Palo Alto Weekly February 9, 2018

Palo Alto

Vol. XXXIX, Number 19

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February 9, 2018

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With high incomes and high mortgages, Palo Altans say label is about more than money Page 17

Pulse 12 Spectrum 13 Transitions 14 Shop Talk 24 Movies 25 Puzzles 40 Q A&E Sculptures, canvases at Pace celebrate digital culture Page 20 Q Home Class equips homeowners to manage their remodels Page 26 Q Sports Gunn High grad competing in Winter Olympics Page 42

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Local news, information and analysis

Palo Alto eyes higher fees to fight traffic New fee for developers would create incentive to reduce congestion

by Gennady Sheyner

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n a bid to ease traffic congestion and pay for needed transportation projects, Palo Alto is preparing to significantly increase its traffic-impact fees for new developments.

Seeking to add some teeth to

the city’s traffic-management program, the City Council is considering charging developers a one-time fee of $8,093 for every net new car trip that their building would produce during the evening rush hour. The fee

would apply to developments in every part of the city and would replace the current system, which includes four different fees.

The proposed fee, which the City Council’s Finance Committee discussed and unanimously endorsed Tuesday night, would be among the highest in the region, according to city staff and consultants. Mountain View and San Jose each charge somewhat

higher traffic-impact fees for commercial developments, but in each case the fees only apply to developments in specific areas of the city.

Today, Palo Alto has one citywide fee of $3,575 for each evening peak-hour car trip the development generates and three other fees that apply to specific parts of the city. The highest total fee is charged in Stanford Research

Park, where in addition to the citywide fee, developers have to pay $12.42 per square foot for new projects. Similarly, projects in the San Antonio/West Bayshore area and along the Charleston-Arastradero corridor are assessed fees of $2.56 and $0.38 per square foot, respectively.

In each case, the fees are used (continued on page 9)

HOUSING

New zoning district proposed for affordable housing Palo Alto looks to grant parking and other concessions to below-market-rate housing projects

by Gennady Sheyner

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Liz Steinberg, left, Michelle Kurian, center, Krisa Tailor, right, and other young professionals meet for drinks, appetizers and networking at an event of Emerging Professionals In Commerce (EPIC) on Jan. 30.

BUSINESS

Palo Alto millenials gooffline to connect In heart of tech-driven Silicon Valley, group encourages young professionals to build relationships face-to-face

by Christine Lee

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hen Richard Hackmann first moved to the Bay Area in 2009 from the Midwest, he didn’t know anyone and believed there needed to be a way to connect with other professionals in the area.

In early 2010, on the advice of people around the city, he decided to revive Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce’s young professional group, which had stopped meeting and disbanded.

The first happy-hour networking event he organized for the new group — which would become known as Emerging Professionals in Commerce (EPIC) — only drew about 25 people.

For Hackmann, however, this was a start.

Fast-forward eight years:

EPIC has gained more than 700 followers on social media and convenes for networking events on the last Tuesday of each month, which consistently draw 50 to 75 people. In addition to networking and social events, the organization hosts guest speakers, panel discussions, philanthropic fundraising events and tours of local companies.

“The mission of EPIC has always been to serve as a place where all professions are welcome. I know business that’s come of this group; I know of very good friends who’ve come of this group,” Hackmann said. “(EPIC) is very unique in terms of the depth and breadth of membership and diversity of people who attend the events.”

As much as many young professionals in Palo Alto and Silicon Valley are immersed in technology and dedicated to using it to improve quality of life, there’s still a yearning for personal connections to be made offline, according to Hackmann. He said in-person connections are one of EPIC’s greatest appeals for millenials.

This statement rings true for Danny Burgess, a young real estate professional from San Carlos, who recently attended EPIC’s January Meetup event at Tacolicious in downtown Palo Alto. Although it was his first time at an EPIC event, he said he appreciated that it “put (him) (continued on page 10)

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n an effort to spur the construction of more affordable housing, Palo Alto is preparing to create a new zoning district that would relax parking requirements and other development standards for residential projects that provide below-market-rate units.

The new “affordable housing combining district,” which the Planning and Transportation Commission will review on Feb. 14, is part of the city’s broader effort to revise its zoning code so as to meet the City Council’s new housingproduction goals. At its retreat last Saturday, the council reaffirmed its commitment to helping create new housing and meeting the goals of its Comprehensive Plan, which will require the city to produce about 300 housing units per year between now and 2030.

The city’s new Housing Work Plan, which the council began discussing this week and is expected to adopt next Monday night, places a particular premium on “affordable housing,” which it defines as “affordable to extremely low, very low, low or moderate households,” as defined by the area median income.

Santa Clara County’s area median income ranges from $74,187 for an individual to $105,937 for a family of four.

For a family of four in the “extremely low” income category — between 0 and 30 percent of area median income — affordable rent would be $895. For a family in the “higher moderate” category, with

income between 101 and 120 percent of area median income, affordable rent is $3,399.

The Housing Work Plan calls affordability “a huge issue in Palo Alto, where the median rent for a two-bedroom apartment is $3,500, the median sale price for a condo is $1.6 million, and the median sales price for a singlefamily home is $3.07 million.”

“This contributes to both housing insecurity and overcrowding, as residents are forced to spend more and more to pay their rent/ mortgage and find themselves living in smaller spaces with more roommate or family members,” the plan states. “These issues can affect income-restricted and special-needs populations, such as the elderly and disabled, more than others, and the number of such households in Palo Alto has been increasing over time.”

The new affordable-housing combining district would give significant parking concessions to housing developments consisting entirely of below-market-rate units. Normally, the city requires multi-family residential housing to provide 1.25 parking spaces per studio; 1.5 spaces per onebedroom unit; and 2 spaces per two-bedroom (or larger) units, one of which must be covered.

In the affordable-housing zone, projects would only have to have 0.5 parking spaces per unit. The city’s planning director would also (continued on page 8)

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CITY OF PALO ALTO Notice of Funding Availability for Minor Home Repair Program Administrator Program Years 2017-18 & 2018-19 Community Development Block Grant Program APPLICATIONS DUE: by 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 22, 2018 Applications will be available on Friday, February 9, 2018 for the City of Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2017-18 & 2018-19 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program years for a partner organization to assist the City in implementing a new minor home repair program. The City expects to distribute locally an estimated $100,000 in funds for Minor Home Repair Program in each Ă&#x201E;ZJHS `LHY HUK MYVT [OL < : +LWHY[TLU[ VM /V\ZPUN HUK <YIHU +L]LSVWTLU[ /<+ MVY [OL *+). 7YVNYHT The CDBG Program is directed toward expanding and main[HPUPUN [OL HÉ&#x2C6;VYKHISL OV\ZPUN Z\WWS`" WYVTV[PUN OV\ZPUN VWWVY[\UP[PLZ HUK JOVPJLZ" THPU[HPUPUN HUK PTWYV]PUN JVTT\UP[` MHJPSP[PLZ" PUJYLHZPUN LJVUVTPJ VWWVY[\UP[PLZ HJJLZZPIPSP[` LULYN` LÉ&#x2030;JPLUJ` HUK Z\Z[HPUHIPSP[`" HUK WYV]PKPUN Z\WWVY[P]L ZLY]PJLZ ZWLJPĂ&#x201E;JHSS` MVY WLYZVUZ VM SV^ HUK ]LY` SV^ PUJVTL Targeted groups might include persons who are homeless, seniors, persons with disabilities, and other special needs groups.

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Around Town

FLYING HIGH ... Stanford University alumnus and Philadelphia Eagles tight end Zach Ertz capped off a career year with a Super Bowl win over the New England Patriots on Sunday. The 27-year-old caught the winning touchdown on third-and-7 with just over two minutes of play. As he rolled over into the end zone, the ball popped out of his hands, but Ertz quickly regained control.

The former All-American finished the game with seven catches for 67 yards on nine targets, helping the Eagles win their first Super Bowl and first league title since 1960. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a full 60-minute fight. Obviously the Patriots are a fantastic football team but our quarterback (Nick Foles) played amazing. All I gotta do is run and catch, and I was lucky enough to have my number called out at the end,â&#x20AC;? he said in an interview Monday with NBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Todayâ&#x20AC;? show.

Ertz was excellent all season, reaching 1,000 receiving yards in the Super Bowl while earning his first Pro Bowl berth, and is under contract in Philadelphia for three more years. Stanford also had other alums playing for the Eagles: cornerback Johnson Bademosi, lineman Cameron Fleming and safety Jordan Richards.

RESIST AND PERSIST ... Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a busy past year for the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, which has split its time between resisting President Donald Trump, building â&#x20AC;&#x153;all-inclusiveâ&#x20AC;? playgrounds and managing a $6.5 billion enterprise known as county government. On Tuesday, the boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newly elected President Joe Simitian, a former Palo Alto mayor, delivered a â&#x20AC;&#x153;State of the Countyâ&#x20AC;? speech, which recapped recent accomplishments and focused on the theme of â&#x20AC;&#x153;partnerships and progress.â&#x20AC;? Simitian emphasized the need to partner with cities, schools, nonprofits and â&#x20AC;&#x153;all the good people of this county, whoever they are, whatever they look like and wherever they came from.â&#x20AC;?

As an example, he cited Buena Vista Mobile Home Park in Palo Alto, which was on the verge of shuttering but was saved thanks to a collaboration between the city, the county, school leaders, the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residents association, the community group Friends of Buena Vista, the Housing Authority of Santa Clara County, Caritas and

various other nonprofits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now, I highlight Buena Vista today not as a history lesson â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but as a lesson for the future â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that partnerships are key to the progress we must make.â&#x20AC;?

Alluding to Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s immigration policies, Simitian also rejected any characterization of foreign-born residents as â&#x20AC;&#x153;other.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have to tell you, I look out in our chambers today and I see no â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;other,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I see only partners â&#x20AC;&#x201D; past, present, and most importantly, partners for the future, partners in progress for the coming year, and in all the years ahead.â&#x20AC;?

THE BIG SWITCH ... Breaking with decades of tradition, the Palo Alto Police Department will no longer patrol parking facilities around Stanford University Medical Center or collect revenues from parking tickets at the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lots and garages, according to an agreement that the City Council approved Monday night. The agreement, which was requested by Stanford, calls on the city to relinquish its authority over the private parking facilities at the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s medical facilities. A report from the Police Department states that Stanford will now be â&#x20AC;&#x153;responsible for the costs of staffing, vehicles and parking citation hardware and software.â&#x20AC;? The reason for the switch mostly has to do with technology. Stanford Parking and Transportation Services has just switched to a new permit system that uses â&#x20AC;&#x153;virtual permits.â&#x20AC;? The system requires new enforcement technology, such as automated license plate readers, which the Police Department does not use.

The agreement pertains to five off-street facilities near the hospital at 217 Quarry Road, Sweet Olive Way, 215 Quarry Road, 800 Welch Road and 780 Welch Road.

Stanford will process all parking invoices and retain revenues from parking citations, according to the report. With Stanford lots no longer in its purview, Palo Alto police plan to enhance their enforcement of abandoned vehicles, parking violations around California Avenue and other areas that the Police Department has been â&#x20AC;&#x153;unable to consistently enforce,â&#x20AC;? according the report. City officials cannot say at this time what impact this re-appropriation of resources will have on the bottom line, the report states. Q

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Finally moving forward With improvements to San Francisquito Creekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lower end nearing completion, agency turns attention upstream

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he San Francisquito Creek runs through two counties and multiple cities as well as Stanford University. Twenty years ago, the creek overflowed by more than 11,000 acres, flooded 1,100 homes and caused the evacuation of 500 people. Palo Alto alone suffered $40 million in damage.

In August 2016, after finally receiving regulatory permits from all state, local and federal agencies, the first of two flood-control projects broke ground in East Palo Alto.

The project focuses on eliminating pinch points in the creek, where water flows have been restricted. For the most part, they are man-made.

The $41.35 million projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first phase, the Bay to U.S. Highway 101 segment, will protect 5,700 homes and businesses in East Palo Alto, East Menlo Park and Palo Alto from a high-water flow that would include an extreme high tide with more than 2 feet of sea-level rise â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a so-called 100-year flood. The work is adding new flood and retaining walls

near private property in East Palo Alto, reinforcing damaged parts of the levee on the east side, widening the creek by building a new levee through the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course and excavating decades of sediment.

