HomeMy WebLinkAbout2021-09-20 City Council EmailsAll the installations in the photos you’ve sent employ at least two Ericsson
Model 7601 units—that is, the same units that are to be used in the installations
approved in June in Palo Alto.
In terms of their appearance, none of these cell tower installations look like the
installation the Palo Alto Planning Department approved in June of this year.
Thank you again.
Jeanne
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net
650-325-5151
From: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 5:06 PM
To: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org;
Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org; 'Architectural Review Board' <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>;
chow_tina@yahoo.com; todd@toddcollins.org; wross@lawross.com
Subject: Re: Re FW: Other California Cities
Jeanne: Here is the final installment of photographs for existing Verizon Wireless
UWB 5G facilities in San Francisco, San Jose, and Cupertino, as you requested.
You’ll find the address from each site below with the corresponding node number.
The file name of each photograph contains the node number. In San Francisco, thecarriers met with the City and came up with a hexagon shroud design that
accommodates either AT&T or Verizon Wireless antennas. Cupertino adopted the
5.5-foot pole-top shroud similar to the Palo Alto design guidelines, which can
accommodate a variety of antennas. As noted earlier, San Jose prefers the Ericsson6701 radios/antennas without shrouding.
CupertinoCupertino 03410451 Miller Ave, Cupertino, CA 95014 Cupertino 03710160 Miller Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014 Cupertino 31010656 Amulet Place, Cupertino, CA 95014 Cupertino 33419782 Bixby Drive, Cupertino, CA 95014
San JoseSanJose East 043 1854 Waverly Avenue, San Jose, CA 95122 SanJose South 194 294 Senter Road, San Jose, CA 95111 SanJose East 005 1327 Terilyn Avenue, San Jose, CA 95122 SanJose West 1151055 Sherman Oaks Drive, San Jose, CA 95128 San Francisco 4G+5GPAC Heights PAC0662200 Jackson Street, SF, CA 94115 Marina MRN0243260 Baker Street, San Francisco, CA 94123 Marina MRN0093465 BRODERICK ST, San Francisco, CA 94123 PAC Heights PAC0692000 Jackson Street, SF 94115
I trust this is helpful and thank you for your interest in Verizon Wireless’s UWB 5G
network.
Paul
Paul Albritton
Mackenzie & Albritton LLP
155 Sansome Street, Suite 800
San Francisco, California 94104(415) 288-4000
pa@mallp.com
From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Date: Thursday, September 16, 2021 at 10:54 AM
To: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>, city.council@cityofpaloalto.org
<city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org
<Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org>, 'Architectural Review Board'
<arb@cityofpaloalto.org>, chow_tina@yahoo.com <chow_tina@yahoo.com>,
todd@toddcollins.org <todd@toddcollins.org>, wross@lawross.com <wross@lawross.com>,
hans.vestberg@Verizon.com <hans.vestberg@Verizon.com>,
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com <BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com>
Subject: Re: Re FW: Other California Cities
Dear Paul,
Thank you for your email.
Since there are so many approved sites with three Ericsson Model 6701 Units, I
would appreciate it if you would send me the addresses for a dozen or so that are
located in neighborhoods with single family homes in each of the three cities I asked
about—i.e., San Francisco, San Jose and Cupertino. Some of us in Palo Alto wouldlike to see what other residential neighborhoods look like with these cell towers.
Thanks very much. I appreciate that you’ll be responding later this week.
Sincerely,
Jeanne
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net650-325-5151
From: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 4:44 PM
To: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org;
Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org; 'Architectural Review Board' <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>;
chow_tina@yahoo.com; todd@toddcollins.org; wross@lawross.com; hans.vestberg@Verizon.com;
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com
Subject: Re: Re FW: Other California Cities
Jeanne: There are literally hundreds of approved sites with this radio configuration in
these jurisdictions. You are correct, each has a slightly different design based upon
local aesthetic regulations. I’ll follow up this week with a nearby example for you in
the jurisdictions you request.
Paul
Paul AlbrittonMackenzie & Albritton LLP
155 Sansome Street, Suite 800
San Francisco, California 94104
(415) 288-4000pa@mallp.com
From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 2:18 PM
To: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>, city.council@cityofpaloalto.org
<city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org
<Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org>, 'Architectural Review Board'
<arb@cityofpaloalto.org>, chow_tina@yahoo.com <chow_tina@yahoo.com>,
todd@toddcollins.org <todd@toddcollins.org>, wross@lawross.com <wross@lawross.com>,
hans.vestberg@Verizon.com <hans.vestberg@Verizon.com>,
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com <BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com>
Subject: Re FW: Other California Cities
Dear Paul,
Thank you for your email.
