Palo Alto Weekly August 3, 2018

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

Dysfunction, polarization mar influential city commission Mayor says planning commission needs to review its purpose

by Gennady Sheyner

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n a town where development is a touchy topic, Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commissioner Michael Alcheck is used to making waves by arguing for taller buildings and looser parking requirements for housing projects.

Last week, however, he found himself in the strange position of trying to convince a hostile crowd that he is not — as some have maintained — a part of the planning commission’s “development cabal.”

He quoted a post on

social-networking site NextDoor.com from downtown resident Elaine Meyer, who used that phrase to describe a faction of the commission that, she believed, scheduled the group’s July 25 discussion of a downtown development cap “to pre-empt the election and the expressing of the citizens’ voice,” a reference to an expected November showdown over a citizen initiative on office growth.

“I think it’s safe to assume that when you say ‘the development cabal,’ you’re referring to some nefarious group of which I am a member,” Alcheck responded, addressing Meyer directly from the dais at the meeting.

He then tried to explain to the roughly two dozen audience members that the commission in fact does not set its agenda and suggested that, if anyone believes there was “nefarious intent” on

the commission’s part, the person should call him at the phone number listed on the commission’s website.

He didn’t get much further before a voice from the audience interrupted him.

“Just don’t point out one person!” said one resident.

“Out of order!” shouted another. (continued on page 10)

DEVELOPMENT

Palo Alto lowers the cap on new office space City Council adopts citizen initiative to revise Comprehensive Plan

lauded the news.

“This is a great development for the residents of Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, and commuters alike.

Hopefully by smoothing traffic flow along the University Avenue corridor, it will ease the impact of overflow traffic spilling into adjacent residential neighborhoods,” he said in an email this week.

The situation has gotten so bad during morning and afternoon commutes that some drivers are engaging in hazardous behavior — crossing into opposing traffic lanes to bypass the congestion

by Gennady Sheyner pting to avert an expected Election Day showdown, a divided Palo Alto City Council on Monday adopted a citizen initiative that slashes in half the amount of new office space that the city will allow between now and 2030.

By a 5-4 vote, with Mayor Liz Kniss and councilmen Adrian Fine, Greg Scharff and Greg Tanaka dissenting, the council revised a key policy in its recently adopted Comprehensive Plan in accordance with an initiative measure launched by the citizens group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning. The initiative, which had received more than enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot, reduces the citywide cap on office and research-and-development space from 1.7 million square feet to 850,000 square feet.

The swing vote was Councilman Cory Wolbach, who on Monday sided with members who favor slower city growth — Vice Mayor Eric Filseth, Tom DuBois, Karen Holman and Lydia Kou — and supported adopting the new limit outright rather than placing the issue on the ballot. Though Wolbach did not speak during the council’s discussion, he told the Weekly after the vote that he believes that the lower limit is the right policy for addressing the city’s jobs-to-housing imbalance.

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Walking on water Dennis Sugar and his dog cross Louis Road at Fielding Drive in Palo Alto on Tuesday, where the art piece “Go With the Flow” by Damon Belanger was recently installed as part of the Palo Alto Public Art’s neighborhood-beautification project. The art depicts koi fish swimming in water; koi symbolize good fortune, prosperity, longevity, ambition and perseverance, according to Belanger.

TRANSPORTATION

Commuters, Crescent Park could see traffic relief Funding comes through for signal synchronization along University Avenue

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new plan to synchronize 14 traffic signals along University Avenue in Palo Alto and East Palo Alto could cut the amount of time commuters spend

in traffic jams between Middlefield Road and the Dumbarton Bridge by 20 to 40 percent, according to the city of Palo Alto.

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Transportation Commission gave the project the green light in the form of an $81,130 grant on July 13; Palo Alto, which initiated the project, will contribute an additional $15,470.

The project will be implemented in the next few months, according to Palo Alto Chief Transportation Official Joshuah Mello, and will pay for signal improvements at the 14 intersections, plus four intersections on Donohoe Street in East Palo Alto.

Greg Welch, a Crescent Park resident who has headed the neighborhood campaign to reduce traffic on besieged residential streets,

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I still think it would have been nice to have a debate. —Greg Schmid, former Palo Alto City Council vice mayor, on adopting lower office cap.

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Around Town

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, STOP YOUR ENGINES! ...

After squabbling over office development and approving a negotiated compromise on a new hotel tax, the Palo Alto City Council banded together on Monday on the one issue to date that hasn’t encountered any organized opposition: car idling.

By a unanimous vote, the council approved a new law banning idling, the practice of keeping your engine on while the car is standing still (sitting in traffic doesn’t count). The council also agreed that the new law will not be strictly enforced, at least not by the Police Department. Rather, the new law amounts little more than an educational campaign involving signs near schools and informative cards issued by the city, explaining the new law and describing the negative impacts of idling on the environment. In lieu of fines, drivers may see some nudging — namely, a council member or a police officer knocking on their car window and asking them to turn their car off. Councilwoman Karen Holman said she occasionally does that when she sees a line of trucks idling at a construction site. Usually, they comply, she said. Despite the law’s general toothlessness, the council united behind the proposal, which came out of a memo issued last year. “I’m waiting to knock on someone’s car window and say, ‘You’re breaking the law!’ Then hand them the card,� Mayor Liz Kniss said. City Manager James Keene also suggested that the city empower a specific kind of outreach consultant to help spread the message. “I think we just need to give this to a bunch of fourthgraders to pass out to folks as they’re waiting near the school and idling,� Keene said.

TAKING THE PLUNGE ... After leading a successful campaign last year to add a flat shoe emoji to the popular collection of characters, Florie Hutchinson has launched a new effort to add a one piece swimsuit character to the list. The self-proclaimed emoji enthusiast from Palo Alto has teamed up with Jennifer 8. Lee, founder of Emojicon. The duo’s nine-page application argues that the onepiece swimsuit, also known as a maillot, would complement the bikini currently available. “Given the proliferation of choices within the

swimwear category generally — ranging from tankinis, to burkinis, to board shorts and swim trunks — it seems fitting that the instantly recognizable and globally worn one-piece swimsuit join the apparel category for the many individuals who universally identify with it for water-based activities,� they wrote. “With the rise of competitive water-based sport for both sexes, year-round access to water based recreational activities, increased global travel, and the ubiquity of the swimsuit as the default uniform for the enjoyment of these activities, an emoji of a maillot seems not only timely but necessary. “ The application goes on to show charts displaying a comparable amount of search results for swimsuit and bikini on Google, YouTube and Instagram. They also request shorts and briefs emojis be added to give users a comprehensive selection of “modern swimwear.�

CUBBERLEY FELLOWS ... Palo Alto is searching for six to eight residents to serve as community fellows who will support the development of the Cubberley Community Center Master Plan, a collaboration between the city, school district and architectural consulting firm Concordia LLC. The fellows will play a vital role in the effort to redevelop the 35-acre campus owned by the school district, which leases 8 of those acres to the city. The current lease for the site seeks a master plan be completed by Dec. 31, 2019.

The role description refers to fellows as “the community’s tour guides� who will receive continual updates on the project’s status and details from Concordia, then disseminate pertinent information to the community before four public community meetings over the next 18 months. They will also be expected to educate residents on each meeting’s agenda and goals, as well as encourage participation. Fellows will provide feedback to Concordia, the city and the school district on how to ensure full community involvement, but will not have decision-making power on project outcomes.

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Upfront

News Digest

BUSINESS

East Palo Alto residents want Wells Fargo branch

Wolbach, Cormack take the lead on fundraising

Despite a growing need, the city has no commercial bank

by Sue Dremann

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group of East Palo Alto residents who are Wells Fargo customers want the bank to open a branch — or at least install an ATM — in their city.

It’s the least the multinational company can do, they say, given that not too long ago it owned the largest chunk of residential real estate in the city, comprising the majority of its low-income housing: the 107-acre, 1,800-unit Woodland Park apartments.

San Mateo Credit Union opened a branch in the city in October 2011 and offers all kinds of banking services, but the only commercial bank with a presence in the city is Bank of America, which operates an ATM outside city hall. To be fair, residents acknowledge, no other bank has stepped in either.

But residents are focused in part on Wells because of its past commercial real-estate presence, they said. One City Council member said the giant financial institution made promises in the past to add a full-service bank but reneged.

Ruben Pulido, Wells Fargo vice president of corporate communications for the Pacific North Region, stated in an email that East Palo Alto residents have access to a bank two miles away in Palo Alto. But the residents said it’s not easy to get to, given the area’s traffic congestion.

“It’s a major inconvenience to have to go to Palo Alto, Menlo Park or Redwood City. It takes more than 45 minutes to get to downtown Palo Alto in rushhour traffic. Imagine if you don’t have a car,” said Mark Dinan, a Wells Fargo customer and East Palo Alto resident who has spearheaded a petition to get a Wells presence in the city.

“Look at a map of where they have customer service locations.

They cut out East Palo Alto and Belle Haven, but there’s a new branch office on Middlefield Road and Colorado Avenue in Palo Alto,” he said, regarding an office that opened a few years ago.

An online map of Wells branches and ATMs shows the bank offers few services east of U.S. Highway 101 throughout the San Francisco Bay Peninsula except for in more upscale communities such as Redwood Shores, Foster City and North San Jose.

Meanwhile, dozens of branches and ATMs line the Peninsula to the west of 101.

Pulido, the Wells spokesman, said the bank continuously evaluates its branch network.

“Our physical distribution strategy is driven by customer behavior. While branches continue to be

East Palo Alto resident Mark Dinan stands beside the only commercial bank ATM in East Palo Alto, which is at the entrance to East Palo Alto City Hall. He’s lobbying for Wells Fargo to install an ATM or branch in the city. important in serving our customers’ needs, our investment in digital has also enabled us to seamlessly serve our customers online and in our mobile apps, and their growing usage of mobile banking for their day-to-day banking needs continues to reduce transactions in our branches.”

But online banking doesn’t take into account the digital divide.

‘This community is changing a lot, but it seems like some of the old opinions are still there.’

—Federico Andrade-Garcia, East Palo Alto resident Many residents of less-affluent communities don’t have computers or laptops, Dinan and others noted. And other bank ATMs charge non-customers a fee for each transaction.

At the very least, an ATM could be located in one of East Palo Alto’s stores, including the Target, Home Depot and Cardenas Market, he said.

Dinan and others said there’s plenty of business in the city for a commercial bank. East Palo Alto in recent decades has become a thriving community with construction, offices, commercial and retail development and new housing. And more is on the way.

Resident Federico AndradeGarcia agreed.

“I think the most important part of this situation is, it makes some of us feel like we’re ‘not good business’ enough, or ‘not safe enough.’ I’ve been their customer for over 17 years, opened

the account in Palo Alto. I was renting there before buying a house in East Palo Alto and regularly go there to get cash or issue checks that I want other people to cash on a short trip. Going to Palo Alto, although only two miles away, sometimes takes 40 minutes or more. And they also may be missing the opportunity to serve Facebook, Amazon, Google, Stanford and other companies’ employees nearby. This community is changing a lot, but it seems like some of the old opinions are still there,” he stated in an email.

City Councilman Larry Moody said California Bank & Trust made a go of banking in the city from 2002 to 2011. But the business-and-professions bank never had enough clients, although it had good intentions to serve the community.

“It was a terrible fit. They dealt with commercial real estate. We needed small business loans and home loans and bank accounts,” Moody said.

Two months after the savings and loan closed, San Mateo Credit Union opened its doors in the same location at the Ravenswood 101 Shopping Center. On Wednesday morning, a long line reached nearly to the door at its office. The credit union has been an avid supporter of the community, sponsoring sports events, giving small grants and hiring local people to work behind the counters, where young people have been introduced to banking careers, Moody said.

The credit union did not return requests for comment regarding its operations in East Palo Alto. (continued on page 9)

Palo Alto City Councilman Cory Wolbach and challenger Alison Cormack have taken an early but significant lead in the race for campaign cash, with each raising more than $35,000 as of the end of June.

Wolbach, an incumbent who strongly favors pro-housing policies and who is one of five candidates running for three seats, led the way with a total of $37,467 in raised cash, which includes sizable contributions from local housing advocates, tech professionals and elected officials. Aside from Cormack, a community volunteer who raised $35,299, no other candidate came close.

Wolbach’s largest contribution came from real estate broker Monique Lombardelli, who contributed $2,500 to the Wolbach campaign.

Members of the citizens group Palo Alto Forward, which supports a more aggressive approach toward building new housing, also supported the Wolbach campaign.

Cormack, a former Google employee, received $1,000 checks from a variety of tech professionals, including Daniel Russell, research manager at Google; Lynne Russell, her campaign manager; and Google employees.

Former mayors Larry Klein ($1,000), Nancy Shepherd ($250) and Peter Drekmeier ($100) all supported her campaign, as has Joe Simitian, current president of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors.

Incumbents Tom DuBois and Eric Filseth, who launched their campaigns in late May and June, received $355 and $250 in total. Patrick Boone has not filed a campaign-finance statement. Q —Gennady Sheyner

Fundraising has yet to heat up for school board race Fundraising for the Palo Alto Board of Education race has yet to heat up, with the candidates’ newly released campaign finance statements showing little activity for the first six months of 2018.

Newcomer Shounak Dharap, a lawyer who graduated from Gunn High School in 2008, has raised the most through the end of June, with $2,500 in his campaign coffers.

The only activity so far for incumbent Ken Dauber, the current school board president, was to forgive loans from his 2014 campaign.

He forgave $3,852 and his wife Michele, $800. His campaign finance statement shows an ending cash balance of $1,645.

The only financial contribution on parent Kathy Jordan’s statement is a $250 loan she gave her own campaign.

Stacey Ashlund, a special-education parent and advocate, has not raised any money to date.

Candidate Alex Scharf, a 2015 Palo Alto High School graduate, said that he has not received or spent any money yet (except on a campaign statement), as he formed his campaign committee in mid-July. Q —Elena Kadvany

Palo Alto chided for ‘bad faith’ negotiations The city of Palo Alto failed to negotiate in “good faith” during its extended contract talks with a recently formed labor group of managers in the Utilities Department, a judge for the state Public Employment Relations Board stated in a ruling released this week.

The decision was prompted by a complaint that the union, the Utilities Management and Professional Association of Palo Alto (UMPAPA) made in August 2016, following 20 meetings between city officials and union representatives over a new contract. The union filed its complaint after the city’s negotiators, at the behest of the City Council, insisted that the contract include an “at-will” provision that would have allowed the city to fire new employees in eight management positions, with or without cause.

While the city had maintained that this is a standard provision, the union argued that it would be “illegal if applied to the bargaining unit employees.” In her ruling, Administrative Law Judge Alicia Clement concluded that by proposing the “predictably unacceptable” at-will clause in the late stage of negotiations, the city effectively took steps to prevent the union from “achieving any kind of job security for bargaining unit members.”

The ruling requires the city to provide to the union the information it sought — namely, documents on which city negotiators based their assertion that the city could experience a recession during the period covered by the contract and information about the city’s bond rating.

It also requires the city to “meet and confer in good faith with representatives of UMPAPA regarding wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment.” The city also has to post a notice declaring that the city had violated the Brown Act at all work locations where notices to UMPAPA employees are generally posted.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether the city plans to appeal the ruling. The deadline for the city to file exceptions to the PERB decision is Aug. 21.

UMPAPA members hope the victory will be more than symbolic and will actually prod the city into completing the negotiations and reaching a deal with the union. Q —Gennady Sheyner www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 3, 2018 • Page 7

Upfront HOUSING

Stanford offers new plan for affordable housing University proposes converting existing units to ‘below-market-rate,’ creating ‘evergreen fund’ for new housing

by Gennady Sheyner

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2035, the county is taking a fresh look at both the impact of Stanford’s expansion on the region’s already dire housing shortage and at the best methods to ease these problems.

In May, the Board of Supervisors supported raising the impact fee for non-residential development from the current level of $35 per square foot to $68.50 per square foot. The ordinance setting the higher fee is scheduled to return to the board in August, following reviews from the Housing, Land Use, Environment and Transportation Committee.

At the May 8 meeting, several supervisors noted that while they support the $68.50 fee, their aim isn’t money but housing. As such, they left the door open for Stanford to propose other strategies for creating affordable housing before the ordinance is formally adopted in August.

“I think almost all of us have said, in some form or fashion, we are really interested in the

housing, not in collecting a fee,” Board President Joe Simitian said at the May 8 meeting. “I think that a conversation about how we can move forward to effectuate that result is an important conversation.”

With its proposal, Stanford hopes to advance the conversation and, in the process, create a new model for funding affordable-housing projects in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.

The proposal includes three primary components: provision of more affordable-housing units on campus, a payment to the county for 38 units of housing for “extremely low-income” residents; and a new fund that the university hopes can help pay for housing for years to come.

The proposal, which is outlined in the July 27 letter, would create 200 units of affordable housing (for those making below 80 percent of area median income) on Stanford’s campus, which could entail designation of existing

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eeking to ramp up production of affordable housing and avoid an escalation in development fees, Stanford University on July 27 submitted a proposal to Santa Clara County that would convert up to 200 apartments on the university’s campus into below-market-rate housing and create a new fund for future projects.

If approved by the county Board of Supervisors, the proposal would mark a sharp departure from how the county and Stanford have traditionally addressed the topic of affordable housing.

The existing approach relies on “impact fees,” which Stanford is required to pay whenever it constructs new academic facilities — funds that are earmarked for affordable-housing projects.

Now, with the university seeking a General Use Permit for 2.275 million square feet of academic space and 3,150 new housing units (a combination of apartments and student beds) by

A woman bikes at the Stanford West Apartment complex off of Sand Hill Road. The Stanford University-owned apartments could be a source of new affordable housing, according to a proposal Stanford submitted to Santa Clara County on July 27. As apartments are vacated they could be designated for low-income residents. apartments as “below market rate,” construction of new units, or some combination of both.

The first 100 of these units would be designated for Stanford staff and would have to be provided before the university occupies any of the new academic facilities authorized in the new General Use Permit. The remaining 100 would have to be made available before the Stanford can occupy new academic space beyond 1 million square feet.

Some of these units could

become available as early as next year, said Jean McCown, Stanford’s associate vice president in the office of government and community relations. Though Stanford has not determined where exactly the 200 units of affordable housing would be located, one idea is to gradually designate existing units on Stanford property as below-marketrate once they are vacated.

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Moody said that while Wells may have a strong customer base in the community, it has made no commitment to be present.

Yet about eight years ago, Wells had an enormous presence in East Palo Alto through the Woodland Park housing portfolio, which it acquired after the previous owner, Page Mill Properties, defaulted on a $50 million payment.

Around that time Wells had courted the community with promises of a bank branch, Moody noted.

“We were told they were coming in with a full-service bank.

I don’t know if it was tied to the real estate interest, but they also offered small grants to nonprofits. They put on a big show and then — boom. No bank, no

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“It brings us closer to balance,” Wolbach said in a text message.

“Now we need to actually do the housing we all committed to.”

The vote followed a robust council debate over what effect, if any, the new cap would have on office development. A fiscal analysis that the City Council commissioned last month concluded that because the city had averaged only about 14,000 square feet in new office and research-and-development space per year between 2001 and 2017 (and 45,000 between 2015 and 2017), the city is unlikely to reach the 850,000 square foot threshold any time soon.

Yet the study also noted that the historic growth rate is low because the new construction was offset by the conversion of Sun Microsystems into Oshman Family Jewish Community Center (which led to a net loss of 390,000 square feet of office space) and by the demolition of the former Facebook headquarters (a 323,000-square-foot decrease).

If conversions and demolitions are taken out of equation, the study states, “It is conceivable that the Initiative Measure cap of 850,000 square feet could become a binding constraint more quickly.”

The study also pointed to concerns from some stakeholders, particularly those at Stanford Research Park, who said in interviews that the tighter cap would have a chilling effect on the business climate because it will make companies less certain of their expansion potential. While the city currently has an annual 50,000-square-foot cap that applies to new office space in downtown, around California Avenue and along El Camino Real, the Research Park is exempt from the annual limit.

