Palo Alto Weekly July 8, 2016 by Palo Alto Weekly

Palo Alto

Vol. XXXVII, Number 40

July 8, 2016

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City prepares to shift gears on bike-share program Palo Alto looks to boost participation with ‘smart’ technology, more stations by Gennady Sheyner

t’s been a banner year for biking in Palo Alto: New bicycle boulevards, green lanes and “sharrow” (“share the road”) markings have popped up in one neighborhood after another, and city officials have vowed to do even more in the months ahead

to get the community pedaling. Given this momentum around cycling, a program in Palo Alto known as Bay Area Bike Share has been exceptional precisely for how badly it has fared. Despite the regional bike-rental program’s cost of more than $10

million — mostly paid for by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) — the system has found little traction in Palo Alto, where it has been installed since August 2013. Palo Alto’s five light-blue Bike Share stations — three downtown and two along Park Boulevard — are little used, according to statistics from the MTC and city staff. Palo Alto’s Chief Transportation Official Josh Mello noted during

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Residents gather to plan future of Bol Park

A man takes in Auguste Rodin’s “Gates of Hell,” which the sculptor worked on for 37 years and includes more than 200 human figures, at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University.

New Barron Park committee to weigh in on city draft concept plans for new features by Sue Dremann

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ENVIRONMENT

Palo Alto opts to trim trees, not budget City veers away from earlier decision to care for canopy less often by Gennady Sheyner

0.51 rides per day), but city staff and the City Council agreed at the April 25 meeting that the results remain underwhelming. “By any measure, this is a pretty poorly designed bike-share system,” Mello said. “You don’t have the density of coverage. You’re really limited to traveling just a couple of blocks from the Caltrain station,” he

PARK & RECREATION

Agony, unabridged

oney doesn’t grow on trees, even in Palo Alto, which has plenty of both. Money does, however, help determine how well the trees grow. And with budget challenges looming on the horizon, city officials are wondering if it’s possible to save the former without imperiling the latter. Specifically, the city is looking at whether it would make sense to trim its lush and beloved canopy less often, a proposal that City Manager James Keene made in May and that the council considered last week. The plan, which was first pitched to the council’s

an April presentation that a bike in Palo Alto’s nascent program was taken for a ride 0.17 times per day between Sept. 1, 2014, and Aug. 21, 2015, well below the industry threshold of one ride per day. In San Francisco, the Bay Area Bike Share rate has been a comparatively stellar 2.51 trips per day. Participation in Palo Alto improved slightly this year (in February, the rate was a less meager

Finance Committee in June, called for trimming trees every 15 years instead of every seven years, as is the current practice. Keene’s proposal was prompted, in some part, by the growing costs of keeping the city’s roughly 43,100 trees trimmed and properly maintained. Earlier this year, after going out to bid, the city received proposals from only two contractors. It ultimately chose West Coast Arborist, the company that has been taking care of tree maintenance in Palo Alto since 2013 and that offered a bid of $4.7 million (the other bid was a comparatively whopping $13.5 million).

According to the city’s Public Works department, even the lower bid showed higher costs than before, partly because of an increased scope of services and partly because of factors beyond the city’s control. Recently, the city has spent about $450,000 a year to trim about 5,050 trees, mostly those along the city’s streets. Under the new contract, the cost will be $1.23 million per year for about 6,150 trees, which include those throughout city parks, open spaces, golf courses, and other areas that traditionally were pruned on (continued on page 11)

ith its meandering paths, great expanse of green, vintage agricultural tools and venerable donkeys, Bol Park has remained a refuge from Palo Alto’s fastpaced and car-choked environment for more than 40 years. But now, as the City of Palo Alto is updating its 25-year Parks and Recreation Master Plan, how Bol Park’s character might change — or be preserved — has become the subject of discussion in the Barron Park neighborhood. The city is planning to upgrade its 35 parks, community centers and playing fields to better meet people’s interests and needs. The public can comment on the city’s draft concept plans for parks and new facilities amenities, which will be part of the master plan, through July, said Peter Jensen, city landscape architect. Barron Park residents, for whom Bol Park means so much, are taking the process one step further. The neighborhood group, Barron Park Association, has formed a committee to work with the city to make sure that upgrades address community concerns. Chaired by longtime resident Richard Placone, who was at the forefront of the park’s creation in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the committee of seven volunteers had its first organizational meeting Wednesday. Other residents are invited to join, Placone said. The Bol Park concept plan, which only shows new and not existing amenities, includes new expanses of native plants along Matadero Creek and the Bol Park

bike path up to the creek bridge; three creekside lookouts; an expanded picnic area; more natural play structures in the playground; an adjacent adult fitness area and a restroom on the triangular Laguna Avenue end of the park. A bike “pump track,” a series of humps and meandering tracks for dirt bikes, would replace several mounds of dirt currently used by kids as a de facto track. Bol Park was once land belonging to Cornelis and Josephine Bol, who also maintained a donkey pasture. Old farm equipment and two donkeys, Perry and Miner, are still a part of the landscape. Residents have cared for the animals and also installed native plants to improve wildlife habitat. Many residents have expressed to the city their concern that the park should remain a rural gem and not be overdeveloped, Jensen said. The city has received many negative comments about the pump track. Jensen said that some elements of the plan, such as the pump track, could be reduced in size or even eliminated entirely. Doug Moran, a Barron Park resident who has been involved with both the donkey handling and native plantings, has a number of questions about the proposed changes. Moran expressed concern that the creekside path, which is labeled as not ADA accessible, might face elimination. The creek path “is important to many pedestrians, especially those (continued on page 10)

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STUDENT MATHEMATICIANS ... Four Palo Alto students are heading to the International Congress on Mathematics Education in Germany this summer where they will be honored as the winners of the annual International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IMMC), a competition where student mathematicians have to solve real-life problems. Palo Alto High School students Eric Foster, Andrew Lee, Kathryn Li and Kangrong Zhang, along with their teacher Radu Toma, will be recognized in Hamburg in late July for their 42-page solution to the problem, “Record Insurance,” which asked them to design a model for the effective planning of payments and insurance for recordbreaking performances at a trackand-field meet. This is the second consecutive year the Paly team won the IMMC international competition. They also took the top title during the 17th annual National High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling (HiMCM). “Your ability to tackle the monumental HiMCM challenges is exemplary, and I have no doubt that each of you will excel at resolving big problems you, our community, and our country face in the future,” Superintendent Max McGee said in an announcement. FORE-WARNED! ... For Palo Alto’s golfing enthusiasts, the official launch this week of the longawaited transformation of the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course comes as a mixed blessing. If things go as planned (which is always a dicey proposition), the new and improved links-style course would open in October 2017, with 40 percent less turf and an abundance of Baylands species (55 acres of native plants and wetlands will be integrated into the course design). This also means, however, that the existing golf course will be closed for at least the next 15 months (the driving range, the practice area, Bay Cafe and the Brad Lozares Golf Shop will remain open).

The project also is two-sided for environmentalists. While the restoration of the native Baylands ecosystem is a welcome change, the project will also include the removal of 150 small non-native trees, an operation that is set to commence around July 12. In addition, about 500 larger nonnative trees will be removed from the course as part of the project, according to an announcement from the city. Though Palo Alto — which is named after a tree — normally takes pains to protect and preserve its canopy (the 2009 buzz-cutting episode on California Avenue is a glaring exception), the tree removal in this case has been widely discussed, publicized and approved by the City Council. The removal is included in the project’s Environmental Impact Report, which the council certified in February 2014. At the time, the council agreed that this is a worthy trade-off for the joys of going native, creating a golf course with a “wow” factor and improving flood protection around the San Francisquito Creek (7.4 acres of the course will be converted into a marshland buffer). To compensate for the tree removal, 300 new trees will be planted on the golf course and two acres of native habitat will be created in Byxbee Park. The city also plans to start monitoring and protecting about 500 oak saplings in the PearsonArastradero Preserve.

TOP DOG ... Stanford University snagged the No. 1 spot on Forbes’ 9th annual list of Top Colleges in America. Williams College came in at No. 2, followed by Princeton University and Harvard University at No. 3 and 4, respectively. According to Forbes, Stanford has an annual tuition of $45,195 and a total annual cost of $62,801 per student, offering a good return on investment. This year’s college rankings, according to Forbes, speak directly to three important trends: the emerging a flip in clout from the Northeast Establishment to new-guard West Coast schools; the contest between small student-centric liberal arts colleges and juggernaut STEM-oriented research universities; and the disproportionately high number of old, private schools with the best return on investment. For the complete list, visit forbes.com/topcolleges/list. Q

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To get more affordable housing, city may charge developers stiff fees Proposed ‘impact fees’ for new office developments would be highest in the region by Gennady Sheyner

n their latest attempt to address the city’s worsening housing crisis, Palo Alto officials are preparing to sharply raise — and in some cases, triple — the fees that developers are required to contribute to the city’s affordable-housing program. Furthermore, the city would for the first time require developers of market-rate rental housing to also pay into a fund for affordable housing, according to a proposal that the City Council is set to consider in late August, when it returns from its annual recess. In a dramatic revision of its “impact fee” program, the city would roughly triple the fee for developers of office and research-and-development projects, raising it from the current level of $20.37 per net new square foot of development to $60. The move would push the city well beyond other area jurisdictions, which typically charge around $20 per new square foot (as in Cupertino and Redwood City) or $25 per new square foot, as in Mountain View (though projects of less than 25,000 square feet of office space pay only half of this fee), according to a recent report from the Department of Planning and Community Environment. The $60 fee came out of a recent study that the city’s consulting firm, Strategic Economics, performed last year to gauge the linkage between commercial developments and their effects on city services and housing availability, known as a “nexus” study. While the study recommended the city raise its fees for commercial developments to $30 per square foot for office development (the city’s planning staff later recommended $35 per square foot), the council’s Finance Committee last month decided to go further

and set the fee at $60, the level that the study found to be the maximum amount that would be “financially feasible” for developers. In issuing their recommendations, both the consultants and city staff were wary of setting fees that are so much higher than in neighboring municipalities. The four members of the Finance Committee had no such qualms when they voted 3-1 on June 21 to adopt the new fee schedule. Councilman Greg Schmid voted against it, but his objections had less to do with the office fees than with the fact that the new ordinance would also charge housing developers more. Councilman Cory Wolbach cited a “pretty broad consensus on the council” that housing should be prioritized over office developments as reason for feeling comfortable with charging an impact fee “at full feasible range.” “Frankly, I am fine with milking developers, but I don’t want to kill the cow,” Wolbach said. “It is reasonable to demand all that we can of developments to compensate the community for the impacts of the development, particularly when it comes to the need for affordable housing. And setting these fees at the maximum feasible (level) for commercial development is prudent and reflects a growing sense of the community that we have a preference for housing, in particular affordable housing, over rampant commercial development.” If the full council approves the change, the city would effectively revamp how it collects funds from developers of market-rate housing. Currently, developers are required to devote 15 percent of their projects (or 20 percent for properties greater than 5 acres) to below-market-rate housing or pay “in lieu” fees (as

impact fees for market-rate for-sale units are called) totaling 7.5 percent of the sales price. Under the present system, the city doesn’t know exactly how much it will collect and when the funds would come in. The new system would require all market-rate developers that don’t provide any affordable housing to pay $50 per square foot before they get their building permits. This means that someone looking to build a new 3,000-square-foot detached single-family home would have to pay $150,000. Under today’s system, such a development would

Existing fees

February proposal

Proposal based on Finance Committee direction

Office/R&D

$20.37/sf

$35/sf

$60/sf

Hotel

$20.37/sf

$30/sf

Retail/Restaurant/other**

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$20.37/sf

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7.5 to 10% of sales price

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$50/sf

Market-rate single-family attached*

7.5 to 10% of sales price

$50/sf

Market-rate condo*

7.5 to 10% of sales price

$50/sf

Market-rate rental housing

None

*Market-rate ownership housing projects are currently subject to the city’s affordable-housing in-lieu fees. Market-rate rental projects are currently exempt. With the new fees, rental and for-sale units would be charged the same fees. Projects providing affordable units on site would not be charged a fee. **Retail uses were not addressed in the nexus study and this row includes the current fee based on the last nexus study. The fee was updated as part of the city’s budget process from $19.85/sf to $20.37/sf. Source: Palo Alto Department of Planning and Community Development, June 2016

Imperfect system can stress grieving pet owners with penalty threats by Sue Dremann

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Higher fees intended to fund affordable housing

When a pet dies, license renewals keep coming one day last December. ... He took his last and longest nap while we petted his head,” Seither recalled. Vivid memories of the two animals’ deaths came rushing back recently when Seither received doglicense renewal notices from Palo Alto Animal Services. The letters demanded payment for the overdue license fees and threatened penalties. “License fees for my dead dogs,” he wrote in a long email to Sandra Pretari, head of licensing for the

up to $60 per square foot, hotels would experience a more modest increase, with fees going up from $20.37 to $30. For retail establishments and restaurants, the fee would remain at the existing level of $20.37. In advocating a higher impact fee for housing projects, council members and planning staff said one of the goals is to see developers actually provide the below-market-rate housing (which would exempt them from the impact fee) rather than paying a fee to avoid this requirement. The issue was central to the council’s discussion last week of a proposed housing development at 567 Maybell Ave. In that case, the council allowed the developer, Golden Gate Homes, to forego the city’s requirement that it dedicate 15 percent of its 16-unit project to affordable housing. Instead, the developer was allowed to pay an in-lieu fee. “One of the ideas of setting a

How development fees would change

ANIMAL SERVICES

hen Joe Seither found his beloved dog Cairo dead of congestive heart failure in his backyard six months ago, he was devastated, as any pet owner would be. Six weeks later, he suffered another shock: His golden retriever, Cosmo, had a gut full of tumors that caused internal bleeding and a major seizure. Seither opted to have the dog euthanized. “He collapsed right in front of me

require a fee of about $40,000. (If a 2,500-square-foot home were demolished and replaced by a 3,000-square-foot house, only the new 500 square feet would be subject to the affordable-housing fee.) Palo Alto isn’t the only city that is looking at new commercial projects for possible solutions to the housing crunch. In San Francisco, a proposal from Supervisor Eric Mar would impose a 1.5 percent payroll tax on tech companies, with the proceeds going toward affordable housing and programs that support programs for the homeless. But even in San Francisco, which remains an epicenter of both the tech boom and the homelessness crisis, the impact fees are less than half of what Palo Alto plans to charge. Office developers in San Francisco are charged an impact fee of $24 per square foot, while research-and-development projects require a fee of $16 per square foot. In Palo Alto, while impact fees for office and research-anddevelopment projects would go

city’s animal services, which handles Palo Alto as well as Los Altos and Los Altos Hills. Then last week he received final-notice certified letters for breaking the law, which requires that dogs have a rabies vaccination every one to three years, depending on the type of injection, and a renewed license. Seither’s ire stems from the city’s databases — which are based on veterinarian informa-

tion — not being updated to show when a pet has died and therefore no longer needs a license. “I know you pull pet and owner data from vets within your service area, so why can’t you keep your data file updated for pet deaths? ... How many pet owners per year, per month, per week do you bother and upset with such letters?” he wrote in his email to Pretari. But Connie Urbanski, animal services superintendent, said that while her department does collect information from veterinarians regarding rabies vaccinations, veterinary hospitals don’t let the agency know when a pet has died. “The only way we find out is if the owner tells us. There’s no way to know. I feel very sorry for him,” she said. Licenses are based on the du-

ration of the vaccine and can be good for one, two or three years. Dog owners get an automatic renewal notice 30 days prior to the license-expiration date; they have another 30 days to have their pets re-vaccinated and licensed, Urbanski said. For grieving pet owners such as Seither, the death of a pet — and the notices — can be traumatic. It never occurred to him to call animal services to report the deaths, Seither said in a follow-up email to the Weekly. Adobe Animal Hospital personnel confirmed that veterinarians are required by state law to report rabies vaccinations, but pet hospitals are not required to report an animal’s death. Many deaths are also not reported to the (continued on page 12)

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News Digest City of Palo Alto managers receive pay hikes For a complete list of classes, lectures and support groups, or to register, visit pamf.org/healtheducation

July and August 2016 All our lectures are free and open to the public. Classes may have a fee.

Webinar: Tips for a Healthy Transition to College Aug. 4, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Join Nancy Brown, Ph.D., PAMF Health Education, and Elizabeth Lee, M.D., PAMF Family Medicine, for a discussion preparing parents and future college students for the challenges, risks and responsibilities of college life. To register, call 408-730-2810 or visit pamf.org/healtheducation.