I would appreciate it if you would send me the addresses of the cell towers in San
Francisco, San Jose and Cupertino that you are referencing. I’d like to have look at
them, simply because, as you’ll recall, Verizon did not provide Palo Alto with a mock-up of the cell tower design the Planning Department approved in June.
More generally, what I understood you to say is that, while other cities have approved
cell tower designs for streetlamp poles that include three Ericsson Model 6701 units,
these installations, from the outside, do not look the same as the design approved by
the Palo Alto Planning Department. Please let me know if I am correct or not.
Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Jeanne
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net650-325-5151
From: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 6:30 PM
To: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org;
Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org; 'Architectural Review Board' <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>;
chow_tina@yahoo.com; todd@toddcollins.org; wross@lawross.com; hans.vestberg@Verizon.com;
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com
Subject: Re: Other California Cities
Jeanne: In June, the Palo Alto City Council approved Verizon Wireless’s placement of
two or three Ericcson model 6701 integrated radio/antennas on replacement City light
poles. While the small cable shrouds around the antennas are unique to Palo Alto, to
conform to the 2019 design guidelines, the use of three Ericcson model 6701s on
light standards is common in many California cities, including Oakland, SanFrancisco, San Jose, Cupertino, Bakersfield, Sacramento, Fresno, Long Beach, Los
Angeles, Fremont, San Diego, and many others.
I hope this helps.
Paul
P.S. I just found your prior email in my spam folder, thank you for following up.
Paul Albritton
Mackenzie & Albritton LLP
155 Sansome Street, Suite 800San Francisco, California 94104
(415) 288-4000
pa@mallp.com
From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 5:09 PM
To: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>, city.council@cityofpaloalto.org
<city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org
<Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org>, 'Architectural Review Board'
<arb@cityofpaloalto.org>, chow_tina@yahoo.com <chow_tina@yahoo.com>,
todd@toddcollins.org <todd@toddcollins.org>, wross@lawross.com <wross@lawross.com>,
hans.vestberg@Verizon.com <hans.vestberg@Verizon.com>,
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com <BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com>
Subject: FW: Other California Cities
Dear Mr. Albritton,
Below you will find my email to you of August 27, 2021, which I am resending with the
thought that you may not have received it.
To repeat my question, I’d appreciate it if you could tell me whether Verizon’s cell
tower design approved by Palo Alto’s Planning Department in June of this year hasbeen approved in any other cities and, if so, which ones. If you do not have this
information, I would appreciate it if, as Verizon’s attorney, you could direct me to
someone who can answer my question.
If you are unwilling to answer to my question—if it is the policy of Verizon to withhold
the information I am seeking from the residents of cities in which it is applying to
install cell towers—kindly tell me so.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
Jeanne Fleming
Jeanne Fleming, PhD
JFleming@Metricus.net650-325-5151
From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2021 5:01 PM
To: pa@mallp.com
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org;
Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org; 'Architectural Review Board' <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>;
chow_tina@yahoo.com; todd@toddcollins.org; wross@lawross.com
Subject: Other California Cities
Dear Mr. Albritton,
As you know, Palo Alto’s Planning Director, Jonathan Lait, recently approved three
new Verizon cell towers to be located in residential zones (PLN20-00118), cell towers
in which two or three bulbous sets of antennae perch on top of a slender streetlamp
pole.
Palo Alto’s Planning Department tells me they do not know if any other California
cities have approved this design. Hence I’m hoping you can tell me if the design hasbeen approved elsewhere and, if so, where—or that, as Verizon’s attorney, you can
direct me to someone who can answer this question.
.
Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Jeanne Fleming
Jeanne Fleming, PhD
JFleming@Metricus.net
From:Keri Wagner
To:Council, City
Cc:Keri Wagner
Subject:NVCAP report: biking considerations
Date:Monday, September 20, 2021 10:49:10 AM
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Dear Council Members —The most recent NVCAP report considers fully the development options for the area, however not much time wasleft for the committee to really consider a rail/Alma separated bike crossing in the North Ventura area. Theseparated bike/ped crossing in North Ventura is especially critical given that staff is proposing a reduction to therequired on-site parking for these developments. If parking requirements are reduced, more cars could be pushed topark on the streets which would degrade bike safety.