A California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) bridgereplacement project over the creek and Highway 101 has replaced three culverts and added a fourth culvert under the highway to accommodate additional water. Prior to the replacement, the channel flow capacity was less than half of what is needed to accommodate a 100-year storm, according to the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority (JPA), which was formed to address flood control. Caltrans agreed in 2009 to improve the bridgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s floodwater capacity to match the JPAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downstream improvements. The JPA is designing and constructing a widened creek inlet at the upstream side of West Bayshore Road and an outlet from the bridge at the downstream face of East Bayshore Road.

Len Materman, the Joint Powers Authorityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive director, said that residents are already receiving protections because of the modifications. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even with the fourth culvert not yet opened, the three new ones functionally can pass more water than the old bridge,â&#x20AC;? he said. He added it is now â&#x20AC;&#x153;impossibleâ&#x20AC;? for the areas near the Highway 101 Bridge and near the floodwalls to flood.

Downstream work on a flood wall near Daphne Way in East Palo Alto is about 85 percent completed and will protect homes and businesses on both sides of the creek east of the highway, some of which flooded in 2012. Crews are currently constructing a new levee along the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course and restoring the Faber Marsh north of the creek.

Work on new levees from Daphne Way in East Palo Alto to Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Geng Road past the Friendship Bridge is paused until June and still leaves some neighborhoods in East Palo Alto vulnerable, Materman said. Work near the baylands can only be done when

EDUCATION

Ravenswood eyes staffing cuts to address budget shortfall Under pressure to remain fiscally solvent, school district proposes cutting 83 positions

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â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including the equivalent of two-and-a-half full-time principal positions, two vice principals, the assistant superintendent of student services and others â&#x20AC;&#x201D; would save the district $920,743.

The district already planned to eliminate the principal and vice principal positions as it consolidated all middle school students at a new standalone middle school campus.

The bulk of the proposed cuts â&#x20AC;&#x201D; $2.7 million worth â&#x20AC;&#x201D; would come from 54 classified staff positions, from secretaries and custodians to school support staff and health and wellness providers. More than half of the jobs are held by people at the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Child Development Center, the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state-funded preschool program, which administrators have said has low enrollment but high staffing costs.

Eichman is proposing cutting 28 of the 31 positions at the Child Development Center, which he described as encroaching on the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s general fund.

He is recommending the district keep the Child Development Center open but ask the

The San Francisquito Creek flows through East Palo Alto, Palo Alto and Menlo Park. Here, the creek is seen at Friendship Bridge, flowing parallel to homes in East Palo Alto. the Ridgewayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rail, a threatened species of bird that lives in the marshes, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t nesting, which has slowed the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s progress.

The modifications should help protect the very vulnerable area, which saw significant flooding of homes and apartments in 1998 and 2012.

The JPA will not be responsible for the Newell Bridge replacement at Woodland Avenue, which connects Palo Alto and East Palo Alto. That project is being undertaken by Palo Alto, Materman said. But the JPA has provided the city with data on how much water would flow under the bridge as a

result of the JPAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upstream project at the Pope-Chaucer Bridge so that the Newell improvement can be adequate. The city of Palo Alto is scheduled to release its Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Newell project in the next several months, Materman said.

With the lower creek construction nearing completion, the JPA has turned its attention toward the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second phase: the Upstream of U.S. Highway 101 Project, an area from the west side of the freeway to Middlefield Road.

In Palo Alto, a large, 300-foot-long (continued on page 9)

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by Elena Kadvany ozens of Ravenswood City School District administrators and support staff could see their jobs cut under a proposed plan to ensure the district avoids fiscal insolvency.

The Ravenswood school district must cut $3.3 million from next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget. Several years of deficit spending, the result of declining enrollment and a corresponding drop in state funding, has now led to close oversight of the district by the San Mateo County Office of Education.

The districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief budget official, Steven Eichman, said at a press conference Monday that he is recommending the board reduce staffing proportional to current enrollment numbers. Ravenswood, a K-8 district that serves East Palo Alto and eastern Menlo Park residents, currently enrolls about 2,700 students, a population that has steadily shrunk over the last several years.

Eichman is proposing the board eliminate the equivalent of 83 full-time positions. Starting at the top, cutting eight certificated management positions

File photo/Veronica Weber

by Sue Dremann

state Department of Education or county Office of Education to take over operations.

No teachers will lose their jobs next year, Eichman said. The district has budgeted for savings from 15 teachers who have already been released from temporary positions or resigned this year. The district is also expecting to secure savings from annual attrition, he said.

Ravenswood loses an average of 41 teachers each year.

The district currently employs 171 teachers and 231 classified employees, according to Eichman.

Eichman is also recommending the board adjust the amount of special-education services, including psychological support, for which the district contracts with outside agencies proportionally to the number of students served. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will not deny any students the services they need ... but we feel we can do it in a more efficient manner,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Other proposed savings come from cutting classified management

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A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to discuss the status of its negotiations with various labor unions. The council will then continue its discussion of the Housing Work Plan and adopt the preliminary goals and objectives, schedule and boundaries for the North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan project. The closed session will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 12. Regular meeting will immediately follow in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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have the authority to lower these requirements based on findings that the project would need fewer spaces. For units targeting residents with special needs, the required parking ratio would be 0.3 spaces per unit.

The zoning district could be applied to commercially zoned sites within a half mile of major transit stops and “high-quality transit corridors,” according to a report from the Department of Planning and Community Environment.

The new district would set an important precedent for local zoning: Rather than setting a maximum number of units that could be developed, it is intentionally leaving that variable open. Instead, development will be limited by floor-area-ratio (the actual amount of building that is allowed) and the city’s 50-foot height limit, which will continue to apply.

The floor-area ratio in the new district will be 2:1, which means that a lot with an area of 25,000 square feet would accommodate up to 50,000 square feet of development.

The new district would also relax development standards relating to how much of a lot is covered by development and usable open space.

The idea of eliminating the “maximum units” requirement was one of more than a dozen proposals that came out of a memo by Councilman Adrian Fine, Mayor Liz Kniss and Councilman Cory Wolbach. The memo, which was unanimously endorsed by the council in November, directed staff to come up with a plan for significantly ramping up housing production near jobs and transit.

On Monday, Planning Director Hillary Gitelman introduced the new Housing Work Plan and emphasized the need for zoning revisions to meet the Comprehensive Plan goal of producing between 3,545 and 4,410 units between now and 2030. Currently, the zoning code is incentivizing property owners to build office spaces instead of housing, she said.

“The rate of housing production in Palo Alto has decreased over time,” Gitelman said. “We will have to turn this around if we’re

Affordable-housing development 801 Alma opened in 2014 in Palo Alto and has 50 apartments for lower-income residents. to meet our goals.”

One project that would directly benefit from the new zone is the proposal by Palo Alto Housing to build 61 units of affordable housing at 3709 El Camino Real, in the Ventura neighborhood. The developer had proposed building 42 parking spaces — well below what the current code requires but within the standards of the new zoning district.

In reviewing the project last August, members of the City Council generally supported the idea of affordable housing, even as some voiced concerns about this proposal’s failure to comply with existing zoning.

Councilwoman Karen Holman was one of several council members who said she would support creating a new “zoning overlay district” — one that would work in combination with the underlying zoning designation but that would offer additional flexibility to builders of affordable housing.

Such a mechanism, council members agreed, would be preferable to the “planned community” (PC) zoning that the city has used in the past for affordable housing project. A PC district is the product of an ad hoc agreement between the city and the developer, who generally proposes a package of “public benefits” in exchange for concessions on height, density and other development standards.

The council agreed to temporarily stop accepting “planned community” applications in 2014, shortly after voters struck down a PC-zoned proposal from Palo Alto Housing

that included 60 units for low-income seniors and 12 single-family homes along Maybell Avenue.

“I think this community very much supports affordable housing, but people also have a right to expect projects and proposals that fit in with the context,” Holman said during the August review, arguing in favor of the overlay zone.

Danny Ross, senior development manager at Palo Alto Housing, told the council this week that he is very hopeful that the affordable-housing overlay zone will be approved and implemented soon. Even though Palo Alto is the nonprofit organization’s home town, it has recently expanded into San Mateo County and has been looking for housing sites as far south as San Jose, Ross said.

“The housing crisis is a regional issue and one the city cannot solve alone,” Ross said. “In addition to our existing 25 Palo Alto properties and the proposed new development site at Wilton, we’d like to provide even more affordable housing within this city as well.”

Ross also requested that the council consider waiving the requirement for ground-floor retail for projects that are 100 percent affordable housing. The retail component, he said, hinders housing projects because it keeps them from being eligible from tax credits, which typically and in large part fund such projects.

The proposed affordable-housing district is the second new zoning district the city has introduced in the past two weeks. On Jan. 31, the Planning and Transportation Commission approved a

BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board plans to discuss the superintendent search process; consider adopting the 2018-2020 equity plan and term limits; consider appropriating bonds funds for a Magical Bridge playground at Addison Elementary School and authorizing bids for capital projects at Addison, Palo Alto High School and Gunn High School; discuss the possibility of a ballot measure authorizing a 2018 school bond; pass a resolution for full and fair funding of California’s public schools; and discuss an agreement with the Palo Alto Educators Association. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 13, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to consider next steps on addressing airplane noise; and discuss the status update of the 2016 Disability and Workers Compensation Rates audit. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 13, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to consider an ordinance creating an “affordable housing combining district” for projects that provide 100-percent affordable housing. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 14, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. ARCHITECTURE RESOUCES BOARD ... The board plans to review a proposed five-level garage at 375 Hamilton Ave. and consider a proposal to demolish an office building at 3045 Park Boulevard and replace it with a two-story research-and-development building. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE ... The school board’s policy review committee will meet at 8:15 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave., Room A. The agenda was not available by press deadline.

PUBLIC ART COMMISSION ... The commission plans to consider approving Peter Wegner as the artist for the new public-safety building, review the proposed public art for 429 University Ave., and hold an initial review for Phase 2 of the project at 3223 Hanover St. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15, in the Mitchell Park Library, 3800 Middlefield Road.

new “workforce housing combining district” aimed at addressing the “missing middle” — residents whose income is too high to qualify them for below-market-rate housing but too low to buy at Palo Alto’s market rate.

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A summary of the proposed budget cuts is posted at bit. ly/2nVk34v.

The district also is assuming in its budgeting that it will not receive $1.1 million from a parcel tax that expires in June, which funds 13 teaching positions. The district plans to put a renewal measure on the June ballot, Eichman said, but the county has requested the money not be factored into the budget since voters have not passed the new parcel tax.

Eichman noted that some of his proposals are subject to union negotiations, which are ongoing. If the unions don’t agree to the cuts, the board will have to identify other reductions to remain fiscally solvent, Eichman said.

Late last month, Superintendent Gloria Hernandez-Goff implemented a freeze on all hiring, overtime, conferences, travel and “non-mission critical purchases,” Eichman said. He has not yet estimated those savings.

The district has also frozen $150,000 in the budget that had not yet been spent and an additional $500,000 in unrestricted expenditures that will be redesignated as restricted.

Ravenswood is projecting a deficit of $1.7 million in the 2019-20 school year. If the district does not make any cuts, it will face a negative ending balance of $10 million in its general fund, the San Mateo County Office of Education has estimated.

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to pay for transportation projects in the area where the construction is occurring.

Under the new program, the three area-specific fees will be replaced with a single citywide fee (in the case of CharlestonArastradero, the current fee would end once the city completes its long-planned road improvements).

The $8,083-per-trip fee was derived from a “nexus” study that was recently completed by the consulting firm Hexagon. The study considered the impact of new Palo Alto developments on traffic between now and 2030, the estimated the costs of transportation projects that would ease the added congestion, and the “fair share” that new developments would have to contribute.

The expected city growth in the nexus study is based on Palo Alto’s recently updated Comprehensive Plan, which calls for between 3,545 and 4,420 new housing units and between 9,850 and 11,500 new jobs. Hexagon estimated that 2,855 net new car trips would be generated as a result during the peak afternoon commute hours, a figure that would comprise about 5.7 percent

year; the amount is down to $30.4 million this year and targeted to drop to $27.6 million next year.

District staff have attributed the decline in students to the opening of charter and private schools in East Palo Alto, including KIPP Bay Area Schools this fall and Priscilla Chan’s The Primary School in 2016; the longtime Voluntary Transfer Program, which allows some Ravenswood students to attend neighboring districts; and the area’s high cost of living.

Enrollment dropped this fall by nearly 400 students, compared to about 150 to 200 students in past years. The district expects to lose another 300 students over the next two years, according to projections.

The board was scheduled to discuss the budget proposals on Feb. 8, after the Weekly’s press deadline. Go to PaloAltoOnline. com for the latest.

of citywide traffic in 2030.