The new ordinance will

A new citizen-proposed ordinance limiting new office and researchand-development space to 850,000 square feet throughout Palo Alto between 2015 and 2030 was adopted by the City Council on Monday. effectively change that. By reducing the cap, the ordinance that the council approved would effectively restrict citywide development to 50,000 square feet.

The new 850,000-square-foot limit covers new construction from January 2015 and 2030. In the past three and a half years, the city has already added about 145,000 square feet; another 106,000 square feet are now in the pipeline, City Manager James Keene said Monday.

That this only leaves only about 600,000 square feet for the next 12 years — or 50,000 square feet a year.

The cap, he said, effectively takes the existing 50,000-squarefoot annual cap and “pulls the (Stanford) Research Park into the issue.” Given that the city and school district collect property taxes in the Research Park, the new cap could put a dent in the city’s bottom line.

The city’s analysis estimated that — assuming a full build-out each year — the initiative could cost the city about $1 million annually.

Not everyone was convinced that this is a problem. Holman

noted that the fees that the city collects from commercial projects to compensate for the impacts of those developments fall far short of what’s needed. And the study explicitly stated that it is not taking into account factors such as resulting traffic, environmental conditions and other “quality of life” factors — factors that were central to the proponents’ argument about the need to limit office growth.

Council members also sparred Monday over whether adopting the citizen initiative would respect the will of the people or effectively thwart it.

Scharff and Kniss, who on June 12 supported delaying the placement of the issue on the ballot pending a fiscal analysis (they prevailed then by a 5-4 vote, with Wolbach, Fine and Tanaka’s support), both argued Monday that sending it to the voters is the more democratic path than simply adopting their proposal as an ordinance.

“This is really about democracy,” Scharff said. “We as a council pride ourselves on community engagement. To vote not to put this on the ballot but to

grants,” Moody said.

Asked about Moody’s claims that Wells Fargo made promises, Pulido said he had no comment.

Wells sold the housing stock for $130 million in 2011.

But some residents, like Rev. Deborah Lewis-Virges, pastor of Saint Mark AME Zion Church, say they are withdrawing their business from Wells because it isn’t supportive.

“I have been a long-time Wells Fargo Bank consumer and business customer. Prior to moving to East Palo Alto, I learned that my father-in-law was also a longtime Wells Fargo Bank customer and was surprised to learn that we had to travel to Palo Alto to conduct our banking services as there was no branch or ATM in East Palo Alto,” Lewis-Virge stated in an email, adding that her church banks with Wells Fargo, but she has canceled her

personal account there.

But “we currently do not have a ... relationship with Wells Fargo Bank based on their lack of presence in our community. Much to our dismay Wells Fargo Bank opted to open an additional Palo Alto branch a few years ago on Middlefield. I personally inquired as to whether or not, at a minimum, they could place a Wells Fargo Bank ATM in East Palo Alto and was deferred to corporate.

“East Palo Alto is a thriving and diverse community that would benefit from the support of a multi-national banking partner,” she added.

Bank of America, the bank with the ATM, did not return a request for comment on whether it might open a branch office in East Palo Alto. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

adopt it is to stifle community ballot, though their motion was pre-empted by Kou, who made a engagement.”

Meanwhile, the “residentialist” substitute proposal to adopt the council members who in June new limit in accordance with the supported placing the measure measure. Her motion prevailed by on the ballot, now favored simply a 5-4 vote.

Kou argued that the conseadopting it. With Wolbach joinquences of new commercial ing them, they carried the day.

Before the vote, the council space are going to be particuheard from about two dozen larly severe given that more and speakers, the vast majority of more employees are working per whom supported the petition and square foot in offices. Holman asked that the proposal be adopt- agreed and emphasized that this ed. Residents repeatedly pointed initiative would not stop office to city’s housing shortage and development, just limit it for the traffic congestion, problems that next 12 years.

“It is to rein it in for a period they argued are aggravated by of time so that when it gets to commercial growth.

“If you all decide to adopt the 850,000 square feet, we can take initiative this evening, it would another look at it and see where show that you have listened to we are. It’s a rational approach,” the thousands of residents of Holman said.

Not everyone favored this apPalo Alto and that you truly represent them,” said Suzanne proach. Judy Kleinberg, presiKeehn, a member of the Palo Al- dent and CEO of the Palo Alto tans for Sensible Zoning steering Chamber of Commerce, was one of the few speakers who opposed committee.

Former Vice Mayor Greg the lowered cap. She warned Schmid, who spearheaded the the council of unintended consequences citizen measure, for the city’s told the council business comon Monday that ‘Now we need to munity, inthe goal of the cluding harm initiative is to ad- actually do the to the city’s dress Palo Alto’s housing we all “econom ic 3-to-1 jobs-tocompetitivehousing imbal- committed to.’ a nd ance (the ratio of — Cory Wolbach, ness jobs to employed Palo Alto City Councilman productivity.”

“If we want residents is by far the highest in Santa Clara Coun- to solve the traffic-congestion ty) and the traffic congestion problem, we should start by and escalating housing prices it funding and expanding our free shuttle and our TMA (transporcauses.

“By limiting office growth, we tation-management association) are effectively doing the one thing throughout the community,” we can do for affordable housing Kleinberg said.

After the council voted to — not just low-income housing, but middle-class housing — in adopt the initiative and revise our community,” Schmid said the new Comprehensive Plan, during the meeting. “The goal of Schmid said he was satisfied with this initiative is to have a public the action.

“I am happy it passed,” Schmid debate about economic issues of land, congestion, pricing and told the Weekly. “I still think it would have been nice to have a what we can do about it.”

That sought-for debate con- debate.” Q cluded shortly after it began.

Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner Scharff and Fine made the mo- can be emailed at gsheyner@ tion to place the initiative on the paweekly.com.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (July 30)

Office cap: The council voted to approve as an ordinance the proposal in the citizen initiative to reduce the citywide cap on office and research-anddevelopment between 2015 and 2030 from 1.7 million square feet to 850,000 square feet. Yes: DuBois, Filseth, Holman, Kou, Wolbach No: Fine, Kniss, Scharff, Tanaka Hotel tax: The council approved the placement on the November ballot a measure to raise the city’s transient-occupancy-tax rate to 15.5 percent. Yes: DuBois, Fine, Kniss, Scharff, Filseth, Wolbach No: Holman, Kou, Tanaka Idling: The council approved a ban on car idling. Yes: Unanimous

Utilities Advisory Commission (Aug. 1)

Natural gas: The commission discussed the National Gas Capital Improvement Plan and the Recuycled Water Distribution System Business Plan. Action: None

Architectural Review Board (Aug. 2)

250 Sherman Ave.: The board discussed the proposed design for the city’s new public-safety building and recommended continuing the discussion to Sept. 20. Yes: Unanimous

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“How does this move the cap item forward?!” added a third.

As Alcheck began to talk about the “hundreds of letters” the commission had received in the prior 48 hours that conveyed a “tremendous sense of distrust,” he was once again drowned out by the spectators, many of whom had jumped to their feet.

“This is not germane to the issue!”

“Totally inappropriate!”

“You have to stop him!”

“It’s not on the issue!”

Chair Ed Lauing repeatedly urged Alcheck to keep his comments brief and on point and threatened to call a recess if audience members didn’t settle down.

They did.

The heated interchange was only the latest ruckus for a commission that has seen its share of enmity — not just between itself and members of the public but frequently between the members themselves. For an advisory body to the City Council, tasked with vetting every significant housing and transportation proposal and offering its well-considered recommendations, the current commission has developed an unusual track record of polarization and infighting, its members given to squabbling, interrupting each other and reaching conclusions that at times have left council members scratching their heads.

The polarization was on full display in February, after four planning commissioners said that they would need more information before making a decision on a proposal to create a new overlay zone to encourage the construction of affordable housing and to accommodate a below-marketrate project in the Ventura neighborhood. Vice Chair Susan Monk said she was “embarrassed” by her colleagues’ direction on the matter, and Alcheck later described the majority’s February decision to delay the vote as a “hijacking” of a process.

When the issue came back to the commission the following month, the majority voted not to approve the new zone, citing concerns about parking and incomeeligibility levels for qualifying projects. Alcheck, Monk and Commissioner William Riggs then decided to co-sign a “minority recommendation” urging the council to reject the majority’s advice.

Normally, when a land-use issue comes to the council, the planning commission sends a

Five of the seven members of the Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission — from left, Asher Waldfogel, Vice Chairwoman Susan Monk, Chairman Ed Lauing, Doria Summa and Michael Alcheck — discuss the proposed elimination of the limit on downtown commercial development on July 25. representative to report on its discussion. When the council reviewed the proposed affordable-housing zone on April 9, Chairman Ed Lauing and Commissioner Przemek Gardias both explained the majority’s concerns. Then, over the objections of Councilwoman Lydia Kou, Monk approached to offer her side’s view.

“We’re chartered with returning an ordinance to you,” Monk said. “It just didn’t feel right that we went off and did something that was not without what I view as our obligation to you.”

These internal disagreements occasionally get nasty. During an April discussion focused on a “clean-up” of the zoning code, Alcheck admonished Gardias for being unprepared and for “learning about the code on the dais” when the latter tried to propose a revision to rules pertaining to daylight planes. During a separate April discussion on housing, Waldfogel accused Alcheck of “talking about false things” and encouraged him to “stick to the truth,” an exchange that featured multiple interruptions between the two commissioners and requests from Alcheck that the chairman intervene.

When asked about the recent polarization on the commission, Waldfogel noted that the commission’s role in the city’s process in some ways precludes the need for compromise.

“Since the commission is almost a purely advisory body,

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sometimes I wonder if all my colleague are taking (collaboration) seriously,” Waldfogel told the Weekly. “There is a sense that things will get repaired at the next level, so there’s no real need to negotiate and reach compromise. The position is, ‘Why not stake out an extreme position and let the council negotiate between the extremes?’”

A symptom of the times

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ong seen as the city’s most influential commission, the seven-member board has served as a common stepping stone for aspiring council members (current members Adrian Fine, Karen Holman and Greg Tanaka are former planning commissioners, as is Joe Hirsch, co-founder of the citizens group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning, which favors slower city growth).

But Mayor Liz Kniss said the commission’s July 25 meeting felt more like “a comedy of mistakes.”

The actual issue on which the commission was deliberating stemmed from a January 2017 council decision in which the council majority specifically wanted to remove a 350,000-square-foot cap on all commercial development downtown because the city now has other mechanisms in place to restrain the pace of growth. But rather than support the council’s directive by approving the ordinance that would turn the directive into actual zoning law, the commission rejected it.

The commission’s negative recommendation, if approved by the council, means that Palo Alto would have three different caps on commercial development that apply to downtown: an annual 50,000-square-foot ceiling on new office space in downtown, El

Camino Real and the California Avenue area; the downtown cap; and a citywide limit on office and research-and-development space, which the council on Monday reduced from 1.7 million square feet to 850,000 square feet.

Kniss said she found the commission’s vote “peculiar.”

“It is an advisory body to the City Council, and it’s unusual when that advisory body would vote against something that we as a council voted on as part of the Comprehensive Plan. It’s just not productive.”

Like other council members, Kniss told the Weekly that she believes the current commission isn’t functioning well. Things have become too political, with everyone picking a side, she said.

This, from her perspective, is the latest symptom of the town’s broader political divisions that emerged in the November 2013 election, when residents overturned by referendum a councilapproved zone change that would have allowed the construction of a 60-apartment building for low-income seniors and 12 single-family homes on a former orchard on Maybell Avenue. The Maybell project spurred the creation of Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning, a group that has since become a formal political action committee that raises money and organizes candidate slates. (The group spearheaded the initiative to halve the citywide cap on office development — a proposal that the council this week adopted as law.)

In the past, Kniss said, conversations on governing boards were contentious but generally civil. Now, the city seems to be more polarized — a factor that in her view contributes to the commission’s dysfunction.

Kniss, who has successfully run for elected office 10 times, noted that prior to 2016, she had

never run on a slate.

“I find it sad that we’ve reached this point, where you have to be on one side or the other,” Kniss said. “We’ve lost our balance.

Maybe that’s what happened with the Planning and Transportation Commission. Maybe they’ve lost their balance.”

Kniss said she would like to see the council hold a retreat with the planning commission to discuss the commission’s purpose and take a fresh look at its mandates.

The commission, she said, seems to be unsure of its own function.

“Do they feel they’re being asked to support the council (decisions) ... or do they feel they should follow their own conscience and do what they feel is right at the time? It makes sense to go back and look at the entire structure of the two bodies and how they function together.

“The Planning and Transportation Commission has always been a very important advisory group.

They always worked very closely with the council. Maybe we need to sit down and have a good heartto-heart with each other,” Kniss said.

Kniss and Councilwoman Karen Holman rarely see eye-to-eye on land use issues, but they both agree about the planning commission’s dysfunction. Holman, herself a former planning commissioner, said her proudest moment on the panel came when the commission voted to rezone the site of a proposed hotel to create a residential buffer zone between the project (which ultimately didn’t get built) and the homes of concerned neighbors.

This, she said, is the type of detailed, zoning-code-centric work that commissioners used to tackle. Today, you don’t hear them talk about buffer zones anymore, she said ruefully. Instead, she said, she only hears about the commission from the public when people talk about “some outrageous behavior,” including Alcheck’s interaction with Meyer.

Planning and transportation issues, she said, are endlessly interesting but require lots of studying. The current commission, she said, shows a “lack of willingness to listen to staff and to the public and to colleagues.

“There seems to be a lack of willingness to learn rather than pontificate about one’s own view of the world,” Holman said.

Alcheck’s actions criticized

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n addition to the July 25 exchange over Meyer’s “development cabal” posting, Alcheck has found himself in the crosshairs for other reasons during his tenure on the commission.

Upfront Earlier this year, council watchdog Fred Balin filed a complaint with the city about Alcheck’s participation last November in a zoning-code Michael change pertainAlcheck ing to new carports and garages. The city has a rule that prohibits placing a front-facing garage at a singlefamily home property if the majority of the homes on that block have garages in the back, as was the case on Alcheck’s block in the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood. So in summer 2015, Alcheck, who is a real-estate attorney, applied for a city permit to instead build two front-facing carports. Then, in 2017, he converted the structures into garages — an end result that staff had previously deemed illegal.

The issue prompted a legal dispute between Alcheck and the city’s planning staff, which in August 2017 hit him with two notices of violation for converting his carports into garages in violation of the city’s code, according to documents obtained by the Weekly through a Public Records Act request. Alcheck subsequently removed the garage doors. He also re-applied to convert the carports and hired an attorney who argued that Alcheck’s new carports changed the predominant neighborhood pattern and, because of that, the front-facing garages would now be technically legal. The city acquiesced and in December granted Alcheck a permit to enclose the carports.

None of these things were mentioned last November when Alcheck and the rest of the planning commission were revising the zoning code to clarify the city’s provisions on carports and garages. For Balin and several council members, that was a major problem. Since then, Balin has repeatedly raised concerns about both Alcheck’s use of a two-step process (build a carport and then convert it to a garage) to get around a loophole in the city’s code and his subsequent failure to recuse himself last November from a meeting when the commission closed that loophole. Since then, Balin has urged the city attorney’s office to investigate Alcheck’s behavior and called for Alcheck to resign (City Attorney Molly Stump told the Weekly that her office is confident that the council’s decision-making process “was sound and free of conflict of interest” and that “any advice about the appropriateness of a commissioner’s prior conduct would be confidential”).

Alcheck, who declined to comment for this article, previously said that he received legal advice from the city and was assured that he could participate.

After the July 25 discussion of

the downtown cap, Balin wrote on Palo Alto Online’s discussion forum, Town Square, that Alcheck’s “inappropriate behavior” has not abated since the carport discussion. He criticized Alcheck for “directly criticizing a member of the public in attendance” and “making general comments that disparage groups of people he does not see eye-to-eye with,” a reference to Alcheck’s occasional soliloquies about NIMBYism. At the February discussion of the affordablehousing zone, for instance, he called NIMBYs the “elephant in the room” when it comes to local planning and described a typical participant in the process as a “well-to-do homeowner strongly averse to changes in their surroundings, time-rich, opinionated and articulate.”

“Residents,” Balin wrote on Town Square, “need to know the position of each candidate running for City Council, as to whether Michael Alcheck should continue on the commission for another three-plus years. I will ask it of them, and I hope you will too. The council appoints and the council can remove.”

Politics and the commission

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or Councilman Tom DuBois, the answer to Balin’s question about Alcheck’s tenure is a simple one: “It really feels like the Planning and Transportation Commission would be a lot more functional if we were to replace Mr. Alcheck,” DuBois said.

‘The council appoints and the council can remove.’

—Fred Balin, council watchdog He believes that the council should meet to discuss Alcheck’s actions, both in regard to the carport issue and his general conduct.

That discussion, he acknowledged, is unlikely to happen before the November City Council election. The commission is, after all, a council-appointed group whose current members happen to politically connected. Waldfogel was among the major donors in 2016 to the campaigns of slowgrowth candidates Arthur Keller and Lydia Kou. Monk chaired Kniss’ the re-election campaign.

These relationships would make it easy for the public to chalk up criticism of a pro-city-growth commissioner by “residentialist” council members to simple politics.

Those on the council with more pro-growth views tend to shake their head, roll their eyes and decline to speak on the record when asked about Alcheck’s conduct. Kniss said she hasn’t fully reviewed the issue but said that

Balin’s complaints appear to be “a very personal issue, rather than a political or a professional issue.”

DuBois, who is running for reelection this November, strongly disagreed and argued that Alcheck’s actions are an ethical issue. Whatever his political leanings, Alcheck should have recused himself from the commission’s carport discussion, DuBois said.

“He didn’t mention that he had a project relating to the specific thing he was reviewing,” DuBois told the Weekly on Tuesday.

“That’s when you have to recuse yourself. The thing with ethics and recusals is you’re supposed to recuse yourself even if there is an appearance of a conflict.

It’s about (people) trusting the government.”

Also troubling is what DuBois called Alcheck’s disregard for the commission’s rules on how meeting should be run.

“From what I’ve seen, Mr. Alcheck doesn’t follow those rules.

He can be disruptive. He badgers other commissioners; he badgers the public,” DuBois said. “It’s a political commission — the council appoints its members — but how they operate and how they manage their disagreements is an important thing.”

Holman said the most important action that should be taken to make the commission more effective is better training. When she served on the commission, every member was given three books that clearly defined the roles of planning commissioners and urged behaviors like concise expression of views, compromise and respect for the public. Somehow, she said, those lessons have been lost with the current group. Instead, Holman said, she has watched meetings in which “the commission doesn’t come to any decision.”

“They can’t agree or they punt or they defer or they get into areas that really are not their purview,” Holman said.

And the city’s issues, she said, are not getting vetted in a “comprehensive or even comprehensible manner because the meetings are so disorganized and dysfunctional.”

“They need tools to become effective and valuable and to build expertise on how to become a really good planning commission,” Holman said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Alleged serial BevMo burglar arrested The Menlo Park police investigations unit arrested a 58-yearold man from East Palo Alto around noon Wednesday on suspicion of serially burglarizing the Menlo Park BevMo. (Posted Aug. 2, 9:14 a.m.)

Court upholds injunction in sanctuary order A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld an injunction protecting San Francisco and Santa Clara County from a presidential executive order that threatened federal funding for socalled sanctuary cities. (Posted Aug. 1, 1:30 p.m.)

Water District to remove creek sediment Starting this month, the Santa Clara Valley Water District will begin a two-month flood protection project in Palo Alto to remove about 3,000 cubic yards of sediment from Matadero Creek south of U.S. Highway 101 to Louis Road. (Posted Aug. 1, 11:45 a.m.)

Chan Zuckerberg accepting grant proposals The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan, is looking to fund a new round of nonprofits working in Belle Haven, East Palo Alto, North Fair Oaks and Redwood City that help vulnerable people and families address basic needs, the company announced Tuesday. The grants, which will fund nonprofits’ ongoing operations or specific projects, range from $25,000 to $100,000. (Posted Aug. 1, 9:07 a.m.)