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More than 200 City of Palo Alto employees will see three consecutive years of salary increases as part of a compensation plan that the City Council swiftly approved last week. The new compensation plan pertains to the roughly 224 workers in the “management and professionals group,” which includes most department heads, deputies and mid-level managers. Under the plan the council approved at its June 27 meeting, the group’s members will receive a 2.5 percent salary increase in each of the three years of the new agreement, which took effect on July 1. The agreement, approved by the council on its consent calendar, also includes additional compensation for the mayor and vice mayor. Under the terms of the contract, the mayor and the vice mayor will receive $150 and $100 every month, respectively, to “defray additional expenses of these offices.” This is on top of the $600 monthly stipend that each council member receives — an amount that will increase to $1,000 in 2017. In addition to the salary increases, the contract for the managers and professionals group includes changes to members’ pension and health care benefits. Much like other recent labor agreements, the new compensation plan caps the city’s maximum contributions to employee health care. Under the new plan, the city’s contributions would go up by 4 percent in each of the three years, with the first bump kicking in on Jan. 1. In addition, managers and professionals will see their pension contributions increase. Over the past seven years, the council had implemented reforms that require workers to pay the employee portions to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), but with the new agreement, employees will take on a share of the employer portion next year. The new contract is projected to add about $6.06 million in costs to the city over the next three years. Q — Gennady Sheyner

Palo Alto police search for man who allegedly exposed himself to 12-year-old girl Police are investigating an incident in which a man allegedly exposed himself indecently to a girl on Wednesday in Palo Alto, according to a police department press release. At about 1:41 p.m., the police received a call reporting that a 12-year-old girl had been walking her dog in the 2200 block of Louis Road when a car stopped next to her. The girl made eye contact with the driver and then noticed he was masturbating, police said. The girl took out her smartphone and the man allegedly said, “I’m sorry,” before he drove off south toward Oregon Expressway. The girl went home and immediately told a parent, who called the police. The suspect is described as an overweight Hispanic Suspect male in his 40s with short dark hair and a dark complexion. He was wearing a T-shirt and long pants and drove an older silver four-door sedan, possibly a Honda or Toyota. Detectives are investigating the case and are working to determine if the incident is connected to any other cases in Palo Alto or surrounding communities. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the police at 650-329-2413. Anonymous tips can be emailed to paloalto@tipnow.org or sent via text message or voicemail to 650-383-8984. Q — Palo Alto Weekly staff

Avenidas partners with Lyft to give rides to seniors Palo Alto’s senior services agency Avenidas and ride-sharing company Lyft are partnering to provide rides to seniors on the Peninsula, the nonprofit agency announced last week. San Francisco-based Lyft, which facilitates rides through a smartphone application, will provide older adults with discounted rides, with Avenidas acting as the dispatcher through the agency’s Door to Door Transportation program. The program provides 5,300 rides a year, according to Avenidas. Users will not need a smartphone to request a ride. “Many of the older adults whom we serve either don’t feel comfortable using apps on their phones, or don’t even own a smartphone at all, and now, thanks to this unique partnership with Lyft, Avenidas will handle the ride scheduling for them,” Avenidas President and CEO Amy Andonian said in a statement. “An additional benefit of partnering with Lyft is that we are no longer fully dependent on having enough volunteer drivers, and so we can now fulfill all ride requests.” The Door to Door program takes requests from individuals, referrals from social workers, calls from other senior centers and hospitals, and calls from adult children on behalf of their parents. Rides can be booked by calling 650-289-5411. More information is posted at avenidas.org/services/transportation. Q — Palo Alto Weekly staff

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Turner-trial judge criticized for bias in assault case But supporters of Judge Aaron Persky argue that comparison is ‘inflammatory’ by Elena Kadvany

nother local sexual-assault case has become the latest battleground in the continued debate over whether the judge who presided over the sentencing of former Stanford University student-athlete Brock Turner should be removed from the bench, with critics of the judge arguing it shows further evidence of judicial bias and his supporters warning it is misleading to compare the two cases. The details of the Turner case are nationally well-known: Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Turner, 20, to six months in jail, three years’ probation and lifetime registration as a sex offender for sexually assaulting an unconscious and intoxicated young woman outside a fraternity party on campus in January 2015. Persky’s sentencing decision sparked outrage among many who decried it as too lenient and biased in favor of the young, white university athlete. These same critics are now pointing to another sentencing decision by Persky — three years in state prison, negotiated in a plea deal for an immigrant from El Salvador who admitted to sexually assaulting his roommate — as further evidence of this partiality, though some of Persky’s supporters say that it is misguided and even “inflammatory” to compare the two cases. In the second case, first reported on by The Guardian newspaper, Raul Ramirez, 32, was arrested in Sunnyvale on Nov. 15, 2014, for sexually assaulting his roommate, a five-monthpregnant woman, according to court documents obtained by the Weekly. Ramirez and the wom-

an were alone in the apartment, which they shared with several other roommates, including the woman’s husband, according to a police report. She found a “love letter” on her bed from Ramirez, according to the statement she gave to police in Spanish that was later translated. While she was reading the letter, Ramirez entered the room and blocked the door so she could not leave. He “forcefully” pulled down her pants and underwear and sexually fingered her, the police report reads. The woman told police that she said “no” numerous times and tried to stop Ramirez, but he “overpowered” her. He stopped when the woman started to cry. Ramirez admitted to police that he “wanted to have sex with her, but she refused” and that she “told him to stop but he did not,” according to his translated police statement. He “knew what he did was wrong, and he wanted to say sorry,” the statement reads. Ramirez was later charged with two felony counts: sexual penetration by force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of bodily injury; and assault with intent to commit rape. (Turner was also convicted of the latter charge, as well as sexual penetration with a foreign object of an intoxicated person and sexual penetration with a foreign object of an unconscious person. He faced a maximum of 14 years in prison for all three counts.) Under a plea deal that Persky oversaw, Ramirez pleaded guilty to the first charge and will receive the mandatory minimum sentence for that crime: three years in state prison, accord-

ing to a form Ramirez signed in March. He also must register as a sex offender for life. Like Turner, he had no prior criminal record, according to Alexander Cross, a private defense attorney who represented Ramirez for several months at the start of the case. Ramirez, who is out on bail, was scheduled to appear in court for his sentencing in Palo Alto on June 30 but did not show up. He also failed to attend his probation interview, Public Defender Gary Goodman told Persky in court. Persky issued a no-bail warrant to secure Ramirez’s appearance in court. Michele Dauber, the Stanford law professor leading the effort to recall Persky, said the Ramirez case lays bare “disparities and injustices in the criminal justice system and the way that privilege plays a role in criminal justice system.” “It seems to be more evidence for the fact that he (Persky) really bent over backwards to give Turner an unreasonably lenient sentence when you compare it to the sentence for this individual, who was not an elite, privileged athlete and didn’t get the same level of solicitude from the judge,” she told the Weekly. Persky’s sentence for Turner followed a recommendation made by the county probation department to make a legal exception in the case and find unusual circumstances given several factors, including that Turner is young, has no significant criminal record and expressed remorse for his actions. Ramirez, too, has no prior record and expressed remorse — factors that “ordinarily that would provide a basis for leniency,” Dauber said.

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Reaction to sentencing continues in legal, public circles Critics, defenders of judge speak out by Elena Kadvany

bout a month after the sentencing of former Stanford University athlete Brock Turner, the judge’s decision in the sexual-assault case countinues to elicit a strong public reaction. On Tuesday, national women’s advocacy organization Ultra Violet announced that nearly 5,400 people have signed a peti-

tion saying they would refuse to serve as a juror in Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky’s courtroom, though there is no indication of how many signers live in Santa Clara County. On Wednesday, 18 retired judges released an open letter in defense of Persky and judicial independence. The judges ac-

knowledge that the case “presents serious questions about our society’s treatment of crimes involving sexual assault and of criminal defendants from different socioeconomic backgrounds,” but removing Persky based on an “unpopular” decision could set a dangerous precedent. “Judicial independence is one of the core values of our democ-

Cross, however, said that the cases are “highly different, at least with the facts that matter.” Ramirez admitted to the crime immediately and pleaded guilty; also, his statement matched the woman’s. In Turner’s case, alcohol was involved (which Persky considered a mitigating factor in his sentence), the victim did not remember the assault due to intoxication, and questions were raised about consent. Turner admitted to digitally penetrating the woman but testified that the sexual contact was consensual. The Ramirez case is “a lot more cut and dry, frankly,” Cross said. “The Brock Turner case — it’s far more nuanced.” Santa Clara County Public Defender Sajid Khan, one of more than 100 public defenders who signed a June 15 letter to the California Commission on Judicial Performance in support of Persky, has similarly argued that it is misleading to compare the two cases.

Questions about how active a role Persky did play — or could have played — in plea negotiations for Ramirez’s case have been raised by supporters of the recall. It is permissible under California law for judges to engage in discussions with defense attorneys and prosecutors about plea deals, Dauber argued. Yet in this case, once Ramirez agreed to plead guilty to the felony sexual-penetration charge, he faced a mandatory minimum sentence, and probation and a lighter sentence were not options, said retired judge LaDoris Cordell. “Judge Persky had no discretion to avoid the prison sentence of three years,” she wrote in an email to the Weekly. Plea bargains “can be achieved with or without the participation of the judge,” Cordell explained. If a defendant and his or her attorney have worked out an agreement, they will simply present it to the judge. “In those situations, unless the

‘It seems to be more evidence for the fact that he (Persky) really bent over backwards to give Turner an unreasonably lenient sentence.’ —Michele Dauber, organizer, Recall Aaron Persky In a June 30 blog post, Khan wrote that comparing the cases is like “comparing apples and oranges.” Persky did not have the same legal authority or discretion to give a lesser sentence in the Ramirez case, Khan wrote. While the crimes Turner was convicted of allow a judge to find unusual circumstances to grant probation, the crime that Ramirez pleaded guilty to, forcible sexual penetration, does not, according to Khan. “Judge Persky, even if he desired, had no authority to dismiss or alter that charge so that Mr. Ramirez could receive a reduced penalty, as opposed to the threeyear mandatory minimum prison term, if such a reduced term was merited,” he wrote. racy,” the letter states. “It is based on the principle that each case should be decided on its particular facts and the applicable law rather than in response to political considerations or public opinion. It exists and thrives only when judges know that doing their job will not put their job at risk.” The California Judicial Code of Ethics prohibits sitting judges and commissioners from commenting on pending and impending cases, the letter notes. Stanford Law Professor Michele Dauber, who is leading the recall effort, told the Weekly that the letters’ stance on appropriate reasons for a judge’s removal — for illegal or unethical conduct, compared to making a lawful decision, the letter states — is inconsistent with the California Constitution.

plea bargain is outrageous (too lenient, too harsh, or not in compliance with the law), judges tend to rubber stamp the bargains,” she said. “Plea bargains can also be arrived at with the active involvement of judges whose participation is either to push the defendant or the prosecutor to make an agreement. Whether or not judges actively participate depends on the circumstances of the cases.” The prosecutor, not the judge, has final decision-making power over the charge or charges that are included in a plea bargain. Cordell said there were “many instances” when she was on the bench when she disagreed with the charges that prosecutors wanted for plea (continued on page 12)

“Under the California Constitution, judges are elected, and they can be unelected by the people. Under the law, judicial bias is a perfectly sound basis for a judicial election,” she wrote in an email. “In our view, the grant of discretion to a judge depends on having individuals who will exercise that discretion fairly and without bias, particularly bias on the basis of characteristics such as sex or race.” Meanwhile, the recall campaign has raised $300,000 so far, Dauber said. Organizers are planning major fundraising events in Palo Alto, Oakland and Brooklyn, as well as a rally in September, when Turner is scheduled to be released early from jail based on credit for good behavior. Q

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walking for exercise, to avoid near-collisions with bicyclists,” he said. But most of his concerns relate to the bike pump track, which could greatly increase conflicts between bicyclists and pedestrians. Many pedestrians are families with small children and strollers, seniors and persons from the Veterans Administration grounds with disabilities, he

Palo Alto homeowner chases apparent burglar Palo Alto police are looking for an alleged burglar who was chased by a homeowner after the suspect walked out of the front door of a home in the 3700 block of La Donna Avenue on Tuesday morning, according to police. (Posted July 6, 3:53 p.m.)

Study warns Facebook expansion would affect traffic If Facebook builds two large office buildings and a hotel as it has proposed, an estimated 14,000 people could be commuting to and from the Menlo Park campus each day, 6,550 of whom would be new employees, according to the draft of an EnvironmentalImpact Report on the plans. (Posted July 6, 11:08 a.m.)

East Palo Alto teen arrested for lewd conduct Palo Alto police have arrested at 17-year-old East Palo Alto teen in connection to an incident of lewd conduct that took place in Palo Alto in April of this year. (Posted July 6, 8:21 a.m.)

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said. Some have reduced hearing and vision and are unable to quickly move out of the way of bicyclists. The size of the proposed expanded picnic area also is not clear, he said. “The parking for Bol Park is very limited and already heavily used on weekends. Parents with small children need to park close in,” he said. If the larger picnic area attracts more people, then current park users could be affected. Placone said the Barron Park

Association committee wants to address concerns such as Moran’s and others’ and help craft a park design that will meet people’s needs — and also preserve the features of Bol Park that people love. Q The parks concept plans can be viewed or commented upon by going to paloaltoparksplan. org. Anyone interested in joining the committee can contact Dick Placone at rcplacone@sbcglobal.net. Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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A man suspected of raping a woman he knew at his Palo Alto home and preventing her from leaving has been arrested, according to Palo Alto police. (Posted July 5, 4:31 p.m.)

Palo Alto Tap Room wins 2016 Chili Cook Off The Palo Alto Tap Room, a new beer-centric restaurant from the owner of Palo Alto Brewing Company, took home the top prize in Best Overall for this year’s Chili Cook Off event. The City of Palo Alto held the 35th Annual Chili Cook Off & Summer Festival on Monday, July 4, at Mitchell Park. (Posted July 5, 11:31 a.m.)

Filoli names new executive director Filoli, Woodside’s historic mansion and gardens, announced on Saturday, July 1, that it has hired a new executive director with years of experience in running a large botanical garden. (Posted July 5, 10:44 a.m.)

County supervisors allot $3 million to shelter Looking to help house hundreds of North County’s homeless residents during the winter months, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors agreed last week to set aside $3 million to renovate an existing warehouse in Sunnyvale to serve as a permanent cold-weather shelter. The shelter would provide beds, free meals and access to showers for up to 100 people each night. (Posted July 5, 10:08 a.m.)

San Mateo County takes on housing crisis San Mateo County is attempting to take on the housing crisis on several fronts, including the creation of a $10 million fund to buy and preserve existing affordable housing and forming a coalition of local cities and towns, businesses, educators and community groups to work on the problem. (Posted July 5, 9:56 a.m.)

Police arrest nearly a dozen for fireworks East Palo Alto police cited 10 people and took one person into custody for illegal possession of fireworks during a July 4 that filled the city with thousands of explosions on Monday night. (Posted July 5, 9:43 a.m.)

Juvenile recovering after stabbing at park A young person is recovering after being stabbed in Mountain View Saturday night, according to police. Police said officers responded to Rengstorff Park, located at 201 South Rengstorff Ave., at 9:55 p.m. and found a juvenile male suffering from at least one stab wound. (Posted July 5, 7:55 a.m.)

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a “reactionary basis,” according to Public Works. Officials decided to expand the contract work last year as they formulated the city’s new Urban Forest Master Plan. The added annual costs also reflect other factors, such as the effects of the drought on trees and changes in labor agreements and prevailing wage requirements, according to the Public Works report. Despite increasing costs of trimming trees, the council’s Finance Committee, which vetted the proposed budget this spring, wasn’t ready to drastically reduce the service’s frequency. It rejected staff’s recommendation of a 15-year cycle and proposed a 10-year cycle instead. The council then followed the committee’s lead and signed on for a 10-year cycle, even after Urban Forester Walter Passmore acknowledged that even shifting to every 10 years would likely increase the amount of deadwood and create a greater potential for falling limbs, potentially increasing the city’s liability. Yet Passmore also noted that a 10-year cycle is still within the industry’s recommended range and that even with the change, Palo Alto would still be doing well when compared with neighboring jurisdictions. “I don’t think most people are

going to notice a significant difference between a seven-year and a 10-year cycle,” Passmore told the council on June 13, shortly before the council decided to adopt the new schedule, which trims the West Coast Arborist contract from $4.7 million to $3.6 million over the three-year period. But council members have continued to have reservations about the shift. According to a June 28 memo from Public Works, the council expressed concerns that switching from a seven- to a 10year trimming cycle “could result in excessive trimming of individual trees that would be detrimental to their health.” The cycle doesn’t just determine how often the trees are trimmed; it also determines how much they are trimmed. A 15-year cycle requires about 15 percent of the live canopy to be removed. In a 10-year cycle, it is 12.5 percent, while in a seven-year cycle it is 8.75 percent, according to Public Works. But Keene, in advocating for less frequent tree trimming, noted that the city can always go back and revise the agreement to speed up the cycle if the impact is worse than intended. Councilwoman Holman didn’t buy this argument. “If we lose trees because we’re not adequately maintaining them, how do we go back and restore those trees? It’s not possible,” Holman said at the June 13 meeting.

While the council rejected at that time a proposal from Holman to retain the seven-year cycle, last week it reconsidered its vote. In its final decision before heading off on a six-week break, the council decided on June 28 to stick with a seven-year cycle — at least for now. The council also agreed that later in the year, when the city considers updates to the Urban Forest Master Plan, it will take a closer look at the issue and consider various alternatives for maintaining the city’s canopy. The decision means that the city will now increase its contract with West Coast Arborist from the $3.6 to $4.7 million over three years, with the additional money coming from the city’s Budget Stabilization Reserve. Ultimately, the city could move to a different treetrimming cycle or come up with an alternate scheme for maintaining trees (Holman suggested exploring the prospect of different contractors providing different types of tree services). But last week, Vice Mayor Greg Scharff spoke for the council majority when he called for retaining the status quo in the near term, even if it means spending more money. “I think we should stay on the seven-year cycle,” Scharff said. “We don’t want to damage the canopy while we think about this.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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deals and argued against them, but the prosecutors “frequently did not budge.” It is unclear at what level Persky participated in this plea deal; he is barred from commenting publicly on pending cases. Khan said it is his understanding that Ramirez’s plea was a rubber-stamp deal with little involvement from Persky. A Palo Alto Courthouse clerk told him that Persky wasn’t even present when the deal was effectuated. Court documents show that the plea conditions were presented to Judge Gilbert Brown in Palo Alto on June 30. Cordell, who this week joined 17 other retired judges in issuing a letter of support for Persky on the grounds of judicial independence, said that plea bargains, not jury trials, produce the most criminal convictions. She ventured a guess that a review of plea

bargains in Santa Clara County would show that they end in disproportionately harsher punishments for people of color and low-income people. “It is my belief, albeit based on anecdotal information, that plea bargaining is filled with bias, both conscious and unconscious,” she said. Khan, for his part, doesn’t disagree that privilege played a role in Turner’s sentencing. The very factors that Persky considered to grant Turner probation — his background, loss of a swimming scholarship and place at an elite, private university — are themselves a result of privilege, Khan said. But “to attribute the discrepancy between the Brock Turner sentence and Raul Ramirez’s plea deal to Judge Persky and any sort of bias that he may harbor — to me, it’s really inflammatory,” Khan said. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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veterinary hospital if the pet died at home or was not euthanized by the veterinarian, a hospital staff member said. There is no way for animal services to determine if a license is no longer needed, unless the owner notifies animal services of the pet’s demise, the staff member added.