Because the new fee would be commensurate with the traffic that new buildings create, the developments would be expected to pay for about 5.7 percent of the city’s share of new transportation projects, or roughly $23 million.

The higher fee is aligned with the city Comprehensive Plan’s broad goal of getting commuters to switch from cars to public transit, bicycles and other modes of transportation. Among the most significant new programs in the Comprehensive Plan is a policy requiring all new developments that generate 100 or more peak-hour trips to adopt “transportation demand management” (TDM) plans for reducing traffic congestion.

Specific targets for traffic reduction vary by area of the city.

Developments in downtown, where public transportation is plentiful, would be required to reduce car trips by 50 percent of the total that would otherwise be produced, while those in the California Avenue area would need to shrink their projected number of trips by 35 percent. In the Stanford Research Park and along El Camino Real, the trip-reduction goal is 30 percent. Everywhere else, it’s 20 percent.

The Comprehensive Plan policy also requires developers to

monitor the success of their TDM plans, submit annual reports to the city and pay a fine if they don’t meet the targets.

But even if developers succeed in getting their tenants to take alternative forms of transportation, most will still see their fees rise. Jane Clayton, a consultant with Hexagon, estimated that the fee for a 50,000-square-foot office building in the California Avenue area would rise from the current level of about $175,175 to $396,067. A multifamily housing development with 80 units on El Camino Real would be charged $282,905 under the new fee structure instead of the current $125,125, Clayton estimated.

In some cases, however, the fee would become lower. Because Stanford Research Park projects would no longer have to pay a separate fee based on square footage, their overall assessments would decrease. Clayton estimated that replacing a 100,000-square-foot research-and-development building with a 200,000-square-foot office development would generate $824,466 in traffic-impact fees, down from the current level of $1.2 million.

Once collected, the money would be earmarked for projects on the city’s $955 million wish list of transportation improvements, which includes about $600

million for separating the Caltrain tracks from local roads. The new study assumes that the city’s share for funding these wishlist projects will be about $405 million, including $250 million for reconfiguring the railroad intersections.

Other projects that would be funded by the new fees include bike boulevards, new traffic signals on El Camino Real and Embarcadero Road, road improvements at Page Mill Road intersections, an “enhanced bikeway” along San Antonio Road and reconstruction of the Caltrain undercrossing at California Avenue.

To date, transportation-impact fees — two of which were adopted in the 1980s, the others which were adopted in 2005 and 2007 — have generated about $11 million for transportation projects, with $4.5 million coming from the Stanford Research Park, according to a report from the city’s Department of Planning and Community Environment.

Though members of the Finance Committee acknowledged that the fees will only pay for a small fraction of the city’s transportation needs, they supported the change to a single fee — which is expected to both bring in more funding and simplify the process of assessing and collecting fees.

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The school district is required to meet certain deadlines set by the county Office of Education, including to present layoff resolutions to the school board later this month in advance of a legal deadline to notify staff on March 15.

On Monday, Eichman insisted that Ravenswood is not facing a financial “crisis.”

“It’s only a crisis if we decide we’re going to do nothing, and that isn’t the case nor will it be,” he said.

Ravenswood relies heavily on state revenue through the Local Control Funding Formula. The model distributes state dollars based on average daily attendance: the average number of days a student attends school per year divided by total days of instruction. As enrollment drops, so does state revenue.

Ravenswood received about $31.5 million through the Local Control Funding Formula last

concrete structure could be removed, along with some areas with sacked concrete. After the channel is widened, replacement structures would be added.

In the neighborhood on the west side between Newell Road and Manhattan Avenue in East Palo Alto, about a quarter-mile upstream from University Avenue, the creek would also be widened.

The agency has held a number of public meetings, the latest in October, which included a tour of the project site. About 16 alternatives based on public comment came out of those meetings, which included everything from removing the Pope-Chaucer Bridge to raising it above ground level and adding a culvert under Palo Alto Avenue.

Materman said some of the alternatives are infeasible, but staff has looked at all of them and is narrowing the list down.

In the next few months, the JPA expects to publish its Draft Environmental Impact Report for the second phase, which will be open for public comment. More public meetings will be held, he said.

With any luck, he hopes the project would begin construction in 2020 or 2021 at the latest. It would take two construction seasons to complete, probably finishing in 2022, he said.

But those hopeful goals are based on when the project can get regulatory approval from the multiple agencies involved: the San Francisco Bay Regional

Under a proposal from Ravenswood City School District staff, operations of the Ravenswood Child Development Center would be taken over by another agency, allowing the district to eliminate 28 of 31 staff positions in order to cut costs.

Water Quality Control Board and state and federal agencies such as California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Stanford University’s Searsville Dam in the foothills could complicate matters. Responding to a court order to increase water flow to aid the creek’s steelhead trout, the university is examining ways to alter the dam. Two methods that it has studied would result in sediment flowing downstream. Though fine particles would wash out to San Francisco Bay, carried by the increased water flow, coarser material could collect in the creek, narrowing its banks and raising the water levels, the university’s report on the alternatives noted.

The Regional Water Quality Control Board, in a Jan. 18 letter to Materman, made clear it wants the JPA to address the Searsvilleinduced sediment in its Draft Environmental Impact Report.

That letter sparked concerns from residents affected by downstream flooding, who worried that having to account for Stanford’s theoretical future sediment loads could push the JPA’s Phase 2 project back many years.

But Materman said this week the JPA plans to demonstrate the downstream project won’t increase the deposit of silt that would move naturally from Searsville. The project would compensate for any increases in sediment. Q This article is excerpted from a longer article that can be read in its entirety on PaloAltoOnline.com. Go to the website and search for “A flood next time?” fee is a lot simpler than four overlapping fees,” Planning Director Hillary Gitelman said.

City Councilman Greg Tanaka said he was concerned that the new citywide fee could create problems for small projects in south Palo Alto, where property owners often don’t have the resources that downtown firms enjoy. But Chief Transportation Official Joshuah Mello noted that downtown projects will have to face stiffer traffic-reduction targets and will have to spend significant sums to get their tenants out of cars and into using other modes of transit.

“The TDM demands would be fairly stringent,” Mello said. “The money they’d spend on TDM would be close to what they’d spend to pay that (traffic-impact fee) for that trip.”

The committee also agreed to make a few exemptions to the new citywide fee. Retailers would be required to pay 50 percent of the fee, while affordable-housing projects and day care establishments would be exempted entirely. Q

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in front of people.”

“True relationships, true business, true ideas, true inspiration and innovation are built personto-person,” Burgess said. “Body language, tone — all of that disappears through text, email and online communication. You just don’t have the passion and the energy.”

Anissa Leong, a recent graduate from UC Berkeley and current EPIC co-chair, said she uses EPIC’s face-to-face platform as her “square one” for building relationships. She finds it helpful to connect with people in person initially at an EPIC event and reconnect later for coffee or lunch. At the events, attendees often exchange contact information, she said.

“I love all the new people I get to meet, and then there’s always people that I’ve seen at other events, so it’s comfortable,” she said. “It adds that humannature aspect — just being able to socialize and talk to someone face-to-face versus all the social media. You can’t really build a strong friendship when it’s just over social media.”

For other young professionals, EPIC serves as a way to escape a repetitive daily routine and unchanging surroundings of work and home.

Connor Riley, an East Palo Alto resident and a recent graduate of Santa Clara University, said he and his housemates found themselves in a “bubble” months after graduating and starting work.

A great challenge, Riley said, has been meeting people around his age with similar interests. Riley sees EPIC as a way to connect with

new people through its structured events. The demographic fits with what Riley is searching for: EPIC’s members range from those who just graduated to those in their early 40s.

While many attending EPIC events are recent graduates, some members have been with the group from its early days. Suzy Tjan, a New York Life agent who joined EPIC in 2011, said she left the organization but recently returned to reconnect with friends she made there.

“Usually after a group (event) like this, we can help each other. And if not, we can just help each other grow,” she said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s business or personal. A lot of friends and I still keep in touch.”

Establishing a young-professionals group has presented numerous challenges for Hackmann and the other chairs of the organization over time.

In the early years, EPIC membership fluctuated. In fact, Leong and Mike Love, a member of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce board, together jump-started the organization when Hackmann left the group in 2013 and EPIC had become less active.

In addition, the group has been challenged to keep and find new members because young professionals are constantly moving in and out of town. In addition to using social media, Leong said, wordof-mouth has been key to growing the organization and attracting new members. EPIC’s next monthly networking event will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at Scotty’s Bar and Grill, 548 Emerson St., Palo Alto. More information is available at the group’s Meetup event page at tinyurl.com/EPICPAmeetup. Q Editorial Assistant Christine Lee can be emailed at clee@ paweekly.com.

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of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (Feb 5)

Zoo: The council approved an agreement with Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo and agreed to provide more than $7 million in city funds for the reconstruction of the zoo. Yes: Unanimous Evergreen Park: The council approved some modifications for the Evergreen Park Residential Preferential Parking program, including 40 more employee permits and the switch from three to six zones within the parking district.

Yes: DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Holman, Kou, Scharff, Tanaka, Wolbach Recused: Kniss

Board of Education retreat (Feb. 6)

Recordings: The board asked its policy committee to review a board bylaw on how long video recordings of meetings are maintained. Yes: Unanimous Public comment: The board voted to revisit pilot changes to the length of public comment at board meetings at its next retreat. Yes: Unanimous Superintendent role: The board agreed that the superintendent should take a more active role in framing and guiding staff presentations at board meetings.

Yes: Unanimous

Council Finance Committee (Feb. 6)

Transportation fee: The committee approved a new transportation-impact fee of $8,045 per commute trip in the afternoon peak hour for new developments.

Yes: Unanimous

Utilities Advisory Commission (Feb. 7)

Financial plans: The commission heard reports about preliminary financial plans for the city’s Electric, Water, Gas and Wastewater Collection utilities.

Action: None Fiber: The commission heard an update about the city’s Fiber Utility.

Action: None

Historic Resources Board (Feb. 8)

Retreat: The board held its annual retreat to discuss its year-end assessment; California Environmental Quality Act reviews; listings of Historic Resources and other items. Action: None

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Theft related

Attempted theft. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand Theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Prowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Vehicle related

Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Appropriation of lost property. . . . . . . . 1 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Counterfeiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 8 Driving without a license. . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Vehicle accident, minor injury . . . . . . . . 9 Vehicle accident, property damage . . . 4 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Alcohol or drug related

Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Misc drug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Miscellaneous

Animal Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 3 Other/misc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Public nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 2 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Menlo Park

Jan. 31-Feb. 6 Violence related

Assault with a deadly weapon . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Theft related

Burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Vehicle related

Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 8 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle accident, minor injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident, no injury . . . . . . . . . . 3

Alcohol or drug related

Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 2 Misc drug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Miscellaneous

Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of prohibited weapons. . . . 1 Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto El Camino Real, 1/29, 7:18 p.m.; battery.

Kendall Avenue, 2/1, 10:52 a.m.; domestic violence.

Matadero Avenue, 2/1, 10:08 p.m.; battery.

Ash Street, 2/4, 5:15 a.m.; battery.

Menlo Park 100 block Jefferson Drive, 1/31, 5:53 a.m.; assault with a deadly weapon.

500 block Hamilton Avenue, 2/4, 7:53 a.m.; battery.

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Lack of leadership Editor, The letter from Jen Bayer (“Reduce Jobs, Ease Housing Crunch,” Palo Alto Weekly, Jan. 26) describes the results of lack of leadership from any of the town and city governments in Silicon Valley. These governing bodies are controlled by business and development interests, with the only objective being to bring jobs and people to the area, with absolutely no thought as to where these people will live and the infrastructure needed to support them.

What is an extra insult is the town managers, their assistants and attorneys are all paid extremely well, yet there is no accountability. Everyone should consider this at your next election and vote for people who understand what quality of life means and who are not beholden to developers,

Realtors and others who benefit from uncontrolled growth.

Michael and Jacqueline Grubb Sand Hill Road, Palo Alto

Stanford’s got parking Editor, I am strongly opposed to Stanford University adding any more people to the local area. There are already too many people and too much crowding. However, it appears that some expansion will likely occur, so we are reduced to finding ways to mitigate the effects of that expansion.

One thought that occurs to me is that Stanford can help Palo Alto with parking — in particular with parking in the University Avenue downtown area. We all know what a nightmare that’s become, and it will only get worse with Stanford’s increased population.

My proposal is that we ask Stanford to open up their parking

lots — in particular the athletic/ stadium parking lots in the arboretum — for use by workers in the downtown area. Some of these lots are already open to the public but at a high fee: $16 a day.

