Palo Alto Weekly August 26, 2016

Palo Alto

Vol. XXXVII, Number 47

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August 26, 2016

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El Camino Real undergoes new transition Page 20

Transitions 17 Spectrum 18 Worth a Look 26 Eating Out 27 Movies 28 Home 42 Puzzles 70 Q A&E Theater commemorates 9/11 anniversary

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Q Books Culture critic looks at diversity, equity in U.S.

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Q Sports Prep football teams open season this weekend

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Local news, information and analysis

Landlords push back against retail-only law City Council denies exemptions, agrees to allow more types of businesses on downtown’s fringe

by Gennady Sheyner

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etail in Palo Alto is easier to appreciate than to preserve, particularly at a time when soaring rents are driving shops out of downtown, and property owners are renting out the vacated buildings for more

money as offices.

In recent years, such a fate befell downtown businesses Zibbibo, Rudy’s Pub and Jungle Copy. To stem the tide, in May 2015 the City Council passed an emergency law mandating that all

ground-floor stores will remain reserved for retailers. The law was then extended from that June until April 30, 2017.

On Monday, the council directed staff to slightly modify the ordinance and to make it permanent. Yet the council also grappled with one of the thorniest dilemmas incumbent to the new law: What to do with properties in downtown’s periphery, where

foot traffic — that driver of retail success — is insufficient?

The question was prompted by the Morris family, owners of 100 Addison Ave., near Alma Street, whose longtime tenant Addison Antiques moved out last year.

Michael Morris argued that the building is too small and too far from downtown’s commercial core to attract another retailer.

His family, he said, has not had

income from the property since July 2015.

Morris claimed that he has offered the space at well below the market rate but still has no takers. The building, he said, has become a financial burden. And the impending relocation of Anthropologie, which occupies the nearby 999 Alma St., to Stanford (continued on page 10)

RECREATION

Plan for new dog parks wins support Parks and Recreation Commission unanimously endorses off-leash spaces at Eleanor Pardee and Bowden parks

by Gennady Sheyner

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Getting their kicks Andrew Cheav, right, a master instructor at Palo Alto Martial Arts, holds a wooden board as taekwondo students practice punches and kicks on Aug. 17. The studio teaches kids from 4 to 12 years old and also trains teens and adults, from beginning to advanced levels.

EDUCATION

School trustees disagree over urgency of making up budget gap Board eyes more conservative revenue projections for future years

by Elena Kadvany

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alo Alto school board members supported the most conservative budget forecasts for the next five years during a discussion Tuesday on how to fix a $3.3 million budget shortfall — the result of overly ambitious estimates of property-tax revenues. At the same time, at least two board members pressed for a comprehensive list of potential budget areas to cut now rather than put off the difficult decisions till next year.

At the board’s first regular meeting of the school year, members agreed that district staff’s newest and most conservative five-year budget forecast, which plans for

property-tax growth rates of about 4 percent for the next two years and 3 percent in the following years, is the best scenario to use. These rates are in stark contrast with the projections that formed the basis for the 2015-16 budget: 8.67 percent growth for this year and 7.83 percent for the 2017-18 year.

Board Vice President Terry Godfrey expressed concern that unanswered financial questions could affect this scenario, such as the outcome of an initiative on this November’s ballot to extend a personal-income-tax increase through Proposition 30. (If this doesn’t pass, it could result in

million-dollar deficits in future years for the district, according to Chief Budget Officer Cathy Mak).

Godfrey said she would prefer to “take action” in alignment with a less conservative forecast, which would use growth rates slightly below the city’s 5 percent range, while being prepared for the third, most conservative scenario.

Board member Ken Dauber supported the most conservative forecast but said what is more important than picking the right scenario is understanding — and taking action on — the budget (continued on page 14)

n ambitious plan to create new dog parks throughout Palo Alto picked up fresh momentum this week, when the city’s Parks and Recreation Commission enthusiastically recommended moving ahead with two off-leash recreational spaces.

With its unanimous vote on Tuesday night, the commission sought to put some teeth into a proposal that has been painstakingly crafted and modified over months of meetings and discussions and that is scheduled to go to the council next month. While commission members have spoken for years about the need to expand the city’s meager supply of dog parks, progress so far has been hard to come by. Most recently, a plan to include an off-leash area in the newly redesigned El Camino Park fizzled because of the park’s proximity to the San Francisquito Creek, home to the endangered steelhead trout.

While El Camino remains a long shot, city staff is now focusing on two sites for near-term improvements: Eleanor Pardee Park and Bowden Park. The commission on Tuesday recommended that the city begin conducting the needed outreach to get these projects going as soon as possible, a recommendation that the council will consider on Sept. 19.

At the same time, the commission also recommended that a specific dog-park policy be included in the city’s new master plan for parks and recreation facilities, a broad document that will guide the city’s decisions on new programs and amenities.

The plan is expected to lay the

foundation for creating more dog parks in other parts of the city.

Chair Ed Lauing noted Tuesday that one of the lessons that the commission has learned over its many months of working on the master plan is that dog parks are a major priority for local residents.

Currently, the city has only three such facilities, all in south Palo Alto. Only one that is larger than 0.25 acres, the industry standard.

While the dog area Mitchell Park is 0.5 acres, the ones in Hoover and Greer parks are 0.14 and 0.12 acres, respectively.

Meanwhile, residents north of Oregon Expressway have no dedicated dog parks at all.

“There is a sense of urgency,” Lauing said. “And the commission has more or less committed, as much as we can, for a number of years to the dog owners that we’ll work on this and that we’ll get it done.”

Whether or not the city will actually proceed with these parks will be up to the City Council.

But by issuing a unanimous recommendation, the commission tried to make the case for proceeding with these projects without further delay.

Commissioner Jennifer Hetterly, who serves on a subcommittee that has been refining the dog-park proposal, said that passing a formal recommendation is a good way to to indicate to the council that the issue of dog parks is “really important to us.”

“We’ve been talking about dog parks for at least a decade and haven’t made any progress,” Het(continued on page 13)

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It’s kind of the end of an era.

—Sue Winslow, a horse owner, on Stanford’s plans to reduce the horse pasture area on Page Mill Road.

See story on page 7.

Around Town

STUDENT FOR THE DAY ... It’s back to the classroom, literally, for a group of Palo Alto school district administrators who will be shadowing students for one day over the next two months as part of a new initiative inspired by the Stanford University d. school’s “Shadow a Student Challenge.”

All principals, assistant principals and district office administrators who are “directly connected to the educational process” will spend one day shadowing a student in the district, Superintendent Max McGee wrote in an email to the Weekly. At the district level, this group will include Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources Scott Bowers, Chief Academic Officer of Elementary Education Barbara Harris, Associate Superintendent Markus Autrey, Chief Academic Officer of Secondary Education Sharon Ofek, Chief Student Services Officer Holly Wade, Equity Coordinator Martha Castellon, Director of Special Education Chiara Perry and Communications Coordinator Jorge Quintana, among others.

Two Board of Education members, Terry Godfrey and Melissa Baten Caswell, have also requested to participate, McGee said. The initiative was born out of discussions McGee had last year on how to provide feedback to teachers while focusing on the student experience, coupled with his discovery of the d. school’s shadowing challenge.

While administrators are trying to build “culture” and achieve highlevel goals, “it can be easy to lose sight of what really happens to students in our classrooms and what their day is like,” McGee said at Tuesday’s school board meeting.

“As we shadow these students, we will be immersing ourselves in their experience. Administrators will be shadowing students of all grades starting after Labor Day. McGee, for his part, will be shadowing a seventh-grader at Jordan Middle School — who is also named Max. SPACE INVADERS ... For residents of downtown Palo Alto, parking congestion on neighborhood streets has been a frustrating fact of life for well over a decade. But if the problem is a vexing one for residents, so is the solution. The downtown Residential Preferential Parking (RPP) program, which the city launched in September 2015 and modified in April, continues to generate significant debate, discord and frustration. The

program, which restricts all-day parking to permit holders (only downtown residents and employees can purchase permits), seeks to alleviate the congestion by removing car owners who use the streets as their daily parking lots before biking or taking the train to their ultimate destinations. But while it’s had some limited success, residents remain concerned about the program’s future. Last week, as the council prepared to add three new blocks into the area (the 1000 and 1100 blocks of Hamilton Avenue and the 500 block of Chaucer Street) and accept a status report on the parking program, downtown residents lobbied council members to hold off any decisions until they hold a full discussion of the program’s impacts. Some expressed concerns about the second phase of the program, which distributed permits based on 10 zones, with the idea of spreading cars out evenly throughout downtown. Michael Hodos, a Professorville resident who served on the task force that created the program, suggested that the distribution system isn’t working as well as it could. “The irony is that the very groups of residents who initiated the RPP program several years ago in an effort to restore the quality of life in overparked neighborhoods are now the ones suffering the most, thanks to the continuing maldistribution of nonresidential parking close to the downtown core,” Hodos said.

The council agreed not to make any decisions at this time and scheduled a more substantive discussion for Sept. 6.

FASHION MEETS ACADEMICS ... Tyra Banks, former Victoria’s Secret supermodel and producer and host of the hit TV show, “America’s Next Top Model”, will be coaching 25 MBA candidates in an eight-week spring semester class called “Project You: Building and Extending Your Personal Brand” at Stanford University.

The class will help students realize what a personal brand is, how it can be unleashed as a valuable, competitive advantage, and how to create a brand identity and strategy, among other topics, according to an online class description. “Class is in session (in 2017),” Banks tweeted.

“And there will be no Smizing course. Sorry to disappoint,” she added, referring to her coined phrase, “smize,” meaning to smile with your eyes. Q

Upfront UTILITIES

Tweaks to rooftop-solar program irk industry execs Critics say new rates for metering program would deter home solar installations

by Gennady Sheyner

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t’s been a banner year for solar energy in Palo Alto, with the city signing new longterm contracts for its supply of solar-powered electricity and newly installed panels gleaming from rooftops at residential and commercial buildings throughout the city.

Despite this progress, the city took some heat this week from the solar industry, with several executives warning that a proposal to change a popular program would abruptly halt the recent progress.

The controversy surrounds

Palo Alto’s “net energy metering” program, which allows residents with solar panels to save the energy they produce, according to John Abendschein, resource planner at the Utilities Department. Under the current program, customers bank the electricity they generate during hours of low consumption (say, when they are at work or in the middle of the afternoon) and then use it during high-consumption hours (after work). The program also comes with a 12-month “carryover period,” the amount of time customers can save ex-

cess electricity. This is particularly helpful in banking energy produced in the summer for use in the winter, for instance.

The program was created to meet a state requirement, which calls for all utilities to establish net-energy-metering programs up to a certain limit: 5 percent of peak load. In Palo Alto’s case, the cap on this resident-produced energy is 9.5 megawatts, according to the Utilities Department.

The city is expected to reach this threshold later this year, Abendschein said.

Once that happens, new cus-

ANIMALS

Equestrians lose horse pasture at Stanford The university is requiring Page Mill Pastures to drastically cut operations

by Sue Dremann cies. The facility sits on land near creeks that support the California red-legged frog and Western pond turtles. Stanford is required to protect those species under the Endangered Species Act. Horse trails cross Matadero and Deer creeks, bringing erosion and excrement that may harm the small animals. The large animals could also trample the species, according to the university.

To address protection under federal law, Stanford developed a voluminous document, the Habitat Conservation Plan. The plan was approved in 2013 by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, giving Stanford an “incidental take permit” for 50 years to develop some of the protected species’ environmentally sensitive lands by setting some aside and enhancing others.

Jean McCown, university spokeswoman, said in an email that Stanford has been working with an agricultural consultant to assess horse and cattle pasturemanagement practices on its lands.

“One reason to do this evaluation is to avoid over-grazing that can result in detriment to grass lands.

Stanford will be working with all of its agricultural tenants to implement recommendations for best pasture management and to make appropriate changes to ensure responsible environmental stewardship of these lands,” she wrote.

Stanford has been working with Page Mill for more than three years to reach an agreement on a reduction in acreage and horses, and it is allowing the facility to continue keeping some horses and its classes on the property. The university will bring in seasonal grazing animals

to reduce fire risk on the pastures that will no longer be grazed by the horses, McCown said.

Turchet said it’s Stanford’s land to do with what they want. She declined to comment further on the cutbacks, deferring to university officials.

But the move isn’t sitting well with the equestrian community.

“Shame On You Stanford!” read the headline of the local publication “That Barn Life,” which wrote about “The Great Migration” from Page Mill in its July 1 issue.

“This is a higher rate than is proposed in any other community around the state,” Abendschein told the council Monday.

Even so, participation in the net metering program is expected to become less lucrative. A customer who uses 12,184 kilowatts per year (roughly twice the average consumption) and relies on a solar system for half of that currently sees his annual bill drop from $1,825 (without solar) to $820 (with solar). Under the new program, the same customer would see the bill drop to $1,042 with solar.

Measured in terms of how long it would take for a resident to pay off the purchase of the home solar system, the new program would be less beneficial for those who get most of their electricity from a solar installation.

For those who generate about 30 percent of their load through solar, the payback period for in-

Many local equestrians have stabled and pastured their horses at Page Mill for years, including the publication’s editor, Kwase Hjulstrom, who said she is one of the lucky few whose horse can remain at Page Mill.

Leaving the horse-boarding facility at 3450 Deer Creek Road means they are not only losing a close-by place to board their animals, but they are also losing a close-knit community, she and others said.

“I am extremely upset,” said Sue Winslow, who recently moved her horses to Milpitas.

“My horses lived at Page Mill for almost 20 years. There are so few places where you can have a horse on pasture land. ... It’s kind of the end of an era.”

Winslow said losing the pastures is a loss for the entire community. Families bring their children to see the horses and vans of seniors from retirement com-

munities often stop to watch the animals placidly graze against the backdrop of hills.

She noted that many horse owners work in Palo Alto. They won’t be able to drive an hour to see and care for their horses every day. There may be a few other local places to board animals, but most don’t offer the accommodations of Page Mill and many are far more expensive than the $330 a month for pasture use and $695 for a paddock, she said.

For Marcy Rosenberg, the loss is “huge.”

“The people were like family — that was the hardest thing,” she said of leaving.

Page Mill Pastures was also “paradise” for her two horses, and she and her husband, Bob, loved the trail connections that took them into Los Altos and to Wes-

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eland Stanford loved horses.

They have been a part of the Stanford landscape dating from 1876, when he purchased his first 650 out of 8,000 acres.

For decades Stanford University has continued that tradition. It has leased some of its valuable acreage for grazing and equestrian uses, offering the local horse-loving community opportunities to traverse trails, board their horses and use its land for pasturage.

But as open land becomes scarcer, Stanford’s marriage to its horse-accommodating past has begun to falter. Faced with pressures for potential future development space and federal requirements to protect threatened and endangered species that inhabit its open spaces, the university is reducing the lease of at least one longtime equestrian facility. The leaseholder, Page Mill Pastures, must reduce by at least 75 percent the number of horses it runs on the land by the end of the year.

Page Mill Pastures has been a fixture on Stanford land for 30 years, offering boarding in paddocks and three pastures for mares, geldings and retired and injured horses. Before that, for many years it was Ramos Ranch.

At one point there were as many as 150 horses. But under a revised lease, the business must reduce its herd from about 100 horses to 25.

Page Mill’s acreage is also being reduced from 800 acres to 118, Giselle Turchet, Page Mill’s manager, confirmed on Wednesday.

Page Mill’s drastic reduction is taking place for a couple of reasons. For one, it shares its home with federally endangered spe-

tomers who wish to participate in the city’s net-energy-metering program would be subject to a new set of rules (existing customers would be exempt). That’s where there’s disagreement.

According to the Utilities Department’s new proposal, which the City Council approved Monday night, new customers would not be allowed to bank energy for a year; instead, the energy they don’t use daily would be sold to the city for 7.5 cents per kilowatt — roughly the rate the city pays for its solar energy.

Utilities Department officials said the price is both fair and generous and factors in the many benefits of solar energy that’s generated locally. This includes reduced transmission costs, less energy loss during the distribution process and less of a need for the city to purchase credits, called renewable-energy certificates, to make up for its purchases of electricity from nonrenewable sources.

Horses at Page Mill Pastures graze in their corrals as riding lessons commence at the boarding facility. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 26, 2016 • Page 7

Upfront MENTAL HEALTH

News Digest

Study of texting aims to improve crisis counseling

Palo Alto embraces new vision for public art The streets of Palo Alto offer passersby an eclectic gallery of artistic surprises, from the gleaming owls keeping sentry in front of the Mitchell Park Library to Jungle Jane, an aluminum sculpture that resembles a giant face pushing through a metal sheet on California Avenue.

Not all are equally popular. Some, like Greg Brown’s downtown murals, are praised for their whimsical sense of humor. Others, like the giant “Go Mama” sculpture of a doll with a child’s face embedded in its stomach, are more complex and polarizing. But whatever the merits and flaws of individual pieces, Palo Alto officials agreed this week that public art is, on the whole, a treasured amenity that should be supported and promoted.

To that end, the City Council on Monday approved the city’s first Public Art Master Plan — a document that has been in the works since February 2015 and that establishes the city’s art vision for the next decade. The master plan’s adoption comes at a time of significant growth, with the council recently expanding the city’s “Percent for Art” program, in which builders devote 1 percent of their construction costs on art, to include private developments and more municipal projects.

In putting together the plan, city staff and consultants Barbara Goldstein and Gail Goldman solicited input from residents through focus groups and at citywide events. Goldman said that residents wanted public art to be varied; they also wanted it to be spread throughout the city, including along popular walking routes.

—Gennady Sheyner

Achievement gap persists in state scores Results from California’s standardized Smarter Balanced Assessment, released Wednesday, show that most Palo Alto Unified School District students exceed standards in English and mathematics, but stark differences in achievement continue between white and Asian students and students of color.

More than 80 percent of all Palo Alto students who took the test met or exceeded state standards in English and mathematics, according to the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) scores. Students in third through eighth grade and 11th-graders took the test this spring.

While 53 percent of white students and 69 percent of Asian students exceeded standards in English, only 25 percent of Latino students and 22 percent of African-American students did. Twenty-nine percent of Latino and African-American students met standards in English.

The results show a similar gap in mathematics: 60 percent of white students and 81 percent of Asian students tested above standards compared to 24 percent of Latino students and 23 percent of African-American students.

Twenty seven percent of Latino students met standards in math, compared to 20 percent of African-American students.

The gap persists among English-language learners and economically disadvantaged students (defined as students who are eligible for free and reduced-priced meals, foster youth, homeless students, migrant students and students for whom neither parent is a high school graduate). Just over 20 percent of English-language learners exceeded standards in English, though more (36 percent) exceeded the standards in math. About 15 percent of economically disadvantaged students exceeded standards in both English and math.

—Elena Kadvany

Stanford prohibits hard alcohol at parties Stanford University has banned hard alcohol at undergraduate parties and limited the size of liquor containers students are allowed to have in campus housing, university officials announced Monday.

Only beer and wine will be allowed at undergraduate university parties.

Hard alcohol will still be allowed for parties attended solely by graduate students, university officials said.

Bottles of 750 milliliters (the standard size of a wine bottle) or larger are also banned in student housing. Students will only be allowed to buy bottles of liquor that are a pint or smaller.

University spokeswoman Lisa Lapin said that the new policy will be “enforced in the same manner as our existing alcohol policies.”

Residential assistants will also be asked to enforce the ban.

The penalty for violating the bans will be administrative action meted out by the university’s residence deans and OAPE, according to an FAQ from the university.

“Continued or concerning behavior may result in removal from university housing or referral to the Office of Community Standards,” the FAQ states.

In an explanation posted Monday, university officials said the rules will limit the availability of alcohol for student consumption as fewer stores stock the smaller bottles than the larger ones.

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Stanford researchers find core language techniques among the most successful counselors

by Sue Dremann hat a counselor says — or doesn’t say — during a crisis counseling session can make a big difference in whether a client goes away better able to cope, according to a new study by Stanford University researchers.

The study is an example of how social-media technology is helping to revolutionize research into mental health services. The Stanford research is the largest study to date in counseling conversation strategies. Instead of evaluating voice transcripts of conversations, which are typically small samplings, the researchers used data from an SMS texting-based counseling service, through which people with issues such as depression, self-harm, suicidal thoughts and anxiety engaged in therapeutic conversations with counselors.

The data set had millions of messages from 80,000 counseling conversations conducted by hundreds of counselors over the course of a year. The researchers analyzed 660,000 anonymous text messages from 15,000 crisis counseling sessions.

“We find that there are significant, quantifiable differences between more successful and less successful counselors in how they conduct conversations,” the researchers wrote.

The study was published in the August issue of “Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics” by

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researchers Jure Leskovec, associate professor of computer sciences at Stanford, and graduate students Tim Althoff and Kevin Clark. The trio developed their own computational discourseanalysis methods.

They analyzed words and phrases used by counselors to determine whether they helped distressed people who texted to feel better at the end of the conversation.

Successful counselors were more sensitive to the trajectory of a conversation and reacted accordingly; clarified ambiguity by writing more; reflected back to check that they are understanding what the client was saying; and made the client more comfortable through affirmation.

The counselors responded in more creative ways without templates or generic responses, and they understood the core issue faster and moved on to collaboratively solve the problem. They also used language to change perspective.

“We find that people in distress are more likely to be more positive, think about the future, and consider others when the counselors bring up these concepts,” they wrote. This perspective change is also associated with better conversation outcomes in depressed patients, they found.

The researchers were able to predict the outcomes of conversations, a useful tool that could help develop better counseling

practices, they said.

Steering the conversation away from ambiguity also played an important role in the conversations that were more successful.

Those counselors wrote back to clients almost as much as the clients wrote. They asked more detailed questions and paraphrased the responses back to the client to confirm they re understood the issue. They asked “check questions” — statements that tell the conversation partner that they understood them while avoiding any opinion or advice — such as checking for suicidal thoughts early and thanking the texter for having the courage to talk to them.

Successful counselors moved quickly past early stages of conversation, such as the introduction and the framing of the problem, to exploring the issue and problem solving. They had more “power” in the conversation and were able to move it forward, the study found.

Texters also explained their issue largely based on the past and present. Subtle changes in language could put clients in a better frame of mind, such as talking about the future or speaking positively.

The researchers hope to eventually help develop conversation applications to support counselors during training and conversations, they said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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local solar provides.

“I think if we are to all get together, sharpen our pencils and work our way to something more comprehensive, we’d recognize that the wholesale rate of 7.5 cents is a tip of the iceberg — but solar provides a great deal more value,” Lavin said.

Gary Gerber, founder of the Berkeley company Sun Light and Power, noted that Palo Alto’s already low electricity rates (which are more than 30 percent below PG&E’s) make solar installations a tough sell. Making solar even less attractive through new rates, he argued, “is just going to drive solar out of the city.”

These arguments did not sway the council, which voted 8-0 (with Eric Filseth absent) to adopt the successor rates. Vice Mayor Greg Scharff noted that all the speakers who challenged the rates are members of the solar industry who have a vested financial interest in opposing the changes. He also observed that

there is absolutely no opposition to the new rates from Palo Alto’s customers. More than 800 participate in the metering program.

