Vol. XXXVI, Number 1 ■ October 10, 2014
Spectrum 16
Transitions 35
Eating Out 42
Movies 45
Home 48
Puzzles 87
■ News City Council challengers see influx of cash
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■ Arts UN film festival focuses on universal human rights
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■ Sports Stanford football faces pass-happy WSU
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Upfront
Local news, information and analysis
City Council challengers see influx of cash Lydia Kou, A.C. Johnston lead the way in campaign contributions by Gennady Sheyner
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ncumbents may have the name recognition, but challengers are more than holding their own when it comes to cash raised in Palo Alto’s heated City Council race. According to campaign statements filed Monday, council hopefuls Lydia Kou, A.C. John-
ston, Cory Wolbach, Tom DuBois and Eric Filseth have all raised more than $15,000 so far this year for their council bids. Kou, a Realtor who is affiliated with the citizens group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning and who helped lead the effort against Measure D last year, led the way
with $33,985 in cash contributions received as of Sept. 30. This includes $1,000 from Joe Hirsch, founding member of the citizens group, and Lazslo Tokes, a Barron Park resident who took part in opposing Measure D. Cheryl Lilienstein, president of the citizens group, added $200, as did William Ross, a local attorney who has frequently criticized the council’s land-use decisions. Other members of the citizens group have also received hefty
contributions in recent months. Eric Filseth reported contributions of $20,268; while Tom DuBois reported $17,286 in cash received. For all three candidates affiliated with the group, the list of contributors includes the Measure D campaign leaders (Hirsch and Lilienstein), slow-growth “residentialists” (Emily Renzel contributed to DuBois and Kou) and critics of recent land-use and architectural trends (Douglas Smith and Ruth Lowy).
Johnston, an attorney whose list of endorsers includes scores of former mayors and commissioners, raised $28,260 for his campaign. His donors are largely attorneys, business professionals, veterans or members of the city’s political establishment, including Vice Mayor Liz Kniss ($500) and Councilman Larry Klein ($250). Each of the three incumbents also raised more than $10,000 (continued on page 8)
LAND USE
Council opts to keep planned-community zoning Despite recent problems, process should be retained and fixed, officials say by Gennady Sheyner
A Veronica Weber
Strike up the band
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ELECTION 2014
Water district candidates focus on drought, flooding Incumbent Brian Schmidt and challenger Gary Kremen approach issues with diverging styles
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he winner in the race for a single seat at the Santa Clara Valley Water District will take on major challenges if elected to represent District 7 this November. He will face a deepening drought and lingering problems with downstream flooding when the rains do come. The two candidates, incumbent and board Vice Chairman Brian Schmidt and challenger Gary Kremen, are seeking the largely north county seat, which includes
by Sue Dremann the cities of Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos and Los Gatos. And they have very different styles when it comes to tackling the major issues. Schmidt, an environmental attorney who has served on the board since 2010, takes a detailed approach that favors collaboration; he has represented the district on flooding issues at the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority and is on the district’s Water Conservation Ad Hoc Committee, which
drafted the district’s response to the drought. Kremen, board president of the Purissima Hills Water District in Los Altos Hills and a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, prefers an aggressive tack that would use political influence to rise above foot-dragging bureaucracies to get the problems solved. Their campaign spending also reflects their approaches. Schmidt (continued on page 14)
cknowledging that the cit y’s cont roversia l planned-community (PC) zoning is flawed, Palo Alto officials signaled on Monday that they would rather fix it than scrap it. The zoning, which allows developers to exceed regulations in exchange for negotiated public benefits, has been on the books since the early 1950s and has enabled about 100 local developments. But the most recent project to win approval — a housing development on Maybell Avenue — was criticized as too dense and was overturned by a referendum last year, prompting the council to put a moratorium on the process and to consider reforms. City Councilman Greg Schmid Monday noted that the zoning designation was originally used for things like affordable housing. But with dense commercial proposals recently using the zoning, that hasn’t been the case lately. In the past six years, Schmid observed, only 83 units of affordable housing were built as part of PC projects. (Staff estimates that about 1,000 units of affordable housing have been constructed through the zoning.) “It’s not working,” Schmid said. “It is working in a sense that it’s drawing in ideas ... but it’s not providing us affordable housing, which we’re looking the hardest for.” Councilwoman Karen Holman shared Schmid’s concerns but nevertheless made a case for keeping the planned-community
process in place. The council should declare, she said, what public benefit the city would like to see and then consider the concessions that could be offered, rather than the other way around, which is the current practice. “I think we had this upside down for a good long while, and I think that’s the push-back we’ve seen from the community,” Holman said. On Monday, Holman and Schmid were joined by all but one other council member present (Greg Scharff opposed and Larry Klein was absent) in agreeing that despite its flaws, the zoning should remain on the books. They expressed general consensus on the types of reforms that need to be made, including better enforcement of public benefits, more clarity of the rules and more initiative by the council in soliciting benefits. Scharff, however, argued that the process should be abolished entirely. Residents have lost confidence in the zoning, he said, and simply tweaking it won’t suffice. “I think it’s completely broken in the community,” Scharff said. “I think people don’t have any faith in the process.” He pointed to state laws that already provide density bonuses to developments as an incentive to include affordable housing, bonuses that were used in the development of 801 Alma St. Aside from affordable housing, which could be acquired through means such as the state law, (continued on page 9)
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Around Town
MAKING A POSITIVE IMPACT ... The Kiwanis Club of Palo Alto announced that Allan Berkowitz is the recipient of the organization’s third annual Kiwanis Angel Award. Berkowitz will be honored at a public reception on Thursday, Oct. 23, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Palo Alto. The community-service award recognizes individuals in the Palo Alto area who have had a significant and positive effect on youth in the community and beyond. Berkowitz is being praised for his 15 years of service as executive director of Environmental Volunteers, which “provides hands-on science and nature education through classroom-based programs, summer camps and the EcoCenter at the Palo Alto Baylands,” according to a press release. In the past year, Environmental Volunteers has tallied more than 7,000 hours of teaching and served more than 9,600 students in 50 local schools, according to the statement. Tickets for the public reception are $50 a person if reserved before Oct. 16 and $55 at the door. Funds raised by the event will go to Kiwanis International’s Eliminate Project, a partnership with UNICEF to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus. OUT OF EDEN ... Almost Eden Garden Project, which grows organic produce for several local organizations that provide meals and services for homeless and lowincome families, has been asked to move by the end of the year so that the East Meadow Drive property where their garden is located can be sold. The regional Baptist denomination, which has hosted the garden for the past 16 years, has decided to sell the property in order to be able to repair several of the many churches it owns. Almost Eden volunteers say they have launched a search for a new home — preferably in Palo Alto, with lots of sunlight and access to water. Suggestions can be made by visiting the Almost Eden Garden Project website at almosteden.org. FOR THE RECORD ... After living abroad for a spell, A.C. Johnston returned to Palo Alto two years ago and is still brushing up on all the pressing local issues. One thing that he is still learning about is his own voting record, which became an issue during last month’s debate at the Palo Alto Rotary Club, when the council
hopeful was asked whether he has actually voted locally. Johnston said he has voted “regularly.” When he was later asked by the Weekly about last year’s Measure D referendum, he responded, “I voted for it.” Then things got kind of weird. A resident who was concerned about Johnston’s record obtained it from the County Registrar of Voters’ Office and provided it to the Weekly. The record showed that in November 2013, he obtained an absentee ballot but did not turn it in (it also showed that he voted, in absentee, in November 2010, June 2012 and November 2012). When asked about the discrepancy between the record and his answer to the Weekly, Johnston said that he had checked with the registrar after the Rotary debate and was told that he did in fact vote for Measure D. This week, after being confronted with the voting record, he called the registrar back and received a different answer: that he had not voted in November 2013. So had he or hadn’t he? Johnston said he recalls submitting his ballot at a polling place, though he isn’t sure whether that was in November or in June 2014. “I don’t have a sufficient specific recollection,” Johnston told the Weekly. The registrar’s office, for its part, informed the Weekly that it is “definitely plausible” that someone in the office made a mistake when providing information to Johnston over the phone. The record, the office confirmed, clearly shows that he voted in 2012 but not in 2013. So does that mean, the Weekly asked Johnston, that you probably didn’t vote last November? His reply: “Looks like that’s probably right.” TOP HONORS ... Two Stanford University professors were awarded the nation’s highest honor for achievement in the fields of science and engineering at the White House in Washington on Oct. 3. President Barack Obama presented Thomas Kailath and Burton Richter with the National Medal of Science for “their invaluable contributions to their fields,” Obama said in a statement. “These scholars and innovators have expanded our understanding of the world ... and helped improve countless lives.” Kailath and Richter will be honored along with eight others at a White House ceremony later this year. n
Upfront EDUCATION
Paly to host three-day grand opening for Media Arts Center Event features Arianna Huffington, James Franco and a public open house
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by Elena Kadvany
alo Alto High School is celebrating the opening of its state-of-the-art, multimillion-dollar Media Arts Center next weekend with three days of tours, guest speakers and an open house. From Thursday, Oct. 16, through Saturday, Oct. 18, there will be events to showcase the 23,000-square-foot, two-story building, which is chock full of cutting-edge video, editing, recording and other journalismrelated technology. After three years of construction on the building, Paly journalism students and teachers at the start of this school year were finally able to make full use of the center, which houses the school’s seven student publications. The Media Arts Center is the result of the $378 million Strong Schools Bond passed by voters in 2008. The technology housed within the facility — from 119 brand new Apple desktop computers and 13 LCD television screens to six soundproof interview booths and a high-tech green room for Paly’s daily
broadcast show, InFocus — was also made possible through the efforts of the Paly Media Arts Boosters, a group formed to provide advisory and financial support for media arts-related projects and initiatives, and a $2.7 million Career Technical Education grant from the state for which former Principal Jackie McEvoy applied. Paly’s longtime journalism teacher, Esther Wojcicki, and fellow teacher and adviser Paul Kandell pitched the concept of the media arts center to the school board in 2008 after the school bond passed. They started by talking to students about what the journalism facility of their dreams would look like. “The question was, what is the newsroom-classroom of the future going to look like?” Kandell said. The resulting vision was of a building that promoted multiplatform publishing, collaboration, innovation, transparency and a sense of community. And the sense of community is meant to stretch beyond Paly’s
IF YOU’RE GOING Thursday, Oct. 16 5:30-7 p.m.: Hors d’oeuvres and viewing the Global Lives Project/ tours 7-8:30 p.m.: Guest speakers’ presentations Friday, Oct. 17 5-8 p.m.: Community open house; RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/ PalyMediaArts. Saturday, Oct. 18 5-8 p.m.: James Franco art show and film premiere. Tickets are $5 for students (with student ID) and $20 for general admission. Profits will go to support the Palo Alto High School Media Arts Center programs and East San Francisco Bay Area based nonprofit Firehouse Art Co. To purchase, go to eventbrite. com and search for “James Franco art show.”
campus. Wojcicki and Kandell want the center to be a true community space for public meetings,
debates, lectures, film festivals and conferences. In that vein, the second day of the opening celebration will be a public open house from 5 to 8 p.m. There will be tours of the building as well as food trucks. “The second day is really for the community, to bring in the community to let them see what they funded,” Wojcicki said. “Without them, we would not have the building. They passed the bond, and then the school board supported the whole issue. It really took a huge number of people working together for this building to happen.” An invitation-only event on Thursday will feature Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post, David Kelley of Ideo, who now heads Stanford University’s d. school; and Shelby Coffey, journalist and trustee of the Newseum in Washington, D.C. All three speakers relate to ideas and concepts featured in the building, from Ideo’s design thinking that’s incorporated into journalism curriculum to decorative elements inspired by the
Newseum, an interactive, journalism-focused museum. Wall Street Journal technology journalist Kara Swisher will moderate the evening. On the last day, Oct. 18, Paly graduate and journalism student James Franco will return to his alma mater to display an art show called “Yearbook Paintings” and to premiere a long-form music video from his band’s new album. Limited tickets are available for purchase to attend the evening. Wojcicki said the projectbased learning model in Paly’s journalism and theater programs made a significant impact on Franco’s life. All three days, an unusual video exhibit will be displayed on the center’s TV screens: footage from the Global Lives Project, which collects videos from around the world that capture people going about their daily activities. The 24-hour footage is shown in sync with the time zone where it’s displayed, so people visiting the (continued on page 11)
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Upfront ELECTION 2014
Ken Dauber, Catherine Crystal Foster lead in campaign contributions
Candidate
Total Contributions
Top 10 Contributions
Total expenditures
Remaining cash
Ken Dauber
$29,580
• Leslie Wang, self-employed ($2,500) •M illairdaire Syverain, Shasta Medical Group physician ($2,000) •K rishna Bharat, Google engineer ($1,500) •K aren Gibson, parent ($1,500) • Mary Vincent, Community Advisory Committee member ($1,250) • L aurene Powell Jobs, Emerson Collective chair ($1,000) •B enedict Gomes, Google software engineer ($1,000) • L ars Johnsson, Cavendish Kinetics vice president of marketing ($650) •D arren Neuman, Broadcom Corporation engineer ($500) •A sher Waldfogel, entrepreneur ($500)
$16,905
$12,674
Catherine Crystal Foster
$29,039
•G reg Sands, Costanoa Ventures investor ($503) •K riss Deiglmeier, Tides Foundation CEO ($500) •D ana Fenwick, parent ($500) • L ydia Callaghan, entrepreneur ($500) • T im Ranzetta, Next Generation Personal Finance founder ($500) •R oger Smith, retired ($500) •R amanathan Guha, Google scientist ($500) •G ina Maya, parent/community volunteer ($350) • J ay Boyarsky, Santa Clara County chief assistant district attorney ($300) •D an Dykwel, Keller Williams Realty agent ($250)
$15,986
$13,254
Terry Godfrey
$27,946
• Karen Neuman, Palo Alto Partners in Education (PiE) vice president of governance ($500) •G ary Kremen, engineer and Match.com founder ($300) • S usie Richardson, former school board president ($250) • L inda Furrier, entrepreneur and PiE advisory council member ($250) • J effrey Vetter, Fenwick & West attorney ($250) • S haron Chin, designer ($250) • J enny Stein, PiE director of development ($250) •B rian Carilli, Stanford University lab designer ($250) •R obin Reynolds, PiE advisory council member ($250) • P amela Weiss, volunteer ($250)
$18,494
$9,451
Gina Dalma $22,688
•A my Hald, Medallia president ($2,000) • L auren Berman, TheatreWorks board member ($1,500) • J an Leeman, ImproveNet founder ($1,000) •G ay Krause, Foothill College Education executive director ($1,000) •D oree Tschudy, PAUSD library media teacher ($1,000) • Muhammed Chaudhry, Silicon Valley Education Foundation CEO ($1,000) • L indaa Chaput, Agile Mind CEO ($500) •G reg Gallo, DLA Piper partner/attorney ($500) • J ose Yvonne Dennise Dalma, biotech consultant ($300) •A nn Bowers, philanthropist ($300)
$12,168
$10,519
Finance statements illustrate how much Palo Alto school board candidates have received — and spent he latest campaign finance statements filed the first week of October paint a picture of the money coming in and out for each of the Palo Alto school board candidates, with Ken Dauber leading the 2014 contributions with a total of $29,580 to date. Catherine Crystal Foster is close behind Dauber, having brought in $29,039 in contributions so far. Terry Godfrey has received $27,946 and Gina Dalma, $22,688. Candidate Jay Cabrera has not filed any finance statements to date and said he is running a “no money, no solicitation campaign.” He has not spent nor received any money, he said. Candidates who do not form campaign committees are not obligated to file a Form 460. Dauber’s donor base draws from a range of sources. Palo Alto City Councilwoman Gail Price donated $100 and Laurene Powell Jobs, chair of the Emerson Collective and Steve Jobs’ widow, gave $1,000. Fellow Google engineers have donated anywhere from $200 to $1,500. Russlyn Ali, former assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education and now managing director at the Emerson Collective, donated $250. Ali is also a longtime friend of Dauber’s wife, Michele, a Stanford University law professor. Special-education parent and Community Advisory Committee member Mary Vincent has donated $1,250 to Dauber’s campaign. Dauber has also spent the most so far, $16,905, according to his finance statement. Foster received donations from U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo ($250), who has also endorsed her, as well as from Santa Clara County Chief Assistant District Attorney Jay Boyarsky ($300). Two former school board presidents also contributed to Foster’s campaign. Carolyn Tucher gave
$100 in August and Barbara Klausner $212 in September. Klausner gave the same amount to Dauber, Godfrey and Dalma as well. Godfrey’s campaign coffers are partially full due to a $9,000 loan — $5,000 from her husband, Steve Godfrey, and $4,000 of her own money. She was also the only candidate who has paid for print advertising at Palo Alto’s two high schools ($500 to Paly and $100 to Gunn). The former Palo Alto Council of PTAs president, Godfrey received $100 from the current president, Susan Usman. Former Palo Alto City Councilman and Mayor Victor Ojakian donated the same amount in early September. Dalma’s highest donation to date ($2,000) came from Amy Hald, the president and co-founder of Medallia, a Palo Alto customer-feedback software company. She also received donations of $1,000 from ImproveNet founder Jan Leeman, Foothill College Education Executive Director Gay Krause, Palo Alto Unified teacher Doree Tschudy and Silicon Valley Education Foundation CEO Muhammed Chaudhry. Dalma worked at the Silicon Valley Education Foundation before her current position at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. TheatreWorks Silicon Valley board member Lauren Berman also donated a large chunk to Dalma’s campaign — $1,500. Palo Alto councilwoman Price also gave to Dalma’s campaign ($100), as did San Jose City Councilman Sam Liccardo ($250). With less than a month to go until election day, Foster leads the pack in remaining cash to spend, with $13,254 as of Sept. 30, according to her finance statement. Dauber’s ending cash balance stands at $12,674; Dalma’s at $10,519 and Godfrey’s at $9,451. Candidates have mostly spent money on campaign materials, filing fees, advertising and fundraising events. n
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visor Joe Simitian ($100), state Sen. Jerry Hill ($250) and Kniss ($250). Mayor Nancy Shepherd received $17,703 in contributions, including $250 each from Klein and Kniss. Developer Jim Baer ($250), school board President Barb Mitchell ($100) and Simitian ($100) also gave to Shepherd’s campaign. Councilwoman Karen Holman, the only incumbent who has been
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for his or her re-election bid in the campaign period ending Sept. 30. Councilman Greg Scharff raised $17,571. Coupled with a $25,000 loan he made to his campaign, he now boasts the largest campaign chest at $42,570. Scharff’s list of contributors includes county Super-
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endorsed by Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning, raised $16,032 during the same period. Many of Holman’s contributions came from the same residentialists who gave to the Filseth, DuBois and Kou campaigns. Former Councilwoman Enid Pearson ($100) and former mayors Emily Renzel ($250) and Yoriko Kishimoto ($250) also contributed to Holman’s campaign, as did current Councilman
Pat Burt ($250). Cory Wolbach, a legislative aide to state Sen. Jerry Hill, also did well, raising $18,164. His contributors include former mayors Vic Ojakian, Lanie Wheeler and Sid Espinosa. Sitting council members Klein and Kniss contributed $250 each to his campaign. Wolbach, who is affiliated with the nascent group Palo Alto Forward, has received checks from
various members of the group. Eric Rosenblum ($500), Elaine Uang ($500), Steve Levy ($250) and Mehdi Alhassani ($400) all made contributions. Candidates Mark Weiss, Seelam Reddy, John Fredrich and Wayne Douglass have not formed campaign committees and none filed a Form 460. n Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
Upfront here for the broad decisions?’” Councilman Pat Burt was struck by the fact that both Schmid and Holman, two outspoken opponents of plannedcommunity projects, were in favor of reforming the zoning, rather than striking it down. “We don’t want to have a council reaction that’s basically, ‘Save us from ourselves. We haven’t been able to show proper discretion on what types of PC projects we’d approve, and therefore let’s throw out the entire process.’ I’m not sure that’s wise, temperate decision-
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Scharff said, he couldn’t think of any public benefits that have come out of the PC process that the residents truly value. The process should be scrapped and replaced with a different zoning tool that the public approves of. “I don’t quite see how to tweak the process to get buy-in from the community, to get people confident in the process,” Scharff said. “I think we should ... start over and say, ‘What are our goals
making,” Burt said. He agreed with most of the proposed reforms, including better clarity on what types of pub-
margin. They are the most substantive changes we’ve had in 50 years on the PC process.” Councilwoman Gail Price was
‘It’s not working. ... It’s not providing us affordable housing, which we’re looking the hardest for.’
—Greg Schmid, Palo Alto city councilman
lic benefits and zoning exceptions are appropriate and more enforcement. These reforms, he said, “aren’t changes on the
the most bullish on plannedcommunity projects, saying she has always seen them “as an opportunity, not a threat.” The
city needs to engage in “more successful negotiations and be more assertive and clear about the goal of any PC that comes before us and make sure we have something that’s tangible and meaningful for the community and results in a really excellent project,” she said. The council will continue its discussion at a future date, once staff drafts a new planned-community ordinance incorporating the offered suggestions. n Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
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Upfront “No one, and certainly none of the other candidates has committed anything close to the time, energy and patience Dauber has in following, studying, and advocating on district issues. He has been a voice for reason, transparency, data-driven decision -making, and for respectful treatment of all parents, teachers, and students. Dauber has practically been a sixth board member in the room at board meetings.” Endorsed by:
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News Digest Palo Alto looks to phase out plating shop
After more than half a century at its location on Hansen Way, Communication & Power Industries (CPI) will soon be asked to leave Palo Alto. Prodded by years of complaints from Barron Park residents that an “extreme event” would result the facility releasing hazardous materials into their neighborhood, the City Council agreed Monday that it’s time for the city to change its zoning laws to prohibit the location of plating shops near residential areas and to begin the process of phasing out CPI, which manufactures microwave and radio-frequency equipment. The council’s 8-0 vote (Larry Klein was absent) followed a new risk assessment that showed that while an event of the sort that could harm residents is very unlikely, it’s not entirely impossible. An earthquake that would rupture tanks at one of CPI’s buildings, prompting the mixing of chemicals and a release of hydrogen cyanide, could harm residents up to 616 feet from the shop. The area includes Chimalus Drive, whose residents have been asking the city for nearly a decade to do something about the looming threat from CPI’s hazardous materials. The latest assessment followed two prior ones that effectively concluded that a spill at CPI would almost certainly have no effect on residents. A 2008 study by AECOM considered two different accidents and found that even in the worst-case scenario, the airborne nitric acid and potassium cyanide “are not expected to travel offsite and exceed the toxic endpoint.” Despite the company’s reduction of chemicals on site and installation of backup safety systems, the council concluded these precautions were not enough. Company officials protested the decision. n — Gennady Sheyner
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Candidates for the the Palo Alto City Council vowed on Oct. 2 to do more to protect retail in the city’s two main commercial strips, with a ban on chain stores and requirements for ground-floor retail emerging as the most popular ideas. At a forum sponsored by the residents’ group Palo Alto Neighborhoods, the 12 candidates shared their ideas for mitigating the impacts of recent office developments and for protecting the eclectic nature of the local retail scene. Incumbents Greg Scharff, Nancy Shepherd and Karen Holman were joined on the City Hall dais by nine challengers: Wayne Douglass, Tom DuBois, Eric Filseth, John Fredrich, A.C. Johnston, Lydia Kou, Seelam Reddy, Mark Weiss and Cory Wolbach. The forum focused largely on issues of land use and development, with protection of retail as one of the major themes. When asked about the topic, Scharff said the city needs to expand the groundfloor retail district downtown and get the kind of retail that “doesn’t break the block.” He gave as an example of block-breaking the Wells Fargo building on University Avenue. Holman noted that as a council member she helped lead the effort to extend the requirement for ground-floor retail beyond downtown’s commercial core. Further expansions will be needed, she said. She also cited a petition that is going around, calling for a limitation on chain stores on California Avenue. Wolbach, a legislative aide to state Sen. Jerry Hill, likewise said he would support a limitation on chain stores. He also said it’s important that the city makes sure it puts housing close to retail. Douglass, a Ventura resident who is primarily concerned about the issue of homelessness, also voiced support for controlling chain stores. n — Gennady Sheyner
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Unable to secure a new emergency cold-weather shelter to replace a longtime facility that closed earlier this year in Sunnyvale, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a plan that would provide up to $1.1 million to give homeless people in north county a place to go on cold nights this winter, according to a Santa Clara County press release. When the Sunnyvale Armory, which long served as a homeless shelter, closed to make way for an affordable-housing development in March, the county lost more than 125 emergency shelter beds. County staff spent months looking for a replacement for the shuttered shelter but came up empty-handed. So in lieu of a single facility, officials approved a plan to enter into a series of agreements with four nonprofits serving homeless and at-risk people: Downtown Streets Team, HomeFirst, InnVision Shelter Network and Project WeHOPE. The approved plan includes a motel voucher program for families with children and single adults, expanded shelter services at Project WeHOPE in East Palo Alto, expanded services at Hotel de Zink in Palo Alto, cold-weather outreach to the county’s homeless population and expanded services at Commercial Street Inn and the Boccardo Reception Center in San Jose. n — Palo Alto Weekly staff
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EDUCATION
Superintendent to convene achievement-gap advisory committee Group to issue districtwide recommendations on minority achievement by Elena Kadvany
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uring a live call-in show Wednesday evening, Superintendent Max McGee announced the launch of a minority-achievement and talentdevelopment advisory committee — a group of community members, faculty, students, parents and others who will be charged with making a set of strategic recommendations to help close the district’s achievement gap. McGee called the committee “the most important initiative we’ll have this year” and said the application process for interested participants will begin next Wednesday, after the board discusses the item at its meeting Tuesday night. “Their purpose is to develop a set of strategic recommendations after looking at all the data we have and after having some training themselves,” he said. “We’re going to bring in experts around the field. We’re going to talk to other districts that are solving this problem. “We’ll have metrics; we’ll have timelines; we’ll have cost estimates — and then we’ll see how this fits in with the Strategic Plan,” he said. McGee revealed the committee in response to a question from Palo Alto High School junior Melanie Reilly, who along with Gunn senior Leah Hirsh co-hosted the hour-long show with McGee at the Midpeninsula Community Media Center. The advisory committee will consist of two administrators, four faculty and staff, four students, four parents and four members of the community at large, according to the Tuesday
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center at 6 p.m. Friday might see an Italian, Nicaraguan or Mongolian person at 6 p.m. in his or her country. Designed to enhance crosscultural empathy, the project will be available for viewing by all Paly students over a number of weeks. Some of the school’s social studies teachers have also incorporated the project into their curricula. Wojcicki said the Global Lives Project is just one example of the way the Media Arts Center can be used to enhance student learning. Wojcicki — who has worked with Paly journalism students
board agenda. A district administrator and member of the community will serve as co-chairs. Staff will be assigned to support the work of the committee and will be accountable for ensuring the report is completed in a timely manner. McGee said Thursday morning that the committee will work to address two ongoing issues. “School sites have taken some good initiatives (to close the achievement gap), but we really need to approach this as a districtwide system,” he said. The second charge of the committee is to look at talent development. “It’s well-documented in America that one of the greatest problems that we have is ignoring the bright and talented ... youth of color and children from socioeconomically disadvantaged homes,” he said during the call-in show. “There are so many talented students, yet by the time AP (Advanced Placement) classes come around in high school, they’re significantly underrepresented.” McGee said in addition to looking at what other school districts have done and at successful Palo Alto school-based initiatives, as well as analyzing data such as test scores, grades and enrollment patterns, the district will host public hearings. The committee will also be asked to identify potential policies the board should consider developing and adopting. “Most importantly, it’s going to lead to a set of actionable recommendations across the system that are going to make a difference — ideally in the short term,
since 1984 in a range of facilities, from a corner room in the school’s Tower Building with 19 students to a portable with a leaking roof, no air conditioning and 84 students — sees the Media Arts Center as heralding a new era in journalism education. “The goal of this grand opening is to show not just Palo Alto but actually the nation that journalism is really the curriculum for the 21st century,” she said. n Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com. Check next week’s paper for an in-depth look at the new Media Arts Center and the history of Paly’s robust journalism program.
but certainly over the long term,” he said. The first committee meeting will be on Tuesday, Nov. 4, McGee said. Meetings will generally be held on Tuesday afternoon — or Tuesday evening when there is no board meeting. According to a staff report, the goal is for the committee to present a final report to McGee in April 2015 in time to bring it to the board either that month or the next. n Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.
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4) Power washing and sealing wood deck: Power wash and seal every one to three years, depending on the amount of moss and mold. If you let it go, your deck will warp, nails will pop out and the deck won’t last as long. 5) Dryer vent cleaning: The purpose is to get rid of lint buildup. If you ignore it, the result could be a disastrous fire. Once the vent gets clogged, the dryer starts overheating and it can catch on fire. 7) Siding and Paint: Look for cracks and holes in house stucco or siding. Replace caulk and paint as necessary. 8) Roof Inspection: Inspect your roof and make necessary repairs before the rainy season starts to avoid costly emergency repairs. 9) Carpet cleaning: Have the carpets cleaned. If the carpet looks dirty, you’ve waited too long because some soil can’t be removed by vacuuming.
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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE 8,473 PALO ALTANS WHO VOTED WITH US LAST YEAR AGAINST MEASURE D AND ALL THOSE WHO ARE CONCERNED, AS WE ARE, ABOUT THE FUTURE OF PALO ALTO AS A LIVABLE COMMUNITY WE NEED YOUR VOTES AGAIN. Last November we sent a strong message to City Hall opposing the cumulative effects of high-density projects that have adversely affected our quality of life by contributing to traffic jams and creating spillover parking in residential areas. Together, we took a stand and won, but we need to do more.
WE NEED TO SEND OUR MESSAGE AGAIN IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION. The way to lead Palo Alto in the right direction is to ensure that the following three candidates, who worked with us Against Measure D, are elected to City Council:
TOM DUBOIS ERIC FILSETH LYDIA KOU THESE CANDIDATES WILL PUT RESIDENTS FIRST, NOT DEVELOPERS. We also urge you to vote for KAREN HOLMAN who is an incumbent. Too often, Karen has been in a minority protecting residential interests. Based upon her overall voting record, Karen deserves to be reelected.
WE ASK THAT YOU VOTE ONLY FOR TOM DUBOIS, ERIC FILSETH, KAREN HOLMAN AND LYDIA KOU FOR CITY COUNCIL. MAKE A DIFFERENCE NOW. VOTE FOR JUST THESE 4. Don’t vote for a candidate you don’t trust or don’t know with certainty that he or she will vote your values. Cast your votes only where they count.