At the present time, these lots are almost completely empty during typical workdays. I believe that Stanford should provide lowcost monthly or annual permits for these lots to anyone who can prove that they work in the downtown area. The university could then easily add a shuttle stop to the existing Marguerite bus lines so that workers could park there in the morning and take the shuttle to work downtown. This would cost Stanford almost nothing, would be a boon for low-wage workers in the downtown area and could greatly help the parking situation.

Jim Maples Greer Road, Palo Alto

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Guest Opinion

New approach needed for College Terrace grocery store

by Larry Robert Kavinoky

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y family has been connected with the JJ&F Food Store brothers since the late 1940s, when they learned the trade at my mother’s uncles’ grocery store in Mountain View, Erichsen Grocery Store. I now live across the street from the new College Terrace Centre development and watched as JJ&F shut down and many years later the construction began. I was treasurer of the College Terrace Residents Association (CTRA) when the redevelopment was first proposed. We envisioned a grocery store similar to JJ&F, which would cater to walking traffic from College Terrace and Escondido Village.

The buildings were leveled and a twostory parking garage was built under the new building. Now First Republic Bank is the major tenant providing all that extra revenue the landlord is allowed to collect from the extra large office space approved with the “public benefit” of a grocery store.

I would hope now that all parties will consider a new approach to “viability” of a grocery store.

If some of the signs on the side of the building had been for the College Terrace Market instead of First Republic Bank then maybe we would not be here now with a closed grocery store.

I would like to see the viability process begin with a grocery consultant determining what product mix and price structure

Let us all get together and oversee a workable solution. Our community has many bright minds that can help. would provide adequate volume in this location.

Then the costs of product, labor and utilities could be figured to arrive at a profit level. That profit level would then allow a determination of what a sustainable rent would be. Even if it was a negative figure, I am sure it would be less than the $60,000 per month penalty levied by the city for having a vacant grocery-store space.

I think the original price for rent for the College Terrace Market was set by comparing it to other grocery stores or, perhaps more cynically, to satisfy the banker.

That would be how I would advise a banker or landlord client if I were involved and there were no requirement to set the rent so the grocery store could survive.

I believe all my neighbors in College Terrace and perhaps throughout the city would like to see the city of Palo Alto administration make sure in the future that all “public benefits” be legally defined and insist that all contracts have binding and enforceable clauses specifying the benefit and the penalties for non-compliance. We cannot redo the contract failures of past administrations and their dealings with developers, but hopefully we can learn from our mistakes and stop making the same mistakes again. That would benefit

all the residents of Palo Alto.

Maybe the most viable option would be to get a store like Sprouts to open an annex here since I am sure we all know that a grocery store here will not be like a Safeway or a Mollie Stone’s Market.

Another approach might work as well.

We could encourage a partnership, perhaps an LLC, between a grocery-store manager and the landlord. This would require good faith from both parties along with community support. Please keep in mind that this plan I am proposing will need lots of fleshing out and legal details to be fair, transparent and effective.

Here’s a basic outline of how that would work: • The store manager will get a basic wage.

• The landlord will provide sufficient signage and customer flow.

• The landlord and/or the store manager will provide financing for inventory.

• The landlord and manager will then split what is left in an equitable fashion.

The manager could be fired for non-performance, and then the landlord would not have a need for a whole new set up. The landlord would simply find a new manager and continue. In addition, any good contract will have an “exit strategy” that will spell out separation in the most likely scenarios.

As everyone digests this approach, let us all get together and oversee a workable solution. Our community has many bright minds that can help. Because we will all have our own ideas as to what we want, please give constructive ideas on how to make it better and couch your suggested

improvements to these plans with the community in mind.

The Garcia family of JJ&F provided a successful market for over 60 years. I doubt there is anyone more qualified to help identify what is needed than John Garcia. He watched his uncles and father meet the needs of our neighborhood, and he still works in the area.

I have watched many families walk and ride bikes to the latest store. I grew up in College Terrace. This is where I intend to retire. I know times are changing, but there is a grocery niche here that we residents will support. It cannot be all things for all people, so let us find a way to get it done.

Please put in your good wishes, prayers and suggestions so we can move forward.

I would love for CTRA to oversee this process. I will be happy to be a sounding board for the committee that takes this on.

I believe College Terrace and Escondido Village will support a small grocery store west of El Camino Real when the right mix of product and price is found. Q Larry Robert Kavinoky is a CPA and a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood. He can be reached at lkavinoky@alumni.stanford.edu.

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February 27, 1927 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; September 12, 2017 Barbara Worl, eminent California gardener and rosarian, died peacefully after a brief illness on September 12, 2017, at her home in Menlo Park, California. She was 90 years of age.

The youngest child of Russell and Hazel Worl, Barbara was born in Cambridge City, Indiana, on February 27, 1927, and educated at Westtown, a Quaker school in Pennsylvania where her brothers John and James had gone before her. In 1945 she came to California to study at Stanford University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1950 with a degree in English history and a minor in English literature. That same year she began a 55-year career at Bellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Books, an independent bookstore in Palo Alto founded by Herbert Bell in 1935, and carried on by his wife Valeria and now their daughter Faith. There Barbara built up a superb horticultural section, perhaps the best on the West Coast. Her deep knowledge of, and enthusiasm for, literature, horticulture, and childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books became indispensable to hundreds of customers and her grateful colleagues.

Barbara was also a photographer, professional seamstress, Sunday school teacher, and master of ecclesiastical embroidery and flower arranging. Loving flowers from childhood, she became a remarkable gardener, although her Pennsylvania Dutch ancestors for generations were farmers. One of the enchanting gardens she created was on a 2-acre piece of land lent to her on Cowper Street in Palo Alto, where she began a tradition of Open Garden Days.

The other surrounded the home she bought in Menlo Park in 1954. It was so magical that British nurseryman Peter Beales featured it in his 1996 book Visions of Roses. Barbara welcomed people and animals to her garden, and worked with joy in it until a month before she died. The former English major delighted in growing the ornamental plants of which the poets spoke. She began giving slide talks on gardens and old-fashioned

roses, became a regular speaker on them at The Huntington, and was among the first to import historic old roses from France. Founding Sweetbrier Press in 1979, she published a line of handmade cards and calendars featuring her own photos. Her facsimile edition of Henry Curtisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Beauties of the Rose won high praise from Graham Stuart Thomas, then the head of Great Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Trust. In the 1970s Barbara helped found the Heritage Roses Group Bay Area and remained its staunch supporter to the end of her life. In 2007 she was honored by the Heritage Rose Foundation and also received the Founders Award from the Western Horticultural Society.

Known for her warm and gentle Quaker ways, Barbara made friends wherever she went. One of the greatest of those friendships began during the 1960s when a young East Palo Alto civil rights activist wandered into Bellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to buy a book and argue with Barbara. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a few years,â&#x20AC;? she later wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;before I realized that Israel Washington Harris and I were to be partners for life.â&#x20AC;? The two were to â&#x20AC;&#x153;remain loyal and true friends and loversâ&#x20AC;? for 38 years until the WWII Purple Heart veteranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death in 2006. In a 2009 letter to her Westtown classmates, Barbara wrote of the cultural shock she experienced on coming to California in 1945 â&#x20AC;&#x153;from a serene, honorable, intelligent, simple Quaker environment.â&#x20AC;? She went on to say, however, that she â&#x20AC;&#x153;came very quickly to feel at home here and to do my bit to build peace between the differencesâ&#x20AC;Ś.I look back on my life with joy and wish the same to all of you.â&#x20AC;?

Barbara is survived by the children of Israel Harris and by her Indiana family: sister-in-law, Mary Worl; nieces Laura, Sally, Alison, and Diane; and her nephew, John. She was a beloved godmother and a loyal friend to countless others. A memorial will be held on March 4, 2018, at 2:00 p.m. at Christ Church, 815 Portola Road in Portola Valley. Please come and share stories of Barbara. PAID

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Virginia â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Jinnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Esser Virginia â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jinnyâ&#x20AC;? Esser, 91, a resident of Palo Alto since 2013, died Jan. 20, 2018 at her home in Palo Alto after a short illness. She was born on May 15, 1928 in Jackson, Michigan, but spent most of her life in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. After graduating from Wauwatosa High School, she went on to attend Beloit College, where she studied English and Art. She met her husband Donald â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;? Esser on a blind date arranged by friends in Milwaukee.

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until Don Esserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death in late 2004. She lived in Wisconsin until 2013, when she moved to Palo Alto to be closer to her children and their families. While living in Wisconsin, she worked as a volunteer fundraiser for her childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s schools and for the cub scouts. A lover of animals, she also volunteered at local animal shelters and for the humane society. Later in life, she enjoyed tennis and golf, and continued to play both sports into her 80s.

She is survived by her daughter, Susan Dunn and her husband Eric Dunn of Palo Alto; her two grandchildren, Sarah and Gregory Dunn of Palo Alto; her son, Peter Esser, and his wife, Judy Chang of Arroyo Grande, California and five nephews, Mark Irgens of Hartland, Wisconsin; Christopher Irgen of Brookfield, Wisconsin; Kurt Irgens of Yorktown, Virginia; Robert Kleinheinz of Monona, Wisconsin; and Lawrence Kleinheinz of Madison, Wisconsin.

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Veronica Weber

With high incomes and high mortgages, Palo Altans say the label is about more than money

by Fiona Kelliher

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rom the outside, Palo Alto is a startup wonderland filled with Teslas, baby-faced millionaires and multi-million-dollar Eichler homes.

“It’s a town where even the homeless have laptops,” jokes one entry on the online Urban Dictionary.

And in some respects, this stereotype holds true. Palo Alto’s median household income is $137,043 — more than double that of the U.S. at large. Median home sale prices reached an alltime high at $2.67 million in 2017,

and at least 2,300 startups call the suburb home.

But this vision of a foie-grasnibbling, tree-lined paradise doesn’t necessarily match the reality of those living here who are just trying to make ends meet in one of the most expensive communities in the nation.

From the inside, Palo Alto is a place where some monthly rents have increased by $2,000 in a single year, and younger families find themselves drowning in mortgage payments topping $15,000 a month. Everyone from doctors and top-tier tech workers

to the self-employed and those with graduate degrees feels the squeeze.

This high cost of living has changed traditional ideas about status, spending and what it means to be middle class.

To more closely examine this unwieldy middle in Palo Alto — a place where spectacular wealth and economic struggles coexist — the Weekly compiled 250 anonymous responses to a short survey, as well as interviews with community members who consider themselves in some way to be middle class. In doing so,

Veronica Weber

Built as affordable tract homes for the middle class during the 1950s to the 1970s, Eichler homes like this one in the Charleston Meadows neighborhood have remained an iconic symbol of the middle class in Palo Alto, despite their escalating values, which have risen above $1 million.

the Weekly found the label to County’s middle class shrank to be amorphous. Nearly everyone 47.2 percent as of 2014 — down described themselves as “middle 11 percentage points since 1989. class” regardless of their income For 2016, the national middle or spending habits. At the same class encompassed those earning time, for all of their wealth relative between $38,411 and $115,234 anto the rest of the country, many of nually. In Palo Alto, the range was those interviewed between $91,362 requested that and $274,086 for their income levels 2016, the U.S. not be published; ‘We have a highly Census’ latest esothers expressed educated, highly timate of median discomfort about household income diverse population using their names (with an average in connection — and we need to household size of with such personal find a way to come 2.4 people). information.

But income together and figure In the end, alone does not dethe picture that out what kind of termine who is in emerges of the Palo Alto we want.’ the middle, Palo middle class in Alto residents —Rita Lancefield, resident, Palo Alto is one in say. Educational Duveneck neighborhood which “keeping up attainment, culwith the Joneses” ture and spending is increasingly difficult, coupled choices, for example, also factor with the fear that the city is dig- into the self-identification. ging itself into unrecoverable One respondent with a housewealth and income inequality — hold income between $250,000 leading some residents to question and $300,000 for a family of four whether it’s even worth it. wrote that his family is uppermiddle class because they don’t spend more than $500 in a single Defining ‘middle class’ purchase — except for four weeks ew Research Center defines of travel each year, housing, their the middle class as those who children’s activities and $1,700 earn between two-thirds of each month on farmers market and double the median house- food.

Meanwhile, another person hold income for a given area, after adjusting for household size. making between $35,000 to According to a recent analysis using this definition, Santa Clara (continued on page 18)

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Veronica Weber

$50,000 yearly for a family of two wrote she is also upper-middle class because of her credentials as a former professor with advanced degrees. A third said their four-person household identified as working class while making $150,000 to $200,000 because there was “not room to have any extras.”