The council also recognized that it is facing some limitations in how much the city can pay for locally generated solar energy.

Proposition 26, which was passed in 2010, restricts local electric rates to the cost of providing the service. Because local utilities are funded by its customers, the restriction effectively bars the city from overpaying for locally generated solar.

The council agreed that the staff proposal balances the state requirements with the city’s desire to promote solar. Yet in a nod to the solar industry, the council also agreed to resume this discussion after the net-metering cap is reached and to consider possible changes that could be made to spur residents to install solar panels. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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stalling the system is expected to remain at about 11 years, much like it is today. For those who get 100 percent of their load from solar, the payback period is expected to increase from about 14 years under the current program to about 16 years under the new rates, which are known in the industry as “successor rates.”

For some solar executives, the lower savings and the longer payback period present a problem. Carter Lavin, membership coordinator at the Solar Energy Industries Association, pointed to these factors as he urged the council to reject the new rates.

“Our stance is that this program, as currently proposed, would decimate solar development in Palo Alto,” Lavin said.

Like others, he argued that the 7.5-cent rate that the city proposed falls short of the value that

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Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans consider a resolution creating a storm-water-management fee of $13.65 per equivalent residential unit and adopt procedures relating to a mail-ballot election. The council will also discuss the Comprehensive Plan Update and the two new planning scenarios that would be included in the Environmental Impact Report for the update. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 29, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to discuss performance evaluations for the city clerk, the city auditor, the city manager and the city attorney. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 30, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE ... The Board of Education’s policy review committee will tentatively discuss policies on: gifts, grants and bequests; research; remuneration, reimbursement and other benefits; placement in math courses; and board member electronic communications. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 31, in Room A at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave.

Jocelyn Dong

Volunteer docents Colin Huang, left, and Divya Shenoy staff the EcoCenter on Wheels, a program launched this summer that brings exhibits from the Environmental Volunteers’ EcoCenter on Embarcadero Road in Palo Alto out to the public.

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Have exhibits, will travel New environmental educational program in Baylands takes the lessons to the people

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his summer, a new species has been inhabiting the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve. With an umbrella for shade, four wheels for mobility, and local teenagers as its guide, EcoCenter on Wheels offers information about the nature preserve and its creatures to families who are out strolling.

On a recent Sunday, two young boys peered over the edge of the cart, where an array of formerly live birds — including a petite Anna’s hummingbird and a brown-andwhite killdeer — were on display.

“Do you want to pet the robin?” asked docent Divya Shenoy, a freshmen at Evergreen Valley High School in San Jose. One of the boys reached out his hand and gently stroked the feathers while his mother looked on.

Shenoy pointed to the blackand-white speckled egg of the killdeer, which lay on pebbles of various colors, and introduced the concept of camouflage.

“See?” the boys’ mother said, pointing to the egg. “It blends in.”

After the family wandered away, Shenoy declared the teaching moment a success.

“That went well!” she said, smiling.

EcoCenter on Wheels, a program of the Palo Alto nonprofit Environmental Volunteers, was designed to empower teenagers to educate others, and in the process learn more about the environment themselves.

“Our teen volunteers are given the freedom to choose ... what

information they would like to present, making the display their own,” Kristi Moos, marketing and communications director for Environmental Volunteers, wrote in an email. “We don’t provide them with a formal script, instead encouraging them to take the time to learn information for themselves and to practice interpretation methods with visitors.

“Working in pairs helps them to share information between themselves and to foster collaboration,” Moos added.

On Sunday Shenoy was joined by Colin Huang, a Gunn High School junior. Standing with the cart by the Palo Alto duck pond on Embarcadero Road, both said they decided to volunteer out of an interest in the natural world and protecting the environment. Huang is taking two biology classes this semester.

As a small aircraft buzzed by to land at the adjacent Palo Alto Airport, Huang shared facts about the iridescent magenta Anna’s hummingbird.

“Their calls are high-pitched and squeaky, like the amplified opening and closing of rusty scissors,” he said. “The egg is one of the smallest of any bird — less than half the size of a penny.”

In addition to the display on Baylands birds and eggs, which also teaches about nests and adaptations that birds make, the docents can teach units on skulls or salt marsh plants.

The station is wheeled out to

the duck pond as a way of reaching passersby, instead of expecting people to come into the Environmental Volunteers facility, which is the ship-shaped former Sea Scouts building located across Embarcadero Road.

Vanshika Desai, a high school senior who started volunteering with the EcoCenter on Wheels in early June, said that the cart has definitely created more interest in the main center.

“Usually a lot of families come by here, and we notice that a lot of kids get interested in it, and so then the parents as a result also start to ask about the different stuff that we have,” she said. “One time there was this family with two little girls in strollers who had gone to the EcoCenter and then they had come back and said that it was a really cute experience.”

Moos attested to the value of going to where the families are.

“A lot of people have said, ‘Oh I never knew that there was something going on in your building. I didn’t know you guys were here doing nature education,’ and the kids love it,” she said.

The EcoCenter on Wheels project is funded with a grant from the Palo Alto University Rotary Club. Staff expect the EcoCenter on Wheels will continue on weekends throughout the school year as volunteers are available. Q Editor Jocelyn Dong and Editorial Intern Anissa Fritz at jdong@paweekly.com.

CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to continue its discussion of performance evaluations for the city clerk, the city auditor, the city manager and the city attorney. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 31, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss revisions to the city’s below-market-rate program and consider changes to the impact fees for residential and commercial construction. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 31, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. UTILITIES ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss its upcoming joint session with the City Council; consider a recommendation that the council approve a carbon-neutral gas portfolio plan that includes a combination of offsets and biogas in the city’s gassupply portfolio; discuss the city’s initiatives on Fiber to the Premise, including work related to potential Google Fiber and AT&T Gigapower deployment and co-build opportunities; consider a proposal to amend the gas-rate schedule and include a separate transportation charge as a discrete pass-through component; and hear an update on the statewide drought and its impacts on water and hydroelectric supply. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 31, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to discuss 203 Forest Ave., a proposal to a 4,996-square-foot, three-bedroom residential unit above an existing commercial building; review a proposal

by Avenidas to renovate and expand its building at 450 Bryant St.; and discuss the revised proposal for 429 University Ave., a proposed four-story mixed-use building. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 1, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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twind Barn, she said. After 13 years at Page Mill, she now travels to Milpitas to visit her horse.

Rosenberg recalled that before she and her husband moved their horses more than a month ago, they could feel a distinctive change in the air at Page Mill.

“These last months before we left, it’s like somebody died,” she said.

Some equestrians voiced concern that the university would develop the pastures, a claim that McCown said is false. The university “has no development plans for that property or outside its academic-growth boundary in Santa Clara County,” she wrote.

Some in the equestrian community pointed out that the Habitat Conservation Plan does allow Stanford future development rights in some of the sensitive

habitat areas outside of buffer zones and set-asides. If not building today, the university could still develop the pastures in the future, they said.

By Aug. 31, Page Mill must remove the geldings from the upper part of their pasture; all of the lower stalls and structures, tack, storage and sheds along the creeks; and all structures in the pastures at Coyote Hill, also called “Flat Pasture,” according to a letter Page Mill sent to clients regarding the changes, Hjulstrom said.

By Dec. 31, all horses on the gelding pastures must be removed, and all horses and structures on Old Page Mill Road must be taken out.

The Pastures will be allowed to keep its main parking lot, mares’ catch pen, riding-and-lesson program and upper stalls and arenas and the mares’ pasture. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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Morris is one of several property owners who in recent weeks has raised concerns about the retail-preservation ordinance and its effect on their businesses. He is the only one, however, who has appealed for a waiver, claiming hardship.

The council on Monday night heard his case and ultimately denied his request by a unanimous vote. Members asserted that for the ordinance to have any teeth, exemptions should be avoided. “The question we face is: How do we distinguish between greed and hardship and tell the difference?� Tom DuBois said. “The retail protection of ground-floor space won’t have any effect if we just grant exceptions when someone complains.�

DuBois and his colleagues quickly acknowledged, however, that leasing to a retailer will, in most cases, be far less lucrative for developers and property owners. And while the council struggled to specify exactly what would constitute a real hardship for landowners, members agreed that 100 Addison Ave. falls short of that threshold.

Karen Holman, who proposed denying Morris’ application, suggested that the building on Addison — while somewhat ill-suited for traditional retail because of its industrial character — can

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The South of Forest Avenue (SOFA) II area, on the outskirts of downtown Palo Alto, is subject to the city’s ground-floor retail ordinance, which seeks to ensure that retail space isn’t turned into an office. The owner of 100 Addison Ave., which lies at the farthest tip of SOFA II, petitioned the City Council for an exemption from the law but was denied Monday. The council amended the ordinance, however, to allow an educational facility to rent the space. support “creative� uses such as a design firm or a nursery.

Holman also suggested that because Morris raised the rent on Addison Antiques, he in a sense created his own hardship.

(Morris countered that he only increased the rent after the store owners requested a one-year, rather than two-year, lease as a result of Anthropologie’s announced relocation). “If I owned that property, I’d be working closely with owners of Anthropologie to create an environment there that would be a

destination place and something that the community can support and embrace,� Holman said. “I’m not persuaded a real attempt has been made to get (that kind of) retail.�

Like Morris, Boyd Smith also claimed Monday that his building at 425 Portage Ave. should be exempted from the retailpreservation ordinance because it is — at least in a legal sense — a warehouse. A letter from his son, Lund Smith, stated that the building has “always operated as a warehouse,� most recently for

Pet Food Depot.

Now Pet Food Depot is preparing to move out and the family is “faced with the tremendous hardship of trying to lease out this building to a retail user even though it is a warehouse building surrounded by office buildings.�

But the argument that Pet Food Depot is only a warehouse and not retail quickly fizzled after several residents Monday told the council about shopping for dog food and other pet essentials at the store.

Jeff Levinsky noted that the business is advertised as a store on its website. Just to make sure, he went there and bought a squeaky tennis ball, which he proceeded to squeak for the council. “They didn’t ask me if I was a wholesaler or if I was going to be reselling it at all,� Levinsky said. “It’s a store.�

Smith didn’t request a formal waiver, as such, the council did not vote on an exemption Monday.

Another property owner cited a different kind of wrinkle in the retail ordinance. The company Vance Brown recently bought 3241 Park Ave. with the intent of using it to expand its offices.

The problem, however, is that the building previously housed autoservice shop Park Avenue Motors, a retailer. This means that the building, under the city’s new law would have to remain retail.

Vance Brown challenged this interpretation, noting that the building is in a “general manufacturing� zone, which does not permit auto shops without a conditional-use permit — and the previous property owner had never obtained one.

Retail “makes no sense given the complete zoning history for this property and its location, its

isolation from other retail uses and given that Park Avenue Motors was imminently vacating the building,� a letter from Vance Brown’s limited-liability corporation, 3241 Park Boulevard LLC, stated.

The council didn’t make a decision on the Park Avenue property on Monday. But in an unanticipated move at the end of the discussion, members began lobbying for other kinds of businesses that should be allowed in retail spaces on the fringes of downtown. This area, known as the South of Forest Avenue II, or SOFA II, is where the Morrises’ property is located.

Mayor Pat Burt’s proposal to include medical offices and educational facilities in these areas fell by a 4-4 vote, with Holman, DuBois, Greg Scharff and Greg Schmid dissenting. A separate proposal from Scharff, which included education facilities but not medical offices, fared better, advancing 5-3, with DuBois, Holman and Schmid dissenting and Eric Filseth absent. This exception will become part of the interim ordinance.

The council also agreed in the waning minutes of Monday night that it will need to have another full discussion of the broader retail-protection ordinance before it finalizes the permanent law, which it plans to adopt next spring. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Online This Week

These and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online throughout the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com/news.

Sierra Club chapter director has long history as volunteer

Brock Turner judge recuses himself from child-porn case

James Eggers, new director of the Palo Altobased chapter of the Sierra Club, has plans to boost the number of volunteers and increase their expertise. (Posted Aug. 25, 7:34 a.m.)

Grants available to replace woodburning heating devices Money will be available starting Friday morning for roughly 1,500 Bay Area homeowners and landlords to help them upgrade their wood-burning heating devices with cleaner ones to reduce winter air pollution, officials with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District said today. (Post-

Embattled Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky, who is currently facing a recall campaign for his controversial sentencing of former Stanford University student-athlete Brock Turner, has recused himself from an upcoming hearing in a child-pornography case. (Posted Aug. 23, 1:13 p.m.)

State Supreme Court upholds teacher tenure law The California Supreme Court on Monday, Aug. 22, upheld the state’s laws on public-school teacher tenure after a lower court found them to be unconstitutional. (Posted Aug. 22, 2:52 p.m.)

ed Aug. 24, 4:33 p.m.)

Age-discrimination lawsuit four former employers file against HP Four former employees have filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the Hewlett-Packard companies for age discrimination, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose. (Posted Aug. 24, 8:48 a.m.)

‘All-gender’ single-use restroom bill goes to California governor California businesses and state government buildings may be required to make single-occupancy restrooms available to all genders starting next year if a bill authored by Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, is signed into law. (Posted Aug. 23, 1:14 p.m.)

SLAC, Stanford scientists advance water-purification technology Take a bottle of water contaminated by certain types of bacteria, drop into the water a new and inexpensive nanotechnology device about half the size of a postage stamp and resembling a piece of black glass, and set the bottle in the sunlight. In 20 minutes, the bacteria will be dead and the water will be clean, according to an announcement from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park and Stanford University. (Posted Aug. 21, 9:01 a.m.)

Bouncer receives eight months for death of Palo Alto man

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (Aug. 22)

Net energy metering: The council approved successor rates for the Net Energy Metering program. Yes: Berman, Burt, DuBois, Holman, Kniss, Scharff, Schmid, Wolbach Absent: Filseth Retail: The council rejected a request from property owner of 100 Addison Ave. for a waiver from the city’s retail-protection ordinance. The council also directed staff to return with changes to the permanent retail-protection ordinance, which it expects to pass next spring. The changes would create more flexibility in ground-floor uses for areas outside the downtown core.

Yes: Berman, Burt, DuBois, Holman, Kniss, Scharff, Schmid, Wolbach Absent: Filseth Retail: The council voted to allow educational facilities as a ground-floor use in the SOFA II district. Yes: Berman, Burt, Kniss, Scharff, Wolbach No: DuBois, Holman, Schmid Absent: Filseth

Board of Education (Aug. 23)

Goals: The board approved a set of goals for the 2016-17 school year on high-quality teaching and learning; equity and access; and wellness and safety. Yes: Unanimous Calendar: The board approved an updated calendar for 2016-17 board meetings. Yes: Unanimous Elementary funds: The board voted to release $60.3 million in elementary reserve funds to support current and future facilities projects at the elementary schools. Yes: Unanimous

Parks and Recreation Commission (Aug. 23)

Aquatics: The commission discussed service-delivery options for the city’s aquatics program. Action: None Dog Policy: The commission recommended approving a new dog-park policy for local parks. Yes: Unanimous Master plan: The commission discussed the Parks, Open Space, Trails and Recreation Facilities Master Plan. Action: None

A bouncer who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of a Palo Alto resident outside a San Jose bar received an eight-month jail sentence on Thursday. (Posted Aug. 19, 4:28 p.m.)

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Dogs terly said.

The two parks were chosen for near-term improvements because of their sizes and locations. The centrally located Eleanor Pardee Park is 9.6 acres, with plenty of unused space to “dedicate a large dog park with minimal impact on other uses, and with significant buffer space for adjacent residents,” states a recent report from Daren Anderson, division manager for Open Space, Parks and Golf Services.

The 2-acre Bowden Park, while much smaller, also has an open area that, according to Anderson, is currently underused because of its proximity to the busy Alma Street.

“The proposed dog park site will have minimum impact on other park users and nearby residences as well as accessibility for multiple neighborhoods given the proximity to (the) California Avenue underpass,” Anderson wrote.

Other parks that are expected to be evaluated for potential offleash areas are Heritage Park, Juana Briones Park, Kingsley Island, Peers Park, Robles Park and Werry Park. The city also plans to explore relocating and expanding the existing dog parks at Greer, Hoover and Mitchell.

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Canines make friends at the dog run at Hoover Park.

Hetterly said a basic dog park is expected to cost about $30,000, though costs would go up if a water fountain, benches or other amenities were added.

Commissioner Keith Reckdahl

said the new facilities are “well worth the money” and that he “wholeheartedly” supports moving ahead with near-term improvements at Bowden and Eleanor Pardee parks.

“We have a lot of people with dogs, and I think they will appreciate both parks,” Reckdahl said.

Commissioner Anne Cribbs agreed and advocated for moving as quickly as possible on re-

fining the cost estimates for the new parks and pursuing the pilot programs.Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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How would the candidates vote?

s part of the Palo Alto Weekly’s election coverage, we will be asking the candidates who are running for Palo Alto Board of Education how they would vote — and why — on significant issues that the board takes action on before November.

This week, the Weekly asked the four non-incumbent candidates how they would vote on the release of $60 million in elementary reserve funds for use in improving existing elementary schools.

Jay Cabrera: Yes. First of all, I would do a public citizens poll and get our local communities engaged and voting on the issue. I would want to vote the way the people tell me to, as I am a populist candidate who utilized technology for direct and participatory decision making with the electorate.

For me, I would vote because overall the voters mandated that these funds be used to support our children and students, and it seems time that they are allocated to get the ball rolling and improve facilities and projects for the students.

Todd Collins: Yes. I would definitely support the release of the funds. The Enrollment Management Advisory Committee’s work made it very

clear that elementary enrollment is and has been shrinking, and these funds should definitely be put to work. There’s a number of projects in elementary schools across the district that need to be done — MP (multipurpose) rooms, libraries, classroom remodeling — and we need to get going on them.

Jennifer DiBrienza: Yes. I would have voted to release the funds. I think if those funds are needed at elementary schools for capital improvements, better to start planning on how best to use them and to prioritize those needs sooner rather than later.

Srinivasan Subramanian: Abstain. I think the right thing to do on the $60 million release should be to postpone the vote as there appears to be discussion that still has not happened. It’s not clear why $60 million release is needed to start a discussion about whether or not a new elementary school is needed. One option would have been to have amended the transfer to a partial amount, say $10 million, to fund the facilities upgrade of existing elementary schools — emphasize existing elementary schools.

I’d have abstained as the information presented was not clear or sufficient to make an informed vote. Q

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programs the district now faces.

“I think the real payoff of choosing a scenario is that it tells you what you need to do right now — and they all tell us that we need to make some adjustments to our expenses in order to deal with the uncertainty that’s in front of us,” Dauber said.

Both Dauber and Melissa Baten Caswell pressed staff to look for cuts that can be made to save money this year, rather than making cuts to address the shortfall over two years, as staff recommended. Both also expressed opposition to staff’s proposal to use $1.2 million in general funds that in previous years has been spent on technology updates (bond funds would be used instead for the technology upgrades).

Superintendent Max McGee said staff will present at the board’s Sept. 13 meeting a full list of potential areas to cut, in advance of the board’s scheduled adoption of the 2016-17 budget at its Sept.

27 meeting. Dauber had requested such a list when the board discussed the budget deficit in July.

On Tuesday, board members, staff and community members continued to disagree over just how urgent a problem the budget shortfall is.

Dauber, for his part, compared the staff’s two-year plan to a somewhat toothless commitment to quit smoking: “‘I’m going to smoke this year, and next year I’m going to quit smoking,’” he said.

“Until we make a serious commitment to actual spending cuts, talking about cutting spending a year from now isn’t really a plan,” he added.

McGee, a marathon runner, disagreed, countering with a personally relatable analogy: “The only way you complete a marathon is by telling people you’re going to run it ... but you don’t run it tomorrow. You take a year to train for it, and then you run it.”

Board member Camille Townsend and President Heidi Emberling similarly emphasized being “thoughtful,” “deliberative” and “inclusive” rather than urgent.

Parent Ritz Tetzlaff urged the board to incorporate the cost of teacher compensation — which accounts for 85 percent of the school district’s expenditures — into its multi-year budget scenarios, which staff has not yet done beyond the 2017-18 year.

Mak said Tuesday that this is because raises are subject to negotiations, which the district will have to reopen in January with its teachers and classified staff unions given the budget shortfall.

“By not forecasting any raises you’re delaying the inevitable hard cuts that need to be made today,” Tetzlaff told the board.

Tetzlaff, whose guest opinion column on class size in this newspaper propelled the topic to the forefront of board and community conversations during the last school year, was worried that,

when faced with hard decisions down the line, commitments like hiring teachers to reduce large classes will fall by the wayside.

Parent and school-board candidate Todd Collins similarly cautioned against assuming no raises, which “amounts to balancing the budget on the backs of the teachers,” adding that it seems like a strategy for a district that is in danger of losing its edge.”

“A more sensible approach would be to plan for prudent raises, and then re-size non-teacher expenses to fit what we can afford to spend,” Collins said.

There remained no support on the board Tuesday for a proposal Dauber made at a previous meeting to rescind recent raises for senior administrators and managers, which would save the district an estimated $648,000.

Dauber maintained that doing so wouldn’t harm the district’s quality of services nor its competitive position in the labor market for such positions, but his colleagues argued that it would deal a costly blow to morale throughout the district.

Mak has made several proposals for how to bridge the budget gap this year and next, including tapping into reserves, reallocating professional-development funding and staffing dollars not spent on hiring elementary teachers due to lower-than-anticipated enrollment growth. Some board and community members have voiced concern in previous discussions about dipping into the district’s reserves to address what they say is a structural budget problem.

After the board packet was published last week, Mak said her office identified further potential savings for the current year, including about $100,000 that could come from rolling back staffing additions to the district office that the board approved in May. McGee said the district’s leadership team has already “developed a rough idea” of adjustments that can be made in the 2017-18 budget and will be sharing them with school administrators at a meeting next week.

The district also plans to solicit community input at a town hall meeting on the budget on Sept. 7, which will be live streamed online. There will also be a board workshop on the 2017-18 budget on Oct. 18.

Also on Tuesday, the board unanimously adopted a set of goals for the 2016-17 year, which all fall under three categories: high-quality teaching and learning; equity and access; and wellness and safety.

The board also unanimously voted to release $60.3 million in reserve funds set aside for elementary facilities upgrades to support current projects or, potentially, the opening of a new elementary school, staff said Tuesday. The board is scheduled to hear a report on an additional elementary or middle school this year. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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Violence related

Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Elder abuse/physical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Theft related

Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3 2 1 4 1

Vehicle related

Abandoned bicycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . . 13 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Traffic/evade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/mjr injury . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/mnr injury . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Vehicle accident/property damage . . . . .11 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle/stored. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Alcohol or drug related

Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Driving under the influence. . . . . . . . . . . .

Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sale of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Miscellaneous

B&P/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Casualty/fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Disturb peace/misc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F&W/concealed weapon. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . . .

Missing juvenile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Muni code/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Public incident/misc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . . .

Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Warrant/other agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2 4 4 5 1 2 1 1 1 5 1 3 2 1 1 2 1 6 2 1 9

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Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Passing bad checks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Driving with suspended license . . . . . . . .

Evading police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Reckless vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Vehicle accident/mjr injury . . . . . . . . . . . .

Vehicle accident/mnr injury . . . . . . . . . . .

Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . . .

Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1 2 1 1 4 1 1 3 1 2 1 4 1 1 6 2

Alcohol or drug related

Driving under the influence. . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Miscellaneous

CPS referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Lewd act with a minor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Medical call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Possession of dirk or dagger . . . . . . . . . .

Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . . .

Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Violation of restraining order. . . . . . . . . . .

Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Warrant/other agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1 5 1 1 6 1 3 1 2 1 1 3 1 4

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

El Camino Real, 8/20, 6:37 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Park Boulevard, 8/19, 10:40 p.m.; domestic violence/misc.

300 Pasteur Drive, 8/20, 11:20 a.m.; battery/simple.

Amherst Street, 8/22, midnight; elder abuse/physical.

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Peter deCourcy Hero, influential philanthropy leader, dies at 73

Courtesy of the Skoll Foundation

Peter deCourcy Hero, CEO of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, spearheaded a sea of change in philanthropic giving.

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he man who was instrumental in helping tech tycoons channel their millions to charitable giving, Peter deCourcy Hero, has died, his family confirmed. He was 73.

Hero died in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday, Aug. 21, of esophageal cancer, according to an email Monday from Emmett Carson, CEO of Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

When Hero, a Stanford University MBA graduate, took over the Community Foundation of Santa Clara County in 1988, he inherited an organization with a mere $9 million in assets, according to a 2000 Fortune Magazine story about his work. By the time he stepped down as president and CEO in 2006, the organization was shepherding $1.2 billion, said longtime associate Greg Avis, a partner at Summit Partners, who was chairman of the foundation’s board.

Hero told Fortune that Silicon Valley’s young millionaires and billionaires initially did not have a culture or a tradition of charitable giving. Up until then, philanthropists on the eastern seaboard, where Hero grew up, served as models of philanthropy, and their style of donations largely entailed giving away their money through bequests and gifts at the end of their lives.

So the former executive at Spice Islands and president of the Maine College of Art spearheaded a sea of change in philanthropic giving. “A big part of what he believed was that if your worth didn’t have social impact, then what was the point? He was a catalyst for modern-day philanthropy in Silicon Valley,� his son, Chris Hero, said. “Building those relationships with tech leaders, he figured out how to engage them and leverage the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit of Silicon Valley with solving our most pressing community problems.

That’s really his legacy: figuring out how to engage and build a culture that didn’t exist before,� he said.

Rather than restricting donated monies for designated purposes, such as college endowments, the Community Foundation staff set about to acquire “unrestricted� funds that could be used for any charitable purpose, Avis said. In that way, Hero built a staff highly focused on serving its donors and their charitable goals, he said.

The foundation gave donors dedicated staff to build “portfolios� of nonprofit groups to which their funds might be given, and it became a center where donors could also learn about philanthropy. “Peter was a visionary. He was very likeable and an excellent fundraiser. ... He was willing to be innovative and work with wealthy donors on complex philanthropic structures,� Avis said.

Hero started his work with the foundation when the tech industry was taking off, his son said. Someone had to help create a culture of giving with the new wealth, using it to address the area’s most pressing concerns, such as affordable housing and poverty. “It struck me how all of those issues have come back to the forefront with this latest cycle. He taught people to not look at these issues as a drag onto our society but an opportunity to bring the whole society up,� he said.

Silicon Valley executives and heads of philanthropic foundations Monday remembered Hero as a dynamic and creative person who was dedicated to helping Silicon Valley executives realize ways to make the most of their giving. He was on the board of directors of the Skoll Foundation. “Peter will forever be my hero and original philanthropic mentor.

Always innovative and entrepre-

neurial himself, he went along with the idea of using pre-IPO stock to establish the eBay Foundation at what was then Community Foundation Silicon Valley,� said Jeff Skoll, first president of eBay and founder of the philanthropic Skoll Foundation.

Sally Osberg, Skoll Foundation CEO, said that Hero’s pioneering role in cultivating an innovative culture for philanthropy in Silicon Valley was in a class by itself. “He liked to say that we’re not attracted to problems here, we’re attracted to solutions -- and no one saw those solutions as clearly as Peter,� she said.

Hero re-branded the Community Foundation of Santa Clara County as the Community Foundation Silicon Valley, then oversaw its 2006 merger with San Mateo County-based Peninsula Community Foundation to become Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Avis recalled that without Hero the groundwork would not have been laid for the merger. He was magnanimous -- first working to make the merger possible and then stepping aside. “It was his baby, and he was willing to part with it for the greater good of the community,� Avis said.

Hero then served as special adviser to current CEO Emmett Carson until his retirement in 2008.

After Silicon Valley Community Foundation, he went on to become the founder and principal of The Hero Group, which focuses on social investment and high-impact philanthropy.

Hero also inspired his children, teaching them to give back to the community, Chris Hero said.

His latest and greatest passions were his two granddaughters, his son added.

Hero is survived by his wife, Bonnie, of Portland, Oregon; his children Christopher, of San Francisco, Alexander, of Mountain View, and Molly, of San Jose; daughter-in-law Amy Hero, of San Francisco and son-in-law Chris Richman, of San Jose; grandchildren Harper Hero and Isla Richman; and his brothers Andrew Hero, of Houston, and Girvin Peters, of Los Altos.

No memorial services are currently planned. Q —Sue Dremann

MEMORIAL SERVICE A memorial service will be held for Marion R. MacGillivray, 85, who died on May 24.

The service will be held on Sunday, Aug. 28, at 2 p.m. at The First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto, 1140 Cowper St. between Lincoln and Kingsley avenues.

PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL 26 ***************************************** THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/agendas/default.asp AGENDA–SPECIAL MEETING – COUNCIL CHAMBERS August 29, 2016, 7:00 PM Special Orders of the Day 1. Adoption of Resolutions Expressing Appreciation to Steve Eglash, Jonathan Foster and Garth Hall Upon Completion of Their Terms as Utilities Advisory Commissioners Consent Calendar 3. Adoption of a Resolution Approving an Assignment, Assumption and Consent Agreement With Mercuria Energy America Inc. and EDF North America LLC, and Finding That the Agreement's Approval is not a Project Requiring California Environmental Quality Act Review 4. Approve and Authorize the City Manager to Execute a Contract With Advanced Design Consultants, Inc., in an Amount Not-to-Exceed $160,701 for Design Services for the Ventura Building, Capital Improvements Program Project PE-15011 5. Acceptance of the Palo Alto Fire Department Quarterly Performance Report for the Fourth Quarter of Fiscal Year 2016 6. Approval of a Contract With Golden Bay Fence Plus Iron Works, Inc. in the Amount of $1,755,510 for the Palo Alto Airport Perimeter Fence and Gate Upgrades, CIP Project AP-16003; Approval of Amendment Number 2 With C&S Engineers, Inc. Contract Number C15155208A to Increase the Contract by $208,329 for a Total Not-to-Exceed Amount of $1,108,329 for Engineering and Design Services; Approval of a Budget Amendment in the Airport Enterprise -\UK" HUK (KVW[PVU VM -PUKPUNZ ;OH[ [OL 7YVQLJ[ :H[PZĂ„LZ the Requirements of the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) 7. Approval of a Contract With Engineering/Remediation Resources Group, Inc. in the Amount Not-to-Exceed $180,007 for the Municipal Services Center Fuel Station Demolition and Excavation Capital Improvements Program Project VR-14002 and Approval of a Budget Amendment in the Vehicle Replacement and Maintenance Fund 8. SECOND READING: Adoption of an Ordinance Amending Chapter 2.30 [Contracts and Purchasing Procedures] of the Palo Alto Municipal Code to Establish Contracting HUK 7\YJOHZPUN 7YVJLK\YLZ HUK [V +LĂ„UL [OL *VU[YHJ[PUN (\[OVYP[` VM *P[` 6Ń?JLYZ HUK ,TWSV`LLZ -09:; 9,(+05.!

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AGENDA–SPECIAL MEETING – COMMUNITY MEETING ROOM August 30, 2016, 6:00 PM Closed Session 1. PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

AGENDA–SPECIAL MEETING – COMMUNITY MEETING ROOM August 31, 2016, 6:00 PM Closed Session 1. PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Solution for the 99 percent Editor, I know many people object to anything over 50 feet or so; but logically and realistically the only option for dramatically increasing living space in Palo Alto is vertically. Young people, middle and lower class people, seniors and even some moderately wealthy people cannot afford to live here.

Even renting is too expensive.

Only the very wealthy (the 1 percent) can buy a home here. The gentrification is poisoning the formerly pleasant college town we moved to 30 years ago. Adding several high rise apartment/ condo buildings, thus providing many hundreds of housing units for sale or rent, can allow more of the 99 percent to live where they work. Living locally would reduce commute traffic and allow more of the 99 percent to live where

they work, instead of commuting from where they can afford housing.

Stan Hutchings Rinconada Avenue, Palo Alto

Surprising land-use decisions Editor, Elizabeth Wong has been trying for five years to get permission to build a four-story building on the 400 block of University Avenue without success despite the fact that the proposed building is compliant with city zoning and codes.

Meanwhile, two blocks away, on Waverley between Hamilton and Forest in the middle of a residential block of one and two story bungalows, an enormous four story building twice the size of the proposed building on University Avenue is going up. There is nothing remotely like it anywhere in Palo Alto. It violates every zon-

ing and design guideline imaginable. Go take a look; you will be astounded!

I long ago lost any illusions I may have had about governance in Palo Alto, especially when it comes to land-use decisions. Increasingly we resemble a Latin American kleptocracy. Why doesn’t someone at City Hall call Ms. Wong and tell her to whom she should write the check and for how much?

David Lieberman Kingsley Avenue, Palo Alto

Solutions to the housing crisis Editor, Thanks for your excellent piece on the local housing crisis: “High Price to Pay.” Like many longtime residents, my wife and I are sad as we watch our own adult children struggle to remain in this great Midpeninsula area.

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Might it be time to look at redeveloping the Palo Alto Square property into a modern smart-city housing asset?

That location has the advantage of not interfering with the quality of life in Palo Alto’s core neighborhoods, a constant show-

Guest Opinion What can be done to address the shortage of affording housing?

by John Paul Hanna hen dem a n d exc e e d s supply, prices increase. To reduce the price of any commodity, including housing, you increase the supply. We have no control over the demand for housing. People will go where they want to go. Pulling up the drawbridge is not a winning strategy.

Government controls the supply of housing. Restrictive zoning is one of the most effective controls in limiting the supply of housing. Some examples: Q Zoning that limits the number of dwellings per acre.

Q Minimum lot sizes that limit the number of homes that can be built in an area zoned for large lots.

Q Height limits that reduce the number of units that can be built on a parcel.

Q Restrictions on second dwelling units.

Q Restrictions on building condominiums within certain zones.

Q Green lines.

Q Denial of mixed-use projects that include a residential component.

These and other examples enable local government to limit the supply of housing, which results in increasing the cost of housing.

Government also increases the cost of

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housing that is permitted to be developed.

Examples include impact fees, inclusionary zoning fees, and building permit fees.

Policies adopted by local government that attempt to create more affordable housing but fail to do so (and actually have the opposite effect) are partly to blame for the lack of affordable housing. One example is inclusionary zoning. It has been tried for nearly 50 years, and has failed to produce any meaningful supply of affordable housing. Palo Alto pioneered that policy in the 1970s. Today Palo Alto finds itself atop the list of the most expensive, least affordable residential communities in the country.

In an article authored by law professor Larry Ellickson entitled “The Irony of Inclusionary Zoning,” he demonstrated that inclusionary zoning works like a lottery.

New housing developments are required to include an average of 15 percent of the new homes at prices well below the market level. The few people who qualify to purchase the affordable units are able to obtain affordable housing, while the other 85 percent of the market-rate buyers pay more.

Palo Alto is now proposing an impact fee of $50 a square foot, equivalent to $50,000 for one 1,000-square -foot apartment. The theory is that new housing somehow creates a need for affordable housing and therefore new housing should be charged a fee so that the fee can be used to subsidize affordable housing. Common sense tells us that you cannot make something more affordable by starting out to make it more expensive.

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The cost of land is a large part of the cost of housing. The greater the number of homes that can be built on a given parcel of land, the lower is the price of the land component for each house. The original project proposed for Maybell was for a 72-unit project including 60 low-income senior apartments and 12 single-family homes. If the value of that property is $18 million, the land component price of each of the 72 homes would be $250,000. After the ballot measure to defeat the project passed, thus killing that project, subsequent proposals included, first, the 30-home project that would have increased the land component per dwelling to $600,000. The next proposal was for 23 homes, which would have increased the land component per dwelling to $782,000; and the final proposal, which is for 16 homes, increases the land component per dwelling to $1,125,000.

Height restrictions also limit the number of homes or apartments that can be built on a parcel of land, and force builders to maximize every square inch of land available, thus reducing opportunities for creating useable open space. Palo Alto is an example of what that leads to: a city that is on the way to becoming a 40-foot-high beige mesa.

Restrictions on building second units on a parcel limit the supply of affordable housing. If the city were to remove restrictions on second dwelling units, the result would be more affordable homes at no expense to taxpayers; and, they would be equally distributed throughout the community rather than being concentrated in

a “housing project.”

What is the single greatest barrier to achieving a meaningful supply of affordable housing? As the saying goes: “We have met the enemy and it is us.” We decry the lack of affordable housing and bemoan the presence of homeless people in our community. But when it comes to affordable housing in our neighborhood, we sing a different tune.

The term “NIMBY” is not a pejorative term, although it is often used that way.

It is a descriptive term (“not in my back yard”) that expresses the feeling of a significant percentage of residents in any city.

The term “NIMBYism” expresses a commonly held desire to protect one’s “castle” by resisting any change in our neighborhood that we perceive as being against our interests or a threat to our peace and quiet to the value of our property. This is a natural instinct that many people find hard to resist.

Many folks, when their neighborhood or property is threatened in some way, will react as NIMBYs. Many communities are governed by city councils controlled by a majority of so-called “residentialists,” many of whom react as NIMBYs when voting on new residential projects.

The path to affordable housing requires a change in attitude, changes in zoning ordinances, and the adoption of policies that offer incentives for the creation of new housing. Q John Paul Hanna is a real estate attorney and a partner in the Palo Altobased firm Hanna & Van Atta.

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Guest Opinion Unhealthy racket: Support city efforts to quiet our skies

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n a series of open meetings throughout spring and summer, the Select Com m ittee on South Bay Arrivals met with Federal Aviation Ad m i n i s t r a t io n (FAA) officials to consider its response to the FAA’s “Initiative to Address Noise Concerns of Santa Cruz/Santa Clara/San Mateo/San Francisco Counties.”

The Select Committee consists of local elected officials from three counties with cities that are affected by the recent explosion of aircraft noise and pollution.

I’m grateful to Rep. Anna Eshoo who, together with Reps. Sam Farr and Jackie Speier, formed this committee. The committee’s excellent chair is Supervisor Joe Simitian. While Palo Alto does not have a voting member on the committee, Vice Mayor Greg Scharff serves as a non-voting alternate.

Despite all this hopeful activity, the FAA has not yet announced any proposals that will alleviate the noise burden for Palo Alto or surrounding communities. The citizens’ group Sky Posse Palo Alto and the city of Palo Alto have submitted design principles, but the FAA has not included them in any public announcement. It is time for an aviation noise recap and another call to action.

Last summer I wrote a Weekly opinion piece about the rising tide of harmful aviation noise over Palo Alto due to gradual route shifting and the March 2015 implementation of a new SFO arrival route called SERFR One. This route, which has polluted all communities living under its noisy, toxic shadow, uses the FAA’s new NextGen precision navigation procedures. These

stopper in Palo Alto politics.

In addition, that property offers a six to eight minute walk to California Avenue amenities and the Caltrain station. Workers could easily access jobs in the adjacent industrial park, Stanford University and downtown via an enjoyable bike ride or walk instead of driving (and parking).

This site isn’t too bad at fulfilling the walkable-cities paradigm that is fundamental to the idealism in today’s climate change-friendly urban design.

There are other civic benefits: the additional customer-base would transform the energy level of California Avenue and that area

‘We, as individual citizens, must ... demand that our elected representatives persuade the FAA to fix WKH SUREOHP LW FUHDWHG ά procedures concentrate flight routes into narrow pathways at low altitudes, resulting in sacrificial noise corridors.

The FAA claims that these changes resulted in “net noise reduction,” which is ironic given that complaints to SFO went from 449 in June 2014 to 320,000 in June 2016.

Having spent almost my whole adult life as a teacher librarian advocating for literacy issues, aviation politics presented a new research challenge. However, I was determined to try to find a pathway toward a solution. Students I worked with were losing sleep. New aircraft noise now combined with existing train noise disturbing the quiet in our new classrooms and campus. I talked to multiple groups of distraught longtime residents who no longer found solace in their homes. Their complaints were backed up by extensive research documenting the detrimental effects of concentrated aircraft noise on sleep, student learning, and cardiac health.

I discovered a familiar tale of an overburdened and underfunded federal agency that is heavily influenced by the industry it is charged to regulate. The FAA’s two missions are safety and efficiency. At a recent Select Committee meeting the FAA representative stated, “We do not design for noise.” While the agency acknowledges its obligation to protect the health of people living under flight pathways, noise reduction becomes a serious consideration only in areas immediately adjacent to the airport runway.

of El Camino allowing, for example, a bookstore, live music venue and much-more prosperous shops and restaurants.

If done properly, it could offer a great quality of life respecting environmental aesthetics and a healthy lifestyle.

(A side note, related to Palo Alto Square: I watched with amusement the recent handwringing over losing two theater screens. ... Palo Altans do realize that an eight-screen theater is going in on San Antonio Road right now as we speak, right?)

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Another complicating factor is that the Environmental Protection Agency has no role in regulating aviation noise because its Office of Noise Abatement and Control was defunded during the Reagan administration. Local authorities were supposed to take over noise enforcement, but the irony is that cities and counties have no authority over planes in the air. The FAA (with considerable input from industry and virtually none from environmental groups) rules the skies.

Nowhere is this undue influence illustrated more than how the FAA measures noise impacts. Aviation interests fully support the FAA’s continued use of decades-old noise-averaging measures that do not reflect the harm caused by the frequent onslaught of hundreds of planes a day flying at an altitude between 3,000 and 5,000 feet over residential neighborhoods. The FAA uses noise modeling to forecast impacts when planning new routes, but no actual noise measurements are taken on the ground either before or after new route implementation.

So what does this mean for our current situation? We, as individual citizens, must continue to advocate for our communities and demand that our elected representatives persuade the FAA to fix the problem it created. We simply must use all means possible to pressure Congress to compel the FAA to prioritize public health concerns over the efficiency demands of the airlines when designing airline routes. It is unacceptable to design flight routes that leave a swath of noise and emissions filth over our cities, especially when we are fortunate to have a huge body of water nearby that could be used as the guiding path to SFO. Citizen advocacy has accomplished a tremendous amount so far. Our City Council has declared airplane noise pollution to be an important problem and has devoted resources to tackling the issue, including engaging aviation con-

sultants. Our congressional representatives have been successful in organizing a regional committee and persuading the FAA to participate. Supervisor Simitian and his staff have devoted countless hours working with the community, the FAA and elected officials.

Unfortunately, the FAA has yet to announce any sort of solution that will relieve the Midpeninsula. The agency wants to concentrate flights rather than disperse them. There is no mention of a noise-abating up-the-bay approach.

We have not seen any proposal from the FAA that would use other navigational waypoints instead of MENLO (where three SFO arrival routes converge at a 4,000-foot altitude over a residential area near the intersection of 101 and Willow Road). We have heard nothing about rebalancing the east and west legs of approaches from the north to direct flights over the bay rather than our homes and schools.

Solutions that could help all citizens, not just Palo Alto, exist. Please have a look at the recommendations listed in City Manager James Keene’s letter (tinyurl.com/keenelet16 ) of July 7, 2016.

If you agree, please let Supervisor Simitian and Rep. Eshoo know that you would like the Select Committee to consider these recommendations carefully.

Continue to register complaints with the SFO Noise Abatement Office and through the website stop.jetnoise.net.

Stay informed by attending the Select Committee meetings, which take place at Palo Alto City Hall twice a month until November. (See the schedule at tinyurl.com/sked-PA16.)

We must let the Select Committee and the FAA know that we need solutions that will help Palo Alto and the Midpeninsula. If we continue to advocate for cleaner air and quieter skies, there might be better news next year. Q Rachel Kellerman is a local educator who has lived in Palo Alto for 24 years.

In remembrance of Peter Hero Editor, Peter was a member of the board of my organization the Foundation for a Civil Society with offices in Prague, New York and Bratislava. He brought the idea of community foundations to Czechoslovakia in the early 90s which was transformative in a post-communist society. He remained close to the young leaders of the highly successful successor NGO’s Nadace Via and Nadace Pontis. We will all miss him.

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Diners at Valencia Asian Market, sandwiched between a yoga studio and the Orthopedic Sports & Spine Center at 3487 El Camino Real, eat Jamaican barbecue outside on Aug. 17.

Finding the lost treasures of El Camino Real

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reasure Island Stamps and Coins doesn’t look like a typical Palo Alto “destination.” Crowds don’t gather outside its doors to wait for the new iPhone or to feast on a sushi roll the size of a burrito.

Rudy Schroeter, owner of Treasure Island Stamps and Coins, sorts coins in his shop alongside volunteer Ron Hall. Schroeter has owned the space (which previously functioned as a DMV office for the county) for the past 26 years. Before that, his shop was located in Town & Country Village.

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Yet as the only proprietor in the region of rare coins and stamps — with more than 4,000 items amassed over the past half a century — Rudy Schroeter’s nondescript shop on El Camino Real, near Barron Avenue, draws philatelists and coin collectors from far and wide. With little foot traffic on this sleepy stretch of the city’s main arterial spine, the shop relies on devoted customers who make the effort to seek and find it.

The same can be said for Nouvelle Bridal Boutique, the business next door. Owner Ayda Mouradian says she routinely sees customers drive past her building and then circle back when they realize they’ve missed it. For all the talk in urban-planning circles about El Camino as a “grand boulevard,” Mouradian says that businesses on this section of El Camino cannot depend on strolling passersby. Standing on the quiet corner, it is hard to imagine El Camino as the kind of dynamic, pedestrian-friendly boulevard planners dream about.

The Champs-Elysees it is not.

As it passes through Palo Alto, El Camino is once

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El Camino is at once a vanguard and a contradiction: a five-mile strip that both epitomizes the commercial boom of recent years and showcases both sides of Palo Alto’s uneven prosperity.