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Local firefighters battle King Fire
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housands of firefighters were sent last month to the wildland King Fire, burning east of Sacramento in El Dorado County, which has destroyed 12 homes and 68 other structures. Among those battling the blaze — which on Wednesday stood at 97,717 acres and 98 percent contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) — was Engine 66 of the Palo Alto Fire Department. Engine 66’s Barry Marchisio, Jesse Aguilar, Manny Macias and Chris Pombo were deployed on Sept. 17 as part of a Santa Clara County strike team, along with engines from Mountain View, Sunnyvale, San Jose and Santa Clara. The team spent nine days fighting the inferno and was assigned to protect more than 100 homes. On Sept. 26, Engine 66 and the Santa Clara County strike team returned home, fatigued from the harsh working conditions. Engine 66 is a designated engine that goes to aid in a fire when the Office of Emergency Services through Santa Clara County calls for a strike team, said Marchisio, Engine 66’s fire captain. “That goes with the territory of being assigned to Engine 66 — you know that at any time, especially in the summertime, you can be called out to something like that,” Marchisio, 61, said. When the strike team arrived at the staging area at El Dorado County fairground, the scene could only be described as “cha-
by My Nguyen otic,” Macias, 46, said. “When we were driving in you could see the mushroom cloud of smoke,” he said. By that day, the fire had already doubled in size. Typically when a strike team from an urban fire department is called to fight a wildfire, Marchisio said, it is for what they call “structure protection purposes.” The strike team is assigned to a neighborhood or area where there are a lot of homes to prepare the residences for the possibility that the fire could come through. Marchisio, Aguilar, Macias and Pombo, along with their strike team, prepped 160 homes, including clearing items that could burn, such as wood piles; pulling shrubs to create a defensible space around the homes; and sweeping flammable leaves and twigs off of roofs. “Hopefully what we did had a positive effect on these people and their homes,” said Marchisio, who has been a firefighter for 36 years. The crew worked in 24-hour shifts, trudging up and down the steep terrains of El Dorado National Forest carrying hoses, axes, protective gear and other essential equipment to hold the fire line and keep the blaze from sweeping through communities along U.S. Route 50. Macias describes a night when the team had to go to an area the fire had passed through hours earlier to put out hot spots and tree stumps that were still smoldering to ensure that hot embers didn’t ignite another fire. “One of the nights we were
Engine 66’s Barry Marchisio, left, Jessie Aguilar, Chris Pombo and Manny Macias were deployed along with a Santa Clara County strike team to fight the King Fire in El Dorado County. your own business carrying a fire hose, and you can step on a rock and twist your ankle and fall. “There were people who got hurt at the fire. One firefighter fell down a mountain and had to get helicoptered out because he couldn’t walk out. There is always that danger. It is a very uncontrolled environment, even more so than if we were fighting a fire here in town in some building.” The team was also assigned to pump water out of a lake using a portable pumper to fill tanker trucks bringing water to the fire line. Marchisio said they spent almost 16 hours pumping water one day. “It was a constant parade of trucks coming to fill their 3,000-gallon water tanks,” he said. “It was a pretty significant thing because one of the most important things they needed up there was water.” After working 24 hours straight, the crew was able to take a one-day break at the staging area, where there were showers, cooking facilities and sleeping trailers and tents. But even on their days off, the crew
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out there ... it was like walking on the moon because there was 18 inches of ash on the ground,” Macias said, demonstrating with his hands the way they tromped across the forest with long strides, their boots sinking into the soot and dusty gray ash. They walked for miles over that terrain and encountered large holes where 100-foot-tall trees used to stand. The same night they were out deep in the forest — without cellphone reception — working on the fire line, the crew had to sleep on the ground because they forgot their sleeping cots. One member would stay awake to monitor the situation while the rest slept — or tried too. “It was cold out there. We almost all had to huddle up just to stay warm,” Macias said. “You really only got about 10 minutes’ worth of sleep at a time because you’re sleeping on the ground” and worrying about the wildlife, including bugs, bears and rattlesnakes. But what the crew was most worried about were the “widowmakers” — treetops or branches poorly or no longer attached to a tree that could fall and potentially kill them. Before they slept out where the fire line was, the crew would survey the area to make sure there weren’t any trees that could fall, said Marchisio, but “all night we could hear trees falling.” “From my perspective, as a captain, my main concern was the safety of the guys on the engine with me,” Marchisio said. “You can be walking around minding
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Palo Alto’s Engine 66 pitched in to quench blaze in El Dorado County
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was constantly at work, making sure their rig was back in service and equipment was ready to leave at a moment’s notice. “You’re on your rest period, but you are still very much under the control of the people running the incident,” Marchisio said. The hardest part about the experience was being away from home, said Macias, who has a wife and four children. “It starts to wear on you, but you look at it and you say, ‘Look, we’re here for the right reason, and we’re here to do a good job,’” he said. None of them worried about the workload or complained about the grueling work conditions. Instead they kept a positive attitude because, Macias said, “We were there to do one job and that was to serve the community.” Some people from the communities they aided found their own ways to show appreciation to the firefighters. “People were making cards for us. I think that was probably one of the best part for me being there — the feeling of being appreciated,” Macias said. “People were even saying thank you after their houses burned down,” Aguilar, 37, added. During the year, as wildland fire season approaches, the crew tailors its training to brush up on all the skills it needs to have in order to deal with a wildfire. The team has been on multiple campaign fires together, and “Each person brings something to the table to be able to be on this rig,” Macias said. “It was a great experience. We worked really hard, and everyone had a positive attitude and our efforts paid off in the end. What we did had a positive significance,” said Marchisio. He added that it was a team effort by all five engines under the direction of strike team leader, Battalion Chief Rich Alameda, from Mountain View, who was assisted by Battalion Chief Ted Vandenberg. “Are we ready to go to the next one?” Macias asked. “Of course we are. We are ready to go tomorrow. That’s just kind of how we are. When the bell rings, it’s showtime, and you need to go out there and give it 100 percent.” n Online Editor My Nguyen can be emailed at mnguyen@ paweekly.com.
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Tech execs: Surveillance threatens digital economy Ron Wyden returns to Palo Alto to build pressure for Congressional action by Jocelyn Dong
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iving dire warnings that federal surveillance programs could cripple the U.S. digital economy and business opportunities around the globe, Silicon Valley technology leaders joined Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) in Palo Alto Wednesday to urge government reforms. “It is time to end the digital dragnet, which is harming America’s liberty and economy without making America safer,” said Wyden, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and graduate of Palo Alto High School, who held the roundtable discussion in the Paly gymnasium. “The government ought to stop requiring
American companies to participate in this suspicion-less collection of customers’ data.” Wyden invited technology heavy hitters from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Dropbox and venture-capital firm Greylock Partners to demonstrate industry support for government action, including passage of the USA Freedom Act, a bipartisan effort that is wending its way through Congress. The technology executives sketched out the consequences that surveillance programs such as the National Security Agency’s PRISM have already wrought — and could wreak in the future.
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Little opposition to hotel-tax raise
Tax hikes are normally a thorny subject during an election season, but Palo Alto’s plan to increase the city’s hotel-tax rate appears to be proceeding to the ballot with little community opposition. (Posted Oct. 9, 9:57 a.m.)
Stanford prof awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Two Americans and one German won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday, including a professor from Stanford University, according to a Nobel Prize organization press release. (Posted Oct. 8, 9:04 a.m.)
“The fundamental issue ... is trust,” said Brad Smith, executive vice president and general counsel of Microsoft. “And it is personal. Just as people would not put their money in a bank they don’t trust, they will be reluctant to store their personal information in a data center or on a phone that they don’t trust. “These issues have undermined people’s trust in American technology, and it’s a shame and it’s a problem and we need to address it,” he said. He warned that new regulations, created in countries around the globe and intended to protect their citizens from U.S. spying,
could hamper America’s digital economy. “If we don’t address it, we’ll lose ... the ability to keep growing this industry, keep creating these jobs, keep strengthening American competitiveness, keep building a world that is better connected,” Smith said. Alarmed about U.S. surveillance, 20 foreign governments in the past few months have proposed that technology companies must store their data in centers located in those countries, said Ramsey Homsany, general counsel of Dropbox. In effect, the proposals act as trade barriers. The expense to companies of
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Palo Alto police are on high alert after a man exposed himself to a 10-year-old girl on Tuesday night, a day after a man exposed himself to a 14-year-old female, according to a police department press release. (Posted Oct. 7, 10:10 p.m.)
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setting up data centers across the globe, known as data localization, would be prohibitive, he said. “That would make it impossible for us to serve users in those countries — and this from a company that’s already made it,” he said, referencing Dropbox’s 300 million users, 70 percent of whom are outside of the United States. Furthermore, Homsany warned, the requirement could severely curtail entrepreneurship. “It would make starting these companies ... impossible,” he said. Colin Stretch, general counsel of Facebook, said that service to
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Upfront ELECTION 2014
Huge campaign-funding discrepancy in water district race In David and Goliath financial battle, challenger outspends incumbent 38-to-1
wo candidates making their bids for Palo Alto votes in the Santa Clara Valley Water District Board race are spending vastly different sums of money on their campaigns, with the challenger, Gary Kremen, outspending incumbent Brian Schmidt by hundreds of thousands of dollars. Kremen, founder of Match.com, is financially trouncing incumbent Brian Schmidt to the tune of more than $280,000. Much of it is in loans to the campaign from Kremen himself. Schmidt, meanwhile, has raised roughly $13,000, according to campaign-disclosure statements filed in Santa Clara
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County on Monday. The two filings reveal a considerable difference in approaches, with Kremen’s campaign listing $303,067.50 in outstanding debts and Schmidt’s balance sheet listing none. The filing statement, which covers the period from July 1 through Sept. 30, includes the contribution totals for the year to date and a list of donors. Kremen has loaned his campaign $248,500, according to his filing; Schmidt has no loans, instead relying on small donations largely from retired persons, individuals and a few environmental groups. He has donated $500 to
his own campaign, according to the filings. Kremen lists $312,764.03 in total expenditures with $22,614.63 in remaining cash. His expenditures for the year to date include: • Polling: $31,400, with the majority done in the first six months of his campaign • Campaign consultants: $25,301, with more than $20,000 from July 1 through Sept. 30 • Web: $41,130 from July 1 through Sept. 30 • Campaign literature: $86,557 • C ampaign paraphernalia: $33,734 • Professional services: Approx-
imately $80,000 By contrast, Schmidt lists $8,209.05 in total expenditures with a $4,972.78 current cash balance. His year-to-date expenditures include: • Literature: $2,495 • Yard signs: $1,422 The candidates’ donor bases are also divergent. Kremen’s includes Silicon Valley executives, venture capitalists, heads of solar firms, attorneys and politicians, including Palo Alto Mayor Nancy Shepherd. Kremen’s largest contributor, former California Controller Steve Westly, donated $25,000 as an individual. His firm, The
Westly Group, invests and builds companies in socially and environmentally progressive companies, according to the firm’s website. Schmidt’s contributors include members of local environmental and open-space organizations, who contributed as individuals, and prominent business people including Palo Alto developer Jim Baer and Buck’s Restaurant owner Margaret MacNiven of Woodside, and environmentalists Lennie Roberts and former Palo Alto City Councilwoman Enid Pearson. n — Sue Dremann
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from mornings to evenings so that more of the public could attend. And he supported cutting the board’s pay, reversing a 2008 pay increase. The pay cut passed on the second vote, 4-3. In keeping with his strong opinions about environmental cleanup, he supported the treatment and removal of toxic mercury from Jacques Gulch, a former goldmining site in the south county identified by state and federal agencies as a major source of mercury contamination for San Francisco Bay and the Guadalupe River Watershed. During his term, the board succeeded in getting Measure B passed with 74 percent voter approval. The parcel tax is estimated to bring in $548 million by 2028 for flood control, seismic retrofitting for the Anderson Dam and environmental improvements. The district will use some funding, combined with other sources, to contribute about $28 million toward the San Francisquito Creek flood-reduction project. Measure B fund will also go toward levee replacement and repair and wetland restoration in Shoreline Park in Mountain View. Staff at the Regional Water Quality Control Board, which must grant the permits to begin the San Francisquito project, have so far rejected the plan. Schmidt has represented the water district on the matter and drafted responses to try to bring the impasse to a conclusion. But he is measured in how aggressively the district can attack the problem on its own. The San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority is the lead agency on the project, and the water district is a member, along with three cities in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. Schmidt believes negotiation is still possible with the regional water board, and he doesn’t yet support political arm-twisting, unlike Kremen. He is working to investigate whatever is bothering the water board staff, he said. But he is not shy about criticiz-
ing the water board. In response to an Aug. 23 PaloAltoOnline. com story about Palo Alto officials blasting the water board’s inaction, Schmidt wrote: “I find it incomprehensible that the regional board is showing such a poor understanding of hydrology as to think we could proceed right away with a project that protects East Palo Alto while failing to do construcBrian Schmidt tion along the Palo Alto golf course area. This would change the flooding pattern to increase impacts in Palo Alto and therefore required new environmental review and many other delays, including forcing yet another permit application to the Regional Board.” Schmidt said he is happy to have his work in the district judged, in significant part because of his work as part of the Joint Powers Authority and on the creek. “I hustled to get environmental support for a broad compromise that included extensive funding for San Francisquito Creek,” he said of his work on Measure B. Schmidt was instrumental in drafting a water-district plan to deal with the drought. “I led a change before the drought that increased conservation rebates. I later wrote the memo that doubled many of our water-conservation rebates, which quintupled the response for lawn replacement. We’re vastly expanding recycled water, and I’m advocating treatment of wastewater to drinkable levels — a new, drought-proof water supply,” he said. The board approved a countywide, water-use reduction target of 20 percent of 2013 water usage, and Schmidt supported two years of water storage, which he said puts the district in a good position. But the district’s 2013 carryover
and 2014 allocations of state water are currently frozen to protect the Delta, leaving three water districts that depend on that banked water without that source, according to water-board documents. The water district is now developing the California Aqueduct Reverse Flow project to ensure the water in its storage bank is available for treatment plants and to prevent groundwater depletion.
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has spent modestly, garnering $13,000 in campaign funds and spending only about $8,000; Kremen has amassed a war chest of more than $280,000, most of it self-funded. The candidates sat down for interviews with the Palo Alto Weekly. Here are their views
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he Match.com founder has garnered considerable notice for his run, as much for his sizable self-funding of his campaign as for his stand on the issues. But Kremen is clear that he wants to see major change in how the water district does business. Board president of the 6,400-customer Purissima Hills Water District, a water retailer in Los Altos Hills, Kremen touts his experience as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur as one of the reasons he’d be an asset to the board. Kremen is chairman of WaterSmart Software, a tech company that creates water-meter software used by many city utilities. A leak-detection company he was involved in was recently bought by Badger Meter, he said. “It’s all part of a broader platform that I’ve been doing in sustainability in the last 10 years,” he said. Kremen also started Clean Power Finance, the largest company in the U.S. in solar financing. “What I like to do is do big things that move the needle in sustainability, and I think this water district kind of needs to get off the old 1920s model and needs innovation,” he said. If elected, he would take on a California State Water Project tax he says is unfair to Palo Alto, Mountain View and Los Altos residents, who receive most of their water from the Hetch Hetchy water system through the San
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users would become less efficient, slower and less personalized because of companies’ inability to take advantage of cloud-based storage that a well-networked Internet enables. Likened to a Balkanization or splintering of the Internet, data localization, Stretch said, makes the public at large less secure. Foreign countries may not respect the laws governing security, resulting in more state-sponsored surveillance or espionage. Also, companies are more vulnerable when their systems have more points of access, he said. Wyden said that concerns over federal surveillance could cost U.S. cloud-computing companies one-fifth of their foreign market shares, which translates to a loss
Francisco Public Utilities Commission and not through the state. Only Mountain View’s water — 10 percent — comes from state sources. “The water-district board gets the money from the State Water Project, and the district as a whole gets the benefit but not us as a member of the district,” he said. Kremen said he would work to get more conservation funds for districts that use Hetch Hetchy or remove the tax entirely from Hetch Hetchy districts. The water district could get increased waterrecycling money and use it to put in gray-water systems in homes, and it could receive water-conservation dollars to extend some of the recycled water across Foothill Expressway into areas of Palo Alto and Los Altos Hills, he said. Schmidt has characterized Kremen’s solutions as unrealistic. The other six board members would not vote for a tax exemption or increased funding to help the north county district, he said. But Kremen said they might do “some horsetrading,” albeit within the confines of the Brown Act. “People had some needs that were not being met,” he said of discussions he has had with board members. Building coalitions on a regional level will be key to getting things accomplished, and the water district should be using its clout, he said. He pointed to the district’s handling of the Regional Water Quality Control Board, which recently denied permits for the San Francisquito Creek floodcontrol project. “The water district is the one with some good money. They have discretionary money, and they have their own lobbyist in Sacramento. They touch a lot of people in politics more than other people do,” he said. “We may need to use the water district’s political muscle and money to do a legislative end run around this issue.” The Regional Water Quality Control Board might need to be defunded from looking at the San
of jobs at those American companies. Although many people may view U.S. government surveillance as necessary to securing freedom and fighting terrorism, other countries take a dimmer view. “When I was in China this summer, Chinese officials likened cybertheft of U.S. trade secrets for the benefit of Chinese companies as no different than the surveillance carried out by the U.S. government,” he said. Given the distrust in the U.S. government that has already been cast, the tech executives urged the government to end requirements of companies to provide technological means for accessing consumers’ data but instead to work within the court system. “Forcing companies to provide (technological) back doors is not the answer,” Homsany said. “There are many other ways for
the government to get data when they need it in legitimate investigations.” Eric Schmidt, executive chairman at Google, agreed. “Law enforcement has many, many ways of getting information that they need ... without having to do this without court orders and without the possible snooping (on) conversations,” Schmidt said. “The problem with when they do it randomly as opposed to through a judicial process is it erodes user trust.” Smith said the country and industry need to move forward in two ways: One, establish international rules for when countries can get information from other countries’ governments pursuant to international law, and two, ensure no new trade barriers are erected. “We need these to move forward so that market access is kept
Francisquito issue or their regulatory purview might need to move someplace else, he said. “The water district has not spearheaded doing that. I would take it away from (the Regional Board) if they don’t move,” he said. Kremen is also critical of the water district’s approach to the drought. Despite 2012’s Measure B funding, the district hasn’t started upgrading Anderson and Calero dams. “In the event it rains, we can’t even store all the rainwater because the water district has not fixed its dams” for seismic safety, he said, as it is required to do by the state DiGary Kremen vision of Safety of Dams. The district cannot keep the water higher than 20 feet below the dam crest until the repairs are made, he added. Kremen also called the water exchange, the one that involves banked water and the Delta, “a debacle.” “Instead of focusing on local or regional water storage, the stored water at Semitropic Water Stor-
age Bank is near Bakersfield, hundreds of miles away from us. This water is critical because the Santa Clara Valley district depends on the Semitropic water for 25 percent of its treated water,” he said. But Schmidt said that assertion is misleading, saying that in the majority of years, 5 percent or less of the district’s water supply comes from the groundwater bank. “When we established the Semitropic account 20 years ago, we knew there were limitations on its availability but that it was still valuable. For example, we withdrew quite a bit of that water last year and transferred it to local storage as part of general preparations for scarcity,” Schmidt said. Barring some disaster, the district will get the Semitropic water in November, Schmidt said. If elected, Kremen would focus on additional stormwater capture with groundwater percolation, regional recycling and reuse, recharging groundwater basins and desalination, he said. He added that he would also focus on eliminating fiscal waste and abuse within the district, especially holding board members and the CEO accountable. n Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.
CityView A round-up
of Palo Alto government action this week
City Council (Oct. 6)
PC Zone: The council discussed the “planned community” zoning process and the majority agreed that the process should be reformed and not eliminated. Greg Scharff argued that it should be scrapped entirely. Action: None CPI: The council directed staff to consider zoning revisions to restrict the operations of plating shops and other industrial uses next to residential areas. Staff will also consider next steps in the amortization process for CPI. Yes: Berman, Burt, Holman, Kniss, Price, Scharff, Schmid, Shepherd Absent: Klein
Council Finance Committee (Oct. 7)
Inventory: The committee discussed staff’s followup to the City Auditor’s report on inventory management. The committee referred the report to the full council for approval. Yes: Unanimous
open,” he said. Schmidt predicted that data localization laws would shut out American companies from some foreign countries. “That means the future of Internet companies is half of what it could be if that spreads,” he said. “It’s a national emergency.” Schmidt also struck a moral tone, saying that a fragmented Internet and lack of access to American technologies could hurt education, economic progress and freedom around the world. “One of the great hopes for the average person in the world is connectivity and education on their mobile phones. Imagine if they are unable to use Americanbuilt phones and operating systems. Imagine if they are unable to use data centers that Facebook and others have erected to provide services for them,” Schmidt said.
“Imagine the impact on their education, their culture, the safety of women — all the things mobile devices change in a rural village in a developing country. “There’s a patriotic reason, an economic reason and a moral reason to worry about the trust breakdown,” he said. With Congress facing a deadline, requested by President Barack Obama, for passing stiffer surveillance regulations by December, Homsany urged immediate congressional action. “It’s really time now for government to do its part as well and pass some reform. A great start for that is USA Freedom Act,” he said. “It’s not only important to us as companies, ... it’s incredibly important to the world.” n Editor Jocelyn Dong can be emailed at jdong@paweekly. com.
Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to discuss the city’s state and federal legislative priorities. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 14, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board plans to discuss a minority achievement and talent development committee proposed by the superintendent, take action on adopting a conflict-of-interest code and the Board Policy Review Committee charge statement. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 14, at district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave. HISTORICAL RESOURCES BOARD ... The board plans to discuss 3672 Middlefield Road, a proposal by Jason Yotopoulos to nominate the Palo Alto Little League site for listing on the Palo Alto Historic Inventory; and 475 Homer Ave., a proposal by Marilyn McDonald and Margaret R. Feuer to designate Woman’s Club of Palo Alto, constructed in 1916, on the National Register of Historic Places and California Register of Historic Resources. The meeting will begin at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 15, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to interview candidates for the Architectural Review Board, Historical Resources Board and Planning and Transportation Commission. The interviews will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 15, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY/SCHOOL LIAISON COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to discuss a report on Palo Alto Unified School District enrollment for the current school year; and to review the city’s and school district’s emergency-preparedness activities and plans. The meeting will begin at 8:15 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 16, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to discuss 180 El Camino Real, a proposal by Simon Property Group on behalf of Stanford University for a review of four new retail buildings at the location of the former Bloomingdale’s; and 2555 Park Blvd., a request by FGY Architects on behalf of Campbell Avenue Portfolio, LLC, for a review of a proposed new three-story, 24,446-square-foot office building that would replace an existing 10,800-square-foot office building. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 16, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE ... The committee will meet to review various policies, including school climate, curriculum and evaluation. The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 16, at district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave., Room A. PUBLIC ART COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss proposed art for the VMware campus at 3421-3431 Hillview Ave.; and the status of art selection for the Stanford Shopping Center. The commission also plans to hear an update on Aurora, the temporary art project at King Plaza, and discuss the status of the Public Art Master Plan. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 16, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.
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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions
Editorial
Holman, Scharff, DuBois, Filseth, Wolbach for City Council
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In a field of 12 candidates, getting to five is not that easy
n a refreshingly issue-oriented City Council campaign that has become a bit of an in-your-face challenge to Palo Alto’s political establishment, there are no simple paths to selecting the five best candidates. While there are no official candidate “slates,” the alliances of two groups of four candidates are not difficult to decipher. Nancy Shepherd, Greg Scharff and newcomers A.C. Johnston and Cory Wolbach have the support of Palo Alto’s political insiders — that group of well-connected and longtime residents, mostly from north Palo Alto, who have dominated city politics for decades. These four are getting money and endorsements from common sources, including other politicians and office holders, and their victories will come closest to replicating the status quo political majority on the council. On the other hand, incumbent Karen Holman and newcomers Tom DuBois, Eric Filseth and Lydia Kou draw their support from residents who feel the council majority has drifted badly in the wrong direction by approving developments that have increased traffic congestion, exacerbated parking problems and accelerated undesirable changes in the makeup of our business districts. Emboldened by their election victory a year ago with the defeat of Measure D, which rejected a council-approved housing development on Maybell Avenue across from Briones Park (except for Holman, who joined her council colleagues in supporting it), this group is unhappy with the changes it sees happening in the city, particularly the trend toward densification of both housing and commercial development. That leaves four candidates (John Fredrich, Mark Weiss, Wayne Douglass and Seelam Reddy) running as individuals who have some strong viewpoints — generally critical of current council policies — but lack extensive grass-roots support. Voters will find elements of each of their campaign platforms that resonate with them, but none is superior to the other eight candidates. With this lineup, many voters will probably not cast five votes. They will go with one group of four or the other, depending on their satisfaction with the current City Council majority. For those who believe things have been going just fine and want a council as similar as possible to the one we now have, then vote for Scharff, Shepherd, Johnston and Wolbach. For those with high levels of frustration with the council and city management, voting for Holman, DuBois, Filseth and Kou will bring about the greatest change. We don’t believe either group, however, gives us the strongest candidates to guide the city forward and represent the diversity of opinion in the community. As has been seen over the last year in both words and actions, the council has pivoted dramatically in response to harsh feedback from citizens about its handling of parking, traffic and development issues. There has been a frenzy of activity to address these problems that one could either generously describe as healthy representative democracy in action or, less kindly, as a cynical and politically motivated shift to preserve the current balance of power on the council. There are also some subtexts to this election worth mentioning. One is that all three incumbents could deservedly be thrown out for their conduct regarding developer John Arrillaga’s office tower proposal for 27 University Ave. and his desire to buy 7.7 acres in the foothills.
The council’s participation and acquiescence in secret discussions with Arrillaga and in briefings by the staff designed to keep the public in the dark about his controversial proposals were wrong and legitimized concerns over the credibility and integrity of our local government. That it took a Grand Jury report to elicit apologies, long after the council and staff’s behavior was exposed by the Weekly, just adds to the violation of trust experienced by the community. Another subtext is the conjecture by some that the “challengers” (primarily Kou, DuBois and Filseth) simply want no growth and want to freeze Palo Alto in time. This characterization, fostered by the city’s political insiders, now includes labeling them as libertarians or Tea Party members trying to take advantage of anti-development sentiment to win office, where they can then attempt to obstruct and reduce city government. This wolf-in-sheep’s-clothes speculation is disturbing both for its lack of foundation and its stealth. While we have major criticisms of this council, it is important to also recognize they and a new city manager have successfully navigated through very bad economic times, tackled the city’s infrastructure needs, made some long overdue personnel changes at City Hall, and reformed labor and pension rules and processes. There are no bums to throw out, but that doesn’t mean voters shouldn’t carefully assess their effectiveness. So with this context, we recommend the re-election of two incumbents, Karen Holman and Greg Scharff, and three newcomers, Tom DuBois, Eric Filseth and Cory Wolbach. None of the candidates is without liabilities, but together we think this group would result in a better balance and be more representative of all of Palo Alto than any council in a long time. It would bring onto the council some vocal critics, which is appropriate. Scharff has been visibly humbled by the rejection of Measure D and the associated wave of criticism of the City Council. While we join those who wonder whether his transformation over the last year is for real, we hope and believe he will be true to his campaign statements and work to assemble council majorities to adopt tough new parking requirements for new buildings, reform or eliminate the planned-community-zone process, expand retail protections, continue to pressure ABAG to change its housing allocation process and be more responsive to neighborhood concerns. Scharff is smart, carefully studies the issues and is capable of being one of the leaders of a more diverse council if he continues to focus on listening to his constituents. He’s made some significant errors in judgment, such as being enamored with large development projects that he thought would bring welcomed “vitality,” but he’s owned up to most of them and now says he’s heard the community. Absent a better alternative, we’re prepared to give him a chance to prove it. We’re supporting Holman, DuBois and Filseth because we think their strong views on limiting development reflect those of a large number, if not majority, of Palo Altans. Holman has almost always been on the losing side of controversial votes and is often disregarded, and sometimes disrespected, by some of her colleagues. Yet she has detailed knowledge of the issues and persistently advocates for tougher treatment of development proposals, more transparency, more proactive planning and support for those in need in our community. In the wake
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of current community sentiment, the council is actually moving more in her direction than at any time during her four-year tenure. DuBois and Filseth will bring valuable new neighborhood voices to the council. Both have high-tech business and entrepreneurial backgrounds similar to many Palo Alto residents. Both have done their homework on the issues and share a commitment to not grant zoning exceptions in exchange for dubious public benefits and to improving the way the city reaches out to and engages citizens. As residents of Midtown and Downtown North, they will also represent historically underrepresented neighborhoods. Advocates of more affordable or subsidized housing worry that DuBois and Filseth may try to obstruct such projects in the future based on their opposition to Measure D, but we believe they realize the importance of the city’s long and proud history of income and ethnic diversity and that they will use their positions to craft such projects that will be supported in the neighborhoods. While new to local politics, Cory Wolbach is the type of resident we should be encouraging to run for public office. A Palo Alto native and product of our schools, he is an aide to State Senator Jerry Hill and is part of a generation that we want to encourage to step up and participate in leading our city. His state government experience will bring a helpful dimension to the council, especially as it wrestles with regional issues such as ABAG’s housing mandates. While we were frustrated by his overly vague policy statements early in the campaign, he has now articulated strong support for limiting new commercial development, focusing on how the city can create more affordable and subsidized housing options and implementing additional protections of retail businesses. We cannot recommend the re-election of Nancy Shepherd, who has disappointed us for what we view as a leadership failure in not using her role as mayor this year to reach out to the community and attempt to heal the wounds from the Measure D election, for not bringing about a more collaborative and cohesive atmosphere on the council in its wake, and for her general defensiveness over council decisions on development proposals. Her work on high-speed rail prior to being elected four years ago propelled her to office, and she deserves much credit for her successful efforts to protect Palo Alto’s interests. But for what the city needs now, we think others will be more effective. Finally, neither Lydia Kou nor A.C. Johnston has demonstrated sufficient knowledge of the issues to be ready to serve. Johnston has no history of community involvement and has lived in the city for less than two years (although he lived here previously during the 1990s.) He was uninformed on the most controversial issues the council has considered in recent years, including the so-called Gateway project at 101 Lytton. That lack of homework is not a sign of someone passionate about serving. Kou similarly lacks confidence in addressing the issues and in debates has been unable to articulate clear and specific answers to many questions. Both would be more credible candidates in two years after getting more involved and gaining a more thorough understanding of city issues. We recommend Karen Holman, Greg Scharff, Tom DuBois, Eric Filseth and Cory Wolbach as the best combination of candidates to begin the process of reuniting our community.
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Letters Trust in public officials
Editor, Election day was always a big event in my family. Even before I could legally vote, my dad took me with him so I could help him push the buttons on the mechanical voting machine. It was important to him that I understood my duty as a citizen to vote. As a citizen of Menlo Park for the past 10 years, I’ve never missed an election day. As a community, we elect City Council members who represent the collective views of our community. These City Council members, along with many community volunteers and paid experts, created the Downtown Specific Plan for Menlo Park. The process was open and transparent. They welcomed community engagement at every stage. Now, a group of citizens (none of them elected officials) known as Save Menlo has developed its own plan and associated ballot measure. Unlike the Specific Plan, Measure M was crafted by a handful of individuals behind closed doors. It wasn’t vetted with the whole community or publicly debated. Instead, members of the group printed and then collected signatures, using, in large part, scare tactics about traffic. They’ve demonstrated the antithesis of a democratic, inclusive process. I take my cue from the five current City Council members, eight former council members, all five current school board members, and county and state officials who all oppose Measure M. I will vote against Measure M because I trust that our elected officials are empowered to act in the best interest of our city. Sara Leslie Cotton Street, Menlo Park
Will of the community
Editor, Yesterday I received the AntiMeasure-M four-color, slick literature piece clearly supported by monied developers. Measure M restores to the Menlo Park Downtown Specific Plan the key elements from the citizens’ Visioning process, which City Council deleted. Construction of gigantic office buildings currently planned will dramatically increase downtown traffic congestion, along with neighborhood cut-throughs. Over 400,000 square feet of new office space are currently in the works compared with the 240,800 square feet considered by the Visioning process. The Vision, which was supposed to guide the Specific Plan, allowed for higher density in exchange for more public open space. Instead, the Council-approved plan allows developers to count private rooftops and bal-
conies as open space. Yes-on-M would close this loophole and ensures that “open space” is public space. Measure M requires public vote only if City Council wants to change the amended plan’s development caps or what counts as open space. Every other requirement and guideline in the plan remains unchanged and under the council’s control. Measure M simply restores the original will of our community. Furthermore, City Council’s own study concluded that Yes-on-M will have no impact on school revenues, expenditures or enrollment. Vote yes on M for a walkable, livable Menlo Park. Don Barnby Spruce Avenue, Menlo Park
Puzzling poll
Editor, I did not receive the anonymous poll, but I have heard and read a great deal about it. Unlike the scorecard completed by Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning, someone wants information without revealing their own identity. It’s not clear who would be foolish enough to claim to be calling on behalf of the city government. This poll included at least one caller who can’t pronounce Simitian. Was this a supporter of Simitian’s point of view who wants to hide that fact? When constructing their Slate A & Slate B, the pollster conveniently forgot that residentialist Karen Holman voted for Maybell. No residentialist needs to slander any incumbent because their voting records are clear enough evidence of whether they should be re-elected. The references to A.C. Johnston’s naval service and the trumpeting about supporters lead me to point out that Mr. Johnston is the founder and managing partner of a successful law firm. Greg Scharff and Nancy Shepherd’s husband are also successful attorneys. I’m not accusing anyone, merely pointing out that they could afford to do this poll. The possible connection with the poll last year supporting Maybell is tantalizing. Maybell was defeated with sweat equity, not money. Margaret Fruth El Camino Way, Palo Alto
Palo Alto left out
Editor, Do you live in or near Palo Alto, and notice a huge increase in loud airplane noise? According to the SFO Roundtable, created to manage and reduce noise pollution, you don’t exist. They voted this week to exclude Palo Alto representatives from any discussion. Arrivals at SFO now approach
the airport at lower altitudes and use the infamous step-wise approach requiring engine use instead of the continuous glide approach that is virtually soundless. And more flights are approaching SFO over Palo Alto instead of over the Bay. No sane person would spend two million dollars to buy a home directly under a major airport flight path. But that’s what thousands of Palo Altans now own — expensive homes buffeted by over 200 arriving flights per day. Even Congresswoman Eshoo’s office has limited clout with the Federal Aviation Administration, so she needs more angry people to complain about this. To do so, write to sfo.noise@ flysfo.com, and copy her office at anthony.lin@mail.house.gov. Marty Klein Birch Street, Palo Alto
A diverse community
Editor, We Palo Altans are justly proud of the diversity in our unique community. Your Transitions section on the Oct. 3 issue is stark and dramatic proof of it. Juxtaposed are obituaries of 65-year-old Michael Davis, former Black Panther and non-graduate of high school, and 107-yearold George Knoles, Stanford Ph.D and chairman of its history department. Each was a devoted husband: Davis for 41 years; Knowles for 64. Each contributed significantly to Palo Alto: Knoles as educator of students for 33 years; Davis as supervisor of the Downtown Streets Team. It helped him rebuild his troubled life after years of homelessness, drug activity and crime. In his obituary it was said that “he changed the trajectory of hundreds of lives.” The same may well be said of Professor Knoles at the upcoming service for him. Joseph Baldwin Webster Street, Palo Alto
ecutive director of the Peninsula College Fund, whose mission included offering scholarships and mentors to disadvantaged students in East Palo Alto, Paly and Gunn. In addition, she has deep experience in policy analysis and advocacy on education issues, working with entities such as the Gates and Hewlett foundations. You oppose Foster primarily because she declined to join others in condemning the current board’s resolution criticizing the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Foster has joined others in urging greater transparency and cooperation with OCR. To you, however, the OCR is all good and the board all bad, so even the slightest variance from condemnation is also bad. In fact, the board was handicapped in presenting its side by its responsible insistence on student confidentiality. Under those circumstances, Foster’s courage in not rushing to judgment without knowing all the facts, even knowing that wouldn’t be popu-
lar with some, is another of her strong qualifications. I urge your readers to vote for both Foster and Godfrey. Walter Hays Parkside Drive, Palo Alto
Not over yet ...