Given the severe shortage of park space currently existing in and planned for the Ventura neighborhood, a separatedbike/ped crossing becomes more critical for children and families who must bike farther for park-like amenities. Thebike/ped crossing in Ventura will also grant easier access for bikes to connect North Ventura with Midtownshopping and cafes, the Mitchell Park Library with its community center and wide variety of recreationalopportunities, and the Charleston Shopping Center.
The City has a rare opportunity when developing the North Ventura area, which is the chance to improve bikeconnectivity for South Palo Alto residents and to provide a long-awaited separated bike/ped crossing, of which thereare none in South Palo Alto. A separated bike/ped crossing in North Ventura also allows safer bike connectivity andhelps abate the impact to bikes and pedestrians during the construction of the grade separations at EastMeadow/Alma and East Charleston/Alma.
I am a resident of Charleston Meadows and I strongly urge Council to fund a study of where to build this separatedbike/ped crossing, and how to mitigate the impact to bikes and pedestrians during the multi-year construction whichwill take place in North Ventura and at the two rail crossings.
Thank you,Keri WagnerEdlee AvePalo Alto
650-740-7964
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From:Susan Usman
To:Council, City
Subject:Item # 8 - At Places Memo
Date:Monday, September 20, 2021 7:36:35 AM
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Dear Mayor and Council Members,
I’m not sure how this item got on your agenda. It has nothing to do with the work the NVCAP working group has
done trying to determine the best use of the “Fry’s" space for the citizens of the city of Palo Alto. Please, please
don’t sell out to a big developer!! We need to develop this land for the betterment of our community. Sobrato is
just seeing $$$. They don’t care about quality of life in this part of the city. The NVCAP working group and the
general citizens of Palo Alto need to be able to study this new proposal.
Thank you,
Susan Usman
Triple El
I don't know what she is talking about when she says the State is spending $275,000times 640,000 new homes with SB9.
She mentions infrastructure that will be needed when this happens. What cities are
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the rights of applicants or other interested parties to respond to information contained in orattached to a Staff Report.
-Fred Balin
9/19/21
On Sep 19, 2021, at 5:49 PM, Margaret Heath <maggi650@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Mayor DuBois and City Council Members:
Please postpone discussion of the two proposals being offered in the At
Places Memo for City Council’s discussion about NVCAP at the 9/20/21
meeting.
I am particularly disappointed that staff continues to present council
members with late-breaking "at places memos" containing substantive
new information. A practice completely contrary to council policy thatsuch documents must be made available to the public at large a specificnumber of days ahead of any council action. Substantive late information
should automatically trigger postponement of any council discussion
until this requirement is met.
Not only do "at places memos" do a major disservice to council
members who are not given the courtesy of sufficient advance notice to
fully consider any ramifications, this practice contributes to theappearance of secrecy and collusion to subvert council policy for thebenefit of specific individuals or companies. Which continues to
severely undermine public trust.
In this particular case, the applicant's proposals offer major departuresaway from the intent of the NVCAP working group’s findings. These are
major not minor concerns. Consideration of any development on this
property should be postponed until the issue of how much, if any,
commercial development vs housing is resolved.
This proposal is particularly galling to our friends and neighbors who
gave thousands of hours in service to crafting a new vision for North
Ventura. I am particularly disappointed that staff presented this late-breaking information instead of pulling the item from the agenda.
Unfortunately, this gives all the appearance of a thinly disguised attempt
to undermine NVCAP's work and manipulate the outcome in favor of the
applicant.
Thank you for your attention,
margaret heath
2140 cornell street.
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From: mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com>Date: September 19, 2021 at 12:30:39 PM PDTTo: Bob Lefsetz <bob@lefsetz.com>Subject: Re: Touring Snapshot
I just promoted 11 shows in 8 days, free outdoors in PaloAlto, my company donating talent and production as aloss leader, at noon and 5 twice daily, except 25 hourdonut hole for Yom Kippur. Hoping to go back indoors Nov 20 with BarbaraManning and the SF Seals (Matador Records) and TheCorner Laughers (produced by Allen Clapp and WesleyStace pka John Wesley Harding), but half house whichfor us is 100 cap, $2,500 gross potential— still a lossleader. Mark Weiss Dba Earthwise Productions
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On Sep 18, 2021, at 7:00 PM, Bob Lefsetz<bob@lefsetz.com> wrote:
Every show has to play. If a band member,even a member of the entourage, getsinfected with Covid-19 it's a disaster.