Protesters demand Palantir end ICE contract About 50 protesters, including tech and labor workers, demanded on Tuesday that Palo Alto-based Palantir Technologies break its ties with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). (Posted July 31, 7:28 p.m.)

Affordable housing collects local support A statewide ballot measure to set up a $4 billion bond to support affordable housing for veterans and low-income residents appears, so far, to have only fans. Supporters of Proposition 1, the Veterans and Affordable Housing Act, had contributed a collective $2.1 million to the campaign by mid-month, while no opponent funding or committees had been identified as of July 16, according to the California Secretary of State website. (Posted July 31, 3 p.m.)

Local fire agencies battling state fires Midpeninsula fire agencies have joined the effort to fight wildfires that have been scorching tens of thousands of acres across the state including those in Riverside, Mendocino and Lake counties. (Posted July 31, 9:52 a.m.)

City seeks fellows for Cubberley plan The city of Palo Alto is looking for six to eight residents to serve as community fellows who will support the development of the Cubberley Community Center master plan that will be compiled by the city, school district and their selected architectural consulting firm, Concordia LLC, which was hired last month.

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market-rate units at Stanford West (Apartments), for example, and convert them to affordable units,” McCown told the Weekly. “You’d get these units right away.”

She noted that Stanford is not planning to evict any tenants in its existing market-rate units as part of the conversion. And if it takes too long to provide the 200 units of affordable housing through vacancies and conversions, the university would be open to other options, including new construction.

The second component of Stanford’s proposal is an immediate $14.3 million payment to the county to subsidize 38 “extremely low-income” units for which the university’s General Use Permit would create the demand, according to the county’s analysis. According to Stanford’s proposal, the county would agree to commit these funds to housing projects within five years of the General Use Permit approval.

“We would front-load it immediately and they can work with other programs to provide that extremely low-income housing,” said Catherine Palter, Stanford’s associate vice president for land use and environmental planning.

The third component — and one that Stanford believes has the most potential to address the area’s affordable-housing crisis — is the creation of what it’s calling the “Evergreen Loan Fund.” The

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— residents in both cities have said.

The traffic problems prompted East Palo Alto City Councilman Larry Moody to publicly call for coordination between Palo Alto, East Palo Alto and Menlo Park to help resolve the situation by synchronizing signals and potentially adding a park-and-ride lot and shuttles near the Dumbarton Bridge, among other plans.

East Palo Alto Public Works Director Kamal Fallaha, whose agency participated in the proposal, said it makes sense to coordinate the signals as a way to improve traffic flow. The signals will have updated green, yellow and red light minimum times so that traffic can clear the intersections.

“Hopefully it will help the whole system,” he said, noting that the changes are expected to also increase safety for pedestrians and bicyclists.

The project will start with traffic counts and proceed to the signaltiming upgrades. East Palo Alto and California Department of Transportation lights have similar signal-timing programs, but they differ from Palo Alto’s, so new programming would be added to the East Palo Alto signal-control boxes, Fallaha said.

The work will not impede

Cars slowly make their way along University Avenue towards the U.S. Highway 101 during a typical commute in Palo Alto. With a grant from the regional Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the cities of Palo Alto and East Palo Alto will soon synchronize their traffic signals in an effort to cut commute time between Middlefield Road and the Dumbarton Bridge by 20 to 40 percent. traffic. The primary task will be reprogramming signal controllers, which does not require lane closures or setting the signals into flash mode, Mello said in an email.

“We believe that significant benefits will accrue to the city of Palo Alto after the project is completed and that the project is well worth the cost,” he said.

John Goodwin, spokesman for

the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, said the agency’s project team will meet with Palo Alto’s transportation officials this month to begin the study and work. The final report will be due in June 2019, but Goodwin said the synchronization would be working much sooner. The June deadline relates to a signoff after all reports are finalized.

university would immediately contribute $21.7 million to the fund. It would also accept contributions from employers and institutions interested in making a dent in the housing shortage.

Palter noted that the fund is “evergreen” because as the loans are repaid, the money would be directed to other housing projects. And while other investors would be able to contribute loans for these projects and ultimately get repaid, Stanford’s contribution would remain in the fund in perpetuity, she said.

funding sources to support housing projects.

“They would have the ability to be nimble and creative and have more flexibility on how the money is used,” Palter said.

Stanford’s initial contribution to the fund would support the creation of 44 units of “very low income” housing (for people making less than 50 percent of area median income) and 173 “low-income” units (for those making less than 80 percent of area median income). These 217 units — along with the 200 affordable units that Stanford would make available on its campus and the 38 “extremely low income” units for which the university will contribute $14.3 million — would effectively meet the demand for affordablehousing units that a county analysis estimated would be generated by the university’s proposed expansion.

Technically, the county analysis determined that 575 affordable-housing units would be needed, but Stanford is recommending that it get credit for 320 units when it builds or provides the 200 apartments. The reasoning, according to the university, is that actually building units on Stanford’s land is “more valuable than paying a fee, and Stanford should be incentivized to provide housing over paying a fee.” This incentive, which effectively gives Stanford credit for 1.6 units for each unit provided, also is necessary because Stanford cannot avail itself of tax credits that

‘I think almost all of us have said, in some form or fashion, we are really interested in the housing, not in collecting a fee.’

—Joe Simitian, President, County Board of Supervisors “We’ve spent a lot of time with housing developers asking, ‘What is your challenge to getting these types of projects in the community? What’s your missing slice of financial support?’”

Palter told the Weekly. “It was really out of those conversations that we came up with that fund.”

The fund, she noted, would be run by a community-development financial institution (CDFI), an organization with expertise in putting together financial packages involving disparate

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The MTC program that’s funding the project aims to improve travel time and reliability along main thoroughfares or arterial streets. It seeks to improve vehicle, bike, pedestrian and transit-rider safety and, potentially, air quality by decreasing vehicle emissions and fuel consumption, according to the agency.

The Palo Alto/East Palo Alto

improvements are expected to reduce carbon emissions and fuel consumption by 20 to 40 percent, according to the project application.

In addition to the signal synchronizations, Mello said his department will help reduce cutthrough traffic in Crescent Park by adding six large planters at the entrances of Hamilton, Forest and Lincoln avenues east of Middlefield Road. The planters, along with signage, are intended to calm traffic by making motorists aware they are driving into a residential neighborhood.

Transportation staff also plan to work with consultants this fall on details of test programs to address traffic issues and potential solutions that Crescent Park residents submitted to the city in spring, including diagonal diverters to reduce traffic volume, adding curb extensions and bollards on some streets and installing leftturn lanes on University Avenue at some intersections. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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Stanford’s affordable-housing proposal

• University would provide 200 apartments for low-income residents (those earning less than 80 percent of area median income).

• Stanford would pay $14.3 million the county to subsidize 38 apartments for extremely low-income residents.

• University would create the Evergreen Loan Fund and seed it with $21.7 million. The fund would provide loans to finance affordablehousing projects.

County’s proposed development fee

• County would raise its developer fee to $68.50 for each square foot of new non-residential development. Under this ordinance, Stanford would pay the county $156 million for affordable housing as it builds its 2.275 million square feet of academic buildings.

• Could be approved in August, but county Board of Supervisors allowed that Stanford could propose an alternative.

typically account for 30 percent to 50 percent of the cost of affordable-housing construction, according to the Stanford letter.

McCown said the university was encouraged to create the fund through its recent discussions with nonprofit developers and institutions like the Silicon Valley Housing Trust and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. In addition to the fund’s creation of new housing, the idea is to create a long-term model that other institutions can emulate. The July 27 letter from Robert C. Reidy, Stanford’s vice president for land, buildings and real estate, emphasized that the fund would “have a high likelihood of attracting investments from other institutions or nonprofit foundations, further expanding upon its benefits.”

Palter described the university’s offer as a “housing now”

plan, in contrast to the existing development-fee system that relies on a gradual accumulation of money as academic buildings are developed.

“The (county) ordinance does not deliver the units and does not have the ability to front load,” Palter said.

In releasing the letter, Stanford is hoping to persuade the county to set aside the proposed ordinance and to instead negotiate a development agreement.

“Through a development agreement, Stanford would commit to affordable housing benefits up front without regard to the timing of its future (academic) growth, and Stanford would commit to provide a substantial portion of these benefits on its land.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto

July 25-July 31 Violence related Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 7 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Tampering with vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 7 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . 10 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Miscellaneous Animal call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disturbing the peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Misc penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Other/misc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Prowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Public nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving w/ a suspended license . . . . . . 2 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Alcohol or drug related Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 3 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Disturbing the peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Prohibited weapon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

Colorado Avenue, 7/19, noon; child abuse/sexual.

San Antonio Road, 7/24, 6:07 a.m.; domestic violence/misc.

Roble Ridge, 7/30, 1:07 p.m.; child abuse/physical.

Menlo Park

700 block Laurel Street, 7/25, 8:03 a.m.; assault.

Middlefield Road and Ringwood Avenue, 7/31, 7:52 a.m.; assault.

1200 block Madera Avenue, 7/31, 4:42 p.m.; assault.

Menlo Park

July 25-July 31 Violence related Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

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Editorial Averting an unneeded election In surprise vote, council adopts measure to cut office-growth cap in half

P

alo Alto Mayor Liz Kniss was so surprised Monday night by the electronic vote tally displayed on the wall of the council chambers that she asked her colleagues to vote again. She had mistakenly voted yes, no and abstain, lighting up her green, red and yellow indicator lights, creating a bit of confusion.

But for everyone in the chambers, including Kniss, her colleagues, city staff and the public, it wasn’t her fumbled voting that grabbed their attention.

Councilman Cory Wolbach’s green light was on, meaning he had decided to vote with the slower-growth four-person contingent (Tom DuBois, Vice Mayor Eric Filseth, Karen Holman and Lydia Kou) instead of his usual allies (Adrian Fine, Kniss, Greg Scharff and Greg Tanaka).

It was an unusually dramatic moment, in part because Wolbach had given no indication he would reverse the views he had expressed just a month ago and support enacting an anti-office-growth measure without sending it to the voters. In fact, he didn’t even speak during the discussion prior to the vote, unprecedented for him on an important and controversial proposal.

At issue was whether to put the recently qualified citizens’ initiative measure to lower the cap on new office development over the next 12 years on the November ballot or to simply adopt it as presented. With what has become a predictable 5-4 split on the council on development issues, it’s unlikely that even proponents thought adoption had any chance of passing.

Those favoring reducing the allowable growth of commercial space from 1.7 million square feet to 850,000 square feet had mostly been concerned that the council majority might put a competing measure on the ballot. Even DuBois, who ultimately voted to adopt the measure outright, commented prior to the vote that he supported putting it on the ballot.

But when the vote came, on a motion by Lydia Kou, to adopt the initiative measure instead of giving it to the voters, Wolbach joined Kou, DuBois, Filseth and Holman. Wolbach, who is one of three councilmen running for re-election this November (along with DuBois and Filseth,) was clearly uncomfortable during the council discussion and after the vote. Seated next to him was Fine, who theatrically held up a copy of the recently approved Comprehensive Plan and said it now belonged in the recycling bin.

Does any of this political intrigue actually matter? Probably not.

On the one hand, the new commercial-growth limit of 850,000 square feet — half the amount that has been city policy for many years — is roughly the amount that would be built in the next 12 years if the average rate of growth experienced since 2001 simply continued.

On the other hand, opponents of the lower cap argued it would take away flexibility in the out-years to respond to an appealing hypothetical proposal for a major expansion of a company in the Stanford Research Park.

City Manager Jim Keene was adamant about the importance of this flexibility. He and others pointed out that action limiting office growth in Palo Alto wouldn’t have the desired effect of containing traffic congestion and housing costs because our neighboring cities are approving massive amounts of new office development and we are impacted by the traffic created by them. And they correctly pointed out that the biggest impact would be on the Research Park, which has been exempted from annual growth limits and now could face tighter constraints on new development many years from now.

We have little doubt that Palo Alto voters would have approved the citizens initiative if it had been put on the November ballot instead of adopted by the council, so in the end this week’s drama is probably unimportant.

In a text message to reporters after the meeting, Wolbach said he concluded that the reduced office cap is the right policy for addressing the enormous imbalance between jobs and housing in the city and now hopes new housing will actually get built, not just talked about.

That’s quite a turnaround from the concerns he raised a month ago when he speculated that city services might need to be reduced in the future if the lower growth cap were approved because of the loss of tax and fee revenue from new development. That argument, made by some others Monday night, is illogical and misleading. The current growth cap of 1.7 million square feet was never intended as a goal, so the financial consequences of failing to reach it strikes a false note.

But Wolbach’s latest position is right. There are few, if any, Palo Alto residents that would argue that accelerating commercial office development was good policy. With his vote, he has spared us an election campaign sure to have further polarized the community while getting to the same result. Q

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Letters Prevent fires in Palo Alto Editor, On Wednesday morning (July 18) while hiking in Palo Alto Park, I found a cigarette lighter lying on the trail. I do not want to even try to imagine the devastation that a fire in the park would cause, not just to the park itself — the wildlife and trees — but to the surrounding homes as well as to the people who might not be able to escape the flames.

We don’t want a recreation of the Santa Rosa disaster. If you enjoy the park enough to hike the trails, please be more aware of yourself.

Margaret Novotny Bryant Street, Palo Alto

Unite for affordable housing Editor, A majority on the Palo Alto City Council made a significant statement about city priorities this week that shakes up the outdated breakdown of the council into pro-development and residentialist factions. By siding with petitioners who called for cutting the citywide office cap, Cory Wolbach showed that he had listened to the call for greater restraints on job growth.

Now, council members, current and aspiring, must declare where they stand on implementing the new zoning designation, approved by a 7-2 vote in April, that would increase BMR (below-marketrate) housing construction. Council members and candidates this fall Eric Filseth, Tom DuBois and Wolbach all voted in favor of the measure. As candidates, they would do the city a service by showing a united front on this issue that would make clear that, after years of dragging its feet, Palo Alto is prepared to act on its housing obligations.

Jerry Underdal Georgia Avenue, Palo Alto

Campaign financing reform overdue Editor, I strongly support restrictions on campaign financing for all local elections in the city of Palo Alto.

Restrictions on fundraising should apply to both the City Council and the Board of Education elections.

Over the last decade there has been a significant increase in funds spent for election campaigns. The most dramatic increase in City Council campaign financing was the 2014 race. The most well-funded candidate was largely self-funded; the race, however, did set the stage for significantly higher fundraising in the most recent 2016 election. My

concern is that totals will continue to escalate unless restrictions or limits are established. I shudder to think what the total will be by 2018-20 or beyond if nothing is done.

The benefits of establishing a cap include: 1) focusing on discussion of community issues rather than candidates spending a significant amount of time fundraising; 2) making it possible for a wider range of candidates of various financial means to run rather than limiting it to candidates who can largely self-fund or have more ready access to funds; 3) reducing time devoted to fundraising for all, including those who have a day job; 4) budgeting made easier due to cap; and 5) requiring candidates to be more strategic and deliberate in their communication and marketing approaches; and 6) reducing the deluge of election materials during campaigns.

The responsible thing to do would be to have council members develop a colleagues’ memo to address this issue. If the council were to agree to direct staff to outline a few straightforward options regarding campaign-financing reform it would benefit everyone. This is not a new concept; other cities on the Peninsula and elsewhere have already done this. We should follow.

It makes sense.

Gail A. Price Orme Street, Palo Alto

Slow down office development Editor, I’ve lived here over 45 years and seen Palo Alto be radically transformed by office developers enabled by zealous pro-growth city managers and councils.

Our family moved here for the usual reasons: good schools, neighborhoods, parks, libraries, restaurants and shops. Driving and parking were easy; quality of life was excellent.

All three daughters are Paly graduates: a Harvard assistant dean, a Tulane tenured professor and an

attorney. None of them or their children could ever live here.

In 1973 we swallowed hard and paid $80,000 for 1211 Cowper St. The Zillow.com price today: $5,961,887. Absolute insanity!

In 1984, I moved singly into 865-square-feet condo at 280 Waverley St. for $135,000. The Zillow. com price today: $1,936,787.

Council’s decades of exceptions (many via Planned Community projects) to office developers — i.e., more square footage and less parking than required by law — turned Downtown North into a free public parking lot.

It and other neighborhoods will never be what they once were, RPP districts notwithstanding. Nor will council’s absurd but approved goal of zero employee permits ever be achieved.

Monday night Cory Wolbach became our city’s Justice Anthony Kennedy. I hope he will remain in the slim slower growth majority he has created.

Joseph Baldwin Webster Street, Palo Alto

Immigration, population Editor, I can only imagine that the protestors of Palantir’s work for ICE have lost their capacities for connecting the dots. Proper enforcement of our immigration laws since 1980 would have reduced world-wide greenhouse emissions by over 5 percent by now. People coming here, especially illegally, have much greater carbon footprints here than back home and typically have more children than they would have had at home.

Consider: Our foreign-born population stands at about 14 percent, but our school-age population is 23 percent immigrants and their children. The first step in reducing risk of global climate change is slowing population growth in the United States.

Raymond R. White Whitney Drive, Mountain View

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Tax revenues from Stanford lands support Palo Alto schools

by Jean McCown

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tanford University’s application to Santa Clara County for a renewed land-use permit has initiated a robust community discussion about the role Stanford plays in Palo Alto and our other local communities.

We welcome the dialogue, and we appreciate the opportunity to engage in a constructive and fact-based discussion about the shared future of Stanford and our region.

One topic of interest has been Stanford’s financial contribution to the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD).

The ongoing success of Palo Alto’s public schools is very important to the Stanford community, and Stanford has a long history of partnering with PAUSD in support of local public education.

Unfortunately, a number of comments have surfaced recently that potentially leave some with the impression that Stanford does not contribute financially to our schools or does not contribute its appropriate share. In addition, speculative assertions have been made that

future Stanford housing would add 1,500 children to Palo Alto schools. That is not the case.

Stanford lands devoted to academic uses are tax exempt under the California Constitution, under the same provision that exempts property of local government, public schools, state universities and religious institutions. But Stanford also has devoted significant lands in the Stanford Research Park and at the Stanford Shopping Center to commercial uses that are not exempt and generate significant tax revenues for PAUSD. In addition, much of Stanford’s housing is subject to property taxes that support PAUSD — including the 960 residences in our on-campus faculty neighborhoods, the 628 rental units in the Stanford West complex along Sand Hill Road and the new University Terrace neighborhood.

In fiscal year 2017-2018, an estimated $23.8 million for PAUSD was generated from just the commercial properties on Stanford lands, or about 10 percent of the district’s income.

A substantial majority of PAUSD students who reside in Stanford housing live in residences that contribute property taxes to the school district. In the case of those who live in tax-exempt residences on campus, such as the Escondido Village housing for graduate-student

families, the sizable tax contribution from Stanford’s commercial lands more than supports the cost of their enrollment in PAUSD. Under Stanford’s proposed 2018 General Use Permit, Stanford has asked to build up to 550 apartments for faculty and staff between now and 2035. If families with children were to occupy all of these units, PAUSD’s student-generation rate estimates there could be 275 schoolage children. Stanford has not proposed future housing that would add 1,500 students.

Data from the 2016-2017 school year shows that students living in tax-exempt Stanford residences represented less than 2 percent of PAUSD students — yet, tax revenue from Stanford’s commercial lands alone contributed nearly 10 percent of PAUSD’s income that year. This tax revenue would continue to more than support new students from Stanford’s housing.

Stanford’s support for Palo Alto’s schools extends beyond current tax revenue, of course. Stanford has provided much of the land for Palo Alto schools.

Today, four schools are located on 112 acres previously owned by the university — Palo Alto High School, Gunn High School, Escondido Elementary School and Nixon Elementary School. These

lands comprise 40 percent of the current PAUSD land portfolio.

We have also supported the education, safety and wellness of students through community partnerships with Project Safety Net, Safe Routes to Schools and Abilities United Employment Services Program. The Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital School Program is a unique collaboration between PAUSD and the hospital that provides quality education to critically and chronically ill children.