Above, clockwise: A server at the Clement Hotel can be seen through the windows at the hotel’s outdoor terrace facing El Camino Real. Rooms at the six-star hotel average between $500 and $1,899 a night. The Glass Slipper Inn has a distinct facade made to resemble a Cinderella-type castle. A faded sign placed on a doorframe shows the multi-use project being proposed for 3877 El Camino Real at the former site of the once popular Mexican restaurant Compadres. The former garage of Combes Auto Repair, once housed in a mass-produced corrugated steel Quonset hut built during World War II, has sat vacant for more than 40 years near Matadero Avenue.

a vanguard and a contradiction: a five-mile strip that both epitomizes the commercial boom of recent years and showcases both sides of Palo Alto’s uneven prosperity. At the northern end stands The Clement, a luxury hotel that brands itself as a “six-star experience,” with rates on a recent weekday ranging from $500 to $1,899 per night. Near the southern end, sprawling motels like the Sky Ranch Motel and Glass Slipper Inn proudly defy the modern trends and stand as monuments to El Camino’s traditional role as a car-centric artery. In the posh north, out-of-town visitors stroll through Stanford Shopping Center with Louis Vuitton and Burberry bags. In the eclectic south, motorists park their cars to patronize neighborhood-serving businesses: a tailor, a travel agent and the Valencia Asian Market, where one can buy $1 tacos and Korean BBQ burritos.

But it is near El Camino’s central point, around the California Avenue Business District, where transformation of the boulevard is felt most acutely. Across the street from the Coronet Motel, a 1950’s-style motel that would not look out of place in Simi Valley, densification is progressing at a fast-forward pace.

Stanford University is nearing completion of a 70unit affordable apartment complex that will house its faculty. North of the Stanford project, near College Avenue, construction cranes are buzzing around a new, three-story office development that is replacing a onestory building. At the very next block stands College

Terrace Centre, a soon-to-be-completed mixed-use development that will include nearly 39,000 square feet of office space, eight apartments, a new grocery store and about 5,600 square feet of additional retail.

With its bulky facade, a prominent clock tower and a tapered spire looming over the northernmost building, the block-long development is a suitable symbol of the area’s recent shift toward density and urbanization. For neighborhood residents, the project is also a prominent reminder of the type of community treasures that fade away in the name of progress: in this case, the beloved JJ&F grocery store, which had occupied the site before shuttering in 2013.

Other changes are in the pipeline. The Olive Garden restaurant recently left its location near the Coronet Motel and its vacated one-story building will soon make way for an office-and-apartment project that will roughly quadruple the building density. Across the street stands a building like no other in the area: a six-story Brutalist structure that until recently housed about two dozen businesses. Their leases expired this month and now the building is largely vacated, except for Fambrini’s and Bank of America, which will remain open for two more months. The new lease-holder for the building at 2600 El Camino now plans to demolish the building and replace it with a glassier, more modern structure.

Plans are also afoot to erect a new four-story building, which would include 60 small apartments, on the

parking lot at the congested corner of El Camino and Page Mill Road.

The rapid changes — some driven by the market and others by policymakers — are quickly transforming the King’s Highway as it passes through Palo Alto.

Conceived in 1850s as the primary route for stagecoaches and wagons traveling between San Francisco and San Jose, the road gradually widened over the two decades after World War II, requiring the removal of trees and older buildings in the southern half of El Camino.

More substantive changes, however, have been hard to come by, despite decades of discussions about creating a more urban, pedestrian-friendly feel along El Camino. The city’s guiding land-use document, the Comprehensive Plan, calls the stretch of El Camino between Page Mill and the Mountain View border the city’s “most recalcitrant community design problem” and includes a policy calling for establishing the South El Camino Real area as a “well-designed, compact, vital, multi-neighborhood center with diverse uses, a mix of one-, two- and three-story buildings, and a network of pedestrian-oriented streets and ways.”

Though the document was adopted in 1998, the onestory shops, the whizzing cars and the nonexistent pedestrians all serve as a reminder of how far the city has yet to go. Squat buildings and vacant lots dominate (continued on next page)

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Above, clockwise: Construction is nearly finished at College Terrace Centre, a mixed-use development that will include office space, apartments, a grocery store and retail space. The family-owned Coronet Motel, built in 1954 during the heyday of motor travel, features a swimming pool and lounge chairs for guests to relax on. The distinctive neon sign of The Fish Market glows as night falls along the 3100 block of El Camino Real. This original restaurant of the seafood chain has flourished along this stretch of roadway since 1976.

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the streetscape. While the north part of El Camino is changing, parts of the south appear frozen in time. Just south of Curtner Avenue, an old ranch-style building that once housed the Mexican restaurant Compadres stands vacant, its windows boarded, and its glass lan-

The rapid changes — some driven by the market and others by policymakers — are quickly transforming the King’s Highway as it passes through Palo Alto.

terns partially shattered. Embedded in its wooden door is a faded notice of a project that was once proposed for the site. The restaurant shuttered in 2008 and the parking lot behind it remains deserted.

These days, as the city is crafting a new land-use vision, El Camino is once again expected to be in the crosshairs of city planners. On a broad level, the city envisions the roadway as “pearls on a string,” with nodes of pedestrian-friendly commercial activity spread out along the car-centric artery. At the same time, members of a citizens committee assisting with the Comprehensive Plan update voiced support last week for creating a “concept area plan” for the southern portion of El Camino — an idea that the council endorsed in the 1998 Comprehensive Plan and that committee cochair Arthur Keller called “long overdue.”

Whatever plans ultimately come to fruition, El Camino will undoubtedly continue to function as a link between Palo Alto’s future and its past. It will also continue to serve as a symbol of both Silicon Val-

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ley’s growth and urbanization and of Palo Alto’s efforts to preserve local character and protect quirky motels, neighborhood coffee shops and long-standing momand-pop shops from getting swept away by change. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner and Photographer/ Videographer Veroncia Weber can be emailed at gsheyner@paweekly.com and vweber@paweeklycom.

About the cover: A view of El Camino Real, facing North toward California Avenue, as seen from the fifth floor of the Brutalist building at 2600 El Camino Real. Photo by Veronica Weber

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Theater commemorates anniversaries with ‘The Guys’ and ‘Veils’

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t’s been nearly 15 years since the devastating terrorist attacks of 9/11, though for some, the painful memories are no doubt as fresh as ever.

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Left: Amani Dorn and Naseem Etemad play college roommates with different opinions on expressing Muslim identity in “Veils.” Above: Diane Tasca and Ray Renati play a journalist and a NYFD captain who come together to write eulogies for fallen firefighters in “The Guys.”

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“The Guys,” by Anne Nelson, based on a true story, takes place in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Twin Towers. Nick, a New York Fire Department captain, is charged with writing the eulogies for his fallen comrades, who served with him as first responders. Joan, a New York journalist (played by Pear’s artistic director Diane Tasca), is feeling powerless and unable to help her community in a tangible way. The two “jump tracks,” Pear director Christian Haines said, and join forces, hashing out the eulogies together and trying to find some way to heal.

“She finds that she has necessary skills that can help out in the post9/11 recovery phase and he finds that he has the powerful feelings and descriptions in his own heart that truly make a great eulogy,” Haines said. “It’s really a touching story about people who would not normally meet, meeting each other and helping each other out.”

Haines said the events of 9/11 still loom large in American culture.

“For the actors in the play and myself, you still kind of feel like it just happened,” he said, recalling his own 9/11 experience of driving to a substitute-teaching gig in South San Francisco. He passed a sign announcing that all SFO flights were cancelled and, when arriving at the school, found that instead of the usual din of the overhead flight path, “it was silence. That was an eerie thing,” he said.

“I think it’s really important to remember it, so that we can commemorate it and then remind ourselves on how we got to where we are now,” he said, “to reflect on how we, as a country have changed.”

9/11 impacted the way in which Muslim-Americans — and Muslims across the globe — are viewed and treated. It’s the perspectives of two very different Muslim women — one American, one Middle Eastern — that form the narrative of the Pear’s second play, Tom Coash’s ‘Veils.”

“Veils” takes place 10 years after 9/11, in the lead up to the Arab Spring uprising in 2011 Egypt. Intisar, a veiled African-American Muslim student who, having sometimes felt out of place in her own Philadelphia life, comes to Cairo’s

American Egyptian University for a year abroad. She both clashes and bonds with her roommate Samar, an Egyptian student who does not wear the hijab (head covering or veil) and associates western culture with the freedom and adventure she craves. While the two have differing opinions on the controversial Islamic tradition of veiling, they come together to create a blog that discusses the practice, and find themselves swept up in the imminent revolution.

The play explores “how stereotypes from the U.S. and the West affect the people who live (in the Middle East), and how one tries to put its values on the other,” director Vickie Rozell said. A veiled woman, she explained, is not necessarily a conservative one.

“You can have a very modern person who happens to choose to wear modest dress; this is how they honor their religion,” she said.

“People tend to assume that people who wear the hijab are either being forced to wear it or that they are not intelligent, or backwards, which is not true. It’s not true all over the world, and it’s especially not true in the United States.”

Playwright Coash lived in Egypt for four years and said he was tired of seeing Middle Eastern women continually stereotyped in western media.

“The women we knew were doctors, artists, professors, economists, archaeologists, etc. Smart, strong women who were very cosmopolitan. Why don’t we were see these women in the news? I also felt that the subject of veiling is one of those subjects that everyone seems to have a strong gut reaction to but don’t know anything about,” he said.

The play started out as a oneact at the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, where Coash was a visiting artist.

“It was very intimidating to sit in an audience of veiled women watching a play I had written about veils. They loved it, and even if they didn’t necessarily agree with everything thing in the play, they loved that we were talking about their issues,” he said.

“One of the recent reviews in London ended with the reviewer describing going home on the

subway after the show and sitting across from three women wearing hijabs. He was amazed and glad to say that in looking at them now he had a whole different perspective than he would have had 90 minutes before,” he added.

The Pear team has benefited from the insights of two Muslim consultants (a veiled woman and a self-described liberal Muslim man) and Rozell said she’s been doing extensive research, with the hope that local audiences who may not know much about modern Muslim communities will come away with a better understanding.

“People need to get used to seeing people in veils and not worry about why they’re wearing a veil.

It means they are expressing their religion and doesn’t mean anything else about them. That’s a lot of why this play is so important to me,” she said. “(Intisar) has all kinds of interests in addition to her religion, just like everybody else. Her religion is not the only thing to know about her, and as much as we can get that message out, it’s better for everybody. The only way to break down stereotypes is to show a different view.”

Many stereotypes that Muslims fight intensified after 9/11, Rozell said, and both “Veils” and “The Guys,” while not directly related, explore the impact of major world events on a human scale.

“You can’t do a play about all Muslims but you can do a play about two young Muslim women ... in hopes that people can start to go, ‘Oh, these people are not nearly as different from me as I thought they were,”’ she said. “One of the things theater does is teaching about the universal by looking at the specifics.”Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.

What: “The Guys” and “Veils” Where: Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida St., Mountain View When: Aug. 26-Sept. 18, performance dates alternate between the two shows Cost: $10-$32 Info: Go to thepear.org

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The voice of experience Mona Dena’s mature musical debut

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Mona Dena teaches music and voice lessons at her Redwood City studio, Mo Music. Dena released her first album of original music this year.

by Karla Kane or Mona Dena, the prospect of reaching the midcentury mark didn’t trigger a mid-life crisis but rather ushered in a creative renaissance, inspiring her to write, record and release her very first album.

Known to scores of students and their families as “Teacher Mona,� for the past 20 years, Dena has educated the local community through her Music Together and Kids Sing programs and vocal lessons at her Redwood City studio, Mo Music (and before that, at San Mateo’s Bayside Middle School for the Arts). “All through my 20s and early 30s I was a performer, primarily in jazz combos, duos and big bands,� said Dena, who earned a degree in vocal performance as well as a teaching credential from Cal State Hayward. “I always saw myself as a singer first. Then, having children just kind of gave me the realization that the lifestyle just wasn’t going to work.�

She transitioned into music education while raising her now-teenaged son and daughter, alongside her husband, Jeff Redlawsk, a professional percussionist who currently teaches music at Palo Alto’s Keys School. “When my children got to the age where they got to be a bit more independent, I got the mental real estate to remember the artist in myself,� she said. “As an older person, a lot of the lyrics (in pop music) don’t really speak to me. There’s not a lot of songs about parenting and aging and being in long-term marriages and all those sorts of life experiences. I thought, ‘You know, I think I want to just write some songs like that,’� she said. “It was also sparked by the fact that I

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was 49, about to turn 50. Somehow that number had a lot of impact for me. I really want to feel like I made my creative contribution.�

Dena took to her piano, composing melodies and lyrics whenever she could, in between classes and other responsibilities. Eventually she wrote 15 songs, eight of which ended up being recorded for her album: “Running Home.�

The record has a jazzy feel, with blues, rock and pop influences, and lyrics that celebrate Dena’s grown-up perspective. The title track, she explained, is a metaphor for her enthusiastic return to her creative drive, “this passion to come back and revisit that part of myself.�

One of her favorite tracks is “Lines,� which she described as a fancy word for wrinkles. “I thought about how with aging, I feel like I have more depth as a person and an artist. It speaks to the lines on our face as being revered and earned, and the thought that through our trials and our ups and downs we create this map, and how that’s a positive thing,� she said.

Making the album was her first major musical collaboration with Redlawsk, who’s played in a number of groups and productions around the Bay Area. For “Running Home,� he not only played drums but co-produced, upgrading their home studio in the process, and the two are now continuing to write and play as a team. “It’s been really fun to work together after all these years,� she said. “Our kids at the table would be like, ‘can we talk about something other than the project?’ We would get so excited,� she said with a laugh. They also recruited a number of other musicians, including a string quartet and musical advisor Rich Kuhns.

When it came to funding the project, Dena turned to her community, raising a staggering $10,623 to record the album via the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform, offering rewards including private vocal lessons and custom songwriting. “I like to be independent, and I don’t like to ask for help,� she said, initially apprehensive, but she decided she wanted community involvement to help her be able to make the project as high-quality as she envisioned. “I thought, ‘oh, I’ll try it,’ and I was actually very pleasantly surprised; people want to support a creative project,� she said, adding that she was overwhelmed by the support she received from her network of friends and students, both current and former. “It allowed me to reconnect with many families I hadn’t seen in years; it was very positive,� she said. “Running Home� is currently available on CD via her website, MoMusic.org. Meanwhile, Dena is mulling the next step for wider distribution, live performances and future projects. “I don’t have an end goal as much as wanting to write really good material and work with really talented people,� she said. And more importantly, “I want to show my children we don’t stop creating. It’s not something we just do in our 20s or our 30s; it’s a lifelong passion.

I want to show them that I have something to say.�Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.

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The Corner Laughers Libraries are not always quiet. The Menlo Park Library (800 Alma St.) will host an afternoon of original indie-pop from local band The Corner Laughers on Sunday, Aug. 28. The group, which the Guardian described as “sassy and smart,” is led by singer/ukulele player (and Palo Alto Weekly Arts Editor) Karla Kane, with bassist Khoi Huynh, drummer Charlie Crabtree and guitarist KC Bowman. The free, all-ages concert starts at 1 p.m. and will be held in the plaza outside of the library. Go to tinyurl.com/jggu75e or cornerlaughers.com.

Festival Palo Alto Festival of the Arts About 300 artists and crafters who work in a variety of materials will showcase their wares at the annual Palo Alto Festival of the Arts on Saturday, Aug. 27, and Sunday, Aug. 28, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., on University Avenue between Webster and High Streets in downtown. The free event also features an Italian street-painting expo, a kids’ art studio, food, wines and microbrews for sale, live music and a display of DIY upcycled chandeliers. Go to mlaproductions.com/PaloAlto.

Dance ArtistEDGE Dance Company ArtistEDGE Dance Company will host its first full event, featuring modern-dance performances, live music, a silent auction and a reception, on Saturday, Aug. 27, at 8 p.m. at Zohar Studio Theater, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. The show will include choreography by Jeannine Charles, Zann Aeck, Erwin Columbus, Mareva Favre and Monika Chock, with guest artists the Natasha Carlitz Dance Ensemble and the solo work of Lauren Baines. Admission is $15–$25.

Go to artistedge.net.

Exhibit ‘Summer Farewells’ Summer’s nearly over but the season lives on for one more month in “Summer Farewells,” an exhibit of Linda Salter’s pastoral oil and pastel paintings on display during September

at Portola Art Gallery (Allied Arts Guild, 75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park). Included in the exhibit are pastel paintings Salter worked on in plein air in the Sierra Nevada. The gallery is open Monday-Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Go to lindasalter.com or portolaartgallery.com.

Fundraiser fun ‘Big Bad Barn Dance’ The nonprofit Friends of Huddart and Wunderlich Parks invites locals to put on western gear and do-si-do over to the historic Folger Stable in Woodside (4040 Woodside Road) for the “Big Bad Barn Dance and BBQ” on Sunday, Aug. 28, from 4 to 7 p.m. Tickets are $150 and the goal is to raise $45,000 to benefit park projects and nature-education programs; parking is limited and carpooling is encouraged. Go to huddartwunderlichfriends.org/big-bad-barn-dance.

On stage ‘Abelia’ For one performance only, catch a reading of Kim Cromwell’s one-woman show “Abelia,” about a character from rural Kentucky who, when faced with a life-threatening illness, relies on her longheld belief in miracles and the power of love. The play will be performed on Monday, Aug. 29, at 7:30 p.m. at Dragon Theatre, 2010 Broadway St., Redwood City. Admission is free but donations are accepted at the door. The event is part of the theater’s Monday Night Play Space series, which offers the space up to artists in the community to share their work. Go to dragonproductions.net.

Above: Local indie-pop band The Corner Laughers, led by Palo Alto Weekly Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane, will perform a free, all-ages concert in front of the Menlo Park Library on Sunday, Aug. 28.

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Eating Out

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The future home of Protégé Restaurant on California Avenue in Palo Alto.

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former head sommelier and sous chef from three Michelin-starred The French Laundry in Yountville are opening a restaurant together on California Avenue in Palo Alto.

Dennis Kelly, a master sommelier who worked at the renowned restaurant for a decade, and Anthony Secviar, who cooked there for six years, are opening Protégé Restaurant at 260 California Ave., Kelly and the building owner confirmed.

Kelly declined to share any details about the restaurant concept, writing in an email that it “would be premature for us to comment without having received building and health permits.”

Earlier this month, they submitted an application to the Palo Alto Planning Department for a conditional-use permit to sell alcohol at the full-service restaurant, as well as for architectural review of proposed outdoor seating in the public right-of-way, according to plans posted on the City of Palo Alto’s website. The Protégé team hopes to install outdoor gas heaters and moveable planter-box barriers as well as relocate existing doors, according to the plans.

Studio KDA, a Berkeley-based architecture firm, will design the project, according to the plans.

Kelly and Secviar are opening Protégé in the ground-floor space of one of the California Avenue corridor’s newer developments.

260 California Ave., a 26,000-square-feet, three-story building with office space on the second and third floors, was first approved in 2012.

Tableau Software moved into the office space after the building was completed in January 2015, and property owner Mark

French Laundry alums to open Palo Alto restaurant

Protégé Restaurant coming to California Avenue

by Elena Kadvany Conroe has been searching for the right restaurant to occupy the bottom floor ever since, he said in an interview Tuesday.

“260 (California Ave.) really was meant to be high-end, exciting, kind of cutting edge, one of the best buildings in Palo Alto,” said Conroe, president and CEO of Presidio Development Partners. “Therefore, I wanted a restaurant to fit that image.”

Conroe said he first sought out San Francisco Italian restaurant A16 — one of his favorite restaurants in the city — and actually signed a deal to bring them to Palo Alto, but it fell through after A16 opened a second outpost in Oakland and decided against any further expansion.

A deal with another possible tenant, an Italian restaurant in Mill Valley, also fell through, Conroe said. After, he reached out to about 100 San Francisco restaurants

as well as several on the Peninsula before Kelly and Secviar came along. He’s been working with them now for about a year, he said.

Conroe described the Protégé Restaurant concept as “approachable fine dining”— not too expensive, and not as high-end as Kelly and Secviar’s former employer, nor anything like the Michelin-starred restaurant that happens to sit across the street.

“It’s really kind of like you can go in there for a hamburger, but it’s done at a very nice level,” Conroe said.

Conroe also owns a recently revamped building at 341 California Ave., which was first home to Le Boulanger’s unsuccessful spinoff concept Fire, Oak & Barley. iTalico, an Italian restaurant from the owners of Terún down the street, just opened in the space in July.

Palo Alto will be getting a pair of seasoned fine-dining professionals with Protégé. Kelly served as The French Laundry’s head sommelier from 2005 to 2015, according to his LinkedIn profile. He was one of only four people to be granted a master sommelier diploma from the Court of Master Sommeliers in 2012. Today, there are only 147 professionals who have earned this title in the United States, according to the Court of Master Sommeliers.

Secviar worked as sous chef at The French Laundry from 2005 to 2011, when he left to become chef de cuisine at Addison, a San Diego fine-dining restaurant.

Secviar is a graduate of the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, and went on to work at several well-regarded restaurants in Spain, according to a biography posted on Addison’s website. He staged at the Michelin three-starred Akelarre and Michelin one-starred Kokotxa (both in San Sebastian), and also cooked at El Bulli, a restaurant in Spain with three Michelin stars.

While the opening timeline for Protégé is subject to Palo Alto’s infamous permitting process, Conroe said the restaurant should be open in early 2017. (The restaurant’s website, however, advertises a late 2016 opening.)

“The knock against the Peninsula,” Conroe said, “is you have to go to the city to do something that’s kind of cutting edge.

I think a lot of restaurants have proven that wrong in Palo Alto and Woodside and Menlo Park.”

Here’s hoping Protégé does as well.

Check out more food news online at Elena Kadvany’s blog, Peninsula Foodist, at paloaltoonline.com/blogs.

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Movies MOVIE TIMES

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Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest.

Bad Moms (R) Century 16: 9:05 & 11:50 a.m., 2:25, 5:05, 7:25 & 9:55 p.m.

Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 2:10, 4:55, 7:30 & 10:05 p.m.

Ben-Hur (PG-13) Century 16: 10 a.m., 3:50 & 7 p.m. In 3-D at 12:55 & 9:55 p.m. Century 20: 1, 4, 7:15 & 10:15 p.m. In 3-D at 11:30 a.m., 2:35 p.m.

Cafe Society (PG-13) 10 p.m.

Palo Alto Square: 1:55, 4:45 & 7:20 p.m. Fri. & Sat. Stanford Theatre: Fri. 7:30

The Cat and the Canary (1927) (Not Rated) p.m.

Don’t Breathe (R) Century 16: 10:05 a.m., 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:55 & 10:25 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:40 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:20, 3:40, 6, 8:20 & 10:45 p.m. In DBOX at 11 a.m., 1:20, 3:40, 6, 8:20 & 10:45 p.m.

Don’t Think Twice (R) +++ 9:30 p.m.

Guild Theatre: 2:30, 4:45 & 7:15 p.m. Fri. & Sat.

Florence Foster Jenkins (PG-13) +++ Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:40, 4:20, 7:10 & 9:55 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1:35, 4:15 & 7 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:45 p.m.

Ghostbusters (PG-13)

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The Ghost Breakers (1940) (Not Rated) 8:55 p.m.

Stanford Theatre: Fri. 5:55 &

Century 20: 9:10 p.m.

Hands of Stone (R) ++ ½ Century 16: 10:20 a.m., 1:10, 4, 7:10 & 10 p.m.

Century 20: 11:40 a.m., 2:25, 5:10, 7:55 & 10:40 p.m.

Hell or High Water (R) +++ Aquarius Theatre: 3, 5:25, 7:45 & 10:05 p.m.