But Seither said there should be a better way. “If it’s possible, desirable and convenient to pull some pet data from vets, it seems dead simple to keep that database current. A unique rabies vaccine identifier is appended to each of my pets, so at the very least, the database could be periodically scrubbed for ‘vaccine records no longer valid’ or some such thing,” Seither wrote in his email to the Weekly. “This is a data-sharing-system

design error that unnecessarily causes pet owners hassle, at a minimum, and likely some measure of grief. If this wasn’t Silicon Valley, maybe lousy database management wouldn’t be so irritating,” he added. Seither continued, saying, “I’d really rather remember my dogs alive and playing together. ... And I’d really like to never again receive a letter demanding payment for an expired license tag on a pet of mine that has expired.” Q

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said, referring to the system designed to offer Caltrain commuters a way to travel that “last mile” to their workplaces. Initially envisioned as a sevenstation network, with two stations at Stanford University, it was ultimately pared down to just five — all fairly close to a train depot. Palo Alto isn’t the only city where Bay Area Bike Share has been a flop. In Redwood City, which has seven stations and 115 bikes, the rate of trips per day per bike was a piddling 0.08 between Sept. 1, 2014, and Aug. 31, 2015. Mountain View and San Jose did somewhat better, with rates of 0.39 and 0.31, respectively. Now, however, Palo Alto intends to shift to a different type of bike-share program once the current one expires Nov. 30. (The council on June 20 actually approved a $37,500 extension of the contract, which was set to expire on July 1.) Specifically, the city is looking at a “smart bike” system, in which technology is imbedded on bikes rather than in “smart dock” stations used by Motivate, which runs Bay Area Bike Share. Each bike would be equipped with a small black box that includes a computer processor linking it to a central computer. In many cases, these bikes could be checked out with a phone app and then returned to designated hubs, which would feature standard bike racks. The leading contender to administer the program is Social Bicycles, a company that has recently implemented a 50-bike pilot program in San Mateo and that also operates in Long Beach, Phoenix, Santa Monica, Tampa and, most recently, Portland, Oregon. In Palo Alto, the move from Motivate to SoBi would go well beyond a technological shift. It would also be a change in the program’s geographic scope. The MTC recently funded a study that considered Palo Alto’s highdemand areas, evaluated other suburban communities’ bike programs, and determined that the ideal size for a bike-share program in Palo Alto would feature 35 stations. Those locations might include downtown, around California Avenue, near the Stanford University Medical Center, around Stanford Research Park and at other “major attractions” and public facilities, according to a report from city planning staff. The shift is being driven in large part by economics. Keeping the current Motivate system would cost Palo Alto about $33 per trip, according to Mello. Expanding the Motivate system to 35 stations would reduce the per-trip cost to $6, but it would also require the city to spend about $1.8 million on the 29 new stations. Switching to a “smart bike” system, administered by SoBi, could drop the per-trip expenses to $3 per trip, a cost that Mello

noted “puts it in line with the typical (public) transit trip.” However, the program’s startup costs wouldn’t be cheap. Because the city would be buying an entire fleet of bikes and paying for new stations and a new vendor, the program is projected to cost the city about $4 million over a fiveyear period. Even so, council members generally agreed that switch would be worthwhile. Councilman Marc Berman said that if the the city plans to keep going with bikeshare programs, SoBi is “the right option.” Vice Mayor Greg Scharff pointed to the city’s deteriorating traffic conditions and said he’d like to see the city “move as quickly as possible” on switching to a new bike-share program. “When you look at these numbers, it seems hard to imagine choosing Motivate over SoBi,” Scharff said. “It seems to me this is where we should go on this.” The council will still have plenty of decisions to make about the new program, including the loca-

tions of new stations. In April, members offered varying ideas, with Councilman Tom DuBois stressing the importance of having stations at dense employment sites like Stanford Research Park, Councilwoman Karen Holman saying she would like to see some at local hotels, and Mayor Pat Burt making the case for having stations in neighborhoods, so that residents would have a good option for biking to Caltrain. These decisions will be further evaluated in August or September, when the council is next scheduled to discuss a potential agreement with SoBi. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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fee that is not inconsequential is we’d like to incentivize actually getting the units — either on- or off site — rather than just collecting the money,” Planning Director Hillary Gitelman said at the June 21 committee meeting. For rental housing, Palo Alto currently has no requirement that developers provide below-market-rate units. Such a requirement would conflict with the Costa Hawkins Act, which allows owners of new rental housing to set initial rental rates and empowers owners of existing units to set rates after a unit is vacated. By adopting the impact fees based on the nexus study, the city would for the first time require marketrate rental projects to contribute to the city’s affordable-housing program, at $50 per net new square foot. Schmid took issue with the

idea of raising fees for housing projects and proposed a different schedule, one in which commercial fees would be twice as high as housing fees. “Why are we creating disincentives for housing when we live in the community that has the most unbalanced ratio of jobs to employed residents?” Schmid asked. His colleagues disagreed. Wolbach noted that the increase would only impact those projects that do not provide any affordable housing. And Councilwoman Karen Holman argued that even with the higher fees, the incentive to build in Palo Alto’s hot real estate market will remain high. “With what housing goes for in Palo Alto, I don’t think we’re close to disincentivizing housing,” Holman said. “We’re raising what it costs to build housing here, but I don’t think it’s close to a disincentive.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be e-mailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Violence related Armed robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Assault with a deadly weapon . . . . . . . 1 Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Elder abuse/financial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle related Abandoned bicycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Driving with suspended license . . . . . 14 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 8 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . 11 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

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Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Casualty/fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 False info to police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Firearm disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Misc. municipal code violation . . . . . . . 1 Missing juvenile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Public nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Miscellaneous Civil issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disturbing/annoying phone calls . . . . . 1 Domestic disturbance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 False personation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Gang validations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warrant undefined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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June 29-July 5 Violence related Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Residential burglary attempt. . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 7 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

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Marlo Prehn Marlo Gilbert Prehn, a 47-year resident of Palo Alto, died on June 3 in Mountain View. He was 88. He was born on Oct. 4, 1927, on a farm in Clear Lake, South Dakota. After his high school graduation, he joined the United States Merchant Marine in 1945. In December of 1946, he married Ruth Stanley, his childhood sweetheart, and together they raised four children. In 1953, the family moved from South Dakota to Palo Alto, and Marlo found employment with Oddstad Homes, which built thousands of houses in the Bay Area

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in addition to a number of office buildings and shopping centers, particularly in Redwood City and Pacifica. At the company, he began as an equipment operator, transitioned to accounting and then advanced to roles as property manager and real estate broker. In 1971, he opened the doors of his own real estate company in Palo Alto, Prehn Realty, and he remained in the field until his 2000 retirement, when he moved with his wife to Mountain View. In the 1950s, he and Ruth were early members of Grace Lutheran Church. Prehn also participated in a club with fellow U.S. Merchant Marine members and rooted for the San Francisco 49ers and San Francisco Giants. He loved traveling and spending time with his family, especially his grandchil-

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dren and great-grandchildren. According to his family, he made friends easily, winning them over with his kindness and sense of humor. He is survived by his wife of nearly 70 years, Ruth Prehn of Mountain View; four children, Mark Prehn of Montrose, Colorado, Nancy Boling of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Gary Prehn of Redwood City and Joy Helsaple of Palo Alto; eight grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. A celebration of life is being planned for Oct. 1 at Grace Lutheran Church, 3149 Waverley St., Palo Alto. Those interested in attending should contact jhelsaple@ yahoo.com. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made in his name to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America (wish.org).

Kenneth Arthur Arutunian (Ken) died peacefully at home on Father’s Day, June 19, 2016 with his wife and children by his side. This day was particularly fitting as he was the loving father of four children, stepfather of three and grandfather to eight grandchildren and four step-grandchildren. A proud American of Armenian heritage, Ken was born in Los Angeles on May 20, 1935, the son of Arthur Misak Arutunian and Victoria Casabian. Ken attended Stanford University before enrolling in the U.S. Army. After his service, Ken graduated from Cal Poly Pomona before receiving his Master’s in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University. Co-founder of Arutunian Kinney & Associates (AKA), Ken worked as a landscape architect in the Bay Area for more than forty years. With his sister, Carol Arutunian, he also established the first European-style café in Palo Alto, Café Verona. An avid sportsman, Ken loved tennis, ping pong and hiking, and his favorite hikes included the Vernal and Nevada Falls trails in Yosemite. He also enjoyed working in the pottery studio and vegetable gardening. Active in his community, Ken participated in the Barron Park Association, Trees For Menlo and, over the years, various pro bono landscape architecture projects. Ken leaves behind his beloved wife Marsha; his son Aaron and his wife Cathleen of San Jose; his daughter Katie of San Diego; his daughter Leslie of Watsonville; his son Ethan and his wife Aude of Seattle; and former spouse Elise Bryant. He is also survived by his stepdaughter Leslie and her husband Basem of Oakland; his stepdaughter Amy of Burlingame; his stepdaughter Katie and her husband Josh of San Mateo; eight grandchildren, four step-grandchildren and his sister Mary of Santa Monica. He was predeceased by his sister Carol. A private memorial will be held. Donations may be made to Pathways Hospice or a charity of your choice. Spangler Mortuary, Menlo Park assisting the family.

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May 3, 1955 – June 13, 2016 Resident of San Mateo Beloved mother of Sarah and Graham Keyston, caring sister of Linda Bilhorn Holman of Omaha, NE, and devoted daughter of the late James and Virginia Bilhorn. Lisa was born in St. Louis, MO, where she graduated from Principia Upper School. Lisa earned Bachelors degrees in Biology & Studio Art from Principia College in Elsah, IL and a Master’s in Landscape Architecture from Cal Poly Pomona, one of the top landscape architecture programs in the United States. Lisa then worked in Woodside for six years with Jack Stafford, a well-respected Bay Area landscape architect who had apprenticed under Thomas Church, before opening her own firm – LBKLA, Inc. Lisa leaves a legacy of numerous projects in the San Francisco Bay Area over the past 35+ years, in the simple yet elegant artistry that is the hallmark of her style. Aside from her work, Lisa enjoyed playing tennis, riding her bike along Cañada Road, sailing, and spending time with her Yellow Labrador Retrievers. She was loved and will be missed by many family members, clients, colleagues, tennis partners, and church friends. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the gardens at Filoli – 86 Cañada Road, Woodside, CA 94062 – in memory of Lisa Keyston. PAID

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The education innovator Ramin Rahimian for Education Week/Courtesy Michael W. Kirst

Stanford’s Michael Kirst has played key role in giving local school districts more control by Elena K advany

Michael Kirst, Stanford University professor emeritus of education and business administration, is president of the California State Board of Education. evolutionary change in public education is rare. Yet California’s public school districts are today in the midst of a sea change, due largely to the efforts of Michael Kirst, the longest serving state Board of Education president and a longtime professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education. Kirst, close to 80 years old, is now in his 52nd year of an uncommon career in education policy. Despite an intimidating CV that spans decades of education experience, from the White House to the California school board, the retired professor conveys neither self-importance nor pretensions. Mild-mannered and affable, Kirst seems at home in his comfortable Stanford office, reflecting on years past while sitting beneath a ceiling-high wall of books (some of which he’s authored) and a black-and-white photograph of his younger self shaking hands with President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. On a recent summer afternoon, a single large window was thrown open to let in the breeze and the sounds of campus visitors. Despite the late stage of his career, Kirst recently shepherded through a dramatic shift in how California school districts operate — from government-driven, topdown budgeting to an emphasis on local autonomy and community involvement. He has been called the “key architect” of the state’s new Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which since 2013 has required California school districts to develop three-year Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAP), which spell out how they will spend funding to improve education for all students. When Gov. Jerry Brown signed this bill

into law on July 1, 2013, he called it “truly revolutionary.” “We are bringing government closer to the people, to the classroom where real decisions are made, and directing the money where the need and challenge is greatest,” he said. “This is a good day for California, it’s a good day for school kids, and it’s a good day for our future.” While the governor and many others have championed the new funding formula as a historic reform for California’s encumbered public school system, it has also been criticized by some advocacy groups who worry more local flexibility and less accountability could hurt high-needs students. However, independently conducted studies of the local-control formula that have uncovered concerns about transparency and accountability are nonetheless optimistic about this next era in California education. The Local Control Funding Formula set uniform funding rates based on districts’ average daily student attendance across particular grades. It aims to help the districts that need the most aid by providing supplemental funding for certain student subgroups, such as English language learners, low-income students and foster youth, and concentration funding for districts whose Englishlearner and low-income populations exceed 55 percent of their enrollment. It eliminated approximately 75 percent of special state programs created to serve needs not met by general fund regular education programs, known as categorical programs. Now only 14 are left. This was “almost an 180-degree turn” for a system entrenched in

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decades of categorical programs and incremental funding, Kirst said in an interview with the Weekly. “You were stage managing the local,” he said. “It was, as I call it, a historical accretion with no underlying rationale and no linkage to student needs. For every categorical program that helped lowincome students, they passed one for the middle-income (students). It was very complex. “That spurred the idea that we need to move back to some simple principles, pass these simple principles, unload the past and start with a new paradigm,” he said. Welcome to the new paradigm. Three years in, school districts across the state are adjusting to the new formula, which provides districts dollars based on the demographic profile of the students they serve. Despite representing a step back for the government, it also put in place “enhanced” accountability requirements, Kirst wrote with State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson in an August 2013 letter to superintendents and charter school administrators about the impending changes. Among other criteria, the formula requires strong parent involvement — a requirement that has spurred new levels of community participation in what was a previously opaque, inaccessible budgeting process, Kirst told the Weekly. Asking districts to create multiyear budget plans that are updated each year with the help of the community has also led to improved long-term planning while also encouraging transparency, Kirst said. Despite the fact that Palo Alto Unified is among 15 percent of

school districts in the state, according to the California Legislative Analyst’s Office, that do not receive additional revenue through the new funding formula due to its high per-pupil funding rates, the district is still required to follow the LCFF process. Palo Alto must hold public meetings to collect feedback and input as it annually updates its Local Control Accountability Plan, measuring itself against past years and setting goals for the future. The Palo Alto Board of Education approved this update at its last meeting of the school year on June 21. t’s hard to believe that Kirst, one of California’s leading education policy analysts, fell into the field by happenstance. Kirst, who grew up near Reading, Pennyslvania, was recruited by Dartmouth College as a high school football player. He attended the private New Hampshire college on a need-blind scholarship, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1961. Attracted to public service, he went on to Harvard University to obtain a master’s in public administration in government and economics and then a doctorate, also at Harvard, in political economy and government. Fresh out of college, he went to interview at what is now called the Office of Management and Budget at the White House. He was offered jobs in three areas: K-12 education, veterans affairs and water pollution. He chose K-12 education somewhat off the cuff, he said, and started as a budget examiner for the U.S. Bureau of the Budget. Kirst rose through the ranks,

serving as associate director of the President’s Commission on White House Fellows and National Advisory Council on Education of Disadvantaged Children; then director of Program Planning and Evaluation for the Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education in the U.S. Office of Education. He was also program analyst for the Title I program of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which provides financial assistance to districts with high numbers of low-income students, at its inception in 1965. At the time, he said, he had “zero interest” in teaching, but when Stanford knocked on his door with an offer to teach federal and state policy and school finance at the Graduate School of Education, he decided to temporarily relocate to California. The Pennsylvania senator he worked for in the Senate had just lost re-election, and Kirst planned to return to Washington, D.C. in four years. But in 1974, Kirst met Gov. Jerry Brown, who was elected to office that year. The two collaborated on a school-finance plan central to Brown’s campaign and ever since then have worked closely together on education policy. In an April interview with CALMatters, Brown described his colleague as “thoughtful, careful, thorough.” Kirst is knowledgeable yet humble, a person who either knows the answer to a question “or he knows that he doesn’t,” Brown told CALMatters. “Kirst is very much a person of inquiry,” Brown added. “That’s probably why he’s able to create such harmony in a completely unharmonious world called publication education.”

Cover Story Kirst was first appointed to the state Board of Education in 1975. He again served, this time as president, from 1977 to 1981 and 2011 to 2013. Kirst is now in his fourth term, with about two years left before the end of Brown’s administration. irst’s top priorities, both when he got his start on the state board and now, as a veteran member, have been to equalize funding and improve curriculum, he said. Both initiatives start and end with local control. Long-term reform in California’s schools does need to draw on strong state policy and government accountability, “but for every ratchet up of accountability, you need to ratchet up equally capacity building at the local level,” Kirst reflected in a Stanford-created video on his career. The state board has established eight priority areas that districts must address in their Local Control Accountability Plans. Districts must examine all eight in some way — consider progress or collect feedback, for example — but are not required to put money toward all of them.

Michael Kirst works in his office at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education. things they were trying to do,” he said. Many also restricted their priorities to those that are realistic to meet and fund, rather than spreading a thin layer of money to meet all eight, Kirst said. Effective plans also require strong community involvement and an accessible, transparent budget process, he said. “The theory of action is if you’re going to decategorize the state control ... and say, ‘We’re going to lessen up on what the state directs,’ then in a democracy you need more local community parental input into the budget,” he added. Critics, however, have said that the local-control plans lack transparency and allow for too much variation from district to district. In April, The Education Trust -

West released a report following up on an initial study of 40 localcontrol plans across the state. The education-advocacy agency again found that “as in 2014-15, the 2015-16 LCAPs present an unclear, difficult-to-read view of how districts plan to spend their resources.” “Without a comprehensive understanding of a district’s spending, communities are unable to make a clear and full assessment of whether supplemental/concentration dollars are indeed reaching high-need students,” the 2016 report states. Other reports and local stakeholders have said the plans themselves are unwieldly and lack clarity; in order to fulfill the state program’s vision, they must be

more user-friendly, streamlined and easy to understand, particularly for parents and community members. The Education Trust - West report calls on policymakers, researchers, advocates and local community members to “scrutinize” data and demand accountability for the new plans. Yet despite any challenges, the new locally focused approach “by and large remains the greatest move toward a more equitable school finance system in California in 40 years,” the report states. “Any bold and significant change will inevitably encounter bumps in the road. What’s important is that we course-correct when we hit those bumps: improvements in LCAP budget transparency will

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Districts must follow a template, adopted by the state school board, to set goals and measure progress around these categories. A work in progress, the board has approved guidelines for districts to follow as a means for interim evaluation. A more in-depth “rubric” that assesses LCAPs based on a range of state and local data, including graduation rates, standardized test scores and climate surveys, among others, is coming before the state board for the first time next week. Kirst said that districts with the most successful Local Control Accountability Plans don’t view it as a “compliance document.” “They look at it as a strategic way to allocate their resources to meet whatever strategic plan and

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1. Basic services — providing all students access to fully credentialed teachers, standards-aligned instructional materials and wellmaintained school facilities 2. Implementation of state academic standards, including the Common Core State Standards for English and math and Next Generation Science Standards 3. Course access — ensuring all students have access to a broad course of study in all required subject areas 4. Improving student achievement, such as performance on statewide standardized tests, AP exams or percentage of English learners that become English proficient 5. Other indicators of student performance in required areas of study 6. Student engagement (attendance, drop-out and graduation rates) 7. Parental involvement/ engagement 8. School climate

Michael Kirst, a key figure during the formative years of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, shakes hands with Johnson in 1965.

keep us moving down that road.” The funding revamp has also been framed as a means to close California’s persistent and stillwidening achievement gap. Kirst and Brown, however, don’t want an experimental reform’s success — or failure — to be determined strictly by that single measure. An interim goal, Kirst said, is to get all California students college and career ready. “Lawmakers and the governor were wise to replace an unwieldy and irrational education-funding system with one that puts decision-making closer to the classroom and allocates more funding for students with the greatest needs,” Kirst wrote in a April 24 EdSource piece titled “Transformation goal is to narrow achievement gap, promote college and career success.” “Thus far, the state has invested $12.8 billion in the new funding formula, which represents 90 percent of the total target through the first three years of implementation. How local school boards, education officials, parents, teachers, students and stakeholders use these dollars to narrow the achievement gaps is a key factor in determining local progress.” The new Common Core standardized test, the Smarter Balanced Assessment, is uniquely designed to help better measure districts’ progress toward that goal — and hold them accountable, Kirst said. The Smarter Balanced is the only computer-adaptive standardized test in the nation, Kirst said, meaning the software adjusts the difficulty of questions as a student (continued on next page)

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Michael Kirst, president of the California State Board of Education and a professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, stands in the lobby of the Graduate School of Education, on June 30.