Stanford is committed to its partnership with PAUSD and to addressing the district’s concerns about how to best serve new students as Stanford’s future housing plans take shape. Moreover, as we plan for Stanford’s future over the next 20 years, Stanford welcomes the community’s input on key issues of concern. The university’s original application was carefully structured to minimize the impact of Stanford’s academic mission on our neighbors, and we are pursuing additional solutions that are responsive to the concerns of local residents. More information is available at gup.stanford.edu. Q Jean McCown is associate vice president for government and community relations at Stanford University. She can be reached at communityrelations@ stanford.edu.

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What changes do you want to see local government implement?

Asked at Town and Country Village in Palo Alto. Question, interviews and photographs by Tara Madhav.

Shanti Christensen

Devon Cohn

Nevin Chung

Audrey Moore

Francesca Coutz

Middlefield Road, Palo Alto Freelance designer

Greenwood Avenue, Palo Alto Artist

Cortez Drive, Santa Clara Phlebotomist

Carolina Avenue, Redwood City Nurse practitioner

South Court, Palo Alto Teacher

“I would like to see more affordable housing. Spread the wealth; figure out a way to keep the town diverse and affordable.”

“Change zero-sum thinking to abundance thinking.”

“More enforcement.”

“Do something about the rising housing prices.”

“My big beef is the Verizon project. ... There are plenty of places that get great reception without making the town an antenna farm.”

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City of Palo Alto Architectural Review Board Regular Meeting 250 Hamilton Avenue, Council Chambers August 16, 2018 at 8:30am Action Items PUBLIC HEARING/QUASI-JUDICIAL. 429 University Avenue [18PLN00240]: Recommendation on the Applicant's Request for Approval of a Minor Architectural Review Consistent With Condition of Approval #3, for a Previously Approved Mixed-Use Building (14PLN-00222), Requiring Architectural Review Board Approval for the Proposed West Elevation Wall Design, Landscape Details, and Exterior Building Materials, Colors, and Craftsmanship. Environmental Assessment: Use of Mitigated Negative Declaration Prepared for 14PLN-00222.

Zoning District: CD-C(G)(P) (Downtown Commercial with Ground Floor and Pedestrian Shopping Overlay). For More Information Contact the Project Planner Adam Petersen at apetersen@m-group.us

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Jean Armstrong Wells April 12, 1928 – November 27, 2017 Longtime Palo Alto resident Jean Armstrong Wells, 89, passed away peacefully at home November 27th, 2017 in Jackson, CA. Jean was born April 12th, 1928 in Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada and was an only child of Ina Lauretta Lee Armstrong and Reginald Haley Armstrong.

Her parents moved to Palo Alto, CA. in 1940 when she was 13 years old. Jean graduated from Sequoia High School in 1946. She met Alan Dudley Wells, a graduate of Palo Alto High School in 1945, and they married on June 27th 1948.

They were married almost 62 years. Jean had a very full life with Alan, raising five children, Janet, Carol, Mike, Rick and Jeff. She was also “Other Mother” or “Mama Bear” to many of the neighborhood children. Jean worked in retail sales at Bergman’s Department Store and Shoe Fair for over 20 years.

Her customers and co-workers adored her.

Jean and Alan loved spending time at their cabin in Lake Tahoe surrounded by family and friends. Jean loved many things in life but it was her family and friends she cherished most. She had a gift of making total strangers feel they were her best of friend just by listening to them and truly caring about their lives. If anyone was hurting or needed help she was always there with open arms. She was the most thoughtful person, always sending cards for birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, sympathy, get well cards, or whatever the occasion. Her spirit was bigger than life and she had an amazing amount of energy. So many people over the years have described Jean as “one in a million”. She truly was and she will be missed.

Jean is preceded in death by her husband Alan, son David Clarke Wells and daughter Janet Lynn Wells Brandt. She is survived by daughter Carol Knight (Rick), sons Michael Wells (Lisa) , Rick Wells, Jeff Wells (Debi), 12 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

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PUBLIC HEARING/QUASI-JUDICIAL. 2609 Alma Street [18PLN00074]: Recommendation on Applicant's Request for Approval of a Major Architectural Review to Allow the Demolition of two Existing Residential Buildings and two Carports, and Construction of two ThreeStory Buildings Comprised of Four (4)Condominiums, Including one (1) Below Market Rate Unit. Environmental Assessment: Addendum to the Mitigated Negative Declaration Prepared for 14PLN-00253. Zoning District: RM-30 (Medium Density Multiple-Family Residence District).

For More Information Contact the Project Planner Phillip Brennan, Phillip.Brennan@cityofpaloalto.org.

656 and 649 Lytton Avenue [18PLN-00214]: Request for Preliminary Architectural Review of Proposed Revisions to the Facade of an ,_PZ[PUN 4\S[P -HTPS` (ɈVYKHISL :LUPVY /V\ZPUN -HJPSP[PLZ HUK 6[OLY Minor Site Revisions. Environmental Assessment: Not a Project. The -VYTHS (WWSPJH[PVU >PSS IL :\IQLJ[ [V *HSPMVYUPH ,U]PYVUTLU[HS 8\HSP[` Act (CEQA) Review. Zoning District: PC-2649 for Lytton Gardens I and PC-2698 for Lytton Gardens II (Planned Community). For More Information Contact the Project Planner Claire Hodgkins at Claire.

Hodgkins@cityofpaloalto.org.

The Architectural Review Board is live streamed online at http:// TPKWLUTLKPH VYN JH[LNVY` NV]LYUTLU[ JP[` VM WHSV HS[V HUK H]HPSHISL VU ]PH JHISLJHZ[ VU NV]LYUTLU[ HJJLZZ JOHUULS ;OL JVTWSL[L HNLUKH ^P[O HJJVTWHU`PUN YLWVY[Z PZ H]HPSHISL VUSPUL H[ O[[W! ^^^ JP[`VMWHSVHS[V VYN NV] IVHYKZ HYI KLMH\S[ HZW -VY HKKP[PVUHS information contact Alicia Spotwood at alicia.spotwood@cityofpaloalto. org or at 650.617.3168.

Marlene Handy November 25, 1932 – June 21, 2018 Marlene Bogel Handy— beloved wife, mother, nurse, and friend--died unexpectedly of heart failure on June 21st, 2018, in Los Altos, California.

She was 85. Marlene was born in Millbrae, California, to George and Kathryn Bogel. She graduated from Burlingame High School in 1950 and entered Stanford University with the Class of 1954, but dropped out after her freshman year when she became engaged to the late Ralph Parker Handy, Jr. They married on June 1st, 1952, and had five children: David (who died shortly after birth), Bruce, Karen, Susan, and Todd. Marlene eventually returned to Stanford and earned an undergraduate nursing degree, in 1971. She then worked at the Stanford Hospital and Clinics in various capacities until her retirement, in 1995, after which she continued to serve the hospital as a volunteer up until her death. Marlene is survived by her four adult children, nine grandchildren, her extended family, and countless friends, colleagues, and neighbors—all of whom feel her loss deeply, miss her gentle good humor, and cherish her memory. A service will be held at the Stanford Memorial Church on August 21st, at 4 pm. In lieu of flowers, her family suggests donations be made in Marlene’s name to a scholarship fund for Stanford students who choose to pursue careers in nursing. Checks can be made out to “Stanford Nurse Alumnae Legacy Fund” (with “In Memory of Marlene Handy” noted on the memo line) and mailed to Pat Sparacino, 151 Briar Land, San Mateo, CA, 94403.

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Transitions James Breedlove James Breedlove, 80, died in Menlo Park on June 12 after a brief illness.

He was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He received a bachelor’s degree from Texas Christian University and a master’s degree in Latin American history from the University of Texas, Austin. In 1968, he became curator for the Latin American and Iberian collections for the Center on Latin American Studies at Stanford University. He was a lecturer in Latin American Studies from 1969 until his retirement.

He retired in 1993 and moved to Chiapas, Mexico. He then moved to Oaxaca, Mexico in 1998 and co-founded Libros para Pueblos, a nonprofit that provides funding for more than 70 library collections across the state.

He is survived by his former wife Lucy Taylor of San Antonio, Texas; daughters Katie Breedlove of San Antonio, Texas and Bath Mattsson of Menlo Park; and sons Larry Breedlove of Austin, Texas and Philip Breedlove of St. Petersburg, Florida.

Services will be held on August 15, 6 p.m. at Unity Church in Palo Alto. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in his name to Libros para Pueblos. Q

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650.208.3668 gwu@apr.com

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PALO ALTO $5,888,000

6BR/6.5BA on one of the largest lots in Palo Alto, with views of the foothills.

Quality built custom home. Spacious & light filled interior.

4,867 sf +/- on a 10,000 sf lot. 7bd, 5.5ba high ceilings.

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Arti Miglani

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Sherry Bucolo 650.207.9909 sbucolo@apr.com License# 00613242

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PALO ALTO $5,175,000

Sold for 20% over list price! Captivating Cape Cod style home on a large 11K lot in premier Crescent Park. Contact us for our Fall listing promo!

Sold! Our strategic marketing plan and prep work sold the home in one week with multiple offers. Thinking of moving? “Let me tell you how I work. Let me work for you.”

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Carol Li

650.281.8368 cli@apr.com License# 01227755

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Sold! 6 years old Custom built Mediterranean home in Midtown. 5BR plus office/4.5BA/2,954sf/approx. 9,104sf lot. Palo Alto schools.

New 2018 custom Mediterranean in Crescent Park! Walk to town! 5 bedroom. 4.5 bath. Quiet location.

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650.207.9909 kwilson@apr.com License# 00902501

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Grace C. Wu

Michael Johnston

650.208.3668 gwu@apr.com

650.533.5102 mjohnston@apr.com License# 01131203

PALO ALTO CALL FOR PRICE

PALO ALTO $4,698,000

Coming Soon! New Construction: 5BD suites + 2 half baths; Sub-Zero & Wolf appliance pkg; 3685+/- sf interior; top Palo Alto schools.

Located at the end of C-D-S. 6bd, 4ba, large living room, formal DR, chef’s kitchen w/ nook. Large entertainment room. 4088 sf +/-, 7163+/- sf lot.

Dante Drummond

Umang Sanchorawala

650.960.5363 usanchor@apr.com License# 01471341

License# 00886757

PALO ALTO $4,695,000

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Beautifully renovated Mediterranean style home in desirable Community Center w/ 4 beds, 3 baths, 3,372 sf in living space

Coming Soon! This elegant home in prestigious Crescent Park location, close to downtown Palo Alto is ideal for the world traveler.

Christy Giuliacci

650.400.9390 ddrummond@apr.com License# 00656636

Supriya Gavande

650.380.5989 christy@apr.com License# 01506761

PALO ALTO $4,380,000

PALO ALTO CALL FOR PRICE

Spectacular Spanish adobe architecture tucked away in desirable Barron Park. Magnificent lot of 18,700+/sf embraced by enchanting gardens.

Sold! Picture-perfect curb appeal~ Outstanding Midtown location~ Newly finished, beautiful interiors. Spanning two levels ~ Beautiful large backyard. Call for more details.

650.566.3890 sgavande@apr.com License# 01856590

Denise Simons 650.269.0210 dsimons@apr.com License# 01376733

Grace C. Wu 650.208.3668 gwu@apr.com

License# 00886757

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PALO ALTO $3,800,000

Coming Soon! New custom home in a C-D-S. 4bd, 3ba main house plus a detached 1bd, 1ba unit. 2560 sf +/- of living area. Close to Mitchell Park and schools.

Sold! Spacious 5 bedroom, 4 bath two-story home nestled in the Evergreen Park neighborhood close to Calif Ave. and Peers Park.

Umang Sanchorawala 650.960.5363 usanchor@apr.com License# 01471341

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APR SUMMER CAMPAIGN

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Lori Buecheler

650.543.1117 dbrill@apr.com

650.387.2716 lorib@apr.com

License# 01256035

PALO ALTO $3,750,000

ATHERTON $3,630,000

Sold! 3BR/2BA vintage ‘20s home totally remodeled, in Crescent Park. Represented buyer.

Sold! Beautifully restored 4 BD home evokes timeless elegance. Formal living, dining and sun-lit kitchen are surrounded by gorgeous gardens. Represented buyer.

Sophie Tsang

Pamela Page

650.687.7388 sophie@apr.com

650.400.5061 ppage@apr.com

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PALO ALTO $3,305,000

LOS ALTOS $3,300,000

Sold! Ideal location in midtown. Close to Mitchell Park library. Lovingly maintained 4 bd home. Ease and comfort with a dash of uniqueness. Sold 28% over asking.

Sold! Wonderful 4bd/2.5ba in North Los Altos, close to town. Remodeled five years ago, on a large cul-de-sac lot.

Derk Brill

License# 01256035

PALO ALTO $3,285,000

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Sold! Recently constructed 3BR/3BA contemporary build within walking distance to Downtown Palo Alto.

Coming Soon! Location, convenience and appeal, this inviting 3-level home is where you want to be for today’s vibrant Palo Alto lifestyle.

Michael Johnston

650.619.7885 shewitt@apr.com License# 00967034

Terry Rice

650.207.4142 trice@apr.com

650.533.5102 mjohnston@apr.com

REDWOOD CITY $2,999,950

PALO ALTO $2,985,000

Sold! Stunning 1920s home in Edgewood Park on 11,760+/sf lot with pool and spa; Old World glam with modern conveniences.

Coming Soon! Spacious light filled home on a quiet cul-desac close to Mitchell Park and Charleston shopping center.

5bd, 2.5ba, 2103+/- sq.ft. on 10,000+/- sq.ft. lot.

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Lori Buecheler

Jenny Teng

650.387.2716 lorib@apr.com

650.245.4490 jteng@apr.com

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BURLINGAME $2,900,000

MOUNTAIN VIEW CALL FOR PRICE

Sold! Sold in less than one week with multiple offers, this beautiful four bedroom home has been completely remodeled with attention to detail throughout.

Sold! Single story gem in the desirable Waverly Park neighborhood. Easy access to El Camino Real, highways 85, 237 and 280. Excellent Mountain View Schools.

Lori Buecheler

License# 01023687

Denise Simons

650.387.2716 lorib@apr.com

650.269.0210 dsimons@apr.com

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SAN CARLOS CALL FOR PRICE

PALO ALTO $2,710,000

Coming Soon! This gorgeous 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath remodeled light-filled home has been expanded with top of the line finishes.

Sold! Stylishly updated 4 bedroom, 2 bath mid-century modern Eichler with abundant natural light, walls of windows and an open floor plan.

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Ted Paulin 650.766.6325 tpaulin@apr.com License# 01435455

Pamela Rummage Culp 415.640.3293 pculp@apr.com License# 00896337

WOODSIDE $2,700,000

PALO ALTO CALL FOR PRICE

Sold! Located in the Woodside Glens, this spacious 3000 SF home with 4BRS and 3.5 BAS nestled in a woodsy setting has a flexible floorplan.

Coming Soon! Old Palo Alto Bungalow on 10k sf lot!

3beds/1ba. 3 garages. Rent/live in the home while building your dream home behind it. This is it!

Ray Hogue 650.964.3722 rhogue@apr.com License# 01980343

Christy Giuliacci 650.380.5989 christy@apr.com License# 01506761

Denise Simons 650.269.0210 dsimons@apr.com License# 01376733

PALO ALTO $2,700,000

PALO ALTO $2,698,000

Sold! A private courtyard welcomes you into this 4 bed, 2 bath updated Stern and Price home located near top schools and Mitchell Park Community Center. Sold with 13 offers.

Striking mid-century modern Eichler set on a large 8,450+/- sf lot. Superb cul-de-sac location in the highly sought after Greenmeadow neighborhood.

Sherry Bucolo 650.207.9909 sbucolo@apr.com license# 00613242

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Shelly Roberson

Andrea Schultz

650.574.3632 aschultz@apr.com License# 01196243

REDWOOD CITY $2,670,000

PALO ALTO CALL FOR PRICE

Sold! Stunning Spanish style home in prestigious Edgewood Park neighborhood. Beautiful old world architectural features.

Charming and serene yard with pool. Represented buyer.

Coming Soon! Midtown Palo Alto 3BD, 2BA home, near top-rated local schools, shopping, restaurants and public transit.

Ray Hogue

650.464.3797 sroberson@apr.com License# 01143296

Janie Barman

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Stacey Woods 650.793.4583 swoods@apr.com License# 02002137

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HONDA $2,500,000

Coming Soon! Charming home in sought after Green Gables neighborhood. 3bed/1ba. Close to Duveneck Elementary, Community Center and Stanford University.

Private estate property on 20 acres with dramatic hill views.

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650.380.8440 jbarman@apr.com License# 01281597

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Desiree Docktor

650.291.8487 ddocktor@apr.com License# 01808874

John Barman

PALO ALTO $2,498,000

MENLO PARK $2,495,000

Amazing off-market opportunity to buy charming cottage located in desirable downtown Palo Alto! Appointment Only.

The Willows â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 3BD, 2BA main house + guest house; potentially sub-dividable 22,051+/- sf lot; unique & private property.

650.533.5102 mjohnston@apr.com License# 01131203

Janie Barman 650.759.1182 janie@apr.com License# 01270223

Sophie Tsang

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John Barman 650.380.8440 jbarman@apr.com License# 01281597

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PALO ALTO $2,350,000

Coming Soon! Absolutely charming 4 bedroom Palo Alto home with a huge, amazing backyard. New roof, fresh paint and more. A gem!

Sold! Outstanding downtown location. One block from University. Walking distance to parks, restaurants, shops, train stops, bus stops. Listed at $1,990,000, sold for $2,350,000.

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Pamela Rummage Culp

Lynne Mercer

650.906.0162 Lmercer@apr.com

415.640.3293 pculp@apr.com License# 00896337

PORTO VALLEY $2,250,000

MOUNTAIN VIEW $2,215,000

Sold! This charming home situated on a private acre has 4 BRS and 2.5 BAS. There are magical views of the bay from most of the living area and the enormous deck.

Sold! Tastefully remodeled 3BR/2BA Eichler home with great indoor/outdoor ďŹ&#x201A;ow, walls of windows and beautiful, shaded side yard.

Greg Celotti

Pamela Rummage Culp

650.740.1580 greg@apr.com

415.640.3293 pculp@apr.com License# 00896337

SAN FRANCISCO $2,200,000

SAN CARLOS $2,198,000

Sold! Breathtaking views command oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention from the living area and master bedroom. This 2 BR 2.5BA condominium, located in Corona Heights has 2,200 SF.Â

Coming Soon! Gorgeous 4 bed, 2 bath single level home in outstanding neighborhood/location near downtown plus excellent schools!

License# 01360103

Supriya Gavande

Pamela Rummage Culp 415.640.3293 pculp@apr.com License# 00896337

License# 00796211

SAN FRANCISCO $2,150,000

PALO ALTO $2,088,000

Sold! This is a charming home located close to USF on a tree lined street. There are 2 BRs and 1 BA on the main ďŹ&#x201A;oor and an additional bedroom and bath located downstairs.Â

Enjoy upscale urban living in the heart of downtown ~ Elegant corner single level condominium~ Two balconettes & spacious patio~Elevator secure access~ 2 parking spaces.

650.566.3890 sgavande@apr.com License# 01856590

Michele Harkov 650.773.1332 mharkov@apr.com License# 01838875

Michael Johnston

650.533.5102 mjohnston@apr.com License# 01131203

MENLO PARK $2,000,000

SAN MATEO $1,998,000

Coming Soon! The Willows â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 3BD, 2BA home within strolling distance of Downtown Palo Alto.

Flexible space and expansive living areas allow for easy, spacious living in this 3 bedroom, 3 bath home. High-end kitchen, panoramic windows with mountain vistas.

Liz Rhodes lrhodes@apr.com 650.722.3000 License# 01179852

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APR SUMMER CAMPAIGN Janie Barman 650.759.1182 janie@apr.com License# 01270223

Emely Weissman

650.814.0374 eweissma@apr.com License# 01119038

SAN FRANCISCO $1,995,000

COFFEE CREEK $1,950,000

Noe Valley! Bright and beautiful 3/2 home with lush large garden. 1,820 sf elegant interior. This will have you wanting to live in SF!