Century 16: 9 & 11:40 a.m., 2:15, 4:50, 7:40 & 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:45, 4:45, 7:50 & 10:30 p.m.

Aquarius Theatre: 2, 4:30, 7 & 9:25 p.m.

Indignation (R)

Jason Bourne (PG-13) + Century 16: 10:25 a.m., 1:20, 4:20, 7:20 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1:45, 4:40, 7:35 & 10:30 p.m.

The King and I (1956) (G)

Century 20: Sun. 2 & 7 p.m.

Kubo and the Two Strings (PG) Century 16: 9:10 & 11:45 a.m., 1, 2:20, 3:45, 4:55, 7:30, 9 & 10:15 p.m. In 3-D at 10:25 a.m., 6:20 p.m. Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 7 p.m. In 3-D at 1:40, 4:15 & 9:40 p.m. In X-D at 12:10, 2:55, 5:40, 8:15 & 10:45 p.m.

Mechanic: Resurrection (R) Century 16: 9:20 & 11:55 a.m., 2:30, 5, 7:35 & 10:10 p.m. Century 20: 11:55 a.m., 2:30, 5:05, 7:45 & 10:35 p.m.

Nerve (PG-13) +

Century 20: 6:35 & 9 p.m.

Nine Lives (PG)

Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 1:30, 3:50 & 6:50 p.m.

The Palm Beach Story (1942) (Not Rated) 5:50 & 9:35 p.m.

Stanford Theatre: Sat. & Sun.

Pete’s Dragon (PG) Century 16: 9:15 & 11:50 a.m., 2:30, 5:20, 7:55 & 10:30 p.m. Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:35, 4:05, 6:50 & 9:25 p.m.

The Philadelphia Story (1940) (Not Rated) 3:45 & 7:30 p.m.

Stanford Theatre: Sat. & Sun.

Sausage Party (R) Century 16: 10 a.m., 12:20, 1:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:05, 8 & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: 10:50 a.m., 1:05, 3:25, 5:45, 8:05 & 10:25 p.m.

The Secret Life of Pets (PG) Century 16: 9:35 a.m., 12:10, 2:40 & 5:10 p.m. Century 20: 11:25 a.m., 1:50, 4:25, 7:15 & 9:50 p.m.

Southside with You (PG-13) Century 16: 10:10 a.m., 12:25, 2:50, 5:10, 7:50 & 10:05 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 1:25, 3:40, 5:55, 8:10 & 10:25 p.m.

Star Trek Beyond (PG-13) ++ Century 16: 7:40 & 10:40 p.m.

10:50 a.m., 1:40, 4:30, 7:25 & 10:20 p.m.

Century 20:

Suicide Squad (PG-13) ++ Century 16: 9:45 & 10:45 a.m., 1:45, 3:55, 4:45, 7:45, 9:35 & 10:45 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:45 & 10:40 p.m.

Fri. & Sat. 3:35 & 9:20 p.m.

War Dogs (R) ++ Century 16: 10:15 a.m., 1:05, 4:15, 7:15 & 10:15 p.m.

Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 2:15, 5:05, 8 & 10:45 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 12:50 & 6:30 p.m.

Welcome to Monster High (PG)

Century 20: Sat. 10 a.m.

+ Skip it ++ Some redeeming qualities +++ A good bet ++++ Outstanding

Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (327-3241) Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264) Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City (800-326-3264) CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-0128) Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260) Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700) ON THE WEB: Additional movie reviews and trailers at PaloAltoOnline.com/movies

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Edgar Ramírez, Robert De Niro and Rubén Blades star in the real-life story of boxer Roberto Duran in “Hands of Stone.”

Trainer shine DeNiro plays the man in Roberto Durán’s corner 001/2 (Century 16 and 20) They called boxing great Roberto Durán “Manos de Piedra,” so it’s understandable that the new biopic about him should be called “Hands of Stone.” And yet, it’s not the best title for this dramatic treatment, which repeatedly makes the point that brute force isn’t as important in the ring as the mental game. As Durán’s legendary trainer Ray Arcel, DeNiro opens the picture by saying, “Ring sense is an art,” later pounding in to Durán, “It’s all in the head”; strategy is as important as technique.

“Hands of Stone” would be a better movie were it more “in the head,” but as it is, the picture offers the simple pleasures of both a conventional biopic and a boxing movie, structured for sports-story redemption. And while, ultimately, it imposes a misleadingly tidy shape on Durán’s life and career, this account by writer-director Jonathan Jakubowicz doesn’t shy from depicting Durán as petulant, arrogant, insecure, reckless, and generally unlikeable. Granted, much of Durán’s bad behavior is on record, but Jakubowicz and star Edgar Ramírez keep their Durán, the picture’s ostensible hero, edgy to a daring degree.

The action begins in 1971 at Madison Square Garden, where Durán’s manager Carlos Eleta (Rubén Blades) introduces old friend Arcel to Durán. At 72, the

canny Arcel has a reputation for training nearly 20 world champions, and he’s quickly sold on Durán (in 66 seconds to be exact, the length of the Durán vs. Huertas fight). Durán initially rejects Arcel because he represents the Panamian lightweight’s sore spot: As an American, Arcel bears in Durán’s mind the sins of his country and of Durán’s father, an American who left Durán and his mother to fend for themselves in the Panamanian slums. “Hands of Stone” flashes back to fill in Durán’s youth as, basically, a street urchin, an illiterate scrapper who thieves to eat, learns boxing from a tender age, and develops a cock-of-the-walk external confidence that belies his internalized fear of hunger.

Durán’s survivor mentality and, specifically, his experience of true hunger inform his later erratic behavior. And whether out of loyalty or insecurity, Durán brings with him to America not only Eleta, but his trainer “Plomo” (Pedro Perez) and his flamboyant street mentor “Chaflan” (Óscar Jaenada).

“Hands of Stone” also weaves in the trajectory of Durán’s relationship with Felicidad Iglesias (Ana de Armas), history of late-20th-century U.S.-Panama relations, namely in the political gamesmanship around the Panama Canal. But Jakubowicz

mostly focuses on the role of Arcel in focusing Durán to achieve his greatest wins and tragically failing to do so in his greatest loss (remembered in boxing history as the “no mas” fight). Both involve competitor Sugar Ray Leonard, convincingly portrayed

by Usher Raymond.

Flawed but enjoyable, “Hands of Stone” proves simplistic in dramatic terms and slippery in its point-of-view even as it manages to engage interest. Colorful, kinetic visuals and dynamic sound keep the film more cinematic than the typical sports movie, but above all, the film works as well as it does on the strength of its acting. DeNiro is in fine, grounded form, and his verbal sparring with Ramírez, Blades, John Turturro (representing the mob’s reach into boxing), Reg E. Cathey (as promoter Don King), and, albeit more tenderly, Ellen Barkin as Arcel’s wife elevates the film, the overlapping dialogue highly effective in infusing naturalistic energy.

Each co-star — and, of course, most crucially, the excellent Ramírez, who obviously developed a rapport with DeNiro playing his son-in-law in last year’s “Joy” — goes toe-to-toe with DeNiro in scenes that lend the film much of its entertainment value. “Hands of Stone” may well convince you of little more than that Roberto Durán was a talented boxer and a world-class jerk, but it’s a decently informative biopic about a sportsman under unique pressures.

Rated R for language throughout and some sexuality/nudity.

One hour, 45 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

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They convince a reluctant Alex to go for one big score: the home of a Gulf War army veteran, where they believe he has squirreled away his $300,000 settlement for the killing of his only daughter in a recklessdriving incident. In casing the joint, the crooks note three items of interest: The neighborhood is entirely deserted save for the veteran (good news), their intended victim is blind (better news), and the home is patrolled by a vicious, foamingat-the-mouth Rottweiler (well, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t win â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em all).

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Breatheâ&#x20AC;? thrills and disgusts 001/2 (Century 16 and 20)

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Daniel Zovatto, left, and Stephen Lang star in the cat-and-mouse thriller, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Breathe.â&#x20AC;? his home), with Langâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s masterfully fearsome performance upping the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game. Unfortunately, once â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Breatheâ&#x20AC;? detonates, its big twist subtlety goes out the window, the spell is broken, and the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s implausibilities begin to be more distracting. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at this turning point that some audience members will feel the film stops being fun while others will feel the fun has started

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AgentBrill Derk Name 650.543.1117 Phone email@apr.com dbrill@apr.com

Agent Judy Citron Name Palo Alto CITY Call PRICE for Price Breathtaking Text goes here.estate property featuring a totally restored Spanish Revival residence on an expansive 24k sf lot in the heart of Crescent Park.

Palo Alto CITY

$PRICE 17,498,000

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Spectacular home on almost ½ acre with abundant privacy-timeless and elegant.

650.543.1206 Phone judy@judycitron.com email@apr.com

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Agent Name Connie Linton 650.400.4873 Phone email@apr.com clinton@apr.com

Valerie AgentSoltau Name Palo Alto CITY

$PRICE 10,800,000

This goes Text remodeled here. home honors its early heritage while showcasing designer appeal. Premier Crescent Park location. ~6,568+ square foot home on .43 acre lot.

Atherton CITY Call PRICE for Price Exquisite Text goes estate here. property custom built in 2007 with inspiration from Villas in the European Countryside.

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PaloCITY Alto

PRICE $9,500,000

Oncegoes Text in a here. lifetime opportunity to purchase two contiguous lots totaling 24,800sf in the most desirable neighborhood in the City.

Los Altos CITY Hills PRICE $8,998,000 Sophisticated Text goes here.contemporary home on 2.4 Acres in a magical setting with 360 degree views. The infinity pool and outdoor ktichen make for an idillyic lifestyle.

AgentPamela Name Rummage Phone Culp

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AgentCitron Judy Name 650.543.1206 Phone email@apr.com judy@judycitron.com

Atherton CITY Call PRICE for Price Text Stunning goes here.

Mediterranean home with contemporary touches, high ceilings, 6 bed, 6.5 baths, expansive yard, gardens and pool completed in 2009.

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PRICE $7,850,000

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6 ba custom home on the most soughtafter block in Old Palo Alto! Easy access to Stanford, dining, commute routes and airports.

Agent Stephanie Name Phone Hewitt

email@apr.com 650.619.7885 shewitt@apr.com

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

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Shirley Bailey Palo Alto

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Extraordinary circa 1930s French inspired home in Old Palo Alto, situated on a large 13,500 square-foot lot. Meticulously maintained and renovated 5bd, 5ba. Close to top Palo Alto schools.

Los Altos Hills

$7,998,000

Spectacular 2.3+/- acre lot with panoramic views of the Bay, valley, East & West hills. 6bd/5.5ba home.

Quiet cul-de-sac location with Palo Alto schools.

650.209.1580 sbailey@apr.com

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Sophie Tsang 650.687.7388 sophie@apr.com

Carol & Nicole Palo Alto

$6,198,000

Sought-after Professorville, newly constructed home features a modern Craftsman design, Close to vibrant downtown University Ave and Town & Country Village.

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Palo Alto

$6,000,000

Exceptional 6bd/5.5ba home in desirable Professorville location casually elegant features and open floorplan.

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650.465.5958 CarolandNicole @apr.com

Carol & Nicole Portola Valley

$5,800,000

Incredible views from just under 5 acres in Westridge.

Spacious and private Santa Barbara style 5BR/3.5BA home with pool.

Atherton

$5,600,000

Fantastic Atherton find in highly desirable Lindenwood! Opportunity abounds at this lovely 3bd/3ba expansive Ranch Style home.

650.465.5958 CarolandNicole @apr.com

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Dana Van Hulsen 650.248.3950 dvanhulsen@apr.com

Laura Stevens Los Altos Hills

John Forsyth James 650.218.4337 John.James@apr.com

$5,498,000

Built from the ground up with fine craftsmanship and meticulous attention to detail, this energy-efficient home is just blocks from Downtown Los Altos.

Saratoga

$5,478,000

Represented Buyer. Modern, contemporary home in the Saratoga Hills, yet close to everything. Newly remodeled with 5,760+/- sf of open living space.

650.814.8584 lstevens@apr.com

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

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Pat Kalish Palo Alto

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Just steps from Downtown, this spacious craftsman offers 4 Beds/3.5 Baths on an 11k lot with pool, cottage, and outdoor kitchen and generous entertaining spaces.

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Los Altos

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Large lot next to Downtown. Spacious and lovely.

Brand new designer kitchen is a real show stopper.

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650.823.4624 pkalish@apr.com

Susan Sims Palo Alto

$4,998,000

Beautiful 4 bed, 3.5 bath home in desirable Crescent Park neighborhood. 1445Dana.com

Los Altos

$4,700,000

“Susan exceeded my expectations for level of service and support; I strongly recommend her to anyone who wants a professional on their side, looking out for them.”

650-743-1838 ssims@apr.com

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Palo Alto

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Three newly constructed 3-4 bedroom contemporary homes with green amenities, open floor plans, and private outdoor spaces.

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Palo Alto

$3,995,000

650.533.5102 Recently updated 4-plex on a 10,000 square foot lot mjohnston@apr.com in Midtown.

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Michael Johnston

Erika Ameri Palo Alto

$3,850,000

Premier Crescent Park. Charm abounds in this 1920s light filled Mediterranean offering 3 bd/2 ba. Large picturesque 11,725± lot.

Los Altos

$3,800,000

My buyers are thrilled with this Rancho location and commute! 4bd/3.5ba, 3600+/- sf custom home on a 12,432+/- sf lot.

650.269.8211 eameri@apr.com

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

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Palo Alto

$3,800,000

650.248.3950 Beautiful Palo Alto Tudor location on Midtown’s highly dvanhulsen@apr.com desirable Ramona Street. Represented buyer.

Palo Alto

$3,795,000

Spanish Mediterranean style house in sought-after Crescent Park. 4 beds/4baths, 2,433 sf, 7,200 sf lot.

Represented Buyer.

Umang Sanchorawala 650.960.5363 usanchor@apr.com

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BogardTanigami Team 650-207-2111 judybt@apr.com

Los Altos

$3,775,000

Beautiful Mediterranean in lush creek setting. 5bd/6ba, 2 offices, theater, wine cellar, & 2bd/1ba au pair suite.

Top-rated Los Altos schools.

Los Altos

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Newly constructed Craftsman home with excellent floor plan. Located on desirable cul-de-sac adjacent to McKenzie Park.

Charlene Chang 650.543.1108 cchang@apr.com

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Andrea Schultz 650.575.3632 aschultz@apr.com

Cecily Zhang Menlo Park

$3,649,000

Prime west Menlo Park 4Bd, 3Ba home plus office and bonus room. Gourmet kitchen, contemporary features thru out, private yard. Near award winning schools.

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Palo Alto

$3,488,000

7100+/- sf lot in prestigious Old Palo Alto. Value in land only. Offered with approved architectural plans of 4,041 sf transitional French-style home. Permit ready to pull.

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Laura Stevens 650-814-8584 lstevens@apr.com

650.388.2511 czhang@apr.com

Saratoga

$3,450,000

Represented Buyer. One story Mission style home in the prestigious Heritage Lane neighborhood.

4,146+/- sf on over an acre of flat land.

Los Altos

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Amazing N Los Altos culdesac location! 13,000 sq.ft. lot with large 2568 sq. ft. home. 4/3 bath, family room, 2 car attached garage. Almond, Egan & Los Altos High!

Kathleen Wilson 650.207.2017 kwilson@apr.com

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

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Carol & Nicole Palo Alto

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Quiet North Palo Alto 4 bd 2 ba, 7000 lot with 60 foot frontage. Serene setting. Near Cultural Center, Library and Rinconada Park. Duveneck, Jordan and Paly high!

Menlo Park

$2,950,000

Gorgeous remodeled one level 3bd/3.5ba condominium high ceilings and open floor plan.

Perfect Menlo Park location.

650.465.5958 CarolandNicole @apr.com

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Jenny Teng 650.245.4490 jteng@apr.com

Mountain View

$2,880,000

New Construction. 4bd, 4ba on the Los Altos border.

Close to downtown Los Altos and Mt. View as well as shopping and park. Los Altos High School.

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Denise Simons 650.269.0210 dsimons@apr.com

Anna Park Palo Alto

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Beautifully remodeled 3 bd, 2 ba home located on quiet cul-de-sac in Prime Midtown with hardwood floors, recessed lighting & professionally landscaped gardens.

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Palo Alto

Palo Alto

$2,550,000

4bd / 4ba + office area and an oversize attic. Sunny and bright great room, just 9 yrs. new craftsmanship in Barron Park. Represented Buyer.

650.387.6159 apark@apr.com

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Umang Sanchorawala

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Spacious 5 bedroom, 2 bath Eichler in the sought after Green Meadow neighborhood on an expansive 8800 +/- SF lot.

Palo Alto

$2,498,000

Build your dream home on this superb 7,500 sft lot in walking distance to Midtown Palo Alto.

Jean-Luc Laminette 650.833.9336 jllaminette@apr.com

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

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Denise Simons 650.269.0210 dsimons@apr.com

Denise Simons 650.269.0210 dsimons@apr.com

Los Altos

$2,300,000

Stunning 3 bd, 3.5 ba home in the desirable Country Club area. Fairway views, vaulted ceilings, skylights, dual pane windows, family/media room, hardwood floors, central A/C.

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Palo Alto

Palo Alto

$2,300,000

4 bd, 2 ba Eichler with lots of natural light and an open floor plan. This stunning home is located close to schools, shopping, Mitchell Park library, and community center.

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Palo Alto

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Charming 3 bedroom 2 bath home in Green Acres. Hardwood floors, remodeled kitchen and master suite. Situated on a lovely 7800 sq. ft. lot. Excellent Palo Alto schools.

Desiree Docktor 650.291.8487 ddocktor@apr.com

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Shari Ornstein Palo Alto

$2,188,000

Bright and light filled 3bd / 2ba upgraded custom contemporary home w/ wonderful indoor-outdoor living spaces. 1,560 sqft on 6,000 sqft lot.

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$2,179,000

ELIGIBLE STANFORD FACULTY ONLY! 4 BD/2.5 BA, separate FR, updated in great condition, Hardwood floors, lovely lot.

650.814.6682 sornstein@apr.com

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650.400.9390 Spectacular 2-yr old, 4br/4ba, 2,049 sf Palo Alto home ddrummond@apr.com with 2016 designer finishes. Attached 2-car garage.

650.387.6159 apark@apr.com

Umang Sanchorawala

Terry Rice Palo Alto

$2,100,000

Living the Palo Alto life with a touch of Los Altos!

What a great combination for my buyer! 4bd/3.5ba 3-level home with designer upgrades.

Redwood City

$1,950,000

Exquisitely remodeled 2 story Farm Hill Home. 4bd, 3ba on 9850 sq.ft. lot. Downstairs private retreat or in-law unit.

A wonderful home for entertaining. Represented buyer.

650.207.4142 trice@apr.com

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

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APR SUMMER CAMPAIGN Pamela Rummage Culp 415.640.3293 pculp@apr.com

San Francisco

$1,895,000

Breathtaking views from this charming condominium in coveted Corona Heights. Large bright airy rooms make this a perfect place to call home.

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Menlo Park

$1,795,000

Off Market, Delightful PUD that is 10 years new. A dramatic living space and chief’s kitchen and 3 spacious bedrooms, and cozy patio make this an ideal home!

Pamela Rummage Culp 415.640.3293 pculp@apr.com

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John Forsyth James 650.218.4337 john.james@apr.com

Pam Page Menlo Park

Carol Li 650.281.8368 cli@apr.com

$1,785,000

This 3 bed, 3 bath home plus office has been completely remodeled with 9’ceilings, large windows and skylights flood the home with natural light.

Menlo Park

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Opportunity to rebuild or build new. Great location with a 7000 sq.ft. lot. 2bd/1ba cute Cottage with great schools in West Menlo Park.

650.400.5061 ppage@apr.com

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Andrea Schultz 650.575.3632 aschultz@apr.com

Sophie Tsang San Jose

$1,749,000

Remodeled 5Bd, 3.5Ba. Stunning kitchen opens to FR. Separate office. Flexible floorplan. Private yard.

Convenient location near excellent schools.

Sunnyvale

$1,685,000

Beautifully updated 5 bedroom and 4 bathroom spacious home near new Apple Campus. Convenient location close to Kaiser hospital, Vallco mall, etc.

650.687.7388 sophie@apr.com

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Barbara Williams 650.814.0741 bwilliams@apr.com

Lynne Mercer Half Moon Bay

$1,665,000

Spacious two-story, 5bd/4ba home located in the prestigious Ocean Colony. Luxury with community amenities and wonderful location by the beach.

Palo Alto

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Beautiful 3 bedroom, 2 bath condo with many upgrades, plus 3 patios for easy indoor/outdoor enjoyment. Represented buyer.

650.906.0162 Lmercer@apr.com

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

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Derk Brill 650.543.1117 dbrill@apr.com

Ted Paulin Mountain View

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Spacious and sophisticated 2006 sf 3BR/2.5BA townhome. Contemporary flair throughout the 2-story floor plan, features formal living, dining, and family rooms.

San Mateo

$1,499,000

3 bedroom Ranch Home on a large lot in San Mateo’s “The Lanes” neighborhood, with tree-lined streets and hidden parks.

650.766.6325 tpaulin@apr.com

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Valerie Soltau 650.464.3896 vsoltau@apr.com

Terry Rice Redwood City

$1,400,000

A rare find in Woodside Plaza neighborhood with a large yard, flexible floor plan, 4 bedrooms and formal living, dining and family rooms.

Palo Alto

$1,395,000

Secluded one story 2br, 1ba. Beautifully landscaped close to Downtown Palo Alto. Front and rear patios.

Represented buyer.

650.207.4142 trice@apr.com

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Dante Drummond

Menlo Park

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650.400.9390 Corner unit 3 Bedroom, 2 bath, single-level condo ddrummond@apr.com with 1,411 sf (per county). Private patio and views. Las Lomitas schools!

San Mateo

$1,100,000

Off Market Spacious 2BD/2BA condominium located in a boutique building, has lovely finishes and a prime location near shops restaurants and transportation.

Pamela Rummage Culp 415.640.3293 pculp@apr.com

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Connie Linton 650.400.4873 clinton@apr.com

Sophie Tsang Menlo Park

$825,000

Professionally designed and renovated condo with contemporary style in mind. Spacious 2 bedroom, 1 bath, single-level unit with gourmet kitchen. 2 parking places.

Mountain View

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Gated community near the border of Los Altos and Palo Alto. Just minutes from downtown Mountain View. Freshly renovated with hotel amenities.

650.687.7388 sophie@apr.com

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

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Book Talk LIFE IN POSTWAR YUGOSLAVIA … Palo Alto author Vlasta Diamant will share her memoirs about growing up in postwar Yugoslavia under Josip Tito’s rule and her perspective on life after emigrating to San Francisco in 1970 during the last wave of the hippie culture at a reading of her book, “Socialism V. Santa,” at 3 p.m., Sept. 15, at Avenidas, 450 Bryant St., Palo Alto. Diamant is a multifaceted artist and author who has worked in different media. She studied design and photography and taught art. She also has written a children’s book and a play.

A monthly section on local books and authors

Are ‘ We Gon’ Be Alright’ ?