Editor, I hope readers, based on last week’s headlines, didn’t mistakenly think that it is over for residents at Buena Vista Mobile Home Park (BV) and the park will close — far from it. The news last week concerned the hearing officer releasing his final decision stemming from last May’s hearing on the adequacy of the required Relocation Plan and payments offered to residents by the owner of BV. The plan was found to be “adequate” (many disagree) and was pretty much the same as the hearing officer’s prior tentative decision — not surprising that he didn’t overrule himself. While we (continued on page 18)
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Disagree with position
Editor, I disagree with your decision not to endorse Catherine Crystal Foster. Expressing one’s opinions at board meetings is not the only way to support Palo Alto schools. Like Terry Godfrey, whom I join you in supporting, Catherine has “walked her talk” to maintain the excellence of our schools. She served as a school lead for PiE and has tirelessly collaborated with others in every election to pass critical parcel taxes and bond issues. Foster also has an impressive track record on our persistent achievement gap. She was exwww.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • October 10, 2014 • Page 17
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would have liked a more thoughtful analysis based on the evidence, this decision is only one stop in the process that applies to BV. Next will likely be an appeal to the City Council toward the end of this year or at the beginning of next year, 2015. From there, it is anyone’s guess. It is far from over for the good people of Buena Vista. They are determined that redevelopment will not be allowed to force them from their homes, and we should be too. Winter Dellenbach Friends of Buena Vista La Para Avenue, Palo Alto
No-wage increase
Editor, I was disturbed to read in the Oct. 3 article in the Palo Alto Weekly, “Palo Alto council candidates split on growth,” that 10 out of 12 candidates support raising the minimum wage in Palo Alto. It is shocking that only one candidate (Seelam Reddy) made the only moral and rational argument that in a free country (i.e., America) it should be up to companies and the workers to voluntarily agree on the appropriate wage level. (Note that after submitting this letter, I was informed that Seelam Reddy reversed his position — so Mr. Reddy, this letter applies to you as well.) As dictated by the law of supply and demand, wages are simply the price of labor (a price paid by companies). Coercive government policies artificially setting the level of wages (price) too high simply leads to less supply of jobs. Fewer jobs will be available for the people who need jobs the most — the poor, unskilled and uneducated. Anyone who claims to be helping the poor by having a minimum wage is lying (to themselves or
otherwise). In fact they are advocating for higher unemployment of low-skilled workers who are then left to a program of government institutionalization of poverty. I suggest that each of the council candidates (except maybe Seelam Reddy) read Henry Hazlitt’s classic book, “Economics in One Lesson” ($8.46 on Amazon but also available free online). As he wrote so eloquently, “You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less.” Seavan Sternheim Ross Road, Palo Alto
More ecstatic dance
Editor, In reference to your Sept. 26 article “The Ecstasy of Embodiment,” I am glad to see this enriching movement practice through expressive, ecstatic, meditative dance reaching the general public through your publication. I have been involved in this practice for over 18 years, taking a weekly class right here on the Midpeninsula for 14 years. Yes, ecstatic dance has been available in this area for much longer than the four years your article implied. I was perplexed by how your Arts and Entertainment Editor failed to uncover or mention that ecstatic dance in the form of Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythm dance practice has been thriving here since 2000 under the tutelage of Claire Alexander (Ecstatic Productions). The ongoing, year-round Monday night class provides skillful guidance by Claire — a Roth trained, certified 5Rhythm teacher for 20 years — to between 60 and 80 people from all walks of life. A large proportion of the attendees have been dedicated to this practice for many years. Monday night is not only a deeply nurturing, personal experience but has grown into a community
that comes together to celebrate and support each other in their life experiences and has spawned many activities outside of Monday nights, from political and social events to the healing arts. Lawrence Dorfman Creek Drive, Menlo Park
Residentialist credentials
Editor, As a veteran of Palo Alto’s residents versus developers wars in the 1970s, it’s depressing and deceitful that City Council candidates of every stripe today call themselves “residentialists.” You’re not a residentialist if you supported the 70-foot-high monstrosity at 101 Lytton that has inadequate parking and towers over nearby homes. Seven out of nine council members voted for this, with only Karen Holman and Greg Schmid having the courage to say “no.” We learned in the 1970s that one exception here and another there soon becomes a nightmare for everyone. Traffic impacts everybody. So we strove to preserve neighborhoods across the city, enforce a height limit and fight density and inadequate development parking everywhere. But those protections have been eroded by far too many City Council members recently. Developers rake in hundreds of millions of dollars from huge projects in Palo Alto and can flood homes with campaign ads to make you think their candidates are “residentialists.” But don’t be fooled. Enid Pearson City of Palo Alto Vice Mayor, 1975 Forest Court, Palo Alto
Keep property affordable
Editor, The City Council’s discussion of Planned Community (PC) zoning this week was refreshing. All
the council members took it as a given that affordable housing is a public benefit. There were many criticisms and recommendations for change to the PC process, but all were careful to distinguish its use for affordable housing from projects that have not provided a tangible benefit to the public, yet yielded big profits for developers. Greg Schmidt and Karen Holman, two long-time PC abuse watchdogs, gave impressive defenses of the targeted use of PC accommodation when necessary, particularly for affordable housing. Other members also identified affordable housing as being worthy of special consideration, if not with a PC process then some other — for example, a site-specific or precise plan. Let me suggest that the Buena Vista site be developed using whichever of these methods best meets the goal of keeping Buena Vista residents in Palo Alto with community support. I don’t think that keeping the mobile homes there is a good long-term solution. There has been a lot of resistance in the neighborhood to a resolution that leaves the physical environment unchanged. Just as residents on the other side of Barron Park were concerned about the visual impact of the proposed project on Maybell, many people near Buena Vista are concerned about the visual impact of a retained mobilehome park. The property should be developed with an eye to making as many units as possible affordable to current residents who want to stay there. When their life circumstances change and they move on, those units would remain as affordable housing for a new set of qualified residents. Jerry Underdal Georgia Avenue, Palo Alto
Vote for Foster
Editor, I’m 100 percent in support of Catherine Crystal Foster and hope our community will elect her to the PAUSD School Board. I have personally known Catherine for over 12 years in her role as a nonprofit leader, parent and community volunteer. I’ve watched as she grew the Peninsula College Fund and benefited from her willingness to share and collaborate as I grew my own nonprofit. She created networks for local nonprofits to share their ideas and genuinely enjoys bringing people together. I am extremely excited to see her thoughtful ideas be a part of the larger discussion in our school district. She wholeheartedly believes in the social-emotional wellbeing of all our children, has been involved in work on socialemotional health with the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, and has an extensive commitment to collaboration with others — and her ethics are unmatched. She will have my vote. Stephanie Martinson Park Boulevard, Palo Alto Page 18 • October 10, 2014 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com
Have fewer kids
Editor, The state is requiring Palo Alto to demonstrate they can provide space for 1,988 more housing units (“City Proposes New Incentives for Affordable Housing,” Oct. 3, Palo Alto Weekly). People deserve to have a place they can call “home,” but they also have an obligation to act responsibly. Instead of encouraging cities to provide more affordable housing for more people, why not encourage couples to have small families through education and tax incentives? Cities could be building more and more housing for the ever-increasing population for eternity. Wouldn’t it be better to destroy the problem — meet it head on — instead of continuing to feed it? As population decreases and becomes more balanced, so will the cost of housing, and the quality of life will go up. Jackie Leonard-Dimmick Walnut Avenue, Atherton
Little for a lot
Editor, Our infrastructure deficit has long plagued our safety (police building, fire houses), our comfort and hazards (bumpy roads, rocky sidewalks), trustworthy routes to school, renewal of parks and much more. With Measure B we will have a means to fund substantial headway toward eliminating these serious shortfalls in the community we need to be. A minuscule tax on those staying for a night or two in one of our hotels or motels goes right to the heart of our need and meets it. Vote yes on Measure B. Ray Bacchetti Webster Street, Palo Alto
Needed improvements
Editor, Measure B proposes a 2 percent increase in the tax paid by visitors staying in Palo Alto hotels and motels, raising the tax from 12 to 14 percent. For example, Measure B adds $3 to a $150 hotel room or $4 to a $200 hotel room. Importantly, the state cannot take these funds from Palo Alto. This money will be invested to make city infrastructure improvements we badly need. It will help to make Palo Alto’s fire stations and emergency operations earthquake safe; improve pedestrian and bike safety on paths and bridges, including school commute routes; maintain city streets and roads, and improve safety at city street intersections; reduce neighborhood parking impacts by creating new off-street parking options; and provide full access to dozens of acres of trails and open space. Please join the entire City Council, PTA Council, the League of Women Voters of Palo Alto and community and business leaders who support this measure. Vote yes on Measure B. Penny Ellson El Capitan Place, Palo Alto
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The 12 candidates for Palo Alto’s City Council debate at a forum moderated by former Mayor Sid Espinosa, center, in council chambers on Oct. 2.
The battle for City Hall 12 candidates vie for five seats on Palo Alto City Council by Gennady Sheyner
The Incumbents
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hen Karen Holman, Greg Scharff and Nancy Shepherd took their oaths of office five years ago, budget deficits, the future of compost and the high-speed rail were the issues dominating City Hall. The city was squabbling with its labor unions over benefit reforms and fighting with businesses over a proposed business-license tax. Parking shortages had not yet made their transition from a general nuisance to a full-fledged crisis. “For Lease” signs blighted storefronts throughout downtown. These days, as the three seek fresh terms, two of them — Scharff and Shepherd — emphasize the council’s success in dealing with these challenges. Scharff touts the fact that city revenues are on the rise and that after years of talk, the council finally has both the strategy and the resources needed to tackle the city’s infrastructure backlog. Shepherd recalls the council’s success in fighting high-speed rail’s proposed “Berlin Wall” and its approval of Stanford University Medical Center hospital expansion. Both makes no bones about it:
Despite a few missteps, they are proud of the council’s record and more than willing to defend it. Though the global recovery from the Great Recession had much to do with the city’s recent uptick in hotel- and sales-tax revenues, both believe the council deserves some credit for balancing the city’s books. “We’re out of the financial crisis and we’re moving forward,” Shepherd said at an Oct. 2 candidates forum. But if Scharff and Shepherd are running on the council’s record, Holman is in many ways running against it. As the stalwart voice of residentialist skepticism on the council (and before that, on the Planning and Transportation Commission), Holman spends almost as much time talking about what the council should do better as she does in recapping its accomplishments. She is a staunch critic of most major developments that have received approval in recent years; she voted against almost all of them. And while she does not officially belong to the citizens group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning, she’s had a “meeting of the minds” with
its leaders. In recent weeks, the group officially endorsed her, effectively cementing her status as the one incumbent running against the incumbency. On most issues, her views and interests are aligned with those of the citizens group. Last week, Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning released a survey that considered each council member’s vote on 20 land-use issues and rated them based on whether they are “proresident” or “anti-resident.” Not surprisingly, Holman and Councilman Greg Schmid scored the highest, with 85 percent (29 percent more than the next highest council member). Much has been made in the current election climate about the two camps currently vying for council supremacy: the residentialists and the “establishment.” But while the former camp, as epitomized by Holman, generally opposes dense developments and (more broadly) the urbanization of Palo Alto, Shepherd and Scharff both demonstrate that the latter is harder to define. The former was a PTA volunteer who was propelled to the greater stage by anxieties over high-speed rail.
The latter was a virtual unknown at City Hall before running an energetic campaign in opposition to the business tax. True, Scharff and Shepherd — mayors in 2013 and 2014, respectively — presided over the council at a time of rapid growth and, consequently, rising tensions and intense debates. Scharff served as mayor during the Maybell revolt, while Shepherd took the helm just in time to deal with the repercussions. Both participated (along with the rest of the council) in non-disclosed meetings with developer John Arrillaga in 2012 — meetings that were the subject of a scathing report from the Santa Clara County Grand Jury in June. These controversies have shaken up the council, prompting criticisms, apologies and promises of reform. Even though critics often lump Scharff and Shepherd together in the ill-defined “establishment” camp, they have not been in accord on every issue. Scharff, for example, led the city’s successful effort to eliminate binding arbitration for public-safety workers from the City Charter; Shepherd opposed placing the change on the ballot. Shepherd proposed placing
on this year’s ballot initiatives to reduce the size of the council and extend term limits; Scharff opposed both. Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning has given each low scores on its scorecard of “pro-resident” votes, which is devoted exclusively to land-use and transportation issues and which penalizes both Scharff and Shepherd for supporting recent projects such as 101 Lytton Ave., 3159 El Camino Real and the redeveloped Edgewood Plaza (Holman voted against all three). Each also took a hit for supporting the idea of jointly developing a downtown garage with developer Charles “Chop” Keenan, though whether this really qualifies as an “anti-resident” vote is debatable. And Scharff and Shepherd are more than willing to debate these points and defend themselves against their slow-growth critics. “Every vote I took was with the intention of increasing the livability of Palo Alto and making sure our neighborhoods, schools and community are a fabulous place to live,” Scharff said at the Oct. 2 debate. n (continued on next page)
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Karen Holman
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any City Council members claim the “residentialist” label these days. Karen Holman pretty much owns it. She is the incumbent most championed by those who oppose the incumbents. She has just about every neighborhood organization and land-use critic on her side. She knows the Comprehensive Plan and the city’s zoning code backward and forward and has a record of civic service that includes eight years on the Planning and Transportation Commission. Yet rarely does a leader with so much community support look as alone as Holman on a Monday night as she casts, one more time, the council’s lone dissenting vote. That’s what happened in March 2012, when she voted against the redevelopment of Edgewood Plaza; and in November of that year, when she voted “no” on the flood-control project near the San Francisquito Creek (because the relevant environmental documents weren’t provided to the council, she explained); and in December 2013, when she opposed a ban on amplified sound at downtown’s Lytton Plaza. Her dissent may be rooted in quibbles large or small. As a planning commissioner she voted against the College Terrace Centre development because she felt it was too massive. She also voted against the Tree House
Apartments affordable-housing project on West Charleston Road because it didn’t include private open space (both projects won council approval despite her opposition). Of the three incumbents on November’s ballot, she has the longest and most consistent record. Occasionally, a colleague or two have joined her in opposition. She and Greg Schmid voted “no” when the council approved the Lytton Gateway building at 101 Lytton Ave. She and Marc Berman were the only naysayers when the council approved a ban on people living in their vehicles last year. Though she slipped out of character in 2010 to support a development by Harold Hohbach at 195 Page Mill Road, she pointed to it last week when asked which vote, if any, she regrets from her five years on the council. Well-versed in local land-use laws, she is a crafty editor who is known to chisel away at a motion until the words are just right, a tendency that occasionally exhausts her colleagues. Yet whether she is peppering staff with questions or proclaiming, in regards to downtown’s growth, that “Rome is burning,” it’s a fairly safe bet that her votes will tend toward minimizing the impact of change rather than effecting it. There have been some exceptions. In June 2013, Holman voted with the rest of the council to
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Veronica Weber
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The Preservationist
approve a housing development on Maybell Avenue, which included 12 single-family homes and 60 apartments for low-income seniors. Though city residents later overturned the development by defeating Measure D, Holman believes now as she did then that it was a good project. She doesn’t take this position often, having voted against every other planned-community zone proposal that has recently come in front of the council. About 101 Lytton Ave., Holman argued that the intersection of Alma Street and Lytton is not really downtown’s gateway and that the zoning exemptions sought by the applicant weren’t justifiable. “They’ve been through a long process with this, but that doesn’t justify what I consider not the right project with not the right public benefits for the neighborhood,” Holman said. She had similar misgivings about another downtown proposal — John Arrillaga’s ill-fated plan to build an office-andtheater complex at 27 University Ave. Like her colleagues, she met privately with Arrillaga in 2012 to hear his pitch. Unlike them, she expressed concerns about the process while it was happening. That June, when staff was arranging meetings between consultants and Arrillaga’s team, Holman wrote an email in which she said that with the additional meetings she has “even greater concerns about transparency.” “Please help me understand what causes the need for private meetings with City Council members rather than meetings that could be held in public,” she wrote in the email to city staff, which the Weekly obtained through a Public Records Act request. Last month she was one of several council members to offer regrets and apologies about the Arrillaga discussions. She said she wishes she acted upon her concerns. “I felt I also let the community down and should’ve been more forceful in my objections,” Holman said at the Sept. 9 meeting. She also said she could have better handled the recent flap over her ties to Realtor Steve Pierce, who owns a property on Arastradero Road. At an April hearing of the Regional Housing Mandate Committee, Holman advocated for having staff explore the concept of creating housing on Arastradero, a proposal also championed by Pierce. Several of her colleagues, including Vice Mayor Liz Kniss and Councilman Greg Scharff, suggested that she had a possible conflict of interest because of her past financial ties to Pierce. An anonymous complaint was filed with the Fair Political Practices Commission, which discarded it as unworthy of investigating. Holman believes the attack against her was political and
The Pragmatist Greg Scharff
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n February 2013, as he addressed a crowd of dignitaries assembled at Tesla Motors headquarters in the Stanford Research Park, newly elected Mayor Greg Scharff offered one of the boldest and most sweeping “State of the City” speeches in recent memory. After celebrating the city’s role as — in his words — a place with ideas that change the world and where the future continues to be invented, Scharff proposed a series of initiatives ranging from expanding the city’s smoking ban and its public-art program to bringing wireless Internet to local parks and building a long-awaited citywide fiber network. He referred to the year as “Lucky ‘13” and said Palo Alto should be the “leading digital city of the future.” By the end of the year, 2013 no longer seemed so lucky. Residents unhappy about pace of growth spearheaded a referendum that shot down a council-approved housing development on Maybell Avenue. Parking and traffic problems remained prominent and unsolved. And Scharff — who has been the council’s leading voice for building new garages; who led (along with Karen Holman) the push to protect downtown shops from converting to offices; and who proposed reducing the number of homes in the Maybell development — was increasingly, and at times unfairly, criticized for being too cozy with developers. The fact that just about every initiative that Scharff unveiled in his
February speech came to fruition became a parenthetical note in the aftermath of Measure D. When people talk about “two visions” for Palo Alto and frame the election in terms borrowed from the 1960s (a pro-development “establishment” against slow-growth “residentialists”), they often lump Scharff in the former category. A recent survey by the citizens group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning gave him one of the lowest grades in its scoresheet of “pro-resident” votes. From Scharff’s perspective, this is grossly unfair. Residentialists may complain about his support for 101 Lytton Ave., a four-story planned-community zone development near the downtown Caltrain station. But he would point out that the project provides full parking for its tenants; its developer provided a $2 million payment for a new garage downtown; the site was appropriate for more density because it’s right next to a transit hub; and the developer was required to put in place a transportation-demand management program that would ensure traffic generated by building workers and visitors would be 20 percent lower than normal. An alternative, he points out, would have been a two-story, suburban-style office building with a sprawling parking lot instead of the underground parking ultimately approved. He noted that he personally made the project more suitable by shifting some of the offered funds from affordable hous-
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ing to parking and by specifying in the motion that the ground-floor tenant will be a restaurant or a coffee shop, not a bank. The end product, he believes, is the best the city could have gotten from a planned-community zone project. “If you’re going to build office space in Palo Alto, this is the best location of any place in Palo Alto to build it,” Scharff told the Weekly. On the Maybell Avenue proposal, by contrast, Scharff has some regrets. In the days before the City Council was scheduled to vote on the project, he moderated a summit between the Palo Alto Housing Corporation (the project developer) and the organizers of the opposition in hopes of reaching a compromise. Though no deal was reached, Scharff came away feeling like he understood the residents’ major concerns: keeping traffic impacts minimal and preserving the neighborhood character. To address these concerns, he proposed (and his colleagues agreed) to trim the number of single-family homes from 15 to 12. In retrospect, he wishes he had trimmed the number to eight, a number that residents said they could have lived with. Scharff told the Weekly that he had focused on the fact that the four extra homes wouldn’t significantly affect traffic. He also felt that the site’s existing zoning would result in a development with more severe traffic problems than the proposed development. His error, he said, was not paying enough attention to the feelings in the community about the way the project was approved. “The huge mistake I made personally was looking at the technical details, rather than community sentiment,” Scharff said. While his overall feelings about the two planned-community developments haven’t changed since he cast the votes, his opinion of the zoning process that enabled the projects has undergone a transformation. Scharff told the Weekly he now believes that the process is broken and that, rather than be reformed, it should be eliminated entirely. The process has been routinely criticized for years by residents complaining about the zone-busting developments it enables and the supposedly insufficient public benefits it offers to the community (the list includes everything from public plazas and sculptures to cash payments and grocery stores). All the residentialist candidates, including Councilwoman Karen Holman, said they believe the process should be reformed. Scharff, who in December made the motion to put a moratorium on planned-community zoning, no longer believes that this is possible. “What happened here is that the community has no faith in the PC process whatsoever,” Scharff told the Weekly. “I don’t really see how we can reform it. And if we can’t reform it, we need to eliminate it. “I’d completely support elimi-
The Ambassador Nancy Shepherd
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hen Nancy Shepherd became active in City Hall politics five years ago, her purpose was to unite the community against the looming specter of high-speed rail, a project that was threatening to wipe out homes along Alma Street and literally divide the community. Shepherd, who lives near the Caltrain corridor, organized meetings, pored over documents and criticized what became known as the “Berlin Wall” — a proposed structure that would support elevated tracks along the corridor. The concept of an elevated system ultimately fizzled, thanks in large part to heavy lobbying from Palo Alto and its neighboring cities and a successful push by local representatives to pursue a different design, one in which highspeed rail and Caltrain would share the same set of tracks. Today, the managerial accountant cites her work to oppose high-speed rail and to support Caltrain as some of her proudest achievements. Others include her work on getting the city’s budget in order and her commitment to involving the community in local decision-making. “I have felt throughout my time on council that we were still not bringing in the community enough,” Shepherd told the Weekly in a recent interview. “That’s something I always felt we need to do right away.” When the City Council elected Shepherd mayor in 2014, col-
leagues praised her willingness to field and respond to criticisms. Larry Klein praised her ability to “disagree without being disagreeable.” Vice Mayor Liz Kniss cited Shepherd’s “toughness” and “resilience” — attributes that were severely tested during the past two years. Shepherd, who is generally aligned with the council’s majority, has taken her share of criticism from the community, with many pouncing on her for supporting the Maybell Avenue housing project. For Shepherd, who often preaches the importance of community outreach and healthy debate, Measure D was a particularly bitter pill. In June 2013, as she prepared to vote with the rest of her colleagues to support the Maybell development, she observed that there are “good people on both sides, wearing green buttons and red buttons.” “It’s not easy for a council member to see this type of conversation happen,” Shepherd said before the vote. She also took the heat from land-use watchdogs for voting with the majority to support the planned-community zone development at 101 Lytton Ave., the commercial building that she called “a good project in itself.” She also supported a proposed mixed-use development at 3159 El Camino Real, around Equinox gym, which received a few design exemptions to allow for more height and a bigger setback from the sidewalk. She acknowledged
that the vote wouldn’t be popular with many voters but asserted that the landowner had property rights and that the project complied with all local laws. The citizens group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning (PASZ), which formed in opposition to Measure D (and which, incidentally, has three members running in the election), gave both her and Councilman Greg Scharff a piddling “30 percent” in its recent scoresheet of “pro-resident” votes. Scharff and Shepherd dismiss the tally, with some justification, as a highly partisan exercise and say it is not reflective of their true positions. For one thing, the group selected 20 votes out of the hundreds that the council has taken. For another thing, the scorecard describes the council’s actions in a way that has a clearly residentialist slant (a vote to redevelop the long-dilapidated Edgewood Plaza, for example, was considered an anti-resident vote). The survey also took for granted that some of the council’s most nuanced decisions could be framed as either for or against residents. Critics are right in characterizing her as less of a residentialist than Councilwoman Karen Holman, who scored 85 percent on the PASZ survey. But for Shepherd, issues are rarely writ in black and white. For better or worse, she doesn’t act like a typical politician, often preferring circuitous deliberations to snappy sound bytes. Her council comments often include phrases like “and yet,” “on the other hand” and “but at the same time,” and she routinely asks her colleagues to approach a given issue with “more rigor” or to “noodle” on some complicated issue a little more. Even an issue on which you’d expect her to have a strong opinion, such as November’s ballot measure to reduce the council size from nine members to seven — for which she co-authored a council colleagues’ memo — she today says she is “49 to 51” on (but happy that voters will have a chance to weigh in). She told the Weekly she strongly favored a companion item on the memo proposing the council extend its limit on members’ service from two terms to three. More terms, she argued, would help local council members achieve seniority on regional boards that have great impact on Palo Alto, including Caltrain and the Association of Bay Area Governments (her proposal to place this issue on the ballot died by a 5-4 vote). Shepherd has often talked about the importance of regional cooperation and last year took a trip to Contra Costa to explore the transportation-demand-management program at the city’s transit center. Last year, she co-authored a colleagues’ memo calling for a similar program in Palo Alto. The city took a huge stride in that effort in August, when it hired
a company to set up a nonprofit that would work with downtown employers to manage the area’s parking and traffic problems. She also hasn’t shied away from representing the city in other regions, states and countries. She flew to China in November 2012 to cement the city’s new partnership with Yangpu, a district in Shanghai. She also took a trip to Kansas City in May 2013 for a conference on municipal fiber networks (Palo Alto is still hoping to build one someday soon). Last month, Shepherd represented Palo Alto at a League of Cities Conference in Los Angeles, where she was happy to receive an award for Palo Alto’s sustainability effort. In words and deeds, she appears comfortable in her role as the city’s ambassador to the world. But locally, Shepherd said she has a few regrets. She wishes she had supported the Neighborhood Grants program that was launched in 2012 by then-mayor Yiaway Yeh and Scharff. She also wishes she had asked the Palo Alto Housing Corporation to reduce the number of singlefamily homes on Maybell from 15 to eight (rather than the 12 the council settled on). The past two years haven’t always been easy for Shepherd, but she is largely proud of her record in bringing the community into City Hall conversations. If elected to a fresh term, Shepherd said she hopes to play a central role in the city’s update of the Comprehensive Plan, its guiding landuse document, for which the city made big efforts to gain community input this year. In a recent interview, she talked about the challenge of maintaining Palo Alto’s international and regional image as the “It” place while at the same time minimizing the impacts caused by the many people who commute to Palo Alto every day. “We have to try to balance who we are and how to have that reliable lifestyle that we really appreciate. I do know it’s across the board on the Bay Area. ... It’s not just a Palo Alto thing,” she said. “On the other hand, I’m here in Palo Alto. This is my focus.” n
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points to her status on the council as a colleague who is “not unliked, but unpopular” because of her votes. It took her some time to decide whether she wanted to run for office again and possibly spend another four years in the council minority. It was only after two other residentialists — Eric Filseth and Tom DuBois — joined the race that she began to see a glimmer of hope that her minority status might change. “There is a possibility of having a different council majority and to make the role I can play more impactful and more meaningful,” she said. n
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nating the PC process,” Scharff said. Scharff also regrets the council’s secret negotiations with developer John Arrillaga in 2012, calling them a “horrible process,” and acknowledges that the council should have done better. He now supports having the council vote publicly on whether to go into a closed session before every such
trongly supports building parking garages S downtown and in the California Avenue business district. oted to eliminate parking exemptions for both new V developments and for ones that were under city consideration as of October 2013.
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upported adding a “satellite” parking lot on S Embarcadero Road for downtown workers. oted in favor of the Palo Alto Housing Corporation V proposal for Maybell Avenue, which included 60 apartments for low-income seniors and 12 singlefamily homes. ays that existing zoning, coupled with state S incentives for affordable housing, may be sufficient to encourage new developments for low-income residents.
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erved in 2013 on the council’s Regional Housing S Mandate Committee, which reviewed and approved the Housing Element. elieves the city needs to do what it can to keep B residents of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park in Palo Alto, even if the trailer park is closed and the property is redeveloped. oted to ban car camping in 2013. Now, with the V ban suspended because of a court decision, he believes the ban is no longer necessary. Supported keeping Cubberley Community Center closed at night to address concerns about it being a “de facto homeless shelter.”
session. Yet he also believes the council doesn’t get enough credit for its accomplishments. When he joined the council in 2010, the budget was a mess and the council was involved in a tense battle with its labor unions over pension and health care reforms. The city’s infrastructure had an estimated backlog of more than $300 million, and officials were struggling to come up with a plan to build a new police headquarters. Scharff helped lead the council
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in repealing the binding-arbitration provision in the City Charter for public-safety unions so that the city is no longer forced to accept labor-contract terms imposed by a third party. He also took part in the Infrastructure Committee that came up with a financing plan to pay for the needed fixes (Measure B, which would raise the hotel tax rate by 2 percentage points is part of the solution). And city workers now contribute toward their own pensions and health care
As for parking and traffic, the two issues that everyone is talking about? Scharff points out that the council has 14 initiatives in the works to address these issues, including new garage technology, a downtown Residential Parking Permit Program and a new Transportation Management Association that will provide incentives for downtown companies whose employees switch from using cars to other modes of transportation. Land use may continue to dominate the election debate,
but Scharff believes that when it comes to being responsible stewards of public finances and the city’s infrastructure, he and his colleagues have performed their job well. “This is the first time that we actually have a plan to solve the problem and actually get on track where we maintain our infrastructure and we keep up with it,” Scharff told the Weekly. “It was a long haul. We did it in an open and transparent way. Those two things alone are huge.” n
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upported raising the hotel tax rate from 12 to 15 S percent, though after that proposal failed he voted with the council to put it on the ballot at 14 percent.
pposed measures to reduce council size and O extend the number of terms council members can serve. rew criticism from colleagues in 2013 for using his D mayoral powers to appoint himself, Larry Klein and Nancy Shepherd to several new committees at the expense of other council members. trongly supports having fewer closed sessions S and taking public votes before each closed session.
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The Residentialists
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hey say it’s not a slate, and we’ll take their word for it. The non-slate includes council hopefuls Eric Filseth, Tom DuBois and Lydia Kou. Together with incumbent Karen Holman, their campaign signs are lawn-mates all over the city; they occasionally campaign together; they lament the fast pace of local development; they oppose zoning exceptions; and they believe the majority of the City Council is out of touch with the wishes of the majority of the voters. Still, it’s not a slate. Filseth, DuBois and Kou come from different neighborhoods (Downtown North, Midtown and Barron Park, respectively), but they are united by a distaste for zone-busting office developments and a belief that the city is changing too fast. Each of the
three is affiliated with the group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning, which formed last year in opposition to Measure D. The group endorses Holman but otherwise believes that the current council is out of touch with the citizen majority. The three candidates hail different parts of the country (or, in Kou’s case, the world) and have different professional experiences. Filseth, a Wisconsin native, worked for decades in the semiconductor industry and considers himself a “numbers guy.” DuBois hails from Ohio and spent decades as a business consultant (he currently works in the videogame industry). Kou, a Hong Kong native who works as a Realtor, has the strongest record of civic participation, having served for years as a neighborhood or-
ganizer and an emergency-preparedness volunteer. On the pressing issues of growth and development, however, the three are united. Each believes the city is letting developers have too much sway, at the expense of local neighborhoods. Kou told the Weekly she believes the city is now “beyond the tipping point of a crisis” when it comes to parking and traffic. All three say the city needs a change in leadership to keep things from getting worse. Filseth and DuBois both dispute the idea that the city’s Comprehensive Plan needs to be radically revamped. Rather, they say, the city needs to do a better job following the vision contained in the existing document. Filseth says the city’s Planning and Transportation Commission
and Architectural Review Board tend to support densification, contrary to residents’ wishes. DuBois says the big questions in the debate center on the pace and quality of development. “In the last few years, if feels like projects have popped up all over town without concern for where they are, whether it makes sense as far as transportation and services,” he said. Right now, DuBois said, every council member sounds like he or she is “resident focused.” He argues that the council’s record doesn’t demonstrate it and points to 101 Lytton Ave., a commercial development that exceeded underlying zoning and that won the council’s approval in 2012. All three residentialist candidates say they would have voted against this development
(Holman and Greg Schmid were the only council members who didn’t support what was branded as “Lytton Gateway”). They are not a slate, but Holman said the presence of candidates with views similar to her own had a big impact on her decision to run. Long accustomed to the thankless frustrations of being in the minority, she would like to see that change. If things go well for the non-slate, with at least two of its candidates joining Holman in winning council seats, they could form a voting majority with fellow skeptics Schmid and Pat Burt — and work to turn down the dial on growth, alleviate the neighborhoods’ traffic and parking woes, and restore citizen trust in City Hall. Here, then, is the non-slate.