Own a boutique resort! Bonanza King Resort on idyllic Coffee Creek is a rustic paradise. 7 cabins + amazing owner’s home.

Michele Harkov

John Barman 650.380.8440 jbarman@apr.com License# 01281597

Janie Barman

650.773.1332 mharkov@apr.com

650.759.1182 janie@apr.com

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Liz Rhodes lrhodes@apr.com 650.722.3000 License# 01179852

REDWOOD CITY $1,795,000

REDWOOD CITY CALL FOR PRICE

Sold! Beautiful 3 bedrooms, 2 bath home on tree-lined street. Remodeled kitchen, wide-plank hardwood floors & backyard retreat great for entertaining.

Stunning 6-year-new home. 3 bedrooms + enormous top floor loft. Friendly, open floor plan. Fresh carpet & paint.

A gem!

John Barman 650.380.8440 jbarman@apr.com License# 01281597

Michele Harkov 650.773.1332 mharkov@apr.com License# 01838875

Sophie Tsang

650.687.7388 sophie@apr.com

Liz Rhodes lrhodes@apr.com 650.722.3000 License# 01179852

SAN MATEO $1,750,000

BELMONT CALL FOR PRICE

SugarLoaf neighborhood a delightful find that’s packed with bonuses. 4 bedrooms, 3 baths with expansive backyard & In-law apartment with separate entrance.

Coming Soon! 4bed/2.5 ba home at Belmont Shores, near walking/biking trails. Top-rated Belmont/Redwood Shores school district.

License# 01399145

Christy Giuliacci 650.380.5989 christy@apr.com License# 01506761

Pat Kalish

650.523.4624 pkalish@apr.com License# 00702818

SAN MATEO $1,698,000

MOUNTAIN VIEW $1,598,000

Coming Soon! Duplex on a corner in charming area. This could be an owner-occupied property. Two separate entrances.

This is a project! Either tear down or do a nice remodel.

Stunning end unit town home built in 2011 offers upscale living while being just moments to vibrant downtown Mountain View & only 1.5 miles to the Google campus.

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Sherry Bucolo 650.207.9909 sbucolo@apr.com license# 00613242

APR SUMMER CAMPAIGN

Nadr Essabhoy

Shelly Roberson

650.248.5898 nessabhoy@apr.com License# 01085354

MOUNTAIN VIEW $1,598,000

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

Improv-music duo Equator (drummer Dennis Willoner and guitarist/bassist Beauman Edwards) perform in Palo Alto Lytton Plaza often on summer evenings.

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n a recent summer evening in Palo Alto’s Lytton Plaza, the scene was vibrant.

Children splashed in the fountain, patrons of local business enjoyed dining al fresco, dogs sniffed and scurried about, a group of teen girls rehearsed an elaborate dance routine and a juggler practiced his skills. At the heart of it all was Equator, an improv-music duo that listeners can find performing in the plaza on most Friday and Saturday nights throughout the summer.

Equator is made up of two locals: drummer Dennis Willoner and guitarist/bassist Beauman Edwards. The band’s time in the plaza is “very liberating, because it doesn’t require so many things that typical music jobs do require,” Edwards said. “There’s no tickets, there’s no T-shirts, there’s no venue.

No Facebook promotion schemes.”

Equator simply puts out a tip bucket and relies on the enthusiasm of passersby and loyal listeners alike.

“I’m not going to say we’re, like, hugely successful or anything but we have this cool niche where we can do it our way and it works out and we make money.”

Edwards compared the scene at Lytton Plaza to an open-air circus, where anyone is free to show up and do their thing. Equator’s own music is an improvised blend of funk, rock, jazz, psychedelic and

Locals bring love of music, free expression to the plaza Story by Karla Kane Photos by Veronica Weber anything else the players come up with, utilizing live looping, thanks to Edwards’ laptop set-up.

“I’ve heard from the audience and for us as well, it’s an adventure, musically,” he said. Equator welcomes audience participation and jamming of all kinds and Edwards said he loves the diversity of voices one might hear on any given night, from politicians to children selling chocolate for charity, to religious groups. He and Willoner gladly share the microphones and PA equipment they dutifully bring along.

Lytton Plaza has its other fairly regular musicians, Edwards said.

A blues combo typically takes the time slot before Equator. A saxophonist called Steve sometimes comes by and occasionally jams with the band. There’s a core group of fans who turn up often, while others come and go.

“I think part of what makes it work is that we’re accessible entirely. They don’t have to expect anything and they can also play along. And that’s really precious,” he said. “We’ve had many fans approach us and they say, ‘I saw you

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a month ago and since then I’ve been learning guitar and I’ve been practicing all week. Can I play with you guys?’” Edwards marveled, his voice tinged with awe. “This person entirely just picked up a new hobby because of us and now they are asking us to play music? Of course you can play! Holy cow.”

He recounted a recent encounter that could have turned into conflict but resolved happily, when a group of Hare Krishnas turned up at the time Equator usually starts its set.

At the request of one of the children in the group, they all ended up performing The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” together, followed by a chant led by a group member, with Edwards looping her voice.

Edwards said Equator has played in other spots and other cities but nothing quite compares to that special Lytton vibe.

“Improv-ing (sic) live is very nerve-wracking and rare. It requires a welcoming, friendly place and Lytton Plaza totally is that. And we can also radiate that, being so familiar with it, so people who aren’t used to doing

that can join us.”

Growing up in Palo Alto, Edwards spent much of his youth deeply enmeshed in video games, and video-game music. He didn’t feel like he fit in well at Palo Alto High School until he realized he could better connect his love of music with his school and social life.

“I definitely was a weirdo,” he said with a laugh. “I was a clown.”

His senior year, though, he and a friend formed the Paly Rocks Club, playing together with a group of fellow musicians most lunch times, where he became known as “Beauman the bass man” for his talents on the bass guitar. That was also the year he realized he wanted to go to music school, pulled up his below-average grades and was accepted into the prestigious Berklee College of Music. Though he was admitted to the school as a bass soloist, he quickly realized that he still craved the interplay of being in a band. Since college, the multiinstrumentalist been pursuing a career in music through a variety of ways, from teaching to continuing his passion for video-game music

and, of course, with Equator.

Willoner and Edwards first met in high school, where they played in a metal band, and formed Equator five years ago (Willoner plays in other bands and teaches music as well). Playing at Lytton seems a natural evolution of the community spirit nurtured through jams in their school days.

The plaza has a long history as being a hotspot of free speech and live music in Palo Alto. According to the city’s rules, live, amplified music is allowed at Lytton Plaza on a first-come basis every night as well as on weekend afternoons, no permit required. It’s up to the musicians to work out who plays when, with the general agreement that no one act should take up more than three hours (acoustic music is also allowed during all park hours; groups with more than 25 people or those wanting to reserve a specific time slot can request a permit).

“Lytton Plaza is just this awesome place where we have policies protecting performers. So that’s really the glory of it,” Edwards said. “That Palo Alto will put up with loud music and clowns, you know?” Q For more information on Equator, go to facebook.com/ equator1248/.

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

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Gunpowder, treason and plot Dragonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Equivocationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is an unequivocally well-done production

by Karla Kane

Lance Huntley

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o influential to the English language and the world of theater is the work of William Shakespeare that works about the Bard creating that work have become a sub-genre of their own. Bill Cainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Equivocationâ&#x20AC;? is an example of that genre, with Dragon Productions Theatre Company currently offering an excellent production of it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Equivocationâ&#x20AC;? takes places in the very early days of the 17th century, when Queen Elizabeth I and her Tudor dynasty made way for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wee King Jamie,â&#x20AC;? the Tudor cousin James I from Scotland, ushering in the Stuart era.

Shakespeare, known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shagâ&#x20AC;? in this play, is tasked by powerful politician and royal right-hand man Robert Cecil with writing the definitive dramatization of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gunpowder Plot.â&#x20AC;? That plot, the foiling of which is still celebrated in England on Guy Fawkes Day (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Remember, remember the fifth of Novemberâ&#x20AC;?), involved a group of Catholics planning on blowing up parliament, the protestant king and his family. Cecil orders Shag, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s under the crownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wealthy patronage, to help him use the story as propaganda. Shag, however, is deeply conflicted, especially as he does more research into the â&#x20AC;&#x153;plotâ&#x20AC;? and finds much in the official version that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t add up.

Not only that, but he discovers he harbors sympathy for the plotters, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve long been punished for their Catholic faith and who suffer torture and barbaric executions at the hands of Cecil and his men. In fact, he may harbor some Catholic tendencies himself.

Shag is deep into writing his â&#x20AC;&#x153;experimentalâ&#x20AC;? play â&#x20AC;&#x153;King Learâ&#x20AC;? at the time and says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not usually in the business of reporting on current affairs anyway. His fellow theater-troupe members are similarly conflicted, and they all go back and forth on the merits of accepting the money and pleasing the dangerous Cecil and their king on the one hand and being true to their art on the other.

In the meantime, Shag is also dealing with family issues. Separated from his wife, his younger daughter, Judith, loves her father but is neglected by him due to lingering grief over the death of her twin brother, Shagâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only son.

These personal issues may just turn up in his work as well.

To equivocate means to prevaricate, to use ambiguous or misleading language in an attempt to avoid both lying and telling the truth. In â&#x20AC;&#x153;Equivocation,â&#x20AC;? persecuted Jesuit priest Henry Garnet defines the term as a way to â&#x20AC;&#x153;tell the truth

Micheal Weiland and Paul K. Rosenfield play an actor and King James I in a scene from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Equivocation.â&#x20AC;?

THEATER REVIEW in difficult times,â&#x20AC;? by looking to the spirit rather than the letter of the issue being discussed. Shag hopes to learn from Garnet how to best do this through his plays, to tell the deeper truths behind the propaganda and drama (while saving his own hide and ensuring his own reputation for greatness will continue).

Cain, a Jesuit priest himself, has written a clever and dense script brought to life expertly by Dragon director Jenny Hollingworth and her six-person cast. The show blends Shakespearean in-jokes, references and quotations and often uses a play-within-a-play structure that requires the actors to switch back and forth between roles even within the same scene (familiarity with Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work definitely helps boost audience comprehension and enjoyment). Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pleasure to watch the master shape his â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scottish playâ&#x20AC;? (or is that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scott-ish?â&#x20AC;?) into a tale warning about extreme ambition in a way that both speaks to the affairs of his day and is timeless.

Of course, plenty of connections can be made to our present day, as well, as we consider â&#x20AC;&#x153;alternative factsâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;fake newsâ&#x20AC;? and the power of the media and the arts to become propaganda or, as Shag prefers, to hold up a mirror to society. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good reminder, too, of the power of theater to resonate with people of all sorts of backgrounds and beliefs, to reflect what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like to be a part of humanity. Shag states that he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to remind people what they are but rather that they are. Insight or malarkey? Either way, the man has a way with words.

The cast is wonderful, from Paul Stout as Shagâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best friend and leading actor Richard and the saintly-yet-cagey Garnet to new Dragon co-leader Alika U. Spencer-Koknar as Judith, the daughter who lives in the real world outside of the theater and who proclaims

to hate the artifice of soliloquies (delivered, of course, in soliloquy form). Michael Weiland skillfully portrays a plotter, a guard and an actor, while Paul Rosenfield is fabulous in his triple roles as the headstrong, talented young actor Sharpe, the pitiful, tortured plotter Thomas Wintour and King James, who hides a sharp and cruel mind behind his Scottish brogue and foolish exterior. Brad Satterwhite does triple duty as well but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as the menacing, scheming, unhappy Cecil that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most memorable.

Last but not least, local theater favorite Max Tachis makes his full-production Dragon debut as Shag, and he does not disappoint; another great performance to add to his resume.

So, in true Shakespearean fashion, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s politics, history, playswithin-plays, religion (politics are religion for those who think theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gods, Cecil shrewdly points out), twins, gory violence, strong language, nudity and more.

Yes, at around two hours and 45 minutes, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bit too long. Yes, it is a lot for the audience to take in, but well worth the slight brain fatigue you may feel afterward. A bloody good show. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.

What: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Equivocationâ&#x20AC;?

Where: Dragon Theatre, 2120 Broadway St., Redwood City.

When: Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.; through Aug. 19.

Cost: $27-$35.

Info: Go to dragonproductions.net.

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ianist Ignacio â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nachitoâ&#x20AC;?

Herreraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing began with classical pieces in the concert hall before transitioning to improvisations in the bandstand.

But the Minnesota residentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey has been also a decidedly international one, bringing him from his youth in Havana, Cuba, to a concert Thursday night, Aug. 9, at the Oshman Family JCCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Schultz Cultural Arts Hall in Palo Alto. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a path thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brought him from a tropical climate to a sometimes-frigid one to, in the case of the Peninsula, sometimes unpredictable temperatures. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The last time I played in Palo Alto was kind of chilly. I was kind of disappointed because of that,â&#x20AC;? said Herrera by phone from the MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis, in between teaching duties. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They put me in a really nice hotel with a swimming pool but I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use it!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; A child piano prodigy, Herrera heard all types of music at home while growing up in Havana. His father and mother were both pianists, with the former playing in local big bands.

Herrera began taking piano lessons at the Institute of Art conservatory in Havana City at age 7, continuing until he was 14. At 12, he performed a Rachmaninoff piano concerto with the Havana Symphony Orchestra.

Further pursuit of a European classical-based education, with an emphasis on Russian and Polish piano styles, helped cement his technique, theory and knowledge of the repertoire. But as a teenager, he was already developing an interest in the indigenous Cuban music that his father was performing.

That led eventually to a coveted gig as the musical director of Havanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historic Tropicana Club before relocating to Minnesota in 2002. He maintained ties to his native Cuba, though, including a work with the ÂĄCubanisimo! band.

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Cuban-born pianist Nachito Herrera will perform in Palo Alto on Aug. 9. solo recitals and in chamber and symphonic orchestral settings, his preferred instrumentation these days is piano trio. With the Cuban rhythm section of Daymar Calvario on bass and Edgar Martinez playing percussion rather than a drum kit, the Nachito Herrera Trio executes airtight performances as well as joyously free-flowing solos â&#x20AC;&#x153;Edgar is actually covering all percussion, particularly traditional ones like timbales, congas and bat¡ drum,â&#x20AC;? he explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have everything because what we do in our program, it is kind of like ... a musical tour around all different Cuban styles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just want to show the people our music from Cuba and our experiences we are having playing and how wonderful it is to be together,â&#x20AC;? he continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And being able to combine Cuban and classical music really brings us joy.â&#x20AC;?

The European classical and Afro-Cuban influences that have been crossing over throughout his career are showcased in his current works. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are also presenting the program of a record we produced in Havana called â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;From Bach to Havana,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was able to pick different classical piano pieces like Bachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Prelude in C Minor, Chopinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Prelude in E Minor and a part of Rachmaninoffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second piano concerto and play exactly what was written by the composer but over different Cuban rhythms,â&#x20AC;? he added.

Life in the northern U.S. has been agreeable for Herrera and

his family, though there was certainly an adjustment period, he said. While thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a huge Cuban ĂŠmigrĂŠ population, he pointed out that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a large Latino contingent.

As for the Minnesota weather, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tale of two wardrobes for the former beach boy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always like to say, as a good Cuban, for me it is nice in between April and Christmas, at the latest,â&#x20AC;? he said, with a good-natured chuckle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And my wife really loves it.

She likes the snow a lot, and she likes to play with the grandkids in the snow. She likes to do the sledding. But let me tell you something: The people here in the Twin Cities, they are very musical. They know music, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great to be around and part of,â&#x20AC;? he declared.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s able to frequent Minneapolisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; beloved Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant as both a performer and a patron, and Herrera and his wife are producing a concert in December that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re calling â&#x20AC;&#x153;Afro-Latin Renaissance.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just still havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t gotten used to the winters yet,â&#x20AC;? he said. Q Freelance writer Yoshi Kato can be emailed at yoshiyoungblood@earthlink.net.

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

When: Thursday, Aug. 9, 8 p.m.

Cost: $20 (students with valid IDs)-$40.

Info: Go to paloaltojcc.org/ Events/nachito-herrera-trio.

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Cari Blue serves enticing Caribbean cuisine in the heart of Redwood City

by Ruth Schechter | Photos by Adam Pardee

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t’s often the most unassuming restaurants, those off the beaten track, that serve the most memorable meals: a hole-in-the wall on some side street with the best burritos ever; a basement dive serving unforgettable dumplings. These surprising finds are all about home cooking, traditional fare learned in a family kitchen, watching a parent or grandparent and then taking those lessons to the next level.

Top: Clockwise from top, Cari Blue’s jerk chicken, pork ribs and shrimp curry. Above: Abel Cano and his wife, Lulu, opened Cari Blue in Redwood City three years ago, fusing Mexican staples with Caribbean cuisine.

Cari Blue is like that. Tucked into an unassuming block of lower Broadway Street in Redwood City, the restaurant is easily overlooked, despite its colorful window signage. Inside, the open space is bright and open, with cerulean blue walls, a few potted palms and simple, unadorned tables. Behind the counter, enticing aromas waft from a tiny open kitchen. With a pay-at-the-counter approach, a selfserve cooler of chilled beverages and a hand-lettered menu board overhead, you know right away that ambiance is not the restaurant’s big selling point. Happily, the food is.

Owner Abel Cano and his wife, Lulu, opened Cari Blue not quite three years ago, offering breakfast and lunch comprising Mexican staples with a smattering of Caribbean dishes.

While Mexican food is plentiful in Redwood City, Caribbean cuisine is not, and patrons started asking for more. So the menu evolved as Cano culled recipes from his childhood in Guatemala, focusing on the country’s unique amalgam of Spanish, Mayan, African and Caribbean cultures. Corn, beans, rice, pork, chicken and plantains form the backbone of the current fare. All main dishes come with a mound of rice, the ideal medium for soaking up the delicious sauces.

Cari Blue is not breaking new ground here. If all you know about Caribbean food is jerk, you will not be disappointed in the versions offered here.

Cano marinates chicken and pork for four days in a special mix of spices, jalapeño and citrus until the meat is velvety. The jerk chicken ($9.95) was an immediate rave — spicy and complex with incredibly tender meat, a spicy crust and plenty of bite.

I was delighted from the very first zesty bite. It’s served with generous dollops of coconut rice and soft, sautéed plantain so some sweet is available to counterpoint the heat. The dish is the real deal and a definite winner.

Oxtail ($11.95) is a house specialty, with tender dark meat clinging to small chunks of bone. While the dark gravy is rather too thick for my sensibilities and the bones a bit awkward to handle, the flavors are deep, rich and complex, with hints of clove and just enough heat. This is a dish to eat with good friends since the best way to savor the meat is to pick up the bones with your hands and gnaw away.

The curry flavors that pervade Caribbean cuisine are offered in various permutations on the menu, including chicken, pork, lamb, goat and shrimp. In a nod to Mexico’s pervasive influence, Cari Blue offers chipotle chicken ($9.95), a blistering entrée that will test the taste buds of the most die-hard heat freaks.

A side dish called corn festival ($4.75) is made up of three dense torpedoes of bland cornbread — a lackluster counterpoint to all the zippy flavors and the only real disappointment of my visits. Traditionally, “festival” means fried dumplings in Carib lingo.

Some of the appeal of Cari Blue lies in Cano himself, who makes a decided effort to make visitors feel welcome and accommodate different tastes. He offers vegetarian versions of his curry and jerk entrees, and eat-in meals are served on real plates with real utensils. Though I visited anonymously, Cano (continued on page 32)

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UNTUCKIT BRINGS ITS SHIRTS TO PALO ALTO ... UNTUCKit, the men’s clothing brand known for its buttondown dress shirts designed to be worn untucked, is opening a storefront at Stanford Shopping Center (next to Macy’s) as part of its push to aggressively expand its e-commerce business into malls across the country.