“There’s the financial structure — how much you make and how comfortable you are with it — and social structure, based on where you came from,” said Ramji Digumarthi, a former aerospace engineer living in the Fairmeadow neighborhood of Joseph Eichler-developed homes.

“It’s a hard thing to define because everyone looks at it in different ways.”

Multiple residents said that the term had more to do with educational background and culture than income or wealth. Jens Jensen, a semiconductor engineer from Germany, struggles with the term for this reason. Growing up in an industrial town, Jensen once had a job unloading bananas off ships, and he still feels connected to a more blue-collar attitude. “Middle class” implies a host of attributes he doesn’t want to necessarily associate with — the belief that everyone should achieve higher education, for example.

Palo Altans’ quickness to claim the middle-class label, despite their income diversity, is explained by research. Across income levels, “middle class” is still the most popular self-chosen designation, according to Pew Research. And in a recent book on the lives of New York City elite, a sociologist found that the wealthy feel stigmatized, instead choosing to describe themselves as “affluent” and “fortunate.”

“I know that we’re lucky and I don’t want anyone to think I’m bragging, or holding this over them or anything like that,” a survey respondent who requested anonymity said in an interview.

The family of three’s combined income is between $300,000 and $350,000. “I guess I don’t want to be judged by it, that’s probably the best way to put it.”

Rita Lancefield, a 79-year-old in the Duveneck neighborhood, views class labels in the same way as Pew: income on a local scale.

But she added that the relative terminology hides other privileges that are obvious from the outside. Most Palo Altans — aside from some pockets of residents — have unique elite educational and work opportunities that cannot be brushed aside.

“In terms of lifestyle, I’d say almost everyone in Palo Alto is upper class,” Lancefield said. “You take education, you take cultural opportunities, you take cost of living, you put all of these together — I think you’d have to say on a nationwide scale, almost everyone in Palo Alto is upper class.”

Karen Price sits in her studio on Cambridge Avenue, where she operates her private practice as a certified Rolfer. Price says that being self-employed and able to afford her office studio for 39 years defines what it means to be middle class in Palo Alto.

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ut for many families, access to opportunity doesn’t change the sense that they’re squeaking by from paycheck to paycheck. And being able to afford one’s housing directly correlates with people’s notions of class.

In 1976, Karen Price moved to Palo Alto on her 24th birthday to pursue “the dream of California.” A Chicago native, she first rented a studio apartment on a minimum-wage salary at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park before becoming a “Rolfer,” a type of bodywork therapist. She never bought a home; by the late 1980s when Price was ready to invest, her mother thought that $200,000 was too much and refused to lend

the sense of community — where her money.

Price has run her own success- a heterogeneous mix of profesful therapy studio for nearly 40 sionals and tradespeople interminyears but has been forced to raise gled, creating stability and diverthe rates of services to keep up sity. Instead, the city’s becoming a with rent hikes on her apartment. place full of tech companies and She worries it won’t be enough, workers that come and go.

Other residents but at this point also spoke to a doesn’t know stark divide bewhere she would ‘Living in this area is tween homeownmove. ers and renters.

“Unfortunately, crazy-expensive — After moving to it really hits a lot how can you afford Midtown in 2015 of self-employed to do anything?’ to begin work at professionals ... because there — Kelly Reinaker, librarian, the East Palo Alto East Palo Alto branch branch of San Makind of is a ceilteo County Libraring or cap on your income,” she said. “At a certain ies, 28-year-old Kelly Reinaker point you can’t really charge too was worried about her financial much more, and you can’t really stability as a renter. Most people consider renting as a way to save work too much more.”

The loss of the “service class,” up money to purchase a home. But as she put it, has severely undercut despite financial support from her

parents, Reinaker feels that her rent leaves no room for emergency circumstances or long-term purchasing power.

“Am I middle class, or what does that mean today?” she said.

“When half of your monthly income goes toward rent, it’s really hard to save anything substantial over the period of a year.”

According to Census data, about 33 percent of Palo Altan renters spend more than 35 percent of their income on gross rent. But across Santa Clara County and California, an even higher number of renters are coughing up such a hefty portion of their income — 39 and 47 percent, respectively.

High home prices create “two realities” that in turn lead to distinct lifestyles and sets of concerns, according to some residents. Lancefield, of Duveneck, said that she sees a division between older homeowners and younger, wealthier families, who are in much more stressful economic situations. Another resident described the two categories in Palo Alto as: “old and rich.”

Lancefield described a typical younger family as having two jobs, a backbreaking mortgage, three kids and significant taxes.

Between work, activities and payments, many people in Palo Alto just don’t have the bandwidth to develop neighborhood relationships, she said.

“You don’t have time to talk to your neighbors. You can’t,” Lancefield said, noting her own block has done a good job with maintaining friendships and hosting social gatherings. “It takes a really conscious effort to talk to your neighbors and bring about some kind of community feeling, and I think that’s something we’ve really lost in Palo Alto.”

She added, “I really feel for the younger families who are in our

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Cover Story Median price of single-family homes

How much of income goes to rent?

$3,000,000

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neighborhood now because it’s really hard for them.”

Owning a home, as elusive as the achievement may be, still has its downsides. A house worth $3 million is not the same as having $3 million in the bank, and it may still disqualify owners from financial aid or other services. Several of Price’s friends feel stuck.

Those who rent eventually leave and those who own a home stay, she said, even if neither group wants to do so.

Buying, wrote one survey respondent, “requires a level of sacrifice you can never imagine before you do it.” Another said that because their income puts them below the Palo Alto median but their home value is high, they’re not sure whether to identify as middle or upper-middle class anymore.

For Price, the Rolfer, a healthy Palo Alto would encourage middle class lives like the one she’s led: the ability to rent or own a space as a young person and chase ambitions of all kinds. “(We should) make this a community where that’s fostered, and that’s important,” Price said. “Not just like, ‘Well, gosh, we can get $10 dollars a square foot, and we have computer companies and computer people everywhere around, and aren’t we great.’ Because we aren’t.”

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oney may be at the top of people’s minds in Palo Alto, but the residents we spoke with described talking about it as uncomfortable — a Pandora’s box of jealousy and awkwardness that only serves to separate people. Most of this anxiety stems from a sense of comparison and the fear of being judged, either for having too much money or too little. And that judgment has to do with the ways that people choose to spend.

Flight attendant Kathryn Soler said that while some of her “tech friends” would think a $400 haircut is a steal, her own range is around $75. She wouldn’t think to ask them about bargains for

groceries or dry cleaning — can’t afford things, like the numthey’re on a budget, too, but in ber of children they have. Focusing on income alone seems odd their own bracket.

Terry Roberts, a user-experi- — which also begs the question as ence designer for Tableau, has al- to why definitions of middle class ways been a saver, and it surprises tend to do exactly that.

Reinaker, the librarian, said that her to see younger coworkers who make a lower salary buying cof- she’s upfront when she can’t affee every day. She described the ford to do something, which hapspending of many Palo Altans as pens from time to time. Her own spending habits “down-to-earth” have changed sigeven if their salanificantly in Palo ries would allow ‘ I personally Alto — she used for more obvious don’t believe kids to shop at thrift consumption. stores for fun, and “Most people should be provided getting drinks was don’t seem ‘os- everything. They part of her nortentatious’ rich,” mal social routine she said. “They need to understand back in Ohio. seem like ordinary that sometimes you Now she focuses people — middle have to work for it.’ on finding free acclass people who —Ramji Digumarthi, tivities like hiking are able to afford former aerospace engineer and appreciates some nice travel the opportunity to and stuff in their homes ... It feels like our folks are go to library conferences in other kind of the middle-class-y rich parts of the state.

“It’s not really something, espeople rather than the rich-rich pecially among friends, that I’m people.”

Many survey responses spoke ashamed of,” she said. “It’s just to this attitude, explaining or justi- being honest and especially unfying the status of “middle class” derstanding that living in this through the lens of spending. One area is crazy-expensive — how respondent described himself as can you afford to do anything?” “wealthy on paper” but with low expenses and no big purchases; Money and another said, “I know we’re rich though I don’t feel that way and the next generation we are fairly frugal.” hen Roberts’ now-adult Not talking about money, daughter was in middle though, doesn’t stop friends from school, she lamented that knowing each other’s financial her friends were able to go on situations. Roberts said that she hundred-dollar sprees at Stanford and her friends generally can sur- Shopping Center and said she “remise what people earn by their ally wished” that she could do the job titles. same.

Because society at large tends “That was so antithetical to to associate money with self- anything that was me, or the way worth, she speculated, naming I was raised or the way I am,” said salaries remains taboo.

Roberts. “And I was appalled.”

“If there’s somebody making Others described pressure to $30,000 more than you, that’s the pay for expensive after-school company’s statement to the both activities for younger children of you that that person is worth or fights with adolescents over $30,000 more than you’re worth. their desires for fancy vacations.

And that’s kind of an embarrassing One Palo Alto parent, who asked thing for both people to have star- to remain anonymous due to her ing you in the face,” Roberts said. position as an educator, recently Roberts added later that it would turned down an offer for her child be impractical to assume anything to try out for a traveling club without examining someone’s baseball team that would cost whole budget because there are thousands. Meanwhile, a private myriad reasons why people can or art class for her 8-year-old would

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have cost about $50 per session; she turned that down too.

Still, she described fruitful conversations with her children about the family’s financial reality while surrounded by what she called “ubiquitous” privilege. The children’s school, she said, seems not to recognize disparities between Palo Alto and surrounding communities or encourage service as much as she would like.

“There’s a lack of awareness that there actually is a lot of diversity,” the parent said. “I think people here are so privileged, sometimes they’re blind to it — because there always is a level of, ‘We don’t have the Tesla SUV, but we have the Tesla.’”

Digumarthi, the former aerospace engineer, tries to discuss consumption with his school-age children, too. He’s not sure how other parents talk to their kids about money, and it’s not something he would ask. But he does think that kids should learn the value of a dollar.

“I personally don’t believe kids should be provided everything — they need to understand that sometimes you have to work for it,” he said. “There are times I have to say ‘no.’”

Other parents say that completely divulging the family’s financial status can be just as uncomfortable with one’s children as anyone else. Several survey respondents described waiting until their kids were adults to discuss finances, and others said the topic never comes up at all. One simply wrote, “It is obvious to them that we are not poor.”

The question of how kids are experiencing their parents’ and peers’ financial situations is central to the future of the middle class in the city, according to several residents. Steve Levy, a research economist, still remembers the passing of the Tinsley Voluntary Transfer Program in 1986. Designed to reduce racial isolation — and enacted after a 10-year legal battle — the program allows minority students in the Ravenswood City School District to transfer into seven other districts, including Palo Alto.

Levy’s then-elementary-school

age son befriended several students in the transfer program, and to Levy, the experience represented what Palo Alto will be missing if it doesn’t begin to solve endemic issues of affordability and housing. When generations grow up only seeing people who look like them, with the same houses and consumption habits, people lose crucial understanding of anything beyond themselves, Levy said.

“Our children benefit by growing up with people who they will live and work with in their adult lives,” he said, and added, “I don’t want to shut the gate — I want to pass it on. I love this city, I love that it was open to me; I want to make it open to new people.”

Lancefield echoed this sentiment. For much of her life in Palo Alto, it was possible to survive on one salary. And now for the last 10 to 20 years, people have gone in circles with the same conversations about housing, traffic and affordability.

“In Palo Alto we have a tremendous opportunity to learn how to solve these problems,” Lancefield said. “We have a highly educated, highly diverse population — and we need to find a way to come together, and figure out what kind of Palo Alto we want. And how to get there.” Q Fiona Kelliher is a former Weekly editorial intern.

About the cover: Education? Home ownership? Sports cars?

What it means to be middle class is becoming increasingly more difficult to define in Palo Alto, where even those earning well above $200,000 annually struggle to make ends meet.

Photos by Veronica Weber.

TALK ABOUT IT Do you share the experiences and opinions of the Palo Altans quoted in this article? Talk about what middle class means to you on Town Square, the community discussion forum at PaloAltoOnline.com/square.

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

Courtesy of Pace Gallery

Radical transformations

Kohei Nawa’s “PixCell-Maral Deer” is flanked by his “Direction” paintings.

New work by Kohei Nawa at Pace Gallery celebrates technology, materials and surface treatments

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bold black lines extending down the length of the canvas. They are striking in their stark beauty but even more impressive when the process behind them is explained.

Nawa places the canvas at an angle and then applies, via a very controlled pouring process, his own blend of synthetic pigment. There are no preparatory lines, no masking tape but the result is clean, crisp and without a flaw. When asked how he got the lines so straight he responded, “Training.” He’s done hundreds of canvases in this manner.