Don't expect the hoi polloi to understandtouring, after all they can't understandticketing, not even the government canunderstand ticketing, the public thinks thatTicketmaster gets all the fees and thescalpers are such good lobbyists that electedofficials end up with a skewed vision of thelandscape and no regulations are put intoplace. But it gets even more complicated, inmany cases promoters are in bed with the
secondary market, offloading a chunk oftickets reduces their risk. Confused yet?
So the bottom line is these acts that
barnstorm across the country, from arena toarena...it's not four guys in a station wagon.
It's trucks, carrying production, never mindother infrastructure, both physical and
human. It's a business. So, you spend a lot tomake a lot. Now more than ever. Belief is
the audience won't put up with a show that'sonly four guys on stage and that's it, that at
these ticket prices people expect, demandproduction, I'm not sure that is true, but
that's the standard of the industry, that's theway it is. So, the numbers are big. Let's say
you play twenty dates. At best only the lastfive are profitable. The previous fifteen,
even if they all sell out, are all aboutrecovering costs.
Don't feel too bad for the acts, the
percentage looks bad on the surface, butthose last five dates can be EXTREMELY
profitable. But if you have to cancel a few ofthe twenty for Covid reasons, you're
screwed.
This is the dance that's being done now.Especially since acts have gone on the road
and encountered this, Kiss and the DoobieBrothers had to shut down, and other
performers too. For those acts now on thesidelines, getting ready to go...
So you think the business is back, but the
truth is it's still in flux.
But one thing is for sure, the acts that are outthere, the big ones, have Covid protocols
that will blow your mind. Bottom line, you
may work for the band and be unable to seethem perform. You've got to stay in the
bubble. To make sure the tour can go on,that there are no blips on the radar screen.
The truth is everybody needs the money, but
some need it more than others. Meaningthere are acts that do less than arena
business, who are willing to take the risk,otherwise they're going to go broke. But not
all of them. I was speaking to a musicianwho pulled his tour because it was just too
dangerous, he played a couple of dates andthen went home. Then again, the next dates
on the schedule were in the southeast, hedidn't want to play Russian Roulette.
And then there are the no-shows.
This is a phenomenon previously unseen at
this level. People who bought tickets but justwon't show up, because they're afraid of
getting Covid. They don't want to risk theirlives for a couple of hundred bucks. The
truth is almost nobody wanted their moneyback from shows canceled in 2020, they
held on to their tickets, but now that thedates are playing...some are unsure.
And these people staying home, writing off
the cost of tickets, tend to be older. So actsthat appeal to this demo take a higher risk in
business. Does it make sense to put up a tournow?
What we do know is the fifteen to forty year
olds will all show up. Except maybe forthose older in the demo who have kids and
are afraid of getting Covid and infectingthem. This generation feels invulnerable,
they believe they won't get infected and if
they do they'll live through it, willy-nilly. Sothey'll show up. Then again, do the acts
want to tour everywhere these people are?Already there are acts avoiding certain
states. The more unvaccinated, the more thevaccinated are wary of going.
But it gets even worse. It's not only
restaurants that can't get help, this ishappening in touring too. Sometimes despite
being hired, workers just don't show up. Andthe workers are in control, you can say
you're going to fire them because the truth isyou're begging them to come at all.
So at some gigs the concession stands can't
be fully open. There are fewer merch tables.It's kinda like Brexit, the surface issues are
obvious, you think you're immune to theconsequences, and then you wake up and
you realize you're caught in the quagmiretoo.
So what is going to happen?
So, Covid infection rates should get worse
as the temperature drops. This iscomplicated. But the more your indoors, the
higher the odds of infection. That's one ofthe reasons the south was hit so hard this
summer, because it's so hot and they allretreated inside into the air conditioning.
But will the tours be impacted, will they
stop?
Well like I said, the performers are creatingleakproof bubbles. Because no one can get
infected, it ruins the economics of the wholetour.
As for checking vaccination status...