The New York-based company plans to open 50 new stores by the end of 2018, including the Stanford site, which is reportedly set to open by this fall. According to Reuters, UNTUCKit got some local assistance from Menlo Park VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, who invested $30 million in the company’s first major round of fundraising in 2017 to help it expand its physical presence with new stores nationwide. Since launching the company in a spare bedroom in his apartment in 2011, founder Chris Riccobono has pushed to expand UNTUCKit’s physical presence as well as its clothing line. The company’s apparel now includes men’s jackets, polos, sweatshirts and T-shirts and new children’s and women’s lines that include vests, scarves and tank tops.

“Shirts will always be a focus, but at this point 25 percent of what we’re selling are other products. There’s a lifestyle feel behind what we’re doing, and we launched in a time when top companies, and even French

restaurants, are allowing a dress code of jeans and untucked shirts. We’re very much just getting started. It’s not the end of the curve as far as what the business can do,” Riccobono told West Jet Magazine earlier this year.

—L.T. PIONEERING BOUTIQUE OPENS AT STANFORD ... Jeffrey, the pioneering designer boutique that is credited with helping transform Manhattan’s Meatpacking District into a high-end retail destination during the late 1990s, was set to open its first West Coast store at Stanford Shopping Center this week following a five-month remodel of the former Polo Ralph Lauren building that faces El Camino Real. The Stanford store will be the third in the boutique chain. Jeffrey may be new to the West Coast, but the avantegarde boutique established itself as one of the earliest specialty stores to stock men and women’s collections from high-end designers, such as Gucci and Ann Demeulemeester, after founder Jeffrey Kalinsky opened his first store in Atlanta in 1996. He opened his second store in New York City in 1999 and has since become one of the most influential people in the fashion industry. Kalinsky sold Jeffrey to Nordstrom in 2005 but still serves as the boutique’s president and chief executive, as well as executive vice

CHINA DELIGHT SAYS GOODBYE AFTER 22 YEARS ...

A longtime local favorite, China Delight closed its doors earlier this week. Its last day of business at 461 Emerson St. in downtown Palo Alto was on Tuesday, July 31. Owner Jin Huang said Monday that she plans to retire after running the restaurant for 22 years. She has been notifying customers since at least last week; several having lunch on Monday were visibly saddened by the news. The restaurant has a reputation for serving unassuming, affordable Chinese food.

Teresa Sierra, who moved to the Bay Area from Taiwan in 2010, started as a customer and has become friends with Huang, who is also from Taiwan.

Sierra helped out at the restaurant part-time. Translating for the owner, Sierra said Huang feels “so sorry” to close the restaurant but also a sense of relief.”She can take a break now,” Sierra said. Huang was busily taking orders and bringing checks to customers’ tables during the lunch rush while her husband cooked in the kitchen.—E.K. Compiled by the Weekly staff; this week written by Elena Kadvany and Linda Taaffe. Got leads on interesting and news-worthy retail developments? The Weekly will check them out. Email shoptalk@ paweekly.com.

Cari Blue chef-owner Abel Cano makes shrimp curry and jerk chickenat his Redwood City restaurant.

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joined me at my table to check on my experience and remembered me when I returned several weeks later. His enthusiasm is evident when he talks about his family’s cooking, especially the oxtail, which he says reminds him of home.

Cari Blue isn’t the most refined take on Caribbean food the Peninsula has to offer, and décor is well-meaning but minimalist. But if you’re craving a taste of abuela’s home cooking — if you’re fortunate enough to have a grandmother who knows how to make a zesty jerk sauce

— then Cari Blue definitely does the trick. Q Freelance writer Ruth Schechter can be emailed at Ruths315@sbcglobal.net.

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Chinese-speaking seniors play the Chinese tile game mah-jongg (above) and create ink landscapes (below) during Senior Friendship Day at Cubberley Community Center. The free weekly program offer seniors the opportunity to socialize and take part in Tai Chi, art, lectures and other social activities. Many of the seniors who immigrated to the United States as adults said the program provides them respite from their language struggles.

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By Chris Kenrick | Photos by Veronica Weber iving in Palo Alto as an older immigrant with limited English can be lonely and confusing.

“The language-speaking is the hardest part of life here,” said Hua Ai Ling, through a translator.

Following her adult children, Ling moved here more than a decade ago from Tianjin, China, where she was a teacher of engineering. Now, living here as a retiree, she said, “It’s a totally different lifestyle and environment.”

But Ling and other Chinese-speaking older adults have found a welcome respite from their language struggles and isolation at Cubberley Community Center where, every Wednesday, they gather for coffee, crafts, games, English lessons, lunch and socialization.

The Palo Alto Adult School’s “Senior Friendship Day,” billed as a program for seniors to enjoy educational and exercise activities, has become a de facto gathering spot for Chinese-speaking older adults. Up to 150 come every week for the program, which runs from 9:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. and offers circles for knitting, calligraphy, mah-jongg, handicrafts, poker, Tai chi, line dancing and more.

Here, Ling has made other Mandarinspeaking friends while enjoying Tai chi, among other activities. “I came and found out this is a very nice program, so I keep coming,” she said.

In its 25-year history, Senior Friendship Day’s population has shifted from primarily English-speaking to mostly Chinese-speaking, said Thanh Kosen

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Nguyen, a retired technology manager who has directed the one-day-a-week program for the past 17 years. “Every week we have more people joining because of word of mouth,” Nguyen said. “They feel like it’s their group, where they can speak their own language, talk about their family, children and grandchildren. They feel very comfortable.

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TRUMP TAX REFORM ... Lawyers Michael and Mark Gilfix, who specialize in elder law, will discuss the implications of new tax laws and provide practical tips on Tuesday, Aug. 28, from 2-4 p.m. at Avenidas, 4000 Middlefield Rd I-2 Cubberley Community Center, Palo Alto. The event is free but space is limited and pre-registration is required. To register, call 650-289-5400.

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Aug 7 the ďŹ rst week FREE! Lotus Dance Fitness â&#x20AC;˘ A nutritious lunch Every Tuesday, 3:30-4:30pm, Avenidas @ CCC. â&#x20AC;˘ Transportation Drop-in, free. â&#x20AC;˘ Socializing and â&#x20AC;˘ Group exercise Aug 8 more! â&#x20AC;˘ Physical therapy Reiki Appts available For details and to schedule a tour, Call 650-289-5400 to schedule. $30/$35 Aug 9 call (650) 289-5499.

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Aug 14 Drop-in Collage Club 9:30-11:30am â&#x20AC;&#x201C; every Tuesday, Avenidas @ CCC. All levels welcome. No instruction provided.

Please bring your own project, scissors, glue, brushes, and other supplies. Magazines, cards, and other printed images available. Drop-in, free.

Aug 15 One-to-one tech tutoring Avenidas, days & times vary. Call 650-289-5400 to schedule. $10/$15 Avenidas Blooms ďŹ&#x201A;oral arranging 10am-2pm at Avenidas @ Cubberleyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;join with other volunteers to turn leftover ďŹ&#x201A;owers into beautiful bouquets for frail seniors.

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Aug 17 Club Aveneedles (Needlework Club) Every Friday, 2:30-4:30pm, Avenidas @ CCC. Bring your own project. Light instruction only.

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Aug 21 Avenidas Walkers 10am â&#x20AC;&#x201C; every Tuesday. Call 650-387-5256 for trailhead info or to schedule. Free.

Aug 22 Blood Pressure Screening 9:30-10:30am, Senior Friendship Day @ CCC, Building M. Drop-in, free.

Aug 23 Avenidas Village Coffee Chat 10am, Avenidas @ CCC. Space is limited. RSVP required. Call 650-289-5405. Free.

Book Club: Killers of the Flower Moon

by David Grann 2:30-4pm, Avenidas @ CCC. Drop-in, free.

Aug 24 Social Bridge 1-4pm, Avenidas @ CCC. Call 650-289-5436 for more info. Drop-in, free.

Aug 27 Avenidas fall class registration opens Avenidas Rose Kleiner Center If your aging loved ones need daytime care, you can enroll them in the Avenidas Rose Kleiner Center and receive the ďŹ rst week for FREE! Call (650) 289-5499 for details.

Aug 28 Presentation: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trump Tax Reform: Your Tax and Estate Planningâ&#x20AC;? by Michael GilďŹ x and Mark R. GilďŹ x Avenidas @ CCC. Space is limited. RSVP Required.

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Aug 29 Armchair Travel: South Africa â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Entebeni Conservancy, Zimbabwe and Botswana 1:30-2:30pm, Avenidas @ CCC. To pre-register call 650-289-5400. Free.

Aug 30 Ukulele for Beginners Workshop 2:30-4:30pm, Avenidas @ CCC. Register by 8/24. Call 650-289-5400 to register. $20.

Aug 31 Need a ride? Call Avenidas Door-toDoor Transportation 650-289-4111 for more info or to schedule. Fees vary.

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helps seniors age in place, will discuss their experiences in a free coffee chat Thursday, Aug. 23, at 10 a.m. Space limited to 12. To reserve a spot, call Robbi McCaughan at 650-289-5405.

SENIORS AND STARTUPS? ... More than 200 older adults packed the technology fair, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seniors Shaping Technology: Your Opinion Matters!â&#x20AC;? held on June 14 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

Entrepreneurs aiming to serve the senior population brought an array of products to the fair, including robotic companions, automated pill dispensers and technology-assisted home care and transportation devices. One company, Aquabuddy, offered a â&#x20AC;&#x153;shower in a bed.â&#x20AC;? Another, Dual Jet Marine, displayed a fullsized canoe to attract fair goers to its product, which enables people with mobility impairments to steer kayaks and canoes. Keynote speaker Dennis Boyle of the design firm IDEO, told the audience that marketing products specifically aimed at seniors is problematic because most older adults donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel their age. And while most seniors insist they want to â&#x20AC;&#x153;age in placeâ&#x20AC;? in their own homes, many fail to adjust their surroundings before a crisis hits. To successfully sell to seniors, Boyle advised entrepreneurs to focus on peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happiness rather than assuming their decline. The technology conference was organized by the Avenidas Generations Lab and supported by a long list of co-sponsors, including Google.

Items for Senior Focus may be emailed to Palo Alto Weekly Contributing Writer Chris Kenrick at ckenrick@paweekly. com.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the program offers classes in English as a Second Language and U.S. citizenship preparation.

The senior nutrition program La Comida delivers a hot lunch. Once a month, a volunteer nurse from Avenidas comes by to offer blood pressure checks and â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in flu season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; flu shots.

Also monthly, a volunteer hairdresser stops in to give free haircuts.

From time to time, 100th birthdays are celebrated. But the major highlight for most participants and their families, said Nguyen, is the annual Chinese New Year celebration, held in the Cubberley Theater. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Many of these people have great talents from their previous lives â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they play chamber music, they play erhu (Chinese two-string fiddle); a lot of people play piano, violin and do traditional Chinese dance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very exciting for them to get on stage and perform for the public, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be blown away by their hidden talents,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Tjen Chandra â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who, like many others, followed her adult children to the United States â&#x20AC;&#x201D; said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth her nearly two-hour bus ride to get to Senior Friendship Day each Wednesday from her retirement community in Santa Clara. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like it because I can see everybody talking and it makes me happy,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Chandra, a piano teacher and native Chinese-speaker who spent most of her life in Jakarta, Indonesia, came to the U.S. in 2002 after her husband died. She became a U.S. citizen in 2008. She volunteers her musical talents at Senior Friendship Day and also at the Mountain View Senior Center.

Lori Rock, far right, leads line dancing lessons for seniors participating in the Senior Friendship Day program at Cubberley Community Center. The free weekly senior-focused program, serves about 150 seniors and has been offered at Cubberley for 23 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My son married with a Korean and therefore I want to try to talk English so I can have conversation with my daughter-in-law,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Palo Alto resident Judy Liu, a longtime volunteer with Senior Friendship Day, said there were â&#x20AC;&#x153;hard times for our familyâ&#x20AC;? when she immigrated to California in 1988 with her two sons, then 11 and 15. She worked in Chinese

restaurants and later as a cashier in a tech company cafeteria.

She got her sons through college, and even graduate school, and after retirement began volunteering as a translator and all-around helper at Senior Friendship Day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People here (are) like me.

We immigrated very late, hardly speak the language,â&#x20AC;? Liu said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the next generation, all wonderful, not like us.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;They (were) educated here, and they give everything to this country as their own country, so they are doing very good.â&#x20AC;?

For more information on Senior Friendship Day, go to the Palo Alto Adult School catalog at paadultschool.org and search for â&#x20AC;&#x153;senior friendship day.â&#x20AC;? Q Contributing writer Chris Kenrick can be emailed at ckenrick@paweekly.com.

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Greater Miranda resident Greg Simons said he and his wife felt safe raising children in the secluded neighborhood.

While housing prices have increased, turnover here has been minimal, Simons said.

On the banks of

Adobe Creek Rural-suburban feel gives Greater Miranda a “miles away” feeling Story by Alicia Mies | Photos by Adam Pardee

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andlocked on three sides with three cul-de-sacs jutting out of Miranda Avenue, the neighborhood known as Greater Miranda is isolated in ways that many other neighborhoods in Palo Alto are not.

The neighborhood has consisted of 55 homes since the 1960s and boundaries are strictly defined by Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Adobe Creek and Foothill Expressway. Miranda Avenue is the only way in and the only way out, limiting foot traffic and often times confusing UPS and Uber drivers. Moana Court, Arroyo Court and Miranda Green form three spokes, or cul-de-sacs, extending east from Miranda Avenue.

The neighborhood’s close

proximity to Adobe Creek makes the community seem even more remote. Many residents enjoy the dual rural-suburban character of the neighborhood, finding solace in the sounds of the creek while still being a 10-minute drive away from Los Altos and downtown Palo Alto. Wild animals like coyotes and deer also regularly use the creek as their passageway.

“This morning when I was walking, I saw two big male deer walking across Miranda Avenue,” resident Carla Matlin said. “It’s not what you expect to find in Palo Alto. We’re big campers so it’s almost like camping year round.”

Matlin, a manager for a service agency, moved to Greater Miranda in 2006. Since then,

her expectations for the neighborhood have been exceeded in every way, she said. She’s been able to raise her children within an enclosed neighborhood, feeling comfortable to let them hop from house to house to play with other neighbors’ children.

“I don’t worry that the kids go out, because neighbors will let me know if anything is going on or if one of my kids have shown up at their house,” Matlin said, “We (neighbors) all look after each other.”

Don Nielson, the neighborhood association leader, also recalled comfortably raising his four children in Greater Miranda with his wife, Helen. His children, who have all long since graduated from Gunn High School, often

played on swings set up over the creek with the neighborhood’s aggregation of kids, using the creek as if it were a playground.

“My wife, one day, kept track of all the kids who ran through the kitchen door through the garage. It would blow your mind. It was like 100 in and out during the day,” Nielson said. “(My children) all cherish (their childhood) to this day. They liked the notion of growing up here,” he said.

A resident of Greater Miranda since 1973, Nielson has closely documented the history of the neighborhood for over 18 years, reporting everything from the region’s origins as a water source for Ohlone Indians to its annual (continued on next page)

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Miranda Avenue is separated from Foothill Expressway by a wire fence. The street is quiet and is the only way in and out of the Greater Miranda neighborhood.

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Three cul-de-sacs, including Arroyo Court, flow off of Miranda Avenue and have Adobe Creek flowing behind them.

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The Greater Miranda neighborhood’s close proximity to Adobe Creek makes the community seem remote. Many residents enjoy the dual rural-suburban character of the neighborhood, finding solace in the sounds of the creek while still being a 10-minute drive away from Los Altos and downtown Palo Alto. (continued from previous page)

Fourth of July celebration and Jelly Bean Olympics.

He recalled different times when problems have arisen and the neighborhood has banded together to solve them. One issue

HOME SALES

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Information is recorded from the deeds after the close of escrow and published within four to six weeks.

Atherton

74 Holbrook Lane H. Collins to A. Gu for $5,280,000 on 06/22/18; built 1948, 5bd, 3,450 sq.ft.; previous sale 08/26/2013, $3,300,000 65 Selby Lane Kostick & Wang Limited to Irish Wolfhound Real Estate Holdings for $9,380,000 on 06/27/18; built 2006, 6bd, 10,070 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/09/2008, $210,000 52 Tuscaloosa Avenue Agather Investment to A. & L. Lam for $23,500,000 on 06/22/18; built 2012, 6bd, 10,586 sq.ft.; previous sale 03/01/2012, $14,000,000

East Palo Alto

939 Baines Street Morgante Trust to S. Alva for $1,360,000 on 06/29/18; built 2000, 3bd, 1,820 sq.ft.; previous sale 08/29/2000, $449,000 2544 Hazelwood Way J. Lu to Swartzwelder Trust for $970,000 on 06/29/18; built 1956, 3bd, 1,100 sq.ft.; previous sale 01/24/2014, $475,000 156 Jasmine Way Carlo Trust to G. Rogers for $1,070,000 on 06/29/18; built 1951, 3bd, 1,110 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/03/2004, $449,000 1144 Laurel Avenue M. Culps to P. Nalamati for $995,000 on 06/29/18; built 1949, 4bd, 2,170 sq.ft.

136 Maple Lane Breckenridge Property Fund to L. & D. Chen for $1,400,000 on 06/27/18; built 2006, 4bd, 2,120 sq.ft.; previous sale 12/30/2005, $829,000 953 Runnymede Street M. Madriz to Wang Trust for $1,150,000 on 06/27/18; built 1940, 5bd, 1,750 sq.ft.; previous sale 10/06/2005, $700,000

Los Altos

630 Arboleda Drive Hartter Trust to M. Grainger for $3,550,000 on 06/25/18; built 1951, 3bd, 1,471 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/20/1994, $436,000 316 Blue Oak LaneVernon Trust to A. Karsan for $3,300,000 on 06/26/18; built 1956, 4bd, 2,301 sq.ft.

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that brought neighbors together was the push to make Miranda Avenue safer. Alta Mesa Memorial Park owned a portion of the roadway that ran through the middle of the cemetery. In 2002, the cemetery put in a chain-link fence along the road to keep

amont Trust to Lee Trust for $5,250,000 on 06/28/18; built 1959, 3bd, 2,832 sq.ft.; previous sale 08/31/1995, $863,000 26 Deep Well Lane M. & J. Brobst to Kim Trust for $1,950,000 on 06/28/18; built 1972, 2bd, 1,840 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/28/2018, $1,170,000 638 Linden Avenue Stark Trust to S. Burke for $6,200,000 on 06/28/18; built 2006, 4bd, 3,465 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/24/2002, $1,665,000 290 Quinnhill Road A. & T. Shpunt to J. Ruhl for $6,168,000 on 06/28/18; built 2016, 5bd, 4,300 sq.ft.; previous sale 09/24/2015, $2,600,000

Menlo Park

540 Encina Avenue Tanis Trust to Sadler Trust for $3,300,000 on 06/26/18; built 1952, 5bd, 3,030 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/21/2014, $2,300,000 145 Gloria Circle Berger Trust to G. Zhou for $3,800,000 on 06/27/18; built 1996, 4bd; previous sale 12/30/1996, $835,000 835 Monte Rosa Drive G. Meskimen to V. Thadhani for $3,250,000 on 06/26/18; built 1960, 4bd, 2,190 sq.ft.; previous sale 02/15/1983, $330,000 2035 Oakley Avenue C. & Y. Huang to Ardico Limited for $2,400,000 on 06/27/18; built 1939, 4bd, 2,143 sq.ft.; previous sale 11/10/2010, $1,245,000 176 Sand Hill Circle Gibs2004 Trust to P. Parikh for $1,800,000 on 06/28/18; built 1971, 2bd, 1,850 sq.ft.; previous sale 08/13/1971, $62,000 1230 Sharon Park Drive #55 A. Walker to R. Sanghvi for $1,521,500 on 06/28/18; built 1978, 2bd, 1,860 sq.ft.; previous sale 08/02/2017, $1,125,000 1645 Valparaiso Avenue E. Jones to A. Parandehgheibi for $2,995,000 on 06/25/18; built 1954, 4bd, 2,240 sq.ft. (previous sale 03/25/1992, $525,000

Mountain View

181 Ada Avenue #14 D. Allen to Y. Zhao for $1,385,000 on 06/25/18; built 1986, 2bd, 1,206 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/11/2004, $520,000 1354 Dale Avenue #12 E. Boudrant to S. Bhatia for $1,360,000 on 06/25/18; built 1977, 2bd, 1,478 sq.ft.; previous sale 10/31/2014, $815,000 179 Fair Oaks Avenue J. & M. Mayen to Villa Tolomei Holdings for $1,700,000 on 06/25/18; built 1960, 1,325 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/18/2012, $475,000

people out of the graveyard, making the pathway very narrow for foot and bicycle traffic. After the neighborhood convinced the cemetery to take down the fence, part of the path was replaced.