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n mid-2013, Palo Alto’s elected leaders stumbled upon the perfect formula for sparking civic engagement: approving an unpopular development in a neighborhood. Not coincidentally, that’s when Tom DuBois entered the political stage. The Ohio native has lived in Palo Alto since 1995, but it
wasn’t until the last year or two that he became concerned about the pace of the city’s growth. He wasn’t pleased with the council’s approval of a planned-community project at 101 Lytton Ave., which he said offered minimal public benefits in exchange for the density exemptions. He opposed the Jay Paul Co. proposal to add two
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massive office buildings to the AOL complex at 395 Page Mill Road. Then in June 2013 came 567 Maybell Ave. — a development that included 60 apartments for low-income seniors and 12 singlefamily homes and that sparked criticism from neighbors who believed it to be too dense for the area. The project only further reinforced his idea that the city is going in the wrong direction when it comes to development. DuBois took part in the referendum that overturned the housing development, and he became one of the founders of the group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning. He is in favor of tweaking the city’s land-use bible, the Comprehensive Plan, rather than overhauling it, a path that the current council is pursuing. And he would like to make some immediate changes to the zoning code that would prevent the types of buildings he says are causing consternation all over town — cubes that pretty much
fill out every foot of space that the zoning allows. Some people, he has said, would like to see a more urban future for Palo Alto, with more density and higher buildings. Others, like him, would prefer to see the city “evolve” rather than be redeveloped. That means quickly rejecting developments that go beyond the property’s zoning, rather than, in his words, “tweaking the edges” and keeping the projects alive for longer than necessary, as he said the city did with Jay Paul. “Palo Alto is a pretty built-out city,” DuBois told the Weekly. “We can afford to be choosy about the types of projects we approve.” Since joining the citizens group, DuBois has immersed himself in the weeds of land use. He has been a frequent and skeptical presence at meetings of the Planning and Transportation Commission and the Architectural Review Board. He steeped himself in the minutia of Palo Alto’s housing policies
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Residentialist candidates say they are running to preserve the quality of life in Palo Alto’s neighborhoods.
and zoning laws. Last year, he appealed the approval of a largerthan-regulation sign by Grocery Outlet, the new market at Alma Village. Addressing the council, he warned of a slippery slope. “Small signs work when everyone has them,” DuBois said. “Once we have large signs, it will kick off an arms race. If I owned a store and saw a large sign, I’d definitely want one, too.” The appeal ultimate faltered (with only Karen Holman, Greg Schmid and Gail Price voting for it), but his prophecy held up quite well. In the months after the sign discussion, Tesla Motors, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Survey Monkey all sought and received the city’s permission to exceed the city’s code on signage. DuBois has also expressed some concerns about the city’s ongoing effort to revise the Comprehensive Plan. The overhaul was initiated in 2006 and proceeded (continued on page 26)
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n December 2013, Downtown North resident Eric Filseth offered what may be the defining soliloquy in Palo Alto’s current land-use debate. Voters had just emphatically defeated Measure D, rejecting a housing development that was supported by the entire City Council. Developer Jay Paul Co., seeing the political winds shift, dropped its plan to build a zone-busting office complex at 395 Page Mill Road. And the council had just scheduled a public meeting to discuss the future of the city. In summing up the problems facing Palo Alto, Filseth pronounced that the city’s woes stem from conflicting visions. Vision A, he said, is one of Palo Alto as a “medium-density family town, a great place to live with great schools to send your kids to.” Vision B, which he dubbed “San Francisco South,” entails Palo Alto becoming “the financial and professional hub of the Peninsula.” “The planning department, the Architectural Review Board, the Planning and Transportation Commission, certainly the developer industry and most of you folks sitting up here today want Vision B, whereas most Palo Alto voters want Vision A,” Filseth said. “Certainly not all of us, but a clear majority of us, are not willing to accept the costs in term of density, traffic, congestion and school crowding and all the other stuff it would take to get Vision B.”
Filseth ended the speech with a question. “Half of you are running for reelection next year. Why? “It’s a serious question. You don’t get paid. You spend all your Monday nights here. You pour over endless minutia about city operations, and you have to sit there and listen to all of us three minutes at a time. Life is short. If you think we’re bullies, or if you don’t have a passion for Vision A, why waste your time here? “The voting majority of us want leadership that will preserve Vision A in the midst of serious regional challenges,” he said. Filseth himself hasn’t always been passionate about local politics. Like many residents, the Wisconsin native had spent the prior two and a half decades paying the mortgage, raising a family and working in the tech industry. But in recent years, as the pace of development picked up and downtown’s parking situation deteriorated, he began to pay attention. In 2012, he opposed the Lytton Gateway development, a four-story office building at the corner of Lytton Avenue and Alma Street that is now the home to Survey Monkey, the Chamber of Commerce and Gelataio. The building was approved under planned-community zoning, with the developer providing the public benefits of space for a nonprofit (the Chamber) and a cash payment to the city. Filseth had urged the council
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at the May 2012 meeting not to make the trade. “It’s never too late to walk away from a bad deal,” Filseth told the council. “This, for Palo Alto residents, is a bad deal.” Early in 2013, Filseth and his neighbor Neilson Buchanan tackled downtown’s parking problems with a computer model that maps out the expansion of the overflowed parking over the coming year. While his neighborhood and nearby Professorville were already inundated by commuters’ cars during weekdays — depicted by the color red on the map — Filseth’s model showed the redness spreading like a rash toward University South and Crescent Park in 2015 and 2016, as more approved developments come online. In the months prior to his December 2013 speech, Filseth had expanded his range of civic participation. He became involved in opposing Measure D and joined the group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning, which promotes slower growth and opposes changing a site’s zoning to enable denser developments. It was good timing for him professionally, too. In 2012, the software company of which he was CEO, Ciranova, was sold. This past July, with a few years of civic involvement under his belt, Filseth decided that he wanted to run for council and to make decisions that he believes will address the misalignment he sees between residents and City Hall over land use. He is very critical of the Association of Bay Area Governments, an organization that assigns a housing mandate to each city and requires each to zone for its allocation. Filseth told the Weekly he believes the city should do more to challenge these regional mandates. This means exploring legal options, partnering with other communities that are similarly concerned about housing mandates and considering trading allocations with communities that actually want more housing. Filseth said he believes Palo Alto can adequately accommodate the current allotment, which covers 2014 to 2022. The problem comes after 2022, he said. If the next round of allocations requires the city to zone for significantly more growth, this would further strain the city’s infrastructure. Filseth is one of a few candidates who supports a ban on car camping. He said he’s had people living in their cars on his block, which has caused problems with sanitation and with “people wandering around drunk,” he said. He is also critical of the planned-community zoning. In addition to opposing Lytton Gateway, he said he would have voted against College Terrace Centre. The project’s chief public benefit was the preservation of JJ&F Market, but its owners left shortly after the project was approved. The city, he said, consis-
The Organizer Lydia Kou
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alo Altans generally care about two things: staying alive and new developments (not necessarily in that order). Recent history suggests Lydia Kou cares about them more than most. A long-time fixture of Palo Alto’s growing corps of disasterpreparedness volunteers, Kou has spent years on the front lines of getting the community ready for the next Big One. Last year, Kou shifted her focus to land-use matters as part of the citizen uprising against an approved Maybell Avenue housing development. Her objective, however, hasn’t changed. She still wants to protect the community from the next Big One — in this case, a zone-busting development that would make the city’s already considerable traffic and parking problems even worse. She hates the recent planned-community zone projects that the city has approved in recent years (the College Terrace Centre at 2180 El Camino Real and the Lytton Gateway building at 101 Lytton Ave.). Each, in her view, is basically a humongous office building offering insufficient public benefits. Kou said her decision to run for council was greatly influenced by the Maybell project, which the Palo Alto Housing Corporation proposed last year for her neighborhood, Barron Park. She told the Weekly she became concerned about the approval process dur-
ing the project’s public hearings. Residents were told what would happen but were not listened to, she said. She recalled hearing one of her neighbors tell her after the meetings: “You know what? The city will do what it wants to do. We should just go along with it.” Kou said she felt this type of response was not acceptable. “I just couldn’t sit back and sit through another four years of the same old thing when we are ... beyond the tipping point of a crisis,” she said of her decision to run for a council seat. “Parking and traffic are issues now that we have to address, and the only way to address them is from the center point.” A Realtor with Alain Pinel, Kou is no stranger to City Hall, though this is her first bid for a public office. She worked with the city to organize Quakeville, an emergency-preparedness mock event that shifted from a neighborhood exercise to a citywide one. Initially held outdoors, in 2012 it moved to Cubberley Community Center, which for a day became a makeshift emergency shelter for residents escaping the faux disaster. A former video store owner, Kou was born in Hong Kong and lived in Sudan and Guam before moving to Palo Alto in 1998. She has been heavily involved in the Barron Park Residents Association and recently took the lead in organizing a series of events cel(continued on next page)
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in fits and start, with the city hitting the reset button yet again last year. Through an outreach process called Our Palo Alto, the council has solicited community feedback and hopes to get a new plan in place by the end of next year. While DuBois said he finds the outreach interesting, he questions the notion that the city’s guiding document needs a significant revamp. He said he would rather see the council immediately modify zoning regulations to address residents’ anxieties about the city’s built environment. This includes changing some existing definitions in the city’s code for things like setbacks, daylight plane and floorarea-ratio to ensure buildings don’t simply get built to the maximum of what the zoning allows. He maintains, however, that Palo Alto should not be completely closed off to growth. As a member of a panel that worked this year on the city’s Housing Element, he took part in assessing various
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sites around the city and considering their suitability for housing. Some moderate housing, particularly within walking distance of services, makes sense, he said. To that effect, he favors adding about a third of the new housing downtown; another third near California Avenue; and the remaining third elsewhere in the city. His opposition to last year’s Measure D notwithstanding, DuBois recognizes the need for more affordable housing. He said he opposes a ban on people living in their cars. “If they are breaking any laws or causing disturbances, we should alert the police,” he told the Weekly. “It’s not a situation where I feel we should crack down.” He also supports retaining the city’s planned-community zoning, which offers developers zoning exemptions in exchange for public benefits. These benefits, he said, should be intrinsic to projects, such as senior and affordablehousing developments. “We need to define the kinds of benefits we want. For me, affordable housing and senior housing are good categories.” n
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ebrating cultural diversity, including celebrations of Lunar New Year and the Holi Festival. Over the years, she’s earned plenty of kudos from City Hall for her organizing activities, including an Achievement Award in 2012. Yet with election season in full force, the love is mostly unrequited. In her Palo Alto Neighborhoods (PAN) questionnaire, she had scathing words for city leadership, calling City Hall “negligent” in updating policies for changing circumstances. She accused city leadership of “showing favoritism, especially to developers.” She claimed that City Hall “cherry-picks the sections of the Comprehensive Plan and other policies that support the developer and ignore those to the contrary.” The city, she said, has been “cavalier with our money” (she points to the $4.5 million City Hall renovation) and is incapable of managing construction projects (she cites Mitchell Park Library). The list of grievances goes on. For Kou, much like for the other candidates in the residentialist camp, management of the city’s growth is a top priority, though she acknowledges that she has yet to fully detail her strategies for addressing the changes that the city is facing. She has major reservations about planned-community zoning, which she said developers are taking advantage of in winning approval for oversized office projects. She said she is concerned that California Avenue may soon experience the same sorts of growth problems as University Avenue. “Each development plan that comes in has to be reviewed carefully, conscientiously and skep-
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tically,” Kou told the Weekly. “Downtown and University Avenue is the lesson that the city should learn of what not to do in coming here to California Avenue.” Yet solutions at times remain hazy. When asked by the Weekly about actions the council could take to address the fact that many commercially zoned properties on California Avenue aren’t built out to their full potential (and thus are likely to be built to greater density in the coming years), she said she still has to study the issue and talk to her colleagues. Similarly, she said she would like to ensure the “right kind of retail” on California Avenue, including community-serving businesses such as local hardware stores, markets, music shops and other places where neighbors bump into each other and chat. But exactly how will she encourage these kinds of businesses? That is a conversation she said she’ll have to have with council members and property owners. In her campaign, like in her activities, Kou emphasizes community building and neighborhood engagement. In the PAN questionnaire, she said she is depressed by “how much is spent on vanity and hubris.” Phrases like “worldclass,” “first in the nation,” “landmark” and “innovative” get used so much that they become irrelevant to many, she said. “Too many pay attention to only the hype and not the reality of Silicon Valley and innovation: Most first-movers fail, and early adopters incur huge costs (buggy, inefficient, badly supported) and are stuck with technology that is vastly inferior to what came shortly thereafter,” Kou wrote. “Taxpayers shouldn’t be funding short-term bragging rights for the politically well-connected.” n
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planned-community project go to a referendum so that voters can decide whether the benefits offered are commensurate with the exemptions sought. “If the benefit to the community is so great and so clear, then the voters of Palo Alto will see that and approve it,” Filseth said. In his interview with the Week-
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hey are a concert producer, a civics teacher, an aerospace engineer, an advocate for the homeless, a legislative aide and a globetrotting partner at a high-profile law firm. Now, Mark Weiss, John Fredrich, Seelam Reddy, Wayne Douglass, Cory Wolbach and A.C. Johnston are hoping to make their mark on the November election and prove to the world that the contest isn’t just a tug of war between two camps. In seeking a seat on the council, they are challenging both the incumbents and the three challengers backed by the citizens group Palo Altans for Sensible
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Zoning. Johnston, a managing partner at Morrison & Foerster, has a deep campaign chest (only Lydia Kou has raised more money as of Sept. 30, according to campaign statements) and a list of supporters that reads like a Who’s Who of Palo Alto dignitaries — county Supervisor Joe Simitian, U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo and former mayors Larry Klein, Liz Kniss, Sid Espinosa, Bern Beecham and Judy Kleinberg. Wolbach also enjoys support from the Palo Alto establishment, including Simitian, Kniss, former Mayor Betsy Bechtel and Wolbach’s boss, state Sen. Jerry Hill. The Palo Alto native is run-
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all him a single-issue candidate, if you want to. Wayne Douglass doesn’t care. That’s because he believes his issue — homelessness — is important enough to warrant a candidate. Like many of the candidates on November’s ballot, Douglass became engaged (and enraged) last summer, while watching the City Council make a decision that would impact low-income residents. But it wasn’t the Maybell Avenue project that brought Douglass into the council race; it was the ban on people living in their
vehicles. For Douglass, a retired technical writer who lives in the Ventura neighborhood, the council’s decision was unconscionable and unacceptable. The ban has since been suspended thanks to a court ruling in Los Angeles that struck down a similar ordinance. Some people believe the issue has disappeared, Douglass said recently. He’s here to remind them that it hasn’t and to provide what he calls a “different point of view.” The city, he believes, has acted improperly toward its most vulnerable residents. “You don’t need to vilify a
velopers for years and believes the message is finally catching on. Both see themselves as “residentialist,” though they are not affiliated with Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning, which led last year’s battle to shoot down Measure D. Reddy, a former engineer at Boeing and a relative newcomer to Palo Alto, doesn’t pretend to have all the answers. He has opined on everything from the closing of the Page Mill Road branch of the YMCA to the need to curtail airplane noise, though he is at his most passionate when deploring the current council for its lack of transparency in negotiating with John Arrillaga
in 2012. If elected, he said he would make sure there are “no backroom deals, no hanky-panky stuff and no corruption” at City Hall. Douglass, a retired technical writer, also said he was “outraged” by the council’s behavior, though his chief bone of contention with the current council is about homelessness. He is angry at the council for adopting a ban on car camping last year, and he wants to make sure that Palo Alto shifts its focus on sheltering its neediest residents rather than further restricting their options. Here are the unaffiliated candidates. n
Pedestrians cross University Avenue at Waverley Street in downtown Palo Alto, which has undergone considerable growth in the past few years. group of people who have a hard enough time, anyway,” he told the Weekly. Douglass was born in Vermont and studied literature and journalism before coming to Palo Alto in 1980 and settling in a house on Matadero Road. When he bought the house back then, Douglass told his wife it was the “cheapest house in Palo Alto.” It still is, he asserts, even though it’s now worth three times as much. In a crowded field of candidates, he stands out as much for his demeanor as for his talking points. He wears a baseball cap and speaks in a manner both irreverent and passionate, with a deep voice that at times trembles with indignation. When the council was considering its response to a Santa Clara County Grand Jury report that accused city officials of negotiating with a developer in a less-than-transparent manner, Douglass attended the public hearing to ask the council: “What the hell were you thinking?” He also called the council’s excuses
“pathetic” and argued, “No one in their right mind” would vote for an incumbent in this election. “I’m here to express outrage,” Douglass added, lest anyone missed the point. A year prior, Douglass was even angrier. Shortly before the council was set to vote on the ban on car camping, Douglass approached the microphone to give them another piece of his mind: “It took two years, and this is what you came up with?” He proposed an alternative: Have each council member pick a homeless Palo Altan and do whatever it takes to find a home for that person. That’s what he and his wife did two years ago when they helped a homeless woman, he told the council. “We attacked it the way you look for a job,” Douglass said. That meant getting a network going and asking around until an opportunity opened up. He found a neighbor whose housemate had recently died of cancer. Douglass and his wife convinced him to
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ning on the platform of “civility” and hopes the city will get past the Measure D divide, find a way to improve public transit and add housing people can actually afford. By contrast, Fredrich, Weiss, Reddy and Douglass are running low-budget campaigns and hoping that their populist and provocative messages will resonate with the voting public. Fredrich, a former Gunn High School teacher who has run four prior times, hopes to improve City Hall transparency and is not seeking endorsements. Weiss, a concert producer who is now in his third consecutive election, has been lashing out at local de-
help shelter the homeless woman, who was taken in a week before the October rainy season arrived. “That’s what I did! Maybe you should try it too,” Douglass told the council, earning an applause from those in the Council Chambers. He returned to his top issue at the Sept. 30 candidates forum, when he reminded the audience of the homeless people who died of hypothermia last year. “I certainly don’t want to see that happen again,” Douglass said. “I want to see people housed, if possible, and nobody dying on the streets. There is a goal worth seeking.” Douglass has a doctorate in English and considers “Don Quixote” his favorite book (both for its influence on the novel form and for its satirical, political elements). He proudly recalls the day in August 1976 when University of Florida conferred his doctoral degree. That day, he was loading (continued on page 30)
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ohn Fredrich is a political idealist who also happens to be steeped in the gritty details of Palo Alto’s zoning debate. He calls himself a residentialist, but unlike most other Barron Park residents who go by that label, he supported Measure D last year. He is also perhaps the least known and best informed fivetime City Council candidate in Palo Alto’s history. A retired Gunn High School civics teacher, Fredrich is running for council after an 11-year political hiatus (his prior runs were in 1975, 1977, 1981 and 2003). He seeks no endorsements and plans to limit campaign spending to whatever it takes to buy 50 lawn signs and some door hangers. Like most non-incumbents on the November ballot, Fredrich argues that the current council is out of touch with the populace when it comes to growth. He’s particularly concerned about office space, even more specifically about the dense new buildings that have been proposed (and in some cases approved) around downtown and California Avenue in the last few years. “We have to slow down the office space vis a vis housing if we’re ever to bring down the housing imbalance,” Fredrich told the Weekly. As is fitting a civics teacher, the Wisconsin native is passionate about the theory of politics. At the Oct. 2 debate sponsored by Palo Alto Neighborhoods, Fredrich introduced himself to the audience by reading from the Declaration of Independence and closed by quoting Franklin D. Roosevelt. Yet he
is able to get excited when talking about things like height exceptions (he hates them) and granny units (he likes them). Fredrich said he entered the race because he’s become disappointed at recent development trends, particularly in such areas as the congested intersection of Page Mill Road and El Camino Real. He’s also become disappointed in what he calls “the inability of the council to deal with things in a straight way and keep people informed in a timely manner and make decisions in the interests of the whole community.” When Fredrich last ran in 2003, he called the local council “too cliquish.” Now, he is seeing a similar phenomenon. With more time on his hands now, he believes the climate is ripe for him to make his contribution. Every year, the city releases the results of citizen surveys that indicate that Palo Altans have far more trust in their local government than they do in their elected leaders on the county, state and federal levels. Fredrich takes the opposite stance, as his answer to a recent questionnaire from the group Palo Alto Neighborhoods indicates. “While I retain great confidence in government itself at all levels in our nation, I have almost no confidence in the current office holders at every level, especially the Palo Alto City Council,” Fredrich wrote. “As a group, they seem particularly under-informed and prone to group-think. They do not appear fully prepared in the council meetings, exhibit no economy of language and clarity in expressing their positions, and predominantly
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choose to ignore many of their constituents.” Fredrich said he supported Measure D, which would have upheld a council-approved housing development on Maybell Avenue, because he feels the city has a deep need for senior housing (the development included 60 apartments for low-income seniors). To increase the city’s housing stock, Fredrich advocates allowing more in-law units and small additions to existing properties, particularly on “larger lots that would not intrude on neighbors, such as corner lots, neighborhoods with alleys, and so on.” Otherwise, Fredrich has said he opposes changing sites’ zoning to allow large commercial developments. While much of the talk around town has centered on downtown’s parking and traffic woes, Fredrich said he is concerned about the building boom taking place around California Avenue. He points to Stanford University’s new residential development El Camino Real and the slew of commercial projects in the area that have recently received approval. Each of these, he noted, is going up near the already congested intersection of Page Mill and El Camino. Yet the city isn’t looking at the cumulative impacts of all these changes, Fredrich argues. “Instead of getting our ducks in a row, it’s getting our albatrosses in a row,” he said. “We have serious issues that need to be managed in a coordinated way.” Fredrich disagrees with the council on other issues as well. He disapproves of the council’s behavior in 2012, when members held undisclosed meetings with developer John Arrillaga to discuss his proposal for an office-and-theater complex. He is dismayed by the council’s approval of the lane reduction on California Avenue (the decision, he said, was motivated more by grant funds than by citizens’ wishes) and by the long delayed reconstruction of the Mitchell Park Library and Community Center. He also believes the council overreached last year when it instituted a ban on car camping, a law that is now suspended because of a legal ruling in Los Angeles. Any disturbances from individuals living in their cars on residential streets can be handled by current laws, including ones on disturbing the peace. Fredrich wrote in the PAN questionnaire that the events of recent years demonstrate “a rare consistency of mismanagement” and little inclination by city officials to explain themselves to the public. He vows not to be beholden to “any deep-pocket contributors,” and he is not seeking any endorsements (though he will accept them, if offered). For the retired teacher, the trends of rapid growth and insufficient transparency are connected. If elected, he said, he plans to address both. “Courage and integrity are important forces for restoring some trust that the government can slow the pace of change and protect the public interest,” he wrote. n
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A.C. Johnston
n the past decade, A.C. Johnston has lived in Tokyo, London, Washington, D.C., and — for the past two years — Palo Alto. When the Weekly contacted him in August to ask about his decision to run for City Council, the phone interview was conducted while he was in a car on the way to New York’s La Guardia Airport. Johnston lived in Palo Alto in the 1990s and, after various work assignments, returned to the city in late 2012. He readily admits that he hasn’t had a chance to study “every issue” and that he hasn’t looked at the details of recent planned-community zone projects. But while Johnston may not know all the nuances of Palo Alto’s recent land-use wars, he has friends who do. Vice Mayor Liz Kniss and Councilman Larry Klein, who between them have more than two decades of council experience, are both supporting his campaign. Also in his corner are former Palo Alto mayors Betsy Bechtel and Sid Espinosa and veteran environmental activist Walt Hays. Somewhat paradoxically, the globe-trotting political newcomer who has never served on a local commission has become the one non-incumbent most closely associated with Palo Alto’s political establishment. Johnston told the Weekly he’s been thinking of running for office for many years. He grew up outside Chicago, son of a precinct captain who served as a city attorney and a state legislator. He has spent 39 years in law and in 1985
was asked by his firm, global giant Morrison & Foerster, to open its Palo Alto headquarters. As a managing partner at the firm, he has focused on disputes involving patent infringement, theft of trade secrets and technology licensing, according to the firm’s website. Now, the veteran attorney hopes to bring his negotiating skills to bear on Palo Alto’s ongoing challenges. When asked what difference he thinks he would have made had he been on the council during the last few years, Johnston said he thinks he would have helped the city avoid some of the friction that has arisen. “Clearly, I was not involved in it at the time, but the Measure D battle has created a division in the community that I think, had it been handled with a little more discussion and finesse, it needn’t have,” Johnston said. In talking to residents at farmers markets and coffee shops, Johnston said he’s been hearing people say two things. Some say the city is changing too fast and that growth has to stop. Others say the city can’t stop and shouldn’t be as opposed to change. “I’m in the camp of the people who believe that given where Palo Alto is and how it’s in the center of the most economically vibrant area in the world, and given our reputation for innovation, Palo Alto can’t stop, can’t say ‘no’ to everything,” Johnston said. “But I think we need to be a lot smarter about how we move forward.” On growth, Johnston said he (continued on page 30)
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eelam Reddy is a retired aerospace engineer who believes Palo Alto is “heaven on earth” but who nevertheless hopes to make the city work 10 times better. Since moving here from Newport Beach in 2012, the College Terrace resident has been thinking about ways to get involved in his new home town. When he announced his candidacy in early July, Reddy acknowledged that he is still brushing up on the issues and doesn’t have any immediate solutions, aside from a commitment to improving the dialogue between residents and City Hall. Since then, Reddy has been a regular fixture at City Council meetings, making his opinions known on a hodgepodge of local issues: downtown’s new residential parking-permit program; the grocery store proposed for the College Terrace Centre development; YMCA’s locally unpopular decision to shutter its Page Mill Road branch. Reddy has repeatedly advocated for more government transparency, which to him means “no backroom deals.” He views development as being out of control and says the council needs to “’fess up and stop deals with big builders and businesses.” He has also expressed an eclectic set of positions that range from the benign (“good child care” and “aim for low crime”) to the radical (“make ‘big builders’ leave town,’” and “lower taxes for businesses that are innovative”). His responses to a recent Palo Alto Neighborhoods question-
naire show that Reddy supports a moratorium on new buildings “until we assess and absorb what we have.” But he also thinks the city should cut out unnecessary consultants and studies that take too long. His view of what constitutes Palo Alto’s strong quality of life includes having plenty of jobs/ opportunities and being inviting to startups. At the same time, he asserts in the questionnaire that the city should neither grow nor change, although, when it comes to transportation, he calls for “innovative people-mover solutions like the Tube in London.” In discussing the current development growth climate at the Aug. 4 meeting of the City Council, Reddy cited the free market and told the council, “Let’s not have more rules.” Then he argued that the city should not let developers build tall buildings and that it should, in fact, “get rid of them.” Born in India, Reddy moved to the United States about 40 years ago, first to attend Texas Tech University and later to take on a series of jobs in the aerospace field. After a stint in Sweetwater, Texas, he lived in Newport Beach before moving to Palo Alto. His resume includes stretches at McDonnell Douglas, Ludlum Measurements, Hughes Electronics and Boeing Company, from which he retired in 2010. Recently, he has been consulting for VMWare on mergers and acquisitions. It is from the aerospace indus(continued on next page)
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Mark Weiss
f you’ve ever heard Mark Weiss address the City Council, you will almost certainly know three things about him: He graduated from Gunn High School, he talks fast and he views new development with a mixture of fear and loathing. On Sept. 10, he stood at the microphone in front of the Planning and Transportation Commission and riffed during the public comment portion of the meeting about former Gunn and Dartmouth College classmates who are now federal prosecutors; about Henry David Thoreau’s essay, “Civil Disobedience”; and about the recent Santa Clara County Grand Jury report that criticized the City Council for its less-than-transparent negotiations with developer John Arrillaga in 2012. Weiss said he didn’t believe the city is taking the report seriously enough and suggested that the planning commission assist in responding to the Grand Jury. “I’m a little concerned about the leadership’s response,” he said. The fact that many in the community share his concern gives Weiss reason for optimism. This is his third consecutive bid for a council seat. In his first council run, in 2009, he finished 13th in a 14-candidate field, securing 732 votes (1.2 percent) and edging out only panhandler Victor Frost. In 2012, he finished sixth in a six-candidate field, earning 5,749 votes. Though he would still have needed twice as many
votes to win a seat, Weiss sees the growing number of votes as a victory of sorts — an affirmation that his positions are becoming more mainstream. When asked in July why he is seeking office for the third time, Weiss noted that his vote total “has jumped dramatically from 2009 and 2012” and that he is curious to see how well he will do on the third go-around. Like the majority of candidates on the November ballot, Weiss considers himself a residentialist. He became involved in the community as a concert producer, organizing shows at Cubberley Community Center and founding the company Earthwise Productions. He is well-versed in the local art-andentertainment scene and was a fierce proponent of bringing a performance space back to the historic Varsity Theatre building on University Avenue. He has been a regular fixture at meetings of the council, the planning commission and the Architectural Review Board, offering his views on everything from public art and housing policies to free speech and government transparency. In recent months, he has also been lobbying the council to build a park in the Ventura neighborhood. If a large parcel of land comes on the market, Weiss told the council at a recent meeting, the city should find a way to buy it. One option the city could explore, he said, is the sprawling Fry’s Electronics site along Park Boulevard and Portage Avenue.
The council considers the land as one of the city’s most promising locations for new housing. Weiss argued at a recent meeting of the planning commission that a park should be part of the plan. “Since Ventura is sort of an undervalued neighborhood and the property values here are a little less than where you all live, it could do wonders, a park in Ventura,” Weiss told the council. When he is not speaking his mind at a public meeting, Weiss is doing so in writing, whether on PaloAltoOnline.com’s Town Square forum or on his own blog, Plastic Alto. Last month, he went on Town Square to criticize this November’s Measure D, which would reduce the number of seats on the council from nine to seven. Once again, he went to Thoreau for reference, first quoting his line that “who governs best governs least” but then counter-arguing that Thoreau had also called for “what in contemporary terms might be called civic engagement.” “Keeping the council composition at nine members rather than the proposed reduction to seven better ensures a representative council, responsive to the spectrum of needs of the people,” Weiss wrote on Town Square. As in prior years, the Weiss campaign is filled with antigovernment and anti-development rhetoric, sometimes at the expense of practicality. During a public hearing on the Grand Jury report, Weiss used his three allotted minutes at the microphone to remain silent (with the countdown starting after he reminded the audience that he studied civics at Terman Middle School and Gunn). When a Palo Alto Neighborhoods questionnaire asked him what he would do to improve the relationship between Palo Alto residents and city government, he responded, “I would increase the size of council from two to nine members, in terms of the number of members who actually listen to what the rank-offile constituent might say.” Yet occasionally he shows a glimmer of compromise. After initially opposing proposals from Charles “Chop” Keenan to redevelop the Varsity Theatre building (which Keenan owns), Weiss said at a recent meeting of the Architectural Review Board that he is keeping an open mind about the latest plan for the building — a cafe and public space geared toward young hightech workers. Weiss said he recently ran into Keenan, who told him that the new cafe will “rock.” This has prompted the veteran concert promoter to “reverse my position and give Mr. Keenan the benefit of the doubt.” Weiss said he will give Keenan six months after the opening to see if the new business works at the historic site. “And if not, we’ll let him have it,” Weiss said. n
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process, with an eye toward better aesthetics for new buildings. He wants to explore adding housing that’s truly affordable to the general populace, but only after making the types of transportation improvements that would support new residential space. When it comes to issues, many of his views are consistent with
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should be members of our community — our teachers, our policemen, our firefighters, our seniors who are currently living in homes but would like to downsize, and to do it they have to move out of the community,” Johnston said. He said he would support ensuring that zoning is correct for sites that would be appropriate for additional housing. He also believes
in using specific-area plans to “make sure we get the kinds of housing we want.” He points to work done in and around his own neighborhood, University South, as a good example of the council collaborating with residents to create a vision for development: the two South of Forest Area (SOFA) plans. He is less keen on planned-
community zoning, through which developers propose projects that violate regulations in exchange for providing benefits to the public. He said he can’t comment too much on recent PC-zoned projects because he hasn’t studied the details, but he has a general view that the zoning designation has been used for “hodgepodge, ad hoc development.” He doesn’t advocate
tossing out the zoning designation entirely but believes it should be used rarely. “I think we should be much stricter on what are the public benefits that the developer is offering in return of variances he or she will get as part of a PC zone and make sure the public gets the benefits it was promised,” Johnston said. n
has no hidden agenda and does not represent a special interest group. He has criticized the council for its undisclosed negotiations with developer John Arrillaga in 2012, negotiations that were a subject of a scathing June audit by the Santa Clara County Grand Jury. In addressing the council about the report, Reddy called the city’s conduct “the biggest boondoggle I’ve ever seen”
and called on council members to disclose their actions to the public. “Explain, that’s all you can do,” Reddy said. “Confess, that’s all I say.” In the three months since he announced his candidacy, Reddy revised a few of his positions, all the while retaining his stance that city officials need to be more responsive to residents and trans-
parent. But while criticizing Palo Alto’s political establishment, he has also kept his distance from the residentialist candidates, whose focus is primarily on land-use issues. When the citizens group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning (which promotes slow growth and opposes increasing zoning density of existing sites) released a scorecard last week that graded each incumbent’s “residentialist” bona
fides, Reddy argued on Town Square that the very concept of “residentialists” is dividing the community, which he said isn’t healthy. “We are all striving to ‘live a happy life’ in beautiful Palo Alto,” Reddy wrote. “Keep it the way it is; no growth, small growth with sense; solve traffic issues; and live a life! Let us not make it complicated.” n
ty to read and interact with the occasional stranger via mass transit. Unlike most of the candidate field, Douglass has little appetite for discussing the issues of growth and development. Everyone else on the council seems to have strong opinions about these topics, he reasons; they should be able to deal with them. He’d rather focus
on the one issue that he believes continues to be taken for granted. “I think a lot of people think the issue of homelessness is over,” Douglass said. “It’s only going to come back because the City Council will have to make a decision about what to do about the current law and go through the spectacle of the so-called ‘discussion.’” n
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t’s hard to disagree with Cory Wolbach when he talks about the things he wants to achieve if elected to the City Council: restoring civility, encouraging diversity and making residents feel more included. He wants to focus on solving the city’s traffic and parking problems and improving the planning
the “residentialist” critics of the current City Council: slow down commercial development, limit planned-community zoned projects, and do a better job involving residents in determining the city’s future. His views are also in many ways consistent with those of the current council, which is now in the early stages of setting up a new Transportation Management Association to reduce downtown car traffic (he considers this the council’s best decision) and which has placed a moratorium on the city’s contentious planned-community zoning. The youngest in the 12-candidate race, Wolbach speaks deliberately and diplomatically, as if he’s trying to personify the civility he wants to bring to the City Hall dais. He knows the town, having grown up in the Palo Verde neighborhood. But while other candidates in the race became steeped in residential issues before getting into politics, Wolbach took the opposite route. He worked in private security and then decided to become more involved in the political process. He graduated from University of California, San Diego, with degrees in political science and international relations. He is on the board of the Peninsula Democratic Coalition and is president of the Peninsula Young Democrats. He also knows most of the players in the political establishment, given his job as a legislative aide to state Sen. Jerry Hill, from which he is taking a leave to pursue the campaign. The job has given him the opportunity to work with the local council and Board of Education and opened his eyes to “what the city is doing well and what the city needs to do even better,” Wolbach told the Weekly. His decision to enter the council race was sparked by last year’s
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doesn’t believe the city needs more office space. He would, however, like to see a broader range of affordable housing for Palo Alto residents. “I think there are people who are priced out of Palo Alto who
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try that Reddy draws some of his terminology. “I am for making Palo Alto 10x; means 10 times better than yesteryears and days,” Reddy wrote in a posting on PaloAltoOnline.com’s Town Square in late July. Reddy is also adamant that he
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trucks in Gainesville to pay for his education. He is also proud of the fact that he didn’t own a car while living in California for the first six years, which gave him ample opportuni-
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debate of Measure D, which culminated in the voters overturning a council-approved housing development on Maybell Avenue. Wolbach didn’t like what he was seeing. “It hurts to see the very painful discussion people were having about issues that are important, very important, but that we should be able to have a civil discourse about,” Wolbach said. If others see the election as a choice between two visions for the city, he sees it as an opportunity to reconcile the different factions in the virulent Measure D debate. Among other issues that concern Wolbach, housing is high on the list. In recent years, Palo Alto has gone from “expensive to just inaccessible.” “It might never be possible for Palo Alto to be an affordable place to live again, but I think there are policy options we haven’t fully explored,” Wolbach said. “And we haven’t had the robust discussion that I think is necessary before we write off the possibility of being a diverse Palo Alto.” The city, he said, should make it easier for people to add second units on their lots. Wolbach said his own neighborhood has many large properties with single homes occupied by empty nesters. Palo Alto should make it easier to add a second unit that can house an extended-family member or a caretaker, he said. On the broader question of growth, Wolbach said he favors giving each neighborhood a greater say in its future through a creation of “specific area plans.” His proposal includes working groups made up of a council member, a planning commissioner and members of a particular neighborhood collaborating on a long-term vision. This is not unlike the process the city used a decade ago to cre-
ate its two South of Forest Area (SOFA) plans, though Wolbach proposes it as the norm rather than the exception. He also advocates moving more aggressively on transportation, which he says is a prerequisite to new housing. Though the council is already expanding Palo Alto’s small city-shuttle program, which consists of three routes, Wolbach said the current plan doesn’t go far enough. “They’re talking about babystep changes,” Wolbach said. “I fear it will be unsuccessful and then people will be saying for years that ‘We’ve tried a shuttle system and it was a failure.’ I think we should do it seriously, almost radically, and do it right. Take the time to do it right. Bring all stakeholders to the table — the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), Stanford, VMWare, Palantir, Google, the downtown business associations, and say: ‘Bring your innovative ideas. Bring your checkbooks. Let’s figure this out.’” When asked about recent allegations by the Santa Clara County Grand Jury about the council’s lack of transparency in its 2012 negotiations with developer John Arrillaga, Wolbach said he believes the council is “on the right track” when it comes to addressing these criticisms. He stresses that he doesn’t want to point fingers and call people names. “Rather than trying to blame everyone, I want to say, ‘Let’s be mature, move on and figure out how we can improve our process to make sure everyone in the community is actually heard and everyone who wants to be involved is actually involved,’” Wolbach said. “I don’t think we need to have a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to move forward.” n
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upports a residential S parking-permit program. rgues that the A city should pursue transformational, “innovative” solutions for moving people around the city.