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moves through so that his or her results can better illustrate what skills he or she has mastered or needs to improve on. It’s also a marked departure from the penciled-in scantrons of its predecessor, the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) program, and even the current paper-and-pencil SAT test. “I think it is the best assessment in America,” Kirst said, which will, ideally, yield the best results to help move the state forward. nother major shift that Kirst has overseen during his time on the state board is California’s transition to the Common Core State Standards. Adopted in California in 2010, the new K-12 standards were designed to help teachers bring the best and most current thinking about how to prepare students for college and career success into classroom instruction. For some school districts, the standards are more rigorous and represent a dramatic change; for others, like Palo Alto Unified, teachers say they have been teaching for years in the deeper style of the new standards, which espouse critical thinking, project-based learning and real-world application. With the state’s adoption of the Common Core (which covers English language arts and mathematics), the Next Generation Science Standards and forthcoming history/social science standards, “We will have overhauled the four main curriculum areas,” Kirst said.

The relatively easy part — state policy — is done. What’s harder, and is still very much a work in progress, even in districts like Palo Alto, is effective implementation on the ground in classrooms across California, Kirst said. Several years in, teachers are still re-

porting in surveys that they need more support teaching the new standards, particularly in math. “That’s what wakes me up at night,” Kirst said. “How do I get at that?” Despite these challenges, Kirst hopes he’ll eventually leave Cali-

fornia with a lasting educational legacy: fundamentally improved curriculum. “What I’ve learned in the 52 years is if you’re not improving and updating classroom instruction, then you’re not doing all that much,” he said. “It’s nice to have and it’s essential to have a good finance system, but the money can be used in lots of ways. We’re really focused on improving instruction and updating it — and that’s the hardest thing to do.” hese days, Kirst has shifted his professional focus to what he calls “K-16,” or linking K-12 with higher education. In 2004, he published “From High School to College: Improving Opportunities for Success in Postsecondary Education,” which he called a “manifesto for overhauling many aspects of higher education.” Several years later, he launched his College Puzzle blog, which he said was one of the first dedicated to the topic of college success and is today populated by a group of guest authors. This year, he published “Remaking College: The Changing Ecology of Higher Education, which looks at the “fate and future” of American higher education in light of budget cuts, rising tuition costs and ever-growing demand. Kirst is also close to publishing yet another book that captures research he’s conducted over the last several years, supported by a grant from the Gates Foundation, on the close to 400 post-secondary institutions in the Bay Area, from adult-education programs to barber schools. The research weighs their success and failures

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Buttons celebrating Michael Kirst’s career were created for his retirement party. Kirst has since returned to teaching and working at Stanford University.

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within a region with a rapidly growing economy and strong demand for higher education. “As the president of one CSU said to me, ‘This economy changes exponentially, and I struggle to change incrementally,’” Kirst said. The new book, due out next year, argues that the Bay Area needs a concerted, regional approach to address an “acute” excess of demand over supply, Kirst said. Kirst and the rest of the state board will tackle several high-level issues this year, from approving a new history/social studies framework for the state to responding to the U.S. Department of Education’s new Every Student Succeeds Act, which replaced No Child Left Behind. The board will also consider significant revisions for its Local Control Accountability Plan template to address schools’ and parents’ concerns. And meanwhile, the full impact of Kirst’s funding overhaul remains to be seen, and school districts, advocacy groups and policymakers across the state are watching closely. The theory of local control — “to bring the democracy bottom up rather than top down” — was ambitious, will need time to take root and is still, admittedly, a “work in progress,” Kirst said. He pointed to independent studies that have found evidence of the state program’s impact, even at this early stage. The Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) found in December 2015 that there is strong support for the new funding model — out of hundreds of interviews conducted over two years with administrators, parents, community members, union leaders and board members, not a single person said they would go back to California’s categorical model. At many districts, LCFF has allowed districts to focus more on supports and services for their neediest students, to improve their strategic planning, to increase community engagement and to close the gap between budget and classroom. Yet “the learning curve for all remained steep and old habits die hard,” PACE notes. With the “legacy of categorical funding ... deeply embedded in the DNA of many state, district and county officials,” challenges of implementation threaten Kirst’s vision of localized, simplified control. “We’re not proclaiming victory here,” Kirst told the Weekly. “We’re just saying it’s better. Compared to what? Better compared to the old days.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

About the cover: Michael Kirst, president of the California State Board of Education and a professor of education at Stanford University, stands in front of the university’s Cecil H. Green Library on June 30. Photo by Veronica Weber.

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FFiloli’s iloli’s centennial centennial celebrates fashion and history

iloli House and Gardens is celebrating its centennial with special programs and displays designed to whisk visitors back in time to the days of afternoon teas, formal balls and society dinners. In addition to an outdoor sculpture exhibition, a display of embroidery, and a lineup of jazz concerts, Filoli (located in Woodside and administered by the National Trust for Historic Preservation) is exhibiting a collection of vintage clothing owned by the women who lived in one of the most renowned estates on the Peninsula.

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display “Fashionable Filoli,” Filoli ” a di disp splayy of historic costumes placed around the first floor rooms of the main house, consists of 20 period dresses that were borrowed from Sarah Bourn Hayne Simpson, a descendent of Filoli’s original owner, William Bourn. Julie DeVere, who is Filoli’s head curator, initially approached Simpson in order to borrow some ceramics for a cabinet display. Simpson asked her if she would like to see the clothing collection that she has been maintaining for more than 40 years. “When she opened the door I was stunned,” DeVere said. “I had no

idea she had this collection or that it was so extensive.” DeVere made her selections based on condition of the fragile pieces and whether they could be exhibited safely, while telling the story of the men and women who wore them. The costumes are displayed on specially created mounts that had to take into account corsets, bustles, crinolines and lots of buttons. “My assistant and I spent nearly 24 hours making the mounts and other preparations for each garment,” she said. “Downton Abbey” fans know

that frequent, complicated clothing changes were a fundamental part of the “upstairs” lifestyle, the ladies and gentlemen requiring the assistance of faithful servants. William and Agnes Bourn, who oversaw the building of the Georgian Revival house from 1915-17, had an active social life that included frequent entertaining. Their guests enjoyed concerts, formal dinners, poker games and ballroom dances, all of which required special attire. Entering the reception room, visitors encounter a vintage 1916 dress once owned by William’s mother, Sarah Chase Bourn. It is a late

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The “Fashionable Filoli” exhibit features attire (including the dark gown in the reception hall and the intricately beaded blue dress in the ballroom) dating from the years circa 1915-1975, when Filoli was both a home and social destination.

Edwardian gown of gray raw silk with elegant silver-and-black metallic thread accents, perfect for a matriarch hostess. The gentleman’s tuxedo, borrowed from the San Mateo County Historical Museum, is suitably formal with tails and cummerbund. Most of the clothing is unlabeled, but some pieces came from the White House Department Store in San Francisco, known for featuring the highest quality fashions imported from France. In the dining room there is an elaborate display that recreates the “Drunks Dinner” of November, 1933. Thanks to historic photographs, the table and sideboard are arranged just as they were during the event, which was a celebration of the repeal of Prohibition. By this time the Bourns were invalids, but William’s sister, Ida Bourn, played hostess for the evening. Her dress, a clingy cream-colored silk evening gown adorned with hundreds of glass beads, looks elegant and surprisingly contemporary. In the same room, a display case holds an ivory gown owned by another sister, Maude Bourn Hayne. With layers upon layers of hand-worked lace, it is too fragile to be displayed on a mannequin but reveals the incredible time and effort required to create it. (continued on next page)

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Leisurely afternoons might have been spent in the drawing room playing cards or enjoying impromptu piano concerts. A late afternoon dress of silk chiffon, embellished with a satin sash and tiny pearls would have been just right. And if you wanted to dash outside for a cigarette, the Egyptian-inspired “flapper coat” with metal strips hand-woven into the fabric would have been warm (but extremely heavy). DeVere points out that the years represented in the clothing, from the turn of the century to the 1980s, reflect the evolution of fashion and the changing soInfo: “Fashionable Filoli” will be on display until Sept. 25. General admission is $20 adults/$17 seniors/$10 children and normal hours are Tuesday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (open until 7:30 p.m. on certain summer evenings). A special evening event, Step Back in Time, is planned for Friday July 15, 5-8 p.m. Music and attire of the 1920s will be featured and guests are encouraged to wear period dress. Tickets are $40 for members and $45 for nonmembers, with advanced purchase required. Tickets can be purchased online at filoli.org/step-back-in-time or by calling Filoli 650-364-8300, ext. 508. Filoli is located at 86 Cañada Road, Woodside.

cial and cultural mores. The early dresses are, on average, a size six and many of the waists measure 24 inches. A formal black dress in the reception room accentuates the “hourglass” figure so longed for at the time. With its flowing skirt of ebony glass beads, the dress is elegant and stylish but would have been impossible to sit down in. “Some of these dresses have dozens of button and snap closures that absolutely required women to have the assistance of a lady’s maid,” DeVere said. The dresses in the mural-filled ballroom reflect the slow transition from women being tightly bound and corseted to dressing for comfort and convenience. A White House day dress, dated around 1880, is a lushly layered garment, with a deep purple bodice made of velvet and a silk sateen skirt. The tiny waist is achieved by being very tightly corseted. A corresponding label and diagram explain just what such compression did to the female anatomy, causing distortion to the rib cage and squeezing the diaphragm. “You can clearly see why fainting couches came into being,” noted DeVere. And lest we forget the “downstairs” residents, uniforms worn by the chef and maids can be seen in the kitchen. Because none of the servants’ clothing survived, these garments were faithfully recreated (continued on page 29)

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Stanford Jazz Festival in full swing Bassists Linda Oh and Esperanza Spalding among notable performers

or jazz fans, highlights of the annual Stanford Jazz Festival are many, with world-class talent both locally and globally sourced. Mixing and matching from the superb Stanford Jazz Workshop (the festival’s parent organization) faculty, founder and director Jim Nadel puts together a diverse festival lineup, running this year through Aug. 6 at various venues on the Stanford campus. A prominent presence at this year’s festival is bassist Linda Oh. The Malyasia-born, Australiaraised, current New York City resident is playing in concerts at Dinkelspiel Auditorium (starting at 8 p.m. each night) on Tuesday, Aug. 2, Wednesday, Aug. 3, and Friday, Aug. 5. She’s also participating in the all-star closing-night concert on Saturday, Aug. 6, at Bing Concert Hall. A member of Manhattan School of Music’s (MSM) precollege jazz faculty, Oh said she’s looking forward to being a part of the faculty of the Stanford Jazz Workshop (SJW) for the first time. In addition to playing with pianist-keyboardist Fabian Almazan since their MSM days, Oh is a longtime member of trumpeter Dave Douglas’ most recent quintet. Oh has also played in the Sound Prints quintet with Douglas and tenor saxophone titan Joe Lovano, and in three different family groups, including two co-led by twins — The Le Boeuf Brothers and a trio with saxophonist and drummer Marcus and E.J. Strickland. She’s also been a member of The Whitfield Family Band. As is the case every year with the festival, there will be some familial-type reunions on the bandstand at the shows that Oh will anchor on bass. The Aug. 2 date is billed as “Ambrose and

Friends,” with Oakland native and workshop alumnus Ambrose Akinmusire leading a group that includes Almazan and drummer Obed Calvaire. He and Calvaire formed a trumpet trio for Oh’s debut album, “Entry,” which she self-released in 2009. The following night boasts an international flair with at least three sets of musical ties: guitarist Gilad Hekselman (born and raised in Israel) and guitarist/vocalist Camila Meza (a native of Chile) co-headline a show that features pianist Ethan Iverson (of The Bad Plus fame) and the legendary drummer Billy Hart.) Mapping out the connections, one finds that Oh has gigged with Hekselman, and they’ve both played with saxophonist Jonathan Greenstein. She’s also performed in concert with Meza, and Iverson and Hart have been members of each other’s bands for over a decade. (The Billy Hart Quartet, with Iverson, saxophonist Mark Turner and double bassist Ben Street, has its own show at Dinkelspiel on Sunday, July 31, at 8 p.m.) On Friday, Aug. 5, Oh will participate in the famed SJW All-Star Jam in which a slew of faculty members — including saxophonists Turner and SJW alumnus Dayna Stephens, and Meza and Hekselman — partake in an always-inspired night of organizedyet-extemporaneous communal interactivity. The concluding 2016 festival concert on Saturday, Aug. 6, at Bing Concert Hall was originally going to feature Bobby McFerrin. The famed “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” vocalist had to pull out for health reasons and has been replaced by Grammy-winning bassist/vocalist Esperanza Spalding, now performing alongside Oh, Akinmusire, guitarist Julian Lage and pianist Taylor Eigsti

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Bassist Linda Oh will serve as the rhythmic backbone in a number of performances at this year’s Stanford Jazz Festival. for personal reasons. “Paul’s music was the soundtrack for the first date I had long ago with my later-to-be wife,” Krosnick wrote in an email, “and we just celebrated our 30th anniversary. Cathy credits Paul’s music as illustrating for her the kind of guy I am.” Q Freelance writer Yoshi Kato can be emailed at yoshiyoungblood@earthlink.net.

(both SJW alumni) and percussionist Tupac Mantilla. Oh said she’s intrigued at the possibility of performing with fellow double bassist/bass guitarist Spalding and isn’t sure exactly what to expect from that night. Though the festival and workshop take place at Stanford University, they are not officially affiliated with the school. However, there are some musicians with strong Stanford connections. The group Charged Particles features keyboardist Murray Low and drummer Jon Krosnick, who both have ties to The Farm. Low is a jazz-piano guest lecturer in the music department while Krosnick is the Frederic O. Glover professor in humanities and social sciences (the trio also includes bassist Aaron Germain). Woodwind virtuoso Paul McCandless will perform with the Charged Particles rhythm section on Saturday, July 9, at 8 p.m. at Campbell Recital Hall, and will also give an “Inside Jazz” preconcert talk an hour prior at that Braun Music School venue. Performing with McCandless is particularly special to Krosnick

Where: Various venues on the Stanford campus When: Through Aug. 6 Cost: Free-$105 Info: Go to stanfordjazz.org/ stanford-jazz-festival-2016 or call 650-736-0324.

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Sea Forager CSF delivers ethically sourced seafood to Midpeninsula

Kirk Lombard, founder of Sea Forager, stands outside on the docks of Fisherman’s Wharf, where the company receives fish every week. He eventually wore her down, got hired and spent the next seven years as a fisheries observer for the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. It was his job “to find out what the local citizenry was fishing for,” he explains on the Sea Forager website. Lombard’s specialty then and now, he said, is “the things that are hidden in plain sight.” He became skilled at catching monkeyface eels that live under rocks in the San Francisco Bay. He fished off a rare commercially registered kayak. He started blogging about his saltwater experiences, calling it the Monkeyface News. Ever-resourceful, when he lost his job with Fish and Wildlife, he found a San Francisco foraging company and pitched them the idea of a seafood foraging class. It took off, got some media attention and he eventually left the foraging company to run his own tours — talking about the history of the San Francisco Bay, its fish populations, pollution problems, sustainability and how to forage for your own seafood. At the end of the tours, Lombard said what he frequently heard from participants was: This is really cool, but I have no time to scour the coast for my own smelt and eels. “But if I want to know where my fish came from and I want to do the right thing as far as sourcing sustainably, where should I go?” he said people often asked him. “It just suddenly dawned on me after two years of doing those tours that I could be selling fish,” he said. He started what he said was, at the time, San Francisco’s second Community Supported Fishery (CSF), similar to the more commonly known Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) subscriptions. Lombard only works with small-scale fishermen who use ethical practices — line-caught, never in a net. He’s also partnered with TwoXSea, a San Francisco company with rigorous sustainability standards that supplies Bay Area restaurants with seafood. Sea Forager customers often get TwoXSea fish, too, which must meet six criteria listed on the company’s website, from the harvesting of the fish has “left more than enough fish for future generations and caused no habitat destruction” to the person who caught the fish was paid fairly and the fish can be traced back to the vessel that caught them. In Lombard’s words, that means “the salmon were caught by fisherman Mikey aboard a ship built in 1922 in the eye of a wild Pacific gale four miles off Bolinas” and “you could have a beer with most of your fishermen because they operate nearby,” he writes on his website. Lombard adheres to TwoXSea’s standards simply “because it just seemed like, what does the world really need? Does it need another person (who’s) making excuses, or should I just really do the hardest thing? I think that’s what we’re doing.”

In a world where much of the seafood is mislabeled or caught unethically — but combating that as a consumer can feel overwhelming — Sea Forager offers a solution. And it’s apparently a popular solution. Within two months of launching Sea Forager’s subscription service, 150 people signed up, Lombard said. There are now about 540 subscribers from San Francisco to the South Bay. Local customers include both the highly environmentally conscious and the more casual consumers who just want to eat great seafood. Palo Alto resident Deborah Buck has subscribed to Sea Forager for about six months. Her seafood criteria are less stringent, but still environmentally conscious. “It’s got to be fresh,” she said, and she prefers seafood that is not farmed nor has been frozen. On the other end of the spectrum is Enoch Choi, a Palo Alto Medical Foundation doctor who recently returned from Meat Camp at Belcampo Meat Co.’s farm in Mount Shasta, gets his tomatoes from the same Scotts Valley farm that supplies Michelin-starred restaurant Manresa in Los Gatos, and will often cook Sea Forager’s goods in his own sous vide machine. To get seafood that met his quality standards, Choi used to drive to specialty markets in San Jose that fly in fresh fish. It took a lot of effort and money, he said. After attending one of Lombard’s foraging tours, he quickly signed up for the subscription service. Choi said he appreciates not only how delicious the fresh seafood is, but the level of intimacy he gets through Sea Forager. Sometimes Lombard will send a video of the fishermen who caught that week’s delivery, and Choi can watch his dinner get reeled in. “For people who care about things like that, more and more, they’re paying for the story,” Choi said. “It’s kind of like a reassurance. We like to have an ongoing dialogue about everything and this kind of completes a very missing part and understanding of a pretty essential thing that we do a couple times a day: eating. We know a lot more about a lot of things in our lives (than about) the provenance of our food.” Lombard is seeking to change that. To find out more about — and eat more — truly sustainable seafood, he unabashedly offers the obvious advice: Sign up for one of his tours, and find a nearby Sea Forager pickup location. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@paweekly.com. A longer version of this story is posted at PaloAltoOnline.com. More information about Sea Forager, along with details about Lombard’s forthcoming book, “The Sea Forager’s Guide to the Northern California Coast,” is at seaforager.com.