That varies from gig to gig. I hear constantly
from people who say their vaccine card wasonly barely checked, if at all. They flash
their phone, the ticket taker barely glancesand they're in. Then I know other shows
where the promoter hires a whole new teamjust to check vaccination status, even asks
patrons to show their driver's license tocross-check the information.
Now you can't even do that in every market.
Hell, if Texans are beating up the hostess ata restaurant in New York for asking their
vaccination status, imagine what it would belike at a gig, where someone has already
committed, already paid for their ticket.
Bottom line, the touring business is going toan all vaxxed model, there's just too much at
risk. It's not a matter of politics, it's a matterof economics. Furthermore, promoters have
the right to do this. Then again, neverunderestimate the long arm of the law to get
involved but...the bottom line is mostgovernments want shows to play, for their
economic reasons, it brings money into thecommunity.
No one can state definitively how it will
play out, but these are the issues.
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" A lot of people aspire to home ownership. If we overemphasize the development ofdense living, that typically is not for ownership. It's for renting".
A SECOND institute at UC Berkeley says this re how this would play out: "It's like
trying to predict the path of a balloon in a tornado".
LH- I suspect that other institute there, the one saying only 5.4% of res. lots aresuitable for development, may have been set up and paid for by some rich developers in New
York. It's called disinformation. Tamps down opposition. Recall what P.T. Barnum said.
The bill does not require affordable housing. LH- Wow. that makes a difference. Thebill won't produce more affordable housing. It would just produce more housing.
An amendment aims to control speculation- that is the requirement that the owner live
on the property for 3 years after he develops it. That is to deter big developers from buying upa bunch of single fam homes and building 2 duplexes on each lot. BTW, how do the rich
developers convince home owner's to sell? WELL, Cagney said in a movie in the 30s that"money talks".
That 5.4% of single family parcels that can do this. How derived? 410,000 parcels in
Calif. "realistic to develop" divided by 7.5 million single family homes in the state.
"The typical property owner could not afford to build a second unit, much less a third orfourth. Also, the new split lot must be 1200 sq. feet (each)".
LH- SB9 will be challenged in the courts, up to the SC. Maybe having a bunch of
conservatives on the court will help us here.
L. William Harding Fresno
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From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>Date: Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 2:35 AM
Subject: Fwd: 5.4% of current sing. fam. lots have potential to be developed under SB9To: Doug Vagim <dvagim@gmail.com>, David Balakian <davidbalakian@sbcglobal.net>,
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From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>Date: Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 2:31 AM
Subject: 5.4% of current sing. fam. lots have potential to be developed under SB9To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>
Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021
Mr. Doug Vagim
Doug- This says that only 5.4% of single family lots in Calif. have the potential to be
developed under SB9, producing ~744,000 new residences.
What SB 9 housing law means for single-family zoning in your neighborhood – PressEnterprise (pe.com)
Is your house among the 5.4%? Still, I do not like this. Newsom signed this two
days after he survived the recall. Not one word about it from him during the run-up. Man, thatis integrity. The whole thing flew under the radar. Not a word about it in the media for the past
year, and more. You warned me about it ~two weeks ago.
How much don't I like this? Newsom is a snake. I'll work to get him out in 2022. Thatson of a bitch. He's a rich punk, You know, of course, that Nancy Pelosi is his aunt. Notice
that she didn't come to California to support him.
BTW, the guy who really started the recall said that he heard that Democratic friendsand relatives were leaning toward voting to recall Newsom, but that Elder's rise to the top of
the challengers caused them to vote no on the recall. So Elder really saved Newsom! How'sthat for a political legacy?
I could not believe that neither Elder nor anyone else tore into Newsom about thewildfires that ravage California for about 8 months every year now. Could not believe it.Newsom has done not a damn thing to control the fires. He announced a few more crews and a
few more trucks and aircraft for CalFire ~ six mos. ago. You recall that I have been calling for50 of the 747 Super tankers like the Global Supertanker that Calif. rents from a private party in
Colorado for $16,000 per hour now and then. It can deliver 19,200 gal. of water/ retardant ona fire per trip. Think of what 50 of those could do on these big fires. If they cost $100 million
to buy and convert, 50 would be $5 billion. We give that away every year to a couple ofcountries in the Middle-East.
Research the health impact of breathing wildfire smoke. Sure, HAs, asthma, lung c.