FEMINIST FIGHT CLUB …

Author Jessica Bennett, a curator of the Lean In Collection, and Rachel Thomas, president of Palo Alto-based Lean In, will be at Kepler’s Books on Sept. 20 providing tactics for the gender battle in today’s workplace.

Bennett’s book, “Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace” — part manual, part manifesto — is billed as a hilarious yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work, providing real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement. The book blends personal stories with research, statistics, expert advice, a Negotiation Cheat Sheet and more. The talk will start at 7:30 p.m.; Kepler’s Books is located at 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park.

by Michael Berry

Courtesy of Jeff Chang

SILICON VALLEY CRIME SCENE … Susan Wolfe, a Palo Alto attorney and awardwinning author, will launch her second thriller set in Silicon Valley, “Escape Velocity,” on Oct. 4 at Books Inc. In this novel, Georgia Griffin has just arrived in Silicon Valley from Piney, Arkansas, having firmly rejected her father’s life as a con artist. She desperately needs to keep her new job as paralegal for Lumina Software so she can provide a haven for her sister before it’s too late. But Georgia realizes that incompetence has a death grip on her new company, so she decides to adapt her extensive con-artist training — just once — to clean up the company.

Soon Georgia must decide: Will she risk her job, the roof over her sister’s head, and perhaps her very soul? Wolfe’s bestselling book,”The Last Billable Hour,” won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. She has been a criminal defense attorney and a corporate lawyer. The launch will take place at 6 p.m. at Books Inc., 855 El Camino Real #74, Palo Alto. Q

Stanford culture critic looks at how diversity and equity fit into America

Author and culture critic Jeff Chang will be at Kepler’s Books Sept. 13 to talk about diversity and equity issues examined in his new book, “We Gon’ Be Alright.” ournalist, activist, record producer and teacher Jeff Chang took nearly 10 years to write his first book in 2005, “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the HipHop Generation.” It won the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award and established Chang as a leading culture critic.

Chang, who now serves as executive director for the Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA) at Stanford University, said in a telephone interview this week that it took him about eight years to complete his second book examining American culture, “Who We Be: The Colorization of America,” published in 2014.

Now, the Berkeley resident follows that volume with “We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation,” a collection of eight never-before-published essays that he wrote in three months. The book addresses questions of diversity and equity with a new sense of urgency.

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“We Gon’ Be Alright” began as Chang’s attempt to write an introduction for the paperback edition of “Who We Be.” Chang submitted material about Ferguson, Missouri, in the wake of protests following the police shooting death of Michael Brown, Jr. Chang’s publisher urged him to think about making that early draft into a book of its own.

“I took up the challenge,” Chang said. “This is the fastest book I’ve ever done.”

Chang will appear in conversation with Angie Coiro at Kepler’s on Tuesday, Sept. 13, to talk about this latest book.

“Who We Be” was published a month before the non-indictment of police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson. Afterward, Chang noticed an abrupt change in the conversations.

“They become much more aggravated, much more intense, much less open, much more hewing to the standard talking points of folks of one ideology or another.”

According to Chang, “We

Gon’ Be Alright” explores “the question of how we moved from having a consensus in 1965 for racial justice and cultural equity, into a moment 50 years later where we have a black president and yet there’s no consensus that there needs to be anything done to repair the growing gaps between the races in every social indice.”

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essay that is unusually personal for Chang. In “The InBetweens: On Asian Americanness,” he recounts how, having grown up in Honolulu in a “pretty thoroughly multiracial Chinese-Hawai’ian family,” he came to the University of California, Berkeley, in the late ‘80s “very excited to be on a campus with a history of social justice.”

Within weeks of his arrival at Cal, however, Chang found himself being harassed on the street and having racial slurs hurled at him on campus.

“I was suddenly having to confront the notion of being a minority, pretty much for the first time in my life,” he said. “I felt like an outsider, felt a different kind of in-betweenness.”

Chang said he was able to find a sense of belonging through hip-hop and social activism.

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Title Pages Enemy and then going out the next morning to participate in a protest or a rally.”

After graduating, Chang briefly worked in the State Legislature, wrote about politics and the arts for a wide range of leading publications, co-founded the influential hip-hop label SoleSides and received a master’s degree in Asian-American Studies from UCLA. He is about to begin his sixth year at Stanford’s IDA. Chang said, “The Institute is place to explore identity, aesthetics and the nexus of arts and social justice questions.”

Each year, the Institute chooses a theme around which it bases its curriculum and activities.

This year’s focus, Chang said, will be on health and healing, “questions that are raised by the Movement for Black Lives around what it means to be well, not just alive.”

In his essay “Hands Up: On Ferguson” for “We Gon’ Be Alright,” Chang recounts the birth of the Movement for Black Lives and other protest groups against excessive use of force by police. Asked to identify an aspect of the protests that many observers missed, Chang said, “People felt as if their work was connected to a higher purpose. The work was certainly about trying to im-

prove conditions, but for most of these organizers and activists, you couldn’t reduce it to mere self-interest.”

“We Gon’ Be Alright” also tackles the issue of resegregation and looks at the forces that push people of color away from the cities and into outlying areas.

“We all know what’s happening,” Chang said. “We see people being forced to leave San Francisco. Many people are moving to Oakland. In turn, those people are pushing rents up and displacing the longtime residents. Those folks are forced to move to Vallejo or Fairfield or Antioch.”

He continued, “You see a lot of folks moving into East Palo Alto, and we hear a lot of the same stories. People see their rents are under pressure, and they’re contemplating moving out to Tracy or way beyond.”

“To me, gentrification is too small a word. What we’re seeing is physical resegregation.

People see the Bay Area as Ground Zero for gentrification, but I’m saying that it’s bigger than that.”

Chang has also watched the concepts of diversity and equity change over the years. “I think diversity is the necessary, but not the sufficient, condition to get us where we need to be.

The larger importance of eq-

uity is that in another 50 years, we don’t want to live in a society that’s divided as it is now by color, in which color and caste converge.”

“We Gon’ Be Alright” feels very much a polemic of the moment, but one that examines the possibility of transformation in the face of loud, persistent and often divisive rhetoric.

“Times are changed,” Chang said. “And I think that this book speaks into that kind of noise and tries to get the violence turned down a little bit.

Folks should be able to think more hopefully about the situation we’re living through.” Q Freelance writer Michael Berry can be emailed at mikeberry@mindspring.com.

Jeff Chang’s work: Hip hop, culture and diversity “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop” (2005) His first book chronicles the cultural and social history of the early hip-hop scene. Chang spent nearly 10 years researching and writing the book, interviewing DJs, b-boys, rappers, graffiti writers, activists and gang members.

“Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop” (2007) In his second book, Chang compiles an anthology of essays and interviews and expands the story of hip-hop through the voices of the pioneers, innovators and mavericks.

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“We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation” (2016) Chang explores the rise and fall of the idea of diversity, the roots of student protest, changing ideas about Asian Americanness, and the impact of a century of racial separation in housing through deep reporting with key activists and thinkers. He argues that resegregation is the unexamined condition of our time, the undoing of which is key to moving the nation forward to racial justice and cultural equity.

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

Home Front

NEIGHBORHOOD SNAPSHOT

MANAGE YOUR REMODEL ...

If you’re about to embark on a home remodel, you may want to take advantage of a class being offered by the Palo Alto Adult School on just that: “Managing your Remodeling Project like a Pro.” It’s a five-week course, from Sept. 21 to Oct. 19 on Wednesday evenings, 6:309 p.m. The cost is $100. Go to paadultschool.org/class/homeenvironment for more information and registration.

STROLL THROUGH SCULPTURES ... Until Oct. 15, you can take a guided walk in the gardens at Filoli in Woodside to explore sculptures displayed by local artists. Find out about the artists, their sculpting techniques and the creative process.

The walks are scheduled for Saturdays, Sept. 3, 17, Oct. 1 or 15 from 11 a.m. to noon. The cost is free for members; $20 for non-members. Non-member fee includes same-day admission to the house, garden, cafe and gift shop.

CITRUS CUISINE ... The Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County, who have a demonstration garden in Palo Alto, have written a cookbook, “Crazy for Citrus,” which can be purchased at their main office at 1553 Berger Drive, Bldg. 1, San Jose. The revised edition, which is $15, includes color and additional recipes in each category from drinks to soups, main dishes, quick breads, sauces, marinades and desserts.

BEE HEAVEN ... There are easy ways to attract honey bees to your garden, according to Dr. Christine Casey, of the UC Davis Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven.

Honeybees need three things: food, water and shelter. For food, go for a mix of flowers and plants, and cluster similar plants together rather than spreading them out. Good plant-family choices are mint, sunflower, rose, buckthorn, figwort and plantain.

Bees vary in what kind of flowers they like, so provide some variety.

Honeybees need water, so provide a shallow basin lined with rocks to perch on. For shelter, there are more-involved options like bee houses and simple ones like logs and pavers set in sand.

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

Right: Alice Jacobs and her children, Dash, Sylvia and Finn, live in the only single-family home (above) on their block. She says backing out of her driveway can be a challenge with construction traffic and commuters. She also worries about keeping her young children safe from fast-moving cars.

Historic Mayfield grapples with urban angst about commuters, noise

by Eric He | photos by Zachary Hoffman

I

t isn’t marked on Google Maps, and its size is not extraordinary, but the Mayfield neighborhood is a busy and vibrant hub in Palo Alto.

Nestled between Oregon Expressway, Park Boulevard, El Camino Real and Cambridge Avenue, Mayfield is home to a number of offices, shops and restaurants -- most of which line the popular California Avenue.

From Antonio’s Nut House, one of Palo Alto’s oldest bars, to contemporary burger joint The Counter and Café Pro Bono, , there is a unique blend of cuisine and nightlife options that makes California Avenue a frequented destination on a daily basis.

But with popularity comes downsides. Alice Jacobs lives on Sherman Avenue with her husband and three children, whom she drives to and from school. She has only been a resident for four years, but she has already seen changes to the neighborhood, with

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an influx of construction projects and commuters arriving for work.

“It’s stressful just getting out of my street,” Jacobs said. “I feel blocked in. I can’t drive down my street. Construction workers are coming in just as we’re getting to school. They don’t pay attention to us.”

While noting the convenience of living close to Mollie Stone’s Market and the post office, Jacobs expressed concerns about residing in an area that has transformed into a center of business activity and a nightmare to navigate in.

A car almost backed into her son while they were biking on California Avenue. She once nearly ran into a cellphone-distracted pedestrian.

“That’s the drawback of living here in this area of mixed-

residential-commercial area,” she said. “It’s kind of souring our experience.”

It’s made parking difficult.

Since the majority of housing complexes are condominiums and apartments, residents often have to find a spot on the street. On a typical weekday, commuters’ cars add to the mess, with not enough parking spaces to go around.

The other issue, due to the rising cost of living and renting in Palo Alto, is that the homegrown businesses that have called California Avenue home for years are being forced out in favor of corpo-

rate or chain restaurants.

“Palo Alto’s becoming very saturated,” Jacobs said. “It’s becoming cookie-cutter. It’s sad.”

It wasn’t always this way. Unbeknownst to many, Mayfield has a long and rich history. It was founded as its own town in 1855, but in 1925 was annexed by Palo Alto. The story may have been different had Mayfield accepted Leland Stanford’s proposal to build what would become Stanford University in the town of Mayfield. Known for its bars, the (continued on page 43)

Home & Real Estate SALES AT A GLANCE Atherton

Mountain View

Total sales reported: 1 Sales price: $1,823,500

Total sales reported: 18 Lowest sales price: $625,000 Highest sales price: $2,280,000 Average sales price:$1,415,416

East Palo Alto Total sales reported: 3 Lowest sales price: $433,500 Highest sales price: $725,000 Average sales price: $619,166

Palo Alto Total sales reported: 12 Lowest sales price: $1,630,000 Highest sales price: $11,250,000 Average sales price: $3,364,830

Los Altos Total sales reported: 4 Lowest sales price: $1,950,000 Highest sales price: $2,827,500 Average sales price: $2,356,875

Portola Valley Total sales reported: 1 Sales price: $3,200,000

Los Altos Hills

Woodside

Total sales reported: 1 Sales price: $4,000,000

Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $3,150,000 Highest sales price: $3,850,000 Average sales price: $3,500,000

Menlo Park California Avenue has become Palo Alto’s “second downtown,”

Mayfield (continued from page 42)

town did not like Stanford’s request to be alcohol-free.

So Mayfield became an almost forgotten and overshadowed part of Palo Alto, and California Avenue became the taboo part of town. Bill Roberts, who lives in Menlo Park but has been coming to California Avenue for decades, said it used to be a center of prostitution.

“There used to be a Round Table there,” Roberts said, pointing near the intersection of California Avenue and Ash Street. “I was eating with some friends at the Round Table once, and I saw a prostitute doing business in there. But those times are long gone.

The city has done an awful lot.”

According to Roberts, the city eventually broke up the illegal activity. Nowadays, California Avenue has become Palo Alto’s “second downtown,” and Mayfield is emerging as a vibrant neighborhood. Many of the restaurants have outdoor seating, giving off a relaxed, European-style ambiance that is welcoming and comforting to walk through.

While the hubbub of California Avenue and the popularity of the many shops and restaurants irritate some residents, others enjoy the location and relish the small pocket parks that provide a neighborhood feel. Pamela Brown has lived on Park Boulevard for more than a decade and has noth-

FACTS CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS (nearby): Casa dei Bambini Montessori School, 463 & 457 College Ave.; Escondido Kids’ Club, 890 Escondido Road FIRE STATION: No. 2, 2675 Hanover St. LIBRARY: College Terrace, 2300 Wellesley St. LOCATION: between Oregon Expressway, Park Boulevard, El Camino Real and Cambridge Avenue NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: Palo Alto Neighborhoods members: Joe Villareal, 650-326-7519 PARKS: Sarah Wallis Park, 202 Ash Street.

POST OFFICE: Cambridge, 265 Cambridge Ave. PRIVATE SCHOOL: The Living Wisdom School, 456 College Ave. SHOPPING: California Avenue

ing but good things to say about Mayfield.

“It’s peaceful,” said Brown after finishing up a workout near Sarah Wallis Park, on the corner of Ash Street and Grant Avenue. “It’s real convenient. I’ve never had a problem in 11 years.”

Mayfield is prime real estate for a reason. It is steps away from the hubbub of the tech companies and startups of Silicon Valley and the convenience of Palo Alto’s second downtown. Q

Busy California Avenue abuts Mayfield, a mixed residential neighborhood with the coziness of a community juxtaposed against urban difficulties about parking and traffic.

Improvements along the Avenue make it easier for bicyclists to navigate around parked cars.

Total sales reported: 6 Lowest sales price:$1,690,000 Highest sales price: $6,150,000 Average sales price: $2,992,500

HOME SALES

Home sales are provided by California REsource, a real estate information company that obtains the information from the County Recorder’s Office. Information is recorded from deeds after the close of escrow and published within four to eight weeks.

Atherton

91 Marsh Road Larson Trust to Niham Group for $1,823,500 on 07/12/16; built 1924, 3bd, 1,850 sq.ft.

Source: California REsource

East Palo Alto

2130 Addison Ave. Mahiri Trust to B. Feng for $433,500 on 07/15/16; built 1954, 2bd, 720 sq.ft.; previous sale 10/27/1983, $40,000 1765 East Bayshore Road #223 I. Tong to P. & J. Shah for $725,000 on 07/15/16; built 2008, 2bd, 1,176 sq.ft.; previous sale 10/29/2008, $425,000 2412 Fordham St. J. Ochoa to D. Han for $699,000 on 07/12/16; built 1951, 3bd, 1,030 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/18/2008, $305,000

Los Altos

55 Chester Circle D. Palomo to H. Zhang for $1,950,000 on 08/03/16; built 1994, 3bd, 1,630 sq.ft.; previous sale 01/25/2002, $761,000 601 Cuesta DriveOrton Trust to K. Cheng for $2,350,000 on 08/02/16; built 1948, 3bd, 2300 sq.ft.

370 San Domingo Way Johnson Trust to J. & K. Dukellis for

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Room for rent edited by Anky van Deursen

Q

My parents recently retired and live on a fixed income. They want to keep living in their home of 30 years. One idea they have is to rent out a room in their home to defray some of their living costs. They indicated they don’t want to get “too formal” about the arrangement. Do you have any suggestions?

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Although your parents might like to see this as an “informal arrangement” to defray some of their costs, inviting a tenant in your home should be treated like any business contract. Your parents are becoming “landlords” according to the California Civil Code with its own set of rights and responsibilities.

As a minimum, the following information must be in writing and be provided within 15 days of entering into an oral agreement and once a year within 15 days if requested by the tenant (CC 1962). This information is 1) the name, phone number and address of the manager, if any; 2) the name, phone number and address of the owner or someone authorized to accept service of process and all notices and demands from the tenant; 3) the name, phone number and address of the person authorized to receive rent if rent may be paid personally, including the days and hours that person will be available to receive payments; and the form in which rent may be paid, such as check, money order or cashier’s check.

However, we strongly recommend that the terms and conditions of a rental tenancy be written down so that all parties have a clear understanding of what is expected. Relying on memories of oral agreements leaves too much room for misunderstandings and disagreements that can ruin the relationship or result in legal disputes. If your parents realize that a written agreement covering all relevant terms does make more sense, they should not rely on the type of rental agreement forms found on the Internet or stationery stores or from online sites. These forms might be out of date or fail to reflect specific California requirements. Nolo Press (nolo.com) has forms that are reliable, very easy to use and up-to-date. Q Project Sentinel provides landlordtenant dispute resolution and fair-housing services in Northern California, including rental-housing mediation programs in Palo Alto, Los Altos and Mountain View. Call 650856-4062 for dispute resolution or 650-321-6291 for fair housing, email info@housing.org or visit housing.org.

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Home & Real Estate (continued from previous page) $2,827,500 on 08/05/16; built 1966, 3bd, 2,400 sq.ft.; previous sale 09/20/1988, $625,000) 976 Terrace Drive Kamachi Trust to H. Milstein for $2,300,000 on 08/08/16; built 1998, 3bd, 2,354 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/30/1986, $200,000

Los Altos Hills 27330 Deer Springs Way Nicholson Trust to B. Alten for $4,000,000 on 08/04/16; built 1974, 5bd, 3,800 sq.ft.

Menlo Park

600 Coleman Ave.Z. Yang to J. Chang for $1,690,000 on 07/15/16; built 1987, 4bd, 2,510 sq.ft.; previous sale 03/31/1993, $340,000) 934 Florence LaneLines Trust to H. Jalali for $1,730,000 on 07/15/16; previous sale 06/19/2009, $825,000 224 Leland Ave. West & Guis Trust to T. & K. Montine for $2,835,000 on 07/12/16; built 1948, 3bd, 2,830 sq.ft.; previous sale 11/09/1984, $290,000 671 Menlo Oaks Drive Pacific Excel 2 to Menlo Oaks for $6,150,000 on 07/15/16; built 1916, 4bd, 4,960 sq.ft.

329 Oak Court P. Rasmussen to D. West for $2,475,000 on 07/13/16; built 1949, 4bd, 2,362 sq.ft.; previous sale 12/28/1988, $312,500 980 Wallea Drive Riggs Trust to Y. Yee for $3,075,000 on 07/11/16; built 1949, 3bd, 1,640 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/09/2014, $2,225,000

Mountain View

1146 California St. Yoshikawa Trust to I. Chen for $1,620,000 on 08/05/16; built 1920, 2bd, 1,050 sq.ft.

115 College Ave. Torres Trust to

Y. Yu for $728,000 on 08/02/16; built 1930, 2bd, 638 sq.ft.

505 Cypress Point Drive #145 A. & S. Fernandez to R. Bondi for $775,000 on 08/04/16; built 1971, 2bd, 843 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/11/2013, $444,000 505 Cypress Point Drive #283 D. Marth to B. Huang for $625,000 on 08/04/16; built 1971, 1bd, 784 sq.ft.

2508 Dell Ave. A. Delozanne to Saccheri Trust for $1,580,000 on 08/04/16; built 1955, 4bd, 1,216 sq.ft.

221 Easy St. #10 J. Roach to B. & M. Balban for $875,000 on 08/04/16; built 1980, 2bd, 1,136 sq.ft.; previous sale 03/06/2002, $345,000 460 Eunice Ave. Eilers Trust to L. Nguyen for $2,280,000 on 08/03/16; built 1965, 3bd, 1,887 sq.ft.; previous sale 11/25/2003, $810,000 105 Fairchild Drive MV Viewpoint 2013 to B. & V. Nguyen for $1,285,000 on 08/03/16 111 Fairchild Drive MV Viewpoint 2013 to Z. Stekkelpak for $1,025,000 on 08/05/16 802 Fountain Park Lane W. & C. Segalla to O. Prater for $1,850,000 on 08/04/16; built 1988, 3bd, 2,030 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/01/2011, $1,000,000 555 McCarty Ave. Alders Trust to Larson Trust for $1,200,000 on 08/09/16; built 1956, 4bd, 1,311 sq.ft.

110 Minaret Ave. S. Thomas to V. Sreekanti for $1,490,000 on 08/08/16; built 2014, 4bd, 1,893 sq.ft.

344 Oaktree Drive #1305 Larson Trust to M. Lai for $1,020,000 on 08/09/16; built 1988, 2bd, 1,240 sq.ft.; previous sale 03/07/2014, $776,000 1976 San Luis Ave. Classic 1946 San Luis to J. Go for

$1,761,500 on 08/05/16; built 2016, 4bd, 1,768 sq.ft.

98 Sherland Ave. #100R. & V. Daquigan to J. Lu for $1,683,000 on 08/03/16; built 1965, 2,112 sq.ft.; previous sale 12/01/2004, $700,000 635 Tyrella Ave. MV Viewpoint 2013 to J. Liu for $1,410,000 on 08/04/16 239 West Dana St. Giacomo Maggi Limited to G. Murthy for $2,020,000 on 08/04/16; built 1940, 4bd, 2,072 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/17/2002, $575,000 1791 Woodhaven Place R. Myrback to T. Mang for $2,250,000 on 08/09/16; built 1999, 6bd, 3,107 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/30/1999, $800,000

Palo Alto

585 Ashton Ave. Heron Trust to R. Qaqish for $3,000,000 on 08/02/16; built 2001, 4bd, 2,303 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/12/2003, $1,350,000 2480 Bryant St. Johnson Trust to W. Lui for $2,300,000 on 08/08/16; built 1941, 2bd, 1,483 sq.ft.

420 Cambridge Ave. #2 E. Shmukler to A. Ford for $2,050,000 on 08/05/16; built 2011, 3bd, 1,492 sq.ft.; previous sale 12/09/2011, $1,500,000 831 Chimalus Drive S. Tuma to Kennedy Trust for $3,175,000 on 08/05/16 3472 Cowper Court B. Crane to Waverly Investment for $2,125,000 on 08/08/16; built 1951, 3bd, 925 sq.ft.

4240 Darlington Court D. Vogel to K. & A. Wang for $1,890,000 on 08/02/16; built 1951, 3bd, 1,483 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/31/1997, $379,000 2882 Greer Road Scarlett Trust to O. Karkouti for $1,850,000 on 08/03/16; built 1951, 3bd, 1,069 sq.ft.