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Writer-director Taika Waititi specializes — or at least has to date — in the charmingly goofy, like last year’s vampire comedy “What We Do in the Shadows,” the romantic comedy “Eagle vs Shark,” and the coming-of-age comedy-drama “Boy.” Although Waititi’s potentially gamechanging next film will be the blockbuster Marvel superhero movie “Thor: Ragnarok,” he has at least one more indie-flavored charmer for audiences: the new family adventure “Hunt for the Wilderpeople.” Adapted from Barry Crump’s novel “Wild Pork and Watercress,” “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” embraces its novelistic origins by dividing its story into 10 chapters, but Waititi gives the story a quirky spin, as if the likes of “Where the Red Fern Grows” crossed with Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom.” The story unfolds in Waititi’s native New Zealand, where 13-year-old Maori child-of-the-state Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison) gets placed with the Faulkners, an older couple living on the outskirts of the bush. Ricky’s a problem child who romanticizes gangsterism and has a litany of petty crimes by which Child Welfare — personified in Rachel House’s humorously officious, wildly overzealous Paula— has judged him. Matters immediately start looking up for Ricky in the nurturing

Ricky (Julian Dennison) and Hec (Sam Neill) go missing in the New Zealand bush in “Hunt for the Wilderpeople.” embrace of new “Aunt” Bella (Rima Te Wiata) and the company of a new dog, which Ricky names Tupac. But when circumstances conspire to take Bella out of the picture, Ricky finds himself alone with grumpy, 65-year-old Hector (Sam Neill of “Jurassic Park”). “Uncle” Hec’s first instinct is to comply with a Child Services order to remove the child from him, but Ricky has other ideas, and soon the unlikely pair, along with Tupac and Hec’s dog Zag, find themselves on the run from Child Services and police, with a $10,000 bounty in play. With “about a million hectares to hide in” deep in the bush, Hec teaches Ricky survival skills and the two bond over adventure, the boy helping his “uncle” to “process” his emotions. Ricky begins to romanticize the adventure not only in gangster terms but in natural ones: with the far-travelling wildebeest in mind, Ricky fancies himself and Hec as “wilderpeople,” hunted by pitiless authority figures who don’t understand. Amid the high-stakes plot, there’s

a whiff of romance for Ricky with a local girl and some truly wacky comedy involving a conspiracynut hermit self-dubbed “Psycho Sam” (the hilarious Rhys Darby of “Flight of the Conchords”). When the plot slows down, “Wilderpeople” can get a bit cutesy, but mostly Waititi skillfully undercuts the clichés with good humor. The picture has more genuinely funny moments than most so-called comedies at the multiplex, abetted by Waititi’s now-practiced comic sensibility, his stylized snap of performance and editing. If a bit raw, Dennison’s a definite find, and the longundervalued Neill makes the most of a juicy late-career role. Adding enormous value is the gorgeous — or as Hector calls it, “majestical” — scenery, although Ricky’s haiku, like the film itself, is less inspired by nature than by the good people moving through it. Rated PG-13 for thematic elements including violent content, and for some language. One hour, 41 minutes. — Peter Canavese

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‘Zappa in His Own Words’ lets late rock legend say his piece 000 (Aquarius Theatre) Ever since the mid-20th Century, to be a celebrated artist has meant living in a glass house, and the more the celebrity resists, the worse the intrusions become. And so the celebrity interview came to represent one of two things, or both, to the celebrity: an opportunity to “play nice” and throw some raw meat to the media, or a field

Avant-garde musician Frank Zappa, who died in 1993, tells his story in the documentary “In His Own Words.” of battle offering an opportunity to set the record straight about lies and misconceptions. From the evidence of Thorsten Schütte’s found-footage documentary “Eat

That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words,” avant-garde musician Zappa saw the interview as (continued on page 35)

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sometimes an endurance test, sometimes an amusement, and all the time a chess match he could never lose, played as it was against lesser lights. Zappa, who died in 1993 at the age of 52, remains best known as the rock icon who recorded and toured with his band the Mothers of Invention (which went through numerous iterations). Schütte’s career-spanning collection of interviews with Zappa tells his story “In His Own Words,” a story that also includes practical activism in support of his art, and a career in classical composition that wove through the years (most prominently attached to his experimental film “200 Motels”) and intensified in his last decade. “Eat That Question” comprises Zappa interviews, snippets of news magazine reports, pop-culture oddities (an early appearance on “The Steve Allen Show,” a “What’s My Line?” guest shot, a few choice musical performances, including one that aired on the Swedish show “Opopoppa,” and even a debate on “Crossfire” where Zappa warns of America turning into a “fascist theocracy.”) With nearly every appearance, Zappa builds his anti-establishment cred. Though he describes himself, with deceptive simplicity, as “an entertainer,” Zappa evinces a restless mind, easily tapped for creativity and intellect.

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Some films strive for a timelessness, aiming for future-classic status through finesse of scriptwriting and performance and visual design. And then there’s “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates,” a lazy, crass comedy that all but confesses it’s Mr. Right Now, not Mr. Right, by name-checking better films like “Jurassic Park” and “Wedding Crashers.” The “Wedding Crashers” allusion at least makes sense, as “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates” nakedly aspires to the earlier movie’s wedding-themed humor. The new film comes “inspired by the life stories of Mike Stangle and Dave Stangle,” two dumb, profane, mean-spirited, self-obsessed permafratboys who once ran a Craiglist ad to get dates for a family wedding. Mock-convinced their story would be “developed into a romantic comedy,” they wrote, “We refuse to let Ashton Kutcher play either of our characters, however, we will consider him for a supporting role.” That comma splice turned out to be prophetic: no Ashton Kutcher to be seen, but rather Adam Devine (“Pitch Perfect,” “Workaholics”) as wantonly destructive Mike and Zac Efron as almostas-boneheaded Dave. At the outset, Mike and Dave’s parents (Stephen Root and Stephanie Faracy) implore the boys to “grow up,” so as not to ruin another family event with drunken debauchery intended to impress women. The mandatory solution: secure women before they arrive at the Hawaiian wedding of their sweet sister (Sugar Lyn Beard) to nice guy Eric (Sam Richardson of “Veep”). Two conniving lowlifes — Anna Kendrick’s Alice and Aubrey Plaza’s Tatiana — answer the call, the joke being that they’re a match made in hell for Mike and Dave, even if they disguise their own walking-disaster status until it’s too late to ditch them. Yes, they’re meant for each other, and the fact that “Mike and Dave” will inevitably turn into a romantic comedy blunts its potential as a black comedy of comeuppance for the titular jerks. The lazy script by Andrew Jay Cohen & Brendan O’Brien (the team behind Efron’s “Neighbors” movies) encourages first-time feature director Jake Szymanski to

Brothers Mike (Adam Devine) and Dave (Zac Efron) place an online ad to find respectable dates for their sister’s Hawaiian wedding, but end up finding dates from hell in “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.” embrace the juvenile and amp up everything past amusing, past funny and into grotesque. Devine embodies the approach with his rubbery mugging, while Efron merely looks hot and yells a lot as the ostensible straight man. Plaza and Kendrick wring a few deadpan chuckles, but all around it’s a shame that talented performers (especially the women) are wasted on such dire material. You’ve seen everything here before, in some form, including the physical punishment doled out on the hapless bride-to-be and the oh-so-naughty sex scene, this time played out between Beard and guest-star Kumail Nanjiani (“Silicon Valley”), who’s saddled with a guru-esque massage therapist role that trades on racial stereotypes. The ultimate canary in the coal mine: a “say hello to my little friend” joke, which guarantees a film’s creative bankruptcy. Rated R for crude sexual content, language throughout, drug use and some graphic nudity. One hour, 38 minutes. — Peter Canavese Like so many rock icons (John Lennon leaps to mind), Zappa before an interview mic falls into the roles of philosopher (“We’re not concerned enough about the quality of our lives”), victim of misunderstanding and misinterpretation (“I’m famous, but most people don’t even know what I do”), and provocateur (“Dirty words don’t exist. This is a fantasy that is manufactured by religious fanatics and government organizations to keep people stupid”). And he’s rarely wrong. He can be short with interviewers and a bit petty, railing against fans of only his early work, for example, but he always has a valid point to make, even if only by interpretable satire. Zappa waged a lifelong battle against closed-minded squares, exemplified in his infamous 1980s censorship clash with Tipper Gore over warning labels on rock albums. But at one point, Zappa insists that he doesn’t use his oft-controversial art for political or religious or social causes. With typical bluntness, he says, “I do my music for people who like music.” And indeed, people who like music will find something to like about “Eat That Question.” Even those who hate Zappa’s music will likely be fascinated by his musical reach and his ornery personality. Zappa fanatics will be in hog heaven at the treasure-trove assemblage, and it’s certain the doc will make some new fans of the devilish rock icon. Rated R for language, some sexual references and brief nudity. One hour, 33 minutes. — Peter Canavese

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Home Front NET ZERO HOUSE TOUR ... Local energy expert Sven Thesen will open his home to the public Saturday, July 9 and describe the adventure of building the first Passive Energy House in Palo Alto. Utilizing the most environmentally responsible and aesthetically pleasing materials, the house meets California’s upcoming 2020 requirements for all new construction to have “net zero” energy use. You can also ride in and test drive a number of electric vehicles: a Nissan Leaf, a Chevy Volt and Spark, and a Tesla. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 314 Stanford Avenue, Palo Alto. The cost is free. Please go to Acterra. org to register.

The kitchen and great room is flooded with light through a wall of glass that faces the back yard. The kitchen backsplash tile is made of small multicolored glass squares. The backsplash as well as the custom-made Italian stools and the British hand-blown glass kitchen lights were all the splurges in the project.

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CLAY AND GLASS GALORE ... The 24th Annual Palo Alto Clay & Glass Festival will be held this Saturday July 9 and Sunday July 10 at the Palo Alto Art Center. The free event features both fine and functional art, from plates to vases to sculptures made of clay and glass. There will even be an event for children to work with clay. The festival is the largest show of its kind, with 150 juried artists displaying their work. Meet the artists and learn about their art. Enjoy a variety of engaging activities, including hands-on pottery-making and wheelthrowing demonstrations. The Art Center is at 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto.

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The couple was surprised by how much they used their house and yard and wanted them to be integrated. Because they spent money in other ways, Hawley and Szollar bought kitchen and bathroom cabinets from more reasonably priced IKEA.

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hen Adam Hawley and Suzan Szollar married and bought their little house on a corner lot in The Willows in 2001, it seemed j-u-s-t right. But by the time their second child came along, they were bursting out of its two-bedroom seams. Even with the children sharing a room, there was no room for out-of-town guests or a home office. “We knew we wanted to remodel and expand to get bedrooms for everybody and a guest room/office space,” Hawley said. But instead of that expansion/remodel, they ended up tearing down “all but a few walls and the foundation on one side,” he adds. Calling on architect and Willows neighbor Carl Hesse, they needed to assess just what they were allowed to do in a flood zone, with one side of the house on a slab at grade level, but a “lot technically underwater in a flood,” he said. “We were tripping over the rules,” he said, noting that they either had to keep the remodel small or make the whole house flood-compliant. In their frustration to get what they wanted, Hawley and Szollar started looking at properties for sale in the neighborhood. “We looked for another house not in the flood zone,” he says. After looking for 18 months, they decided to bite the bullet and rebuild on their lot — all while living in the house. They chose a contractor who agreed to wall off one side while he worked on the other, then would switch to complete the project. Hawley and Szollar had traveled extensively and were very attracted to modern homes built

around a central courtyard. “It’s like an oasis,” Szollar says, adding that they wanted their home to be as light and airy as possible. “The less walls the better,” she said. While they could not achieve an actual courtyard, given the shape of the corner lot, they could create a wall of glass in the new great room, overlooking the side and back yards. “We were surprised by how much we use all of the house and yard,” she adds. The large kitchen features Szollar’s favorite, a Thermador induction cooktop (they were introduced to induction cooking when they borrowed a couple of burners while cooking in the garage), as well as two Bosch dishwashers, stacked Whirlpool double ovens, a Samsung refrigerator with a magnetic surface and Grohe faucets. Even with a budget of close to $1 million, the family needed to make wise choices: All of their kitchen and bathroom cabinets are from IKEA; their large red couch in the great room was custom-made, saving at least half the cost; the chandelier over the dining table was found on a Chinese website. Their splurges included the kitchen backsplash tile, made of small multicolored glass squares. “It gives a little splash of color and makes it more interesting,” Hawley says. Custom-made stools were imported from Italy, and the kitchen lights are British handblown glass. A pantry beyond the kitchen not only offers (continued on page 38)

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The couple had traveled extensively and were attracted to modern homes built around a central courtyard. While their lot’s shape wouldn’t allow them to build a courtyard, the couple created a wall of glass looking out onto their side and back yards.

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storage for foodstuffs, but includes a wine refrigerator and a long countertop to keep appliances handy. Between the entry and the new kitchen/great room wing is a square office, with two bright green walls to liven things up. From the entry through the great room, flooring is engineered black walnut. That segues to polished concrete in the downstairs guest room. “We were afraid it would be too cold, but since it’s literally the slab we could do it cheaply,”

Hawley says. Rounding out the downstairs spaces is a laundry room/electronics area, a mud entryway with custom-made benches from Etsy, a garage with built-in storage shelves and a dog’s room (for shelter during bad weather). Upstairs, built around an atrium and adjacent to a balcony, are three bedrooms — the first is shared by the children now, the second is a play room and the third is the airy master bedroom with uncovered windows that look out to trees, his and hers closets and a skylight over the tub in the master bathroom. After nearly two years of construction, the family is quite con-

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247 Atherton Ave. N. Teymouriari to Lahas Limited for $10,800,000 on 05/18/16; built 2007, 4bd, 5,324 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/18/2003, $2,775,000 188 Fair Oaks Lane M. & C. Paige to M. Kang for $11,200,000 on 05/13/16; built 1905, 4bd, 6,910 sq. ft.; previous sale 01/09/1976, $230,000 190 Fair Oaks Lane Schwab Trust to J. Wang for $4,225,000 on 05/13/16; built 1935, 4bd, 2,870 sq. ft. 72 Magnolia DriveJ. & R. Coker to Chen-Yang Trust for $7,100,000 on 05/10/16; built 1954, 5bd, 5,920 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/23/2003, $2,850,000

East Palo Alto

206 Donohoe St. Mills Trust to M. Nejad for $525,000 on 05/13/16; built 1940, 4bd, 1,980 sq. ft. 206 Donohoe St. Mills Trust to K. Araghi for $550,000 on 05/13/16; built 1936, 2bd, 1,030 sq. ft. 837 Donohoe St. B. Diep to G. Kola for $988,000 on 05/11/16; built 2004, 3bd, 2,180 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/12/2005, $720,000 1952 McNair St. Tun Trust to S. & M. O’Malley for $1,150,000 on 05/19/16; built 2001, 4bd, 1,890 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/02/2002, $519,900 2336 Ralmar Ave. JA 2109 Dumbarton to Working Dirt for $801,000 on 05/12/16; built 1940, 3bd, 1,230 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/05/2002, $266,000 1982 West Bayshore Road #235 J. Yang to M. & H. Yoon for $605,000 on 05/17/16; built 2002, 1bd, 823 sq. ft.; previous sale

One of the three bedrooms upstairs was converted to a play room, while the children share the second regular bedroom. The master bedroom is also upstairs.

tent with their new digs. But there are always things they might have done differently: Szollar says she would have made the windows lower because she’s short, and she would have liked more variegated color in the bathroom tile. Hawley says the powder room door is aligned perfectly with the office door and exterior window, so people walking by can see in. But the couple is very happy with their “Villa Azur,” which they’ve named their new home. “It reminds us of being on vacation in Europe,” Hawley says. Q Freelance writer Carol Blitzer can be emailed at cblitzer@ sbcglobal.net.

RESOURCES: Architect: Carl Hesse, square three design studios, Palo Alto, 650-326-3860, www.squarethree.com Building contractor: Dana Kitaura, Kitaura Construction, Redwood City, 650-245-3156, http://kitauraconstruction.com Tile: AlysEdwards Tile & Stone (available at All Natural Stone, Burlingame, 650-239-5200), www.alysedwards.com Goal of project: Add bedrooms, enlarge kitchen, create great room — all in modern aesthetic Year house built: Originally 1949, rebuilt 2012-14 Size of home, lot: Was about 1,700 sq ft; now 3,000 sq ft on 7,400-sq-ft lot Time to complete: Just over 2 years Budget: About $875,000

SALES AT A GLANCE Atherton

Los Altos Hills

Total sales reported: 4 Lowest sales price: $4,225,000 Highest sales price: $11,200,000 Average sales price: $8,331,250

East Palo Alto

Total sales reported: 6 Lowest sales price: $2,980,000 Highest sales price: $5,200,000 Average sales price: $3,793,416

Palo Alto Total sales reported: 20 Lowest sales price: $1,115,000 Highest sales price: $4,501,000 Average sales price: $2,558,825

Menlo Park

Total sales reported: 6 Lowest sales price: $525,000 Highest sales price: $1,150,000 Average sales price: $769,833

Los Altos

Portola Valley

Total sales reported: 9 Lowest sales price: $770,000 Highest sales price: $5,000,000 Average sales price: $2,382,888

Total sales reported: 5 Lowest sales price: $1,805,000 Highest sales price: $5,450,000 Average sales price: $3,431,600

Mountain View

Total sales reported: 17 Lowest sales price: $1,295,000 Highest sales price: $3,390,000 Average sales price: $2,449,176

Total sales reported: 26 Lowest sales price: $507,000 Highest sales price: $3,120,000 Average sales price: $1,460,134

Woodside Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $3,300,000 Highest sales price: $4,588,000 Average sales price: $3,944,000 Source: California REsource

10/31/2006, $438,000

Los Altos

2240 Ancora Court Connelly Trust to S. & I. Mejias for $2,325,000 on 06/22/16; built 1964, 4bd, 2,496 sq. ft. 5633 Arboretum Drive Schneider Trust to Y. Dinai for $2,300,000 on 06/22/16; built 1951, 2bd, 1,932 sq. ft. 5886 Arboretum Drive W. & S. Maruyama to V. Ryabov for $1,875,000 on 06/14/16; built 1976, 4bd, 2,672 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/29/2003, $780,000 510 Benvenue Ave. Moniz Trust to J. & M. Garg for $2,360,000 on 06/15/16; built 1947, 3bd, 1,763 sq. ft. 725 Casita Way BAJKA Holdings to J. Lu for $2,850,000 on 06/13/16; built 1958, 4bd, 1,862 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/22/2013, $150,000 1694 Clay Drive Manea Trust to A. & H. Diwan for $2,960,000 on 06/13/16; built 1968, 5bd, 2,569 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/03/2014, $1,712,000

495 Cuesta Drive Templeton-Sun Trust to T. Nguyen for $2,600,000 on 06/21/16; built 1950, 3bd, 2,420 sq. ft. 1634 Dallas Court Voogel Trust to F. & A. Khan for $2,361,000 on 06/17/16; built 1953, 4bd, 2,260 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/26/1999, $770,000 456 Gabilan St. #6 Wohlfort & Bryant Trust to Recht Trust for $1,295,000 on 06/15/16; built 2003, 2bd, 1,345 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/27/2012, $1,100,000 2283 Grant Road S. Baughman to V. Kawade for $1,600,000 on 06/17/16; built 1950, 3bd, 1,049 sq. ft. 600 Milverton Road Beattie Trust to S. Velaga for $3,390,000 on 06/21/16; built 1952, 4bd, 3,011 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/03/1988, $581,000 833 Mora Drive Sinha Trust to W. Kong for $3,275,000 on 06/17/16; built 1954, 4bd, 2,551 sq. ft. 488 Tyndall St. B. Taranto to A. Recht for $1,480,000 on 06/14/16; built 2003, 2bd, 1,377 sq. ft. 789 Vista Grande Ave. C. & E.