Neighbors pushed for an even safer asphalt road, which the city eventually put in a couple of years later.

“Part of the history of this neighborhood has been how we gained rightful access to our neighborhood. It was a community effort, totally, and to the city’s credit, they eventually helped in the process,” Nielson said.

Although there are still some traffic jams on nearby Arastradero Road, the neighborhood is now very safe, resident Greg Simons said. He was born and raised in Palo Alto and moved back to be close to family. He raised his two daughters in Greater Miranda and, like Matlin and Nielson, felt safe having his children roam around the neighborhood and visit other neighbors’ houses.

1618 Hollingsworth Drive Murphy Trust to T. Toksoz for $3,042,500 on 06/26/18; built 1947, 4bd, 2,350 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/30/1987, $270,000 1575 Mercy Street N. Smith to A. Mylavarapu for $2,550,000 on 06/28/18; built 1939, 3bd, 1,610 sq.ft.; previous sale 11/08/2013, $1,400,000 127 Montelena Court W. & S. Sun to F. Jiang for $1,602,500 on 06/25/18; built 1999, 3bd, 1,867 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/06/2010, $700,000 125 Orbit Way Pulte Home to C. Fang for $1,374,500 on 06/28/18; previous sale 06/28/2018, $1,449,000 3500 Pyramid Way Pulte Home to Ruan Trust for $1,927,500 on 06/28/18 3502 Pyramid Way Pulte Home to M. Hsu for $1,678,500 on 06/26/18 3506 Pyramid Way Pulte Home to G. Chen for $1,636,000 on 06/27/18 3602 Pyramid Way Pulte Home to H. Choi for $1,679,000 on 06/27/18 265 Sierra Vista Avenue D. Lindsay to S. Moon for $1,400,000.00 on 06/27/18; built 1979, 2bd, 1,394 sq.ft.; previous sale 09/19/2001, $442,000 853 Sierra Vista Avenue S. & R. Lee to Colony Sierra Homes for $1,400,000 on 06/26/18; built 1953, 1bd, 704 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/19/2007, $567,000 1901 Stella Street Classic 647 Sierra Vista to Jackson Bay Investments for $1,946,500 on 06/28/18; built 2017, 3bd, 1,609 sq.ft.

1902 Stella Street Classic 647 Sierra Vista to W. Wu for $1,648,500.00 on 06/26/18; built 2017, 2bd, 1,370 sq.ft.

Palo Alto

1031 Embarcadero Road C. Ferris to Omegacloud Corporation for $2,000,000 on 06/26/18; built 1948, 3bd, 1,721 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/18/1971, $35,000 742 Homer Avenue J. Buzi to G. Qin for $1,700,000 on 06/26/18; built 1926, 2bd, 660 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/09/2018, $1,350,000 632 Keats Court E. Pak to Y. Pan for $2,650,000 on 06/28/18; built 1963, 1,982 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/25/2002, $890,000 3931 Park Boulevard S. & F. Vanderrick to J. Singer for $2,028,000 on 06/28/18; built 1951, 3bd, 1,329 sq.ft.; previous sale 09/11/2014, $1,125,000 1414 Pitman Avenue Keller/

While housing prices have increased, turnover here has been minimal and nothing has alarmed or pushed out residents, Simons said.

“My parents live on Willmar Drive (in Green Acres) and when a house goes on sale there, there are just multiple bids and it’s crazy traffic,” Simons said.

“And around here, it’s not quite as heated.”

In general, Nielson thinks the neighborhood should stay relatively the same as it has been for over 50 years. In a stark contrast to many other neighborhoods in Palo Alto, Greater Miranda is not likely to face any pressure to overbuild or challenge infrastructure.

“There won’t be much change structurally,” Nielson said. “It’s pretty much the same neighborhood we moved into.” Q Alicia Mies is an editorial intern at the Palo Alto Weekly.

She can be emailed at amies@ paweekly.com.

Bohman Trust to P. Zhao for $5,880,000 on 06/25/18; built 1957, 4bd, 2,215 sq.ft.; previous sale 12/01/1988, $645,000

Portola Valley

250 Dedalera Drive Elder Trust to Thomas-Ross Trust for $2,900,000 on 06/29/18; built 1951, 3bd, 1,440 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/23/2007, $1,555,000 501 La Mesa Drive Johnson Trust to T. Been for $2,450,000

FACTS CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS: Whistle Stop Child Development Center, 3801 Miranda Ave., No. T6B FIRE STATION: No. 5, 600 Arastradero Road LIBRARY: Mitchell Park branch, 3700 Middlefield Road LOCATION: Miranda Avenue, Arroyo Court, Miranda Green and Moana Court NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: Don Nielson, 650-941-2429 PARKS (nearby): Terman Park, 655 Arastradero Road; Juana Briones Park, 609 Maybell Ave. POST OFFICE: Cambridge, 265 Cambridge Ave.; 3801 Miranda Ave. (inside VA hospital) PRIVATE SCHOOL: Bowman International School, 4000 Terman Drive PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Juana Briones Elementary School, Fletcher Middle School, Gunn High School SHOPPING: El Camino Real, San Antonio Shopping Center

on 06/29/18; built 1956, 3bd, 1,760 sq.ft.

140 Ramona Road J. & D. Arruda to Lauermann-Kuo Trust for $1,680,000 on 06/26/18; built 1930, 2bd, 1,380 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/25/1997, $183,000

Stanford

10 Ryan Court C. Rice to Stanford University for $1,962,500.00 on 06/28/18; built 1991, 4bd, 2310 sq.ft. (previous sale

07/22/2008, $1,375,000)

Woodside

307 Olive Hill Lane Liebeck Trust to Olive Hill Lane Limited for $9,300,000 on 06/28/18; built 1977, 5bd, 5,980 sq.ft.; previous sale 11/29/2010, $8,000,000 3324 Woodside Road S. & P. Brown to Pnonic Cororation for $5,568,182 on 06/29/18; built 1958, 3bd, 2,150 sq.ft.

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HELEN MILLER 650.400.3426 | helenhuntermiller@gmail.com | License # 01142061 BRAD MILLER 650.400.1317 | bradm@apr.com | License # 00917768 www.HelenAndBradHomes.com

Square footage, acreage, and other information herein, has been received from one or more of a variety of different sources. Such information has not been verified by Alain Pinel Realtors®. If important to buyers, buyers should conduct their own investigation.

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THIS WEEKEND OPEN HOMES UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL TIMES ARE 1:30-4:30 PM

3 Bedrooms 20 Linda Vista Av $9,150,000 Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker (408) 355-1508

CUPERTINO 20488 Stevens Creek Blvd #1705 $1,298,000 Sun Deleon Realty 543-8500

EAST PALO ALTO

552 Marsh Rd $1,500,000 Sat/Sun 1-4:30 Coldwell Banker 324-4456 3214 Alameda De Las Pulgas $1,995,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456

2330 University Av #380 Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services

2328 Branner Dr $3,400,000 Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 847-1141

MOUNTAIN VIEW

2 Bedrooms - Condominium $829,888 947-4700

LOS ALTOS

1 Bedroom - Condominium 500 W Middlefield Rd #71 Sat 12-5/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services

1847 Juarez Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

$2,988,000 947-2900

5 Bedrooms

3 Bedrooms

411 Grayson Ct Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$1,800,000 323-1111

2 Bedrooms - Condominium 1230 Sharon Park Dr #64 $1,585,000 Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200 1290 Sharon Park Dr #49 $1,649,000 Sun Intero Real Estate Services 543-7740

4201 Park Blvd Sat/Sun Deleon Realty

$1,488,000 543-8500

670 San Antonio Rd #9 Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services

$1,575,000 947-4700

4 Bedrooms 4146 Amaranta Ct Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$2,588,000 543-8500

5 Bedrooms 1117 Hamilton Av Sun Deleon Realty

$7,988,000 543-8500

Below, SILVAR shares some of McGowan’s tips for protecting your information from hackers: Secure your password. Your password is your first level of defense from hackers, so you need a secure password for your email and other important accounts. Use a complex password with no less than five and preferably 12 characters and resetting the password every few months. A passphrase that you would remember that is lengthy with an upper case and lower case letters, numbers and symbols would be even better. Use different passwords for social media networking sites, email accounts, online, banking, credit cards and other miscellaneous user accounts.

Use a firewall and anti-virus software.

Ensure the software and your computer’s operating system are up to date.

3 Bedrooms 838 Cedro Way Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,950,000 941-7040

$12,500,000 324-4456 $6,388,000 851-1961

2 Bedrooms - Condominium $535,000 543-7740

3 Bedrooms $1,899,950 947-4700

6 Bedrooms 7 Colton Ct Sat/Sun 1-5 Coldwell Banker

$3,998,000 851-2666

SAN CARLOS 3 Bedrooms 1724 Greenwood Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$2,150,000 324-4456

124 Peter Coutts Cir $1,475,000 Sat/Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 847-1141

SUNNYVALE 1 Bedroom - Condominium 617 Arcadia Ter #102 Sat 2-4:30/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

$699,000 947-2900

3 Bedrooms 346 E Washington Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

$1,499,000 947-2900

4 Bedrooms 1641 Eagle Dr Sat/Sun Deleon Realty

$2,960,000 543-8500

1232 Mandarin Dr Sat/Sun 1-5 Intero Real Estate Services

$2,298,000

1397 Bedford Av Sat/Sun Sereno Group

$2,489,000 947-2900

947-4700

WOODSIDE 2 Bedrooms 7 Palm Circle Rd Sat/Sun 1-4 Rossetti Realty

$1,999,999 854-4100

4 Bedrooms 163 Otis Av Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,895,000 529-1111

215 Olive Hill Ln Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$7,195,000 529-1111

6 Quail Ct $4,190,000 Sun 2-4 Intero Real Estate Services 543-7740

5 Bedrooms

SANTA CLARA 3 Bedrooms - Townhouse 2959 Gala Ct $1,395,000 Sat/Sun Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 941-4300

14732 Skyline Blvd Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker

$1,949,000 324-4456

6 Bedrooms 116 Fox Hollow Rd Sun Coldwell Banker

$7,500,000 851-2666

$$ FOR SALE $$

REALTORS® Share Ways to Keep Private Information Secure

McGowan said no electronic device is 100 percent secure from hackers, so you need to be diligent about protecting your information. “A hacker just has to be right once,” said McGowan.

707 Westridge Dr Sun Coldwell Banker

471 Lakeview Way Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services

Your Realtor & You Protecting their clients’ private information is a top priority for REALTORS®. At a recent Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS® (SILVAR) meeting on cyber security, Nicholas McGowan, a Petaluma police sergeant and member of the San Francisco Crimes Task Force and the Bay Area chapter of the High Technology Crime Investigators Association, said cyber security is a concern not only for businesses, but for anyone who connects to the internet.

$6,495,000 851-2666

947-4700

3 Bedrooms - Townhouse

2 Bedrooms

1 Applewood Ln Sun Coldwell Banker

1458 Hudson St #216 Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services

PALO ALTO

MENLO PARK

$5,995,000 851-1961

4 Bedrooms - Townhouse

11600 Old Ranch Ln $3,798,000 Sat/Sun Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700 $6,450,000 325-6161

25 Bear Gulch Dr Sun Coldwell Banker

140 Willowbrook Dr Sun Coldwell Banker

947-4700

$2,975,000 851-1961

5 Bedrooms

REDWOOD CITY

4 Bedrooms

25616 Moody Rd Sun 1-5 Coldwell Banker

139 Crescent Av Sun Coldwell Banker

8 Bedrooms

$1,798,000

$2,395,000 851-2666

4 Bedrooms

221 N Rengstorff Av #20 $1,398,000 Sat/Sun Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700 432 Bella Corte Sat/Sun 1-5 Intero Real Estate Services

LOS ALTOS HILLS

STANFORD

3 Bedrooms - Condominium

14 Tynan Way Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$669,000

3 Bedrooms - Townhouse

4 Bedrooms

$6,995,000 323-1111

3 Bedrooms

4 Bedrooms

2 Bedrooms - Condominium

931 Laurel Glen Dr Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

PORTOLA VALLEY

3 Bedrooms

ATHERTON

6 Bedrooms

Secure your wireless network in your office and at home. It is not safe to have a shared network because it is vulnerable to being hacked. Configure a personal or business network and a separate network for guests.

Stay away from free public WiFi. Bring your own hotspot or use a Virtual Private Network (VPN), especially when traveling abroad.

Carefully evaluate email attachments.

Phishing through email is rampant.

Some of these emails contain a virus or some malicious software. Do not click on a suspicious link, even if the email purportedly comes from a credit card company or bank. Go directly to the company’s website and access the information from there.

Back up your data. Periodically back up your data and store the data offline.

Purchase an external drive to back up important files.

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Consider cloud based storage. Cloud based storage saves your hard drive and is cost effective. Cloud companies save data on multiple locations, back up the data again and again, and update software regularly. *** Information provided in this column is presented by the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS®. Send questions to Rose Meily at rmeily@silvar.org.

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220 Computers/ Electronics

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215 Collectibles & Antiques

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350 Preschools/ Schools/Camps Neuroscience Summer Camp

Mind & Body 425 Health Services

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14 Unknown, as a citation (abbr.)

15 Stella ___ (Belgian beer) 16 ___ Locks (Sault Ste. Marie waterway) 17 Amorphous amounts 18 “Oh, crud!”

19 It looks like 2 in binary 20 Tootsie Roll Pop biter, in a classic ad 21 Chops into cubes 22 Word after blessed or catered 24 “Hush!”

26 Ornate 27 Bengal beast 28 Upper limit 30 Milan-based fashion label 31 Got a hold of, maybe 32 1960s campus protest gp. restarted in 2006

Answers on page 52.

33 Sounding like a complete ass?

35 Tax pro 38 Bluegrass artist Krauss 39 Message on a tablet, maybe?

41 “And Still I Rise” poet 43 Shelve indefinitely 44 Larry, e.g.

45 Vacation vehicles 48 Uniform preceder?

49 Metallic mix 50 Close 52 Singer-songwriter Rita with the middle name SahatÁiu 53 Grocery sign phrase that’s grammatically questionable 55 Steve of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” 56 Elan 57 ___ bag 58 Go around 59 New Orleans-to-Miami dir.

60 Equilibrium situations 61 1990s point-and-click puzzle game

Down 1 Foe of Othello 2 Part-time Arizona resident, perhaps 3 Xenon, e.g.

4 Put-___ (shams) 5 Ulnae’s neighbors 6 “It’s ___ to the finish” 7 Take advantage of room, or demonstrate what four themed Down answers do?

8 Beau and Jeff, to Lloyd Bridges 9 Number in a Roman pickup?

10 She played one of the “Golden Girls” 11 Shipboard direction 12 Chekov portrayer on “Star Trek” 13 “See next page” abbr.

21 Purchases designed to last a long time 23 Null’s companion 25 Math proof ending 26 Sawyer’s friend 27 “Decorates” a house on Halloween, perhaps

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29 Irish-born children’s book author Colfer 31 El ___, Texas 34 Provoke 35 Jim Carrey title role, with “The” 36 Some light beers 37 “Cakes and ___” (W. Somerset Maugham book) 38 Intensely eager 40 Ewe in the movie “Babe” 41 Pioneering video game systems 42 Generic 44 Back burner location 46 “Westworld” character ___ Hughes 47 Mr. Potato Head pieces 49 Seaweed plant 51 Body shop challenge 54 Spoil 55 Withdrawal site ©2018 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@ jonesincrosswords.com)

ENGINEERING Guzik Technical Enterprises has job opp. in Mountain View, CA: Sr. Software Engineer. Dvlp SW apps for new generatn of head & media test eqptmt, digital signl analyzrs & digital signl process’g algrthms. Mail resumes refrnc’g Req. #RFV82 to: Attn: K. Perevoztchikov, 2443 Wyandotte St., Mountain View, CA 94043.

Engineering. Various levels of experience.

Informatica LLC has the following position available in Redwood City, CA: Principal Software Engineer (VKCA): Perform product design and developmental tasks of a moderate to high complexity which require research and analysis. Telecommuting permitted.

Submit resume to: Informatica LLC, Attn: Global Mobility, 2100 Seaport Blvd., Redwood City, CA 94063. Must reference job title and job code: VK-CA. FINANCE HP Inc. is accepting resumes for the position of Manager, Finance in Palo Alto, CA (Ref. #HPIPALHORD1).

Lead moderate to complex financial analysis for a global sub-business or finance function, exercising a good understanding of the business to determine the best method for achieving objectives. Mail resume to HP Inc., c/o Andrew Bergoine, 11403 Compaq Center Drive W, MS M31290, Houston, TX 77070. Resume must include Ref. #, full name, email address & mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in U.S. without sponsorship. EOE. Newspaper Delivery Routes Immediate Opening: Routes available to deliver the Palo Alto

Weekly, an award-winning community newspaper, to homes in Palo Alto and Menlo Park on Fridays. From approx. 750 to 1,750 papers, 8.75 cents per paper.

Additional bonus following successful 13 week introductory period. Must be at least 18 y/o. Valid CDL, reliable vehicle and current auto insurance req’d. Please email your experience and qualifications to jon3silver@yahoo.com with “Newspaper Delivery Routes” in the subject line, or call Jon Silver, 650-868-4310 Senior Developer Design, dev & implement customized system solutions using front-end & back-end tech; Dev innovative cloud-based solutions ensuring compatibility of system components w/business req; Dev web applic based on Google Cloud Platform Products (AppEngine, Compute Engine, & others); Troubleshoot existing code, debug prgrms, prep sftwr tests, produce doc, mod existing sftwr applic & edit existing infrastructure mapping structure; Id & resolve sftwr malfunctions; Design, enhance, & customize system sftwr to improve function & further strengthen the integration capabilities of current & future system mods; Manage realtime data streams, integrate 3rd party capabilities & build interactive user interfaces; Monitor applic functionality to id potential problems, confirm sftwr ops by conducting tests, trial runs, & mod processing seq. & codes. Must have strong knowledge /use of JavaScript libraries (jQuery, Angular), HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, & Node.js. Bachelor’s degr in cmptr engng or its foreign equiv.

2 yr/exp in job offered or 2 yr/exp as Sr Systems Engineer, 40 hr/pwk, job site Mountain View, CA. Email res: Bonnie Baker - bonnie@leftfieldl abs.com, at Left Field Labs, LLC. Spanish Teacher

525 Adult Care Wanted household cleaning 3 hrs weekly

Business Services 604 Adult Care Offered A PLACE FOR MOM The nation’s largest senior living referral service. Contact our trusted,local experts today! Our service is FREE/ no obligation. CALL 1-855-467-6487.

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751 General Contracting A NOTICE TO READERS: It is illegal for an unlicensed person to perform contracting work on any project valued at $500.00 or more in labor and materials. State law also requires that contractors include their license numbers on all advertising.

Check your contractor’s status at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB (2752). Unlicensed persons taking jobs that total less than $500.00 must state in their advertisements that they are not licensed by the Contractors State License Board.

799 Windows Dennis Lund Window Cleaning Best In Quality Free Estimates: (650) 566 1393 Fully Licensed & Insured Service from San Mateo to Morgan Hill and all points in between

Real Estate 805 Homes for Rent Palo Alto, 3 BR/1BA Btfl house in Midtown. Hrdwd floor, fresh paint. Nice nghborhd close to YMCA. Easy access to 101. Avlble Aug 3rd. $4500/6 mo. & then mo. to mo.

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Fogster.com is a unique website offering FREE postings from communities throughout the Bay Area and an opportunity for your ad to appear in the Palo Alto Weekly.

Answers to this week’s puzzles, which can be found on page 51.