“I like science, physics and working with chemicals,” he said, adding, “Everything is chemistry; we are chemistry.”

The next space in the gallery is

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rans-figure,” Japanese artist Kohei Nawa’s first solo show in the United States (on view through Feb. 25 at Pace Gallery in Palo Alto), consists of sculptures and works on canvas that reflect the artist’s interest in science, digital culture, innovation and sensory experience.

“It’s impossible to not be enchanted by Kohei Nawa’s innovative and beautiful work,” said Pace Palo Alto President Elizabeth Sullivan. “When we presented his work in an exhibition in London in 2015, the response was spectacular and we felt his creative perspective and complex and thoughtful approach to integrating technology throughout his practice would be of particular interest to the Bay Area Community.”

During an interview with the Weekly, Kyoto-born Nawa explained that he did not make art as a child but observed his father, who was a school teacher.

“He taught children how to make toys out of ordinary materials; that was a big influence on me,” he said.

Although he went on to gain undergraduate and advanced degrees in sculpture from Kyoto City University, it was a year abroad at the Royal College of Art in London

that would have the deepest impact on his work today.

“Before I went to London I had no interest in contemporary art,” he said. “But while I was there in 1998-99, I saw the work of Anthony Gormley, Anish Kapoor and Rachel Whiteread. I loved their work. I got energy from them.”

Returning to Japan, Nawa formed a collaborative group named Sandwich. The group, which numbers around 30-40 artists, works in fine art, design and architecture. They are also responsible for assisting in the creation of Nawa’s work, which is usually done in series.

Upon entering Nawa’s Palo Alto exhibition, the viewer encounters two large-scale paintings, both entitled “Direction,” that consist of

Kohei Nawa’s “Villus” figures are both whimsical and high-tech.

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devoted solely to “PixCell-Maral Deer.” It caused quite a buzz at the recent Fog + Art Fair in San Francisco and rightly so; it is unlikely that you have ever seen anything like it before. Nawa obtained a fullscale, taxidermied deer (revered as a sacred animal by Shinto gods) on the internet and then covered it with crystal glass beads of varying sizes.

It is bright and shiny, and the urge to touch it is incredibly tempting.

Nawa explained that the piece is a combination of nature and technology (he devised the compound for the beads) and “symbolizes the information age.” He said that we all have lenses that we use to observe the world and the glass beads, like a camera lens, provide us with the information we need. “We see the object through the lens,” he said, “but we are removed and at a distance.” And as for touching the beads, Nawa smiled and said, “I would like it if people could touch it. When it was shown in Italy, the people there kissed it.” (Disclaimer: Don’t even think about it.)

A curtained wall leads visitors into the next space, where a very large display of disparate white objects is illuminated by overhead light projectors, which cycle through the primary colors.

Titled “Villus,” the various objects, which included a hand grenade, a sculpture of the Buddha, a Mickey Mouse figure and a golfer in midswing, were obtained by means of “putting a key word in a computer program and getting these random objects,” he said. Nawa then coated the objects with a polyurethane foam of his own design. The result

is a pebbly surface, “villi,” that dries very hard. While there is a lot of science going on here (“The foam increases volume in a manner that evokes uncontrolled cellular division”), the objects themselves are quite whimsical. The continually changing colors in the objects’ shadows make for an ethereal experience, which is fitting as Nawa explained, “Transfiguration has a religious meaning.”

Further back in the gallery, visitors are welcome to wander around the staff work space, where more examples of Nawa’s work, including other PixCells (a penguin, a duckling and Pinocchio) are installed.

Nawa, who enjoys an international market for his work, is in the process of creating a large-scale sculpture in gold leaf that will be displayed under the glass pyramid of the Louvre Museum in July. He expressed a fascination for Silicon Valley, Stanford University and all the technological innovations the area has spawned. His favorite place to visit? Not surprisingly, The Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Q Freelance writer Sheryl Nonnenberg can be emailed at nonnebrg@aol.com What: Kohei Nawa exhibit at Pace Gallery.

Where: 229 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto.

When: Through Feb. 25, TuesdaySaturday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Info: Go to pacegallery.com.

‘1984’ meets 2018 Los Altos Stage Company goes Orwellian in new-ish adaptation of a classic

by Karla Kane

THEATER REVIEW mass surveillance, there is clearly relevance here.

Taking on an iconic classic runs the risk of a production falling short of audience expectations.

Los Altos Stage Company, however, is up to the task, presenting a 2011 stage adaptation by the Bay Area’s own Michael Gene Sullivan. In this harrowing version, Winston Smith (Ben Ortega) is detained by “The Party” for treasonous thoughts and behavior. He is subjected to physical and mental torture as he is forced to give testimony, and has incriminating scenes from his diary acted out in front of him by four fellow Party Members (Anthony Stephens, Brittney Mignano, Keith Larson and Filip Hofman). This is an interesting way of doing flashbacks and adds an extra dimension to the story, as we see some of the Party Members, in the midst of their cruelty and devotion to duty, start to slightly question their own actions and roles.

As in the book, we learn about neighbors spying on neighbors, children turning in their parents

Winston Smith (Ben Ortega, center) is surrounded by Party Members (from left to right) Anthony Stephens, Filip Hofman, Keith Larson and Brittney Mignano. shudder-producing scene involving rats — and that’s coming from someone who generally actually likes rats.)

Watching Los Altos Stage Company’s “1984” is not a pleasant experience. Despite a few moments of levity, it’s on the whole dark, intense and disturbing. And though there have been nearly as many years between now and 1984 as there were between Orwell’s writing of the novel and the year in which it’s set, you’ll still leave the theater a little on edge, worrying about how much “1984” still resonates in 2018 — or glad it’s not quite that bad ... yet. Q

Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.

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What: “1984” Where: Bus Barn Theater, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos.

When: Wednesdays-Sundays, through Feb. 18.

Cost: $20/student, $38/general.

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“1984” is one of the best-known novels of all time. It coined phrases that have become part of the pop-culture lexicon — Newspeak, thoughtcrime, Big Brother, “War is Peace,” The Two Minutes Hate and so on — and introduced readers to a world in the not-toodistant future in which a totalitarian regime spies on its citizens via “telescreens” and constantly rewrites history by “correcting” the record in newspapers and videos so that no traces of the former truth remains. After all, “Who controls the present controls the past. Who controls the past controls the future.” So, yeah, in a time of “alternative facts” and

for alleged thoughtcrimes, hypernationalistic Oceania’s permanent war with East Asia (or was it Eurasia?) and The Party’s effort at cutting down on vocabulary (and therefore complex thought) with Newspeak dictionaries that feature fewer and fewer words with each new edition. The Party’s goal is to not only prevent Winston from plotting resistance but to break his spirit and brainwash him completely so that he’s a full-fledged believer in Big Brother once more.

Ortega’s Winston is a captivating blend of vulnerability and defiance, a great choice for this everyman protagonist, and while at first it’s confusing to imagine Stephens as Winston in the flashback sequences, it soon feels right.

Mignano shifts from hard-hearted Party Member to — in the simulated flashbacks — Winston’s rebellious paramour Julia with great skill. And, though he isn’t physically seen until the end, Geoff Fiorito absolutely commands the stage as O’Brien in a truly chilling performance. The anglophile in me was hoping this production, like the book, would be Britishaccented (especially given director Jenny Hollingworth’s UK roots), but the cast won me over.

Ting Na Wang’s scenic design (set at a disorientating 45-degree angle) is appropriately stark and cold, with Gary Landis’ sound design adding to the bleak and frightening atmosphere (especially memorably in the

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James Corden plays the Ferris Bueller of rabbits in the modern screen version of “Peter Rabbit.”

Hip to the hop ‘Peter Rabbit’ gets a 21st century update 1/2 (Century 16 & 20)

It’s tempting to attack Sony’s bigbudget, animation-franchise launch of “Peter Rabbit” for adulterating its delicate source material. Beatrix Potter’s beloved 1902-1912 series of children’s books about a family of rabbits had a touch of edge about them, but they’re remembered for a classical gentility, whereas Will Gluck’s feature adaptation takes the tack of in-your-face brashness, goosed by high-energy pop music and literally winking self-referential humor.

Die-hard lovers of Potter’s books get to see Peter (James Corden); his sisters Flopsy (current Oscar nominee Margot Robbie), Mopsy (Elizabeth Debicki of “The Cloverfield Paradox”) and Cottontail (Daisy Ridley of “Star Wars”); threatening human Mr. McGregor

(an unrecognizable Sam Neill); Peter’s cousin Benjamin Bunny (Matt Lucas); and even hedgehog Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (Sia).

Almost right out of the gate, Gluck’s “Peter Rabbit” (co-written

by Rob Lieber) insists upon its modernism. This Peter is more than a garden-variety rascal; he’s the Ferris Bueller of rabbits. As such, many will love him, and many will find his zany wisecracks, blatant selfishness and borderline amorality repulsive.

This idea of out with the old and in with the new occurs early in the movie, when old Mr. McGregor gets carted away and replaced by his younger version: his greatnephew Thomas McGregor (Domhnall Gleeson). This uptight Londoner moves into his great-uncle’s country house, begins tending his

The Hostiles001/2 Writer-director Scott Cooper’s “Hostiles” is a handsome, well-acted but somewhat clodhopping modern Western. At its best, the movie works as a contrived but effective parable of the American West, its painful legacy and small measures of redemption.

In 1892, Army Capt. Joseph J. Blocker (a resonant Christian Bale) gets an order he literally can’t refuse, try as he might. He and a small group of soldiers are to escort ailing native Chief Yellow Hawk (the great Wes Studi) from New Mexico’s Fort Berringer back to his Montana homeland to die with dignity. Blocker’s career has been spent in brutal conflict with Native American tribes,

including the Comanches of Yellow Hawk.

Blocker seeks every alternative to settle the score, including the offer of a “let’s settle this like men” knife fight. But no, we’re in for a classic Western journey across a dangerous physical landscape, as well as the comparably harsh psychic terrain of scarred men. If “Hostiles” proves hamhanded in story, Masanobu Takayanagi’s beautiful location cinematography helps to compensate, as does an interesting grab bag of character actors supporting the leads.

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garden and takes note of his pretty, single-lady neighbor “Bea” (Rose Byrne).

Bea spends much of her time palling around with Peter’s family and defending them from angry McGregors after the anthropomorphic critters’ latest vegetable heist from the aforementioned garden.

Young McGregor hates the animals with an ever-escalating homicidal rage but hides his vitriol as he woos Bea. What develops rests somewhere between Byrne’s “Neighbors” movies and the “Home Alone” movies: a community competition with nasty slapstick battles.

Traditionalists will visualize Potter rolling in her grave, but let’s face facts: “Peter Rabbit” will get kids giggling, and the “Love, Actually” rom-com subplot will charm most of their parents. Gleeson and Byrne turn in winning performances, and the whole enterprise proves reasonably witty. Gluck, who’s known for live-action fare like “Easy A” and the recent “Annie” redo, shows a knack for sight gags (a cups and balls bit involving flower pots is a good example) and has a game comedic collaborator in Gleeson, who’s obviously having a ball. The “Paddington” movies provide a more likeable balance of sweetness and contemporary humor, but don’t expect the wee ones to notice as they squeal with delight at “Peter Rabbit.”

Rated PG for some rude humor and action. One hour, 33 minutes.

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Cleopatra (1934) (Not Rated)

Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

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MET Opera: L’Elisir d’Amore ()

Palo Alto Square: Saturday

Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

Phantom Thread (R) +++1/2 The Post (PG-13) ++1/2

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Guild Theatre: Fri. - Sun.

Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

The Sign of the Cross (1932) ()

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

Maze Runner: The Death Cure (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

The Shape of Water (R)

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun.

Lady Bird (R) +++1/2

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. La Boda de Valentina (R)

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

Peter Rabbit (PG)

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

Fifty Shades Freed (R)

Paddington 2 (PG)

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

The Greatest Showman (PG) I, Tonya (R)

Stanford Theatre: Fri. - Sun.

Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

Darkest Hour (PG-13)

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

Coco (PG) +++1/2 Den of Thieves (R)

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

The 15:17 to Paris (PG-13)

Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Palo Alto Square: Fri. - Sun.