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Merrifield to L. Rogo-Gupta for $3,290,000 on 06/17/16; built 1942, 4bd, 2,138 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/28/2006, $2,150,000 155 West Portola Ave. J. Yeh to L. Hsu for $2,375,000 on 06/14/16; built 2001, 4bd, 2,627 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/08/2009, $1,380,000 225 West Portola Ave. J. Jalalpour to L. & K. Yun-Nikolac for $2,300,000 on 06/17/16; built 1964, 3bd, 1,659 sq. ft.; previous sale 01/04/2007, $1,365,000 32 Yerba Buena Ave. Vlay Trust to E. MacK for $3,000,000 on 06/16/16; built 1956, 3bd, 2,037 sq. ft.

Los Altos Hills

27300 Deer Springs Way Su Trust to K. & A. Roy for $3,240,000 on 06/17/16; built 1976, 3bd, 3,846 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/15/2015, $3,700,000 25905 Estacada Drive Rosenblum Trust to J. & J. Land for $3,426,000 on 06/13/16; built 1964, 5bd, 2,875 sq. ft. 24821 Prospect Ave. Climo Trust to Young Trust for $2,980,000 on

06/21/16; built 1956, 4bd, 2,354 sq. ft. 27640 Sherlock Court Isca Assets 15 to T. Thomas for $5,200,000 on 06/21/16; built 1939, 3bd, 1,495 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/24/2000, $1,200,000 26375 Taaffe Road Schunk Trust to P. Gao for $3,210,000 on 06/14/16; built 1939, 4bd, 3,301 sq. ft. 25351 West Fremont Road Chow Trust to S. & D. Whiteley for $4,704,500 on 06/21/16; built 1957, 5bd, 2,896 sq. ft.

Menlo Park

1165 Bieber Ave. D. Dinwiddie to N. Hu for $770,000 on 05/18/16; built 1953, 3bd, 910 sq. ft.; previous sale 12/17/1968, $16,000 850 Cambridge Ave. First Sunnyside Development to Kmtb Trust for $5,000,000 on 05/11/16; built 2014, 4bd, 2,808 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/10/2014, $4,000,000 308 Lennox Ave. Saintclair Trust to D. Smith for $4,500,000 on 05/10/16; built 1938, 4bd, 5,619 sq. ft.

65 Lorelei Lane D. Kunzelman to C. Bidlack for $1,650,000 on 05/13/16; built 1956, 3bd, 1,100 sq. ft.; previous sale 12/16/1983, $133,000 766 Nash Ave. Smithstein Trust to Z. Zhong for $2,020,000 on 05/12/16; built 1927, 2bd, 1,510 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/17/2012, $1,157,500 657 Roble Ave. J. Arthur to B. Kadry for $1,450,000 on 05/19/16; built 1995, 3bd, 1,240 sq. ft. 186 Sand Hill Circle E. Franklin to Noguchi Trust for $1,730,000 on 05/11/16; built 1971, 2bd, 2,120 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/17/2012, $1,225,000 2359 Sharon Oaks Drive R. & A. Espeseth to Tam Trust for $1,726,000 on 05/11/16; built 1975, 2bd, 1,700 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/27/2009, $1,025,000 1435 Valparaiso Ave. Mauerl Trust to Sankaran Trust for $2,600,000 on 05/17/16; built 1951, 3bd, 2,020 sq. ft.

Mountain View

730 Alice Ave. Romain Trust to J. Sanders for $1,600,000 on 06/14/16; built 1989, 3bd, 2,042 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/15/2010, $838,000 2443 Alvin St. Whitson Trust to A. & J. Wendel for $1,580,000 on 06/14/16; built 1954, 3bd, 1,116 sq. ft.; previous sale 10/09/2009, $789,500 122 Avellino Way S. Wilson to C. Nguyen for $1,564,000 on 06/21/16; built 2014, 4bd, 1,904 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/23/2014, $1,495,000 2576 Dell Ave. J. & K. Clendenin to M. & R. Heinrich for $1,425,000 on 06/20/16; built 1956, 4bd, 1,240 sq. ft.; previous sale 11/10/2009, $770,000 96 Flynn Ave. #C Appelbaum Trust to J. & D. Pliskow for $860,000 on 06/14/16; built 1972, 3bd, 1,215 sq. ft. 164 Holland Court Best Trust to J. Choi for $1,845,000 on 06/22/16; built 1957, 3bd, 1,741 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/17/1990, $459,000

Home & Real Estate 2555 Katrina Way Dutra Trust to K. & J. Leonard for $2,365,000 on 06/14/16; built 1967, 5bd, 2,544 sq. ft. 2575 Katrina Way C. & B. Pennington to Oshatz Trust for $2,500,000 on 06/20/16; built 1962, 5bd, 2,678 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/17/2012, $1,682,000 2211 Latham St. #306 Moore Trust to A. Pokrovskiy for $680,000 on 06/15/16; built 1978, 1bd, 1,000 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/15/1978, $64,500 302 Loreto St. Garbutt Trust to A. & C. Goebel for $1,210,000 on 06/14/16; built 1927, 2bd, 1,125 sq. ft. 1943 Mt. Vernon Court #108 Shick Trust to Y. Yoreh for $800,000 on 06/17/16; built 1977, 2bd, 1,169 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/01/1978, $72,400 1910 Mt. Vernon Court #7 M. Hoge to A. Shelton for $599,000 on 06/22/16; built 1963, 1bd, 910 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/07/2003, $233,500 291 O’Keefe Way S. Anantharaman to J. Chen for $1,150,000 on 06/14/16; built 2011, 3bd, 1,637 sq. ft. 452 Pettis Ave. S. Lee to Bergeron Trust for $3,120,000 on 06/17/16; built 2014, 5bd, 2,570 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/20/2013, $1,045,000 220 Pine Way Cook Trust to W. Lam for $1,380,000 on 06/21/16; built 2012, 2bd, 1,074 sq. ft.; previous sale 12/14/2012, $880,000 135 Preston Drive J. & K. Joslin to J. & A. Withers for $2,600,000 on 06/16/16; built 1972, 4bd, 3,111 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/21/2010, $1,800,000 2255 Showers Drive #421 K. Pardo to Patwardhan Trust for $752,000 on 06/13/16; built 1999, 1bd, 769 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/09/2003, $308,000 49 Showers Drive #N261 Young Trust to P. & T. Stojanovic for $921,000 on 06/20/16; built 1974, 2bd, 1,206 sq. ft.; previous sale 03/22/2000, $451,000 49 Showers Drive #N363 Doering Trust to A. Wilbur for $765,000 on 06/22/16; built 1974, 2bd, 1,206 sq. ft.; previous sale 10/29/1975, $42,900 13120 Sun Mor Ave. Weiss Trust to Y. Sun for $2,000,000 on 06/20/16; built 1954, 3bd, 1,899 sq. ft. 211 Thompson Square Kucer Trust to N. Jaitly for $1,612,500 on 06/17/16; built 1956, 3bd, 1,389 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/30/2006, $850,000 1028 Tulane Drive Navarro Trust to F. & V. Gobry for $1,950,000 on 06/14/16; built 1953, 3bd, 1,538 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/06/2007, $1,210,000 500 West Middlefield Road #129 T. Diehl to J. Chu for $507,000 on 06/15/16; built 1971, 1bd, 564 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/27/2007, $340,000 438 Whisman Court Foy Trust to N. Bojja for $1,225,000 on 06/17/16; built 1988, 3bd, 1,584 sq. ft. 1020 Williams Way V. Scanlan to Harrington Oaks for $1,625,000 on 06/21/16; built 1963, 2,302 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/24/2004, $775,000 2219 Woodberry Lane Radda Trust to H. Liao for $1,328,000 on 06/17/16; built 2008, 3bd, 1,700 sq. ft.; previous sale 12/11/2008, $700,000

Palo Alto

510 Addison Ave. R. Saupe to Martignetti Trust for $2,650,000 on 06/16/16; built 1951, 2,350 sq. ft. 440 Cesano Court #113 Green Valley Group Investments to Li-Jiang Trust for $1,115,000 on 06/22/16; built 1981, 2bd, 1,211 sq. ft.; previous sale 12/18/2015, $920,000 740 Coastland Drive Bohn Trust to A. Yeh for $2,475,000 on 06/21/16; built 1947, 3bd, 1,652 sq. ft.; previous sale 01/28/1993, $382,000 2539 Cowper St. M. Yang to D. Yao for $4,501,000 on 06/17/16;

previous sale 04/26/2013, $1,690,000 3412 Cowper St. Wittman Trust to J. Yuan for $2,380,000 on 06/22/16; built 2006, 4bd, 1,528 sq. ft.; previous sale 10/04/2013, $2,325,000 755 De Soto Drive C. Bock to J. Zhuge for $2,750,000 on 06/15/16; built 1952, 5bd, 2,284 sq. ft. 800 East Charleston Road #29 M. Mittal to D. Chi for $1,780,000 on 06/20/16; built 1989, 3bd, 1,850 sq. ft.; previous sale 10/15/1999, $509,000 921 Embarcadero Road Lizak Trust to G. Otte for $2,150,000 on 06/22/16; built 1952, 2bd, 1,753 sq. ft. 161 Heather Lane Bogard Trust to Cyjami Limited for $3,400,000 on 06/17/16; built 1999, 3bd, 2,283 sq. ft.; previous sale 02/05/1999, $1,271,000 725 Marion Ave. Laak Trust to S. Garigipati for $2,100,000 on 06/15/16; built 1947, 3bd, 1,690 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/05/1978, $112,100 1613 Mariposa Ave. D. & I. Wagner to T. Zhao for $1,800,000 on 06/17/16; built 1938, 2bd, 1,343 sq. ft. 195 North California Ave. Kmtb Trust to M. & C. Fuccidinapoli for $2,900,000 on 06/21/16; built 1930, 3bd, 1,930 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/26/2011, $1,699,000 540 North California Ave. Chou Trust to J. Wang for $3,300,000 on 06/13/16; built 1946, 2bd, 1,850 sq. ft. 609 Oregon Ave. D. & K. Harrington to Shlinboz Trust for $1,702,000 on 06/14/16; built 1924, 2bd, 992 sq. ft.; previous sale 11/18/1993, $279,000 3178 Ross Road Salo Trust to K. Huang for $2,360,000 on 06/20/16; built 1950, 3bd, 1,146 sq. ft. 2267 Santa Ana St. Baskin Trust to T. Lipkis for $1,678,500 on 06/22/16; built 1951, 2bd, 1,369 sq. ft. 520 Tennyson Ave. Trepel Trust to Gassee Trust for $4,260,000 on 06/22/16; built 1910, 4bd, 1,826 sq. ft. 542 Thain Way F. & F. Garderes to J. Freese for $1,655,000 on 06/21/16; built 1980, 3bd, 1,890 sq. ft. 3421 Waverley St. Pacific Realty Investments Group to M. & S. Mandal for $3,700,000 on 06/14/16; built 1948, 3bd, 1,235 sq. ft. 4228 Wilkie Way Y. & W. Ching to X. Li for $2,520,000 on 06/17/16; built 2007, 3bd, 2,045 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/02/2007, $1,634,000

Portola Valley

185 Cherokee Way Schwab Trust to R. Hundt for $5,450,000 on 05/19/16; built 1999, 5bd, 4,340 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/16/2007, $3,800,000 240 Erica Way Robinson Trust to SBM Investments for $2,700,000 on 05/17/16; built 1956, 4bd, 2,190 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/25/2002, $250,500 12 Hawkview St. Halprin Trust to Backbeat Trust for $3,350,000 on 05/13/16; built 1980, 4bd, 3,770 sq. ft.; previous sale 11/21/1980, $469,000 99 Hillbrook Drive B. Iverson to Day Trust for $3,853,000 on 05/18/16; built 1961, 5bd, 2,800 sq. ft.; previous sale 06/14/2005, $2,400,000 401 La Mesa Drive Stone Trust to B. & L. Hamilton for $1,805,000 on 05/10/16; built 1953, 5bd, 2,110 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/28/1972, $60,500

Woodside

330 Jane Drive Rajan Enterprises to T. Triemstra for $4,588,000 on 05/19/16; built 1988, 6bd, 7,930 sq. ft.; previous sale 11/30/2011, $2,000,000 156 Romero Road Buehner Trust to Tunguz Trust for $3,300,000 on 05/16/16; built 1936, 2bd, 2,210 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/06/2001, $1,000,000

BUILDING PERMITS

This listing is drawn from the City of Palo Alto online database of recent permits that have been issued. 610 Melville Ave. replace two furnaces and ductwork; install two new air conditioners 532 Colorado Ave. replace-water damaged posts. $3,000 2100 El Camino Real deferred plan submittal: structural for quad wall and canopy 3437 Park Blvd. reroof. $4,888 3241 Park Blvd. reconnect existing electrical to auto lifts, other electrical work 984 Loma Verde Ave. residential bathroom remodel. $8,800 200 Lowell Ave. plan revision: outdoor kitchen layout change from pizza oven to outdoor fireplace 450 Adobe Place residential reroof. $20,000 240 Hamilton Ave. plan revision: deferred submittal notching metal studs for new roller shade 253 Margarita Ave. temporary power 2200 El Camino Real plan revision: addition of vent riser screening 215 High St. replace insulation and sheetrock and replace and upgrade sliding glass door for common area due to water damage. $5,750 879 Rorke Way revise plans to show new main panel with main breaker 2100 Bellview Drive addition (340 sf) and remodel (2467 sf). Raise roof throughout house to 16 ft above grade. Remodel attached garage (433 sf). $750,000 4075 El Camino Way replace boilers and tanks with six tankless water heaters 330 Santa Rita Ave. installation and removal of a temporary platform and stage over a pool. $4,000 685 High St. #5E remodel kitchen (180 sf), kids bathroom (45 sf), master bathroom (70 sf) and powder room. $16,568 374 Tioga Court residential sewer line replacement 120 Primrose Way re-roof. $33,390 256 Kellogg Ave. electric service upgrade 319 Addison Ave. residential reroof. $11,000 445 Sherman Ave. re-roof. $62000 450 Santa Rita Ave. plan revisions; site drainage 2795 Waverley St. temporary power 180 Churchill Ave. install two ductless mini-AC systems 2140 Princeton St. temporary power 800 High St. #106 replace water heater 1911 Waverley St. plan revision: electrical tie in 2675 El Camino Real, B tenant improvements for T-mobile (1,439 sf). Upgrade lighting, accommodate new counters/displays. $35000 644 California Ave. replace dry rot on deck and repair stucco. $1,500 3024 Ross Road install new AC unit outside of the house 2421 Bryant St. run new 220v electrical line and conduit for hot tub 180 El Camino Real, #1240 plan revision: trellis and planting at east elevation. 2501 Embarcadero Way install a steel canopy with lighting over the household hazardous waste station drop-off area (1,800 sf). $120000 440 Cesano Court, #113 plan revision: remodel two bathrooms (160 sf) 221 Kipling St. remove wet bar kitchen. $1,000 3491 Janice Way plan revision to add sewer line outside of the house 850 Webster St. plan revision to change location of bathroom door, replace three windows to match existing finishes 723 Kendall Ave. plan revision to reduce area off addition in rear by 54 sf, add 65 sf in the front of house, remove proposed trellis in front, revise the rear trellis, reconfigure bathroom

1143 Greenwood Ave. new pool and associated equipment. $113,478 1170 Hamilton Ave. demolish residential pool and associated equipment 158 Emerson St. replace furnace and install A/C outside the house 885 Sharon Court replace water heater 450 W. Charleston Road residential remodel: add two bathrooms to the second floor (100 sf) and add a door between the study and living room (35 sf). $15,000 180 Hamilton Ave. replace water heater 702 Clara Drive re-roof. $8,200 251 Middlefield Road category 4: remove and replace window trim for all windows and add a coat of stucco to exterior walls. $8,500 2197 E. Bayshore Road interior non-structural demolish 10,000 sf in preparation for tenant improvement 3139 Alma St. replace sewer line up to the city cleanout 3513 Waverley St. demolish house with attached garage 3513 Waverley St. new single story single family residence (2,385 sf) with basement (2,907 sf) and attached garage (522 sf). $1,012,000 1651 Page Mill Road deferred submittal of plan for anchorage of interior glass guard 3424 Ashton Court repair two deck pans and stucco. Replace damaged sheet rock and insulation (120 sf). $10,000 300 Pasteur Drive deferred submittal of plan for seismic anchorage for mechanical equipment 3777 Louis Road electrical work to replace bad meter receptor / socket 2420 Bryant St. seismic upgrade to the foundation, repair foundation cracking in five locations, repair corner foundation cracking in two locations, uplift hardware, crawlspace vapor barrier. $11,000 410 Marion Ave. demolish garage 3500 Deer Creek Road install new sub panel and receptacles 575 High St., #400 landlord improvement on fourth floor, new lobby at elevator and front stairs, new wall to separate restrooms and rear stairs. Modify lighting and HVAC. $35,000 2440 Cowper St. new AC and dedicated circuit connect to existing furnace 180 El Camino Real, #361 Coach: interior remodel (2,809 sf). 230 Maclane install A/C unit on the rear upper deck (153 sf) $50,000 702 Clara Drive re-roof. $8,000 1486 Dana Ave. plan revision to interior layout, changes to windows and skylights 4350 Silva Court residential roofmounted photovoltaic system 2518 Webster St. new two-story single family residence (3,277 sf) with attached garage (216 sf). $819,000 2518 Webster St. new detached pool house (240 sf) includes half bath. $24,000 2518 Webster St. demolish single-family home with attached garage 180 El Camino Real, #1180 tenant improvement and use and occupancy for Amour Vert (1,448 sf). Scope includes structural, electrical, gas water and sewer, mechanical and rooftop equipment. $185,000 410 Marion Ave. demolish house 180 El Camino Real, #1110 tenant improvement and use and occupancy for Allen Edmonds (1,496 sf). $274,000 872 Marshall Drive temporary power 2080 Louis Road residential sewer line replacement 1336 Parkinson Ave. install a new gas line from city meter to backyard BBQ 2595 E. Bayshore Road install dual level 2 electric-car charger 100 Hamilton Ave. install two level 2 electric-car chargers inside a parking garage 862 Southampton Drive residential roof-mounted photovoltaic system

