council-backed

measure that bans dispensaries at least until April 1, 2019.

The defensive municipal crouch may seem a bit odd, given the popularity of Prop. 64 and the general enthusiasm among local officials for decriminalization of marijuana. Palo Alto Councilman Cory Wolbach, chair of the council’s Policy and Services Committee, referred to the drug war as (continued on page 8)

EMERGENCY RESPONSE

With revenue falling, Fire Department to cut positions Palo Alto to shed 11 jobs, seeks leaner service model

by Gennady Sheyner

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Yasmeen Gavande, center, founder of the Palo Alto High School chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom, leads a discussion of current events with fellow club members during lunch on Oct. 5.

EDUCATION

Being conservative in a sea of liberals Seeking like minds, students at Palo Alto High form club to discuss their political views

by Elena Kadvany

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hen Palo Alto High School sophomore Jackson Druker wore his red “Make America Great Again” hat to school last year, he said he was bullied, harassed and even physically assaulted.

Students took his hat and stepped on it. Others cursed at him. One student punched him in the back of his head, he said.

Another told him “I literally want to shoot you right now if you don’t take off that hat,” he said during a class presentation on the experience. Druker’s account with online schoolworkmanagement system Schoology

was hacked and his contact information changed to hillaryclintonlover3@gmail.com, he said.

He was sent to the office — “on the pretense I was saying hurtful things,” he said — and when he returned later to report the physical assault, administrators told him to not wear the hat so as to prevent other incidents.

Druker was in the midst of an experiment: testing what he calls “the hypocrisy of tolerance” at his high school.

“Paly is supposed to be one of the most socially accepting places,” Druker said in an interview with the Weekly. “We’re taught

not to discriminate based on religion or race or sexual orientation.

If we can be tolerant of that, why can’t we be tolerant of someone saying, ‘We like the president’?”

The sophomore identifies as a conservative and is the treasurer of a new club for other politically like-minded students who often feel uncomfortable openly voicing their views in a community known for its liberal leanings.

This fall, junior Yasmeen Gavande founded the Paly chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, a national (continued on page 10)

he Palo Alto Fire Department plans to eliminate 11 positions — roughly 10 percent of its workforce — to adjust to falling revenues from its contract with Stanford University.

The reduction in staff, which the City Council is set to approve on Oct. 16, would eliminate seven firefighter positions and four apparatus-operator positions.

Fire Chief Eric Nickel said the change is expected to save about $1.5 million annually while maintaining service levels so that the department continues to meet its performance standards.

The staffing change, Nickel said, will effectively mean there would be one less firefighter on duty during the day and three fewer during the night hours.

But the city also plans to boost its medical-response operation by adding a fourth ambulance to supplement the three it currently employs.

The changes are driven by both shrinking revenue and by the changing nature of the community’s needs. The city has provided Stanford with fire services since 1976, though the relationship was imperiled in 2013, when the university gave the city a two-year cancellation notice.

Since then, the city and Stanford have been mired in protracted negotiations, with the university arguing that it is paying more than its fair share for the fire services (particularly after it closed in 2012 a fire station at Stanford Linear Accelerator

Laboratory). Palo Alto has continued to provide the university with fire services under a series of short-term contracts that reduced Stanford’s contribution by about 25 percent, or $2 million.

The council acknowledged the reduction in Stanford’s reimbursement in June, when it approved a budget with an unspecified expenditure reduction of $1.3 million. Since then, management and the main fire union, International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 1319, have held 14 meet-and-confer sessions to identify ways to reduce costs.

The proposal that the department came up with after the negotiations calls for shrinking daily staffing on a ladder truck from four to three personnel (the same level it was before 2013); cross-staffing an engine and an ambulance at three of the six stations (which allows firefighters to use either apparatus, depending on the service call); and bumping up the number of ambulances operating between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. — the hours during which two-thirds of the service calls occur — from three to four.

A new report from the Fire Department notes that the new model would deploy 26 firefighters, EMTs and paramedics each day between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. and 24 firefighters between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m., when demand is lower.

Nickel told the Weekly that the (continued on page 11)

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CITY OF PALO ALTO PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING 250 HAMILTON AVENUE, COUNCIL CHAMBERS OCTOBER 25, 2017 AT 6:00PM Action Items: 1. PUBLIC HEARING: Recommendation to the City Council to Adopt an Ordinance Amending Palo Alto Municipal Code (PAMC) Title 18 (Zoning), Chapter 18.28 (Special Purpose, PF, OS and AC Districts), Sections 18.28.050 (Site Development Standards), 18.28.060 (Additional PF District Design Requirements), and 18.28.090 (Parking and Loading) to Revise Development Standards for City Essential Services Buildings and Emergency Communication Towers, and Public Parking Facilities within the Public Facilities (PF) Zone District within the Downtown and California Avenue Districts, and to Make Other Clerical or Technical Corrections. CEQA: The proposed Ordinance is evaluated in the Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Palo Alto Public Safety Building and Public Parking Garage Project at 250 and 350 Sherman Avenue.

The Draft EIR is anticipated to be published mid-October 2017. For More Information, Contact Amy French at Amy.french@cityofpaloalto.org.

The Planning and Transportation Commission is live streamed online at http://midpenmedia.org/category/government/cityof-palo-alto and available on via cablecast on government access channel 26. The complete agenda with accompanying reports is available online at http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/ boards/ptc/default.asp. For Additional Information Contact Yolanda Cervantes at Yolanda.Cervantes@cityofpaloalto.org or at 650.329.2404.

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Around Town A POWERFUL REMINDER ... If one didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what had transpired in the early hours of Jan. 18, 2015, the two wooden benches and bubbling fountain surrounded by plants and trees at Stanford University would seem peaceful. But the site is there to serve as a reminder of when a former Stanford student sexually assaulted a young woman, their names â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Brock Turner and Emily Doe (a pseudonym) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; eventually becoming synonymous with campus sexual violence. Stanford recently transformed the place where Turner was found on top of the unconscious woman behind a dumpster outside of the Kappa Alpha fraternity house. He was later found guilty of sexual assault and served three months in jail.

Stanford law professor Michele Dauber, a sexual-assault reform advocate and family friend of Doeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, said she approached the university about removing the dumpster and re-landscaping the area when Turner was released from jail last summer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have transformed this space from something that instilled fear and apprehension on the part of the students who saw (the dumpster) into something that invites and challenges students to come to grips with the impact of this experience on the survivor and the role that they as partygoers and participants now in this scene have in perpetuating or preventing the circumstances that led to that incident,â&#x20AC;? Dauber said. The area will soon include a plaque that features a quote from Doeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s victim impact statement, which upon its release made powerful ripples across the country. University spokeswoman Lisa Lapin declined to answer questions about the site â&#x20AC;&#x153;out of respect for the victim,â&#x20AC;? but said it is a â&#x20AC;&#x153;contemplative space for our community.â&#x20AC;?

FAMILY REUNION ... Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s city leaders took a rare diplomatic voyage in late September, when they flew off to Europe to mingle with their counterparts in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden.

First, Burgermeister Greg Scharff, Vize-Burgermeister Liz Kniss

and City Manager James Keene touched down in Heidelberg, Germany, where they formally signed the newest sister-city partnership (or â&#x20AC;&#x153;twin townsâ&#x20AC;? as theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re known there). After a formal signing ceremony and a less formal outdoor celebration of the new partnership, Scharff and Keene went on to Enschede and LinkĂśping â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dutch and Swedish siblings, respectively â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to do the usual touristy things: explore startup spaces at local research parks, check out energy-efficient homes and tour waste-to-energy plants. One thing that Scharff said surprised him is the high number of designated incubator spaces both in Enschede and LinkĂśping. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have new modern buildings they had built, where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have 60 to 70 small startups,â&#x20AC;? Scharff said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It felt a lot like Palo Alto in that way but they actually created incubator spaces. Ours are like in Starbucks.â&#x20AC;?

SHORT END OF THE STICK ...

Palo Alto continues to produce competitors for the Food Networkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chopped Junior,â&#x20AC;? with the latest one being Bram Feenstra who was featured in an episode that aired Tuesday night. The young chef whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part Dutch got his start in the kitchen with his father when he was 6 or 7 years old. He worked under pressure through three 30-minute rounds with offthe-wall ingredients that had to be served on a stick. For the appetizer, he produced a deep fried mini corn dog on a stick with shishito pepper and mushroom tortellini.

Chef Marcus Samuelsson, one of the three judges, commended the preteen for pushing through when his dough was stuck to the fryer basket. He also received praise for his entree â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a filet mignon with cake pop crouton, skewered tomato and zucchini salad. Food Network personality Sunny Anderson was initially scared to see the dark charred layer on the meat, but the burnt quality helped caramelize the crouton. He advanced to the final and sweetest round â&#x20AC;&#x201D; dessert.

His chocolate banana cookie bar sundae with toasted marshmallows and raspberry fool (a pureed fruit mixed with whipped cream) was an impressive feat, but not enough for him to win it all. Bram planned to save part of the $10,000 winnings for his college fund and use the remainder to open a restaurant. Q

Upfront HOUSING

Cottage clusters becoming a thing of the past?

Advocates: Lacking city protection, eight bungalows could be razed

by Sue Dremann These four bungalows at 231 Churchill Ave. could be demolished after the sale of the property, if the new landowner decides to replace them with a singlefamily home.

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alo Alto could soon lose two cottage clusters, the small groupings of bungalows built between the 1930s and 1950s that some people say are a vital part of the city’s diverse housing stock.

A few have disappeared in recent years, including four cottages at 821-877 Hamilton Ave. and five cottages at 920-928 Addison Ave. City Councilwoman Karen Holman said recently that something should be done to protect the clusters of bungalows, which are also called cottage courts.

“Cottage clusters provide housing for many who otherwise

would not be able to live in Palo Alto due not only to their size typically being smaller, and thus somewhat less expensive, but also because they expand the number of housing opportunities that exist,” she said in an email. “When that stock is eroded, it works against any small effort made to promote housing in this, a very expensive market with limited land to add units.”

The little homes generally range from roughly 560 square feet to about 1,000 square feet.

All over town, she said, zoning codes don’t recognize the difference between a single home on a

lot and a cottage court, she said.

“What is needed is a new policy that provides a legal backdrop for enforceable code to protect our rich and eroding housing resources,” Holman said.

In January, a property with four cottages on the 700 block of Channing Avenue sold for $6.3 million, according to the real estate website Zillow. Nine months later, the new property owner is proposing to demolish the bungalows and build two larger, twostory homes: an approximately 3,749 square-foot house with a detached garage; and a 3,750 squarefoot home with a basement,

detached garage and swimming pool, according to documents filed with the Palo Alto planning department.

About a mile away, four more cottages face an uncertain future.

The property at 231 Churchill Ave. is up for sale for $12.8 million. Alain Pinel Realtors noted in its advertisement that the property could be an investment, with projected rents for each of the two currently vacant units at $4,300 per month. But that’s not the only option advertised.

“Perfectly situated with mature trees on the perimeter, this rectangular 100’ wide by 200’ deep lot is ideal for someone to build their estate home. ... Max floor area 6,750 (square feet) (not including basement),” the advertisement notes.

In 2016, Palo Alto had about 15 known clusters dotting the city.

City historic-resources Planner Matt Weintraub said at the time that the city does not have a complete list of the cottage courts.

Hillary Gitelman, director of Planning and Community Environment, said her department is currently working on a package of housing regulations to take to the City Council immediately after it adopts a revised Comprehensive Plan this fall.

“We will be looking at incentives to preserve cottage clusters as part of that effort,” she said.

But Holman and others said more can be done now. The city could vote to change existing ordinances whenever it chooses, Holman said.

Marni Barnes, who has lived in a cottage cluster in the 800 block of Boyce Avenue for more than 30 years, said that planning staff must better understand where the cottage courts are located and when an applicant’s proposal threatens them. The city’s Individual Review guidelines governing

residential developments are not strong enough, she said.

“It is not part of the city’s protocol to do a site visit when an application is submitted. The city has no real idea what the neighborhood character or pattern is, and in the case of the cottage clusters, the city would not even be aware that the project was part of an existing cluster,” Barnes said.

Current guidelines put cottages at risk, she said. Planners who review proposals for residential properties consider whether an architect’s project fits into the overall “streetscape.” But a stated goal of the Individual Review guidelines is that the project should be consistent with the existing “neighborhood pattern.”

A streetscape and a neighborhood pattern can be two very different things, she noted. Cottage clusters in particular are micro-neighborhoods within a neighborhood.

Where Barnes lives, the residents own the four cottages. In 2016, the new owner of one bungalow proposed a two-story, 2,043-squarefoot remodel, which would tower over the remaining three. The proposal might fit the “streetscape” of the larger surrounding neighborhood, but it would not fit the neighborhood character of the cottage court, she said.

She and her neighbors are working with city planners and a consulting architect to find a solution.

But “in the end, despite all of these efforts, (the character of) our cottage cluster will be destroyed,” she said.

Arthur Keller, who was a Planning and Transportation commissioner in 2007 when the city codified Village Residential zoning — designed to encourage (continued on page 10)

HOUSING

Palo Alto looks to beef up protections for renters Three council members propose limits on rent increases, restrictions on evictions

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s rising rents continue to drive longtime residents out of Palo Alto, city officials are preparing to adopt regulations that would offer renters greater protection.

The regulations are the latest attempt by the City Council to address the city’s shortage of affordable housing, a problem that council members identified as a top priority this year.

The proposals include an annual cap on rent increases for apartment buildings and measures to protect tenants from eviction without just cause, according to a memo submitted by council members Tom DuBois, Karen Holman and Lydia Kou. The memo, which the council

by Gennady Sheyner is scheduled to discuss on Oct. 16, acknowledges that Palo Alto’s affordable-housing supply is far below demand, while the cost of building below-marketrate housing “dwarfs our available resources.” It also notes that many vital members of the community have moderate incomes and thus don’t qualify for affordable housing. Teachers, police officers, service workers, nurses and health care providers “are continuing to be priced out of their homes and are being forced to leave the community.”

The trio also noted that monthly rent in Palo Alto has soared by 50 percent since 2011, while Santa Clara County’s median income has risen at less than one-tenth

of that rate — a rate they call unsustainable.

“Although the growth in our tech economy has been a boon to many, that growth has been accompanied by negative disruptions, including a steep increase in demand (for housing) that has severely degraded our housing affordability and resulted in many long-term renters being forced out or having to spend inordinate amounts of their incomes on housing,” the memo states.

Palo Alto isn’t the only city in the area dealing with the problem. Last November, the voters of Mountain View passed Measure V, a rent-control charter amendment that created a

rental-housing committee to regulate rent increases. The measure also forced landlords to roll back rents earlier this year to October 2015 levels.

In San Jose, the City Council approved in May an urgency ordinance banning landlords from evicting tenants without demonstrating cause.