Stanford Theatre: Fri. - Sun.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (PG-13) +++1/2 Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (R) +++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Winchester (PG-13)

Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

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OPEN HOME GUIDE 39 Also online at PaloAltoOnline.com

A weekly guide to home, garden and real estate news, edited by Elizabeth Lorenz

Home Front LUNAR NEW YEAR AT GAMBLE ... Celebrate the Year of the Dog at Gamble Garden on Saturday, Feb. 10, from 9 a.m. to noon, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto. The event will feature activities for the family, including tours of the Camellia beds; learning Chinese characters; Chinese paper folding and cutting; a red packet craft; and storytelling. The event is free but registration is requested.

For more information, go to gamblegarden.org.

LEARN HOW TO GROW EDIBLE PLANTS ... The De Anza Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society will host a program on vegetable and fruit gardening on Wednesday, Feb. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 18 of the Hillview Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos.

VEGGIES IN CONTAINERS ... Even if you don’t have enough ground space, you can still grow fresh vegetables in containers. The Palo Alto master gardener program will hold a free workshop on “Growing Vegetables in Containers” on Thursday, Feb. 22, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Road, Palo Alto. Learn how to select the right containers and potting soil and how to feed and water your veggies.

CAMELLIA CARE ... This time of year, it’s important to keep camellias watered if there isn’t enough rain. According to the Northern California Camellia Society, continue feeding with 0-10-10 fertilizer during the bloom period (which is now). maintain an open plant (prune so new flowers aren’t crowded) and buds have room to develop. Remove buds if you want to achieve larger, downward-pointing flowers.

Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email elorenz@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.

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Before a contractor can give a client cost figures, it’s important, Sherman says, to have a design done by a professional.

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by Elizabeth Lorenz most of her time designing people’s homes and living spaces, getting those plans approved and then building them.

Somewhere along the way she also realized that if she spent time teaching homeowners how to manage their own remodeling projects, they would be better informed and maybe have fewer headaches and better outcomes.

Sherman, whose MAC Design Studio is based in Fremont, does many projects on the Midpeninsula, and is a regular Palo Alto Adult School instructor in a course called “Managing Your Remodel.”

In her six-week class, she goes over every aspect of a remodel, from technical to emotional to financial.

“I enjoy teaching and sharing my experience to help people feel more prepared for their projects. It is good to work with a client who is prepared for what they will be experiencing through the process,” she said.

Most of her students are in it for the nitty gritty: How much is it going to cost?

Sherman’s answer: “What changes the cost of a project in the middle, is changing your mind.”

If you go into a project with your eyes open, your measurements accurate (one week is devoted to tape measures) you should come out of it unscathed.

What exactly is considered a remodel?

“It’s as small as a reconfiguration of a kitchen, to tearing down most of a house to rebuild it,” she said. What a remodel is not?

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Paint, wallpaper or flooring. Anything else, if it involves removing something from a home and replacing it, generally requires a permit and therefore can be construed as a remodel.

Sherman tries not to sugar-coat the process for her students, outlining everything they should expect during the planning, permitting, remodeling and construction process.

One week, she invites a contractor to speak and answer questions. One week she teaches how to speak the language of building as well as what questions to ask.

“It’s unfortunate that people feel like they can’t ask questions,” she said, recalling a husband who kept admonishing his wife for asking questions.

Sherman uses real-life examples from her own company to show students how to plan and how things can change. She goes over timelines, budgets, how to find professionals and even why labor costs so much.

She emphasizes that people have a choice.

They can choose a design/build firm, which will subcontract all the work (and therefore have less flexibility on labor) and will just bill the customer, or they can essentially be the “owner/builder” on their project, filing the paperwork for the permits, hiring contractors, buying all of the materials and appliances themselves and hiring installers.

The main thing, she points out, is a contractor can’t give you numbers until you have a design. One whole class is devoted to design, teaching students how to measure accurately, using standards from the National Kitchen and Bath Association. She teaches things like how wide work aisles should be, and how much

storage is a reasonable amount for most kitchens. She goes over the difference between a home designer and an architect, and an interior designer. Often a remodel does not require an architect.

If homeowners choose to use a kitchen/ bath showroom or a big-box store, Sherman said it’s important to know what you’re paying for. A showroom usually has full service, with designers and products to order right there. A big-box store can offer a free design, but often this doesn’t end up costing any less than if you hired a designer to come to your home to design the space. Most designers, she said, apply their design fee to the purchase of products.

“I find I’m competitive” with big-box stores, she said, citing a recent example. A customer had gotten a design from a store using measurements provided by the homeowner. The store plugged in cabinets and drawers into the kitchen space accordingly and wrote an estimate.

Sherman went over that estimate and found that the store had measured the sink cabinet area incorrectly and also had put a larger cupboard there than was needed. Instead, she designed a drawer bank and made the space more useful for the owner. The store gave them a cheap schematic of their kitchen, but “I gave them a workable kitchen.” Q Elizabeth Lorenz is the Home and Real Estate Editor at the Palo Alto Weekly. She can be emailed at elorenz@ embarcaderopublishing.com.

For information on the Palo Alto Adult School class which will be offered again in the spring, go to paadultschool.org and search under Home and Environment courses.

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PALO ALTO WEEKLY OPEN HOMES UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL TIMES ARE 1:30-4:30 PM ATHERTON 5 Bedrooms

40 Selby Ln Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 157 Watkins Ave Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$4,900,000 324-4456 $5,500,000 324-4456

BELMONT 3 Bedrooms - Condominium

400 Davey Glen Rd #4705 Sun Coldwell Banker

$938,000 323-7751

625 Hobart St Sat/Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker 175 Gloria Cr Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

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763 Cambridge Ave Sun 1-5 Milad Realty 455 Santa Margarita Ave Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

5 Bedrooms

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930 Berkeley Ave $7,350,000 Sun Keller Williams Palo Alto 454-8500

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555 Byron St # 207 Sat/Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 185 Forest Ave 2a Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

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866 Seale Ave Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

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Legal Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement HI CARE BROKER MORGAN HILL REAL ESTATE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN637629 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Hi Care Broker, 2.) Morgan Hill Real Estate, located at 16910 Sorrel Way, Morgan Hill, CA 95037, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): DIRESTA CONSULTING GROUP INC. 16910 Sorrel Way Morgan Hill, CA 95037 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 08/28/2008.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 10, 2018.

(PAW Jan. 19, 26; Feb. 2, 9, 2018) MONICA FOSTER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN637747 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Monica Foster, located at 2699 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): MF SALON INC. 345 Sheridan Ave. Ste., #405 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/01/2018.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 12, 2018.

(PAW Jan. 26; Feb. 2, 9, 16, 2018) J & J DESIGN FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN638076 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: J & J Design, located at 1072 Tanland Dr. Apt. 212, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

TITUS CAULKING AND WATERPROOFING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN638370 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Titus Caulking and Waterproofing, located at 7510 Eigleberry St. #100, Gilroy, CA 95020, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): R TITUS WATERPROOFING, LLC 7510 Eigleberry St. #100 Gilroy, CA 95020 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/01/18.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 1, 2018.

(PAW Feb. 9, 16, 23; Mar. 2, 2018)

997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: SUSAN L.S. DONDERSHINE Case No.: 18PR182679 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of SUSAN L.S. DONDERSHINE, SUSAN LOIS STEIGER, SUSAN L. DONDERSHINE. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: STEPHEN D. DONDERSHINE in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: STEPHEN D. DONDERSHINE be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on April 2, 2018 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: Peter S. Stern, Esq. 350 Cambridge Avenue, Suite 330 Palo Alto, CA 94306 (650) 326-2282 (PAW Feb. 2, 9, 16, 2018) NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (UCC Sec. 6105) Escrow No. 025917 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk sale is about to be made. The name(s), business address of the Seller, are: PennyLion LLC, 164 University Ave., Palo

Alto, CA 94301 Doing Business as: Creamistry All other business name(s) and address(es) used by the Seller(s) within the past three years, as stated by the Seller(s), are: None The location in California of the Chief Executive Officer of the Seller(s) is: 500 Jefferson Ave., #308, Redwood City, CA 94063 The name(s) and business address of the Buyer(s) are: Onigilly LLC, 164 University Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301 The assets being sold are described in general as: furniture, fixtures & equipment, leasehold improvements, and all business assets and are located at: 164 University Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301 The bulk sale is intended to be consummated at the office of: Redwood Escrow Services, Inc., 19131 Redwood Road, Suite E & F, Castro Valley, CA 94546 and the anticipated sale date is 03/01/18 The bulk sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2 The name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is: 19131 Redwood Road, Suite E & F, Castro Valley, CA 94546, Phone: (510) 2147-0741, fax: (510) 247-0875, e-mail: janet@redwood escrow.net and the last date for filing claims by any creditor shall be 02/28/18, which is the business day before the anticipated sale date specified above.

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HONOR ROLL . . . Stanford junior Kat Klass earned Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Player of the Week in women’s water polo.

Klass powered the top-ranked Cardinal to the Stanford Invitational championship with 10 goals in three games over the weekend. The junior saved her best for last, tying a career high with five goals in the final against No. 2 Cal, which Stanford won 11-9. . . . Stanford senior Brittany McPhee and freshman Kiana Williams were honored at the national and conference levels.

McPhee was named both espnW National Player of the Week and Pac12 Player of the Week.

ON THE AIR Friday Winter Olympics: at PyeongChang, 2:38 a.m., 8 p.m. NBC College women’s basketball: Utah at Stanford, 7 p.m., Stanford Live Stream

From Gunn to PyeongChang Reid has Winter Olympics in her veins

Stanford’s Tom Fawcett was named the Pac-12 Player of the Week for his contributions in leading No. 5 Stanford to victories over three ranked teams last week. The Cardinal plays at No. Illinois on Saturday.

Getting into the swing of things Victories over a trio of ranked teams has Cardinal on the rise

by Rick Eymer hese are heady times for the Stanford men’s tennis team, which takes a No.5 national ranking with it to No. 10 Illinois for a Saturday meeting with the Fighting Illini.

The Cardinal reached its highest ranking since March, 2009 after beating three ranked teams last week in No. 22 Tulane, No. 5 USC and No. 6 UCLA “I’m so proud of this entire team,” said Stanford coach Paul Goldstein. “This group has been battling so hard for months now preparing for this season and it’s great to see them earn these wins.”

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could have gone to any number of players.

Sameer Kumar got the treatment after clinching Stanford’s 4-3 victory over visiting No. 6 UCLA in a nonconference men’s tennis match on Sunday.

Kumar was mobbed by teammates, a familiar sight lately at Stanford (5-0) as the men’s tennis team continues its ascension toward national recognition.

Kumar battled UCLA’s Keegan Smith over two sets at No. 3 singles, winning 7-5, 6-4.

“Sameer’s clincher was a special moment,” Goldstein said. “Everyone who showed up at Taube Tennis Center saw a high-level match.

We have had such great support from everyone, especially our alums who came back to watch and

cheer on these guys.”

Stanford, which clinched a spot in the ITA National Team Indoor Championships on Monday against Tulane, finished the inaugural Dick Gould Stanford/ SoCal Challenge with a pair of important wins.

After capturing the first set, Kumar was up 5-4 in the second set and serving for the match. He punched home Smith’s return to win it for the Cardinal.

After honoring Stanford tennis legend Dick Gould, Stanford went out and honored the program with a 6-1 victory over No. 5 USC. The match was the first of the inaugural Dick Gould Stanford SoCal Challenge, created in honor (continued on page 43)

HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP

Saturday Winter Olympics: at PyeongChang, 10 a.m., 4 p.m. NBC College softball: Fresno State vs.

Stanford, 8 a.m. Pac-12 Networks College women’s swimming and diving: California at Stanford, noon, Stanford Live Stream College wrestling: Oregon State at Stanford, 3:30 p.m. Pac-12 Bay Area College men’s gymnastics: at Stanford Invitational, 4 p.m., Stanford Live Stream

by Rick Eymer oanne Reid set a handful of junior varsity girls track and field records while a student at Gunn High. More than 10 years later she’s a member of the United States Winter Olympics team as a biathlete, hoping to bring home the fi rst American medal in the Biathlon.

Reid, who graduated from Gunn in 2009, was named an O l y m p i a n Joanne Reid in January, joining a family tradition.

Reid, a seven-time All-American and NCAA champion crosscountry skier while at Colorado, is the daughter of Olympic speedskater Beth Heiden and a niece of Eric Heiden, who earned five gold medals in speed skating at the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid.

Her mother was the all-around world speed skating champion in 1979, the 1980 world road cycling champ and won a bronze medal in speed skating at the 1980 Olympic Winter Games.

Eric Heiden set four Olympic records and a world best there. He was the only athlete in the history of speed skating to sweep five events in a single Olympics. Both Beth and Eric were on the cover of Time Magazine in 1980 in a preview edition to the Winter Games.