But the one I like is fibrosis of the lungs. The lungs lose their elasticity, become tough andfibrous, and the victim can't get air. Only cure would be double lung transplant, easy to
arrange. One year when California was buning up, Dr. Jon LaPook said on the CBS networknews that wildfire smoke contains 5,000 chemicals and elements- paint, pesticides, asbestos,
etc. How many of those do you think might be carcinogens? Probably at least 5 ior 10. Anydiscussion of the health impact by Newsom of the fires? Not one word. That bastard. He
treats a million acre fire in the Sierra, and the resulting smoke Californians must breath forweeks on end, like a report on snowpack in the Sierra.
I may convert to a Republican. I may vote for Elder in 2022, except that he is so stupid.
L. William Harding
Fresno, Ca.
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The Orange County Human Relations Commission found a 19-fold
increase in attacks against Asians Americans, reports the Los
Angeles Times.
The findings analyzing attacks in 2020 mirrors a statewide report
which found a 107% increase in hate incidents against Asians.
“When there are spikes, when there are increases, we have seen an
increase locally for anti-Asian hate,” Mary Anne Foo, executive
director of the Orange County Asian Pacific Islander Community
Alliance, said to the Voice of OC.
Foo says part of the spike can be blamed not only on the pandemic,
but the rising anti-China sentiment in national and international
politics.
Supervisor Katrina Foley says this sentiment is also reflected in
comments made by the public during Board of Supervisor meetings.
“We hear speakers that, in my opinion, that are often making
comments that are truly bigoted and connecting COVID with
communism,” Foley said. “The public health response to COVID is
somehow related to communism and tying it to China. It’s very sad
to see that happening. I know that [OC Health Officer Dr. Clayton
Chau] has taken the brunt of it, (Board) Chairman [Andrew] Do as
well.”
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entire six years on the board, but it has increased of late.
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that fire, legitimized the fringe elements to come out, and and if
anything, feel more legitimate,” said Do who is a Republican. “They
feel like, hey, maybe these racist thoughts that I have are not so out
of the ordinary, if people at the very top talk the way I do.”
The Times reports Black people make up less than 2% of Orange
County’s population, but were the most targeted. Asian Americans
were the most frequently targeted.
“It really goes without saying that there is a lot of work to be done in
our county and across the country,” said Nhi Nguyen, the hate crime
prevention coordinator for the Orange County Human Relations
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Illustration for the shaping of Japantown
Chronicle photo illustration
San Francisco’s Japantown is a visitor attraction centered on the
Japanese Center, ramen shops, Ruth Asawa’s sculptures, bookshop
Kinokuniya and the many Japanese-import stores. But it wasn’t
always so. The neighborhood we see now is the product of a
complicated history of racism, segregation and displacement. As a
consequence, it has long been a home to marginalized San
Franciscans struggling for recognition, community and a safe place
to call their own.
To tell the story of Japantown is to tell a tale of almost constant
crisis.
Japantown was born from the crisis left by the great earthquake and
fire of 1906. As one of the few districts to survive the devastation,
the Western Addition suddenly found its once quiet, middle-class
quarters crammed with most of the city’s displaced residents.
Japanese Americans were among those who sought refuge there. As
the years passed, white San Franciscans moved out of the
neighborhood or rebuilt homes elsewhere. But Japanese migrants
and their children were hemmed in by virulent racist violence,
racially restrictive housing covenants, and, as The Chronicle
reported, zoning laws specifically written to “keep the Japanese
population where it is.”
Like all Asian migrants at the time (and only Asian migrants)
Japanese were prohibited from naturalization by the Supreme Court
decision Ozawa vs. United States (1922). Without citizenship, they
lacked a political voice to protect their interests. This was the origins
of, as it was called at the time, “Nihonjinmachi (Japanese People
Town),” “Japanesetown,” or “Japtown,” the latter by this very
newspaper.
Prior to World War II, despite their struggles with racism, Japanese
Americans created a rich community in Japantown. The
neighborhood held hundreds of Japanese-owned businesses and
ethnic organizations, including Yabuno Brothers Grocery, Benkyodo
confectionary, the Japanese YWCA, employment companies and the
Fuji Hotel for migrant laborers passing through town. Unlike in
Chinatown, these institutions primarily served the local ethnic
community with little interest in tourists.
World War II, however, upended this stasis in Japantown. The
immediate aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor left
“everyone in a daze in Jap Town,” according to an observing
sociologist, as white gawkers flocked to the neighborhood and FBI
agents rounded up hundreds of “suspect” Japanese men — none of
whom were ever convicted of espionage or sabotage.