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pposes reducing the O size of the City Council. upports collaboration S with residents on “specific area plans” to determine what development should be encouraged in different neighborhoods.
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upported the Maybell S Avenue housing development that voters overturned in 2013. upports raising the S hotel tax rate from 12 percent to 14 percent to pay for infrastructure repairs.
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upports retention S of the city’s 50-foot height limit for new buildings.
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upports laws that S would encourage secondary units on large residential lots, particularly corner lots and properties with alleys.
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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto Oct. 1-7
Violence related Armed robbery attempt . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Child abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Suicide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Burglary attempt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Counterfeiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Scam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Shoplifting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 9 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 6 Vehicle accident/property damage . . . 9 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Window smash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Alcohol transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Child abuse/emotional . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Education code/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Found property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Indecent exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Noise complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sick and cared for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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Edwin M. (Ted) Good was born in French Cameroun, Africa. Dr. Good was a professor of religious studies at Stanford University (1956-91,) a Hebrew scholar, and a piano historian. He published six books and many articles on these subjects. After retirement in 1991, he moved to Washington, DC, where he was involved in the Smithsonian Institution’s “Piano 300” commemoration of the anniversary of the invention of the piano, both as co-curator, and through commissioning a replica of one of the original instruments built by the inventor. Dr. Good frequently performed on this instrument during the last years of his life. He recently donated it to the Stanford University Early Music Program. Also during retirement he completed a ten-year project through the Smithsonian Institution, transcribing the personal diaries of William Steinway, one of the Steinway brothers who brought the piano company to the US in the 19th century. Ted Good earned a Ph.D. in Religion at Columbia University, a M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary in New York, a B.A. in Music from Westminster College, Pennsylvania, and a M.A. in Music from Stanford University. During his years teaching at Stanford University he incorporated a literary approach to writing about the Hebrew Bible, and this continued with his two post-retirement books, Genesis 1-11 Tales of the Earliest World (Stanford Press 2011,) and the forthcoming Song of Songs, Codes of Love (Wipf and Stock, 2015.) He leaves behind his wife, the poet Anita Sullivan; sons Brian, Larry and John; his first wife Janice S. Good; daughters-in-law Karen (Larry) and Beverly (John); and three grandchildren, Ralph and David Good, and Carlin Greenfield. A memorial celebration will be held Saturday, October 18, 11:00-1:00 at Tsunami Books, 2585 Willamette St., Eugene,
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Violence related Assault and battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Child abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 6 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Miscellaneous CPS Referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Resisting arrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warrant arrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto
Terman Drive, 10/2, 12:17 p.m.; suicide adult/misc. El Camino Real, 10/3, 7:44 p.m.; robbery attempt/armed. 912 Roble Ridge, 10/4, 6:45 p.m.; domestic violence/violation of court order. Mallard Lane, 10/5, 10:30 a.m.; child abuse/physical. 340 University Drive, 10/5, 3:54 p.m.; battery/simple. Rinconada Avenue, 10/5, 7:45 p.m.; family violence/misc. Middlefield Road, 10/7, 7:51 p.m.; family violence/misc.
Menlo Park
100 block El Camino Real, 10/1, 12:23 p.m.; spousal abuse. 400 block Ivy Drive, 10/1, 12:55 p.m.; assault and battery. Alameda De Las Pulgas and Santa Cruz Avenue, 10/4, 8:29 a.m.; child abuse.
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Martin L. Perl, professor emeritus of physics at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Nobel Prize winner in physics, died on Sept. 30 at Stanford Hospital. He was 87. He was born in 1927 in New York City to two immigrants who had fled poverty and persecution in a Polish region of Russia. At a young age he was a voracious reader and strong student, graduating high school at age 16. Afterward, he began college studies but left them to serve with the Merchant Marine and military during World War II. Upon returning, he studied chemical engineering at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and earned his bachelor’s degree in 1948. He worked as an engineer at General Electric for a time, but at the urging of his wife, Teri, he reentered school to study physics at age 23. He went on to earn a Ph.D. from Columbia University. While first on the faculty of University of Michigan, he came to the Bay Area in 1963 to do research at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, then under construction. Perl participated in the scientific communities at SLAC and
Stanford for 50 years, working as an elementary particle physicist. During his career he published more than 200 scientific papers and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 1982 he received the Wolf Prize in physics. His crowning achievement was his Nobel Prize win in 1995 for the discovery of the tau lepton, a new group of fundamental particles in addition to quarks and other lepton families. His research on the subject lasted multiple decades, with major progress made during experiments in the mid1970s with a machine that could detect short-lived particles. Fellow researchers from SLAC and Stanford remembered Perl as an amiable personality and a keen and persistent investigator. Even after he retired, he worked on projects at SLAC, including one funded by NASA investigating dark energy. Outside of his research, one of his pastimes was collecting vintage construction and scientific toys, including Erector sets and Lincoln Logs, and he searched in flea markets in the U.S. and England for particular treasures. He is survived by his former wife and close friend, Teri Perl of Palo Alto; sons, Joseph Perl of Oakland, Jed Perl of New York City and Matthew Perl of San Diego; daughter, Anne Bernard of Palo Alto; eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
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Vanessa Da Rosa and Andrew Juel Vanessa Pereira Da Rosa and Andrew Bryden Juel were married on Sept. 27 at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Palo Alto, with a reception afterward at the Palo Alto Hills Golf & Country Club. The couple first met at J.L.S. Middle School, becoming good friends and dating briefly while studying at Gunn High School. They later reconnected when they returned to Palo Alto after college. The bride is a business manager at ForSight Vision4 Inc., a medical device startup in Menlo Park where she does accounting, human resources and facilities management. She is a 2008 graduate of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and the daughter of Emilio and Gabriela Da Rosa of Palo Alto. The groom is a facilities
operations manager at Google in Mountain View, where he manages janitorial and facilities contractors. He is a 2008 graduate of University of California, Santa Cruz, and the son of Stephen Juel of Cambria, California, and Cynthia Hanson of Durham, California. The couple enjoys following sports and attending games together, particularly Giants baseball. They have attended a few Giants games this season and have plans to attend a playoff game next week. They currently reside in Santa Clara.
Henry Breitrose
Henry S. Breitrose, professor emeritus in film at Stanford University, died on Oct. 2 at his home on Stanford campus after suffering from cancer. He was 78. Born on July 22, 1936, in Brooklyn, New York, he attended Stuyvesant High School. He then studied history and English at University of WisconsinMadison. While there he worked as a lighting and camera technician, or grip, for the university — during which he became enamored with film. He went on to receive a master’s degree from Northwestern University in 1959 and then took a
temporary position at Stanford as a “Film for Television” instructor. He was later convinced to enter a Stanford Ph.D. program and joined the Communication Department faculty, going on to develop its master’s program in documentary film and television; the program now has around 500 graduates. Former students and colleagues expressed admiration for his belief in the power of documentary film, commitment to students during and after their studies, and inspiring teaching style. Throughout his time teaching at Stanford, he assisted at other film schools in the U.S. and around the globe as a lecturer, consultant and instructor. He sat for 12 years on the executive board of the International Organization of Film and Television Schools (CILECT). Locally, he served on a number of boards outside of academia, among
them ones for KQED and the Page Mill YMCA. In his free time, he loved spending time at home with family, attending Stanford football and women’s basketball games, cooking, traveling and supporting the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. He is survived by his wife of almost 46 years, Prudence Breitrose of Stanford; his daughter, Becky Breitrose of Portland, Oregon; and his son, Charlie Breitrose, and wife Jennifer Kavanaugh, of Watertown, Massachusetts. A memorial service will be held in November. Memorial donations can be made to the Henry Breitrose Memorial Fund supporting Stanford film students; checks should be made out to Stanford University and mailed to Denise Ellestad, Director of Development, School of Humanities and Sciences, 326 Galvez St., Stanford, CA 94305.
Sydwell Flynn
December 9, 1933 – August 27, 2014 Sydwell (Mouw) Flynn died August 27 at her home in Palo Alto of advanced Alzheimer’s disease. Her husband, Sam Halsted, and daughter, Erin Flynn, were at her side. Sydwell was born in Sintang, Borneo, Dutch East Indies, on December 9, 1933. Her parents, J. Arthur Mouw and Edna (Stephenson) Mouw were missionaries to the Dyack tribes of Western Borneo. She lived in Borneo with her brother and parents until 1942, escaping the Japanese, and returning to Borneo after WWII where the family remained until 1950. The family then moved to Southern California where she graduated from Glendale High School and Westmont College in Montecito. At Westmont, she met and married her first husband, Robert Flynn. Her ties to Westmont and a special group of friends there were important to her throughout her life. Sydwell was a talented teacher, first in Marin County where her husband was in seminary, and then in Menlo Park, where the couple moved in 1958. She taught at Oak Grove, Hillview, and Encinal schools, engaging happily with the supercharged 13 and 14-year old students in English and Social studies. Her capabilities in writing and organization led her in 1978 to Crain & Associates, a Transportation Consulting firm based in Menlo Park. There she hired and trained groups for transportation surveys and conducted focus groups for fifteen years. She returned to teaching as an ESL Teacher in Palo Alto Adult School until she retired in 2008. Siddy, as she was known, was a dedicated and loving mother. She raised her two children, Jim and Erin, in Menlo Park and Palo Alto after her marriage ended in divorce. Siddy enjoyed deep and lasting friendships and threw parties easily and often. In 1978 she met Sam Halsted and they became life long partners eventually marrying in 1993. She also found a community in the First Presbyterian Church of Palo
Alto where the beliefs and actions suited her own inclusive love for all. She was politically outspoken and did not hesitate to take part in protests. Her last march was in San Francisco, declaring her opposition to the Iraq war. Siddy traveled broadly in the US and several times to Europe. Among her favorite journeys were her trips alone, back to the village longhouses in Borneo where she had lived as a girl. In 1991, 2004 and 2006, she relied on her distant memory of Malay and Dyack tongues to guide her through the jungle. On her last trip, she visited the Orangutan Sanctuary in southern Borneo run by Dr. Galdikas. In the early 2000’s she began researching and writing a book about her parents’ work in Borneo. She published the book, titled “Up the Notched Log Ladder,” in 2004. Siddy is survived by her husband, Sam Halsted, her children, Jim (Kathy) of Seattle and Erin (Ben) of Portland, and her grandchildren Lauren, Eli and Sammy. She is also survived by her husband’s children, and by her first husband, Robert Flynn. She was predeceased by her parents and her brother Burneal. A celebration of Siddy’s life will be held at the First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto located at 1140 Cowper Street on Saturday Oct. 25. The service begins at 11 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall. For more information please email flynn.ek@ gmail.com. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Orangutan Foundation 824 So. Wellesley Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90049 or the Alzheimer’s Foundation at www.alz.org/donate. PAID
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screen more than 70 films from around the world: films that touch on issues from religious freedom, poverty and incarceration to climate change, women’s rights and immigration. In addition to screenings, the festival will feature panel discussions, receptions with filmmakers, an awards ceremony and education outreach programs. UNAFF is put on in partnership with the Stanford Film Society and with the Midpeninsula chapter of the United Nations Association, part of a network of nongovernmental organizations that support the U.N. and encourage civic participation. Each year, the documentary film festival centers around a broad theme. This year’s theme is “Bridging the Gap,” an idea Bojic said is drawn directly from the intention of Roosevelt’s work. “’Bridging the Gap’ covers a lot of issues: economic, social, education and gender issues — everywhere we have to build a bridge of understanding,” Bojic explained in a recent interview. “Unfortunately there are huge divisions between people, particularly in our country and even in our local community: Think about East Palo Alto, where most people are not so fortunate to have what we have in Palo Alto and Stanford.” Born and raised in the former Yugoslavia, Bojic has long been a champion of human-rights issues, and the power of film to convey the personal stories beneath the
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politics. When she talks about UNAFF — today one of the oldest documentary film festivals in the world — Bojic doesn’t gush about actors and directors or boast about awards and press coverage. Instead, she uses words like “laboratory,” “workshop” and “community.” “We have seven panels during the 11 days of the festival where we bring the filmmakers and subjects to the community,” she explained. “We want people to be deeply involved in the presentation of
the films. The festival is really a workshop where students and the public can work to better understand the world.” Though many of the screenings take place on the Stanford campus and about 50 percent of attendees are students, UNAFF will also screen films at Palo Alto’s Aquarius Theatre, Cubberley Community Center and Palo Alto High School, as well as at Eastside College Preparatory School (continued on page 38)
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in East Palo Alto. Following the festival itself, UNAFF will go on international tour, as it has since 2001. Meanwhile, the organization will continue to operate in the area throughout the year, partnering with schools and agencies like the VA and Avenidas to present films of specific interest to teens, veterans and seniors. This year, UNAFF received more than 600 submissions, every one of which was viewed by a member of the jury: film critics,
film makers, professors and other community members who volunteer their time to curate the festival. Bojic said she counsels the jury to look for films that represent a range of countries and topics, and to give priority to films that present material in fresh and interesting ways. “It doesn’t matter if they’re first-timers or Academy Award winners,” Bojic said, though she added that in UNAFF’s 17-year history, 24 of the films chosen have later been nominated for Academy Awards, and seven have won Oscars. Among the films on the 2014
schedule is “Maria of Many,” a four-minute short by Alexandra Liveris who recently graduated from Stanford’s documentary film MFA program. Shot in black-and-white on a vintage Bolex camera, “Maria of Many” is a subtle, almost meditative film that centers on the story of a Mexican immigrant to California. Intimate shots of daily life as a house-cleaner and mother — scrubbing a toilet bowl, brushing her daughter’s hair, vacuuming — provide a backdrop to the subject’s a matter-of-fact discussion of her experience as an immigrant: her humiliation, her pride
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and her dreams for her children. Filmmaker Liveris explained that she discovered Maria through La Colectiva, a San Francisco-based agency that supports immigrant women to secure jobs and get involved in social action. “I became enchanted with her because she’s really proud of what she does, but frank about the fact that she wants something better for her child — and that’s not a conflict for her,” Liveris explained. “I wanted to see if I could tell the immigrant’s story through Maria’s eyes.” Liveris said she sees her film as fitting well with the theme of this year’s festival. “I think an immigrant’s story is the story of bridging two worlds,” she said, adding, “The camera does that as well: It serves as a bridge between the subject and the audience.” Also on the docket for UNAFF 2014 is “The Box,” an animated short that tells the story of Ismael Nazario, a teenage boy committed to solitary confinement in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail. Set to music by Mos Def and with audio footage from Nazario himself, this haunting, hallucinatory film is based on a study done by the Berkeley-based nonprofit news organization the Center for Investigative Reporting. It’s no surprise that a film festival inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights would expose and challenge humanrights violations, and many of the films and panels do. Corruption in the U.S. military, the sexual assault of women and the plight of African migrants trapped in LibWhat: United Nations Association Film Festival Where: Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, San Francisco and Stanford University When: Oct. 16-26 Cost: Tickets are $10/film session, $34-45 for a daily pass and $180 for a full festival pass. Info: For more information, including a complete schedule of events, go to unaff.org or call 650-724-5544.
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UNAFF founder and executive director Jasmina Bojic launched the festival in 1998. ya’s Abu Salim prison are among the harder-hitting exposés. Yet there are also stories of triumph in the face of social ills: humanitarian projects in the Himalayas, Latin American activists who work to give women financial literacy and a choreographer who uses dance to empower orphaned boys in Rwanda. What ties these disparate stories together, said Bojic, is the way they reach out to viewers across cultural boundaries and national borders. “It’s important for people to see films from places we’re engaged with now, like Syria and the Middle East,” she said, adding, “UNAFF gives the public a chance to be more deeply engaged with stories that commercial media can’t or don’t cover in such depth. It’s a tremendous opportunity to be educated about issues you may never have thought about before. These 70 films will change your view of the world.” n Arts & Entertainment Editor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed at eschwyzer@paweekly.com.
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Absurdly irresistible West Bay Opera presents Verdi’s “Il Trovatore”
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performances are marked by youthful energy and athleticism. His second act aria, “Di quella pira” (“From the pyre”) is just one of the melodic bel canto songs he sings. The key role of Azucena will be sung by Patrice Houston, a veteran of seven previous Trovatores across the nation. Her impassioned portrayal, she says, observes the fine line between the character’s madness and the calculated vengeance against the Count. Her specialty as a mezzo soprano tragediennes was inspired by Irene Dalis, herself a mezzo who culminated an international career before founding Opera San Jose. Dalis told Houston back in her San Jose State Opera Workshop days that she had an exact copy of the Dalis voice. Houston will demonstrate that mastery in the second act’s “Stride la vampa” (“Wild flames are soaring”). The evil Count di Luna is sung by baritone Krassen Karagiozov. It will be his debut in the role, as well as at WBO. The young Bulgarian has great range, vocal strength and authority. The similarity in the training of the four principals is bound to make for an ensemble-like chemistry on stage. Also in the cast is bass Christopher Filipowicz as Ferrando, the captain of the guards. West Bay’s excellent chorus will have its moment with the opera’s much loved (and abused) “Coro di Zingari” (“Gypsy Chorus”), better known as the “Anvil Chorus.” The director of this production is Igor Vieira, who made a stunning appearance as Dr. Dulcamara in last year’s West Bay Opera production of “Elixir of Love.” Sets and projections are by Jean-François Revon; Lisa Lowe created the sumptuous period costumes. All of the singers interviewed said that although there are many great arias in this opera, they most looked forward to the final act, where all of the building dramatic tension finally explodes. Spoiler alert: The final 10 minutes include a) Leonora being denounced by Manrico for infidelity; b) Leonora admitting she has taken a slow poison; c) The count dragging Manrico away; d) Leonora dropping dead; e) Manrico being executed; f) Azucena screaming “You are avenged, O Mother”; and g) The count lamenting “Yet, I must live on.” All of which is quite absurd, yet musically irresistible. n Freelance writer Mort Levine can be reached at mortlevine123@ gmail.com. What: West Bay Opera’s “Il Trovatore” Where: Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto When: Friday, Oct. 17, and Saturday, Oct. 25, at 8 p.m.; Sundays, Oct. 19 and Oct. 26, at 2 p.m. Cost: Tickets range from $40-$75 Info: Go to wbopera.org or call 650-424-9999.
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James Callon, left, as Manrico; Krassen Karagiozov as the Count di Luna and Cynthia Clayton as Leonora in West Bay Opera’s production of Verdi’s “Il Trovatore.”
A&E DIGEST PA PHILHARMONIC HOSTS COMPETITION ... The Palo Alto Philharmonic Association has announced it will sponsor a concerto movement competition for Bay Area youth. The organization encourages young instrumentalists and vocalists to submit a CD of five to 15 minutes of unedited and unaccompanied performance. Finalists from the competition will be invited to perform for a panel of judges in February 2015, and the winners will appear in concert at Palo Alto’s Cubberley Theatre in May. Applicants must be 18 years old or younger, and must not yet have graduated from high school as of Dec. 31 of this year, which is also the deadline for entries. To learn more about the competition or to download an application form, go to paphil.org or call 408-395-2911. NEW PUBLIC ART IN DOWNTOWN PA ... What is a city? That’s a question Palo Alto residents and visitors may find themselves facing — literally — in the coming weeks. The city’s Public Art Commission has commissioned Oakland-based artist Anthony Discenza to install a temporary art project that consists of 20 signs displayed on downtown light posts. Each sign confronts viewers with a series of questions, ranging from the mundane (“What are some of the best options for getting around in your city?”) to the existential (“Generally speaking, do you subscribe to the notion that people are meant to be happy?”). According to the artist, the purpose of the installation is to engage the public in thought and conversation about the issues affecting Palo Alto. “This project is really exciting because it brings something fresh to the public art realm,” said Public Art Commissioner Vikki Tobak. “People might think it’s a mundane sign, and then be surprised to learn that there’s
more to it.” Discenza has exhibited work both nationally and internationally, at galleries and museums including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Getty Center. On Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 6 p.m., the artist will give a free public talk at the Downtown Library, followed by a
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Museum of American Heritage A to Z Do you own a “zapper?” How about an “embalming pump?” Chances are slim, which is why the new exhibition at Palo Alto’s Museum of American Heritage is such a marvel. On view starting Friday, Oct. 10, will be an assortment of familiar and little-known historical inventions, from mechanical devices to electrical gadgets. The artifacts will be organized alphabetically, in a whimsical nod to the sheer randomness of the museum’s vast permanent collection of unrelated objects. Visitors are invited to hunt for everything from “Addressograph” to “Zapper” as they make their way through this array of unusual artifacts. The exhibition, “Museum of American Heritage A to Z,” runs through March 15. Located in the heart of downtown Palo Alto in the historic Williams House (351 Homer Ave.), the Museum of American Heritage is among the city’s gems, and houses more than 5,000 technological inventions dating from 1750-1950. The museum is open Friday to Sunday only, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. To learn more, go to moah.org or call 650-321-1004.
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It’s been nearly 13 years since Stanford graduate, avid amateur violinist and Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan, but Pearl’s memory remains vibrantly alive. Here in Palo Alto, there’s an annual celebration of the life of this gifted journalist and musician (and former Weekly intern). Next Tuesday, Oct. 14, Stanford Live and Music at Stanford once again honor Pearl’s legacy with a free concert at Memorial Church on campus. This year’s concert features faculty and students from Stanford’s music department, including the university’s prized ensemble-in-residence: the St. Lawrence String Quartet. On the program are Telemann’s Concerto for Oboe in E Minor featuring oboist James Austin Smith, Bach’s Suite No. 1 in G Major for cello with Christopher Costanza of the St. Lawrence as soloist, and Bach’s church cantata, “Ich habe genug” (meaning, “I am content”) with baritone Kenneth Goodson. Daniel Pearl World Music Days exists to promote tolerance and crosscultural understanding through the arts and communication. To learn more about the concert, go to live.stanford.edu or call 650-724-2464.
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Mountain View’s Community School of Music and Arts (230 San Antonio Circle) plays host to more than 25 films from Africa next weekend when the Silicon Valley African Film Festival opens its fifth year. The festival runs Oct. 17 to 19, and embraces many countries and cultures, from Ethiopia and Eritrea to Nigeria and Ghana. On Friday evening, catch the rousing opening ceremony complete with dancing, drumming and a parade of flags before settling in for the opening night feature film, “The Mice Room,” which centers on life in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Also on the schedule are a number of animated films and shorts. But the festival isn’t all movies: SVAFF also features live performances, post-screening Q&A sessions with filmmakers, discussion forums and an African marketplace with crafts and food for sale. Opening night attendance is $15. Day passes for Saturday and Sunday range from $20-$25; a two-day pass is $30-$35. For tickets and a complete festival schedule, go to svaff.org or call 415774-6787. n — Elizabeth Schwyzer
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“The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo” explores the artistic contributions of the influential Ghanian writer.