The Palo Alto proposal would borrow elements from each of these efforts. The annual cap on rent increases, by a percentage, would apply to buildings that were constructed before Feb. 1, 1995, and have five units or more. State law limits cities from imposing renter-protections on apartment buildings that went up after 1995.

The eviction measure would “protect tenants against termination without just cause while protecting the fair rights of property owners,” the memo states. Both proposals would be vetted by the council’s Policy and Services Committee before returning to the council for possible approval.

One goal of the proposal, DuBois said, is to allow the council

to come up with a good process for developing sensible rentalprotection regulations over time, as opposed to having them determined by a voter initiative.

“Some of these rent increases are really high,” DuBois said.

“You can have a revolt like in Mountain View.”

DuBois said he and his colleagues have no intention of freezing rents by adopting rentcontrol measures like the ones commonly associated with New York City. The goal, he said, is to “find something that’s as balanced as possible between landlords and tenants and prevent massive increases that really force people out of places they’ve been renting for a long time.”

The memo cites ordinances that the city had adopted in the past, which went beyond state law in protecting renters. These include a requirement of a 60-day notice for large rent increases in apartment buildings and a prohibition stopping landlords from requiring fewer than two occupants (continued on page 11)

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;fraudulentâ&#x20AC;? during a discussion last year.

He told the Weekly recently that he considers it tragic that so many people are arrested and have their lives turn upside down and their families torn apart because of drug laws. But when asked about the prospect of allowing marijuana dispensaries in Palo Alto, Wolbach had to pause. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d want a pot shop in my neighborhood,â&#x20AC;? Wolbach said.

While current council members are ambivalent about marijuana, city leaders have a history of snubbing their nose at pot. In 1997, the council voted to ban medical-marijuana dispensaries. And in 2012, the Palo Alto council took a unified stance against a citizen petition to allow up Greg Scharff to three medical-marijuana dispensaries and to impose a 4 percent tax on gross receipts.

At the time, Greg Scharff and Liz Kniss (now the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mayor and vice mayor, respectively) were part of a group of officials who co-signed a ballot argument against Measure C that described medical-marijuana dispensaries as â&#x20AC;&#x153;hotspots for crime,â&#x20AC;? claimed that cities with dispensaries have experienced â&#x20AC;&#x153;an increase in crimes such as burglary, robbery and the sale of illegal drugsâ&#x20AC;? and argued that allowing and taxing up to three medical-marijuana dispensaries would â&#x20AC;&#x153;increase marijuana use by our kids and it will hurt them physically and academically.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The biggest threat to our children and our community is to blur the line between dangerous, illegal drugs and medicine,â&#x20AC;? the argument stated (the ballot measure was overwhelmingly defeated).

With the passage of time, however, City Hallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s position on marijuana has become both less shrill and more opaque. Recent public hearings on marijuana policy barely mentioned the issues that dominated the discussion in 2012: crime, health and illegal sales.

Scharff acknowledged his view on marijuana has shifted somewhat. Like Wolbach, he said he supported Prop. 64. He also noted that some communities now have dispensaries that are â&#x20AC;&#x153;clean, welldone and look greatâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a departure from his 2012 depiction of these businesses as â&#x20AC;&#x153;hotspots of crime.â&#x20AC;?

The councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more recent conversations on marijuana policy have been relatively brief, with few public comments and little disagreement. In general, members have deferred to advice from the City Attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office, which amounts to a â&#x20AC;&#x153;ban now, revisit laterâ&#x20AC;? approach. Strikingly, the

Pot advocates: Forget local control Bans on dispensaries will perpetuate an unregulated market, some say

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ot everyone is pleased with local citiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the cautious approach to marijuana sales and distribution.

East Palo Alto resident Andrew Boone has been attending public hearings in recent months to encourage council members not to move ahead with bans, temporary or not.

To date, the Midpeninsula citiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; approach to marijuana has been â&#x20AC;&#x153;discouraging,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Boone said he became interested in the topic in 2014, when San Jose revised its regulations on medical-marijuana dispensaries. The new requirements dropped the number of dispensaries operating in the city from more than 70 to 16 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a change that he deemed unwise. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To keep marijuana on the unregulated market is, I think, very irresponsible and to just assume that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t create any secondary problems â&#x20AC;&#x201D; like street vending of marijuana â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is short-sighted,â&#x20AC;? Boone said.

Today, the biggest distinction that Boone has seen between cities pursuing pot bans is between those that support blanket bans on all marijuana operations and those, like Palo Alto, that look to carve out an exception for delivery services. Banning delivery of marijuana, he said,

councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s usual appetite for being at the head of the pack on all things green â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whether carbonneutral electricity, zero waste or solar panels â&#x20AC;&#x201D; goes out the window when marijuana comes up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Palo Alto doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to have any enthusiasm to be leader on this issue,â&#x20AC;? Wolbach told the Weekly.

Waiting for state guidelines

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he general reticence of some â&#x20AC;&#x201D; though not all â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Midpeninsula city councils stems in part from the fact that the state has yet to actually finalize marijuana regulations.

With less than three months until recreational pot sales become legal, the California Bureau of Cannabis Control is preparing to release next month its guidelines for such dispensaries, with the expectation that it will start issuing licenses to these businesses on Jan. 1.

According to Alex Traverso, spokesman for Bureau of Cannabis Control, the guidelines will contain specific regulations on locations of dispensaries, hours of operation, security requirements and cannabis quantities, among others.

is both cruel and unenforceable. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The industry is going to take root somewhere â&#x20AC;&#x201D; might as well be in our cities,â&#x20AC;? Boone said.

John Fredrich, a Palo Alto resident and former City Council candidate, believes his hometown should avoid local regulations altogether and defer to the state. The councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent moratoriums, he said, are just a stalling tactic. And its â&#x20AC;&#x153;local controlâ&#x20AC;? argument is just a cover for a prohibitionist mindset, Fredrich told the Weekly.

Fredrich said he was particularly upset by the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision last year to ban outdoor growth of marijuana â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a power that Prop. 64 explicitly grants to municipalities. (Cities cannot, however, prohibit people from growing up to six plants indoors for personal use.)

Given that state law already limits outdoor growth to secured spaces that are outside of public view, the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vote was both counterintuitive and needless, he told the Weekly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in your backyard, behind a locked gate, you should be able to legally grow it outdoors,â&#x20AC;? Fredrich said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think bands of marauders are roaming our neighborhoods looking for a couple of plants in a backyard.â&#x20AC;? Q â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Gennady Sheyner Some of these are already addressed in Prop. 64. For instance, the measures requires marijuana retailers to implement security measures that prohibit people from remaining on a dispensary premises if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not engaging in an â&#x20AC;&#x153;activity expressly relatedâ&#x20AC;? to the dispensaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s operation; to have areas accessible only to authorized personnel; and to store all marijuana products (other than the limited amount used for display) in a locked room, safe or vault. Dispensaries will also be prohibited from setting up shop within a 600-foot radius of a school, day care center, or youth center (cities can specify a different radius) and from allowing anyone under 21 on site.

Yet Prop. 64 also charges the Bureau of Cannabis Control (formerly known as the Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation) with coming up with specific regulations in areas like transportation-safety requirements and special licenses for nonprofit dispensaries.

Given that the agency has yet to release these guidelines, staff from Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s City Managerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and City Attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offices argued at recent hearings that unless the city adopts a local ban now, it will lose

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How local cities are regulating cannabis sales Municipality

Commercial sales

Type of regulation

Campbell

Prohibited

Temporary moratorium

Cupertino

Prohibited

Medical: zoning ordinance Nonmedical: temporary moratorium

East Palo Alto

Prohibited

Medical: moratorium Nonmedical: temporary moratorium

Los Altos

Prohibited

Temporary moratorium

Los Altos Hills

Prohibited

Zoning ordinance

Los Gatos

Medical: prohibited Nonmedical: pending prohibition

Medical: zoning ordinance Nonmedical: pending council action

Menlo Park

Prohibited

Temporary moratorium

Milpitas

Prohibited

Medical: zoning ordinance Nonmedical: temporary moratorium

Monte Sereno

Prohibited

Zoning ordinance

Mountain View

Permitted

Zoning ordinance

Palo Alto

Prohibited

Medical: 1997 moratorium Nonmedical: temporary moratorium; extended moratorium is pending council action

San Jose

Medical: permitted Nonmedical: pending

Medical: zoning ordinance Nonmedical: Pending council action

Santa Clara

Medical: prohibited Nonmedical: pending

Medical: zoning ordinance Nonmedical: pending council action

Saratoga

Prohibited

Zoning ordinance

Sunnyvale

Medical: prohibited Nonmedical: prohibited

Medical: zoning ordinance Nonmedical: moratorium

Source: City of Mountain View, Palo Alto Weekly staff

A selection of Indica, Sativa, and Hybrid marijuana buds, also known as “flowers,” are for sale at The Guild, a medical marijuana dispensary in San Jose.

measures on the same ballot: Measure C, which would ban dispensaries until at least April 1, 2019, and Measure A, which would institute a 7 percent tax on gross receipts from any marijuana business operating within city borders, including delivery services and manufacturers. In April, city voters approved the two measures backed by the council and rejected Measure B. So while dispensaries won’t be coming to Campbell for a while, the city expects the tax to bring between $130,000 and $260,000 annually to the city’s General Fund.

Santa Clara is also exploring the economic benefits of allowing and taxing marijuana. During its Aug. 22 discussion, members of the City Council expressed some concern about allowing commercial growers in the city. Dispensaries, however, should be allowed and highly regulated, council members said.

Vice Mayor Dominic Caserta

argued that a moratorium is the “wrong way” to approach the issue and pointed to the fact that 60 percent of the city’s voters backed Prop. 64 — a proportion that he said amounts to a “landslide.”

He supported allowing dispensaries, tightly regulating them and ensuring that none are located near schools or other facilities with children. Even though Prop.

64 already prohibits marijuana businesses from operating within 600 feet of such facilities, Caserta proposed possibly raising the buffer zone to 1,000 feet. The goal, he said, is to capture the revenue potential of this fledgling industry.

“It’s happening in our city illegally, so let’s make it legal,” Caserta said.

Carlos Romero, a member of the East Palo Alto City Council, also argued that his city should consider the financial advantages of keeping marijuana legal, including eligibility for state grants

that could be used for drug-prevention activities for youths. One idea that he floated during a July 22 meeting is limiting the number of dispensaries to one or two in his city of 30,000 residents.

Like Caserta, he acknowledged that marijuana is already being grown and smoked in his community.

“I know for a fact that when I bike down our streets or have barbecue in the back of my yard or go to MLK Park, I at times am surrounded by pot, by the smell. ... If we do use it recreationally, I think we may seriously want to think about whether or not we should allow the sale of it,” Romero said.

East Palo Alto Mayor Larry Moody agreed. The cannabis movement has gained so much momentum, Moody said, that you “can’t ignore the economics associated with it.” He also pointed to cities such as (continued on page 12)

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Lenny Siegel said he sees in marijuana dispensaries an “opportunity” to reinvigorate Mountain View’s commercial areas. The city, he said, has been struggling to attract retail to some of its major shopping districts. He proposed making zoning changes to allow dispensaries in downtown Mountain View, the San Antonio Road area and some sections of El Camino Real.

“To me, this is a setting people should be able to go to after their dinner and dessert in downtown Mountain View,” Siegel said. “To me, it’s socially acceptable in this area, and we shouldn’t pretend otherwise.”

Mountain View isn’t the only city eyeing the potential revenue of legalized marijuana. Earlier this year, the Campbell council reacted to Measure B — a citizen initiative that would have legalized and taxed up to three marijuana dispensaries — by placing two competing

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the power to control its own destiny on marijuana. Dispensaries will get licenses, set up shop and get grandfathered in, the thinking goes, so that even if the council decides at a later date that it hates marijuana shops, it will be too late to do anything about them.

“A lot of our thinking is driven by the Jan. 1 deadline, where we sort of lose some of our authority,” City Manager James Keene said at the June 13 meeting of the Policy and Services Committee, which concurred with his view and recommended extending the city’s original October 2016 ban.

The Sunnyvale council followed similar logic when, after a brief discussion, it voted unanimously on Sept. 26 to ban commercial operations in its city. Things are so in flux when it comes to state law, Councilwoman Nancy Smith said during the discussion, that if the council didn’t adopt a moratorium, “Our local ordinances would be pre-empted.”

“We’re doing this because we want local control,” Smith said.

Ken Rosenberg has no such reser vat ions.

The mayor of Mountain View proudly announced on Sept. 19 that he was one of the 68 percent of city residents who supported Proposition 64. Ken Rosenberg At that meeting, the council agreed that, rather than banning dispensaries, the city should amend its zoning code to permit and regulate commercial marijuana activity.

It would be odd, Rosenberg said, for a city to vote favorably for the proposition and then “turn away from it.”

“Mountain View is known for its leadership on all sorts of different issues, and I can’t see why we wouldn’t be on this issue as well,” Rosenberg said at the Sept.

19 meeting.

His colleagues largely supported his position. Councilwoman Pat Showalter said the council would be “shirking our responsibility” if it acted as if marijuana wasn’t legalized. Vice Mayor

Haze Dispensary, one of 16 medical marijuana collectives approved and registered by the city of San Jose, offers a variety of marijuana buds, edibles, extracts and oils. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • October 13, 2017 • Page 9

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advocacy organization that helps high school and college students promote conservatism. She attended a conference the organization hosted this summer at Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara and returned to school this fall inspired to address what she calls the â&#x20AC;&#x153;liberal status quoâ&#x20AC;? at Paly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost a dogma that you are a liberal,â&#x20AC;? she told the Weekly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of kids wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even say theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re conservative because of a fear that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be attacked.â&#x20AC;?

The first week of school, a flyer appeared on campus inviting students to join a â&#x20AC;&#x153;conservative safe-space club.â&#x20AC;? Above a photo of former President Ronald Reagan and an American flag was the headline, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Calling all against injustice and oppression!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paly has become a school with a very strong liberal bias, preventing us from expressing our conservative opinions. All students deserve a safe space to express their political views and opinions,â&#x20AC;? the flyer stated.

Gavande, a young woman of color, said students have called her a racist and misogynist for supporting President Donald Trump.

She insisted she supports policies, not people. The infamous comments Trump made about women in a leaked Access Hollywood video donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x153;translateâ&#x20AC;? into his efficacy as a president, she argued.

Gavande hopes the club will

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construction of cottages and other small units â&#x20AC;&#x201D; said that cottage courts and single bungalows provide lower-priced housing and preserve the diversity of the community.

Palo Alto should consider imposing an affordable-housing impact fee whenever redevelopment reduces the number of affordable homes, both to discourage their removal and to pay for building lower-income housing, Keller said.

Holman said that cottages are not

not only provide a way for conservative students to meet but also spur awareness and conversations with others with opposing views.