By May 20, 1942, all Japanese Americans except those too ill to
safely move were expelled from the city. Japantown’s former
inhabitants were held first at the Tanforan racetrack assembly center
in San Bruno, in quickly constructed barracks or hastily vacated
horse stalls, often with flies or manure whitewashed to the walls. By
October of that year, most were moved behind barbed wire and
armed guards at the Topaz incarceration camp in the Utah desert.
Japantown’s fragile community persisted through this trauma and
loss. Federal policy kept neighbors together in these camps to
“preserve desirable institutions,” an astonishingly ironic ambition.
During and after the war, some residents resettled in other parts of
the country, but many survivors eventually returned to Japantown.
They returned to find a neighborhood fundamentally changed from
the “dismal stretch of yesterday known as Japtown,” as legendary
columnist Herb Caen described it in 1942. The vacancies left by
Japanese Americans had filled quickly, especially by segregated
Black defense workers seeking well-paid jobs and respite from Jim
Crow in the Bay Area’s defense industry.
The “Japanese area became San Francisco’s Harlem in a matter of
months,” in poet and former San Franciscan Maya Angelou’s words.
Japanese Americans returning from incarceration thus joined a
thriving Black community. And it stayed that way for years. In 1950,
Japanese Americans made up less than 16% of Japantown’s
population (although this was about two-thirds of all Japanese San
Franciscans) and African Americans 34%.
The Black Emmanuel Church of God in Christ was on the same
block as the Japanese Presbyterian Church. The famed jazz club
Jimbo’s Bop City and the legendary Black promoter Charles
Sullivan’s music shop were steps from the Nippon Pool Room and
Five Star Fountain. Old institutions also regrew in this new
environment: language schools, social clubs, Azumaya Tofu, Suzuki
Apartments, Gosha-do Bookstore and more.
The multiracial residents (including Chinese American, Filipino and
Jewish residents) gave the neighborhood a vibrant life. But wartime
conditions and postwar segregation had taken their toll on the
development environment. Japantown’s population had increased
15% during the war, with segregation exacerbating a citywide
housing shortage. White absentee landlords had subdivided already
tight quarters to accommodate wartime arrivals, and the demand
offered little incentive for maintenance. Further, while the 1948
Supreme Court case Shelly vs. Kraemer struck down racially
restrictive housing covenants, long-held traditions of discrimination
proved far more enduring. Racist violence against people of color
integrating white neighborhoods discouraged out-migration through
the 1950s. Philanthropist Tomoye Takahashi recalled a shot fired
into her house after her family bought in the then lily-white
Richmond District in 1955.
Already hemmed in by state-sanctioned racism and white
supremacist violence, Japantown’s third crisis arrived when city
officials announced they would clean up the “slum conditions” of the
Western Addition, whose area included most of the commercial and
residential heart of Japantown. Residents were more aware than most
of their neighborhood’s dilapidated condition, but their long history
with discrimination convinced many that the proposed
redevelopment “might eventually clear out all minority groups,” as
Progressive News and Press editor Michi Onuma predicted in 1948.
“Having experienced the 1942 evacuation,” another Japantown
newspaper, the Pacific Citizen, editorialized, residents “now feel that
the redevelopment plan may in actuality be a final evacuation.”
That skepticism was well founded.
Despite both vigorous challenges to the redevelopment program by
the community and determined efforts at preservation, 27 blocks
including Japantown’s and formerly housing over 6,000 people were
largely demolished by the late 1950s. A second redevelopment
program destroyed much of another 62 blocks with 13,000 residents
over the following decades.
Even as the Japanese American population grew to almost 12,000 in
San Francisco, “renewal” decimated their numbers in Japantown to
less than 2,000 by 1970. Businesses were forced to leave or fold:
Post Pool Hall, Takahashi Trading Co., Nakagawa Apartments,
Kik’s Smoke Shop, N.B. Department Store, Evergreen Fountain,
Hori Employment Agency, Yamato Auto Repair and so many others.
Hotels like the Aki and Fuji — that housed aging Japanese
bachelors, worn down by a lifetime of poorly paid migrant labor and
whose final work years had been swallowed by incarceration —
were shuttered, leaving many of their residents to join the ranks of
the unhoused.