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sprouted nuts and pasture-raised meats. The most recent addition is fair-trade, organic chocolate. “I started for selfish reasons,” Hildebrand said as she recounted launching her community supported agriculture (CSA) business in 2009. Raw milk turned out to be the only kind of milk her daughter could tolerate, Hildebrand explained. Nothing else worked. “Even when she was being breastfed, if I ate dairy, she would throw up.” After running through various alternatives — including pasteurized goat milk — with no success, Hildebrand did some research and bought raw milk. “I tried her on it, and she did great,” she said. The problem was getting it. While raw milk is legal to sell in California (it varies by state), it isn’t easy to find. “It was expensive, and you had to be there the day it was delivered because it would
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by Andrea Gemmet ll Christina Hildebrand wanted was a reliable source of raw milk for her daughter. But the hard-to-find product would sell out at the store almost immediately. If she didn’t time her grocery shopping to coincide with delivery of the unpasteurized whole milk, she was out of luck. So she struck up a conversation with the dairy’s deliveryman and got herself added to his route. When he wanted someone to take over, Real Food Bay Area was born. Raw milk is milk that is neither homogenized nor pasteurized — a process of partial sterilization through irradiation or heat. The Palo Alto-based weekly service started by offering members raw milk and cream, and has since expanded to include organic products ranging from pastured eggs, sustainable seafood and whole-grain breads to beet kvass (a fermented beverage),
Among the products Real Food Bay Area offers are raw milk and eggs from pastured poultry. fly off the shelves,” Hildebrand said. Frustrated, she said she got the Claravale Farm deliveryman to sell her raw milk directly. When he decided to move to Florida, he needed someone to take over his customer base and relationship with the dairy. She jumped at the chance, starting with four distribution locations and soon expanding to seven. Real Food Bay Area now has 40
locations where members can pick up their orders, including places in Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos and Portola Valley. Unlike the typical CSA that delivers weekly boxes of local produce, Real Food delivers food items that are harder to find on store shelves: soup bones and chicken heads for making broth; raw organic sauerkraut; French-style yogurt; raw goat milk;
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Eating Out sprouted almond butter. Hildebrand estimates that raw milk was the original draw for about 85 percent of her customer base, although many have expanded their orders as she has expanded her offerings. Everything she delivers through her CSA has to meet her standards for being organic, of the highest possibly quality and as local as possible, she said. Nothing is processed; not even genetically modified feeds for the animals. “We do a pretty detailed investigation into practices,” Hildebrand said. “We do know all our vendors and farmers very well. We don’t just take anybody.” Many of her customers are seeking a convenient way to access whole, unprocessed foods that can be hard to find, even as organic foods move into the mainstream. Hildebrand’s CSA is a natural match for followers of the Weston A. Price diet, which emphasizes unprocessed foods, sprouted grains and unpasteurized dairy and meats, she said. Real Food Bay Area also draws Indian families who have a culinary tradition of using raw milk, as well as people seeking pasture-raised meats and eggs from animals that haven’t been fed corn and soy products. Jocelyn Saiki, whose home is the Mountain View pick-up location for Real Food Bay Area, said that Hildebrand’s CSA is a huge time-saver. Instead of driving all over — to one location for farmraised eggs, another for meat from a cow-share and a third for raw milk — she now has everything right outside her door. “She said she was starting Real Food Bay Area so people wouldn’t have to do what I was doing,” said Saiki, who met Hildebrand through a health and wellness group. While Saiki said she makes many foods herself, even mayonnaise and ketchup, “I have my limits. I can’t keep a cow in the backyard. This is the closest I can get to being the consumer of a farmer.” She’s enthusiastic about Three Stone Hearth, a Berkeley-based community kitchen that makes meals and soups that Real Food Bay Area distributes. On a recent week, its offerings included chicken liver pâté, meatloaf, pork mole with white beans and stock made from beef or chicken bones. “It’s what I would do at home, or dream of doing at home, if I were a pioneer woman living on a ranch,” Saiki said. “But I can’t, because I live in the middle of Silicon Valley. This lets me eat as closely as I can to that (ideal) without food manufacturers getting in the way.” So why is raw milk such a big draw? Hildebrand said while many customers buy it for health reasons, they also like its taste. “The taste is definitely different,” she said. “It’s a much richer taste.” While pasteurization gets rid of harmful bacteria, it also destroys beneficial enzymes, she said. “Many people come to raw milk because they are lactose intolerant, but they can tolerate raw milk because it has enzymes that
allow you to digest it.” Part of raw milk’s richness is because, as Hildebrand put it, consumers are getting exactly what the cow produces. Most pasteurized whole milk sold in stores has had the cream separated from the milk, and just enough added back in to meet the mandated percentage of fat to qualify as whole milk. The remaining cream gets sold separately at a higher price, she said. Though the raw milk has been labeled as “dangerous” by many food safety groups including the FDA and the CDC, Hildebrand believes that’s a misconception. She said she is completely comfortable drinking milk from the four raw-milk dairies she distributes through Real Foods Bay Area. “I wouldn’t drink raw milk from a non-raw milk dairy — they can get away with not having a really clean herd and really clean practices,” since they usually rely on pasteurization to kill bacteria, she said. “We’re lucky in California because (raw milk) is legal and it’s being tested on a regular basis. All raw milk dairies have a clean record. They can’t afford not to have clean milk.” Any raw milk dairy that doesn’t pass muster with the California Department of Food and Agriculture gets shut down for several weeks, she said. Small raw milk producers can’t survive such long closures without going out of business. While Real Food may fill a niche market, it’s a growing niche,
said Hildebrand. She started it in the midst of the recession and for five years has been expanding on word-of-mouth, since she hasn’t done any marketing. “One nice thing about our customers: If they choose to be our customers, they will be loyal,” she said. “If they’re looking specifically for raw milk, or chicken feet or grass-fed beef, once they’ve joined us, they most likely will stay for the long term.” She said she keeps the overhead low, with a staff of four part-time drivers and one person for parttime administrative help. Hildebrand herself does the rest. “We strive to have prices at farmers market (levels) or less,” she said. “If you’re looking for the same product, you won’t find it at lower prices. We don’t have middlemen.” When customers ask if she’s going to improve her bare-bones website, she tells them that if she spends money on the site, their prices will go up. Most of them say they’re fine with the site the way it is, she said. “We don’t make a lot of money on this,” she said. “It’s a true passion of mine. To me, it’s more about being able to get these foods to our customers.” Information about Real Food Bay Area is at realfoodbayarea.com Mountain View Voice editor Andrea Gemmet can be emailed at editor@mv-voice.com
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Kill the Messenger MM1/2 (Guild Theatre, Century 20) At one point in the clunky speak-truth-to-power drama “Kill the Messenger,” a source tells a reporter, “Some stories are just too true to tell.” It’s a premise the protagonist — San Jose Mercury News senior investigative reporter Gary Webb — refuses to accept. But the comment conjures the thought that not every true story benefits from being retold in the medium of film. The movie should be of particular interest to
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(Century 20) Here comes “The Judge.” It’s been a while since we’ve seen a movie so...Grisham-y. But here we are again with big movie stars (Robert Downey Jr.) and character actors (Robert Duvall, Billy Bob Thornton) facing courtroom cases converging with personal crises — including, crucially, one of conscience. Downey and Duvall, who here play father and son, have already co-starred in an actual John Grisham adaptation (Robert Altman’s 1998 film “The Gingerbread Man”), but the screenplay “The Judge” is its own original package, with a story co-written by Nick Schenk and director David Dobkin, a script by Schenk and Bill Dubuque, and a roster of eight producers that includes Dobkin, Downey, and the star’s wife Susan. “Package” is precisely the word for a story that runs on clichés and mashes up witty banter, domestic strife and sentimentality — in that order. Downey plays high-powered, high-priced, cock of the walk defense attorney Hank Palmer, who returns home to fictitious small-town Carlinville, Indiana to attend his mother’s funeral while trying to avoid the prickly father (Duvall) who’s as good as dead to him. Duvall’s seventy-two-yearold Joseph Palmer, a venerable local judge, lands a murder charge just in time to trap Hank in town as overseer of Dad’s defense, forcing rounds of recrimination and reconciliation as Hank’s brothers Dale (Jeremy Strong) and Glen (Vincent D’Onofrio) look on. Plenty more is on the docket, including Hank’s oh-so-precocious daughter (Emma Tremblay) from a soon-to-dissolve marriage, his Carlinville ex-girlfriend Samantha (Vera Farmiga), and an old rival in prosecuting attorney Dwight Dickham (Thornton, in his sixth collaboration with Duvall). Plus there’s grief over dead Mom, health concerns over Dad, the struggles of mentally challenged Dale and dream-dashed almost baseball star Glen — and wait: Might Samantha’s daughter (Leighton Meester) be Hank’s kid? It’s enough to make a movie bloat to 141 minutes, and yet it’s much ado amounting to nothing much beyond actor-friendly histrionics. Every scene, whether it be a tornado-inflected argument or a moment of medical crisis forcing Hank to minister to Joseph, seems more a stab at an Oscar clip than an organic slice of life. Still, “The Judge” isn’t all bad; Downey’s shtick (what Samantha calls “that hyper-verbal vocabulary vomit thing that you do”) is reliably winning, and Duvall hasn’t missed a beat despite being over a decade older than his character. The film even shows a modicum of restraint by avoiding a few clichés that are well within its reach. The result is palatable big-Hollywood fare. Rated R for language including some sexual references. Two hours, 21 minutes. — Peter Canavese
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“Kill the Messenger” tells the true story of investigative journalist Gary Webb, who exposed the CIA’s dealings with Nicaraguan drug smugglers. Bay Area audiences. Based on Webb’s series of articles in the Mercury that were later published as a book: “Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion” — as well as on his colleague Nick Schou’s book, “Kill the Messenger,” written after Webb’s suicide — the film follows Webb as he investigates the CIA’s involvement in domestic crack cocaine sales that are funding the rebels in Nicaragua. More so, though, Peter Landesman’s script chronicles the toll of Webb’s reporting on his career and personal life. The film opens in 1996, with Webb cracking a drug forfeiture story that has the unintended consequence of rustling up a much larger reveal. Out of the woodwork come sources claiming that the U.S. government used a Nicaraguan dealer to move four tons of cocaine from there to here. This tip of the iceberg leads crusading reporter Webb to unearth the CIA’s direct involvement, corroborated in part by Nicaraguan drug smuggler Norwin Meneses (Andy Garcia). The fallout of the CIA program includes the crack epidemic felt most deeply in South Central L.A., which makes Webb’s story particularly explosive once published by the Mercury in print, and — in an early show of viral online impact — on its website. But even as Webb basks in his success, he knows he has been warned: not only by a sympathetic Beltway insider (Michael Sheen) but also by the CIA, which clearly if implicitly threatens Webb’s family, including his wife (played by Rosemarie DeWitt) and eldest son (Lucas Hedges). Cuesta’s credits as director of “L.I.E.” and the “Homeland” pilot for Showtime attract an impressive ensemble of supporting players (Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Oliver Platt as editors, Paz Vega as an oversexed source) and one-scene ponies (Garcia, Sheen, Barry Pepper, Richard Schiff, Robert Patrick, Ray Liotta, Michael K. Williams), but it’s Renner who humbly carries the film on his shoulders and surprisingly — given the story’s indignation-stirring sociopolitical implications — makes the best case for the story’s resonance as a human one. For all this, and to its detriment, “Kill the Messenger” ain’t an Oliver Stone film. Rather than a fiercely intelligent, live-wire exposé, the well-intentioned picture comes across as weak-tea drama that never fully justifies its docudramatic form. By the time Cupertino gets depicted as some kind of backwater to which Webb is at one point banished, local multiplex-goers will smell something rotten in Cinemark. Rated R for language and drug content. One hour, 52 minutes. — Peter Canavese
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Movies Gone Girl MM1/2
Tone can be a delicate matter, and shaking it up an admirable enterprise. But “Gone Girl” — David Fincher’s film adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s bestseller — goes from intriguingly puzzling to downright alienating. It’s all part of the intent of Fincher’s black comedy, scripted by Flynn herself around a twisty mystery: Where has Nick Dunne’s wife gone, and is he responsible for her disappearance? The disruption to suburban normality in a once tony, now depressed Missouri community sets the stage for competing perspectives: that of Nick (a well-cast Ben Affleck), who insists upon his innocence even as he shows signs of misogyny and a violent temper; and that of his wife Amy (cool blonde Rosamund Pike), whose diary seems to implicate Nick. A slew of characters add their own interpretations. Among them are two detectives (Kim Dickens and Patrick Fugit), Amy’s parents (David Clennon and Lisa Banes), Amy’s unhinged ex (Neil Patrick Harris), Nick’s twin sister Margo (Carrie Coon), a high-powered defense attorney (Tyler Perry) and rapacious TV journalists (Sela Ward and Missi Pyle). Through it all though, there’s a sinking feeling that whether Nick “did it” or not doesn’t much matter: He’s guilty of being a terrible husband, and it’s possible that Amy is no saintly victim. Rated R for a scene of bloody violence, some strong sexual content/nudity, and language. Two hours, 29 minutes. — P.C.
Pride MMM
In telling the little-known story of how the the National Union of Mineworkers got a lift from Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, Matthew Warchus’ “Pride” pays testament to the many
faces of solidarity. Set during a one-year period beginning in the summer of 1984, “Pride” traces how restless London gays and lesbians expanded their social protest to embrace the struggles of miners striking against Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s austerity measures. In a breakout performance by Ben Schnetzer, young Mark Ashton overcomes apathy and antipathy amongst his peers to spearhead the collective, which raises money and awareness to support the striking miners and their families. Soon, LGSM is making trips to South Wales, where they meet more union organizers (including veteran thesps Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton). When “Pride” skews toward the self-consciously goofy (Staunton waving around a red dildo over a gay porn mag), it briefly misses the mark, but at least as often there’s a moment (a gay first-kiss scene, for example) that rings true. Screenwriter Stephen Beresford and Tony-awardwinning director Warchus ably tell the true story, despite some awkwardness in the choice to foreground Joe (George MacKay), an every(gay)boy who struggles with coming out while also coming into his own as an activist. The strong ensemble (including Dominic West and Andrew Scott as a caring couple) helps “Pride” keep a steady heartbeat, from the union hall get-togethers to the “Pits and Perverts” benefit concert and the no-dry-eyes finale. Rated R for language and brief sexual content. Two hours. — P.C.
The Equalizer MM
In the violent vengeance fantasy, “The Equalizer,” Denzel Washington plays a vigilante — a figure rare in reality and absurdly plentiful on the big screen.
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Adapted from the 1980s TV series starring Edward Woodward, “The Equalizer” tells the story of Robert McCall (Washington), an ex-operative of “the Agency.” McCall marks time as an employee of hardware retailer Home Mart and a frequenter of a greasy spoon. There, his budding friendship with teenage prostitute Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz, in a surprisingly affecting turn) winds up pulling him back into a lifestyle he has held at bay: dispensing violence to those who “deserve” it. Lonely, “kinda lost” widower McCall operates from an emotional resiliency that emerges in flashes of humor and a compassion that compels him to help his fellow woman (Teri) and man (Johnny Skourtis’s Home Mart employee, Ralphie). McCall preaches “body, mind, spirit,” and doles out diet tips and life lessons (“Doubt kills,” he proclaims, and, “You gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what”). But as soon as McCall begins to dish out cold violence, interest drains from the picture. Rated R for strong bloody violence and language throughout, including some sexual references. Two hours, 11 minutes. — P.C.
A Walk Among the Tombstones MM1/2
At one point in “A Walk Among the Tombstones,” someone asks Liam Neeson’s private eye what it takes to be a good detective. “Patience. Instinct. Blind luck, mostly,” he replies. These same qualities could be said to apply to writer-director Scott Frank trying to get a foothold in the adult crime thriller marketplace. At the film’s outset, audiences are likely rooting for Frank, long one of Hollywood’s cleverest screenwriters (“Dead Again,” “Get Shorty”) and lately one of its most promising writer-directors (“The Lookout”). Frank establishes a tone redolent of finely crafted ‘70s/’80s cinema: patient, thoughtfully photographed and edited, well-acted and with a certain essential intelligence applied to the material. That material derives from Lawrence Block’s series of detective novels about unlicensed private investigator, ex-cop and recovering alcoholic Matthew Scudder, who does everything in reaction to his still-unforgiven original sin. Played with weary resignation by Liam Neeson, Scudder makes a reasonably compelling protagonist, expending shoe leather in 1990s New York City as he tracks down witnesses and clues in the case of the kidnapped and murdered wife of a drug kingpin (Dan Stevens). The thriller conjures memories of more distinctive urban crime dramas of recent years, whether more operatic (“Mystic River,” “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”) or more relatable (“Prisoners”), but peel away the stylishness, and the film skews closest to the trio of trashy “Alex Cross” adaptations. If only there were more to grab onto from the diffuse story, which — with its nearly unredeemed brutality — will make more sensitive viewers wonder why they bothered to subject themselves to the feel-bad film of the summer’s dog days. Rated R for strong violence, disturbing images, language and brief nudity. One hour, 53 minutes. — P.C.
MOVIE TIMES All showtimes are for Friday – Sunday only unless otherwise noted. For other times, reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest. Addicted (R)
Century 20: 11:40 a.m., 2:15, 4:50, 7:25 & 10 p.m.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (PG) Century 16: 10:30 & 11:30 a.m., 12:45, 1:45, 3, 4, 5:15, 6:15, 7:30, 8:40 & 9:45 p.m. Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 12:20, 1:30, 2:35, 3:45, 4:55, 5:55, 7:10, 8:05, 9:25 & 10:15 p.m. Annabelle (R) Century 16:11:45 a.m., 2:15, 4:55, 7:30 & 10:05 p.m. Century 20:11:20 a.m., 12:30, 2, 3:05, 4:30, 5:35, 7:05, 8:10, 9:40 & 10:45 p.m. The Boxtrolls (PG) Century 16:11:05 a.m., 1:50, 4:35, 7:15 & 9:50 p.m. Century 20: 11:25 a.m., 4:35 & 7:20 p.m. In 3-D at 2 & 9:45 p.m.
Boyhood (R) HHHH Aquarius Theatre: 3:30 & 9:20 p.m.
Castle in the Desert (1942) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri 7:30 p.m.
Dolphin Tale 2 (PG) HH Century 20: 1:50 & 4:20 p.m. Fri & Sun 11:10 a.m.
Dracula Untold (PG-13) Century 16: 10:45 & 11:55 a.m., 1:15, 2:30, 3:40, 5, 6:20, 7:45, 9:05 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 1:55, 4:25, 7 & 9:25 p.m. In X-D at 12:35, 3, 5:20, 8 & 10:35 p.m. The Equalizer (R) HH Century 16: 12:20, 3:50, 7:05 & 10:10 p.m. Century 20: 1:15, 4:15, 7:25 & 10:35 p.m.
Gone Girl (R) HH1/2 Century 16: 10:50 a.m., noon, 2:20, 3:30, 4:40, 5:50, 7, 8:10, 9:20 & 10:30 p.m. Fri & Sun 1:10 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 12:15, 1:25, 2:30, 3:40, 4:45, 5:50, 6:55, 8:20, 9:15 & 10:15 p.m. Guardians of the Galaxy (PG-13) Century 16: 7:35 p.m. Fri & Sat 10:30 a.m., 1:25, 4:20, 7:35 & 10:35 p.m. Sun 10:30 p.m. Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 2:10, 5, 7:50 & 10:40 p.m. Hector and the Search for Happiness (R) Century 16:10:25 p.m. Fri & Sun 10:55 a.m., 4:35 & 7:40 p.m. Sat 3:35 p.m.
The Hundred-Foot Journey (PG) HH1/2 Century 16: Fri & Sun 1:40 p.m.
The Judge (R) HH1/2 Century 16: 11 a.m., 12:40, 2:20, 4, 5:40, 7:20, 9 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 12:40, 2:25, 3:55, 5:40, 7:10, 8:55 & 10:25 p.m.
Kill the Messenger (R) HH1/2 Century 20: 11:35, 2:20, 5:05, 7:45 & 10:30 p.m. Guild Theatre: 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 & 9:45 p.m. Last Days in Vietnam (Not Rated) Aquarius Theatre: 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 & 9:40 p.m.
Left Behind (PG-13) Century 16: 11:15 a.m., 2, 4:45, 7:25 & 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 10:10 p.m. Fri & Sat 11:30 a.m. & 2:10 p.m., Fri 4:50 & 7:30 p.m.
The Maze Runner (PG-13) HH1/2 Century 16: 10:40 a.m., 1:30, 4:15, 7:10 & 9:55 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:40, 4:30, 7:35 & 10:20 p.m.
Meet the Mormons (PG) Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 1:45, 3:55, 6, 8:10 & 10:20 p.m.
The MET Opera: Macbeth (Not Rated) Century 16: Sat 9:55 a.m. Century 20: Sat 9:55 a.m. Palo Alto Square: Sat 9:55 a.m.
My Old Lady (PG-13) HHH Palo Alto Square: 1:45, 4:20 & 7:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 9:45 p.m. Notorious (1946) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat & Sun 3:20 & 7:30 p.m.
One Direction: Where We Are (Not Rated) Century 16: Sat & Sun 12:55 p.m., Sat 7 p.m., Sun 3:15 p.m. Century 20: Sat & Sun 12:55 & 7 p.m. Only Angels Have Wings (1939) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat & Sun 5:15 & 9:25 p.m.
Pride (R) HHH Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m., Sat & Sun 10 p.m. Terror by Night (1946) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri 6:20 & 9 p.m. This is Where I Leave You (R) Century 20: 6:55 & 9:30 p.m.
Tracks (PG-13) Aquarius Theatre: 1 & 7 p.m.
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Century Theatres at Palo Alto Square Fri – Sat 10/10, 11 My Old Lady–1:45, 4:20, 7:15, 9:45 Pride – 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sun, Mon, Tue & Thurs 10/12, 13, 14 & 16 My Old Lady – 1:45, 4:20, 7:15 Pride – 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 Wed – 10/15 Only My Old Lady – 1:45 Pride – 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 The MET Opera: Macbeth – 6:30 pm
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Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City (800-326-3264) CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-0128) Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260)
Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700)
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GARDEN COLOR ... UC Master Gardener Roberta Barnes will give a free talk on “Fall and Winter Color in Your Garden” from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 11, at the Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Barnes will suggest easy plants that bloom in fall and winter, including those that provide nectar and pollen. Info: Master Gardeners at 408282-3105, between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, or mastergardeners.org REPAIR CAFE ... Have any broken items that could actually be used, if they were only fixed? Bring them to the free Repair Cafe, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 12, at the Museum of American Heritage, 351 Homer Ave., Palo Alto. Items can include clothing, bicycles, computers, small appliances, lamps, mechanical items, small furniture, jewelry or toys. Volun-
(continued on page 50) Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email cblitzer@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.
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ow could Gamble Garden enhance its fundraising efforts while showcasing its value as a community asset? That was the question four women pondered during a series of informal brainstorming sessions — beginning eight years ago. The result is “Gamble Garden: Landscape of Optimism” by Susan Woodman, one of the original brainstormers, along with Susan Benton, Chris Stein and Jane Stocklin. Woodman, who hadn’t done much creative writing since high school, had majored in anthropology and sociology in college, ultimately running her own interior design business. When she closed her firm, she did grantwriting for an educational nonprofit. “I was just comfortable taking this on,” she said. Woodman has been involved with Gamble
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TREE WALK ... Arborist John McClenahan will lead a free tree walk from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Oct. 11, through the Crescent Park neighborhood, meeting on Lincoln Avenue between University and Hamilton avenues, Palo Alto. Expect to see tulip trees, maidenhair, saucer magnolia, queen palm, Australian tea, dawn redwood, Chinese tallow and more. Info: Canopy at 650-964-6110 or canopy.org
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LAST DAY AT COMMON GROUND ... Common Ground Organic Garden Supply and Education Center, at 559 College Ave., Palo Alto, will be closing its doors tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 11, at 5 p.m. Since the closure announcement last week, customers have been clearing out the discounted inventory. Best items still on the shelves, according to Patricia Becker, manager, are a vast variety of seeds, including 2015 Renee’s and cover crops, and the gardener’s bible, “Common Ground Planting and Gardening Guide.” Doors open at 10 a.m. on Saturday. At the end of the day, friends will gather for a final clean-up party. Common Ground’s Demonstration Garden, located at 687 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, will remain open, and some classes will continue to be offered there. Info: commongroundgarden.org or bountifulgardens.org (for gardening materials)
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Garden for the last decade, originally helping with the display design for the Spring Tour. She lives an easy walk away from the Old Palo Alto garden. She has helped with the book every step of the way, from asking John Haynes to create the art for the cover and end papers to the writing and gathering of photos. But, she is quick to point to the Acknowledgments, with its list of many of the contributors to the project. The book begins with a brief history of how Elizabeth F. Gamble, a scion of the Procter & Gamble family, bequeathed her home to the City with minimal guidance or strings attached. In 1985 the property was launched as a public garden. Today there are 1,250 people who support the garden through annual memberships, and more than 300 volunteers who keep the garden in good shape. The book highlights all that has been accomplished since its founding. “Writing a history wasn’t a good match for me,” Woodman said. “I wanted to show that the garden is an active place today and a center of community.” So she decided to present a tour of the garden through the seasons, focusing on the various garden “rooms” — rose, wisteria and the allée. Each includes plant descriptions and
identifications, with help from the botanical editor, Lesley Peters. “One of the things I learned: I thought there was universal naming of plants. Turns out that’s not true. They’re ever-changing. Sometimes we use common names and sometimes botanical,” Woodman said, giving the example of the Scarlet Oak or Quercus coccinea. Each chapter begins with a quote. “I’m a longtime collector of quotes, usually from my own reading,” Woodman said. Among her favorites is one by Stanley Kuntz: “The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.” “To me that’s a very positive part of that poem,” she said, a feeling that prompted its inclusion in the book’s section on Community Day. Another chapter focuses on “Tending and Groundskeeping.” “You can’t have a garden without gardeners,” she laughed. “We don’t name names. This is about the collection of people who work here, the community who comes to enjoy the garden and for all kinds of events and classes.” Other than Miss Gamble, she added, no one is identified in the photographs. The book also includes a section on past (continued on page 50)
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Spring Tours, a major source of fundraising for Gamble Garden. “The photos show the range of gardens we have right here. The book is about the private gardens and about Gamble,” Woodman said. Another section deals with art (and music) in the garden. “People take pictures, paint, and there have been formal events organized around art in the garden,” she added. An important part of the garden’s public service is its connection to local schoolchildren, through its Roots & Shoots intergenerational garden. The community garden facility also offers classes, holds monthly luncheons and hosts wedding receptions. Gamble Garden provides the flowers, which are arranged by members of The Garden Club of Palo Alto, and dropped off at City Hall and other city offices, schools, the police, the VA and more. There’s even a section on flower arranging. “Early on we talked about flower arranging. We looked at books, which quickly become dated because styles change. I wanted a sense of timelessness in the book,” Woodman said. “This approach pulled it back to the garden. You don’t have to be a flower arranger. You just need pretty flowers, and here’s how to make
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Susan Woodman, author of “Gamble Garden: Landscape of Optimism,” stands in Gamble Garden in mid-September.
them last longer.” “And you can’t be here and not be inspired to have healthy, garden-fresh food. ... Primarily, this is an ornamental garden, but we wanted to spotlight food.” Sprinkled throughout the book are recipes, many utilizing herbs or fruits grown at the garden. Woodman said she hopes that people from other areas could be inspired by what’s been done at Gamble Garden, even if they don’t have a benefactor. “In the introduction, we talk about not everyone having a Miss Gamble. It could be part of a park, or a section with a cutting garden,” she said. “Garden of Optimism” was self-published by Gamble Garden, with 1,200 copies printed in Burlingame, using paper from sustainable forests and vegetablebased ink, Woodman said. The coffee-table-sized, 136-page book contains 200 color photographs. With underwriting by John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn (and Jane and Bill Stocklin), the book is available for $40 at Gamble Garden and through the website, gamblegarden.org. n Associate Editor Carol Blitzer can be emailed at cblitzer@ paweekly.com.
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(from the garden: lemons and lavender flowers) 1 heaping T. dried lavender flowers 6 lemons 1/4 C. sugar (if desired, add more by tablespoons, to taste) Pour 1 C. boiling water over lavender flowers. Meanwhile squeeze lemons, mix with sugar to taste (it will be very strong). Add at least 3 C. cold water. Strain lavender tea into the lemonade. Refrigerate. To serve, pour over ice cubes. Makes 3-6 cups.
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RHODIES IN CHINA ... Jason Martinez, who is responsible for the rhododendrons at the San Francisco Botanical Garden, will address the De Anza Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society with “A Travel to the Rhododendron Areas of China” at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 15. The program will be about a plant-hunting expedition led by Steve Hootman of the Rhododendron Species Foundation and the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden. The group meets in Room 12 of the Hillview Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. Info: deanza-ars.com or rhodygarden.org/cms/our-plants/ expeditions/ KICK OFF TO THE HOLIDAYS ... The annual fundraiser, Holidays on a High Note, hosted by the Foothill Auxiliary to Peninsula Family Service, will be held on Monday, Oct. 20, at the Menlo Circus Club, 190 Park Lane, Atherton. The event opens with boutique sales, beginning at 9 a.m., followed by a demonstration by floral designer David Braddy at 10:30 a.m. and lunch at 12:30 p.m. A highlight is the array of holiday-themed table displays. Tickets are $120, and advance reservations are required by Oct. 16. Info: Eileen Sullivan at foothillauxiliaryhohn@yahoo.com n
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66 Newell Road #K E. Schwartz to S. Upadhye for $360,000 on 9/3/14; previous sale 5/99, $153,000 2266 Pulgas Ave. A. Sermeno to L. Nay for $305,000 on 9/3/14; previous sale 8/01, $440,000
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872 Clinton Road Chesnut Trust to Y. Zhang for $1,908,000 on 9/16/14 15 Deep Well Lane Tierney Trust to Kendall Trust for $2,300,000 on 9/16/14 1651 Havenhurst Drive Holmes Trust to Haung Trust for $2,150,000 on 9/17/14 1223 Lisa Court M. & S. Klesczewski to D. & I. Chen for $2,420,000 on 9/16/14; previous sale 4/06, $1,400,000 607 Nandell Lane Nandell Limited to Gil Trust for $5,700,000 on 9/16/14; previous sale 4/08, $2,000,000
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HOME SALES
Home sales are provided by California REsource, a real estate information company that obtains the information from the County Recorder’s Office. Information is recorded from deeds after the close of escrow and published within four to eight weeks.
663 17th Ave. J. Hanlon to J. Valdez for $1,251,000 on 8/29/14; previous sale 5/07, $921,000 411 Hamilton Ave. Cater Trust to M. Li for $630,000 on 8/29/14 1239 Hollyburne Ave. C. & K. Walker to C. Chiou for $730,000 on 8/29/14 135 O’keefe St. #2 C. & C. Robinson to S. Ananthakrishnan for $835,000 on 9/2/14; previous sale 4/07, $735,000 2431 Sharon Oaks Drive Mason Trust to K. Pohl for $1,000,000 on 9/3/14; previous sale 4/07, $1,005,000 785 Stanford Ave. R. & M. Corcoran to K. Moir for $3,495,000 on 8/29/14; previous sale 5/08, $3,150,000
Mountain View
582 Anza St. Martin Trust to Treehouse Properties for $2,300,000 on 9/17/14 131 Avellino Way Tri Pointe Homes to G. Kim for $1,440,000 on 9/17/14 1133 El Monte Ave. A. Sundararajan to A. & L. Tran for $1,775,000 on 9/12/14; previous sale 4/07, $1,350,000 1187 High School Way Nunes Trust to Martin Trust for $1,200,000 on 9/17/14 382 Mercy St. A. Ou to T. Lin for $1,600,000 on 9/16/14 346 Windingwood Court #150 G. Shin to Shin Trust for $700,000 on 9/17/14; previous sale 12/03, $475,000
Palo Alto
2898 Bryant St. Glidden Trust to T. Trach for $1,600,000 on 9/12/14 461 Ferne Ave. K. & C. Watson to D. Gillies for $2,050,000 on 9/12/14 138 Hemlock Court M. Canilang to J. Wang for $1,768,000 on 9/17/14; previous sale 10/04, $769,000 134 Park Ave. Devine Trust to P. & I. Carlsson for $3,700,000 on 9/12/14; previous sale 12/10, $1,970,000 3778 Redwood Circle N. Wilsomer to Sriperumbudur Trust for $1,910,000 on 9/12/14 670 San Antonio Road #34 E. Anderson to L. Zhang for $1,150,000 on 9/17/14; previous sale 7/05, $735,000 818 Seale Ave. M. & E. Papakipos
to M. & C. Jojarth for $4,600,000 on 9/17/14 2342 Yale St. Yale Street Limited to W. Kandasamy for $1,900,000 on 9/16/14
Redwood City
100 Baltic Circle #106 J. Dowd to Kaul Trust for $910,000 on 9/3/14; previous sale 8/10, $585,000 501 Baltic Circle #517 J. & M. Fernandez to I. & A. Sims for $850,000 on 9/2/14; previous sale 12/06, $700,000 854 Corriente Point Drive D. Summers to Corriente Trust for $1,370,000 on 9/3/14; previous sale 2/03, $1,240,000 29 Cove Lane R. & R. Andrada to G. & K. Rivera for $691,000 on 8/29/14; previous sale 7/10, $462,500 4000 Farm Hill Blvd. #302 A. Fernando to G. Saad for $483,000 on 8/29/14; previous sale 10/02, $385,000 605 Fox Court #E S. Klein to Mendelsohn Trust for $808,000 on 8/29/14; previous sale 2/11, $510,000 224 Iris St. D. & L. Miller to E. Wolsheimer for $1,650,000 on 8/29/14; previous sale 4/78, $105,000 438 Northumberland Ave. ValpredaNail Trust to W. Guttentag for $967,500 on 9/2/14 303 Redwood Ave. A. Dyer to D. Itthiputh for $700,000 on 8/29/14; previous sale 6/09, $505,000 562 Shoal Circle Finlayson-Farhad Trust to D. McKane for $780,000 on 8/29/14; previous sale 4/99, $341,000 418 Tiller Lane C. Owashi to Q. Kong for $1,500,000 on 9/3/14 1040 Valota Road Lim Trust to E. & E. Starks for $860,500 on 9/3/14
Woodside
2 Barrett Drive Turchet Trust to Majlessi Trust for $2,075,000 on 9/2/14; previous sale 4/13, $1,590,000
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Palo Alto
Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $305,000 Highest sales price: $360,000
Total sales reported: 8 Lowest sales price: $1,150,000 Highest sales price: $4,600,000
Los Altos
Total sales reported: 5 Lowest sales price: $1,908,000 Highest sales price: $5,700,000
Menlo Park
Total sales reported: 6 Lowest sales price: $630,000 Highest sales price: $3,495,000
Redwood City
Total sales reported: 12 Lowest sales price: $483,000 Highest sales price: $1,650,000
Woodside
Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $2,075,000 Highest sales price: $2,075,000 Source: California REsource
Mountain View
Total sales reported: 6 Lowest sales price: $700,000 Highest sales price: $2,300,000 carport, $5,810 1904 Emerson St. replace windows, remodel bathroom, remodel, $170,000 3414 Middlefield Road convert garage to bedroom, bath, $51,744 537 Hamilton Ave. relocate car stackers and add interior door, $n/a 762 Montrose Ave. change front bedroom window to bay window, $n/a 2334 Santa Ana St. convert 352-sq-ft porch to living space, remodel kitchen, bathroom, $106,641 511 Patricia Lane install inground pool and spa, $35,000 3400 El Camino Real add ductless system at hotel lobby office, $n/a 754 Homer Ave. remodel master bath, kitchen, rewire house, $n/a 2539 Webster St. replace nine
windows and one French door, $11,000 938 Maddux Drive addition, remodel kitchen, two bathrooms, $32,543 645 Marion Ave. structural changes to detached carport, $n/a 2901 Ramona St. install roofmounted PV system, $n/a 1855 Cowper St. install roofmounted PV system, $n/a 3016 Ross Road re-roof, $35,905 538 Ramona St. Coupa Cafe: replace gasline, $n/a 4041 El Camino Way Palo Alto Commons: replace 31 sliding doors to French doors, change elevator call buttons to illuminated ones, $250,000 610 Middlefield Road replace windows, $1,000 682 Wildwood Lane re-roof, $10,319
620 Sand Hill Road Unit 116E: add kitchen cabinet with wall oven, relocate outlet and circuit, $11,500 3456 Cowper Court re-roof, $24,000 3064 Middlefield Road remove chimney, replace with bay window, $n/a 2207 Greer Road re-roof, $11,719 840 Matadero Ave. revise location, height of carport, $n/a 3651 Orinda St. remodel, including remove illegal wall partition in garage, replace all doors and windows, new gas furnace and tankless water heater, $50,000 741 Chimalus Drive install Level 1 and 2 electrical-vehicle charging station, $n/a 4099 Laguna Way remodel shed (accessory structure not to be used for living purposes), $7,000
380 W. Meadow Drive new detached one-car garage with trellis and porch, $16,354; demo garage, $n/a 1693 Mariposa Ave. new permit to finish house (original permit expired): new one-story house with basement, detached twocar garage, $802,609 2290 Louis Road revise site plan to show where house is correctly located on property, $n/a 4038 Ben Lomond Drive re-roof, $18,000 914 Moreno Ave. re-roof, $13,385 2702 Waverley St. install roofmounted PV system, $n/a 3395 Louis Road re-roof, $12,000 846 Miranda re-roof, $16,500 2697 Emerson St. re-roof, $10,287 1520 Portola Ave. re-roof, $9,500 2386 Ramona St. remodel bathroom, addition to bathroom, $15,000 3251 Hanover St., Units 203 &
203 Lockheed Martin: remodel lab, $162,000 each; Unit 202, lab demo, $n/a 2190 W. Bayshore Road Orange Theory Fitness: tenant improvement, $175,000 3347 Saint Michael Court two-story addition and remodel, $100,000 970 Matadero Ave. new greywater irrigation system, $n/a 3000 El Camino Real Thoughtspot Bldg. 1, Suite 200: tenant improvement, $25,000 1029 Corporation Way replace eight rooftop HVAC units, $135,000 2190 W. Bayshore Road Bldg. 2: add demising wall to create two additional tenant spaces, install HVAC units, $28,350; Bldg. 1: add demising walls to create three suites, $21,000 983 Lawrence Lane new single-story house with attached garage and covered patio, $434,000 1212 Parkinson Ave. re-roof, $18,500
3473 Rambow Drive remodel, including removing brick fireplace and barbecue, replace with slider door and windows, re-roof, $25,000 804 Fielding Drive new twostory house with basement, attached garage and covered porch, $836,898; demo house, $n/a; demo detached garage, $n/a 157 Walter Hays Drive convert half the garage to habitable space, remodel kitchen and closet, add bay window, $53,877 321 Whitclem Drive replace tile in bathroom shower, $n/a 228 Seale Ave. install gas insert in woodburning fireplace, $n/a 782 University Ave. remodel master bath, $6,000 3400 Hillview Ave. #B1, #B2 add offices and egress changes, $n/a 2350 Tasso St. new two-story house with basement, $571,000; new detached garage, $11,000 23 Tulip Lane re-roof, $9,000 744 Ramona St. re-roof, $500
Residential real estate expertise for the mid-peninsula.