She plans to bring in conservative speakers and host debates with other student groups, such as the Democrats Club and Intersectional Feminism Club. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the other reasons that Yasmeen made this club is because we want to make our mark here and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just the same as everyone,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Druker said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re no different from you.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Gavande said conservative stances on free speech, capitalism, abortion and limited government all resonate with her.

She bristles at the idea of â&#x20AC;&#x153;safe spacesâ&#x20AC;? at school â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a new trend on college campuses in which students, particularly those who feel marginalized, are provided places where they gather and can feel safe. Critics say these spaces insulate students from diverse or opposing opinions.

During lunch last Thursday, Gavande, Druker and six other Paly students sat together in an empty classroom for the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second meeting. In a wide-ranging, open discussion, they talked about whether the NFL protests are justified â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s within athletesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; freespeech rights to protest, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disrespectful to the flag, Druker argued â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the implications of the Las Vegas shooting on the Second Amendment, among other issues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think we should ban guns, but we do need limits,â&#x20AC;? one student said. Another chimed in

about the current state background checks, and others voiced concern about restricting citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; right to defend themselves with guns.

Conservative junior Gregor Tillman said he hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t felt comfortable expressing his political views on campus before. Though heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never experienced harassment on campus, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been hiding this for most of school.â&#x20AC;?

He said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s glad to have a space at school to talk to others about politics. Tillman and other members also hope to engage other students and welcome members who arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t conservative.

Druker said he was surprised not by the negative reactions to his â&#x20AC;&#x153;Make America Great Againâ&#x20AC;? hat but by the positive ones. More people than he thought respected his right to freedom of speech, and some engaged in respectful debate with him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope this club will help create a higher tolerance for opposing viewpoints,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope that it will help make a more open-minded campus by showing people that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OK to think differently.â&#x20AC;? Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

typically below-market rate units, however, so legally there cannot be a requirement to â&#x20AC;&#x153;replaceâ&#x20AC;? them with below-market-rate housing.

There is some hope for cottage advocates, however.

Part of the revised Comp Plan, known as the Land Use Designations, will go to the City Council later this year, and it proposes a policy to â&#x20AC;&#x153;recognize the contribution of cottage-cluster housing to the character of Palo Alto and retain and encourage this type of development.â&#x20AC;?

The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s required Housing Element, a document that outlines where housing could be built, also

supports small housing, though not specifically cottage clusters. It provides incentives to developers in the form of reduced fees and flexible development standards to encourage the preservation of existing rental cottages and duplexes currently in the single- and twofamily residential neighborhoods.

It also has a five-year objective to â&#x20AC;&#x153;preserve 10 rental cottages and duplexesâ&#x20AC;? with funding from the city Housing Fund and to explore incentives within three years of the Housing Element adoption. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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per bedroom to occupy a unit. The city also offers a mediation service to landlords and tenants.

Current ordinances, DuBois said, don’t seem like they’re doing enough to prevent displacement of renters, who comprise about 44 percent of Palo Alto’s residents.

“With the kind of boom periods that we’ve been through, we see less socioeconomic diversity (in the city),” DuBois said. “In the past, Palo Alto hasn’t really been comfortable talking about this kind of thing, but I really think it’s time.”

Holman said the goal is to limit rent increases to the 5 to 10 percent range, which she called reasonable.

“I’ve heard from a number of people who’ve had to move because rent was jacked up by 40 percent or 50 percent,” Holman said. “I hear people comment that their rents were doubled.

“When incomes don’t rise to that level — which of course they don’t — it’s just not possible to cope with such a change.”

Holman said the measures proposed in the memo are part of a multipronged approach that the council should pursue to protect the city’s existing supply of housing.

Other areas include limiting abuses of short-term rentals and “investment homes” that are left vacant for extended periods of time.

The memo comes at a time when the council is preparing to adopt an updated Comprehensive Plan, a document that spells out the city’s land-use vision. The city’s Planning and Transportation Commission, which completed its review of the updated Comprehensive Plan last month, recognized the urgent nature of the city’s housing problems when it unanimously recommended on Sept. 27 that the council strengthen the affordablehousing policies in the plan.

The housing crunch has gotten so bad that even tech professionals can’t afford a “starter home” in Palo Alto anymore, Commissioner Susan Monk said at the Sept. 27 meeting. Monk, the sole renter on the commission, cited the recent departure of Kate Downing, a former Planning and Transportation commissioner who made national headlines when she resigned and blamed the city’s housing policies for making it impossible for her and her husband to afford a Palo Alto home.

“This is truly a crisis here,” Monk said. “We need to look at what the middle-class needs.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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move will not only save money but will allow the department to use its resources more efficiently. A key feature of the new service model, Nickel said, is having more people on duty during peak call times and fewer during less busy hours.

“We have crews today that are running less than an hour’s worth of calls per day,” Nickel said.

To come up with the optimal model, Nickel said the department relied on software that allows users to shift resources around the city and analyze the potential impact of these shifts, based on call data and other statistics. The new model, he said, will allow the department to continue to meet its goal of responding to emergency calls in eight minutes or fewer 90 percent of the time.

By adding a fourth ambulance, the new model also recognizes the community’s growing need for emergency medical care, even as major structure fires become increasingly rare.

According to Fire Department statistics, the number of fire incidents in Palo Alto and Stanford has declined by 32 percent since 2008, with residential structure fires decreasing by 82 percent over this period. A report from

the Fire Department attributes this to “strong effective building codes, especially fire sprinklers, new construction practices that incorporate fire-resistive materials and fire-safe appliances.”

Meanwhile, ambulance transports have gone up by 52 percent since 2007, a that the department attributes to an aging population and the “expanded awareness of the 9-1-1 system.” Palo Alto residents older than 65 years account for half of the ambulance transports to hospitals, despite making up only 17 percent of the population.

Nickel noted that under the new model, there will be no station closures and no layoffs. The department currently has 17 vacancies, he said.

But while Nickel called the service model “innovative,” fire Capt. Ryan Stoddard, who heads the firefighters union, criticized it for depending too much on cross-staffing to reduce staffing.

Even though the new plan adds a fourth ambulance — which everyone agrees is a good thing — two of the ambulances depend on cross-staffing, which could result in a personnel shortage when the city gets multiple calls for service at the same time.

“When we start cross-staffing, we’re just rolling the dice, hoping we have the right unit at the right place at the right time, which becomes risky and unsafe,” Stoddard said.

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Stoddard disputed the idea that eliminating 11 positions will not impact response times, particularly as the number of calls for service continues to grow. Department management had acknowledged in the past that the staffing levels are “appropriate” for the city. For union members, the idea of changing these levels based on a decision by Stanford to reduce its fees does not seem like the wisest course of action.

“With 11 fewer FTEs (fulltime equivalents), there’s no way the service levels will remain the same,” Stoddard said.

The union presented its own ideas for saving money, he added, including eliminating one of the city’s two deputy chiefs and some of the “floater” positions, which don’t have assigned spots in the department but which are hired to fill in as needed. Those proposals, he said, were rejected.

Ultimately, the union did not agree to support the staffing reductions, though it acknowledged the city has met its legal meetand-confer requirements. Despite the challenges that they believe the service changes will present, he said, firefighters are hoping that the new staffing model will

work out well for the city.

“Any time you’re asking people for doing more with less, that will take a hit on morale,” Stoddard said. “We will still show up and run calls to the best of our ability because that’s what firefighters do.”

Nickel said that despite union members’ anxieties, the department is committed to making the new model work. Innovation in a “very traditional career” can be very frightening, Nickel said, and can cause “a lot of discomfort and anxiety.” But he said that the new proposal has prompted many Palo Alto firefighters to ask: “How are we going to make it work?”

Nickel also said that if the new service model doesn’t succeed as expected, he will work with the council to address any shortcomings.

“I have told the council that if we see service levels drop and our response time increasing, we will absolutely be coming back to the council to ask for assistance in mitigating that,” Nickel said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ...The council plans to hear a presentation about Santa Clara County’s review of Stanford University’s General Use Permit proposal; consider an ordinance to increase the speed limit on Deer Creek and East Bayshore roads to enable radar enforcement; consider a proposal to eliminate 11 positions in the Fire Department as part of a new service model; discuss possible amendments to the zoning code relating to regulations of seismic buildings; and consider a colleagues memo from council members DuBois, Holman and Kou about renter protections. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 16, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to discuss the recommendations from the Downtown Paid Parking Study and review strategies for addressing the city’s unfunded pension liabilities. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 17, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to consider an ordinance to allow taxicab services to be prearranged by mobile device apps and Internet online service; and discuss audit status reports on parking funds, utility meters and inventory management. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 18, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY/SCHOOL LIAISON COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to discuss shared-use playing fields, playground space, gyms and facilities. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19, in the district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave. ARCHTECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to hold a review the design of the proposed public-safety building and four-story garage at 250 and 350 Sherman Ave.; consider approving the design of the U.S. Highway 101 overpass; consider approving replacement of the boardwalk at the Lucy Evans Nature Interpretive Center; and consider a master sign program for an office building at 2747 Park Boulevard.

The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PUBLIC ART COMMISSION ... The commission plans to consider approving artwork by Susan Zoccola for the Charleston-Arastradero Corridor and of Ball-Nogues Studio as artists for the California Avenue parking garage. The commission will also discuss is upcoming joint meeting with the City Council. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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Upfront

A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

Board of Education (Oct. 10)

Hoover renovation: The board discussed a schematic design for a renovation of Hoover Elementary School. Action: None Multipurpose rooms: The board discussed conceptual designs for new multipurpose rooms at El Carmelo, Escondido and Walter Hays elementary schools. Action: None Goals: The board provided feedback on the 2017-18 district goals.

Action: None Stanford GUP: The board decided two board members, Melissa Baten Caswell and Jennifer DiBrienza, will serve on a subcommittee to provide feedback on Stanford University’s General Use Permit (GUP). Action: None JLS pool: The board authorized staff to award a $885,000 contract to BRCO Constructors Inc. for the renovation of JLS Middle School’s swimming pool. Yes: Unanimous Copiers: The board waived its two-meeting rule and authorized staff to solicit bids for 11 new copiers. Yes: Unanimous Interim superintendent contract: The board waived its two-meeting rule and approved a contract amendment to provide a raise for interim Superintendent Karen Hendricks, edited language in her contract and allocated up to $100,000 to pay for an interim human resources director. Yes: Unanimous

Council Rail Committee (Oct. 11)

Rail: The committee heard a presentation from the Alameda Corridor East Construction Authority CEO. Action: None

Planning and Transportation Commission (Oct. 11)

Parking: The commission rejected all four options for instituting paid parking in downtown Palo Alto, pending outreach to retailers. Yes: Unanimous

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A variety of edibles, including chocolate bars, crisped rice bars, brownies, cookies, mints and cannabis dip are featured in a display at The Guild, a medical pot dispensary in San Jose.

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San Jose and Oakland, which have collected $2 million and $4 million in revenues from their respective marijuana dispensaries, Moody said.

“I’m optimistic that part of the way we get in front of this is to provide some leadership around creating dispensaries in this community,” Moody said.

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Though the council’s Policy and Services Committee briefly discussed a future tax and requested that city staff come back with more information, city leaders are loathe to roll out the red carpet on University and California avenues for marijuana dispensaries.

In an interview this week, Scharff noted that the city has recently adopted bans on cigarette smoking in parks, public plazas and on the sidewalks of downtown and California Avenue. For the same reason, having marijuana smoked in the city’s commercial areas “does not have a good feel to it,” he said.

Unlike council members in Mountain View and Santa Clara, Scharff believes that most residents in his city don’t want dispensaries

Veronica Weber

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in prominent downtown areas — their support for marijuana legalization notwithstanding.

The goal of the council’s dispensary moratorium, he said, is not to deprive people of pot. In fact, the council explicitly excluded delivery services from its prohibition on marijuana activities, he said, in recognition of the fact that some people rely on pot for medical reasons. Vice Mayor Liz Kniss, who in 2012 co-signed the anti-Measure C argument, made a pitch for not prohibiting delivery of medical marijuana at the Policy and Services Committee’s June meeting. At that time, Kniss called marijuana a “very important pain reliever for someone who is ill.”

“I wouldn’t want to prohibit that ability for us to have deliverance,” Kniss, a former nurse, said.

Scharff told the Weekly that as long as the city allows deliveries, anyone in Palo Alto who wants to smoke marijuana will be able to obtain it. On the question of dispensaries, however, he said he would prefer to see how the situation plays out in places like Mountain View, and then Palo Alto can devise measures appropriate for dispensaries in the city.

For now, he said, “If people really want to go to one, they can drive down to Castro Street.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

Pulse A weekly compendium of vital statistics

POLICE CALLS Palo Alto Oct. 4-10

Theft related Checks forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle related Abandoned bicycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Vehicle accident/mnr. injury . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/prop. damage . . . . . . 6 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Casualty fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Menlo Park Oct. 4-10

Theft related Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . 6 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/mnr. injury . . . . . . . . . 3 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Indecent exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

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Editorial Our reporting on arrests Why we’re changing our policies on publishing the names of those arrested

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t age 19, Joe Smith, home from college and enjoying catching up with some old high school friends the night after Thanksgiving at a downtown bar, gets drunk and winds up arrested at 2 a.m. for being drunk in public, disorderly conduct, assault with a deadly weapon (a beer bottle) and resisting arrest.

Local media, including the Palo Alto Weekly, include the incident and Smith’s arrest in an article, as has long been the tradition of local newspapers, satisfying readers’ appetite for details of crime stories.

When the case gets submitted by police to the District Attorney’s office, the DA decides the incident doesn’t warrant prosecution and offers Smith three months’ probation in exchange for a no-contest plea to disorderly conduct. Smith takes the deal and, after serving his probation successfully, asks the court to expunge the case from its records, as allowed in California and most states.

Since Smith’s name is so common, his arrest will likely not follow him around the rest of his life, in spite of it being on the internet as an archived story of the local newspaper. He is lucky, only because of his name.

But what if his name were Rashid Poedoseporo? The one short news story on his initial arrest would be the first and possibly only result in a Google search for his name by a future employer, even 10 or 15 years later.

While the above facts and names are made up, they are typical of a growing ethical and moral problem facing news organizations, whose content lives on forever on the internet rather than virtually vanishing into the basement archives of local libraries, as it did not long ago.

When we first began receiving pleas for us to remove such content from our archives by those arrested years earlier, we took the hard line that most newspapers have long taken — our story was factually correct and our policy is to not alter the permanent record of the news.

But as these requests multiplied (we now receive two or three each month on average) we began looking at the issue from the perspective of the person arrested and the disproportionality and unfairness of the lifelong effects on someone with an unusual name.

After reviewing countless instances involving the arrests of young people, many of them with less common names because of their ethnicity, we began looking at this partly as a discrimination and social-justice issue. In a nation of immigrants with many unusual last names, why should our reporting and editing decisions have disproportionate impacts depending on a person’s ethnicity, or simply the uniqueness of his or her name?