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800 High St. #204 J. Pearlstein to J. Kim for $2,250,000 on 08/09/16; built 2006, 3bd, 1,638 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/18/2014, $1,850,000 235 High St.S. Lugani to Papas Trust for $1,630,000 on 08/05/16; built 1980, 3bd, 1,342 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/06/2012, $945,000 559 Kingsley Ave. Marinkovich Trust to Kingsley Avenue Limited for $11,250,000 on 08/04/16; built 1918, 2bd, 1,542 sq.ft.; previous sale 08/22/2012, $172,500 1027 Waverley St. Yenney Trust to Waverley Limited for $4,500,000 on 08/09/16; built 1923, 4bd, 2,008 sq.ft.

865 Waverley St. X. He to Mcdowell Trust for $4,358,000 on 08/05/16; built 2001, 4bd, 3,351 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/13/2011, $2,835,000

Portola Valley

5 Oak Forest Court J. & K. Zaccor to Siddiqui-Banerjee Trust for $3,200,000 on 07/12/16; built 1995, 4bd, 4,210 sq.ft.; previous sale 03/12/2008, $3,400,000

Woodside

1221 Canada Road R. & C. McNaughton to N. & J. Sequeira for $3,150,000 on 07/11/16; built 1993, 4bd, 3,000 sq.ft.

65 Skywood Way Zafran Trust to Potter Trust for $3,850,000 on 07/13/16; built 2003, 4bd, 4,940 sq.ft.; previous sale 11/06/2000, $1,575,000

BUILDING PERMITS

This listing is drawn from the City of Palo Alto online database of recent permits that have been issued.

4264 Manuela Way, demolished detached carport.

180 El Camino Real, #1140,

deferred submittal for structural for walk-in cooler.

762 East Charleston Road, remodel kitchen within existing footprint (144 sf ), extend existing partial wall to ceiling. Update electrical to current code, $20,000.

3503 Laguna Ave., temporary power 905 Elsinore Dr., replace fau and a/c unit 824 Kipling St., Unit a: new illuminated sign 1875 Newell Road, Residential level 2 electric vehicle charger located in the garage.

636 Middlefield Road, add front entry porch and reduce the size of the window in the kitchen and add a window in the master bathroom.

4075 Campana Dr., revision to modify existing bathroom entry door towards hallway and flip swing 868 Warren Way, residential remodel of master bathroom and hall bathroom (80 sf).

Scope of work includes removing an interior non-bearing wall to expand the hall bathroom.$10,500 1453 College Ave., replace water heater 3719 Grove Ave., replace water heater 1023 Middlefield Rpad, tear off existing roof to original sheathing. Install synthetic underlayment, follow with ultra composition shingles. $20,000 751 Seminole Way, replace sewer main from house to city cleanout. Pipe burst.

947 Van Auken Circle, revision to windscreen construction and associated structural no change to appearance 415 Middlefield Road, reroof covered porch 1.1square. $1,500 661 Seale Ave., replace

shower stall and vanity. $9,000 180 El Camino Real, revised plans include new deck framing.

Revised on approved plans.

302 Whitclem Dr., bathroom remodel (120 sf), scope of work relocate tub, toilet, shower, remove window, update vanity and fixtures. $20,000 972 Addison Ave., demolish detached garage (312 sf) 221 Kipling St., temporary power 1160 Channing Ave., Tear off old roof. Replace any dry rot.

Install new tar and gravel roof. $17,029 3525 Greer Road, revise flood vent locations per inspector 676 Colorado Ave., install graywater and rainwater system for non-potable irrigation system 3805 Louis Road, revise pool structural details. No change to size or appearance of pool 890 Colorado Ave., residential flush-mounted pv (17 modules) 4.505 kw 4185 Donald Drive, new two-story single-family residence, 2,654 sf with attached one-car garage, 222 sf. $411,000 639 Middlefield Road, revise thickness of slab and mat spacing 180 El Camino Real, Suite# 240a, temporary power 1560 Sand Hill Road, demolition 3972 El Camino Real, remove existing composition roof; reuse decking; install new timberline asphalt shingles. $13,000 4 Kipling St., Unit a: new illuminated sign 1875 Newell Road, Residential level 2 electric vehicle charger located in the garage.

636 Middlefield Road, add front entry porch and reduce the size of the window in the kitchen and add a window in the master bathroom.

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Price reduced to $2,195,000

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DOWNTOWN BUILD OPPORTUNITY FAMILY COMPUND OPPORTUNITY 847 Webster Street, Palo Alto 75 Reservoir Road, Atherton Lot ±7,500 sf 75Reservoir.com Offered at $3,500,000

Offered at $7,500,000

MICHAEL DREYFUS Broker 650.485.3476 michael.dreyfus@dreyfussir.com 0MGIRWI 2S

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Ashley Banks, Sales Associate 650.544.8968 | ashley.banks@dreyfussir.com 0MGIRWI 2S

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375 Walsh Road, Atherton Woodland Retreat in Exclusive Atherton Tucked within leafy grounds of over an acre (per county) that establish natural privacy, this treehouse-like 4 bedroom residence of 3,120 sq. ft. (per county) with an additional lower level provides 3 full and 2 half baths, and an adjacent parcel of almost an acre I<1> /;A:@EJ 5? -8?; -B-58-.81 2;> 01B18;<91:@ &41 .>11FE Ō;;><8-: 501-8 2;> 1:@1>@-5:5:3 -//1??1? -: 181B-@;> -:0 - 3->-31 C5@4 - ?@A05; 88A>5:3 ;A@0;;> ->1-? 5:/8A01 - <;;8 -:0 9A8@5<81 01/7? ':A?A-8 2;> 185@1 @41>@;: @41 <>;<1>@E ;Ŋ1>? 4588?501 85B5:3 yet retains excellent proximity to prestigious clubs and private schools.

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www.375Walsh.com Offered at $4,988,000

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GINNY KAVANAUGH

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2 Sierra Lane, Portola Valley 3 bed | 3 bath | Windy Hill Views | $4,995,000 | 2SierraLane.com

WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY

16 Santa Maria Avenue, Portola Valley 1+ acre lot | Sunny | Convenient | $1,300,000 | 16SantaMaria.com

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GINNY KAVANAUGH

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225 Old Spanish Trail, Portola Valley 3 bed | 2.5 bath | Guest House | $4,150,000 | 225OldSpanish.com

OPEN SUNDAY

244 Canyon Drive, Portola Valley 2 bed | 2 bath | Modern Craftsman | $2,450,000 | 244Canyon.com

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Woodside Large Stylish Traditional Home with Views 340 Jane Drive | Woodside | Offered at $6,495,000

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his Woodside Traditional 6 BR/5.5 BA approx. 6,465 sq ft home on 3.14+ acres offers an enviable blend of privacy, proximity to open space and elegant living. Situated at the end of a private cul-de-sac in one of Woodside’s only gated communities, this property is minutes from Town Center shopping, restaurants and the acclaimed Woodside School (preK–8th). The home has unusually large common areas which include separate living, dining and dual family rooms each connected to a lightfilled kitchen & breakfast room. Set up for entertaining, a large outside deck & patio with built-in BBQ overlook a luxurious custom pool & spa with views of the adjacent open space hills. www.340JaneDrive.com Page 52 • August 26, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

HELEN & BRAD MILLER

(650) 400-3426 (650) 400-1317

helenhuntermiller@gmail.com bradm@apr.com www.HelenAndBradHomes.com CalBRE #01142061, #00917768

91 Belleau Avenue, Atherton Offered at $2,798,000 Park-Like Property in Lloyden Park Set amidst wide streets and stately mature trees, this 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home of 2,070 sq. ft. (per county) occupies spacious grounds of 14,896 sq. ft. (per county) in prestigious Lloyden Park. Beamed ceilings and versatile spaces augment the charm of this updated home, which includes radiant floor heating. French doors open to an immense backyard with a rose garden, and the property also offers a twocar garage, abundant parking, and fruit trees. Stroll to Caltrain, and reach Holbrook-Palmer Park and acclaimed private schools within moments.

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25608 Deerfield Drive | 5bd/5+ba D. Van Hulsen/J. Forsyth James | 650.323.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:00-5:00

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EXPANSIVE PROPERTY, BEAUTIFUL HOME 1510 HAMILTON AVENUE, PALO ALTO 1510HAMILTON.COM NUMBERS

Offered at: $4,299,500 House: 2,937 sq ft Lot: 14,984 sq ft 4 Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms OVERVIEW

Private 2x Sized Lot Large Sunroom with Multiple French Doors Numerous Skylights Throughout High Ceiling in Family Room Beautiful Kitchen and Master House Not in Flood Zone AMENITIES

Proximate to Downtown Walk to Duveneck Quiet Tree-Lined Street SCHOOLS

Duveneck Elementary

STEVE PIERCE 650 533 7006 pierce@zanemac.com CalBRE # 00871571

Jordan Middle Palo Alto High

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28500 Matadero Creek Lane, Los Altos Hills Dreamy Tuscan Estate Custom-built on a stunning gated property of 4.4 acres (per county), this 6 bedroom estate of approx. 6,400 sq. ft. (per county) provides 6 full and 3 half bathrooms and a charming cabana. Blending Italianate beauty with modern luxuries, this welcoming B588- ;Ŋ1>? ;A@?@-:05:3 85B5:3 ?<-/1? &41 1:/4-:@5:3 3>;A:0? <>;B501 - 01?53:1> <8-E 2;>@ -: 5:ŋ:5@E <;;8 -:0 - 4588@;< <->/18 with scenic bay views, awaiting further development. Palo Alto Hills Country Club and top Palo Alto schools are easily accessible (buyer to verify eligibility).

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.ExclusiveTuscanEstate.com Offered at $11,988,000

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897 University Avenue, Los Altos Offered at $1,988,000 Leafy Privacy and Generous Lot Providing suburban convenience while exuding privacy, this charming 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home of 1,720 sq. ft. (per county) occupies a generously sized property of 0.52 acres (per county), perfect for expansion. The welcoming home enjoys an attached two-car garage, updated bamboo floors, spacious gathering areas, and a large, tree-lined backyard with a putting green. Easily bike to downtown Los Altos, Rancho Shopping Center, and Pinewood School, while living near sought-after Los Altos schools.

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Bay Area Collection Menlo Park. Palo Alto. Burlingame 650.314.7200 | pacificunion.com

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147 Stockbridge Avenue, Atherton $21,950,000 6 BD / 6+ BA

53 Magnolia Drive, Atherton $7,100,000 4 BD / 3.5 BA

16 Farm Lane, Hillsborough $6,188,000 4 BD / 5.5 BA

Hamptons estate home completed in May 2016. Approx 1.1 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds and privacy.

Constructed in 2001 with additional recent renovations, this custom home is a masterpiece of East Coast-influenced architecture.

Situated up a curving, gated driveway, this Tuscan masterpiece has bucolic views of the enclave of Farm Lane.

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

Gina Haggarty, 650.207.5192

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

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NEW PRICE | OPEN SUN 1:30-4:30

OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

197 Glenwood Avenue, Atherton $5,495,000 5 BD / 3 BA

3 Bassett Lane, Atherton Price Upon Request 3 BD / 3.5 BA

28 Sneckner Court, Menlo Park $3,690,000 4 BD / 4 BA

Magnificent Tudor estate is one of Atherton’s early treasures. More than one acre with majestic palms and heritage oaks,.

Stylish Santa Barbara home offers a wonderful floor plan ideal for entertainment plus lush gardens.

This classic, elegant home offering ~3,970 square feet is located on a desirable Menlo Park cul-de-sac street surrounded by the beauty of Stanford Open Space land.

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459 LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

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66 Rittenhouse Avenue, Atherton $3,200,000 4 BD / 2 BA

9388 Heartwood Drive, Truckee (Schaffer’s Mill) $2,195,000 4 BD / 4.5 BA / 3,292 SQFT

5089 Yucatan Way, San Jose $1,175,000 4 BD / 2 BA

The best of California indoor/outdoor living unfolds at this chic, sophisticated home. Recently renovated.

Brand New Custom Gated Community Tahoe Home on the 1st Fairway.

Beautifully updated spacious home in Cambrian Neighborhood. Freshly landscaping. Quiet Neighborhood.

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

Scott Willers, 530.277.5607 scott.willers@pacunion.com

Greg Stange, 650.208.5196

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What are buyers really looking for?

How do buyers interpret online data and pricing?

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A Luxury Collection By Intero Real Estate Services

Sand Hill Estates, Woodside

5 Betty Lane, Atherton

11627 Dawson Drive, Los Altos Hills

$35,000,000

$24,800,000

$15,995,000

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: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Lic.#01242399, 00709019

91 Selby Lane, Atherton

291 Atherton Avenue, Atherton

26880 Elena Road, Los Altos Hills

$14,900,000

$14,688,000

$10,988,888

Listing Provided by: Catherine Qian, Lic.#01276431

Listing Provided by: Nancy Gehrels, Lic.#01952964

Listing Provided by: Dan Kroner, Lic.#01790340

10440 Albertsworth Lane, Los Altos Hills

40 Firethorn Way, Portola Valley

1100 Mountain Home Rd.,Woodside

$11,488,000

$6,888,000

$5,850,000

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

Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#01878208

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

26861 Purissima Road, Los Altos Hills

161 Willow Road, Menlo Park

1250 Miramontes Street, Half Moon Bay

$4,800,000

$2,998,000

$2,800,000

Listing Provided by: Shawn Ansari Lic.#01088988

Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello & Derek Cappiello, Lic.#01343305 & #01983178

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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27466 Sunrise Farm Road, Los Altos Hills | $2,998,000 | Listing by: Dana Cappiello & Derek Cappiello Lic.# 01343305/01983178

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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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14830 Blossom Hill Road, Los Gatos • 5 Bedrooms • 4½ Bathrooms

• Approx. 4,000 Sq. Ft. • Approx. 28,314 Sq. Ft. Lot

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This beautiful estate is nestled against the foothills of Los Gatos. The thoughtful design and an open floor plan make it an ideal home for everyday living and entertaining. Views of the hills and surrounded by mature trees, the expansive yard feels private and tranquil. This home represents the finest in outdoor living.

Offered At: $3,149,000

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0 Tennant Avenue, Morgan Hill, CA

2278 Rita Court, Santa Clara • 6 Bedrooms • Approx. 5,206 Sq. Ft. • 800 sq. ft. Fully • 5½ Bathrooms • Approx. 11,761 Acre Lot equipped in-law unit

Beautiful executive home nestled at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in the heart of Silicon Valley. Conveniently located, this home is just minutes from 280, 880, and the new Apple 2 campus. Custom designed and beautifully constructed, this well-appointed home is a must-see.

South Silicon Valley Living, Make Your Dreams Come True!

Offered At: $2,476,000

Offered At: $4,900,000

www.2278RitaCt.com

Kristine Meyer, REALTOR® 408.316.4447 kmeyer@interorealestate.com www.kristinem.com

The lot is situated in an attractive location at the corner of Condit and Tennant near the Morgan Hill Aquatic Center and Sports Complex. Close to everything yet tucked away. Just imagine...the possibilities are endless!

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13920 Mir Mirou Drive, Los Altos Hills ;01>: $1ŋ:191:@ -:0 %@A::5:3 %/1:1>E Occupying a cul-de-sac setting of 3.76 acres (per county), this extensively remodeled 4 bedroom, 4.5 bath residence of 4,831 sq. ft. (per county) enjoys scenic bay views. The spacious, breezy layout includes exciting amenities and oversized entertaining areas, plus a versatile lower level, perfect for an in-law suite. Romantic outdoor spaces and an attached three-car garage complete this elegant home, which lies just outside Palo Alto Hills Golf and Country Club. Stroll to local trails and easily access top-performing Palo Alto schools (buyer to verify eligibility).

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.13920MirMirou.com Offered at $4,988,000

OPEN HOUSE

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Lunch, Lattes, & Jazz

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$4,150,000

225 Old Spanish Trl Tuscan villa with guesthouse beyond a canopy of oaks and surrounded by outdoor spaces. 3 BR/2 BA + 1 half BA

Central Woodside $3,695,000 Sun 1:30 - 4:30

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245 Olive Hill Ln Gated vineyard estate on aprx.

3 ac in Central Woodside. 60-ft pool, cabana, gazebo & TC. 4 BR/4 BA Berdine Jernigan CalBRE #00679045 650.851.2666

184 Tennyson Ave Custom built in 2003, 3level English tudor, nearly 3400 sf house. Bedroom(s) on each level 6 BR/4 BA Julie Lau CalBRE #01052924 650.325.6161

Portola Valley $2,699,000 Sun 1:30 - 4:30

Portola Valley $2,350,000 Sun 1:30 - 4:30

Menlo Park

$2,300,000 Sat/Sun 1 - 4

Portola Valley $2,275,000 Sun 1:30 - 4:30

120 Coquito Way Spacious and updated home with breathtaking views and an abundance of natural light. 4 BR/4 BA + 1 half BA Karen Fryling/Rebecca Johnson CalBRE #01326725 650.324.4456

100 Coquito Way Amazing views greet you as you enter this sophisticated and private Ladera contemporary. 3 BR/3 BA Karen Fryling/Rebecca Johnson CalBRE #01326725 650.324.4456

18 Patterson Avenue Cute 1938 bungalow, fixer, 2br/2ba. Lovely yard, detached garage.

2 BR/2 BA Geraldine Asmus CalBRE #01328160 650.325.6161

241 S Castanya Way Abundant natural light and the view greets you as you step into this inviting Ladera home. 3 BR/3 BA Karen Fryling/Rebecca Johnson CalBRE #01326725 650.324.4456

Redwood City

Menlo Park

Menlo Park

Redwood City

$1,798,000

$1,588,888

12 Northview Way Level 8,000+ lot! Come explore Emerald Hills, offering a plethora of community benefits! 3 BR/2 BA + 1 half BA

638 18th Ave Almost new. 3 BD/2 BA separate unit (office). AC. Close to shopping. 3 BR/2 BA

Doug Gonzalez CalBRE #00895924

Enayat Boroumand CalBRE #01235734

650.324.4456

Ginny Kavanaugh CalBRE #00884747

Sun 1 - 4:30

650.324.4456

$1,095,000

650.851.1961

$1,498,000

65 Roan Pl Ideally located on a quiet cul-de-sac in Central Woodside. Gorgeous views & modern flair! 4 BR/3 BA Hugh Cornish/Erika Demma CalBRE #00912143 650.324.4456

$1,299,000

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PREP FOOTBALL

MenloAtherton striving to be the best

POP WARNER TRYOUTS . . . The Palo Alto Knight Youth Football and Cheer programs are still accepting applications for boys and girls, ages 5 through 14. Signups can be made through the Palo Alto website (http:// www.paloaltoknights.com/) or by coming to Gunn High, where practices are held Monday through Friday between 6 and 8 p.m. through August.

SOCCER HONORS . . . Stanford sophomore Alana Cook earned Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week honors after helping lead Stanford to two season-opening road victories over the weekend.

Cook, the reigning Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, scored the first goal of Stanford’s season at Navy. The Cardinal hosts Florida at 8 p.m.

Friday . . . David Beary scored late in the first half and the defense made it hold up in Menlo College’s 1-0 nonconference men’s soccer match over host UC Merced on Tuesday.

The Oaks (3-0) return home to face visiting Simpson next Wednesday in a nonconference match at 2 p.m.

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Stanford’s Brian Nana-Sinkam is a top defender and team captain.

Reigning NCAA champions looking for more Cardinal returns talented players at every position

by Rick Eymer inning the national championship doesn’t change anything for the Stanford men’s soccer team. The goals remain the same and that’s to chase down another NCAA title.

Stanford opens the season ranked first in the nation, though UCLA was picked to win the Pac12 Conference. It goes to show just how difficult it is to repeat.

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Indiana is the last school to successfully defend its national title, in 2003-04 and 1998-99.

“We’re excited to play as reigning champs,” Cardinal coach Jeremy Gunn said. “There’s zero complacency and zero looking to the past.”

Last year’s National College Player of the Year Jordan Morris turned pro, All-American Brandon Vincent was named an MLS all-star and key play-maker Eric

Verso is playing in the USL. Corey Baird and Verso each notched 13 assists for Stanford last season, becoming the first pair of Cardinal teammates to accomplish the feat since 1978. This year, Baird will be relied upon to lead Stanford’s offensive.

He’s not the only goal scorer.

Also returning are Foster Langsdorf and Amir Bashti, the latter (continued on page 74)

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

A healthy Ajanaku could mean big things She’s joined by wealth of talent and versatility

by Rick Eymer nky Ajanaku’s return to the Stanford lineup would have been enough to make the Cardinal women’s volleyball team an instant contender for the national title.

After all, as a junior two years ago, Ajanaku was named Volleyball Magazine National Player of the Year, an AVCA first team AllAmerican and a Honda Volleyball Sports Award finalist.

There’s more to Stanford, a whole lot more, than Ajanaku.

Former Stanford all-American and national team member Cassidy Lichtman, one of the most versatile players in school history, joined the coaching staff and may be a perfect fit for an eclectic team.

The Cardinal did lose three AllAmerican seniors who finished

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by Glenn Reeves hen Adhir Ravipati took over as head coach of the Menlo-Atherton football team, he immediately set in motion his philosophy of putting together the toughest nonleague schedule possible.

The early returns were not encouraging. M-A lost to Marin Catholic, Oakdale and Riordan by a combined margin of 129-19 to begin the 2015 season.

It looked like a long season in the making. But the Bears responded in a positive manner and went 4-1 in Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division play to share the division championship with Sacred Heart Prep and Burlingame.

Now in year two M-A kicks off its season against none other than Bellarmine on Friday at 7 p.m., at San Jose City College. Marin Catholic, Sacred Heart Cathedral and Los Gatos follow before PAL Bay play begins Sept. 30 against Terra Nova.

“We’re always going to play the best because that’s what we want to be,’’ Ravipati said.

Optimism is high. The team is looking to build on what happened over the second half of last season.

“Rise as one,’’ cornerback/wide receiver Marquise Reid said. “We have a lot of talented players, a lot of starters coming back. We want to come together as a team and play as a family. We want to build a dynasty for the program in the years to come.’’

Running back tandem Jordan Mims and Stavro Papadakis return, both bigger, stronger and more experienced. Mims, who has offers from Idaho, Eastern Washington and San Jose State, among others, rushed for 1,133 yards last season. The 210-pound Papadakis, who also saw time at middle linebacker and quarterback, rushed for 558 yards.

Miles Conrad and Aajon Johnson are competing for the quarterback job. Reid and Tate Tussing highlight a deep group of wide receivers and defensive backs, a group that includes Mekhi Blackmon, Aaron Johnson and Spencer Corona.

Linebacker Christian Wiseman (6-4, 230) has attracted Division I interest. All-league lineman Epeli Mataele (5-10, 301) returns. Ravipati is high on sophomore defensive lineman Noa Ngalu (6-1, 250).

“He has a chance to be a bigtime college prospect,’’ Ravipati said. “He is an extremely athletic

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OF LOCAL NOTE . . . Palo Alto grad Mike Smith is the new baseball coach at St. Francis, replacing Mike Oakland who is now the schoolís softball coach. St. Francis is the twotime defending CCS Open champ.