NICKGRANOSKI
OPEN SUNDAY
Broker Associate Alain Pinel President’s Club DRE #00994196
www.NickGranoski.com
ngranoski@apr.com 650/269–8556
1:30 – 4:30 p.m. 184 SAND HILL CIRCLE M E N L O
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P A R K
Sophisticated multi-level townhome bordering Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club Fabulously remodeled in 2010 with European designer flair Approximately 1,850 square feet 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms Attached 2-car garage plus tremendous storage space Spacious tiled patio overlooking the 18th fairway Two community pools and spa Excellent Las Lomitas schools (buyer to confirm)
Offered at $1,795,000
www.184SandHillCircle.com Coldwell Banker International President’s Premier Top 1% Internationally Top US Realtor, The Wall Street Journal, 2013
650.740.2970
edemma@cbnorcal.com erikademma.com
CalBRE# 01230766
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OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30 PM
MENLO PARK TOWNHOME
1255 Trinity Dr, Menlo Park 3 bed | 2.5 bath $1,795,000
Welcome to this contemporary townhome in the sought-after Sharon Hills neighborhood. The 2-story design and corner lot location overlook a tranquil setting on 3 sides. The main level features an expansive living room, formal dining room, guest bath, dine-in kitchen and spacious deck. Upstairs offers 3 generously sized bedrooms, 2 baths and convenient laundry room. Community amenities include pool, spa and tennis facilities. This quiet location is convenient to Stanford University, Sharon Heights shops, Sand Hill Road, Hwy 280 and excellent schools.
DOWNTOWN PALO ALTO CONDO
770 Bryant St, Palo Alto 2 bed | 2 bath $1,295,000
This stylish single-level condo presents a light-filled floor plan with 2 bedrooms and 2 baths. Above the tree-lined street, large windows and sliding glass doors let in abundant natural light. This prime downtown location is just minutes to University Avenue shops and restaurants, Whole Foods, Public Library, CalTrain, Heritage Park, Stanford, and pedestrian tunnel to the Palo Alto Medical Foundation.
Ginny Kavanaugh REAL COMMITMENT, REAL RESULTS: YOUR COMPETITVE ADVANTAGE IN REAL ESTATE Direct: 650.400.8076 | gkavanaugh@camoves.com | KavanaughGroup.com | C a l BRE #00884747 Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
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Record Sales Price
2530 Waverley St. Palo Alto
SOLD OVER ASKING Highest price ever in Midtown Property Developed by Greg Xiong
Blake Hajek 650.766.6447 BlakeHajek@gmail.com License #01778150 Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
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October 11, 2014
DAY OF THE
HORSE HORSE FAIR
Visit the AT TOWN HALL DeLeon Realty booth at the PROGRESSIVE Day of the TRAIL RIDE Horse fair THRU TOWN in Woodside www.whoa94062.org
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OPEN HOUSE – SUNDAY 11:00 - 2:00
“Ocean Front Modern Elegance, With Amazing White Water Views” 53 Pelican Point, La Selva Beach CA 95076 Modern, Sophisticated, Ocean Front, Private, Gated, End Unit, Amazing Ocean Views, Completely Remodeled, Unspoiled beach just 7 steps from your door. One of, if not the Nicest condo in Santa Cruz County. Tastefully redone, with extensive use of Marble and tile. Designer furniture, surround sound, amazing lighting, and sound proof walls. Frame-less glass Deck makes for unobstructed views of ocean during day, and lights of Monterey and Moss Landing at night. Great commute location. 40 minutes north to Silicon Valley or south to Carmel and Pebble Beach. Quality & Materials you would expect to see in Multi Million Dollar Homes. Simply Stunning! Tennis Courts, Volley ball, Game Room, 24 hour security, spa, are just some of the amenities Pajaro Dunes offers. Please view virtual tour: http://www.vrguild.net/tour/W30744
Offered at $559,000
Call Raeid Farhat for your own private viewing CA BRE License #01295607 734 E. Lake Ave Suite #9, Watsonville CA, 95076 c 831.840.3902 o 831.728-0555 raeid@raeidfarhat.com
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RAEID FARHAT REAL ESTATE inc.
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Stunning New Construction in Lindenwood 5 Bedrooms | 6 ½ Bathrooms
Functional floor plan perfect for today’s lifestyle
Guest suite with fireplace | Loft area | Full laurdry room Office | Mud room | Secondary laundry area
Attached 3 car garage | Professionally landscaped yard French doors open to wrap around terrace
Proximity to Palo Alto | Menlo Park Schools Offered at $7,495,000 www.100Toyon.com
Nathalie de Saint Andrieu 650.804.9696 www.nathaliesa.com nathaliesa@pacunion.com CalBRE# 01351482
OP E N S U N DAY 1:30 – 4:30 p.m. 472 SAND HILL CIRCLE M E N L O
P A R K
Multi-level, end unit townhome overlooking the fairways of the Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club 3 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms Approximately 2,070 square feet (buyer to confirm) Beautiful hardwood floors and plantation shutters throughout Attached 2-car garage Private setting with spacious garden patio outlined with redwood trees Community pool and spa Excellent Las Lomitas schools (buyer to confirm)
Offered at $1,695,000
www.472SandHillCircle.com
650.740.2970
Coldwell Banker International President’s Premier Top 1% Internationally
edemma@cbnorcal.com erikademma.com
Top US Realtor, The Wall Street Journal, 2013
CalBRE# 01230766
OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY & SUNDAY October 11 & 12, 1:30 – 4:30pm
111L R ake
• Remodeled country home with sweeping canyon and Bay views • Elevated above the street for optimum privacy and views, yet with level lawn for play • Flexible floor plan with 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom • Lot size of one-quarter acre (approximately 10,890 square feet) • Approximately 1,610 square feet of living space • The dramatic great room is the focal point of the home, with sophisticated country flair integrating living, dining, and kitchen; pine finishes the towering cathedral ceiling and floors throughout
oad PORTOLA VALLEY
• The chef ’s kitchen is fabulously appointed with a huge butcherblock island and elevated breakfast bar; fine cherry wood cabinetry on the perimeter is topped in granite with tiled backsplashes • Stainless steel appliances, all by Thermador, include a gas range with 6 burners and oven, dishwasher, and built-in refrigerator • Top-rated Portola Valley schools (buyer to confirm enrollment
Offered at $1,498,000 Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
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DEAN ASBORNO Portola Valley Specialist Direct 650.255.2147 dean@asborno.com
Virtual Tour at: DeanAsborno.com
CalBRE #01274816
An Optimized Life Thursday, October 23, 2014 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Ken DeLeon is Silicon Valley’s top Realtor and consistently ranks in the top of our nation. Additionally, Ken is a motivational speaker who has given keynote speeches to thousands while sharing the stage with Tony Robbins and others. At this seminar, Ken will share three tragedies that nearly took his life, and the many invaluable lessons he learned during his recoveries. Whether beating cancer, recovering from a horrific accident that made national news, or learning powerful lessons from his sister’s suicide, Ken has used tragedy as a springboard to greater wisdom and self-confidence, creating the life he wants to live. Ken does not fear death, only mediocrity. He looks forward to sharing his inspiration and drive with the seminar audience. Ken is amazingly thankful for all that Silicon Valley has given him. In addition to donating over $100,000 to local schools this year, Ken hopes this seminar, like his talks at local schools, will give back to the community he loves so much. Please come to learn more about how Ken accomplishes his goals and achieves an exceptional life.
Palo Alto Hills
Golf & Country Club
Palo Alto Hills Golf & Country Club, Grand Ballroom 3000 Alexis Drive, Palo Alto
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A Luxury Collection By Intero Real Estate Services.
Cascade Ranch, Davenport
6 Quail Meadow Drive, Woodside
5 Betty Lane, Atherton
$25,000,000
$22,800,000
Price Upon Request
Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305
Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Greg Goumas Lic.#01242399, 00709019, 01878208
Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas and Karen Gunn Lic.#0187820, 01804568
280 Family Farm, Woodside
25 Oakhill Drive, Woodside
10800 Magdalena, Los Altos Hills
$9,998,000
$8,750,000
$6,995,000
Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305
Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305
Listing Provided by: Cutty Smith & Melissa Lindt, Lic.#01444081, 01469863
13195 Glenshire Drive, Truckee
12733 Dianne Drive, Los Altos Hills
302 Atherton Avenue, Atherton
$6,398,000
$5,995,000
Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#01878208
Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#01878208
Listing Provided by: Denise Villeneuve, Lic.#01794615
12390 Hilltop Drive, Los Altos Hills
195 Brookwood Road, Woodside
38 Hacienda Drive, Woodside
$6,900,000
$5,249,000
$3,995,000
Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#01878208
Listing Provided by: Virginia Supnet, Lic.#01370434
$4,495,000 Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Lic.#01242399, 00709019,
PENDING
5721 Arboretum Drive, Los Altos $3,888,888 Listing Provided by: Gail Sanders & Denise Villeneuve Lic.#01253357 & 01794615
850 Vista Hill Terrace, Fremont
932 Governors Bay Drive, Redwood City
$3,700,000
$1,850,000
Listing Provided by: Albert Garibaldi, Lic.#01321299
Listing Provided by: Andrea Kohler, Lic.#01743299
See the complete collection
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Cascade Ranch 3100 Cabrillo Highway, Davenport, CA
Surrounded by Open Space and California State Parks. Overlooking Ano Nuevo State Park, one of the largest mainland breeding colonies in the world for the northern elephant seal. Heritage Redwoods, inhabit a beautiful section of the land. There are 7 parcels, all with spectacular views. This is a Once in a Lifetime Opportunity.
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The property is great for: * Someone who is looking to secure a large piece of California to maintain its natural beauty or create a retreat center or a uniquely private residence. *Someone who may be willing to donate the land to the State or Open Space. If combined with the current state trails this would make the longest coastal trail in California.
Offered At $25,000,000
Approx. 658 Acre Lot 7 Parcels Spectacular Views
Dana Cappiello, REALTOR®
415.264.5464
dana.cappiello@yahoo.com www.DanaCappiello.com Lic.#01343305
2014 Intero Real Estate Services Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and a wholly owned subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc. All rights reserved. All information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. This is not intended as a solicitation if you are listed with another broker.
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15003 Osborne Court Morgan Hill, CA
YOUR DELEON TEAM IN PALO ALTO Palo Alto 2014: $65,538,501 Sold/Pending/Active
EXPERTISE: Local Knowledge Global Marketing Professional Advice Comprehensive Solutions Exceptional Results
Luxurious Country Living This elegant single-story estate home nestled in the prestigious Paradise Valley of Morgan Hill boasts 4,706 square feet of living area with 4 huge bedrooms and 4 delightful bathrooms. The 2.4 acre lot with lush green landscaping, the 54 elegant Italian cypress trees, the heated pool and spa, and the oversize patio make this home both a perfect retreat and an entertainment delight. Meticulously designed Brazilian cherry wood floors, marble and granite, plus numerous luxurious amenities will surely please the most distinguished owners.
Offered At: $2,295,000
The True Team Approach to Real Estate
Surpassing Your Expectations
www.15003OsborneCt.com
Lynne Tran, MBA, REALTOR® Intero’s President Circle Top 5%
408.891.7978
www.HomesbyLynneTran.com
ltran@interorealestate.com Lic No. 01293229
2014 Intero Real Estate Services Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and a wholly owned subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc. All rights reserved. All information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. This is not intended as a solicitation if you are listed with another broker.
DeLeon Realty Inc. CalBRE 01903224
650-581-9899 650-513-8669 Homes@DeleonRealty.com www.DeLeonRealty.com
Appointment Only 128 AUDIFFRED LANE
WO ODSIDE
• Superb location just a block away to Woodside School and downtown • One-level floor plan, almost entirely remodeled • Beautiful view of the western hills • 5 bedrooms and 3 bedrooms • Attached 2-car garage
• Sparkling pool in a very private setting • One one-half acre • Excellent Woodside School OFFERED at $3,295,000
www.128Audiffred.com
650-740-2970 edemma@cbnorcal.com erikademma.com
Coldwell Banker International President’s Premier Top 1% Internationally Top US Realtor Wall Street Journal,2013
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Erika DEmma CalBRE#01230766
1066 41st Ave, Capitola
Helping You find the Home of Your Dreams! Are you looking to move by the beach in the Santa Cruz, specifically Capitola Beach area? I have 1 Beautiful 1 bedroom/ 1 bathroom large condo in the heart of Capitola, walking distance to Capitola Beach Village and the beach. Premium quality european finishes, eco friendly features, sleek & modern
design. Built in 2008. No need to drive anywhere. Sandy Beaches, Surf Spots, Spa and all inclusive gym next door, grocery stores, Department stores and some Santa Cruz Counties finest restaurants are just around the corner. Below Market rate value. These are Measure O units. Easy to get you qualified. Requirement is you make 73,000 or below as a single buyer and 83,000 or below for two persons annually. CALL FAITH SACKETT TODAY! Only 1 left!
831-251-1557 American Dream Realty 1041 41st Ave. Santa Cruz, CA 95062 (831) 251-1557 Fax: (831) 464-0565 faith@adrhomes.com www.coastalbayrealestate.com
Faith Sackett • Realtor www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • October 10, 2014 • Page 63
251 Tennyson, Palo Alto
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n absolute jewel in sought-after Old Palo Alto, this picture-perfect home has it all – a spacious three-level floor plan, a bright and light traditional ambiance, and private rear grounds for entertaining or play. Gorgeous hardwood floors and new carpet extend throughout, complementing the neutral palette of the freshly painted interiors, while expansive windows, numerous French doors, and a skylight fill the home with natural light at every turn. A dedicated office, plus custom study centers in two of the five bedrooms, a huge recreation room, and a wonderful kitchen and family room combination are just some of the home’s fine amenities. The floor plan works especially well for large families and easily accommodates au pair or extended family quarters on the lower level. A heated barbecue terrace, manicured landscaping, and exceptional privacy beckon year-round outdoor living. Adding the finishing touch is the home’s superb location just over one mile to vibrant downtown Palo Alto and close proximity to top-rated schools, Stanford University, and tech centers.
Offered at $5,980,000
TERRIE MASUDA 650.917.7969
terrie@terriemasuda.com www.terriemasuda.com CalBRE #00951976
161 S. San Antonio Rd., Los Altos CA
Just Li sted
Exquisite Craftsman Home in Sought After Community Center Open Sat & Sun 1:30 - 4:30pm
1051 Parkinson Avenue Palo Alto
Premier location near Walter Hays E;ementary, Lucie Stern Community
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Exquisitely appointed custom home built in 2001
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Spacious 6 bd/4 ba floor plan offers 4,100± sf of elegant living space
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Lower level features large media room & kitchenette area
Extensive fine millwork throughout including Brazilian hardwood floors
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High ceilings, custom window treatments & dual zoned heating & AC
www.1051Parkinson.com
Offered at $5,250,000
Christy Giuliacci 650.380.5989 christy@apr.com BRE #01506761
Sherry Bucolo 650.207.9909 Sbucolo@apr.com BRE #00613242
OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY
13430 Country Way, Los Altos Hills
Price Upon Request
6bd + Office /6ba | 6905+/-sf on 3.37+/-acres | Top-rated Palo Alto schools!
JeffandSteve.com
Jeff Stricker
Broker & Attorney 650.823.8057 jstricker@apr.com
Steve TenBroeck
Broker, President’s Club 650.450.0160 stenbroeck@apr.com
#1 Realtor Team in Los Altos and Palo Alto Combined Homes Sold During 2013
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OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY
$2,398,000
181 Yerba Santa Avenue, Los Altos
4bd | 2ba | Newly Remodeled on a 13,376+/-sf lot | Near the Village!
JeffandSteve.com
Jeff Stricker
Broker & Attorney 650.823.8057 jstricker@apr.com
Steve TenBroeck
Broker, President’s Club 650.450.0160 stenbroeck@apr.com
#1 Realtor Team in Los Altos and Palo Alto Combined Homes Sold During 2013
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Luxurious Mediterranean Home in Sought-After Midtown
Offered at $4,650,000 Beds 6 | Baths 4 | Home ±3,782 sf | Lot ±7,084 sf Attached 2-Car Garage
3318 Waverley Street, Palo Alto | 3318waverley.com Newly constructed just six years ago, this beautiful Mediterranean style home is built to last, with the highest quality materials and craftsmanship. Designer features abound, including rich hardwood floors, artisan tile, stone and stained glass, and crown molding throughout the home. • Custom Mediterranean home built in 2008
• Whole-home audio system • Attached 2-car garage • Beautifully landscaped with very private rear yard • Easy access to parks, commuter routes, Stanford University, and shopping at the Midtown Center • Excellent Palo Alto schools: El Carmelo Elementary, Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle, and Gunn High (buyer to confirm)
• Desirable Midtown neighborhood of Palo Alto • Hardwood floors throughout • Tremendous kitchen and family room plus large lower-level media/ recreation room
Ranked by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top realtors in the nation
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Downtown Palo Alto 728 Emerson Street, Palo Alto
(I’m Proficient in Chinese)
Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated.
Julie Tsai Law 蔡湘琴 Broker Associate, CRS, MBA, SRES 650.799.8888 | Julie@JulieTsaiLaw.com JulieTsaiLaw.com License No. 01339682
Local Knowledge • National Exposure • Global Reach
40 La Loma Drive, Menlo Park Light and open design centrally located in prestigious Sharon Heights!
Open Sat & Sun 1:30-4:30pm
• 4 bedrooms (including Master Suite); 3 full bathrooms • Approximately 2,240 total square feet • Lot size approximately 11,900 square feet • Updated kitchen with granite countertops and breakfast bar, stainless steel appliances and custom cabinetry • Great Room with unobstructed views to expansive, private rear yard • Large patio and mature, landscaped rear yard for entertaining • Excellent Menlo Park Schools: Las Lomitas, La Entrada, Menlo-Atherton High School
Offered at $2,098,000
R ich & Robin SequeiRa BRE #00529902, #01006142
(650) 867-3552 cell
www.R ich a ndRobin.com
apr.com | MENLO PARK 1550 El Camino Real, Suite 100 | 650.462.1111
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Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
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1080 VIA MALIBU, APTOS
Open Saturday & Sunday, 1:30 - 4:30PM La Casa Serena--Ultimate California Dreaming
www.1080ViaMalibu.com
BEDS 3 | BATHS 3.5 | GAME ROOM | HOME 3,336± sq ft | LOT 10,542± sq ft
Atop a bluff, yet just a few steps to a wide and welcoming sandy beach, 1080 Via Malibu, in Aptos, La Casa Serena, appeals on so many levels. A short drive from the Silicon Valley, but a world apart! Its location is ideal, in a beautiful welcoming neighborhood of consistently high quality homes, offering 180 degree ocean views, but stepped up one level from the beach, blending privacy with easy and convenient beach access a few steps away. Spectacular views abound. Watch the whales, savor the sunsets, enjoy the epitome in California living. This beautifully updated and well-maintained home with a lower level game room and sparking pool provides a perfect second home retreat, or spectacular full-time living experience. What a treat to live in paradise! It is everyone’s fantasy!
OFFERED AT $2,375,000
LYNN WILSON ROBERTS
(650) 255.6987
ePRO, GREEN, QSC, SRES, CRS, ASP Distressed Property Certified
lwr@wilsonroberts.com www.LynnWilsonRoberts.com
“Empathy, Creativity and Experience”
CalBRE# 01814885
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Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
2282 C olumbia S t., P alo A lto Exquisitely Restored and Renovated 1890s Victorian.
A Labor of Love Executed to Perfection
O P E N S AT U R D AY F R O M 1:30-4:30 PM
Old world charm, character, and craftsmanship
• Four spacious bedrooms – Master suite with private balcony • Three full bathrooms – Newly built with quality and class • Stunning chef’s kitchen with top of the line appliances, marble countertops, and cozy breakfast nook • Light-filled formal living room • Separate dining room with fireplace • Grand formal entry • Large family room right off the kitchen • Loads of period details restored to perfection • Excellent Palo Alto Schools • 2,860sq. feet living space approx. • 7,625 sq. foot lot approx.
O F F E R E D AT
$3,599,000
3423 Cork Oak Way, Palo Alto Spacious and Light-‐Filled Atrium Eichler
O P E N S U N D AY F R O M 1:30-4:30 PM
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Unique and Highly Desirable Floor Plan
• Five bedrooms – Master suite with walk-in closet • Two and one half bathrooms – Rarely available in Eichler’s • Living room/dining room combination with walls of windows overlooking backyard • Light and bright “Family Kitchen” seamlessly flows into the backyard • Large backyard with inviting swimming pool, mature landscaping and ample room for entertainment and play • Welcoming and serene atrium entry • Located in the much sought after Los Arboles neighborhood – Quiet and low traffic streets – Underground utilities – Near parks, schools, new library, and shopping LISTED BY Timothy Foy BRE# 00849721
• Excellent Palo Alto Schools including Gunn High School • 2,057 sq. feet living space approx. O F F E R E D AT • 8,308 sq. foot lot approx.
Cell: 650.387.5078
$2,495,000
Tim@midtownpaloalto.com
Midtown Realty, Inc. • 2775 Middlefield Road • Phone: 650.321.1596 • WWW.MIDTOWNPALOALTO.COM
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YOUR DELEON TEAM IN CONDOS
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• Valuable Market Insight • Strategic Negotiation • Professional Advice and Service • Local Condo Community Knowledge
The True Team Approach to Real Estate
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In prime Garland neighborhood, bright and spacious home, remodeled with quality and attention to details. 4 bedrooms plus den/nursery. New kitchen (Sub-Zero, Thermador, cherry wood cabinets) and bathrooms. Gleaming hardwood floors throughout. Upstairs: master bedroom overlooking the garden, elegant bathroom, large 2nd bedroom, den/nursery, laundry room (could be remodeled into a bathroom), storage galore. The main floor offers a separate living room, two bedrooms (one accessing the backyard), chef’s kitchen with bar open to the family and dining rooms, flowing to the beautifully landscaped garden to entertain and play. Easy Palo Alto living. Walk to Jordan Middle School. Shop at Town & Country or Midtown. Close to all commute routes. Approx. 2,500 sq. ft. on a 6,380 sq. ft fenced lot. Excellent schools.
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SERENO GROUP IS BUILDING CONFIDENCE
The Westwind 4-H riding program provides horseback riding lessons to children with physical disabilities ranging from 5 to 19 years old. Their program helps children build confidence, develop balance and coordination, and have freedom of mobility not usually available to the handicapped. Sereno Group has proudly teamed up with the Westwind 4-H Riding for the Handicapped to fund and provide support in their services to the youth of our community. Learn more about the Westwind 4-H Riding program at www.westwind4h.org
DURING THE MONTHS OF OCTOBER THROUGH DECEMBER 2014, SERENO GROUP AND ITS LOS ALTOS AGENTS WILL BE CONTRIBUTING 1% OF THEIR GROSS COMMISSIONS TO THE WESTWIND 4-H RIDING FOR THE HANDICAPPED FUND.
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Serving the Bay Area for nearly 50 years, Silicon Valley FACES is a nonprofit organization building a community free of bias, bigotry and violence. They transform youth into positive community leaders by eliminating barriers of ethnicity, gender, and culture and provide services for victims of violent crime. In Fiscal Year 2014, they provided educational programs to over 2,930 students and served over 7,200 victims of violent crime. Sereno Group is proud to support the commitment and service that FACES provides to the youth of our community. For more information about their program or how you can get involved, please visit www.svfaces.org
DURING THE MONTHS OF OCTOBER THROUGH DECEMBER 2014, SERENO GROUP AND ITS PALO ALTO AGENTS WILL BE CONTRIBUTING 1% OF THEIR GROSS COMMISSIONS TO THE SILICON VALLEY FACES FUND.
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STUNNING PORTOLA VALLEY RANCH WITH WINDY HILL VIEWS Nestled within the Portola Valley Ranch, a peaceful community with its own boutique vineyard and duck pond, stretching over 350 acres with a private residential park and nature preserve. Surrounded by interwoven trails, Windy Hill, Foothill Park, there are miles of outdoor activities such as riding, hiking and jogging, available for your enjoyment all year round. This amazing two-level residence opens to an impressive formal entry with vaulted ceilings accented with exposed wood beams, large skylights and hardwood flooring extending to the great room ensemble and contemporary chef’s kitchen. Designed with an indoor/outdoor California lifestyle, the casual living areas and bedroom quarters easily flow out to the rear verandas capturing the spectacular hilltop and Windy Hill views, ideal for outdoor entertainment and relaxation.
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3 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms 2,620± square feet is situated on 0.46± acres* Short distance to excellent schools
www.4IndianCrossing.com
OFFERED AT $2,395,000 Square footage information contained herein has been received from seller, existing reports, public records and/or other sources deemed reliable. However, neither seller nor listing agent has verified this information. If this information is important buyer should conduct buyer’s own investigation. Information deemed reliable, but not guaranteed. CalBRE# 01143296
2158 JARDIN DRIVE, MOUNTAIN VIEW
TWILIGHT TOUR - FRIDAY 4:30 - 7:30PM OPEN HOUSE SAT & SUN 1:00- 5:00PM
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elcome home to this charming bungalow in the desirable Miramonte neighborhood with outstanding schools. Centrally located, the light-filled and open floor plan is beautifully appointed with large picture windows overlooking the expansive rear grounds, new flooring and an updated kitchen with new appliances. Within walking distance to the chic downtown Los Altos’ restaurants, shops, library, and San Antonio Village, this a is great opportunity as a starter home with the added bonus of Los Altos High School. 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom 1,006± square feet ■ 6,030± square foot lot Bubb Elementary, Graham Middle and Los Altos High
OFFERED AT $1,198,000 www.2158Jardin.com
SHELLY ROBERSON 23+ Years Licensed CA Realtor ■ 600+ Closed Transactions
(650) 464-3797 sroberson@apr.com www.ShellyRoberson.com CalBRE# 01143296 Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
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A Contemporary Mediterranean Home on the Woodside Horse Trails Awaits You! 17125 Skyline Blvd, Woodside
Beds 4 Baths 4 .5 | 3,350 SF total living Space Asking price $2,395,000 Open Sunday 1-4
Spacious Tuscan Home in Emerald Hills perfect for resort-style entertaining! 626 Lombardy Way, Emerald Hills
Beds 5 4.5 Baths Asking price $3,088,000 Open Sunday 1-4
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Entryway
Many windows at the façade and a solid wood and glass front door painted in plum showcase the quality workmanship and dynamic design found throughout. Enter a solid wood, plum colored door, emblematic of consistent quality custom workmanship. The entry, peppered with dormer windows, sheds stunning natural light that flows throughout the house.
At a Glance
• 5 bedroom, 3.5 bath main home offering approximately 3,680 sq. ft. • Separate office, bedroom and bath, and garage totaling approximately 880 sq. ft. • Approximately 21,800 sq. ft. lot • Custom-built in 1999 • Top-quality construction including maple floors and built-ins, Valli & Valli hardware, fitted window treatments • Laundry center plumbed for dual washer and dryer sets with a laundry chute from upstairs • Solar panels, alarm system, separate HVAC for main and outside structures • Expansive level grounds with an entertainment terrace, lawn, assorted fruit trees and raised vegetable beds, gardening shed, and gated parking • Ample space for a pool, expansion, etc. • Santa Rita Elementary (API 941), Egan Middle (API 976), Los Altos High (API 895) (buyer to verify eligibility)
650-917-5811 Direct terricouture.com terri.couture@cbnorcal.com CalBRE #01090940
• 5 bedroom, 3.5 bath main home offering approximately 3,680 sq. ft. • 2 room, full bath, separate cottage with granite, built-ins, flexibility galore, connected to garage, an additional 880 sq. ft. • Approximately 21,800 sq. ft. lot • Built to spec in 1999 • Custom, commercial grade construction with maple floors, complementing an array of built-ins, Valli & Valli hardware, fitted window treatments • Laundry center plumbed for two, dual washer and dryer sets, fed through second floor laundry chute • 7 KW solar panels, alarm system, separate HVAC in main and outside structures • Manicured grounds with entertainment terrace, lawn, assorted fruit trees, raised vegetable beds, gardening shed, gated parking • Ample space for pool, expansion, etc.
Offered at $4,495,000
Top 1% Coldwell Banker
4 PETER COUTTS DRIVE, STANFORD
Open House This Saturday & Sunday, 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. Soaring Ceilings and Cozy Loft Highlight this Move In Ready Beautifully Renovated 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath Condominium Available to Stanford Qualified Faculty and Staff Only Dramatic living room,with clerestory windows and wood burning fireplace, provides tree top views in this sun filled home. Dining room brings the outdoors in through picture window and skylight. The tastefully updated kitchen features new quartz countertops, dishwasher, stove, microwave and recessed lighting. Fresh paint and carpet throughout, new tile flooring in kitchen and baths. A must see opportunity for easy Campus living.