In addition, in many instances police will arrest and book suspects for every conceivable crime that could be charged, despite knowing that the charges ultimately filed by the DA are often much less serious.

In crafting what we think is a thoughtful policy on removing names from archived stories, we discovered that removing a name from our story doesn’t affect the Google search result for that person, nor does it solve the problem of “public shaming” websites that grab our original crime stories and propagate the information for their own financial gain.

So this led us to a re-evaluation of how we approach the initial reporting of arrests, as well as the publication of booking photos provided by the police.

In balancing our First Amendment right to publish information on any arrest, an arrestee’s right to be assumed innocent until proven guilty and the public’s right to know the details of crime taking place in their community, we formulated a new policy, implemented last week, on when we will (and won’t) report the names of those arrested by law enforcement.

Our new policy states that except in limited instances, news stories will not name those arrested (or include photos) until they are formally charged by the District Attorney. The exceptions are the arrest of a prominent person in the community or a public safety or school employee; if the arrest was for a major violent crime or the result of an extended police or FBI investigation; or, if in the judgment of the editor, the crime was widely reported and is of broad public interest or concern.

The policy is intentionally flexible because every situation is different. And we make no promises about later adding to a story the name of a person charged for a crime by the DA after leaving the name out of the original story. Our news judgment of the public interest in publishing the person’s identity will guide that determination.

As only one news source, our change in policy won’t by itself solve the problems described above. And it will probably encourage some readers to look elsewhere for the information we won’t be publishing. But we think the media has a responsibility to regularly look at the consequences of its editorial practices and to modify them as circumstances change, as has certainly happened due to the permanence of information on the internet. Q Page 16 • October 13, 2017 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Letters Abusing the train tracks Editor, I am a resident of Palo Alto and have a simple question regarding the article “Palo Alto approaches decision on rail redesign,” published on Sept. 22: Why is it “inevitable” (per the chief transportation official quoted) that the train traffic will rise from six trains per hour to 20 by 2025?

Is it not within the legal right of the cities in the path to block this increase by the train company on legal merits?

The city could claim that the license granted for the train to use the tracks was given at times when the public nuisance was reasonable, but it does not give the train company the right to cause irreparable harm to the quality of life of residents by “abusing” the tracks (with this dramatic train-traffic increase) and expecting the residents to suffer the damage to quality of life (and economic burden) just because of their wish to use this resource in such a way.

The tracks were clearly not designed for such use, so clearly that original license they had cannot include such one-sided extension.

At a minimum, the city should protect its residents’ rights rather than accept this volume increase as an inevitability. The other benefit of such action would be to increase the likelihood of successfully funding the solution (such as underground train tracks): The interested parties in this volume increase would have no choice but to push for funding the solution.

Eitan Medina El Cerrito Road, Palo Alto

A masterpiece of understatement Editor, Max McGee was a widely respected senior educational administrator when, after an expensive nationwide search, he was hired three years ago to run the Palo Alto school district. “You’re in for an exciting process,” his recent comment to the district officials who will be responsible for finding and wooing his replacement, was surely a masterpiece of understatement.

It’s interesting to speculate about how Ken Dauber or Todd Collins, the PAUSD trustees who positioned themselves at the front of the mob that was clamoring for McGee’s dismissal, might

have performed had one of them had to play the hand that McGee was dealt.

My own hope is that “Salem 1692,” historian Stacy Schiff’s riveting account of the infamous witch trials and their aftermath, is at the top of the reading list of McGee’s successor, whoever he or she turns out to be.

Seth Knoepler Cambridge Avenue, Palo Alto

Distributing bike spaces Editor, I want to thank Caltrain’s board for unanimously approving in July 2015 an electrified train design with increased bike capacity. As I understand it, that approval meant that electrified trains need 84 bike spaces and 672 seats to meet the board’s directive. So we can’t do with less than that.

It’s important that no one be left out — so we can’t remove for example wheelchair space to make bike space. I think that a great solution would be to distribute 84 bike spaces among all cars (BART does this successfully).

This would allow space for seats

near bikes (important to avoid theft), dedicated wheelchair space (important for obvious reasons), and also shorter boarding time by enabling all passengers to board at all doors.

I take my bike on Caltrain.

I’ve been lucky not to have been bumped, because I would have missed the first act of the opera I was going to hear in San Francisco, or the first half of the concert I was performing in San Jose. But there are always a lot of bikes at certain times, so the above suggestion would also be helpful because it would make the loading a lot easier.

Virginia Smedberg Washington Avenue, Palo Alto

Ask the students Editor, A late bit of reader feedback: I thought the “Back-to-School Streetwise” — featured in the Aug. 18 issue with local schoolage kids of various ages — was a positive part of the newspaper and one which likely encourages students to read the paper! I hope you will continue this in future issues.

Karen Latchford Heather Lane, Palo Alto

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Guest Opinion Off Deadline Is ‘Restore Hetch Hetchy’ a pipe dream or a living vision?

by Jay Thorwaldson century ago the great conservationist John Muir fought his last great battle: a doomed effort to prevent San Francisco from damming the Hetch Hetchy Valley, roughly the northern third of Yosemite National Park.

Today Muir’s philosophical descendants are aggressively pushing to return the valley to its natural state by either removing the O’Shaughnessy Dam or at least draining the valley to restore the flora and fauna that once lived there.

The effort not unexpectedly faces a virtual flood of opposition by San Francisco water district and city/county officials and has been vehemently opposed by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. San Francisco officials have thus far turned a deaf ear to suggestions they at least study the idea, according to group officials.

Feinstein once called it “the worst idea since selling arms to the Ayatollah.” But her office did not respond to an email request for a current position.

Some opponents scoff at the proposal as a pipe dream. But if it is a pipe dream, the pipes rival the size of the giant ones that bring water to much of the Bay Area, including Palo Alto and many other cities in the region.

A severe drought year may not be the most

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opportune time to float the concept. But for longtime Palo Altan Peter Van Kuran, a retired marketing and business manager, restoring Hetch Hetchy Valley is a cause well worth pursuing. He serves as treasurer for the Berkeley-based Restore Hetch Hetchy, under Executive Director Spreck Rosekrans — who has been almost as diligent as Muir himself in pushing the restoration idea.

Rosekrans works from a modest office in Berkeley adorned with photos of Hetch Hetchy Valley as it once was.

The group was formed as the Hetch Hetchy Restoration Task Force in 2000 in the Merced living room of Marsh Pitman, a Sierra Club member. Rosekrans became executive director in 2011. He formerly was on the staff of the Environmental Defense Fund.

Those involved did “under the radar” research and outreach prior to going public, he said.

A major boost came when the Sacramento Bee did a major article outlining water-resource alternatives; the article won a Pulitzer Prize.

A large part of today’s incentive for restoration is that when the dam and the Hetch Hetchy reservoir were authorized by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913, as the Raker Act, the Hetch Hetchy Valley was already part of Yosemite National Park. It was considered the “second Yosemite Valley” in its pristine grandeur and sweep of granite walls, waterfalls, plants and animals. It earlier had been the seasonal home of native Americans for an estimated 6,000 years.

But the 1906 earthquake and fire had created an intense awareness of the unreliability of existing water-supply systems, and San Francisco leaders urgently began lobbying

for rights to Sierra Nevada mountains’ water. The city’s allies and supporters began a multi-year effort to gain rights to develop the Tuolumne River, which feeds Hetch Hetchy reservoir and other reservoirs and facilities that are part of today’s water system — transporting the water through the massive aqueduct that feeds the water temples in Sunol and Woodside and the Crystal Springs Reservoir above Redwood City.

An excellent history of the struggle can be found on Wikipedia. And a full outline of the Restore Hetch Hetchy proposal, including comparative photos, is at hetchhetchy.org.

The proposal is to create a low-intensity version of the Yosemite Valley, absent the commercialization and development that exists there today.

Van Kuran said he moved to Palo Alto in 1968 to attend the Stanford Graduate School of Business and spent 37 years working for Silicon Valley companies in sales and marketing, most notably for Tandem Computers, now part of HP Inc. He said he discovered Yosemite National Park through attending the High Sierra Summer Camp and has had a “lifelong love of Yosemite,” with its hundreds of miles of trails through the valleys and Tuolumne Meadows region.

“I was always aware of the big reservoir, which is a huge violation of the national park system,” he said.

Some years back Van Kuran came across a performance in Yosemite by actor Lee Stetson, who does a high-end recreation of John Muir that includes among various tales his efforts to preserve the integrity of the park against sheep — “four-footed locusts,” he called them — and against San Francisco’s

plan to dam the Hetch Hetchy Valley.

Stetson is scheduled to perform at the group’s annual dinner in March in Berkeley, Van Kuran noted.

Van Kuran said he sees strong support for restoring Hetch Hetchy in the Palo Alto region, even though nearly all its water comes from the Hetch Hetchy system.

“I think the sentiment is moving toward restoration,” he said, as information gets out that there are other storage facilities in the system and that the region would still get the same high-quality Sierra granite water.

“It’s still from the Tuolumne River, just stored in different places,” he said. The reservoir behind O’Shaughnessy Dam “is actually quite small” compared with other reservoirs, with just over 360,000 acre-feet behind the 430-foot-high dam. Even so, it is the largest of the city’s eight reservoirs in its system.

If the dam were to be left in place and the reservoir drained, it would be unsightly but could be a large “monument to an albatross,” he said.

A 2012 vote in San Francisco on restoring the valley failed, with just 22 percent support. Even officials of communities served

by Hetch Hetchy water were nervous about the outcome and the future of a dependable high-quality water supply.

Restoration advocates have now turned to the courts, contending that the approval of the Raker Act violated California’s constitution and the fundamental intent of the national parks. Support has come from several sources and includes several former state officials, Rosekrans said.

John Muir would be proud. Q Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be emailed at jaythor@well.com.

Streetwise

What are your thoughts on the terms “fuzzy” and “techie,” as used at Stanford?

Asked at Tressider Memorial Union, Stanford University. Question, interviews and photographs by Elinor Aspegren.

Andrew Doyle

Adam Ellner

Vicki Pham

Genevieve Selden

Anurag Yadav

Chemical Engineering Fifth-year graduate student

Earth Systems Senior

Biology Senior

Economics Junior

Business School Recent graduate

“These terms are unfortunate.

No one aspires to be fuzzy — the students that are put in this box should be allowed to use their own label.”

“They’re pretty vague categories.

They’re fine, but it’s important to note that there are different interdisciplinary majors that have classes in both fuzzy and techie courses.”

“There’s not much of a divide between the two groups — it was a big deal early on in my freshman year but is not so much now.”

“These terms are limiting, but everyone uses them. Putting people in buckets is not always a good thing.”

“These terms are usually used around things that are not too clear. I think they’re appropriate terms, as I’ve come to associate the words with things I’ve seen.”

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Stanford Continuing Studies presents

Another Look: Sándor Márai’s Embers Another Look is a seasonal book club that connects Stanford’s top writers and scholars with distinguished figures from the Bay Area and beyond. The club focuses on short classics that have been forgotten, neglected, or overlooked – or may simply not have received the attention they merit.

Sándor Márai’s taut and mesmerizing Embers, published in 1942, is set against the backdrop of the disintegrated Austro-Hungarian empire. The melancholy wisdom of its narrator lingers long after the book ends: “We not only act, talk, think, dream, we also hold our silence about something. All our lives we are silent about who we are, which only we know, and about which we can speak to no one. Yet we know that who we are and what we cannot speak about constitutes the ‘truth.’ We are that about which we hold our silence.”

Following the discussion will be a question-and-answer session with the speakers.

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The Palo Alto Weekly‘s editorial assistant wears three main hats: co-editor of special publications, internship-program coordinator and departmental ”glue.” The position supports the editorial staff in general and directly reports to the editor-in-chief.

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Arts & Entertainment A weekly guide to music, theater, art, culture, books and more, edited by Karla Kane

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Truth-telling films return with the 20th UNAFF

by Peter Canavese

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-E-S-P-E-C-T. With apologies to Aretha Franklin, you can find out what it means to you at this year’s United Nations Association Film Festival.

This year’s theme of “Respect” encompasses the festival’s ongoing mission, to celebrate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by showcasing global documentary films that feature diversity, compassion and justice. 2017 also qualifies as a year of self-respect for UNAFF, which celebrates its 20th year of programming over its 11-day span (Oct. 19-29) at local venues, among them the Aquarius Theatre, Mitchell Park Community Center, Midpeninsula Community Media Center, Eastside College Preparatory and Stanford University.

This year’s fest encompasses 60 films, including seven world premieres and 17 U.S. premieres.

Looking at a cross-section of the festival’s offerings, one can find a feature film from Colombia about the stories of women living

“Cuba Cubano Cañibano” profiles Cuban photographer Raúl Cañibano and documents his visit to Los Altos.

in the Andes, a short film from Greece about a heroic response to the refugee crisis and a panel discussion about nuclear power.

As founder and executive director Jasmina Bojic noted, “topics covered by the films include climate change, gender testing in female athletes, social roots enabling the Holocaust, human consequences of US immigration policies ... African immigrants in China, children and gun violence, refugees using the power of photography, homelessness, rape in society and as a weapon of war, the last Jews in Baghdad, acid attack victims, the prison population in America ... [and] honor killings of women in Arab and Palestinian society.”

As always, UNAFF’s global stew retains a discernable local flavor, with some filmmakers and subjects hailing from the Bay Area. The Midpen Media Center’s Zoom-In Collaborative gets credited on Mary Skinner’s “Cuba Cubano Cañibano” (28 min.), which profiles Cuban photographer Raúl

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Stanford professor Lauren Knapp helmed “The Sandman,” an investigation into the work of an attending physician for Georgia’s executions.

Cañibano and documents for posterity his visit to Los Altos. As the film explains, “Foothill College photography professor Ron Herman curated Cañibano’s first solo exhibit in the western United States.” Indeed, we see that exhibit and Cañibano giving a presentation, as well as Cañibano’s surreal black-and-white photos, primarily of rural Cuba and its inhabitants.

As explained by Herman and other awestruck local photographers, Cañibano’s photos are exemplars of composition and capturing the moment. Cañibano also sits for Skinner’s camera to provide good-humored recollections and reflections.

Stanford professor Lauren Knapp helmed “The Sandman” (19 min.), a productively uneasy investigation into the work and motivations of Dr. Carlo Musso, an attending physician for Georgia’s executions. As Knapp’s film points out, 17 states require a physician to be present at lethal injections, which means that Musso enables the execution to take place.

Of course, it’s complicated, with Musso offering a series of rationalizations in spite of widespread resistance in the medical establishment and typical interpretations of the Hippocratic Oath. He makes a compelling argument that he would want someone like himself there were he or a family member being executed, and describes himself as practicing end-of-life compassion (“Instead of a carcinoma, that individual’s dying of a court order”). Eschewing overt judgement, Knapp also presses Musso and his wife Teresa to explain themselves, and gently, if plainly, establishes the

profit motive of Musso’s company, which provides medical care to prisons.