“I guess the Olympics are probably not meaningless to anyone, but if I said that I was part of a family legacy, I would say my family legacy leans more toward working for Apple,” Reid told NBC Sports.

Reid turned to the biathlon in 2015, two years after winning her NCAA title, when she was the third-youngest Nordic female national champion.

“I made my biathlon debut two years and two months ago, and I am so honored that this biathlon family welcomed me with open arms,” Reid said on her Instagram account in January. “With a functioning, full heart, I am honored to receive a berth at the Olympic Games in 2018.”

The Biathlon will be contested February 10, 12, 14 and 22, and will be held at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre in the PyeongChang Mountain Cluster.

At Gunn, Reid helped the Titans finish third in 2008 and 2007 at the Central Coast Section Championships in cross country, earning trips to the CIF State Meet.

She remains on Gunn’s junior varsity girls record list in several events. Reid remains 10th all-time in the 1,600 meters. Q

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Harjanto Sumali

SIGNING UP . . . Friends and family of Menlo-Atherton senior Dimitri Sakalia won’t have to travel too far to see him play in college as he signed to play football with San Jose State in the fall. Sakalia was one of four athletes who were honored at a brief lunch time ceremony on Wednesday. Kilifi Leaatoa, Ryan Buck and Spencer Corona joined Sakalia at the singing table. Sakalia was recruited as a defense end and could play defensive tackle withe Spartans. Leaatoa, who transferred to M-A from The King’s Academy for his senior year, will be joining M-A grad Jordan Mims at Fresno State with an opportunity to play right away as a linebacker. Buck, a twoyear starter as an offensive tackle, will be playing at Redlands. Buck will likely see time as a defensive end in college. Corona is heading to Chapman, where he will get a chance to kick and play wide receiver. Two other seniors, lineman Makisi Tonga and receiver-corner back Gary Carter are close to finalizing their college plans.

WINTER OLYMPICS

League titles are up for grabs Palo Alto, Pinewood, Menlo can all clinch this weekend

by Glenn Reeves he Menlo-Atherton girls basketball team’s 42-game Peninsula Athletic League South Division regular-season winning streak came to an end Wednesday as Sequoia rallied from a 10-point deficit to post a 43-40 victory.

“We needed to come out a little more aggressive at the start of the game,’’ M-A coach Markisha Coleman said, “and be a little more disciplined on defense.’’

It was only the second league loss for the Bears in the four years Coleman has been the head coach and the first since Capuchino beat M-A, 54-53, on Jan. 14, 2015.

With two games remaining, the Bears are tied with Aragon for

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the league lead and would earn the top seed into the PAL tournament if the two teams remained tied based on M-A’s win over the Dons.

M-A (15-7, 9-1) play at Woodside (3-15, 1-9) at 6:15 p.m. Friday and end the regular season at Burlingame (14-8, 5-5) at 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday.

Aragon (18-4, 9-1) hosts Hillsdale (11-8, 3-6) on Friday and Carlmont (18-4, 8-2) on Tuesday.

Sequoia (16-6, 7-3) is at Carlmont on Friday.

In the SCVAL De Anza Division, Palo Alto can clinch its second straight title and third in four years when Los Gatos (9-11, 4-5) visits Friday at 6:15 p.m.

The Vikings (15-5, 9-0) has a

three-game lead over Wilcox with three games to play after handling crosstown rival Gunn, 55-38, earlier this week. Senior Carly Leong led Play with 18 points and freshman Annika Shah added 12.

Senior Chloe Gong led the Titans with 13 points while junior Amber Fu and Jessalyn Grant-Bier combined for another 15 points.

Pinewood (19-1, 7-0) can clinch at least a tie for its fifth consecutive West Bay Athletic League, and for its 19th league title over the past 21 years, when it travels to Sacred Heart Prep for a 6 p.m. game Friday.

The Panthers are on a 15-game winning streak and a 43-game (continued on page 43)

Prep roundup (continued from page 42)

regular-season league winning streak. They average 74.6 points in WBAL play and allow 39.3, easily the best in both categories.

Hannah Jump (17.2), Klara Astrom (15.3) and Bri Claros (11.1) each average in double figures in scoring. Astrom, an under-sized post player, averages 7.3 rebounds.

Trinity Copeland averages 6.6 and Jump is at 5.4. Claros averages 4.2 assists.

Eastside Prep (16-5, 5-2), which plays at Notre Dame-Belmont at 6 p.m. Friday, is also an elite team. Only Mitty and Pinewood rank ahead of the Panthers, who feature one of the most versatile point guards in the section in senior Kayla Tahaafe, who leads the team in scoring (14.2), rebounding and assists. Junior Zion Gabriel averages 13.9.

Menlo (14-6, 2-5) plays at Priory (10-11, 3-4) at 6:30 p.m.

Boys basketball Palo Alto won its 17th straight, beating host Homestead 69-54 with Spencer Rojahn recording a double-double (17 points, 12 rebounds) and Max Dorward scoring a game-high 26 points.

The Vikings (19-2, 9-0) can clinch at least a title tie with a win over visiting Los Gatos (16-5, 7-2) on Friday at 7:45 p.m. They can also take a step toward their first undefeated league season in five years.

Menlo School (20-1, 11-0) can clinch its second straight WBAL title with a win at Crystal Springs Uplands (4-17, 0-11) at 6:30 p.m.

Friday.

The Knights are coming off a 65-40 victory over host Harker in which Riley Woodson scored 27 points on 10-of-12 (.830) shooting.

Second-place Sacred Heart Prep (11-10, 9-2) can secure at least a .500 overall record when it hosts third-place Priory (13-8, 6-5) at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Eastside Prep (15-6, 5-6) is at Pinewood (11-9, 5-6) for a 7 p.m. game.

Girls soccer Palo Alto lost a chance to take over first place in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic Leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s De Anza Division on Wednesday, dropping a 1-0 decision to visiting Homestead.

The Vikings (11-3-1, 7-1-1) are still very much in the running for the league title despite the setback. They remained two points behind idle Mountain View (16-1, 8-1) with three matches to play.

Paly hosts the Spartans next Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., though thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a 3:30 p.m. game at third-place Los Gatos on Friday.

Menlo-Atherton senior forward Diana Morales and junior Yara Gomez Zavala each scored a goal to lead Menlo-Atherton to a 2-0 Peninsula Athletic League girls soccer victory over visiting Burlingame Tuesday.

The Bears (10-5-2, 7-3-2) moved into first place in the Bay Division thanks to Carlmont and Terra Nova playing to a 1-1 tie, also on Tuesday.

In the West Bay Athletic League Foothill Division, every available senior scored and Menlo romped to an 8-0 victory over visiting Crystal Springs.

Menlo (6-8-2, 5-2-1) is in second place with 16 points, three points behind leader Notre Dame-Belmont.

The Tigers beat visiting Sacred Heart Prep, 2-0, knocking the Gators out of a share of second place.

Menlo plays The Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Academy on Friday and Sacred Heart Prep next Tuesday.

Boys soccer Palo Alto still has a chance to win the SCVAL De Anza Division but it will need a little help after the Vikings played to a 2-2 tie with host Homestead on Wednesday.

The Vikings (10-3-3, 5-2-2) can do themselves a big favor Friday when first-place Los Gatos (130-2, 8-0-1) visits for a 3:30 p.m. match.

In the Peninsula Athletic League, Menlo-Atherton took care of host Carlmont 4-1 to solidify second place. The Bears (87-3, 7-2-2) travel to Aragon for a 4:30 p.m. match Friday.

In the West Bay Athletic League, Menlo dropped a 2-1 decision to visiting Harker. Q

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of the Hall of Fame coach whose 57-year association was highlighted by directing the Cardinal to 17 NCAA championships. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The three words for me with todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win are resiliency, courage and leadership,â&#x20AC;? said Stanford coach Paul Goldstein. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tom and Axel were down 5-1 at No. 2 doubles and they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give up, coming back to win it 7-5. Down 4-1 in the breaker at No. 3 doubles, David Wilczynski and Timmy Sah came back to win. With the match already clinched, David fights back to win it at No. 4 singles. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leadership.â&#x20AC;?

The Cardinal took an early 1-0 lead after winning a hard-fought doubles point, thanks to a 7-6 (6) victory from Timothy Sah and David Wilczynski on court three.

Kumar followed with a 6-3, 6-3 win against Laurens Verboven at the No. 3 spot, increasing Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lead to 2-0.

Axel Geller delivered a 6-4, 7-5 win over Logan Smith at the No. 2 position to make it 3-0, seconds before Tom Fawcettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3-6, 6-0, 6-2 triumph over Brandon Holt at the top spot of the lineup provided the clincher. Q

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Anna Smith, Lauren McDonnell, Abby Ericson, Fola Akinola M-A WRESTLING All four juniors won a Central Coast Section title in their divisions and all four will compete in the state meet for the second time. Ericson and Akinola, a 3-time CCS champ, are making their third trips to stat.

Joe Foley MENLO BASKETBALL The senior point guard scored 28 points in Menloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win over WBAL second-place Sacred Heart Prep and then scored 28 in a big nonleague victory over University-San Francisco, handing the Red Devils just their second loss of the season.

Honorable mention Angie Batista Menlo-Atherton wrestling

Evelyn Calhoon Menlo-Atherton wrestling

Hannah Jump* Pinewood basketball

Ila Lane* Priory basketball

Carly Leong Palo Alto basketball

Megan Tinsley Sacred Heart Prep soccer

Calvin Grewal* Gunn wrestling

Bryant Jefferson Palo Alto basketball

Niko Ozden Menlo-Atherton wrestling

Bradley Stillman Menlo-Atherton basketball

Koh Suzuki Gunn wrestling

Riley Woodson* Menlo basketball *Previous winner

PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL 26 ***************************************** THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/agendas/default.asp

AGENDAâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;SPECIAL MEETINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; COUNCIL CHAMBERS FEBRUARY 12, 2018 AT 5:00 PM Closed Session 1. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS, Authority: Government Code Section 54957.6(a) Special Orders of the Day 2. Proclamation Expressing Appreciation to the Foothill College Paramedic Program for Educating Paramedic Students and Their Support of the City of Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Emergency Medical Services 3. Recognition of the Palo Alto Science Fair Student Winners Consent Calendar 5. Adoption of a Resolution Approving and Attesting to the Veracity of the 2016 Annual Power Source Disclosure Report 6. Annual Review of the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Renewable Procurement Plan, Renewable Portfolio Standard Compliance, and Carbon Neutral Electric Supplies 7. Review of Fiscal Year 2018 Mid-year Budget and Approval of Budget Amendments in Various Funds 8. Approval and Authorization for the City Manager to Execute Contract Number C18169608 With Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. for Household Hazardous Waste Management and Emergency Response Services for a Term of Three Years With the Total Not-To-Exceed Amount of $990,000 9. SECOND READING: Adoption of a Park Improvement 6YKPUHUJL MVY 7LLYZ 7HYR +VN 6Ń&#x153; SLHZO ,_LYJPZL (YLH -09:; READING: January 29, 2018 PASSED: 9-0) 10. SECOND READING: Adoption of an Ordinance Amending Section 2.08.120 of Chapter 2.08 and Section 2.30.270 of Chapter 2.30 of Title 2 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code to <WKH[L QVI ;P[SLZ VM ([[VYUL`Z PU [OL *P[` ([[VYUL`ZÂť 6Ń?JL [V Conform With Changes Adopted by Council in the FY 2018 Annual Budget (FIRST READING: January 29, 2018 PASSED: 9-0) Action Items 10A.Review and Accept a Proposed Housing Work Plan for HUK 9LMLY :WLJPĂ&#x201E;J ,SLTLU[Z [V [OL 7SHUUPUN Transportation Commission for Preparation of Related Zoning Ordinance(s) (Continued From February 5, 2018) 11. Adoption of Preliminary Goals and Objectives, Schedule, and Boundaries for the North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan Project; Authorization for the City Manager to Negotiate and Execute a Related Grant Agreement With Caltrans; Direction [V :[HŃ&#x153; 9LNHYKPUN 9LJY\P[TLU[ VM *VTT\UP[` >VYRPUN .YV\W Members; and Approval of a Budget Amendment in the .LULYHS -\UK 9LĂ&#x2026;LJ[PUN PU .YHU[ -\UKPUN in Matching/Supplemental Private Funding, and Equivalent Expenditures 12. Adoption of a Resolution Scheduling the City Council Summer Break and Winter Closure for 2018

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The Special City School Liaison Committee Meeting will be held in the Community Meeting Room on February 15, 2018 at 8 AM to discuss: 1) Library Card; and 2) Agenda Topics for the year.

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

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