580 Arastradero Road, #402 Tan Plaza Continental: Kitchen and bathroom remodel, addition of washer/dryer, sub-panel replacement, and new mini-split system with condenser located on the balcony. $24,377 1520 Page Mill Road replace three exterior doors , add exterior bench seats, exterior bike rack and bollards 580 Arastradero Road, #305 Tan Plaza Continental: Kitchen and bathroom remodel, addition of washer/dryer, sub-panel replacement, and new mini-split system with condenser located on the balcony. $19,041 666 High St. Steve Dow: tenant improvement and use and occupancy for a 783 sf office in the one-story building. $90,000 580 Arastradero Road, #703 Tan Plaza Continental. Kitchen and bathroom remodel, addition of washer/dryer, sub-panel replacement, and new mini-split system with condenser located on the balcony. $19,405 483 Forest Ave., B plan revision: increased valuation by 10K for two bathroom remodel 2445 Faber Place, #200 tenant improvement and use and occupancy for BCCI on the second floor. Minor demolition of partition walls, new furniture and associated electrical. 1,100 sf.$215,000 180 El Camino Real, #1140 plan revision: structural brace connection 301 Barclay Court temporary power 981 Addison Ave. residential addition499 sf rear of property. $97,000 3510 Park Blvd. residential reroof.$12,000 1413 Pitman Ave. demolish existing detached garage 580 Arastradero Road, #406 Tan Plaza Continental. Kitchen and bathroom remodel, addition of washer/dryer, sub-panel replacement, and new mini-split system with condenser located on the balcony. $15,039 1413 Pitman Ave. demolish existing house 2139 Yale St. plan revision: new condensor unit in rear yard 4134 Baker Ave. plan revision: steel framing member sizes and details 270 Iris Way install split heat pump with one outdoor unit and three interior coils 653 Maybell Ave. replace main panel 725 Center Drive remodel three bathrooms, replace lighting, add walls and relocate window in kitchen. Replace door and relocate bathroom door in bedroom, and replace kitchen cabinets. 600 sf. $72,768 2500 El Camino Real Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: tenant improvement of 6,000 sf on the ground floor.$800,000 1985 Louis Road interior nonstructural demolish, 4,000sf 1050 E. Meadow Circle Space Systems Loral: run power to new premanufactured cubicles (6,000 sf) 580 Arastradero Road, #807 Tan Plaza Continental. Kitchen and bathroom remodel, addition of washer/dryer, sub-panel replacement, and new mini-split system with condenser located on the balcony. $24,999 547 Emerson St. re-roof. $17,500 580 Arastradero Road, #408 Tan Plaza Continental. Kitchen and bathroom remodel, addition of washer/dryer, sub-panel replacement, and new mini-split system with condenser located on the balcony. $24,954 580 Arastradero Road, #705 Tan Plaza Continental. Kitchen and bathroom remodel, addition of washer/dryer, sub-panel replacement, and new mini-split system with condenser located on the balcony. $19,041 580 Arastradero Road, #706 Tan Plaza Continental. Kitchen and bathroom remodel, addition of washer/dryer, sub-panel replacement, and new mini-split system

with condenser located on the balcony. $15,039 2061 Sandalewood Court residential roof-mounted solar system 301 Barclay Court residential addition of 480 sf and remodel 1000 sf. $150,000 86 Churchill Ave. replace water heater 1010 Fife Ave. temporary power 625 Emerson St., #200 use and occupancy and office tenant improvementof 1,959 sf for Emerson Collective firm to occupy suite 200 and 300 for total 4000 sf. $138,000 346 Colorado Ave. plan revision: girder post footing replacement 2183 Bryant St. replace 14 window and one french door. $24,000 247 Ramona St. reroof. $10,061 925 Lincoln Ave. residential kitchen remodel of 234 sf. $28,379 765 San Antonio Ave., #51 kitchen and two-bath remodel of 200sf. $24,000 735 Coastland Drive temporary power 3341 Greer Road electrical service upgrade 3479 Ross Road two-bathroom remodel and kitchen remodel of 200 sf. $24,000 1359 Martin Ave. install new ductless mini-split system 3277 Miranda Ave. install new mini split ductless system with condenser unit on roof. $9,978 2795 Waverley St. new two story, 2,084 sf house w/ new basement (1,283 sf), new covered patio (145 sf). $600,512 2801 South Court new 2-story single-family residence of 2,937 sf with basement of 1,834 sf and attached garage of 231 sf. $860,000 2795 Waverley St. demolish detached garage 2795 Waverley St. demolish single family residence 2801 South Court demolish single family residence with attached garage 2,546 sf 675 El Camino Real Verizon Wireless cellsite: replace equipment at cell site 159 Seale Ave. plan revision: framing and foundation plan. $40,000 1183 Amarillo 11, Bldg. #1183, unit 11 water heater replacement 3204 Greer Road residential roof mounted solar system 4005 Miranda Ave. replace two rooftop HVAC systems. $88,000 250 University Ave., #300 tenant improvement for Capricorn Investment Group; scope of work includes remodel of kitchen areas on 3rd and 4th floor and new work stations on both floors. 6,000 sf. $543,693 1855 Cowper St. residential repair and restoration of 730 sf detached garage/carriage house including additional framing, new concrete slab and footings, new mechanical, electrical and plumbing. New windows, doors siding and roofing. $106,236 180 El Camino Real, #H159 Frette 1860: electrical permit for an illuminated sign 2570 Bryant St.replace furnace, water heater. 329 Campesino Ave. sewer line replacement 180 El Camino Real, #200A tenant improvement for Tevana, 1,439 sf. $450,000 1183 Amarillo Ave., # 12, water heater replacement 784 Josina Ave. remodel two bathrooms 150 sf. $50,000 180 El Camino Real, #151 Penhaligon’s London: electrical permit for illuminated sign 161 Lundy Lane reroof. $9,916 4009 Miranda Ave. replace two rooftop HVAC units. $88,800 3170 Porter Drive new two-story core and shell commercial building of 98,000 sf and below grade parking of 75,000 sf. $29,093,000 851 Moreno Ave. install 75 gallon water heater 734 Middlefield Road replace termite damaged 4x6 courtyard eave rafters, replace damaged fascia board, re-support existing roof-mounted AC units and replace courtyard light fixtures. $11,100

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615 Lakeview Way, Emerald Hills Offered at $1,398,000 Peaceful Cabin-Like Retreat Resting within a community known for its serenity and natural beauty, this 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom home of 1,640 sq. ft. (per county) provides a rustic yet elegant ambience and a lot of 5,969 sq. ft. (per county). The open design includes a stone fireplace, skylights, and hardwood floors, while inviting decks with a hot tub are showcased outdoors. Other features include central cooling, an attached twocar garage, a flexible office, and a must-see master suite. Enjoy easy access to recreational areas, local conveniences, and fine schools.

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FA M I LY CO M P O U N D O P P O RT U N IT Y 75 Reservoir Road, Atherton | 75reservoir.com Price Reduced to $8,500,000 | Beds 4 | Baths 3 | Home Â±2,740 sf 3.47 acres | %TTVS\MQEXIP] EGVIW Â¾EX FYMPHEFPI PERH [MXL ER EHHMXMSREP WUYEVI foot agricultural easement and 1.47 acres of landscape/agricultural opportunity.

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Price Reduced to $8,500,000 Beds 5 | Baths 9 | Home Â±7,649 sf | Lot Â±1 acre

Offered at $2,350,000 Beds 3 | Baths 2 | Home Â±1,200 sf | Lot Â±5,280 sf

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27811 Saddle Court, Los Altos Hills Hilltop Residence with Panoramic Views Well-appointed indoor and outdoor spaces take full advantage of the astonishing vistas displayed throughout this 5 bedroom, 6.5 bathroom home of 6,598 sq. ft. (per county), which includes grounds of 1.94 acres (per county). The multi-level design is equipped 2;> 3>-:0 ?/-81 1:@1>@-5:5:3 -:0 .;-?@? ŋB1 ŋ>1<8-/1? @C; 75@/41:? -: 5:0;;> <;;8 -:0 - 3->-31 @4-@ /-: 4;80 ŋB1 /->? )5@45: moments of Highway 280, this captivating home balances privacy and natural beauty with prime convenience to urban amenities, including excellent Palo Alto schools (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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Close To All Midtown Palo Alto Has To Offer â&#x20AC;¢ Located on a large 6,825 sq. sf. lot (approx.) â&#x20AC;¢ Large living room with walls of windows that open to the backyard â&#x20AC;¢ Two large bedrooms, one full and one half bathrooms â&#x20AC;¢ Cedar closets â&#x20AC;¢ Arched doorways â&#x20AC;¢ 1,400 sq. sf. of living space (approx.) â&#x20AC;¢ Double pane windows â&#x20AC;¢ Updated Kitchen â&#x20AC;¢ Newly updated bathrooms calBRE# 01330133

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New laminated floors and carpeting Newly painted inside and outside Separate laundry room Security system Two car attached garage Automatic lawn sprinklers Conveniently located near coffee shops, shopping, and ice cream parlor â&#x20AC;¢ Easy access to freeways, Stanford, Google, and more â&#x20AC;¢ Prestigious Palo Alto schools â&#x20AC;¢ â&#x20AC;¢ â&#x20AC;¢ â&#x20AC;¢ â&#x20AC;¢ â&#x20AC;¢ â&#x20AC;¢

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â&#x20AC;¢ Wonderful backyard with mature, 4 Bedrooms low maintenance landscaping 2 Bathrooms â&#x20AC;¢ Centrally located on a cul-de-sac in the heart of Expanded master suite the Greenmeadow Community Large living room with a raised â&#x20AC;¢ Excellent Palo Alto schools, including Gunn High ceiling School â&#x20AC;¢ Separate, spacious family room â&#x20AC;¢ Wall of windows yielding seamless â&#x20AC;¢ 1,945 sq. ft. of living space, approx. â&#x20AC;¢ 7,200 sq. ft. of lot, approx. calBRE# 01330133 Jane@midtownpaloalto.com indoor-outdoor integration Cell: 650.380.4507 â&#x20AC;¢ â&#x20AC;¢ â&#x20AC;¢ â&#x20AC;¢

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Listing Agent: Tim Foy Midtown Realty, Inc. â&#x20AC;¢ 2775 Middlefield Road â&#x20AC;¢ Phone: 650.321.1596

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V\Y );;010 (51C >5B1 ;? -@;? "-8-@5-8 ;91 !Ŋ 1>? -?/5:-@5:3 (51C? An immense gated driveway escorts you to this tech-savvy 6 bedroom, 7.5 bathroom estate of 8,249 sq. ft. (per appraisal) that ;//A<51? Z VY -/>1? I<1> /;A:@EJ !Ŋ 1>5:3 A:;.?@>A/@10 .-E B51C? -:0 1D@>191 <>5B-/E @45? 9-?@1><51/1 5? ;A@ŋ @@10 C5@4 UVT ?8-.? ;2 8591?@;:1 -:0 @;A@? - 8534@ ŋ 8810 5:@1>5;> C5@4 2;A> ŋ >1<8-/1? -:0 2A88E 2A:/@5;:-8 ?<-/1? &41 0>1-9E 3>;A:0? 5:/8A01 - @4>11 /-> garage, an outdoor kitchen, and mature vineyards. You will be mere minutes to downtown Los Gatos, recreational attractions, and ŋ :1 ;? -@;? ?/4;;8? I.AE1> @; B1>52E 18535.585@EJ For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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Offered at $3,688,000 | 390ElDorado.com 4 Bed 3 Bath | House ±2,734 sq ft | Lot ±7,370 sq ft Also available for lease, please call agent for details Open Sunday 1:30-4:30

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1737 University Avenue, Palo Alto Breathtaking New Home in Crescent Park Completed in 2016 and basking in natural light, this high-tech 5 bedroom, 4.5 bath residence of over 4,500 sq. ft. (per plans), including garage, enjoys a spacious gated property of 15,000 sq. ft. (per city) in one of Palo Alto’s most illustrious neighborhoods. !Ŋ1>5:3 :-@A>-8 ŋ:5?41? -:0 ?@-@1 ;2 @41 ->@ 01@-58? 5@? 0E:-95/ ?<-/1? 5:/8A01 @C; 9-?@1> ?A5@1? -:0 - /A@@5:3 1031 75@/41: &41 ŌA50 01?53: 5? -:/4;>10 .E -: 5991:?1 /;A>@E->0 <1>21/@ 2;> ;A@0;;> 1:@1>@-5:5:3 -:0 @41 3>;A:0? ->1 :1C8E 8-:0?/-<10 Eleanor Pardee Park and popular downtown attractions are within moments. For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.1737University.com Offered at $7,498,000

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280 Waverley Street, Palo Alto Offered at $888,000 Parkside Living in Downtown North This 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom condominium of 865 sq. ft. (per county) enjoys a quiet, park-side setting within an easy stroll of vibrant University Avenue. Updated with stylish quartz countertops and new carpet, the sunny interior displays views of lovely Johnson Park, and the complex includes an inviting pool. Tucked in the heart of downtown Palo Alto, this terrific location is moments from exciting shopping and dining attractions and near excellent Palo Alto schools. For more information, please contact: Michael Repka 650.488.7325 | michael@deleonrealty.com ®

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A Luxury Collection By Intero Real Estate Services

Sand Hill Estates, Woodside

5 Betty Lane, Atherton

700 King’s Mountain Road, Woodside

$35,000,000

$24,800,000

$23,988,000

Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello & Cutty Smith Lic.#01343305 & 01444081

Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Greg Goumas Lic.#01242399, 00709019, 01878208

Listing Provided by: Albert Garibaldi & Natasha Green Lic.#01321299 & #01409216

11627 Dawson Drive, Los Altos Hills

91 Selby Lane, Atherton

291 Atherton Avenue, Atherton

$15,995,000

$14,900,000

$14,688,000

Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Lic.#01242399, 00709019

Listing Provided by: Catherine Qian, Lic.#01276431

Listing Provided by: Nancy Gehrels, Lic.#01952964

13480 Wildcress Drive, Los Altos Hills

26880 Elena Road, Los Altos Hills

10440 Albertsworth Lane, Los Altos Hills

$13,895,000

$12,888,888

$11,488,000

Listing Provided by: David Troyer, Lic.#01234450

Listing Provided by: Dan Kroner, Lic.#01790340

Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas & John Reece, Lic.#01878208 & 00838479

40 Firethorn Way, Portola Valley

1100 Mountain Home Rd.,Woodside

1250 Miramontes Street, Half Moon Bay

$6,888,000

$5,850,000

$2,800,000

Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#01878208

Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Lic.#01242399, 00709019

Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305

See our entire luxury collection at www.InteroPrestigio.com ©2016 Intero Real Estate Services Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and a wholly owned subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc. All rights reserved.

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The Solution to Selling Your Luxury Home.

700 Kings Mountain, Woodside | $23,988,000 | Listing Provided by: Albert Garibaldi & Natasha Green, Lic.#01321299 & Lic.#01409216

www.700KingsMountain.com Customized to the unique style of each luxury property, Prestigio will expose your home through the most influential mediums reaching the greatest number of qualified buyers wherever they may be in the world. For more information about listing your home with the Intero Prestigio International program, call your local Intero Real Estate Services office. Woodside 1590 Cañada Lane Woodside, CA 94062 650.206.6200

Menlo Park 807 Santa Cruz Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 650.543.7740

Los Altos 496 First Street, Ste. 200 Los Altos, CA 94022 650.947.4700

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12380 Gigli Court, Los Altos Hills Luxurious Gated Oasis A?4 @>;<5/-8 8-:0?/-<5:3 -//1:@? @45? ?<188.5:05:3 Y .10>;;9 X Y .-@4>;;9 4;91 @4-@ ;Ŋ1>? 3-@10 3>;A:0? ;2 U UU -/>1? I<1> county). The alluring interior displays vaulted ceilings, luxurious updates, and gorgeous spaces that include a gourmet kitchen, a >13-8 9-?@1> ?A5@1 -:0 -: ;ő/1 ;-?@5:3 <1-/1 -:0 <>5B-/E @41 >1?501:/1 -8?; <>;B501? ŋB1 ŋ>1<8-/1? - @4>11 /-> 3->-31 -:0 - B1>?-@581 <;;84;A?1 +;A C588 4-B1 <>591 -//1?? @; 534C-E V\T >19;:@ 588? ;A:@>E 8A. -:0 @1>>5ŋ/ " '% ?/4;;8? For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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Selling your Silicon Valley home? First, contact Michael Repka of DeLeon Realty.

Unlike most real estate agents, Michael holds two law degrees and has years of experience as a real estate attorney, giving his clients a unique advantage as most other brokerages do not provide an inhouse attorney to help clients. In addition, the expertise and marketing available through the team at DeLeon Realty are the very best in the business. Meet with Michael to discuss any preliminary questions about selling your home and let him tell you more about what makes DeLeon Realty’s innovative approach to real estate so successful. There is no cost or obligation for this consultation. However, Homeowners that have a current listing contract with another agent are excluded. ®

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PALO ALTO WEEKLY OPEN HOMES EXPLORE OUR MAPS, HOMES FOR SALE, OPEN HOMES, VIRTUAL TOURS, PHOTOS, PRIOR SALE INFO, NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDES ON www.PaloAltoOnline.com/real_estate UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL TIMES ARE 1:30-4:30 PM 425 Pope St $1,598,000 Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200

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$695,000 325-6161

10 Somerset Pl Sun 2-5 Marvin Gardens

$4,200,000 (510) 813-3745

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Recently-renovated masterpiece originally designed in 1994 by the former mayor of Woodside, Nat Landes. Fine craftsmanship, meticulous details and the highest-quality materials show throughout this exquisite home. Perfectly sited on over an acre.