Two more local-interest profiles get paired in a closing-day showcase. The first, Daniel Chavez Ontiveros’ “El Cisne,” or “The Swan” (22 min.), introduces us to Sthefany Galante Bautista, a MexicanAmerican transgender woman. We first see Bautista self-announcing “the best transvestite show in town,” the town in question being downtown San Francisco. It’s been six years since Sthefany has seen her parents, who remain uneasy with the reality that their only son has become one of their several daughters. Bautista frets about how her family will receive her appearance and the fact that she now lives as a woman, in makeup and hair and dress.

Ontiveros’ unobtrusive observation leads to many a moving moment as his camera follows Bautista home and into sometimes awkward but ultimately heartening reunions with her mother, father and sisters.

A parent of Stanford athletes, filmmaker Diane Moy Quon found a fascinating subject right under her nose in 68-year-old Clifford Steven Hayashi, a familiar figure at Stanford sporting events.

Quon’s film “Cliff, Superfan!” (27 min.) spends most of its running time in conversation with the voluble Hayashi, who muses, “I think every person’s life is a mystery to everyone else.” He’s right: Even as we learn much of how Hayashi spends his time, and his backstory as a laid-off Lockheed aerospace engineer with a B.S. and four master’s degrees (two of them from Stanford, natch), the film raises

some spoken and implicit questions about the eager eccentric that aren’t entirely answered. UNAFF itself gets a surprise shoutout in the film, as Hayashi’s retirement pursuits pile up. Hayashi estimates he’s attended considerably upwards of 4,000 Stanford games (in a laundry list of sports), but he has another obsessive hobby to compete with that one: his own research into the horrible history of WWII Japanese-American concentration camp Tule Lake.

Despite his off-kilter mien (“I can say I’m not very dumb,” he says at one point), Hayashi’s joie de vivre pervades Quon’s film.

UNAFF’s endlessly impressive programs include outreach efforts “UNAFF for Seniors,” “UNAFF with Veterans” and “UNAFF Women’s Salon,” as well as “UNAFF and Kids” and “UNAFF in Schools.” The UNAFF Traveling Film Festival has unspooled films around the country and at international destinations, and 30 UNAFF selections have been nominated for Oscars, with seven claiming the prize. As the fest closes out its second decade, there’s no better time to explore its world of offerings. Q Freelance Writer Peter Canavese can be emailed at pcanavese@bcp.org.

What: UNAFF 2017.

Where: Palo Alto, Stanford University, East Palo Alto and San Francisco.

When: Oct. 19-29.

Cost: Individual passes and tickets available; see website for prices.

Info: Go to unaff.org/.

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Arts & Entertainment

‘Moon Mouse’ lights up Palo Alto Inventive theater company combines puppetry, dance and electroluminescence

W

hen Ian and Eleanor Carney started Lightwire Theater in 2007, they had no idea that it would take them all over the country and the world — and then all the way to the moon.

But they’re blasting off from the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto on Oct. 22 with their newest show, “Moon Mouse: A Space Odyssey.”

Lightwire Theater is a unique theatrical experience: Using only electroluminescent (EL) wires bent into various shapes and manipulated by the performers, the cast of Lightwire can create entire worlds. “Moon Mouse” follows Marvin the Mouse, a nerd and an underdog (undermouse), who just wants to fit in. Desperately in love with the head cheerleader mouse and mercilessly picked on by the mean football players, Marvin yearns for a world where he can come out on top. So when news hits that the moon is actually made of cheese, Marvin gets a great idea: He will build a rocket and travel to the moon. When he brings the cheese back, he’ll be a hero. But, as with the best laid plans of mice, Marvin ends up on an unexpected adventure instead.

Though this may seem like it’s a children’s show, Ian Carney insists that there’s much more to the story. “Our shows never really were for kids. They are for people,” he said. It’s a show that hits home for the grownups who have lived their own “Marvin” stories (albeit sans rocket ship), while giving parents a way to start a dialogue with their children about the experiences they will likely have. He related one instance in which a previous Lightwire show, “Dino-Light,” gave parents a tool for talking to their children about the impending loss of an elderly dog. “Moon Mouse” opens up the door for conversations about self-esteem, perseverance and bullying, all of which touch children’s lives in different ways as they grow up.

The story is also a tribute to the John Hughes films of the 1980s. The characters and the story, though more mouse than man, are recognizable, allowing people to connect with the luminescent rodents and moon monsters and follow along with the emotional arc of the story. If you’re not there for the story, you’ll likely be drawn

in by the “visual feast” created by the EL wire, although Ian insisted that audiences forget about the gimmick and get lost in the world that the wire creates.

“Cool will get you five minutes,” he said of special effects that are simply used for shock value. Lightwire’s use of the EL wire is all in service of the story and the dance.

In contrast to computer-controlled LED lights, which have dots in them that, when worn, make movements seem robotic, the phosphorus in the EL wire creates a consistent line, making the movement of the wire look natural. This makes the characters more believable — and also makes it easier for the performers to individually manipulate their costumes to create the world of the show.

There are no computers running the lights; everything you see on stage happens at the hands of the performers. When a light dims or a character appears out of the darkness, that’s just part of the performer’s choreography. This hands-on approach to the lighting contributes to the organic feel of the performance: As performer Tyler Scifres explained, “Every performer is responsible for knowing how to build and operate our own characters. It gives us an even more intimate connection to the show.”

The goal, he said, is to go beyond manipulating puppets: You’re not just wearing a dragon costume, you’re behaving like a “real” dragon. The cast spends hours training to make their movements look natural and their lights seamless.

And yet, if you were to take a look at the costumes in the light of day, you might laugh: How can a show as technologically advanced as “Moon Mouse” be built on the backs of cardboard boxes, skateboard wheels and soccer pads? Eleanor Carney explained that they use ordinary, recycled and found materials to build the shapes that ultimately become the complex characters you see onstage. The weirdest item?

She laughed, recalling how they found old lawn signs from a local election and built them into the costumes. Once the lights go out, items from the local hardware store or someone’s recycling bin become Marvin, his rocket ship and the world on the moon.

And it’s in the darkness of the theater

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“Moon Mouse” by Lightwire Theater uses puppetry, dance and electroluminescent wires to tell the story of an adventurous mouse. where the magic happens. Though many people may know Lightwire from their appearance on “America’s Got Talent,” the performers said there’s a big difference between seeing the show on television and experiencing the show as a member of an audience. There’s something about seeing this futuristic ballet as a part of a group that just can’t be recreated on the screen.

Because the story is told through dance, there’s an invitation for the audience to participate by layering their own meaning and experiences onto to the characters as they watch.

“Dance is a universal language,” Eleanor said. Ian agreed; “The less you tell the audience, the more they want to participate.

Movement is the language that the world speaks.”

And from that participation and shared meaning comes community and growth.

Said Ian, “We love doing these shows for people of all ages because it gives children the chance to fall in love with the arts for the first time — and adults the chance to fall in love with the theater again.” Q Freelance writer Kaila Prins can be emailed at kailaprins@gmail.com.

What: “Moon Mouse: A Space Odyssey” from Lightwire Theater.

Where: Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto.

When: Sunday, Oct. 22, at 4:30 p.m. and 6:15 p.m.

Cost: $25-$35.

Info: Go to paloaltojcc.org/Events/.

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Eating Out New owners elevate Everest Cuisine’s Indo-Nepali menu

by Monica Schreiber Photos by Veronica Weber

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ight-month-old Everest Cuisine is lighting up a quiet corner of southeast Mountain View with delicious IndoNepali standards, tented outdoor seating and a focus on take-out.

The sleek little restaurant is in the building once occupied by Simply Thai Street Food. It is the lone dining establishment on the mostly-residential North Whisman

Road, near the Hetch-Hetchy Trail and a block from the campuses of Google, Symantec and Veritas.

Everest appears to be quickly distinguishing itself in a region replete with Indian cuisine.

Co-owners Shiva Reddy and Muthu Marimuthu took over the restaurant in March from another team that had launched Everest just three months earlier. When the original owners found themselves in over their heads, Reddy and Marimuthu, who had worked together

Top: A mix of tandoori chicken and chicken tikka kebab at Everest Cuisine. Above: Momos, or Nepalese dumplings, are filled with ground chicken, cabbage, vegetables and spices.

in Sunnyvale’s now-defunct Godavari, seized the opportunity. Reddy handles the business side while Marimuthu runs the kitchen. Reddy describes his chef-partner as a prize-winning chef who moved to the Bay Area from India about six years ago.

Everest’s large menu tilts heavily toward northern Indian fare, with occasional nods to India’s mountainous neighbor to the north, as well as a few dishes that fall more into the Indo-Chinese category. If you look for Everest Cuisine online, be sure to go to everestcuisineca.com or you may end up on a copycat site operated by Beyond Menu. Reddy said he is working to resolve the situation.

The food is excellent and the servings are generous. The service can be a bit uneven: sometimes attentive, but tending toward slow.

The issue appears to be an intense focus on fulfilling take-out orders with too few staff members to cover both the small dining room and the constant stream from DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber Eats and individual phone orders. During one Saturday evening visit, we shared the dining room with only one other party of two. They had the misfortune of arriving in the middle of a slew of phone orders and had to wait, visibly annoyed, for at least 15 minutes for someone to take their order.

Occasional service missteps can be forgiven in light of the fact that the off-the-beaten path Everest has wisely chosen to focus much of its business on take-out and its excellent lunch buffet. In any case, the food is worth the wait. The gobi Manchurian appetizer ($8.99), a

typical Indo-Chinese cauliflower snack, was outstanding: lightly breaded, delicately fried florets in a zingy, Szechuan-style sauce. The dish lacked heat, but not flavor. We ate the generous serving like candy.

The mushroom pakora ($7.99) was another addictive appetizer, thinly sliced mushrooms coated in lentil flour and gently fried.

The chicken zam zam ($10.99), bite-sized, bone-in fried chicken pieces in a spicy, garlicky sauce and studded with jalapeños and other peppers, turned up the heat factor significantly. We were grateful for the pitchers of water on each of the pretty wooden tables.

The zam zam is one of chef Marimuthu’s specialties that you won’t find anywhere else.

Virtually every cuisine has dumplings and in Nepal they’re called momos, sturdy pockets of dough filled with meat and spices and pinched at the top like Chinese xiaolongbao, or soup dumplings.

Everest’s chicken momos ($4.99 for five pieces; $9.99 for 10) are savory and moist pockets of ground chicken, onions, ginger, garlic and Nepalese spices.

The vegetable fried rice ($8.99) was one of the few disappointments. We didn’t care for the overthe-top spicy basmati rice with a scattering of cubed carrots and so many onions the kitchen crew must have been chopping for hours.

Vegetarians will appreciate that the menu is organized into “vegetarian” and “non vegetarian” categories. Everyone will appreciate the free, self-service chai, which is sweet, milky and spiced with cardamom and cloves. The sarbat, or Himalayan lemonade ($2.99),

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was delicious — fresh-squeezed lemonade infused with fresh mint and served in a plastic glass with a lid. The focus is on take-out here, but the fantastic lemonade would have gone over so much better in a real glass.

The only quibble with the daily lunch buffet ($11.99 including tax) would be that that trays of some of the most popular items, such as the tandoori and butter chicken, can remain unfilled for a bit too long while the staff is scurrying to handle take-out orders. Otherwise, the decently-sized buffet is a great deal and contains some dishes you won’t find at your typical Indian buffet — the Kathmandu goat curry, for example.

Chunks of goat meat are stewed in an intensely savory sauce with hints of something fruity and a nutty finish. This fantastic sauce was like the culinary love child of a Mexican mole and an Indian curry. The goat was tender, similar in texture and taste to slowbraised short ribs. (continued on page 22)

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ShopTalk TUTS BAKERY OPENS ... Coffee from Santa Cruz’s Verve, freshbaked bread and tartines are among the menu items at the newly opened Tuts Bakery & Cafe in downtown Palo Alto.

Tuts opened at 535 Bryant St. on Monday, Oct. 2, according to the cafe’s Instagram. What used to be French restaurant Bon Vivant has been transformed into light-filled space with white subway-tiled walls, globe pendant lights, hanging plants and a bar stocked with baked goods, per Yelp photos. There is both indoor and outdoor seating. Beyond pastries, cakes and bread, an opening menu pictured on Yelp includes items such as a salmon tartine (smoked salmon with poached eggs and sautéed spinach on homemade sourdough toast), croque monseiur and Greekstyle pancakes. There’s also a tartine topped with menemen, a traditional Turkish mixture of eggs, tomato, green peppers and spices. Koray Altinsoy, a partner with Tuts, has a background in retail and media, but recently moved to Palo Alto from Boston and decided to invest in the bakery and cafe business, he said in a previous interview. The company plans to

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Another standout buffet item was the eggplant fry, lightly breaded eggplant and onions, tossed with peanuts and gently fried.

Naan is brought warm to your table and there are a number of sauce options beyond the usual mint chutney and cooling raita. I loved the silky, complex sesame sauce, but was scratching my

open another location soon in San Francisco. — E.K. CHOP & PUB REPLACES TAPAS ... A new establishment focused on booze and small plates is set to open soon in downtown Mountain View. Owner Chau Le hopes to open Chop & Pub at 124 Castro St. in the next two weeks.

He took over the space after East Street Tapas recently closed. East Street Tapas was the rebranded version of East Street Tacos, which was previously oyster bar Shell Shock.

Le owns a Vietnamese restaurant, Kobe Pho & Grill, with locations in Dublin and Cupertino, as well as …Élyse Restaurant, a modern French-Vietnamese eatery he just opened in San Jose. Chop & Pub will serve craft cocktails with “California style” tapas dishes such as grilled vegetables, Le said. Job postings describe the establishment as a “gastropub” and “social eatery;” happy hour there will be called “social hour,” Le said. — E.K. Q Compiled by the Weekly staff; this week written by Elena Kadvany. Got leads on interesting and news-worthy retail developments? The Weekly will check them out.

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head a little over the inclusion of ketchup and ranch dressing.

Considering the restaurant’s early ownership shake-ups, Reddy and Marimuthu appear to have found a nice groove in a region with significant competition in the realm of Indian cuisine. We hope they can resolve the confusing website situation quickly, and perhaps hire an extra server to tend the dining room. Q Monica Schreiber can be emailed at monicahayde@yahoo.com.

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Two new books provide an insider’s look at the Peninsula’s unique jargon and social values

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‘Fuzzies’ and ‘Techies’

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Steven Ganz and his wife, Rochelle Kopp, are co-authors of “Valley Speak: Deciphering the Jargon of Silicon Valley,” which takes a look at the area’s local tech lingo.

hortly after Scott Hartley moved with his family to Silicon Valley in 1993, he remembers his dad, who was working at Sun Microsystems, introducing him to the World Wide Web. “It was kind of like, ‘Hey, here’s this new thing that just started,’” Hartley recalled.