Offered at $829,000
www.4PeterCoutts.com
Carole Feldstein
Shari Ornstein
Two Distinguished Realtors Two Renowned Companies One Outstanding Team
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monicacorman.com A rare opportunity to live creekside on Bay Laurel Drive, one of the most desirable locations in Menlo Park. The home is optimized for indoor-outdoor living in a very private setting that is luxurious and contemporary. The craftsmanship and architectural detail harken a different era, rarely seen in new construction. The bright main level features a formal living room, dining room, three bedrooms and two and one-half baths. A gourmet chef’s kitchen opens to a great room and an extraordinary, private outdoor living space. Upstairs is a grand master bedroom suite with large out-door deck. Recently completed in 2014, the backyard living space features a custom built infinity-edge spa, gas fire pit and built-in ipe wood seating. A large arbor, crafted with hand-forged steel and reclaimed barnwood, features commercial-grade heat lamps for year-round enjoyment.
www.1745BayLaurel.com
OPEN SUNDAY, OCT. 12 1745 BAY LAUREL DRIVE, MENLO PARK 1:30 - 4:30 PM
4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths Approximately 3260 sq. feet Lot size is 10,000 sq. feet
Offered at $3,995,000
Information deemed reliable, but not guaranteed. Sq. ft. and/or acreage information contained herein has been received from seller, existing reports, appraisals, public records and/or other sources deemed reliable. Neither seller nor listing agent has verified this information. If this information is important to buyer in determining whether to buy or the purchase price, buyer should conduct buyer’s own investigation. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • October 10, 2014 • Page 83
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• Contemporary styling, eleven-foot ceilings, hardwood floors, designer finishes • Close to downtown Mountain View; just one block from restaurants and shops on Castro Street
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Susan Sherwood
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408.315.9249 ssherwood@pacificpeninsula.com
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3 Bedrooms - Condominium
3 Bedrooms 1080 Via Malibu Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
$2,375,000 323-1111
ATHERTON
472 Sand Hill Cir Sun Coldwell Banker 184 Sand Hill Cir Sun Coldwell Banker
5 Bedrooms $1,695,000 851-2666 $1,795,000 851-2666
4 Bedrooms
4 Bedrooms 93 Watkins Av $2,095,000 Sat/Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200
5 Bedrooms 302 W Atherton Av $5,995,000 Sun Intero Real Estate Services 543-7740
5 Bedrooms 100 Toyon Rd Sun Pacific Union
$7,495,000 314-7200
BELMONT 2 Bedrooms 49 Ralston Ranch Rd Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty
$998,000 543-8500
204 University Dr $3,695,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161 1065 Ringwood Av $999,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456 135 O’Connor St $2,498,000 Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111 1745 Bay Laurel Dr $3,995,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 730 Monte Rosa Dr $2,199,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200 431 Oak Ct $1,998,000 Sun 1-4 Realty World-BPV 961-6179 221 Laurel St $2,295,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 323-7751
4 Bedrooms
BURLINGAME
40 La Loma Drive $2,098,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel, Realtors 462-1111
2 Bedrooms - Condominium
5 Bedrooms
1499 Oak Grove Av #401 $998,000 Sat 1-4/Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker 851-2666
5 Bedrooms 1148 Bernal Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker
$2,749,000 323-7751
2308 Crest Lane Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker
$4,500,000 323-7751
MOUNTAIN VIEW 2 Bedrooms - Condominium
LOS ALTOS
620 Mariposa Ave #3 $749,000 Sat/Sun 2-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141
4 Bedrooms
3 Bedrooms
181 Yerba Santa Av Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
$2,398,000 941-1111
318 Bryant St $1,848,000 Sun 1-5 Pacific Peninsula Group 323-7900
4 Bedrooms $3,188,000 323-1111
6 Bedrooms 13430 Country Way Call for price Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 941-1111
MENLO PARK
PALO ALTO 2 Bedrooms - Condominium 770 Bryant St Sun Coldwell Banker 4 Peter Coutts Dr. Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
$1,295,000 851-1961 $829,000 323-1111
3 Bedrooms - Condominium
2 Bedrooms 1135 Almanor $525,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Bay Area Dream Homes (510) 669-1177
3 Bedrooms 128 Blackburn Av Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker
$1,449,000 324-4456
1255 Trinity Dr Sun Coldwell Banker
$1,795,000 851-1961
3 Bedrooms 417 Shirley Way Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker
$1,198,000 323-1111
3 Bedrooms - Condominium
LOS ALTOS HILLS 12195 Altamont Ct Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
2158 Jardin Dr Sat/Sun 1-5 Alain Pinel Realtors
$1,450,000 325-6161
1037 Almanor Ave $1,388,000 Sat/Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141
4173 El Camino Real #46 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker
$1,250,000 324-4456
4 Bedrooms 3139 David Ct $2,198,000 Sun Deleon Realty 543-8500 731 De Soto Dr $2,788,000 Sun Deleon Realty 543-8500 2282 Columbia St $3,599,000 Sat Midtown Realty 321-1596 427 Lincoln $3,995,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161 2331 Ross Road $2,398,000 Sat/Sun 12-5 Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111
445 Maple St Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker
$5,995,000 325-6161
536 Gerona Rd $3,500,000 Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141 953 Roble Ridge Rd $5,898,000 Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474 3423 Cork Oak Wy Sun Midtown Realty
$2,495,000 321-1596
2620 Marshall Dr $4,398,000 Sat/Sun 1:30-5 Coldwell Banker 325-6161
6 Bedrooms
607 Lakemead Wy Sun
Coldwell Banker
399 Sequoia Av
$1,650,000
3601 Country Club Dr
$1,400,000
Sun
Coldwell Banker
SAN CARLOS 4 Bedrooms
6 Bedrooms
SAN JOSE
$1,895,000 851-2666
3 Bedrooms 170 Cherokee Wy $3,300,000 Sun Cowperthwaite & Company 851-8030 303 Wyndham Dr Sun Coldwell Banker
$2,200,000 325-6161
281 Gabarda Wy Sun Coldwell Banker
$2,195,000 324-4456
111 Lake Rd Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker
$1,498,000 851-1961
3 Bedrooms 4 Indian Crossing Sun 1-5 Alain Pinel Realtors
Coldwell Banker
$2,395,000 323-1111
4 Bedrooms
$1,988,000
323-7751
2 Bedrooms Sun 11-5
2 Bedrooms 377 Wayside Rd Sun Coldwell Banker
Sun
403 S 12th St
PORTOLA VALLEY
324-4456
Sat 1-4/Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker 323-7751
27 Madera Av
$5,250,000 323-1111
851-2666
5 Bedrooms
3318 Waverley St $4,650,000 Sat/Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474 1051 Parkinson Ave Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
$1,599,000
Coldwell Banker
$599,000 325-6161
3 Bedrooms - Townhouse 410 Galleria Dr #14
$789,888
1295 Mokelumne Pl
$998,000
Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker
325-6161
323-7751
4 Bedrooms 4030 Altadena Ln Sat
Coldwell Banker
$875,000 325-6161
SAN MATEO 3 Bedrooms 1129 Tanglewood Wy
Sat/Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker
$1,349,000
323-7751
6 Blue Oaks Ct $5,495,000 Sun 2-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO
330 Dedalera Dr Sun Coldwell Banker
$2,650,000 851-1961
3 Bedrooms
1 Portola Green Ci Sun Deleon Realty
$3,988,000 543-8500
Sun
5 Bedrooms 99 Stonegate Rd Sun Deleon Realty
$3,788,000 543-8500
REDWOOD CITY $725,000 851-2666
3 Bedrooms 1301 Harrison Av Sun Coldwell Banker
$1,298,000 851-1961
463 Beresford Av $1,449,000 Sun 1-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200
4 Bedrooms 830 Mohican Wy Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker
Coldwell Banker
$1,495,000 851-2666
$710,000
323-7751
WOODSIDE 2 Bedrooms 515 Moore Rd Sat/Sun
2 Bedrooms 1345 Norman St Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker
1 Sunrise Ct
Coldwell Banker
$3,595,000
851-2666
3 Bedrooms 230 Grandview Dr Sun
Coldwell Banker
$1,428,000
851-2666
4 Bedrooms 650 W Glen Wy Sun
Coldwell Banker
$2,496,000
851-2666
6 Bedrooms 38 Hacienda Dr Sun
$4,495,000
Intero Real Estate Services 206-6200
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115 Announcements Did You Know that not only does newspaper media reach a HUGE Audience, they also reach an ENGAGED AUDIENCE. Discover the Power of Newspaper Advertising. For a free brochure call 916-288-6011 or email cecelia@cnpa.com (Cal-SCAN) Did You Know 144 million U.S. Adults read a Newspaper print copy each week? Discover the Power of Newspaper Advertising. For a free brochure call 916-288-6011 or email cecelia@cnpa.com (Cal-SCAN) Did You Know Newspaper-generated content is so valuable it’s taken and repeated, condensed, broadcast, tweeted, discussed, posted, copied, edited, and emailed countless times throughout the day by others? Discover the Power of Newspaper Advertising. For a free brochure call 916-288-6011 or email cecelia@cnpa.com (Cal-SCAN) Did You Know 7 IN 10 Americans or 158 million U.S. Adults read content from newspaper media each week? Discover the Power of Newspaper Advertising. For a free brochure call 916-288-6011 or email cecelia@cnpa.com (Cal-SCAN) Pregnant? Thinking of adoption? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families Nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions. 866-413-6293. Void in Illinois/New Mexico/Indiana (AAN CAN) Pregnant? Considering adoption? Call us first. Living expenses, housing, medical, and continued support afterwards. Choose adoptive family of your choice. Call 24/7. 1-877-879-4709 (Cal-SCAN)
130 Classes & Instruction Airline Careers begin here - Get trained as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-725-1563 (AAN CAN) 8-Week Mindful Parenting Series Art School of SF Bay German Language Classes Instruction for Hebrew Bar and Bat Mitzvah. For Affiliated and Unaffiliated. George Rubin, M.A. in Hebrew/Jewish Education 650/424-1940
133 Music Lessons Christina Conti Private Piano Instruction (650) 493-6950 Hope Street Music Studios In downtown Mtn.View. Most Instruments voice. All ages & levels 650-961-2192 www. HopeStreetMusicStudios.com
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Donate Your Car, Truck, Boat to Heritage for the Blind. Free 3 Day Vacation, Tax Deductible, Free Towing, All Paperwork Taken Care Of. 800-731-5042. (Cal-SCAN)
210 Garage/Estate Sales
Mind & Body 403 Acupuncture Ivy Acupuncture and Herb Clinic
LA: 655 Magdalena Ave. 10/17, 10-5; 10/18, 10-4 United Methodist Church Harvest Craft Faire. 55 artisans plus garden and gourmet shops. Coffee, snacks, lunch. At Foothill Expy. PA: 224 Webster St., 10/11, 8:30-2 Moving. Furn., hsehold., rugs, plants, BBQs, art, linens, glassware, books, elec. wheelchair
Palo Alto, 4000 Middlefield Road, Oct. 11 & 12, 10-4 Palo Alto, 50 Embarcadero Rd., Oct 11 Portola Valley, 130 E. Floresta Way, Oct. 11 8:00am-1:00pm Music Lessons at Opus 1 Music Private & Group Piano, Violin, Guitar, Voice Lessons for All Ages. Mountain View & Palo Alto Locations. Call 650.625.9955 or visit www.musicopus1.com
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415 Classes Mixed-Level Belly Dance Classes
425 Health Services Safe Step Walk-in Tub Alert for Seniors. Bathroom falls can be fatal. Approved by Arthritis Foundation. Therapeutic Jets. Less Than 4 Inch StepIn. Wide Door. Anti-Slip Floors. American Made. Installation Included. Call 800-799-4811 for $750 Off. (Cal-SCAN)
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Cash for Diabetic Test Strips and Stop Smoking items. Unexpired! Free Shipping, Best Prices, 24hr Payment. Hablamos Espanol. Call 888-440-4001 www.TestStripSearch.com. (AAN CAN) Piano lessons in Menlo Park Experienced piano teacher. Reasonable rates. All levels, all ages welcome. (650)838-9772
Fine Art Show—Bay Area Artists Cafe Zoe Redwood City presents Bay Area artists: Cynthia Hamilton, Hilary Mills, Massimo Mazzon, Mark Nardini in a compelling and glamorous exhibit. Pieces include figurative, landscapes and stills. Must see! Where: 2074 Broadway st., Redwood City, 94063 When: Thru October 19th Painting by Massimo Mazzon Shown
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135 Group Activities Scottish Dancing Palo Alto Thanks St Jude
145 Non-Profits Needs Dancers Needed
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Computer Vimo, Inc. (dba Getinsured.com) in Mountain View seeks Database Architect to provide entrpise-wde. DB sol. for Eng./Prod. Supp. teams, involves sys. study, def./des. logic. & phys. dsgn.; Instll./config./supp. prdction. DB sys. & des./deply. oracle prodcts.; Prov. DB User Mngmnt.; Mon./diag. DB prfrmnce. issues; Des./ bld./deply. Datawarehouse DB. Res. To K. Shaw, Vimo, Inc., 1305 Terra Bella Ave., Mountain View, CA 94043. Dry Cleaners Counter Person We are a family-owned dry cleaners located in downtown Los Altos looking for a full/part-time counter person. Flexible hours/No experience necessary/ Good communication/Bright cheery persons/$10 start DOE/*Must be available Saturdays If interested, please drop by our store between 10am and 6pm, M-F! Webtown Dry Cleaners: 227 First St. Los Altos 650-949-0880 Store Main 650-814-4874 Jin (Owner) German Teacher needed for Saturday School The German-American School of Palo Alto(Saturday School) is looking for new teachers for our Kindergarten and Elementary classes. Applicants should be native or nearnative speakers and have experience in teaching or working with children. Classes are in session from 9am -12noon 30 Saturdays per school year from Sept to May. For more information about our school, please visit: www.gaspa-ca.org If interested, please submit your resume to our Director of Education (preferably in German) to doe@gaspa-ca.org Medical office - part time Small pediatric medical office in Palo Alto needs part time 16-20 hours/ week in reception,scheduling, and data entry. Experience preferred but communication skills and cheerful personality are more important. We have an EHR and computer skills and typing are mandatory. Starting salary is a minimum of $20/hour. Must be precise and thorough and be able to multitask If interested send resume and two references to office@michaeltaymormd.com Technology xAd, inc. has the following position open in Mountain View, CA: Principal Software Engineer: Design and implement application/server software. To apply or for more information, please go to http://www.xad.com/ company/careers/jobs/ Technology Varian Medical Systems has openings in Palo Alto, CA for Programmer Analyst (Job 287). Define and document Varian’s development process, including standards and quality controls. Software QA Engineer (Job 236). Prepare Verification and Validation (V&V) protocols for new/modified software functionality of medical device. Mail resume to: Varian Medical Systems, Attn: DD M/S E154, 3100 Hansen Way, Palo Alto, CA 94304. Ref. job # above. EOE.
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Sports Shorts HALL OF FAME . . . Eight new members of the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame will be inducted Saturday, adding to a long and distinguished list of individuals honored at the school known as the Home of Champions. The inductees will be Nicole Barnhart ‘04 (women’s soccer), Notah Begay, III ‘95 (men’s golf), Toi Cook ‘87 (baseball and football), Laura Granville ‘02 (women’s tennis), A.J. Hinch ‘96 (baseball), Skip Kenney (men’s swimming coach), Anika Leerssen (sailing) and Heather Olson ‘99 (synchronized swimming). All of the inductees will be honored at a private reception and dinner at the Bing Concert Hall on Saturday, beginning at 6 p.m. The class also will be introduced at halftime of Stanford’s football game against Washington State Friday. Kickoff for that is 6 p.m.
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Gunn uses loss to gain a big victory Season-ending water polo setback to rival Paly in ‘13 spurs Titans to 16-12 triumph
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n his first season at head coach of the Gunn boys water polo team last year, Matt Johnson took the team to a place they hadn’t been since he played goalie for the Titans in 2005. Johnson guided Gunn to its first regular-season and playoff title in the SCVAL De Anza Division since 2005 and beat his brother
and Paly coach, Brandon, three times while doing so. While three was a charm for Matt, the brothers’ fourth meeting went to Brandon and the Vikings in the quarterfinals of the Central Coast Section Division I playoffs, 13-12 in overtime. That setback ended the Titans’ season and has stuck with them ever since. “That fourth game definitely
hurt,” Matt said. “We definitely wanted to redeem ourselves for that game.” Gunn did just that on Tuesday as it completed a perfect first half of the division season with a 16-12 dunking of visiting Palo Alto. “We wanted to finish the first half of the season on top,” said Matt, whose team improved to 6-0 (8-5 overall) with six matches
remaining before the postseason. Gunn went 12-0 last year, the first water polo team in school history — boys’ or girls’ — to compile that record. Johnson has the personnel to duplicate that feat, having lost only one starter — Coby Wayne — from a team that went 20-7. (continued on page 91)
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onsider it a bonus weekend. Some of the top college women’s tennis players in the nation will showcase their talents this Friday through Tuesday at Stanford. For the eighth straight season, Taube Family Tennis Stadium will serve as the host site for the USTA/ITA Northwest Regional Championships when play gets underway this weekend. Representing Stanford in both singles and doubles are: Taylor Davidson, Caroline Doyle, Krista Hardebeck, Lindsey Kostas, Ellen Tsay and Carol Zhao. Kristie Ahn defeated Jenny Jullien of St. Mary’s 6-4, 6-2 to capture the 2013 singles crown. It was the fourth consecutive year a (continued on next page)
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MISSING ACTION . . . The No. 15 Stanford men’s soccer team will be without the services of sophomore forward Jordan Morris this weekend, as he is part of the 21-player roster for the U.S. Under-23 Men’s National Team’s October camp in Brasilia. The group, which is beginning its early preparations for qualification toward the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, departed Thursday. Morris will miss Stanford’s home matches against San Diego State (last night) and No. 2 UCLA (Sunday, 5 p.m., Pac-12 Networks). The USA team, meanwhile, will train from Friday through Sunday before facing Brazil’s U-23 national team on Monday. “This is another fantastic honor for Jordan,” Stanford head coach Jeremy Gunn said. “Naturally, he’s desperate to be here this weekend, but playing for one’s country is a special opportunity. We’re excited for him to go and represent Stanford on a different field.” Morris has started all eight games in which he’s played this season for Stanford, tallying two goals and a team-high tying four assists. He’s averaging a point per game and is 23rd in the nation in assists (0.50/game). Earlier this season, Morris missed Stanford’s match at Omaha (Aug. 31) due to duties with the U.S. Men’s National Team. He was among 22 players called into camp by head coach Jurgen Klinsmann for the Sept. 3 friendly against the Czech Republic in Prague.
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nowing that Washington State’s record-setting quarterback Connor Halliday will throw the ball about 75 percent of the time won’t made defending him any easier. It will, however, give Stanford’s defensive backs the challenge of the season. “The ball is going to be thrown around a lot,” Cardinal strong safety Jordan Richards said. “There’s going to be a lot of opportunities for the defensive backs. It’s exciting when you know the ball will be in the air.” Friday night’s 6 p.m. kickoff (ESPN) between the 25th-ranked Cardinal (1-1 Pac-12, 3-2 overall) and unranked Cougars (1-2, 2-4) pits the top passing offense in (continued on next page)
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Stanford player had claimed the tournament hardware, following Krista Hardebeck (2012), Nicole Gibbs (2011) and Ahn (2010). Last year’s doubles final was an all-Stanford affair, with Davidson and Tsay edging Ahn and Zhao 8-6. It was the third doubles championship in as many years for Tsay, who teamed with Stacey Tan in 2011 and 2012. In addition to Stanford, the ITA’s Northwest Region schools are comprised of the following: California, Cal Poly, Eastern Washington, Fresno State, Gonzaga, Oregon, Pacific, Portland, Portland State, Sacramento State, St. Mary’s, San Francisco, San Jose State, Santa Clara, Seattle, UC Davis, Washington and Washington State. Friday’s action begins at 8:30 a.m. with the first two rounds of singles and the opening slate of doubles. The competition continues Saturday with two more rounds on both sides with the quarterfinals set for Sunday. Semifinals for singles and doubles are contested Monday, before the championship matches on Tuesday. The Stanford men’s tennis team, meanwhile, will send a handful of players to the Battle of the Bay, an individual tournament in San Francisco. Men’s golf Led by the sophomore Maverick McNealy, Stanford shot a 3-over 283 in the final round of the Nike Golf Collegiate Invitational to take second place behind Oregon at the storied par-70 Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas. On a day that yielded few scoring opportunities, Stanford tied for the lowest total on the day with first-place Oregon. Oregon’s Thomas Lim (-10) took home medalist honors, closing with a 1-over 71 for a 202, four shots ahead of McNealy. Unable to win his third tournament in a row to start the fall season, McNealy (71-66-69) overcame a stretch of four bogeys in five holes to finish with a 1-under 69, good for third place individually at 4-under for the 54-hole event. Stanford’s David Boote (72-7172) continued his steady play with a closing 72, enough for a top-10 finish in a tie for ninth. Teammate Viraat Badhwar (74-72-71) fired a 71 of his own for a tie for 11th at 7-over. Stanford freshman Bradley Knox from Sacred Heart Prep finished the event in satisfying fashion, carding a 1-over 71, jumping him 15 spots into a tie for 34th. Jim Liu (77-72-73) rounded out the day for the Cardinal, closing with a 73 after a difficult front nine. Liu finished the event in a tie for 29th at 12-over. The Cardinal gets back in action when it competes in the United States Collegiate Championship (Oct. 17-19) at the Golf Club
Stanford sophomore goalie Drew Holland was named MPSF/Kap7 Player of the Week following 25 saves last weekend. of Georgia in Alpharetta, Ga. Women’s golf Stanford moved up one spot from its opening round at the Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational to finish second, wrapping up the fog-shortened event Wednesday in Sammamish, Wash. The Cardinal went 296-294 to finish at 14-over, eight shots clear of third-place UC Davis and 19 shots behind tournament champion and host Washington. At the par-72 Sahalee Country Club, Stanford placed three performers in the top 10, highlighted by Lauren Kim’s final-round 2-under 70 to finish fourth. Kim, who was tied for 30th after Tuesday’s round, knocked in four birdies in her final stretch to secure a 2-over (76-70) for the event. Stanford’s Casey Danielson and defending individual champion Mariah Stackhouse tied for eighth with identical rounds of 72-75, 3-over par for the 36 holes. Shannon Aubert (76-74) tied for 18th and Quirine Eijkenboom (7777) tied for 27th. Washington’s SooBin Kim picked up medalist honors, finishing at 8-under to win by nine strokes over teammates Jennifer Yang and Eimi Koga. The Cardinal returns home to play host to the Stanford Intercollegiate (Oct. 17-19) at Stanford Golf Course. Women’s volleyball There’s never a break in the Pac-12 and this weekend is no different. Top-ranked Stanford (14-0, 4-0 Pac-12) travels to the desert this week to face No. 16 Arizona (15-2, 4-1) on Friday at 8 p.m. in Tucson, and No. 18 Arizona State (12-4, 2-2) on Sunday at 11 a.m. in Tempe. The Wildcats are coming off a sweep of California on Wednesday night. They are led by Madi Kingdon, the conference’s active all-time kills leader with 1,593. Standford’s Madi Bugg is the active leader in assists and Kyle Gil-
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the universe against the nation’s second-best passing defense. It’s either going to be a dream matchup or a nightmarish experience for Richards and his teammates in the secondary. “Our first responsibility is the pass,” Richards said. “We’ll show up in the run game when needed, but they also use their running backs in the passing game a lot.” Halliday threw for a FBSrecord 734 yards in Washington State’s 60-59 loss to California last weekend in Pullman. He completed 49 of his 70 pass attempts, six for touchdowns and zero for interceptions. East Palo Alto resident Devonte McClain, who attended College of San Mateo, is one of the linemen charged with protecting Halliday. He’s listed second on the Cougars depth chart at left guard. Halliday, the Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week, has thrown for 1,151 yards in his past two games combined, better than 53 FBS teams have done for the season. His season total of 3,052 yards puts him on pace to eclipse B.J. Symons (5,833) as the singleseason passing yardage leader in FBS history. Symons, who set the record in 2003 at Texas Tech, also was coached by WSU head coach Mike Leach. “He’s better,” Stanford coach David Shaw said of Halliday, who is averaging 508.7 passing yards a game. “He gets the ball out quicker and is seeing the field faster. He’s fully trained in their offense. He has a quick, tight release and his throws are accurate. He can play in any offense.” The Cougars average 523 passing yards per game while Stanford allows just 107.4 passing yards. The Cardinal, however, allowed Notre Dame quarterback Everett Golson to throw for 241 yards in its 17-14 loss to the Irish last weekend. Golson only threw the ball 43 times, completing 20 of them. Halliday presents even more of a problem, as the Cougars tend to use wholesale substitutions to keep receivers fresh. They have four ranked among the top 25 in receiving yardage. “It’s like a hockey line change,” Richards said. “Four come in, four go out.” The pace of Washington State’s game is also hockey-like. Stanford will have to match the Cougars with its own constant reinforcements in the secondary. Fortunately for the Cardinal, strong safety Kodi Whitfield and cornerback Ra’Chard Pippens appear to be fully recovered and ready to play in a game that will produce its own set of fireworks far earlier than the scheduled post-game fireworks show. Tell the folks not to wait up, it’s going to be a long evening. “I feel bad for their running backs,” Stanford running back Remound Wright said. “They
don’t get to run the ball. Every running back loves to carry the ball.” Washington State’s rushing attack actually outperformed Stanford’s rushing attack last week. The Cougars gained 78 yards on the ground on 25 carries. The Cardinal managed 47 yards on 32 carries. Wright had 29 of those yards. It was Stanford’s lowest rushing total since being held to a minus-8 on the ground in a 23-6 loss at Oregon State on Oct. 27, 2007. Washington State averages 38 points a game. Stanford has allowed fewer than 30 points in each of its past 28 games, the longest active streak in the nation. The Cardinal has allowed 20 or fewer in each of the past 13 games. Stanford scores at a rate of 24.8 points a game, while leading the nation in scoring defense, allowing 8.6 points. You might get the feeling Washington State will be more than happy to skew those numbers. Of course, the Cougars can give almost as well as they can take, giving up 35.2 points and 438.2 yards a game. In last year’s meeting, Stanford rolled up 55 points and 560 total yards. The Cardinal owns a six-game winning streak in the series and will seek to improve to 9-0 following a loss under Shaw. Stanford has not lost consecutive games since midway through the 2009 season and has won 39 of its past 43 home games. Stanford plays at home for the first time in nearly a month and for the first time while school is in session. The players will wear all-black uniforms on Friday. The Cardinal has been ranked in the AP top 25 poll for a schoolrecord 71 consecutive week, which dates to September of 2010. Kevin Hogan’s next touchdown pass will match him with John Paye (38) for seventh on Stanford’s all-time list. Paye currently helps the football program at his alma mater Menlo School. Hogan is expected to start on Friday after playing against Notre Dame with a leg injury. n
bert leads in digs. Arizona leads the Pac-12 in digs (16.06) and ranks fourth in kills (14.48) and assists (13.40). Middle blocker Merete Lutz was named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Week after hitting .639 and averaging 3.43 kills and 3.71 points per set in wins over thenNo. 11 Oregon and Oregon State. She led the team with 13 kills and four blocks against the Ducks and hit a career high .714 (11-1-14) against the Beavers. Men’s water polo Nationally No. 2-ranked Stanford (12-1) returns to action this weekend at the SoCal Tournament hosted by UCLA. The Cardinal opens with No. 16 LMU on Saturday at 8 a.m. A win would move Stanford on to face the winner of No. 7 Pacific and No. 10 Princeton at 3:05 p.m. The losers of the two games will meet in the consolation quarterfinals at 1:40 p.m. The Cardinal’s Saturday games will be at Sunset Canyon Family Pool and a pair of wins would move Stanford’s Sunday contests to Spieker Aquatics Center. Each of the nation’s top 12 teams will be in attendance. The Cardinal opened its home and MPSF slate with a 12-6 win over No. 9 UC Irvine at Avery Aquatic Center last week. BJ Churnside was successful on all four of his shot attempts, as Stanford won its conference opener for the first time since 2011. On Sunday, Bret Bonanni scored a season-high five goals to lead the Cardinal to a 17-5 victory at No. 11 UC Davis. Stanford sophomore goalkeeper Drew Holland was named MPSF/ Kap7 Player of the Week on Monday for his performances in the Cardinal’s weekend victories against No. 9 UC Irvine and No. 11 UC Davis. He totaled 25 saves, a career-high 17 coming against Irvine. Stanford is off to its best start since winning 19 of its first 20 games in 2009. n
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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
Three races still up for grabs heading into crucial week of action
by Keith Peters he 2014 girls’ golf season is more than halfway finished, but three league races are far from over with dualmatch titles still up for grabs. In the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League, Palo Alto remains a game behind pace-setting Gunn following a 223-231 victory over host Saratoga on Monday. Despite looking rusty and tired after a week off, the Vikings (6-1, 7-1) pulled it together at Saratoga Country Club and remained in position to challenge Gunn. Paly senior Michelle Xie earned medalist honors with a 4-over 38, notching a birdie on the first hole when her drive landed just six inches from the hole. Emily Hwang carded a 40. Paly will have a shot at tying Gunn for the top spot when the rivals meet next Thursday. The teams shared first place last season. Menlo School avenged a onestroke loss to rival Sacred Heart Prep and virtually knocked the Gators out of the running for the West Bay Athletic League title with a 212-232 dual-match victory on Tuesday at Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club. The Knights (5-1, 6-1), who remained tied for first place with Castilleja, were led by Jessie Rong’s 1-under 35 that earned her medalist honors. Freshman Sophie Siminoff carded a 2-over 38. Menlo will square off with Castilleja on Tuesday at the Stanford Golf Course to decide the regularseason champion. On Monday, Menlo escaped with a 208-209 dual-match victory over host Harker at Los Lagos Golf Course in San Jose. The match came down to the final foursome where Menlo’s Claire Wilson (44) and Erin Broderick (47) made up a seven-stroke deficit to carry the Knights to victory. Rong shared medalist honors with Katherine Zhu of Harker as both shot even-par 34. In San Mateo, Castilleja remained tied for first place in the WBAL following a 223-256 victory over Mercy-Burlingame on Wednesday at Poplar Creek GC. The Gators (4-1) were led by Cosi Layton, who shot a 5-over 40 and made a birdie on the first hole. Chloe Sales carded a 43, Anika Tse and Paris Wilkerson each shot 46 and Colby Cho rounded out the scoring with a 48, the same score that Risa Yang turned in. Castilleja also beat Notre Dame-San Jose on Monday, 213263, as Sales shot a 4-over 40 to earn medalist honors at Shoreline Golf Links. Danielle Mitchell
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The senior rushed 17 times for a career-high 258 yards and scored four touchdowns, two from 60 and 65 yards out, while tallying 28 points in a 40-32 eight-man football win that kept the Panthers unbeaten in 19 straight games.
The seniors helped the Vikings to a 6-0 week in volleyball, getting 16 kills each in a win over Monta Vista before combining for 65 kills and 10 blocks in a 5-0 finish and title at the Carlmont Invitational.
PRIORY SCHOOL
Honorable mention Mehra den Braven Pinewood volleyball
Lizzie Lacy Menlo cross country
Gillian Meeks* Gunn cross country
Lida Vandermeer Menlo volleyball
Laney Van Linge Menlo-Atherton tennis
Anna Zhou Gunn golf
Keyshawn Ashford Priory football
Daniel Hill Sacred Heart Prep cross country
Charlie Roth Menlo football
Michael Swart* Sacred Heart Prep water polo
Riley Tinsley Sacred Heart Prep football
Ari Wayne Gunn water polo
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shot 41 and Nicole Mitchell a 43. In the PAL Bay Division, Menlo-Atherton moved to within a victory of sharing the PAL Bay Division dual-match title following a 257-290 triumph over Mills on Wednesday at Poplar Creek GC. The Bears (7-2), who need to beat Burlingame next Wednesday to earn a co-title, were led by Abigail Pederson’s 5-over 40 against Mills. On Monday, Naomi Lee fired an even-par 35 as the Bears defeated host San Mateo, 213-223. Cross country The Menlo-Atherton boys raced to victory while the M-A girls settled for second at the second Peninsula Athletic League meet of the season, held over the 2.33mile layout at Half Moon Bay. Adam Scandlyn clocked 12:10 while finishing second for the M-A boys. Kevin Conrad clocked 13:05 while finishing ninth and Nicolas Plume finished 10th in 13:05, as well. Rohan DePuy was 14th in 13:14 and Steven McColloch was 17th in 13:18 to wrap
up the scoring as M-A totaled 52 points and held off Half Moon Bay by three. The M-A girls finished with 50 points as Half Moon Bay won the title with 36. M-A junior Madeleine Baier clocked 15:00 for third while fellow juniors Cat DePuy (15:00) and Katie Beebe (15:06) were fourth and sixth, respectively. Kelly Woods (16:09) and Olivia Tai (16:29) ran 16th and 21st, respectively, for M-A. Football Menlo-Atherton returns from a bye week to host Burlingame in a PAL Bay Division opener for both teams on Friday at 7 p.m. The Bears (1-3) are coming off a 3714 loss to Monterey on Sept. 26. Priory, meanwhile, will put its 3-0 record and state-leading 19-game win streak on the line against visiting Anzar in a Mountain Trail Athletic League eightman game in Portola Valley at 3 p.m. Gunn (0-1, 0-5), Palo Alto (01, 1-4). Menlo School (3-2) and Sacred Heart Prep (5-0) all have byes this week. n
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with four goals while Chris Xi added three. Menlo also won on Tuesday as senior Nick Bisconti poured in seven goals in a 17-11 nonleague victory over host De La Salle. Spencer Witte came up with 12 saves in goal for the Knights while Andreas Katsis added four goals.
Palo Alto, meanwhile, lost virtually its entire starting lineup from a squad that finished 24-6 and lost to Bellarmine in the CCS semifinals. Thus, Tuesday’s result shouldn’t have come as a surprise as the Girls water polo Vikings fell to 4-2 in league and After winning seven straight 5-10 overall. CCS Division II titles in girls wa“We let plays happen,” ex- ter polo, Sacred Heart Prep coach plained Brandon Johnson. “We Jon Burke is facing a supreme didn’t turn our heads (and help challenge this season. out).” The Gators have been playing A crucial third-period lapse without three starters for the past also hurt the Vikings, who got to five matches. During that time, within 9-7 by halftime SHP has gone an unand made it 9-8 when characteristic 2-3. Winston Rosati scored Currently sitting due from outside to start to injuries is sophothe third quarter. more Maddy Johnston, Gunn, however, the team’s leading then scored five unanscorer last season, and swered goals — two sophomore Layla Waeach by Christian Zniters. A third starter is darsic and Calder Hilalso sidelined. de-Jones — to take a “I would say missing 14-8 lead into the final Christian Znidarsic those three has defiperiod. Jones finished nitely had an impact with a season-high seven goals on us,” Burke said. and Znidarsic added four. SHP will host St. Francis in “Third periods have been bad next Wednesday’s crucial match quarters for us,” said Brandon, that should decide the WCAL whose team never recovered. regular-season title. Matt Johnson, meanwhile, was Those losses have forced Burke pleased with how his team re- to bring up Addi Duvall from the sponded to a 5-3 deficit in the first JV team. Duvall responded to quarter by pulling together before the call up by scoring five goals pulling away. Wednesday in a 17-2 blowout “That was a big win for us,” win over visiting Notre DameMatt said. “The guys stuck to the Belmont. game plan, even though things The win moved SHP to 3-0 in weren’t going our way early. We the WCAL (11-4 overall). just stepped up our defense. When Junior Malaika Koshy also we play great front-court defense, scored five goals against the Tiwe play very well.” gers while sophomore Maddie The Titans overcame a slow Pendolino added four and Megan start and a 5-3 deficit in the first Anderson two. Goalie Emily Riperiod, taking the lead for good in ley had seven saves. the second half at 7-6 following a In the PAL Bay Division, Mengoal by senior Quinn Hamilton. lo-Atherton (4-0, 7-6) and CasHamilton and senior Ari Wayne tilleja (4-0, 10-5) remain on a coleach added two goals for Gunn lision course for a title showdown while Lucas Novak paced the Vi- following victories by both teams kings with three goals. Ray Zhao, Wednesday. Kevin Bowers, Winston Rosati The Bears held off visiting and Andrew Josefov all tallied Woodside, 6-3, as Keira Shepard, twice for Paly. Annabelle Paris and Nadia Paquin Heading into matches on Thurs- all tallied twice. Goalie Francesca day night, Gunn held a one-game Gilles came up with six blocks. lead over second-place Mountain In Burlingame, Castilleja deView (5-1), which handed Home- feated the host Panthers, 7-2, stead a 14-9 loss on Tuesday. The as Celia Aldrete and Fernanda Titans handed the Spartans their Kramer each scored twice with only loss. goalie Maddie Tarr making six Sacred Heart Prep remained saves. unbeaten for the season as senior On Tuesday, Gunn wrapped up Michael Swart poured in nine the first half of the SCVAL De goals to spark the Gators to an Anza Division season with a 7-5 18-9 victory over host Serra on victory over visiting Palo Alto. Wednesday night. The defending champion TiSwart had six of his goals in tans moved to 6-0 in league (11-3 the first period. Senior Nelson overall) while the Vikings fell to Perla-Ward tallied four times, 4-2 (7-7) despite three goals from three coming in the third period, senior Tess van Hulsen. as the Gators moved to 3-0 in the Gunn pulled away to a 5-2 WCAL and 9-0 overall. Fresh- halftime lead before Paly put on man goalie Alexander Nemeth a furious rally in the second half had eight saves. and got to within one goal after In the PAL Bay Division, van Hulsen scored her third goal Menlo School remained tied for late in the fourth period. Bianca first place with Menlo-Atherton Batista, Zoe Banks and Nia Gardfollowing an 18-2 romp over ner all scored twice for the Titans host Burlingame. Wells Costello while goalie Sam Acker was solid paced the Knights (3-0, 12-1) in the cage. n www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • October 10, 2014 • Page 91
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