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• Six bedrooms and four++ baths • Great room with high ceilings, library wall and a Midcentury Modern-inspired fireplace • Elegant dining room with giant custom leaded glass French doors • Chef’s kitchen with unique floor-to-ceiling glass wall offers gorgeous views of the grounds • Private master wing with French doors to side garden • Remodeled upper-level housekeeper’s quarters with two bedrooms and its own kitchen • Massive unfinished basement • 5,000+ sq.ft. of living space (per public records) • Lush grounds and private garden with fruit trees • Peaceful, wooded neighborhood 15 minutes from Stanford University and the heart of Silicon Valley

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California Ranch-Style Home with Windy Hill View 30 Cheyenne Point, Portola Valley

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California ranch style home tastefully remodeled on cul-de-sac in central Portola Valley. Chef’s kitchen has adjoining eating area. Walk out of the family room onto the expansive deck and enjoy the Windy Hill views. The terraced yard is dotted with mature oaks, wonderful for family living. Highlights include: • Walking distance to acclaimed Ormondale Elementary

• 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms • 1 acre lot, 2,833 sq. ft. home • Hardwood ﬂoors throughout • Master bedroom with ﬁreplace

• For more information, visit 30CheyennePoint.com

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Stunning Traditional Built in 2011 2021 Ashton Avenue, Menlo Park

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This stunning traditional offers formal entry with sweeping staircase and fabulous open concept ﬂoor plan. Gourmet chef’s kitchen with walk-in pantry. Spacious master bedroom suite with luxurious bath and two walk-in closets. First ﬂoor bedroom suite with full bath, perfect for a guest or au pair. Walking distance to the Dutch Goose and Starbucks. Highlights include: • Built in 2011

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• Open concept ﬂoor plan

• Close to Stanford, Sand Hill Road, and Highway 280

• 5 bedrooms and 4.5 baths • 2,850 sq. ft. home

• Acclaimed Las Lomitas Schools

Photography by Bernard Andre

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DiRado ready to make waves at the 2016 Olympics in Rio Stanford’s Ledecky, Manuel, Neal also set for the trip to Brazil by Rick Eymer t this time next year, Stanford grad Maya DiRado will be putting down roots in Atlanta with her husband, former Stanford swimmer Rob Andrews. That’s where the couple plans to move once DiRado has completed her swimming career at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in August. Perhaps it’s only fitting that DiRado move from one Olympic venue to another. Atlanta

was home to the 1996 Olympic Games. Stanford grad Jenny Thompson won three of her eight gold medals — she won 12 in her career — there. DiRado won three individual events at the U.S. Olympic Trials that wrapped up last weekend in Omaha, Neb., a feat matched only by Olympic gold medalists Katie Ledecky, who will be a freshman at Stanford in the fall, and Michael Phelps, the most-decorated swimmer in Olympic history.

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Kimyacioglu, Turkish team have high hopes Former Stanford women’s basketball star hopes to leave Rio with a medal Glenn Reeves s Sebnem Kimyacioglu waited for her flight to board for Turkey recently, she took a moment to reflect on an unlikely turn of events. The former Stanford University and Pinewood School basketball standout was on her way to join the Turkish women’s basketball national team in preparation for the Olympic Games. “Oh my gosh, I’m going to be there,’’ she said of being part of the Olympics. “I don’t think I

quite believe it, but it’s gradually settling in that it’s a reality.’’ She was about to embark on a trip in which the joyful and the sorrowful were intertwined. Kimyacioglu was flying into Istanbul Ataturk Airport, where 44 people were killed in a recent terrorist attack. “The country I represent was under attack a couple of days ago,’’ Kimyacioglu said. “That’s the world we live in. Any success (continued on page 63)

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Cardinal grad Maya DiRado (right) stands on the podium with Missy Franklin after both qualified for the 200-meter back at the United States Olympic Trials in Omaha over the weekend.

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He’ll be participating in his fifth Olympics. Stanford’s Simone Manuel and Lia Neal, and Cardinal women’s coach Greg Meehan are also going to Rio, Meehan as an assistant. Since 1984, Stanford has sent 53 men, women and coaches to the Olympics and they have won a combined 58 medals, including 32 gold, 17 silver and nine bronze. This year’s group most certain-

he Menlo-Atherton Major Little League 11-12 allstars are playing Friday, one of six teams left in the District 52 Majors tournament, because they understand the importance of being patient, doing the little things and taking advantage of opportunities. Matt MacLeod hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the fifth inning, M-A’s first hit of the game, and the M-A all-stars beat San Carlos American, 5-2, on Wednesday at La Entrada School to advance. They meet San Mateo American at 5:30 p.m. at La Entrada School, having played five games in six days. M-A played in one of the first two games of the tournament and was one of the first two teams knocked out of the winner’s bracket. They’ve played like champions ever since. The Palo Alto American and Alpine West Menlo programs each won a game before being eliminated, while Palo Alto National and Ravenswood each have the experience of playing together in an all-star tournament to savor. M-A beat Foster City, 10-6; Palo Alto National, 6-4; and Half Moon Bay, 13-7 on successive days to put itself into position to move ahead. Palo Alto American beat Redwood City East, 21-2, in the first round and Alpine knocked off Redwood City West, 20-3. San Carlos American nudged PA out of the tournament with a 3-2 victory in 10 innings.

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THE LOCAL ANGLE . . . The United States Under-17 womenís national soccer team came together in Raleigh, N.C. for a training camp that began Wednesday in preparation for the FIFA U-17 Womenís World Cup. Included among the invited players are Stanford commits Jojo Harbor, Civana Kuhlmann and Kiara Pickett, all high school seniors this fall. National team members and high schools juniors Naomi Girma, Katie Meyer and Sophie Smith, and prep sophomore Kennedy Wesley have verbally committed early to Stanford. Of the 26, 19 were with the squad that won the CONCACAF U-17 Womenís Championship played in Grenada in March, while earning a berth to the upcoming World Cup. The U.S. is coming off a successful trip to Switzerland, where it won two matches against the Switzerland U-19 WNT. Kuhlmann scored twice in the first game, a 3-2 victory, with Taryn Torresadding the other score, and Frankie Tagliaferri and Rachel Jones both scored in the second game, a 2-1 U.S. win. The U-17s are undefeated in 10 international games this year, beating defeated Mexico, 2-1, in the CONCACAF U-17 womenís championship final on goals from Ashley Sanchez, who will be playing with the U.S. U-20 WNT, and Kuhlmann. The World Cup will take place in Jordan between Sept. 30 and Oct. 21, and the Americans are in Group D with Paraguay, Ghana and Japan.

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Palo Alto 14s look to settle a score at state tournament All-Stars heading to Woodland to face familiar foe city championship was decided Tuesday night and the all-stars played their first game Wednesday night. Guiragossian decided to use as many pitchers as he could in the three games of the district tournament just to get an idea of how they would perform under tournament pressure. All of them answered the call. Jack Dellenbach earned the win Saturday, though it could have easily been any of the ones who took the mound, including Aidan Everett, who will be at Gunn this fall. Palo Alto has a deep staff, which also includes Ryan Mo, Owen Crevalt, Gianluca Shinn, Palo Alto sophomore Paul Thie, Sacred Heart Prep-bound Donte Cacchione, Liam Mauck and Erick Flores. It’s not all about pitching though. Guiragossian, with the help of Lee, a Sacred Heart Prep grad, decided to encourage an aggressive approach at the plate. “We’re not going up to bat looking for a walk,” Guiragossian said. “If you see a strike, jump on it. Even if you don’t get a hit, at least hit the ball hard, try to have a productive at bat.” Palo Alto collected 35 runs and gave up seven in its tournament run. Productive? Heck, yes. “This team plays good defense too,” said Lee, a middle infielder. “It’s a solid group.” The all-stars used the week not only only to practice but to build chemistry. “The team can compete with anybody,” said Farr, via telephone from a wedding 3,000 miles away. “Vaskan will gel the team like the expert he is. That’s what this week is for.” As 13-year-olds, Palo Alto

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MacLeod, who got the win, rea wild pitch. Giesler led off the fourth by tired the first six hitters he faced drawing a walk and thus becom- before giving up a pair of singles. Baxter, who took over at second ing M-A’s first baserunner. Nate when MacLeod went Baxter drew a twointo pitch, helped out walk and alertly M-A with a nice advanced all the way backhand stop, twirl to third when Giesler and throw to first in raced home. Starting one motion. pitcher Jackson Vontz MacLeod and Baxalso drew a walk, ter flawlessly handled which was a wild four chances at secpitch. Baxter scored ond while Vontz and without a play. MacLeod combined It still wasn’t lookto strike out eight. ing good. San MaJack Thomases and teo’s starting pitcher John Quinlan Giesler walked ahead retired the first nine M-A batters and still had of MacLeod’s home run. Drake Riley and Tyler Flynn a no-hitter intact when he left the game with two outs in the each homered in Alpine West fifth. He struck out 12 but also Menlo victory over Redwood City East. walked four. Sebastian Chancellor hit a Vontz gave up a double and a home run to the first two hitters of three-run homer to help Palo the game and then settled in and Alto American top Redwood City set down the next 11 in succession. East. Q

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The Palo Alto Babe Ruth 13-year-old all-stars play at noon against Tri-Valley on Saturday at McKelvey Park in Mountain View. reached the state championship game. They’re looking to take the next step this year. Palo Alto 13s Dean Casey threw a two-hitter, Matthew Caren had three hits and the Palo Alto Babe Ruth 13-yearold all-star team beat host Mountain View, 10-0 in five innings, Sunday at McKelvey Park to capture the District 6 tournament title. Adar Schwarzbach had two hits

and drove in to runs as Palo Alto advances to the state tournament. William Pires also drove in a pair of runs. Casey was pitching, starting off 14 of the 18 hitters he faced with strikes, all he needed was Adrian Contreras’ sacrifice fly in the second that put Palo Alto ahead. Casey did not walk a batter and struck out two. Schwarzbach drove in a run in third to make it 2-0 before Palo

Alto exploded for eight runs in the top of the fifth to break it open. Pires and Dylan Donnelly each hit two-run singles to highlight the outburst, while Schwarzbach, Casey, Jonah Elisofon and Caren, who had a pair of doubles in the game, also drove in runs. Other contributors included Griffin Zajac, Kyle Hartmanis, Zachary Donaker, Zander Darby and Sam Lutz. Caren and Donaker each scored twice. Q

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Menlo-Atherton discovered a team doesn’t necessarily have to get a hit to score runs, though it certainly helps. Against San Carlos, MenloAtherton’s best offense through 4 2/3 innings was the walk, which ignites the chant “What do we love? Free bases!” Quite frankly, M-A didn’t do anything with its bats, putting two balls in play and one was a sacrifice bunt that led to the tying run, until MacLeod sent a ball well over the center field fence that capped a two-out rally. Will Cronin, moved into the third spot of the batting order, followed with a double, though his fourth-inning bunt proved far more productive for M-A, advancing Jack Giesler to third, from where he scored the first run on

The Palo Alto Babe Ruth 14-year-old all-stars open the Northern California state tournament against Novato on Saturday at 1 p.m. in Woodland.

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by Rick Eymer asken Guiragossian likes his chances for this weekend’s Babe Ruth state tournament. The coach of the Palo Alto 14-year-old all-star team has plenty of pitching, a lot of offensive power and a solid defense. As 13-year-olds, the group reached the state title game, only to lose to Tri-Valley and miss out on the Pacific Northwest Regional tournament. Last year, all three age group all-star teams made it to the state tournament, and the only team any of the Palo Alto 13s, 14s and 15s lost to was Tri-Valley. This year, Palo Alto thinks it has all the pieces to take the extra step. “Tri-Valley is a great program but we’re not going to make it all about them,” Guiragossian said. “This team has the most depth up and down the lineup and we feel like we can compete with anybody.” It’s a veteran coaching staff that also includes Rick Farr, who helped guide the Oaks to the city championship, and Vassar junior Chris Lee, a product of the Palo Alto Babe Ruth system. The Palo Alto 14s open the Northern California state tournament against Novato on Saturday at 1 p.m. in Woodland. The Palo Alto 13s also qualified for the state tournament and will meet Tri-Valley in their first game at noon Saturday at McKelvey Field in Mountain View. Palo Alto 14s advanced after winning the District 6 Section tournament, a 14-2 drubbing of Bel-Mateo on Saturday at the Belmont Sports Complex. The all-star team hasn’t been together that long. The Babe Ruth

Paye’s Undisputed TNT seventh-grade girls finished 4-2, reaching the quarterfinals of the championships bracket, at the AAU Club National Championships in Tennessee. The host Tennessee Rush beat Paye’s, 56-46, on Thursday.

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we have may bring happiness to people in Turkey who were affected by those horrible acts.’’ That Kimyacioglu was making the trip at all was a story in itself. She had already, in her words, “hung up her sneakers.’’ That was back in 2008 after having played professionally for three years in Turkey. That was when she embarked on the project of making a place for herself in the real world by retiring from basketball, going to law school and passing the bar exam to become a licensed attorney in the state of California. She started playing again in 2012 for the Turkish entrant in the Euroleague, but didn’t entertain any serious thoughts of playing for the Turkish national team. She would return to California in the summer to practice law, and that’s when the national team played. Her team won the Euroleague championship in 2014, a notable achievement in a league that included many top players from the U.S. Then her coach, Ekrem Memnun, was named coach of the na-

tional team. Memnun is a coach Kimyacioglu respects greatly along with former mentors Doc Scheppler at Pinewood and Tara Vanderveer at Stanford. When he gave her a call two months ago they talked and she agreed to join the team and lace up those sneakers, one more time. “After this I’m going to try to get my foot in the door and start my legal career,’’ Kimyacioglu said. Kimaycioglu’s parents immigrated to the U.S. in 1980. She was born in 1983 and grew up in Mountain View. From an early age she had an affinity for basketball. “In elementary school I played with the boys,’’ she said. “My father tried to sign me up for a coed league, but was told he had to be a coach. He was from Turkey, he knew soccer but not basketball. Pretty soon we had all these VHS tapes around the house, how-to videos from Rick Pitino, Pistol Pete and all these others. My father became my first coach.’’ In high school she came under the tutelage of Scheppler, “one of the best individual coaches, especially for shooting, in the state if not the country,’’ Kimyacioglu said. At Stanford she played for

Sebnem Kimyicioglu didn’t think about playing for the Turkish national team until her club coach asked her to join in 2014. Vanderveer, “a master strategizer.’’ And now the focus is to see how far Turkey can go under Memnun. “He’s a man who loves to scout,’’ Kimyacioglu said. “Meticulous preparation. He has a little bit of Tara in him. And he

is so motivational, an incredible communicator.’’ As far as Turkey’s chances ... “We want to medal,’’ Kimyacioglu said. Australia is the favorite in Turkey’s group. The top four from the

group advance. Kimyacioglu said the team’s objective is to finish in the top three in group play. “The fourth-place team from our group plays the U.S.,’’ she said. “We don’t want that to be us.’’ Q

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Maya DiRado will swim the 200- and 400-meter individual medleys, in addition to the 200 back, in Rio. DiRado won her third event at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha on Saturday, edging defending Olympic gold medalist and world recordholder in the event Missy Franklin by one second in the women’s 200 backstroke. “It did not occur to me that this was my last race on U.S. soil until (Elizabeth) Beisel and I were about to get into the warm-up pool and she said, ‘dude, this is the last time we’re going to wear these caps,’ “ DiRado said. “And I was like ‘Oh my gosh, this the last time I’m going to compete in a Stanford cap.’ I let that sink in for a second and then I had to push it aside and go back to my race. I’m glad that’s how I went out, with an ‘S’ on my cap.” She matched Ledecky and Phelps as three-time individual winners. “That’s kind of insane,” DiRado said. “I still don’t really believe it. But let me preface that by saying they have world records in their events and I’m like fourth or fifth in the world, so let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. But yeah,

that’s crazy.” DiRado’s time of 2:06.90 is the fourth-fastest in the world this year. Franklin, who returned to her original club — the Colorado Stars — after three years at Cal, came in at 2:07.89. Voss, who will be a freshman at Stanford, placed sixth in 2:09.81. “Greg (Meehan) reminded me that I have a practice tomorrow morning to get back into shape,” DiRado said. “It will be painful but it’s a pain I will gladly accept because this week has been so great.” DiRado only had one thing in mind when she arrived in Omaha and that was just to make the team. “At a meet like this time doesn’t really matter, you just want to make your events” DiRado said. “To win three events and get a best time is just additional excitement and happiness on top of that.” Ledecky won her signature event, the 800 free, by 10 seconds, going 8:10.32, which is still off her world record mark by four

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ly will add to that legacy. DiRado will swim the 400-meter individual medley, the 200 IM and the 200 back. Ledecky is entered in the 200 free, 400 free and 800 free. Manuel qualified in the 100 free and 50 free and Neal qualified for the 400 free relay, which will include Manuel. Current and former Stanford swimmers Sarah Haase, Ella Eastin, Erin Voss, David Nolan, Abrahm DeVine, BJ Johnson, True Sweetser and Grant Shoults all competed in championship finals. Some, like Bobby Bollier, Max Williamson, Drew Cosgarea, Eugene Godsoe and Andrew Liang, just missed a trip to Rio. Liang, who graduated from Palo Alto High, dropped over a full second in the 100 fly to move from 45th on the psych sheet to an eighth seed in semifinals in the most significant drop. DeVine was seeded in the 200 IM with a time of 2:02.74. He went 2:01.51 in the prelims and 1:59.43 in the semis to reach the final. Nolan finished third in the 200 IM behind Phelps and Ryan Lochte. “You have to turn off your mind and let your body do the actual racing,” Nolan said. “That’s when I do my best.” Bollier placed 10th in the semifinal of the 100 fly. “It’s a little disappointing but I have so many good experiences behind me and so many good people,” Bollier said. “It’s bittersweet but rewarding all the same.”

Lia Neal and Simone Manuel (right) each qualified for the Olympics. Manuel will swim the 50- and 100-meter free. seconds. She now owns the 10 fastest times in the event. “Took care of business and now I’m going to Rio,” Ledecky said. “I can’t complain. I did what I needed to do here, and it set me up to do what I wanted to do in Rio, and I think I’m really excited to get back to work this week and see if I can get a little faster, and then taper down and rest up for Rio.” Manuel and Lia Neal each got a chance to add another event to their Olympic resume on Sunday after qualifying for the final of the 50 free on Saturday. Manuel won her heat with a 24.58. Neal was the sixth seed after going 24.85 in the semifinals. Stanford grad Felicia Lee went 25.37 and Cardinal junior Janet Hu swam a 25.97 during the preliminaries. “I’m disappointed in my own performance but excited about my training group and the team,” Lee said. “The 100 free and 50 free are late in the week and after waiting all that time, once Simone touched second and Lia fourth, we

all went nuts in the stands. It was a really good moment.” Manuel finished second to Abbey Weitzeil in both the 100 free and 50 free. Sunday, in the 50 free, Weitzeil hit the wall first in 24.28, with Manuel five-hundredths of a second behind in 24.33. Their performances were the sixth- and seventh-fastest in the world this year in this event. “I think it’s a big deal,” Manuel said. “Just coming off 2012, I was 17th in the 100 free, and my goal (in 2012) was to make semifinals. So getting an individual swim has been something I’ve dreamed of for four years, and then being able to pull it off in the 50 free is exciting, and then I’ll have the relay, too. I’m super excited for what’s to come.” Phelps, who won the 200 fly, 200m IM and 100m fly, earned the Omega Top Male Swimmer of the Meet award. Ledecky was named Omega’s top Female Swimmer of the Meet for her wins in the 400m free, 200m free and 800m free. Q

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