Growing up in Silicon Valley in the early ‘90s, Hartley remembers things like parking his car in front of Steve Jobs’s house on his way to study math with a friend and seeing Jobs at his sink doing the dishes. Entrepreneur and Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen lived across the street from another family friend.

“You heard terms like ‘venture capitalists’ and ‘IPO’ decades before those became terms understood more broadly, but at the same time, there were people that did things

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“We want to show what’s different about living here and about doing business here that people might see as strange or interesting ... jargon is potentially a big barrier to people getting involved here,” Ganz said.

It was around this time that they realized that there wasn’t any resource in English that really covered these terms. It was also around the time that HBO’s “Silicon Valley” was entering the public discourse with its keen parody of Silicon Valley language and culture. Kopp recalled binge-watching the show with friends and realizing that people were thinking about how language is different in Silicon Valley.

“Whenever you have new stuff, you need to have new words to describe it, and this is just a place that sort of kicks up a lot of those things,” Kopp said. “And, I also think — people always say — Silicon Valley is a small town in a sense, and so whenever you have groups of people working together intensively ... they develop their own lingo and, whether they are doing it on purpose or not, it sort of serves to mark them as the ‘in crowd’ versus people who don’t know.”

In Spring 2016, they decided to release an English version of the book, which they revised after collecting input and feedback from Silicon Valley veterans.

The book is divided into eight overarching sections: The Players, Innovation, Product Development, Funding, Technology Trends, Marketing, HR and Work Culture and Lifestyle. The book is then composed of more than 100 chapters within these sections, devoted to one word or phrase, which is described in an essay and (continued on page 28)

Courtesy Scott Hartley

f you eavesdrop on your typical midweek lunchtime conversation in Palo Alto, you just might hear some terms bandied about that simply don’t make sense — especially if you’re relatively new to the Peninsula.

Maybe you’re standing in line at Philz Coffee, and you hear talk of a rockstar hactivist working for the latest unicorn that’s looking to disrupt the AI, VR and machine-learning spaces. The startup is in stealth mode, currently dogfooding its product, and it’s a matter of time before we see the NDA. It sounds like English, but it’s like being on the outside of an inside joke — you’re missing some key insights.

Enter “Valley Speak: Deciphering the Jargon of Silicon Valley,” by husband-andwife team Steven Ganz and Rochelle Kopp.

Ganz and Kopp now reside in Emerald Hills (in unincorporated San Mateo County), but they weren’t always on the Peninsula. Ganz hails from the East Coast, and moved to the Bay Area in 2005, while Kopp used to live in Tokyo.

A few years ago, Kopp, who is fluent in Japanese, had written a book about general U.S. buzzwords for the Japanese market and was later asked by a publishing consultant in Tokyo to consider writing a version of that book centered on Silicon Valley. As she started working on the project, she noticed that there was a lot of technical jargon.

That’s when Ganz joined the project.

With a background in management, technology and the theory of programming languages as well as experience in the startup world of Silicon Valley, Ganz contributed his own tech-focused insights.

Local author Scott Hartley examines Silicon Valley’s social norms in his book, “The Fuzzy and the Techie.” other than tech. There was a larger context around Silicon Valley,” he said.

Whether or not the same can be said of the Silicon Valley of today, Hartley’s recently published book, “The Fuzzy and the Techie,” explores a cultural divide between the value of technical tracks in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), versus studies in the liberal arts and humanities.

The terms “techie” and “fuzzy” are terms Hartley encountered during his undergraduate education at Stanford University, where he studied political science and theory. Students who major in STEM-related fields are called techies; those who major in the liberal arts are called fuzzies.

“I think at Stanford there was this sort of two-class system in some ways, where people think of (the terms techie and fuzzy) as: One is vocationally relevant and one is vocationally irrelevant,” he said, adding that fuzzies are perceived as not having an interest in a career or getting a good job.

After graduating, Hartley found the opposite to be true. As a fuzzy, he immersed himself in a techie world, going on to work at tech-giants Google and Facebook and later becoming a venture capitalist and global startup adviser.

While working in Silicon Valley, Hartley said he observed that most of the companies he found interesting on Sand Hill Road were often founded by people from backgrounds that weren’t necessarily “the cookie-cutter computer scientist or electrical engineer.”

“So, that observation was really juxtaposed with the narrative of Silicon Valley, which is (that) it’s this place of programmers, and everybody is a dropout CS (computer science) student, and if you didn’t do that, you can’t participate in this world,” he said.

Hartley’s book is in part a response to a general fear from those outside of the tech industry — a fear of robotics and automation and artificial intelligence.

“I wanted to write a book that was more about the hope of technology and the need for opening the aperture and opening the lens on who could participate, and it’s not just engineers, it’s not just people who study computer science,” he said.

Rather than valuing one over the other, Hartley advocates for a blending of techie and fuzzy approaches, calling for “methodological diversity.”

“While coding is important, context is also really important, so I talk a little bit about this need for context and code, and I think context to me is knowing how you want to apply technology and why, in the first place,” he said.

In this vein, Hartley argued that a “crisis of culture” arises when “we have the tools, but we’re not applying them meaningfully to the biggest problems.”

The way Hartley sees it, there’s hope for an increased participation in technology from those with backgrounds in nontechnical fields — and, not just hope, but a growing need. He pointed out that, in the ‘90s, Silicon Valley was laying down the infrastructure of tech — “back-end things and really technical things, where you really had to be in tech to participate,” he said.

In contrast, today, tech is applied to industry, he explained.

“As tech is applied to fashion, to media, to finance or to any number of domains, I think it actually unlocks the ability for tech to be based outside of Silicon Valley in a strong way,” he said. Q Editorial Assistant and Internship Coordinator Anna Medina can be reached at amedina@paweekly.com.

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Devlin recounted Leonardo’s story in his 2011 book The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci’s Arithmetic Revolution. In a simultaneously published companion ebook, Leonardo and Steve: The Young Genius Who Beat Apple to Market by 800 Years, Devlin drew remarkable parallels between the careers of Leonardo and Apple’s Steve Jobs.

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LOCAL AUTHORS ‘CATCH SPIRIT’...

The Los Altos History Museum will showcase eight Bay Areas authors and their recently published books — rom thrillers and historical accounts to biographies, cookbooks and photography collections — from noon to 4 p.m., on Wednesday, Nov. 15, as part of its annual Catch the Spirit event at the museum, 51 S. San Antonio Road. Featured authors include: Susan Bickford (“A Short Time to Die”); Diana Chan (“Easy n’ Healthy Cooking” and ”Animal Kingdom”); Ryan Dietzen (“Murder Most Garlic & The Burnt Man”); Mary Felix (“Dead Storage,” the latest in her series Maggie McDonald Mysteries); Anne Heffron (“You Don’t Look Adopted”); Donald McPhail (“The Millionaires Cruise: Sailing Toward Black Tuesday”); Fritz Trapnell (“Harnessing the Sky”); and Barbara Wilcox (“World War I Army

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used in sentences and quotations.

There’s also a Lifestyle section at the end dedicated to explaining terms and concepts that are culturally Silicon Valley-specific.

Indeed, the Lifestyle chapter — and the book as a whole — is designed to fine tune the outsider’s

Training by San Francisco Bay: The Story of Camp Fremont”). The event is free. For more information, go to losaltoshistory.org/events/catch-thespirit-2/.

AUTHORS LUNCHEON... Four notable authors — Donia Bijon (“The Last Days of Cafe Leila”), Amy Dickinson (“Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Coming Home”), Tom Lichtenheld “Mighty, Mighty Construction Site”), and Maile Meloy (“Do Not Become Alarmed”) — will be on hand to sign and talk about their books during the annual Abilities United Authors Luncheon from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., on Saturday, Nov. 4, at the Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel, 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. Proceeds from sponsorship, ticket and book sales benefit individuals and families who receive therapeutic, educational, and support services at Abilities United.

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cultural fluency — or at least understanding — of Silicon Valley, from its technocentric philosopy to its obsessive collection of Big Data to it preference for coworking spaces, Google buses, Nootropics and, yes, even the Paleolithic Diet. Q Editorial Assistant and Intern Coordinator Anna Medina can be reached at amedina@ paweekly.com.

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Home Front LOW-WATER LAWN ... The Palo Alto master gardener program will offer a talk on lawn alternatives on Thursday, Oct. 19, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. If you are thinking about taking out your lawn and don’t quite know what to do next or want to use less water but still yearn for that patch of green, this is the class for you. There are lawn alternatives that use at least 50 percent less water than a traditional lawn but can still provide you with that spot of green. Master Gardener Martha Carpenter will show examples of some of these grasses and ground covers and discuss how to use them in your yard. The class will be held at Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Road, Palo Alto.

NO CLUE HOW TO COMPOST? ... If you’re new to Palo Alto, home ownership or gardening, learn how to turn your food scraps into a rich soil amendment for a healthier garden. An integral part of sustainable gardening, composting helps you create a vibrant, healthy and beautiful garden while conserving water and energy and reducing pollution and waste. Attend a workshop on Saturday, Oct. 21; Palo Alto residents receive a free compost bin. The workshop will be from 10 a.m. to noon at Cubberley Community Center, Room H-1 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Register for the compost workshop online (cityofpaloalto.org/compost) or call 408-918-4640.

START A HOME ORCHARD ... If you’ve thought about planting fruit trees, now is the time. The Palo Alto master gardener program will host a talk on “Starting a Home Orchard with Bareroot Fruit Trees” on Thursday, Nov. 16, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Fruit trees add beauty to the garden and a bounty of fresh fruit to your table. Winter is the time to plant deciduous fruit trees (apples, pears and stone fruits). Learn the basics of how to decide what to grow, select and plant bare root trees, and get them off to a healthy start. The class will be held at Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Road in Palo Alto.

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Everyday kindness

Palo Verde is a neighborhood where everyone could know your name

by Shawna Chen | photos by Veronica Weber

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hen Palo Verde resident Sheena Chin first attended an open house in the neighborhood, she was startled to come face-toface with the home’s neighbors.

“They were so friendly,” she said. They introduced themselves to Chin and welcomed her to the community, offering information about the area such as locations of grocery stores, pharmacies and kids’ recreation. Their warmth eased Chin’s concerns about potentially moving to a new city and not knowing where to go for basic necessities.

“At that point we didn’t know whether we were going to buy the house,” Chin said. “But they just told us these kinds of things that seem small but mean a lot ... even though they were not sure we were going to be their future neighbors.”

That kind of everyday kindness, Chin says, defines the Palo Verde neighborhood.

Though Palo Verde is famous for its tract of Eichler and Eichlerinspired houses — modern homes designed by real estate developer Joseph Eichler and known for their open floor plans, flat roofs and floor-to-ceiling windows — Palo Verde residents from all backgrounds and occupations consistently highlight the appeal of the neighborhood as quiet, peaceful and family-friendly.

Palo Verde sits between West Bayshore and Middlefield roads to the east and west, and is bordered by Loma Verde Avenue and East Meadow Drive to the north and south. The neighborhood is known for its street plan of narrow roads and cul-desacs, designed to limit traffic and foster a safe environment for residents and children.

It’s within comfortable walking distance from Ramos Park, Seale Park and Mitchell Park Community Center. The Palo Alto Family YMCA and Sheena Chin and her family, including son Yuenjo and daughters Yonhao Eichler Swim and Ten- and Hanlong Fan, find Palo Verde family friendly. They say Palo Verde nis Club are frequented Elementary School, shown here, is a natural gathering spot. places. Midtown Shopping Center is a short When the Chins are out of drive or bike ride away. For fam- played touch football in the street ilies, Chin said, these resources and biked to his friends’ houses. town, neighbors look after their “It’s always been one of those house, toss newspapers into their are key.

Another big plus is that Palo quiet, family-friendly neighbor- yard and take out their trash. One Verde tends to see less cut- hoods, and I think that’s still even offered to drive Chin to the through traffic compared to oth- true,” he said. “It’s nice to bump airport, though Chin ultimately er Palo Alto neighborhoods, said into neighbors walking down the drove herself so she wouldn’t inCity Council member and Palo street with their dogs or their convenience her neighbor.

Another time, former school Verde resident Cory Wolbach. kids.”

Residents have created a cul- board member and Palo Verde “It is secluded in a way,” he said. ture of looking out for one anoth- resident Diane Reklis left her “We’re lucky in that regard.”

Wolbach grew up in Palo Verde er, throwing block parties from house to attend a meeting and and moved back to the neighbor- time to time and readily lending hood in 2012. As a child, he often a hand to neighbors. (continued on page 30)

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Home & Real Estate

Garden Tips Plan ahead for winter garden Visit gardens for ideas, prep your soil and watch your winter yard flourish

by Jack McKinnon

T

hinking daily about your garden really helps in planning for this coming season. I like to visit nurseries, public gardens and private gardens. It makes putting together a plant list and a list of chores much easier.

In this column, I’m going to give several lists of plants to consider. You can look them up in your garden book and online.

Now’s the time to shop for and plant winter vegetables like kale, spinach, lettuce, Swiss chard, beets, cauliflower, broccoli and onions.

Bulbs to plant are daffodils, tulips, crocus, Muscari, iris, snowdrops, anemone, ranunculus, lily and starflower.

Herbs to plant are sage, rosemary, oregano, basil, thyme, mint, fennel, lemon balm, chives, dill, tarragon, lemongrass, coriander, chamomile and watercress.

If you want fall color, plant aster, chrysanthemum, coreopsis, day lily, gillardia, gaura, Japanese anemone, lavatera, nemesia, rudbeckia, Russian sage, culinary sage and verbena.

If you need ideas, visit a community garden near you. My favorite at the moment is the Sunnyvale Community Garden at Mathilda Avenue and El Camino Real behind the library. It’s one of the best community gardens I’ve ever seen.

Mature trees include kiwi, pomegranate, citrus and avocado and all have fruit.

This is also a good time to replant containers, planting boxes, and hanging baskets. Start by refreshing or replacing all the soil. Plant with winter vegetables and

flowers including those listed above for a good show this fall.

Besides planting, this is the time for cleanup and soil preparation, so get out there and get to work adding soil amendments, fertilizer and mulch as well as lawn renovation including de-thatching, plugging, reseeding and top dressing.

If you have artificial turf, wash it, scrub it, vacuum it or whatever you do. If you wait until it rains it will percolate all that hair and dust down into the bedding material.

Think about decorating for holidays such as Halloween and Thanksgiving.

Plan plantings, lights and decorations including a fun element or two to celebrate both holidays at the same time. I particularly like scarecrows.

This is a good time to share food with others. Cook up what you harvested.

Make squash soup and stuffed zucchini to compliment what ever goes on the grill. Be sure to share treasures from your vegetable garden, especially homegrown tomatoes. Q Jack McKinnon is a Garden Coach.

He can be reached at 650-455-0687.

Email to jack@jackthegardencoach. com or check out the website JackTheGardenCoach.com.