Smith has been an assistant at St. Francis for the last eight years. He is a 1994 Palo Alto High grad and was part of the undefeated 1993 state championship basketball team . . . Palo Alto grad Colette LucasConwell was scheduled to compete in Friday’s finals of the World Rowing Championships in Rotterdam, Ned. Lucas-Conwell is the cox of the United States U23 women’s eight boat. She helped the Americans to the best time in the trials at 6:20.860 and the team was assigned lane four for the finals. Sacred Heart Prep’s Trey Holterman, in the second seat, helped the U.S. junior men’s eight qualify for Sunday’s final.

The Americans had the top time of 5:39.090 during Wednesday’s heats.

Coach insists a tough non-league schedule produces a winner

Seniors Inky Ajanaku (left) and Kelsey Humphreys are ready to lead the Cardinal.

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Sports VOLLEYBALL

Strong volleyball teams lead to lofty goals M-A hopes to defend its Northern California title, others thinking big

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sion. Paglialunga, who took over for Steven Cavella, is emphasizing the team aspect of the game.

“The group is the main part of the team,” said Paglialung, who coached the Menlo-Atherton boys junior varsity last spring. “It’s not about individuals.”

It will take a village to unseat defending Division IV state champ Notre Dame-Belmont, which returns most of its top players. But, if anyone can take the Tigers by the tail, it’s the Knights. Menlo finished 23-8 last year after losing to Notre Dame in five sets in the NorCal semifinals.

Notre Dame won the decider, 1715, after the Knights had gone up 2-1 in games.

“Notre Dame is the team to beat,” Paglialunga said. “They had six juniors on the floor and they’re all coming back. We know we aren’t as strong as they are. We’re going to try. We know if we played them 100 times, we will try to do our best those two days. Maybe we can win.”

The Knights, who played Aragon Thursday before competing in the Spikefest this weekend, lost two solid hitters to graduation.

Payton Mack is playing at Gonzaga, while Maddie Stewart is attending Tufts University.

Cavella did not leave the cupboard bare, by any means. Menlo returns the versatile Mia Vandermeer and the Houghton sisters, Jessica and Sianna, a sophomore libero. Junior Ashley Dreyer is a towering opposite, while Kristin Sellers is an experienced setter.

Menlo is carrying two other

sophomores -- Selina Xu and Riley Holland.

Paglialunga will mix up his attack on offense. He has the depth at setter to do it.

“We’ll use a hybrid,” Paglialunga said. “We’ll run the 6-2 and the 5-1.”

Paglialunga expects his Knights to be formidable after several long and hard practices.

“The girls are working hard,” said Pagliaunga, a native of Italy.

“We are trying to introduce new concepts. We know we need time to come together. The girls know we have to play good volleyball. We have to dig a lot and be patient. Our expectations are to have some trouble in the first few matches.”

Menlo is at Notre Dame on Sept. 22, hosting the Tigers on Oct. 13, two matches that could decide the Foothill crown.

Palo Alto (24-13, 7-5) has a solid core returning in the likes of Chelsea Fan, Fiona Green, Jessica Lee, Katie Passerello and Sussana Limb.

Castilleja volleyball coach Jacqueline Heler, in her fourth season, had a legitimate excuse last season. Star outside hitter Madeline Johnson missed all but one match due to a heart condition.

Heler, whose Gators toil in the Skyline Division of the West Bay Athletic League, return everyone but Johnson this year.

“Last year was disappointing,” said Heler, a 2000 alum of Gunn.

Senior Elle Kass is the most experienced player, solidifying the libero position.

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by John Reid enlo-Atherton High reached the state title match, Menlo School made it to the Northern California playoffs and Sacred Heart Prep reached the Central Coast Section semifinal round.

What can we expect as an encore from these volleyball powerhouses? Plenty. Most other local teams will be improved and all have players to watch.

The Bears (27-8 last year, 13-1 PAL Bay) return plenty of solid players, including reigning Bay Division MVP Jacqueline DiSanto, who made significant contributions to last year’s run to the state championship contest.

Setter Kirby Knapp, Alexa Roumeliotis, Lauren Heller and Eliza Grover all return. Coach Fletcher Anderson had a magical first year at M-A and looks to continue things this year. The Bears have reached the CCS title match in six of the previous seven years.

Sacred Heart Prep (19-11, 5-5) lost six quality seniors from a team that reached the CCS Division IV semifinals.

The Gators do return nine players to the fold, including seniors Annie Bair, Rachel Cheung, Samara Phillips, Natalie Zimits and Alexa Thomson.

Also back are junior Cate Desler, sophomores Ally Polverari and Alexa Bartlett and Caroline Caruso.

Mario Paglialunga is making sure Menlo School (23-8, 9-1) is ready for the arduous West Bay Athletic League Foothill Divi-

Menlo School’s Kristen Sellers returns at setter.

“Elle is our steadiest passer,” Heler said. “She is a big contributor on defense. Her serving has improved.”

Heler is high on sophomore outside hitter Alexis Stull.

“Alexis has been killing it,” Heler said. “She’s an excellent player.”

Heler plans on playing a 6-2 offense, meaning two setters will be on the floor at the same time. Senior Ashley Hu can play setter and outside hitter. Maddie McClellan and Rebecca Mak will compete for time on the floor at setter, possibly playing at the same time.

Samantha Gerber, a senior middle blocker, has battled concussion problems the past two seasons, but should be a factor for the Gators this season. Senior Gwen Cusing will see time at outside hitter.

“Our goal is to finish in the top two in league,” Heler said.

Extra motivation for the Gators this season is that they will play in Div. V of the Central Coast Section playoffs, based on enrollment.

“Division V should be a better matchup for us than Division IV,” Heler said.

Castilleja opens the season Thursday night with a 6:45 p.m. match at Fremont High in Sunnyvale.

Rick Riebhoff is in his second year as girls volleyball coach at Woodside Priory, but it very well could be called his 10th. Riebhoff headed the volleyball program at Priory from 2004 to 2011 before taking three years off. Riebhoff replaced Dustin Moore, who took over the program at Presentation in San Jose.

“I wasn’t planning on being back this soon, but I missed it,” Riebhoff said.

Amber Biddle Lindenstein is in her second year at Pinewood, having come over from Menlo School where she was the junior varsity coach. Both Riebhoff and Lindenstein are trying to rebuild their respective programs, Priory more so (continued on page 74)

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among the school’s top 10 in several career categories, including setter Madi Bugg, who is second all-time in assists behind only Bryn Kehoe.

“Those are the girls I came in with and it was tough not to be part of that strong bond,” Ajanaku said.

“But I am super excited with this group. The sophomores and freshmen bring great energy.”

It should be interesting to watch how Ajanaku and sophomore opposite hitter Hayley Hodson work together. Hodson, the national Freshman of the Year and AllAmerican a year ago, was the nation’s top recruit entering Stanford.

“We all know her ability. She’s pretty amazing,” Ajanaku said.

“I’m shocked at her maturity and the way she approaches the game.

Her effort and focus helps everybody. She’s such a great team player.”

Ajanaku brings a special, uplifting quality to the court that is difficult to explain but easy to see.

While missing a year due to a knee injury sustained during her stay

Hayley Hodson returns as the reigning national Freshman of the Year. with the U.S. national team in the summer of 2015, she became an unofficial coach.

“She stepped into that role more as a mentor,” Stanford senior setter Kelsey Humphreys said. “It was a good way for her to stay involved with everybody.”

Humphreys, who has also been involved with the national program,

starts the season as Stanford’s setter.

“I’m here to fight and play hard every day,” Humphreys said. “I make no assumptions. Madi and I pushed each other and she made me better.”

Ajanaku gives Stanford a formidable presence in the middle, where the 6-foot-8 redshirt junior

Merete Lutz returns following an All-American season.

Middle blocker may be the Cardinal’s strongest position, with redshirt junior Ivana Vanjak, sophomores Tami Alade and Alexis Froistad, redshirt freshman Courtney Bowen and freshman Audriana Fitzmorris all capable of producing at a high level. Q

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Sports FOOTBALL

Knights looking for improvement Pegley takes over as Menlo’s No. 1 QB

by Glenn Reeves he Menlo School football team is coming off a 6-5 season. There is plenty of hope for improvement in 2016.

Charlie Ferguson was the team’s leading offensive performer a year ago, rushing for 1,087 yards. He also led the team in tackles with 103 from his linebacker position, 75 solo, and returns for a senior season with high hopes.

“I’m really excited about this team,’’ Ferguson said. “It’s a great group of guys.’’

Plenty of attention is always focused on the quarterback in Menlo’s Run’n’Shoot offense. Hayden Pegley takes over this year.

“He’s very smart, a great decision maker,’’ Menlo coach Mark Newton said. “He’s got an accurate arm and good feet.’’

The Knights have a third standout on hand in lineman JH Tevis who had 14.5 sacks last season as a sophomore and 23 tackles for loss.

“An exceptional football player,’’ Newton said.

Newton went on to enumerate several other players expected to play key roles this season: RB/ LB Robert Lopez, a group of receivers and defensive backs that includes Jack McNally, Evan King, David Schmaier and Aidan Israelski. Ferguson mentioned junior Ty Corley as another player who has impressed in preseason drills.

Menlo went 2-3 in the Peninsula Athletic League Ocean Division a season ago. The PAL Ocean is a “B” league in the conceptual framework of the Central Coast Section. But last year the Ocean was much more like a B+ or A- league. The six teams in the PAL Ocean went a combined 29-9 in non-league play. Second-place Half Moon Bay went on to a 54-7 win over Pacific Grove in the CCS Division V championship game. Division champion Hillsdale advanced to the Division IV title

game before losing to Aptos.

Look for the Ocean to be the best CCS B division again this season. Hillsdale has moved up to the Bay with Sequoia moving down to take Hillsdale’s place.

Newton said he thought Half Moon Bay and The King’s Academy should be considered the favorites, while South San Francisco, Sequoia and Woodside are

also all legitimate threats.

Menlo wants to include itself among that group.

The Knights have a weak nonleague schedule that includes two teams from San Francisco’s AAA league -- Lincoln and Mission -- Carlmont from the PAL Lake and Harker. So they should

Cardinal

every every game last year. Sam Werner and Adam Mosharrafa also made starts for the Cardinal.

“There’s a sense of confidence knowing we got there last year,” Nana-Sinkam said. “Everybody is rooted in the culture of doing things the right way. Part of that is tuning into practices and doing the little things.”

Nana-Sinkam did not record a point in 1,896 minutes last year but he was a major reason Stanford recorded eight shutouts and why Epstein had a 0.63 goals against average.

“He’s a fantastic defender and exemplary character,” Gunn said of his team captain. “He represents great problems for the opposition.”

Baird was second on the team, to Morris, with 19 points.

“What’s helpful is that all the returners knew what it took last

year,” Baird said. “The big challenge is to repeat it.”

Langsdorf was second, to Morris, with seven goals last year.

Bashti added four goal, HilliardArce scored three times, Werner added a pair and Mosharrafa scored once. That’ nearly half of Stanford’s offensive production back.

“They understand the hard work it takes and have the belief that things are possible,” Gunn said. “These players know it can be done.”

Also back are senior midfielder Trevor Hyman, junior forward Bryce Marion, senior forward Adrian Alabi, sophomore defender Collin Liberty and junior goalkeeper Nico Corti.

The Cardinal has a solid core of redshirt freshman on hand, guys who may not have game experience yet but did practice with and

against the likes Morris and Vincent. They include defender Tanner Beason, midfielder Colin Hyatt and goalkeeper Charlie Furrer.

Menlo Park resident Marc Joshua leads a strong group of freshmen new to the program.

Jacobs, who attended the International High School of San Francisco, led Juventus in goals (17) last year.

“Marc creates time and space for himself in the middle and then ghosts into the box as a phenomenal attacking threat,” Gunn said.

Also new are midfielders Jared Gilbey, Kyle Casey, Quentin Chi and Derek Waldorf.

Gunn isn’t giving preseason polls much credence.

“It’s nice to get the pat on the back and it helps creates excitement and generates interest,” he said. “Other than that, two weeks in, no one cares.” Q

keep the girls together in 2016.

“Everything that could be a problem, was a problem,” Riebhoff said. “They had a lot of potential, but they didn’t click.”

Riebhoff said the outlook is much better for his club this year.

“It’s much better,” Riebhoff said. “We had more kids playing club than we’ve had in a long time.

Things are really looking up.”

“It’s going to be a lot better,” Sammie Sargent said. “Everyone on the team played club yearround. We’re more jelled this year than last year. It’s still a rebuilding year. We need to concentrate on getting a win.”

Crystal Springs Uplands-Hillsborough won the Skyline Division last year, but stayed down instead of moving up to the stronger Foot-

hill Division. Mercy-Burlingame came down, while Notre DameBelmont joined the Foothill Division, moving from the West Catholic Athletic League.

“The Skyline Division should be wide open,” Riebhoff said.

“That makes it fun.”

Lindenstein’s first year consisted of some growing pains.

“I came from coaching club and at Menlo, two very competitive programs, to a smaller program,” Lindenstein said. “There was a lot of growing on both our parts. The girls have a whole different love of the game. They play because they truly love it. That’s refreshing for this area.”

Pinewood has four key returners: junior setter/outside hitter Maddie Escher, senior OH/DS

Alia Rubaie, senior MB Gaby Krohn and junior OH Sarah Bares.

“We’re hoping to have Maddie just play outside hitter this year,” Lindenstein said.

Lindenstein has a fan in Rubaie.

“I love Amber,” Rubaie said.

“Amber pushes for dedication to the sport. She focuses on skills, but she focues on attitude. That’s important for an athlete, especially student-athletes. She cares a lot about our team.”

“Amber is more structured than the last coach we had,” Escher said. “She has everyone on the same page.”

Lindenstein feels her club can contend for the Skyline title.

“We’re hoping to win league,” Lindenstein said. “We were on the brink of making it to postseason

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coming into his own down the stretch.

Goalkeeper Andrew Epstein, a second team All-Pac-12 pick last season, also returns following one of the best seasons ever by a Stanford goalie.

In all, the Cardinal returns nine players who made at least one start, including six ho appeared in all 23 games.

“We graduated an excellent group who you can never really replace,” Gunn said. “But we do have new people with new skill sets. All we care about is who is in that position and how well they play.”

Returners Tomas Hillard-Arce, Drew Skundrich and captain Brian Nana-Sinkam also started

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than Pinewood. Both teams reside in the Skyline Division of the West Bay Athletic League.

Priory has some experienced players returning in junior middle blocker Sammie Sargent, senior setter Nadia Faisal and senior outside hitter Daniela Vivanco.

Sargent, daughter of Priory football coach Doug Sargent, will also play some outside hitter.

“Those are the main three, but there are some kids coming up who will be pretty good,” said Riebhoff, an alum of the long-defunct Blackford High in Santa Clara.

Priory had some internal strife last season, but Riebhoff is out to

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Date Sat. Sept. 2 Sept. 9 Sept. 16 Sept. 30 Oct. 7 Oct. 14 Oct. 21 Oct. 28 Nov. 4

Opponent Time vs. Lincoln 1 p.m. at Mission$ 7 p.m. at Harker 7 p.m. at Carlmont 7 p.m. *vs. Half Moon Bay 3:15 p.m. *at King’s Academy 7 p.m. *vs. South SF 3 p.m. *vs. Sequoia 3 p.m. *at Woodside 7 p.m. vs. SHP at Woodside 7 p.m. *PAL Ocean Division $ at Kezar, San Francisco

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MENLO FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

Menlo’s Charlie Ferguson ran for over 1,000 yards last year. go into PAL Ocean play with a good record. “(Pegley) had a great summer, looking real good in passing league,’’ Ferguson said.

“I’m super excited. There seems to be a totally different feeling.

We’re trying to establish our own name.’’ Q

STANFORD MEN’S SOCCER SCHEDULE Date Today Sunday Sept. 2 Sept. 4 Sept. 10 Sept. 16 Sept. 18 Sept. 23 Oct. 2 Oct. 6 Oct. 9 Oct. 13 Oct. 16 Oct. 20 Oct. 23 Oct. 27 Oct. 30 Nov. 11

Opponent Time vs. Penn State 5 p.m. vs. St. Mary’s 5 p.m. at Notre Dame 2:30 p.m. vs. Indiana at ND 4:30 p.m. vs. San Jose St. 7 p.m. vs. Harvard 8 p.m. vs. Omaha 7 p.m. at USF 7 p.m. vs. Cal* 5 p.m. at Washington* 7 p.m. at Oregon St.* 11 a.m. vs. San Diego St.* 7 p.m. vs. UCLA* 5 p.m. at San Diego St.* 7 p.m. at UCLA* 5 p.m. vs. Oregon St* 5 p.m. vs. Washington* 5 p.m. at Cal* 1:30 p.m. *Pac-12 Conference matches

play last year, but we didn’t have enough games.”

Priory kicks off the WBAL Skyline slate at Mercy-Burlingame on Sept. 8. Pinewood hosts The King’s Academy-Sunnyvale on Sept. 13. Mercy-Burlingame is at Castilleja, while Eastside Prep is at Priory.

Elsewhere, programs like MidPeninsula (5-10, 5-7) look to improve with returning players Faye Bandet, Rachel Kirkwood, Hana Dvorak and Shontelle Watkins.

Eastside College Prep (2-9) builds around Crystal Thomas and Vanessa Ibarra and Kehillah Jewish (2-11) looks to Sydney Goldman, Lauren Kelmer and Natalia Spritzer.

Note: Gunn was featured in last Friday’s print edition. Q

Sports

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Citizens Watchdog Committee on 2000 Measure A Program Expenditures

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

RESULTS OF INDEPENDENT COMPLIANCE AUDIT on FY 2015 2000 Measure A Program Expenditures

VTA is delivering transportation solutions that are critical to the vitality, prosperity and quality of life for all who live, work and play in Santa Clara County.

In November 2000, Santa Clara County voters approved Measure A, a 30-year half cent sales tax devoted to specified public transit capital improvement projects and operations. Most of the ballot-defined projects are massive and very complex, requiring years to plan, design and construct. Although in just the 9th year of a 30 year program (tax collection started mid-2006), VTA has achieved significant results toward meeting Measure A goals including: Bob Drebin/stanfordphoto.com

Ryan Burns will start Stanford’s game against Kansas State next Friday night.

Burns to start at quarterback over Chryst Paly grad “needs to get better every single day”

by John Reid and Stanford Athletics

S

enior Ryan Burns will be Stanford’s starting quarterback in the seasonopening contest against Kansas State. Director of Football David Shaw made the announcement after Wednesday’s practice.

Shaw said both the 6-5, 232-pound Burns and junior quarterback Keller Chryst would see action against the Wildcats.

“Ryan Burns will start and play a good chunk of the game,” said Shaw. “Keller Chryst will play as well. We’re going to play both guys and try to win a game.

“There hasn’t been a huge separation between the two,” Shaw said. “Both guys have played extremely well. Ryan has been enough ahead to get the nod.”

A science, technology and society major, Burns played in four games last season but did not throw a pass. He rushed for 13 yards.

His lone pass attempt in 2014

went for 13 yards against UC Davis, one of two contests in which the Leesburg, Virginia, native saw action.

“I need to get better every single day,” Chryst said. “Show the team I can lead them. I need to have some positive results. That’s about all I can do.”

Chryst was 5-of-9 for 59 yards and a touchdown in four games last year.

“We’re not thinking about it as competition at all,” Chryst said.

“We’re getting equal reps. Both of us are just trying to get better.”

Burns follows Kevin Hogan, the winningest starting quarterback in school history. In fact, Burns grew up less than 30 miles from Hogan’s hometown of McLean, Virginia.

Hogan led Stanford to three Pac-12 titles and was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fifth round of the NFL Draft. Q

Prep football

M-A FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

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player who bench pressed 350 as a freshman.’’

DE Dimitri Sakalia (6-4, 210) and LB John-Paul Gray are another couple of players expected to contribute defensively.

“A big part of last year was uncertainty,’’ Tussing said. “The whole team had to buy into the system. This year we have stability. We know what to expect.

We’ve set our team goals. The seniors call it the covenant. We put it on the board and all signed it.

We’ve come together as a unit, as a team, not as individuals.’’ Q

Date Today

Opponent at Bellarmine!

Time 7 p.m.

Sept. 3 vs. Marin Catholic

3 p.m.

Sept. 9 at SH Cathedral$

7 p.m.

Sept. 16 vs. Los Gatos

7 p.m.

Sept. 30 *vs. Terra Nova

7 p.m.

Oct. 7

*vs. Burlingame

Oct. 14 *at SH Prep

7 p.m.

3 p.m.

Oct. 21 *at Aragon

3 p.m.

Oct. 29 vs. Hillsdale

2 p.m.

Nov. 4

*vs. Woodside

7 p.m.

*PAL Bay Division ! at San Jose City College $ at Kezar, San Francisco

• Extending BART to the Santa Clara County cities of Milpitas, San Jose and Santa Clara, with the extension to Berryessa currently trending ahead of schedule and under budget • Extending and improving light rail service with projects such as the Mountain View Double-Track and Tasman Drive Pocket Track projects enabling enhanced service to the new Levi’s Stadium, Sunnyvale and Mountain View • Completion of environmental and planning to increase Caltrain service and electrify the system from Palo Alto to Gilroy.

VTA is fully committed to successfully delivering Measure A projects.

PUBLIC HEARING: The Citizens Watchdog Committee (CWC) for the 2000 Measure A Transit Sales Tax Program is holding a ballot-required public hearing on FY 2015 Measure A expenditures to receive input from the community:

Wednesday, September 7, 2016 at 6:00 p.m.

VTA Auditorium 3331 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95134 (This location is served by VTA Light Rail and Bus Line 58.)

The public is encouraged to attend but for those unable, written comments will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. on September 7 by email to: board.secretary@vta.org or by mail to: Office of the Board Secretary, 3331 N. First Street, Building B-1, San José, CA 95134-1927. Sign language and additional interpreter services will be provided upon request by contacting VTA Customer Service at least five days prior to the meeting at (408) 321-2300, TTY (408) 321-2330. Questions on the public hearing should be directed to: Stephen Flynn, Advisory Committee Coordinator, at (408) 321-5720 or to stephen.flynn@vta.org.

INDEPENDENT AUDIT: Fulfilling its ballot-defined responsibilities, the CWC commissioned an audit of the Measure A Program financial records and schedule for Fiscal Year 2015 (July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2015). Macias Gini & O’Connell LLP, independent certified public accountants, conducted the compliance audit in accordance with attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. They issued an unqualified (“clean”) opinion on Measure A Program compliance with the ballot, making this the tenth consecutive audit receiving a clean opinion. Copies of the audit results and other related reports are available at the locations stated above and at www.vta.org.

SANTA CLARA VALLEY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY 2000 Measure A Transit Improvement Program [A Fund of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority] Independent Accountant’s Report on Compliance Examination and Budgetary Comparison Schedule For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2015

Copies of Measure A Program documents and reports are available for public inspection from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays at 2000 Measure A the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) Transit Improvement Program offices at 3331 N. First Street, San Jose, CA in Citizens Watchdog Committee Summary on Fiscal Year 2015 the Building B lobby. They are also available for viewing at local public libraries and at VTA’s website: www.vta.org.

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