Santa Cruz Ocean Getaway Home in Surfers’ Paradise, Pleasure Point. 1 BR apt. Ocean view from LR and BR, shared deck, BBQ & hot shower.

Garage & parking. QUIET community.

Landlords on site. Great credit & refs please. 1yr lease min. Sorry, no dogs. $2,850/mo. 650-328-9399

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Credit unimportant. V.I.P. Trust Deed Company www.viploan.com Call 818 248-0000 Broker-principal BRE 01041073. (Cal-SCAN)

Legal Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement ZING LEGAL FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN644202 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Zing Legal, located at 21500 La Loma Drive, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): KAREN KRAMER 25100 La Loma Drive Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/12/2012.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 6, 2018.

(PAW July 13, 20, 27; Aug. 3, 2018)

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THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM WESTERN RECOVERY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN644302 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Western Recovery, located at 2200 Geng Road, Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): WESTERN SERVICE CONTRACT CORP. 2200 Geng Road, Suite 200 Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 2/18/2004.

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

(PAW July 20, 27; Aug. 3, 10, 2018) BAGEL AND DONUT BASKET FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN644444 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Bagel and Donut Basket, located at 1705 Branham Ln., San Jose, CA 95118, Clara County.

This business is owned by: A General Partnership.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): TYHUOY NGOV 1208 Lynn Ave. San Jose, CA 95122 VOEUT HENG 1208 Lynn Ave. San Jose, CA 95122 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 7/13/2018.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 13, 2018.

(PAW July 27; Aug. 3, 10, 17, 2018) STANFORD SMILE DESIGN FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN644275 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Stanford Smile Design, located at 1805 El Camino Real Suite 202, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): BABAK MOSTAAN DDS 26100 Duval Way Los Altos Hils, CA 94022 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 06.25.2008.

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

(PAW July 20,27; Aug. 3, 10, 2018) MEDALLION RUG GALLERY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN643597 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Medallion Rug Gallery, located at 353 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): POLYTEX CORPORATION 370 Convention Way Redwood City, CA 94063 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/01/1987.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on June 20, 2018.

(PAW July 20, 27; Aug. 3, 10, 2018) TAQUERIA EL GRULLENSE M & G INC. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN644506 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Taqueria El Grullense M & G Inc., located at 3636 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306274, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): TAQUERIA EL GRULLENSE M&G INC. 3636 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 94306274 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/17/2018.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 17, 2018.

(PAW July 27; Aug. 3, 10, 17, 2018) JAMAICA ON WHEELS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN644544 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Jamaica On Wheels, located at 33 Encina Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ALACIA STACIAN HAFNER 33 Encina Ave. Apt. 530 Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 18, 2018.

(PAW July 27; Aug. 3, 10, 17, 2018) LITTLE HILLS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN644729 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Little Hills, located at 2625 Middlefield Rd., #407, 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): TINY HILLS, INC. 2625 Middlefield Road, #407 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 07/01/2018.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 26, 2018.

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Sports Shorts HOOP IT UP ...Stanford senior Alanna Smith accepted an invitation to rejoin Basketball Australia’s selection camp in preparation for the FIBA Women’s World Cup, which is scheduled to begin Sept. 22 in Spain.

Smith is one of 20 players invited to camp, which runs from August 10-17 at the Centre of Excellence at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra. The camp helps determine the 12-player squad that will travel to the World Cup.

TRACKING SUCCESS ...East Palo Alto Greyhounds’ Layla McGee added the 11-12 girls discus throw to her gold medal collection, winning the event with a throw of 106-4 last weekend at the USATF Junior Olympic Nationals at North Carolina A&T in Greensboro. Meanwhile, Menlo i Greyhounds distance runner Jason Gomez added national titles in the 800 and 1,500. Ryan Wilson and Tanner Anderson also ran to AllAmerican honors with top finishes.

Unlike her shot put title earlier in the week, McGee grabbed the lead with her second attempt and solidified her position on her fourth attempt. EPA Greyhounds Kei’niyah Talton earned All-American status with her sixthplace finish in the girls 9-10 400. She raced 1:03.80, within a second of second place in the competitive race.

CASHING IN ...Stanford grad Alix Klineman and teammate April Ross went the distance in a match that lasted one hour, 28 minutes before losing to top-seeded Sara Hughes and Summer Ross, 19-21, 21-19, 17-15, in the championship match of the AVP Hermosa Beach Open on Sunday. Klineman and Ross share $10,000 in prize money.

ON THE AIR Friday USA swimming: Junior National Championship meet, Irvine, 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., usaswimming.org

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Wednesday USGA women’s golf: U.S. Women’s Amateur, 1 p.m., FS1

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PASA swimmer Danielle Carter (white cap) swam 2:18.17, which is .10 off her personal best, in the 200-meter back at the Speedo Junior National Championships. The Los Altos High senior has verbally committed to Cal.

SWIMMING

Future of the PASA program looking good Young team sends 41 swimmers to Futures meet in Santa Clara

by Keith Peters t was only a few years ago -2014 to be exact -- that Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics was on top of the junior swim world.

The PASA men won the team title at the Speedo Junior Nationals and combined with the fifth-place women to take the overall crown.

PASA head coach Tony Batis will forever cherish those titles and appreciate the efforts that went into them. He knows such achievements aren’t easy to come

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by and that’s why he’s enjoying the moments provided by his swimmers at this week’s Speedo National Championships at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center in Irvine.

“No concerns. We’re young,” Batis explained during Wednesday’s prelims on a hot, muggy morning. “We lost a lot of leadership from last year.”

That leadership found its collective way to the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships

this spring where Batis had nine PASA products in the meet, including six from Stanford and one each from Duke, Arizona State and Michigan.

PASA’s future could be found in Santa Clara, where a Futures meet got under way Thursday. Batis will have 41 swimmers competing, including members of the Central Coast Section Girls champion Gunn, along with swimmers from Palo Alto.

In Irvine, the numbers are much

smaller. On Wednesday, for instance, PASA had just five individuals (three women, two men) swimming plus a women’s 400 free relay.

Batis knew his talent pool would be limited this summer and did something unusual during the training season.

“My wife and I celebrated our 25th (wedding anniversary) by taking a trip to Africa,” he said. (continued on next page)

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

Visiting the ancestral home Trip to Tonga eye-opening and educational

by Glenn Reeves ver since the Global Leaders program was established at the school, Menlo-Atherton High students have made annual service trips to various places over summer vacation.

Those destinations have included Guatemala, Ecuador and Ghana over the last 10 or so years.

This year the trip was made to Tonga, an island that has made a significant contribution to the M-A football program.

Jesse Fifita, a 2007 MenloAtherton graduate who went on to play at Oregon State and is the current football team’s defensive line coach, led this year’s journey, a memorable experience he described as an eye-opener.

Fifita was born here, but his parents came from Tonga.

“I went back once before when I was 13 for my grandfather’s

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funeral,’’ Fifita said. “I didn’t like it then. But going back as an adult was different. They have so little, but they’re so happy. My parents came here to provide a better life for me and my siblings. I wanted to give something back to them and to the M-A community by going to the place my parents came from.’’

The group from M-A (15 students and five chaperones) made the trip between June 10 to June 23. Two members of the school’s football team made the trip, recently graduated Dmitri Sakalia and Joe Fifita (no relation to Jesse).

Upon arriving in Tonga they traveled to the village of Talaufo’ou, bonded with the local kids, and set to work helping renovate a middle school. They repainted three of the classrooms, (continued on page 55)

Courtesy of Jesse Fifita

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WOMAN OF THE YEAR ... Stanford track and field standout Valarie Allman, a six-time All-America selection, school record holder and two-time conference champion, was named the Pac-12 Woman of the Year. Allman and UCLA All-American gymnast Christine Peng Peng Lee will share the honor as the first cowinners in the 13 years it has been awarded. Allman, who is a candidate for the NCAA Woman of the Year award, earned her bachelor’s degree in product design. She completed her Stanford career as a two-time Pac-12 discuss champion and the school record-holder in the 20-pound weight throw.

Menlo-Atherton High grad Dmitri Sakalia poses with some of his new best friends in Tonga. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 3, 2018 • Page 53

Sports AMATEUR GOLF

Sung gets an afternon tee time Palo Alto resident in field of U.S. Women’s Amateur

by Rick Eymer competitive swing at 2:20 p.m.

Unlike Heck, who will be playalo Alto resident Lauren Sung just might benefit ing in her own time zone, Sung from an afternoon tee time may still think it’s lunch time when she walks onto Monday when the U.S. the first tee.

Women’s Amateur gets That afternoon start underway at The Golf has to be preferable to Club of Tennessee in the crack-of-dawn time Kingston Springs. for Heck. Most of us Stanford commit Rawill still be sleeping chel Heck, who will be soundly when Heck, a junior in high school who also starts on the in Memphis this fall, first tee, drives her first has the distinction of shot onto the (hopeteeing off at 7 a.m., fully) fairway. the earliest available Lauren Sung Sung, a 14-yeartime. She’ll likely be finished and relaxing in the club- old soon to be freshman, has no house before Sung takes her first complaints about her spot in the

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156-player field. If not for Yealimi Noh, she’d just be another missedit-by-that-much golfer.

It was only fitting that Noh, a high school senior who is committed to UCLA, stepped up for Sung. She’s one of the reasons Sung just missed the cut on July 2, where she finished in a three-way tie, shooting a 73, for the ninth and final spot.

Noh won the qualifier at Sequoyah Country Club in Oakland with a 4-under 66. She and San Ramon’s Yoonhee Kim, a junior at UC Davis, were the only golfers to break par. Sung was assigned the first alternate role.

Nineteen days later, Sung was accepted into the field after Noh

won the U.S. Girls Junior at Poppy Hills, where Kim caddied for her.

It took 49 holes of match play for Noh to grab the title, which included exemptions into the next two U.S. Women’s Amateur Championships, beginning this year, and an exemption into the 2019 U.S. Womenís Open Championship at the Country Club of Charleston (S.C.), provided she is still an amateur.

Noh, who tees off at 7:11 a.m. (how’s that for luck) has said she wants to turn pro as soon as possible but does intend to spend at least one year at UCLA. Long story short: Noh’s win opened the way for Sung’s trip to

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“I’ve never done that before.”

Batis is patient with his current situation, knowing he’ll be losing some swimmers to college this fall.

“We have good numbers, just not a lot at the top,” he explained, knowing full well how quickly that can turn around. PASA, in fact, will help host the 2019 Phillips 66 National Championships and Speedo Junior Nationals at Stanford.

On Wednesday, the best individual PASA finish came from Danielle Carter in the women’s 200-meter backstroke. She clocked a 2:18.17 for 26th overall, just missing the C final.

PASA was well-represented in the women’s 100-meter freestyle where recent Menlo-Atherton High grad Izzy Henig -- she’ll swim at Yale in the fall -- tied for 44th with a 57.49. Teammates Brooke Schaffer (58.29) and Carter (59.42) finished 78th and tied for 97th, respectively.

All three had at least one top-five finish at the CIF State Meet in the spring.

The team of Henig, who swam a leadoff leg of 57.46, Palo Alto High grad Zoe Lusk, Carter and Schaffer wound up 11th in the

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Stanford junior Albane Valenzuela received an exemption into the U.S. Women’s Amateur after finishing second in the event last year.

Tennessee, where she can forgot all about her performance at the Northern California Junior Tour Championships at Poppy Hills, which ended Tuesday.

A trio of Stanford golfers are also in the field: junior Albane Valenzuela (9:01 a.m., 10th tee), sophomore Mika Liu (7:33 a.m. from the 10th hole), and junior Zizi Wang (1:36 p.m., 10th hole).

Valenzuela, an honorable mention All-American, earned an exemption by finishing second at last year’s U.S. Women’s Amateur, making the cut at this year’s U.S. Women’s Open and ranking among the world’s top 25 amateurs.

Liu, a first team All-Pac-12 selection, received an exemption after playing for the U.S. in Curtis Cup competition.

Stanford commit Brooke Seay (9:12 a.m., off the first tee), who will be a senior in high school this fall, made the cut in last year’s U.S. Women’s Open to earn a trip to Tennessee.

Wang, who recorded a 73.03 scoring average for the Cardinal, made the cut at this year’s U.S. Women’s Open to earn an exemption.

Several other area golfers are in the mix, including Los Altos’ Simar Singh, who will be a freshman at Oregon in the fall, Pioneer-San Jose grad Sabrina Iqbal, a CIF state champion her freshman year on her way to TCU in the fall, Redwood Shores teen Lucy Li, Harker grad Katherine Zhu, a four-time West Bay Athletic League champion who will be at Cal this fall and San Mateo resident Ashely Sims. Q

Izzy Henig (white Cap) helped the PASA 400 free relay finish 11th at the Speedo Junior National Championships in Irvine. The M-A grad is headed to Yale in the fall. finals of the women’s 400 free relay as the foursome clocked 3:51.93. The winning time was 3:47.43 by Brea Aquatics.

In the men’s 100 free, Brooks Taner of PASA also failed to reach the evening finals while clocking 52.80 while tying for 77th. Teammate Lucas Walker was 70th in the men’s 400 IM with a 4:44.72 time.

Incoming Stanford freshman Amalie Fackenthal of DART Swimming in Sacramento finished third in the women’s 100 free in 56.36 while fellow Cardinal freshman David Medej took seventh in the men’s 100 in 51.17.

The meet continues through Saturday with prelims starting at 9 a.m., and finals at 6 p.m.Q

Sports JUNIOR OLYMPICS

Young team just starting to grow Palo Alto based team gets fast education

by Rick Eymer as the Palo Alto girls coach, said alo Alto sophomore Adora he thinks there’s a couple of playZheng experienced high ers who have a chance to make the level water polo com- varsity.

“It’s a young team and athletpetition for the first time this weekend at the USA Water Polo ic,” Stotland said. “They’re workNational Junior Olympics as a ing hard, making improvements member of the newly-formed even from the beginning of the Mayfield 650 (Six-Five-Oh) girls tournament.”

Zheng has exactly one year of water polo club.

Mayfield 16U, a team without water polo experience, though she’s been swimming any varsity experience since she was five. and very little junior Most players at the varsity experience, lost Junior Olympic level all its games in its first have been in a program appearance at Junior for at least six or seven Olympics. years before entering Zheng couldn’t be high school. happier.

Mayfield has seven “Wins and losses are players who have yet to the last thing on our set foot in a high school minds,” Zheng said afclassroom, though in a ter Mayfield suffered Adora Zheng sense, that’s what the losses to San Gabriel, 13-4, and Viper Pigeon Black, 13- summer provides. It’s more like 1, at Menlo College on the next- a classroom and the pool is their to-last day of the tournament. “It’s laboratory.

“We focus on two or three more important to spend time together and gain experience. This things each game and then talk entire summer has been a really about it afterward,” Stotland said. good experience. I’m so glad to “That’s what we focused on for be on this team and to bond with our success. The wins will come . these guys while working on the . . though maybe not today.”

After swimming for about 10 things we need to improve.”

Mayfield coach Doug Stotland, years, Zheng felt it was time to who will entering his second year try a team sport.

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“I loved it,” Zheng said. “It was completely new to me and I had no idea what I was doing. But I got so much support. The coaches made the team want to continue the sport.”

650 was facing its third shutout of the tournament as the game entered its final minute. Zheng just missed a penalty shot and Paige Thomas had a good shot knocked away by the Viper goalie.

Catherine Giffen was unfazed and took a shot that glanced off the goalie’s fingertips and into the net. It was the team’s 12th goal of the tournament. All good things take time.

With Mayfield’s regular goalie unavailable, Emily Lott and Maya Rathore each spent a half as the goalie.

Mayfield played its best game in its final game against Tustin Irvine Patriot Aquatics, losing 10-6.

“I like being with this team,” Zheng said. “We’re getting good experience against some of the best teams in the nation.”

Other members of the 650 include Andrea Tetzlaff, Ella Fadil, Ellie Walsh, Jacqueline Lai, Kathryn Mendenhall, McKenna Rausch and Sophia Henderson.

The Stanford girls water polo club’s top team in each of the four

age groups of the USA Water Polo B faced in the tournament and National Junior Olympics won its they came out of it with a 4-4 final game, with the 16U A team record.

The 10U boys team featured proving the most successful in goalie Gates Gamble, who was terms of results.

In boys action No. 22 seeded good enough to play for the 12U Stanford beat CMAC, 6-4, to fin- boys in session one. They also finished 4-4. ish 15th overall.

The girls’ 18U A The 16U girls, team, coached by Bercoached by Kyle Utnice O’Connor, won sumi, beat secondfive of its eight games, seeded 680 A, 10-8, including the final two. to finish ninth overall.

Stanford beat San Jose The team featured Almaden, 10-8, to finplayers from Castellija, ish 17th overall.

Gunn, Harker, Menlo, Locals on the roster Menlo-Atherton, Saincluded Castilleja’s cred Heart Prep and St. Madison Lewis and Francis and all of them Jacqueline Lai Claire Pisani, Menlo will make contributions to their respective schools Park resident Isabella Mandema, Sacred Heart Prep’s Nadia Pathis fall.

The 16U A team was seeded quin, Gunn’s Zoe Banks and 12th and accumulated a 5-3 re- Woodside’s Maya Srinivasan.

The Stanford 14U A team cord over the four-day tournament, getting solid play from a downed CDM, 11-9, finish 19th overall. They compiled a 4-4 variety of players.

The 16U B team also surprised mark for the tournament.

The 14U B team, seeded 48th, people, finishing 10th at the gold level, 13 spots higher than their placed sixth as the gold level, losing in a shootout to Diablo Alli43rd seed would indicate.

The team had several talented ance, on the final day. Stanford (5players, including Palo Alto’s 4) finished 22 spots higher than Chesnie Cheung and Alexandra its seed.

SoCal Black A, coached by Lee, Gunn’s Kayla Lin, Isobel Taylor, Michelle Fang and Kara Olympian and Stanford grad MeJacobsen, Castilleja’s Eliza- lissa Seidemann, placed third.

The Stanford 12U team (3-5) beth McElhinney and Menlo School’s Sophie Reynolds. Play- beat LA Premier 7-5 to place 19th ers also came from James Logan, overall, a good seven places highHarker, Monta Vista and Lick er than its seed.

The Menlo Park 14U team finWilmerding.

No. 34 seed Kearns was the ished 3-5 and fourth at the bronze lowest seeded opponent Stanford level. Q

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Jesse Fifita (left, rear) and Joe Fifita join in the final day festivities.

Courtesy of Jesse Fifita

The Tongian school before Menlo-Atherton students overhauled it.

Tonga (continued from page 53)

Courtesy of Jesse Fifita

M-A grad Dmitri Sakalia takes a break from painting with his coworker.

installed new blackboards, brought computer supplies, chairs, tools, weed eaters, lawn mowers, backpacks and other school supplies.

“The day we left they had a concert for us,’’ Fifita said. “The kids pulled out the pencils we brought and were so excited to have pencils.’’

The M-A students helped enrich the daily experience of kids in that Tongan village and enrich their own lives as well.

“It was a life-changing experience for them,’’ Fifita said of the M-A students. “When it was time to go some of them didn’t want to leave. They asked to stay and said they’d come back when school starts.’’

“It was great,’’ said Sakalia on Wednesday after his first day of

fall football practice as a member of the team at San Jose State.

Sakalia, like Jesse Fifita, was born here of Tongan-born parents. “Really humbling. I learned so much from those kids. An unbelievable experience. We had a lot of fun. I wish I could go back.’’

Maybe he will get a chance.

“My goal is to go back next year with a bigger group, maybe the whole football team,’’ Fifita said. Q

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East Palo Alto | 1/1 | $898,000 Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 2270 Euclid Avenue Explore the possibilities. Remodel, expand or build new on 11k+ SF lot.

Menlo Park | 4/3.5 | Price Upon Request Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 925 Cotton St Updated 4BD/3.5 BA, open floor plan, separate studio/office/playroom.

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Clara Lee and Kien Ho 650.325.6161 CalRE #01723333/02058254

Elaine White 650.324.4456 CalRE #01182467

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