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Residents from all backgrounds and occupations consistently highlight the appeal of the neighborhood as quiet, peaceful and family-friendly.

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accidentally left her dog out. Her neighbors “realized she was out, realized she wasn’t supposed to be out, figured out who had a key, figured out who had a phone number, dropped the dog in and called us,” she said. That level of concern for one another is evident throughout the neighborhood, Reklis added.

She moved to Palo Verde in 1979, and from the beginning, she said, it was clear that people come from all over the world to live in the neighborhood.

“There was the private investigator with an Olympic gold medal hanging on her wall,” she wrote in an email. “There were teachers, principals, librarians, stay-athome mothers, economists and more. The man who invented the computer mouse lived on our street ... Everyone had a story, but they were all most eager to talk about their kids’ soccer teams or the Eichler Swim Team.”

While the Eichlers create a non-intrusive home environment, residents don’t hesitate to “bring people out and talk to everybody,” Reklis said.

Neighbors hold a dog playdate at Palo Verde Elementary School every Sunday morning, and unofficial get-togethers often take place at Seale and Ramos parks. Kenneth Road sponsors a Fourth of July parade in the neighborhood, and this year, Janice Way obtained a grant from the city to rent a bounce house for its annual block party.

Palo Verde parents also volunteer for the Palo Alto Unified School District. Chin is the president of the Palo Verde Parent Teacher Association and has volunteered for Gunn High School’s International Potluck, Teacher Appreciation Day and Chinese New Year activities.

“This is a wonderful place for our Palo

FACTS CHILD CARE AND PRESCHOOLS: Palo Verde Kids’ Club, 3450 Louis Road FIRE STATION: No. 4, 3600 Middlefield Road LIBRARY: Mitchell Park Library, 4050 Middlefield Road LOCATION: West Bayshore and Middlefield roads to the east and west, and Loma Verde Avenue and East Meadow Drive to the north and south PARKS (NEARBY): Don Jesus Ramos Park, 800 East Meadow Drive; J. Pearce Mitchell Park, 600 East Meadow Drive; Henry W. Seale Park, 3100 Stockton Place POST OFFICE: Main, 2085 East Bayshore Road; Cambridge, 250 Cambridge Avenue PRIVATE SCHOOLS: The Girls’ Middle School, 3400 West Bayshore Road PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Palo Verde Elementary School, J.L. Stanford Middle School, Gunn High School RECREATION: Palo Alto Family YMCA, 3412 Ross Road, Eichler Swim and Tennis Club, 3539 Louis Road SHOPPING: Midtown Shopping Center, Middlefield Road and Colorado Avenue; also Middlefield Road at Loma Verde Avenue

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Altans,” Chin said. “And I’d like to contribute my time and my efforts as long as there’s a chance.”

The neighborhood has housed a number of public servants and local politicians, including Reklis, former Mayor Sandy Eakins, Wohlbach, and Councilmember and former school board member Greg Schmid.

According to Reklis, Palo Verde residents simply care and make efforts to get involved in whatever way possible.

“It is a neighborhood of creative, adventurous people who are interested in family and community,” she wrote. Q Shawna Chen is a former Palo Alto Weekly intern.

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318 POPE STREET, MENLO PARK 3 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS, 1450 SF, 8800 SF LOT

OPEN SATURDAY/SUNDAY 1:30-4:30 Charm, peace, and walking distance to downtown Palo Alto! This beautiful 3-bedroom, 2-bath home on an 8,800-square foot lot in a prime Willows location offers up-to-date style in a quiet location on the best street in the neighborhood. Enjoy this beautiful home now or build new: sale includes APPROVED plans for a 2,700-square foot modern farmhouse.

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THE ADDRESS IS THE PENINSU THE EXPERIENCE IS A IN PINEL

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MENLO PARK $2,975,000

LOS ALTOS $2,895,000

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VERSATILE DESIGN WITH STYLISH UPDATES 1125 Blue Lake Square, Mountain View A flowing floorplan and multiple points of outdoor access truly capture the versatility of this lovely 3 bedroom, 2 bath townhome of over 1,700 sq. ft. (per county) which rests on a generous lot of 4,200 sq. ft. (per county). Guests will love convening in bright and spacious gathering areas, while remarkable renovations, including a new color scheme, hardwood floors, and updated baths, feature luxury throughout. This home lies within easy reach of Cooper and Heritage Oaks Parks, and convenient commuting along Highway 85, while excellent education at Oak Avenue Elementary and Mountain View High (#11 High School in California) is just a stroll away (buyer to verify eligibility).

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ATHERTON

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4 Bedrooms 29 Amador Ave Sun Deleon Realty

$6,288,000 543-8500

6 Bedrooms 53 Politzer Drive Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

5 Bedrooms 40 Selby Ln Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$5,880,000 324-4456

66 Virginia Ln Sun Coldwell Banker

$5,195,000 324-4456

$2,998,000 473-1500 $6,780,000 462-1111

MOUNTAIN VIEW

LOS ALTOS

1125 Blue Lake Sq Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

4 Bedrooms

4 Bedrooms

1405 Oak Av Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$2,998,000 543-8500

104 Savannah Loop Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

1557 Plateau Ave Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$3,400,000 324-4456

PALO ALTO

$1,698,000 543-8500 $1,890,000 324-4456

3 Bedrooms 1301 Hamilton Avenue Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

5 Bedrooms 25380 Becky Ln Sun 1-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty

$3,895,000

$7,895,000 462-1111

438 Chaucer St Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty

MENLO PARK 1 Bedroom - Condominium $749,000 324-4456

$3,695,000 324-4456

900 Wayside Rd Sun Coldwell Banker

$3,495,000 851-2666

REDWOOD CITY

3 Bedrooms 883 Lathrop Dr Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,500,000 323-1111

WOODSIDE 4 Bedrooms

$1,729,000

661 Kings Mountain Rd Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$5,500,000 324-4456

314-7200

580 Old La Honda Rd Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$3,300,000 851-1961

132 Otis Av Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,995,000 529-1111

2 Bedrooms 29 Alverno Ct Sat/Sun 2:30-4:30 Pacific Union International

STANFORD

3 Bedrooms

$2,995,000

$7,998,000

1430 Bear Gulch Rd Sun 1-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty

644-3474

465 Nimitz Av Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,395,000 324-4456

145 Old La Honda Rd Sun Coldwell Banker

$3,895,000 324-4456

280 Family Farm Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$7,995,000 529-1111

2951 South Ct Sun Deleon Realty

4 Bedrooms 1715 Bay Laurel Dr $5,995,000 Sat 12-2 Pacific Union International 314-7200

$2,198,000 323-1111

1 Portola Green Cir Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,498,000 324-4456

$1,495,000 324-4456

$7,298,000 543-8500

318 Pope St Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

4 Bedrooms

3180 Brittan Ave Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

403 Topaz St Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

471 Nevada Ave Sat Deleon Realty

3 Bedrooms

$2,798,000 473-1500

$1,398,000 851-2666

5 Bedrooms

2140 Santa Cruz Ave #A207 Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker

3 Bedrooms

131 Mira Way Sun Kerwin & Associates

1860 Anamor St Sun Coldwell Banker

4 Bedrooms

941-4300

SAN CARLOS

3 Bedrooms

5 Bedrooms

3 Bedrooms

LOS ALTOS HILLS

PORTOLA VALLEY

4 Bedrooms 760 Loma Ct Sat Deleon Realty

$1,788,000 543-8500

$3,488,000 543-8500

761 Bain Pl Sat/Sun 1-5

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Legal Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement ASSET MANAGEMENT COMPANY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN633953 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Asset Management Company, located at 2100 Geng Road, Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): FRANKLIN P. JOHNSON JR. 1411 Edgewood Drive Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/01/1965.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 13, 2017.

(PAW Sept. 22, 29; Oct. 6, 13, 2017) KJS PAINTING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN634233 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: KJS Painting, located at 2081 Cornell Street, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): KENT JAMES SCHNEEVEIS 2081 Cornell Street Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/21/2017.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 22, 2017.

(PAW Sept. 29; Oct. 6, 13, 20, 2017) WOOF N WAG FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN634185 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Woof N Wag, located at 525 Matadero Ave., #3, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): DAREN JOHN BEAUMONT 525 Matadero Ave. #3 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/03/2011.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 20, 2017.

(PAW Sept. 29; Oct. 6, 13, 20, 2017) PACIFIC SKY PARTNERS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN634536 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Pacific Sky Partners, located at 6220 Rainbow Dr., San Jose, CA 95129, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ISAO MURASE 6220 Rainbow Dr. San Jose, CA 95129 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/24/2017.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 2, 2017.

(PAW Oct. 13, 20, 27, Nov. 3, 2017)

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EPIPHANY HOTEL NOBU HOTEL EPIPHANY, PALO ALTO NOBU HOTEL, PALO ALTO NOBU HOTEL EPIPHANY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN634559 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Epiphany Hotel, 2.) Nobu Hotel Epiphany, Palo Alto, 3.) Nobu Hotel, Palo Alto, 4.) Nobu Hotel Epiphany, located at 180 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): PA HOTEL HOLDINGS, LLC 101 Ygnacio Valley Road, Ste. 320 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 9/10/2015.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 2, 2017.

(PAW Oct. 13, 20, 27; Nov. 3, 2017)

997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: CYD T. MAJOR Case No.: 17PR182002 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of CYD T. MAJOR. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: JONAH MILLER and KENDALL CREVELLI in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: JONAH MILLER/KENDALL CREVELLI be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on November 27, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 12 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Arthur S. Weil 671 Oak Grove Ave. Ste. K Menlo Park, CA 94025 (650)322-4244 (PAW Sept. 29; Oct. 6, 13, 2017) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF DOLORES GRUNO CASE NO. 17PR181664 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors. and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: DOLORES GRUNO. A Petition for Probate has been filed by PATRICIA LITTELL in the Superior Court 0f California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that PATRICIA LITTELL be appointed as personal representative to administer the

estate of the decedent.

The Petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under The Independent Administration of Estates Act (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court on 10/30/17, at 9:00 am, in Dept. 12 located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the dale of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

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Sports Shorts PATRIOTS ACT . . . Stanford grad Alex Carter found a new home in the NFL this week. The defensive back signed with the New England Patriots to their practice squad, along with offensive lineman Cole Toner. Carter was originally drafted by the Detroit Lions in the third round (80th overall) of the 2015 NFL draft. An in jury prevented him from playing right away but was added to the 53-man roster on Dec. 24, 2016.

He appeared in one regular season game on special teams. Carter went to training camp with the Lions this year and was released prior to the start of the regular season.

CARDINAL CORNER . . . Stanford freshman Ben Hallock earned Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Newcomer of the Week honors.

The driver earned his second MPSF weekly honor in four weeks after totaling three goals and three assists in Saturday night’s 12-7 victory over No. 5 Pacific in Stockton. Hallock assisted on the go-ahead goal and posted his third score of the match during a five-goal Stanford run in the third quarter to give the Cardinal an 11-6 lead over the Tigers. The freshman leads Stanford in scoring with 29 goals on the season. He has scored at least one goal in all 11 matches this year, with multiple scores in nine contests.

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OAKS REPORT . . . Menlo College women’s basketball coach Shannon Spataro announced the signing of Sacred Heart Cathedral senior Aliyah Arcillas to the program for next year. She helped SH Cathedral win the state Division III title two years ago and reach the state Open Division playioffs last season. Menlo opens its season on Nov. 2 at UC Merced . . . Menlo College freshman Amanda Nebozuk was named Golden State Athletic Conference Women’s Soccer Offensive Player of the Week and Oaks sophomore women’s volleyball player Jade Rockwood was named the GSAC Setter of the Week.

M-A’s Nick Anderson (15) scored a pair of touchdowns in last week’s 42-35 win over SH Prep. Gators’ Garrett Gavello (21) goes for the tackle.

M-A, Dons to compete for PAL supremacy Gunn looks to build on last week’s SCVAL victory over Lynbrook

by Glenn Reeves enlo-Atherton went into this season as the oddson favorite to repeat as Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division champions. After all, how often has a PAL team had six players with scholarship offers from Division I colleges?

How about never? That’s what M-A has on its roster this year.

And last season the Bears not only won the PAL Bay title, but went on to win Central Coast Section Open Division I and Northern California Division 3-AA championships before losing in the state finals.

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teams are perhaps not quite as good as usual this season as they have a combined record of 4-8.

Then in a PAL Bay opener M-A beat previously unbeaten Burlingame 14-10. After a week off Burlingame played at the PAL Bay’s other 6-0 team, Half Moon Bay, and were defeated considerably more decisively, 39-15.

After hosting Aragon this week M-A travels to Half Moon Bay. A big challenge is in store to see if the Bears can repeat as PAL Bay champions. (continued on page 47)

Stanford lining up for pass protection Cardinal running game in good hands with Love

by Rick Eymer tanford senior right tackle A.T. Hall can usually tell how well a football play succeeded just by the crowd’s reaction. It’s even better when he looks up to see Bryce Love running away from the defense on another one of his long touchdown runs.

Hall is part of the reason Love leads the nation in rushing. He and his offensive line teammates have given Love many avenues for success.

“The best feeling at the line is to make a block, create a hole and

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look up to see he’s gone,” Hall said.

Run blocking has been Stanford’s strength all year. The past three games, the Cardinal (4-2, 3-1) have not given up a sack. The line, which includes true freshman Walker Little at left tackle, hopes to keep that streak alive this week when Oregon (4-2, 1-2) visits for an 8 p.m. kickoff Saturday, highlighting reunion homecoming week.

“We’ve put more emphasis on it,” Hall said. “We went back to (continued on page 46)

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can run around and be physical, too. We haven’t been out-physicaled by anyone.’’

M-A started the season with close losses to Bellarmine and Mitty, a couple of highly-respected West Catholic Athletic League teams. Good losses? Maybe. But the standing of those two teams has been tarnished the last two weeks with both teams getting blown out by Serra, Bellarmine by a 48-0 count and Mitty 64-21.

The Bears followed those two losses with impressive wins over traditionally strong Palma (30-7) and Los Gatos (56-41). But those

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But when the Bears host Aragon on Friday at 7:30 p.m. it’s debatable whether they should be favored at all. A look at comparative scores would suggest not.

M-A (4-2, 2-0) is coming off a 42-35 win over Sacred Heart Prep.

The previous week Aragon (6-0, 2-0) blasted SHP 40-7 in a game that was 40-0 at halftime.

“They’re really, really good and they’re still the champs,’’ Aragon coach Steve Sell said of M-A. “They have a ton of guys who can run around and be physical. But I don’t want to short-change my guys. I think we have guys who

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Stanford women picked to finish second UCLA is conference favorite for the second year in a row

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16 last season. It was the first time the Bruins had made back-to-back NCAA Sweet 16 appearances in the history of the program.

The Ducks received three firstplace votes in the poll. It is the highest the team has been voted since 2000-01.

Oregon returns all five starters, including the national freshman of the year Sabrina Ionescu, from a team that advanced to the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first-ever NCAA Elite Eight.

The defending Pac-12 tournament champion Cardinal received a pair of first-place votes. Stanford returns the majority of the team that made its 13th all-time NCAA Final Four appearance last year.

Three-time Pac-12 regularseason champion Oregon State was voted to finish fourth with 85 points, edging California, who

Tara VanDerveer opens the season with 1,012 career victories. veterans to depend on in the Utesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tournament bids last year. At least Emily Potter and the Buffsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ken- one Pac-12 team has reached the national semifinal round in nine nedy Leonard.

Arizona polled 20 points and of the last 10 years.

Ten of the 12 schools will ofWashington 13. The Wildcats have three letter winners back, includ- ficially tip the year off on Friing Eastside College Prep grad day, Nov. 10, including Stanford Destiny Graham, and the Huskies at Ohio State for a 3 p.m. start. are under the direction of first- Washington and Arizona State open on Sunday, Nov. 12. year head coach Jody Wynn.

The Conference has adminisPac-12 womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball had two teams in the NCAA Final tered a preseason poll every year Four for the first time ever in 2015- since it began sponsoring womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 16 and followed that with NCAA sports in 1986-87. Q

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basics and restarted from step one.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been clean every since.â&#x20AC;?

The improvement aided K.J. Costello in his first career start and helped Palo Alto grad Keller Chryst in his return in Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 23-20 Pac-12 win at Utah last week.

Chryst will start against the Ducks and get the majority of the playing time, though Cardinal coach David Shaw said Costello will play.

Shaw is also impressed with his offensive line and hopes it continues its upward climb. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have improved every sinStanford punter Jake Bailey runs for 17 yards and a first down after gle week since USC,â&#x20AC;? Shaw said. a fake punt. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re better and more comcompletions; NFL completions.â&#x20AC;? fortable. We have a true freshman touchdowns.

Currently on a three-game at left tackle and he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play Freeman had a golden opporlike a freshman. He plays older. tunity to skip his senior year and winning streak, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important for Stanford to continue playing well Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fifth-year senior (David enter the NFL draft.

Bright) next to him who can help â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not too happy he passed if it has designs on reaching on the with communication. We have a on that,â&#x20AC;? Shaw said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s physi- Pac-12 championship game.

After Oregon, the Cardinal senior at center (Jesse Burkett), a cal. He has the ability to get tough sophomore at right guard (Nate yards and to break long runs. I plays at Oregon State and at Herbig) who plays was hoping he would Washington State. The eighthabove his age and a come to us or some- ranked Cougars (6-0, 3-0) and the fifth-ranked Huskies (6-0, 3-0) resenior (Hall) at right where far away.â&#x20AC;? tackle. Brightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s versaThe Pac-12 has five main the elite of the conference.

Jake Bailey, who executed a tility has helped.â&#x20AC;? running backs among Brightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s move to the the top 21. Washing- perfect fake punt and raced 17 left side allowed Hall to tonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Myles Gaskin yards for a first down, said he play on the right side, ranks 19th and USCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mind doing that again. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been six or seven years something that gives Ronald Jones is 21st.

Stanford more experiQuarterbacks still since weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve called a fake punt,â&#x20AC;? ence upfront. run the conference. Bailey said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was so much fun â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bright helped staUCLAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Josh Rosen for me to make that play. I hope A.T. Hall bilize the line,â&#x20AC;? Shaw leads the nation in we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want that long to run ansaid. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a group that has been passing yards and Washington other one.â&#x20AC;?

Stanford special teams coordithrough a lot and has seen a lot.â&#x20AC;?

Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Luke Falk is third. USCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s In a conference known for its Sam Darnold, Coloradoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ste- nator Pete Alamer gently guided quarterbacks, Pac-12 running ven Montz, Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jake Bailey into becoming a punter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I attended all the special teams backs may be getting overlooked. Browning and ASUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Manny Love, who leads the nation with Wilkins are all ranked among the camps at Stanford and thought I wanted to kick and punt,â&#x20AC;? Bailey 1,240 rushing yards, helps guide top 30. the spotlight. But so does backs Shaw thinks Chryst ranks right said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After the last one, coach Alamer came up to me and said â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You like Coloradoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Phillip Lind- there with them. say, fifth in the nation with 810 â&#x20AC;&#x153;On third down, he made some know youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be a punter yards and Oregonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Royce Free- big-time throws to Trent Irwin,â&#x20AC;? in college donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; A few days man, 13th with 654 yards and 10 he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those were big-time later I got an offer.â&#x20AC;? Q

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posted 83 points.

Both teams appeared in last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NCAA tournament, the Golden Bears returning after a yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absence. They are led by All-American candidate and former national freshman of the year Kristine Anigwe.

Arizona State was voted sixth, with 74 points. The Sun Devils have been to the NCAA tournament the past four years, just the second time in program history that has occurred.

Washington State was voted to finish seventh, its best showing in the preseason coaches poll since 2011-12.

Mark Trakh returns for his second stint as coach at USC, which is predicted to place eighth in the league with 47 points. Utah (40 points) and Colorado follow (38 points). Both teams have seasoned

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by Rick Eymer tanford will finish in a second-place tie with Oregon in the Pac-12 Conference womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball race if the coaches poll plays out as announced Wednesday by the conference.

Stanford is coming off a 32-6 season that included its 13th Final Four appearance and 12th Pac-12 tournament championship.

UCLA, with seven first-place votes, was predicted to finish first for the second straight year.

The Pac-12 begins anew following another historic season in which a league-record seven teams earned NCAA tournament bids.

UCLA returns All-American candidates Jordin Canada and Monique Billings, who led the team to a second-straight NCAA Sweet

Sports ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

PREP VOLLEYBALL

Paly, Menlo stay unbeaten in league play Knights play at San Diego tournament this weekend

by Glenn Reeves Susanna Limb led the defense he Palo Alto girls rallied with 16 digs and Tanli Su helped from a third set deficit to guide the offense with 25 assists.

“These girls have great chemsweep visiting Los Gatos, istry,’’ Palo Alto 25-18, 25-21, 25coach Danielle De22, in a Santa Clara siderio said. “They Athletic League De give everything on Anza Division volthe court.’’ leyball match on Remaining undeTuesday. feated in league is The Vikings (15-3, one goal the team 8-0) were favored to has. beat last-place Sara“We’re rea l ly toga on Thursday pushing for that,’’ night. They host Los Fan said. “Last year Altos at 6:45 p.m. we lost one game in Tuesday in the annuleague. So this year al “Dig Pink” Night.

Tanli Su we want to beat that Chelsea Fan continues to lead Paly. Against the and go 12-0.’’

Menlo School remained unWildcats she had 10 kills, 14 digs, five aces and recorded a beaten in West Bay Athletic hitting percentage of .346. Ame- League Foothill Division play lia Gibbs added 10 kills and four with a 25-13, 25-18, 25-12 victory over visiting Mercy-San blocks.

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Palo Alto at Wilcox, 7 p.m.

Palo Alto (1-5, 1-1) goes into this game as a big underdog. But the same was the case last year and the Vikings emerged with their game of the year, a 25-21 upset victory.

“We had a game plan to be extremely disciplined on the defensive end,’’ Palo Alto coach Danny Sullivan said. “The kids were physical. Defensive tackles Bryant Jefferson and Troy Henderson played great games. For us to beat Wilcox this time we have to follow the same recipe again.’’

Wilcox (3-3, 2-1), however, goes into this Friday’s game with a markedly different mindset. Last year the Chargers were coming off a historic offensive performance by their veer offense in an 83-48 win over Saratoga. This year they’re coming off a 42-17 loss to Milpitas, with revenge on their minds for the upset loss to Paly last year.

“They might have overlooked us a bit,’’ Sullivan said. “When they’re clicking, they’re about as good as you’ll see in this area. If they put the ball on the ground at all we’ve got to recover.’’

The Palo Alto running game has performed well the last two weeks in the win over Homestead and the 31-8 loss last Friday to Los Gatos.

“The key for us is ball control and to capitalize on opportunities,’’ Sullivan said. “We had long drives against Los Gatos and came up with nothing. We have to score when we get in the red zone, we’re not built for big plays.

We’re running the ball well, five yards a carry. When we drop back we’re averaging 4.3. That’s unreal and very frustrating for me having played quarterback back in the day.’’

Francisco.

The Knights (19-3, 7-0) hosted second-place Notre DameBelmont (7-1 in the WBAL) on Wednesday night before heading to the Southern California Invitational in San Diego.

Menlo, in the Division I division, opens the tournament against Pacific Ridge (12-9) on Friday. The Knights also play Oaks Christian (17-5) and Sunnyslope (21-6) before moving into bracket play on Saturday.

Cate Desler drilled 19 kills, Caroline Caruso recorded 16 digs and Sacred Heart Prep topped host Harker, 25-14, 25-17, 25-16, in another WBAL match.

Ally Polverari added 11 kills, Elena Radeff and Reagan Smith each contributed 10 kills and Haley Martella had 31 assists.

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quarterback Brad Yaffe said.

Mountain View at Gunn, Yaffe threw for 287 yards 7 p.m.

The Titans broke a 15-game against M-A, completing 21 of 33 SCVAL El Camino Division los- passes. The running game got a ing streak last week with a 40-7 boost with the return of Tommy rout of cellar dweller Lynbrook. Barnds from an injury he incurred in the second game of They will face a much the season against Somore difficult task brato. Barnds rushed against Mountain View for 89 yards on 20 (2-4, 1-2), a team that carries. played in the De Anza The defense needs Division last year. to tighten up, having Gunn coach Brandon allowed an average of Boyd was asked what 39.5 points per game the Titans need to do to during its current fourbe successful against game losing streak.

Mountain View: The Gators were vic“We’ve got to DJ Barnes timized by the big play tackle,’’ Boyd said.

“They’ve got some big boys, against M-A, which returned two a fullback slash running back kickoffs for touchdowns.

But all in all it was an encour(215-pound Michael Capote) that runs downfield. They like to go aging, competitive performance with heavy sets, the ground-and- against the defending CCS Open Division I champions. pound game.’’

Now Sacred Heart Prep (1-5, DJ Barnes is a special player for Gunn. He had three interceptions 0-2) faces another defending CCS in the win over Lynbrook and 254 champ, Half Moon Bay (6-0, 1-0), all-purpose yards: 135 receiving which has won the last two Diviand 75 on punt returns. On the sion V titles. The Cougars have season he has 44 receptions for looked better than ever so far this 732 yards with seven touchdowns. season, outscoring its opponents “If he was 6-1 every school by a staggering 320-29 margin.

One thing SHP has going for in the country would be calling us about him,’’ Boyd said of the itself is having played a much tougher schedule, with non-league 5-foot-9, 160-pound Barnes.

Boyd said that Solomone Pal- games against San Benito, Hilletua will start at quarterback sdale and McClymonds. HMB against the Spartans. Paletua is played non-competitive PAL Lake Gunn’s leading rusher. Hudson teams in three consecutive nonAlexander, the starting quarter- league games and outscored them back the first four games of the by a combined 170-0.

Another factor in SHP’s favor season and extremely athletic, will see time at tight end, wide is the memory of last year’s CCS playoffs. The Gators played HMB receiver and running back. in the CCS semifinals and lost by a 16-13 score.

HMB at Sacred Heart Prep, “A lot of the juniors from that Saturday at 2:30 p.m.

After experiencing a real low team remember how that felt,’’ point in their season in a 40-7 loss Yaffe said. “That gives us incento Aragon, the Gators bounced tive to beat those guys this time.’’ back nicely offensively in a 42-35 Menlo School at Sequoia, loss to Menlo-Atherton.

“The M-A game showed what 7:30 p.m.

Menlo’s defense has been our team can do offensively,’’

Zoe Banks

Robert Miranda

GUNN WATER POLO The senior goalie helped Gunn win twice last week.

She recorded 16 saves in an 8-1 victory over Homestead and then added 11 saves in a win over Palo Alto to keep the Titans a game back of Los Gatos in the SCVAL De Anza Division race.

MENLO CROSS COUNTRY The senior won two races within 48 hours of each other. In Thursday’s WBAL race on Crystal Springs’ 2.95mile course, he finished in a league record 15:21.1. At the Artichoke Invitational he went 11:49, fifth-fastest time on the 2.33-mile course.

Honorable mention Cate Desler Sacred Heart Prep volleyball

Sianna Houghton Menlo volleyball

Gianna Inguaiato Menlo golf

Georgia Lewis Castilleja water polo

Madison Lewis Castilleja water polo

Kyra Pretre Menlo cross country

Nick Anderson Menlo-Atherton football

Giorgia Fatica Woodside water polo

Alexander Nemeth Sacred Heart Prep water polo

David Schmaeier Menlo football

Emilio Simbeck Menlo football

Larsen Weigle Sacred Heart Prep water polo

Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com

outstanding all season. The offense started to come around last week in a 48-13 win over South San Francisco.

Quarterback Emilio Simbeck had his best game, completing 15 of 23 passes for 254 yards and four touchdowns. David Schmaier was on the receiving end of seven of those completions for 214 yards and two TDs. Schmaier is averaging 24.8 yards per catch on his 17 receptions this season.

If Menlo (4-2, 2-0) takes care of its end the next two weeks against Sequoia (2-4, 0-2) and Woodside (0-6, 0-2) the game against undefeated Hillsdale on Oct. 27 should decide the PAL Ocean championship. But the Knights are loath to go into any game over-confident.

“We treat each individual opponent with a tremendous amount of respect,’’ Simbeck said. “We know Sequoia has a good team. They have some big guys and they’re a young team also, so there are some unknowns that we have to try to prepare for. We just need to strap down and work on exploiting the coverages and being prepared for anything they throw at us.’’

South SF at Woodside, 7:30 p.m.

A nightmarish season continued last week for Woodside with a 49-6 loss to The King’s Academy,

a team like Woodside that went into the game with a 0-5 record. At the end of the game Woodside had 18 available players in uniform.

“As a coach this is something new for me to deal with,’’ Woodside coach Justin Andrews said.

“You’ve got to be more creative, more resourceful. Just try to get through it each week, get through game day.’’

The Wildcats go up against a South San Francisco team (1-5, 1-1) on Friday that is also down in numbers.

“They’ve got low numbers but the kids they do have are footballsavvy kids,’’ Andrews said. “In all the years I’ve been at Woodside, the games with South City have always been a tough game for us, a down-to-the-last-minute game, a real physical game down to the wire.’’

Bright spots haven’t been easy to spot during an 0-2 start to PAL Ocean play that began with a 49-0 loss to Hillsdale. But Andrews points to a couple of defensive linemen who have performed well under adverse circumstances.

“Christian Ochoa has played great,’’ Andrews said. “He’s basically doing two jobs, throwing guys aside and making plays. He’s been fun to watch. Sergio Ipina (who leads the team with four sacks) has also played well.’’ Q

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