The struggle for affordable housing is nothing new to poor San
Franciscans, in Japantown or elsewhere.
Redevelopment filtered out these vulnerable people and businesses,
leaving only a highly select community by the 1970s. The crown
jewel of the district’s first redevelopment program was the Japanese
Center, a complex for Japanese goods and services conceived around
connections with the booming Japanese economy. Japanese
American businesses that could adapt to the Center’s focus on
tourism survived. Their owners joined with other property-owners,
professionals and community investors to create Nihonmachi, a
hard-won commercial and residential renewal project just north of
the Japanese Center, which housed stable businesses, professional
practices and market-rate housing.
But this success came at the expense of low-income residents and
many non-touristic small proprietorships.
Japantown’s transformation from ethnic community to tourist
economy did not occur without struggle, among participants
themselves as well as their critics. For low-income residents,
vulnerable shop owners and the Japanese American activists who
organized with them in the late 1960s and 1970s, this transformation
carried a dreadful foreboding: a community dependent on the
performance of a particularly palatable version of Japanese culture -
one that could accommodate little heterogeneity and would be
forever dependent on visitors’ dollars and expectations.
This vexing compromise, negotiated in a constricted set of options,
has maintained San Francisco’s Japantown as one of only three
remaining Japantowns in the United States — out of what had been
dozens. Its inherent vulnerability remains all-too apparent to those
who know its history.
The current debate over housing revives troubling questions of how a
community economy can survive, or who can live in Japantown.
History does not point us in any particular direction, but community
members’ hesitations arising from this complicated history must not
be dismissed. And neither must the needs of today’s unhoused San
Franciscans, whose own lineage of marginalization likely has roots
in the neighborhood.
Meredith Oda is the author of “The Gateway to the Pacific:
Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco.”
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classified sources as a victim witness. that's what Diva is trained to do. That's what theywant..they want diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman..to stay without children never become a Sura.
What is a Sura? Surah-Al Rahman. They don't want that for Diva.. Diva Jobs aka Diva Leeaka Dilma Coleman has 0 excuses to solve homicides and the prevention of violent crimes.
Diva says that These dangerous Narcissistic individuals need to be arrested for the death ofKhalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi..and others...etc. as of today September 18,2021. Diva has been
Victimized with GHB and she finally can prove it and explain how she got pregnanted in2020,2021( rewind back to how Hunter Biden got Diva Lee pregnant when Diva was age 11)
the geographic locations and who were the sexual predators..now Diva could explain how thatGHB was used again and again whereas when Diva had the baby those who removed it placed
that baby into a adoption. argue it. DIVA's eyes are opening...argue it.
Diva Lee says that Carl Gully is treated by Sophia Vaughn of Patterson CA. That couple areresponsible for the stolen ashes of Maddy Middleton. More info about The Death of Maddy
Middleton what led to it diva could Argued it.Pay Diva to argue. What the heck ya doing inSan Jose police homicide department? That's what I am saying. What Diva ain't gonna do is
allow some other Santa Cruz CA police detectives to claim the victory whereas all the legwork has be done by Diva Lee. Argue it That Vaughn family in Patterson CA Are dangerous
Narcissistic doing various crimes thus they are Vigilantes with a Morman based religiousbeliefs..JW.org is next...on their videos,music and that city of Dover, Delaware that counseling
businesses to end drug addictions is blah blah blah. Argue it. If u have a difficulty followingDIVA's emails then ya know u need a sure thing.. that's on the straight n narrow. Argue it.
Sophia Vaughn her daughter Remi Lewis did remove a baby from DIVA's aka Dilma
Coleman's vagina. Argue it. Sophia instructed Remi over the phone on how to remove a babyfrom DIVA's vagina..then when Sophia saw Dilma Sophia yelled Braid my hair Dilma. Argue
it.Then arrest them. It's not Klay sculpting..aka Clay imported from Egypt.
What have the SJ police department versus the Dallas Police Chief Eddie does what? Argueit. Diva Lee been Victimized with that GHB and that amount whoever administered that drug
to Diva Lee need to be assassinated ASAP. Let's create an audience to assassinate themsimilar to how Saddam Hussein was assassinated in front of a paying audience. Let's sell them
tickets for that event starting now. Should I argue for Oakland PD homicide department toadd their names to a raffle..and shuffle them names as if it was a dance party to solve a phrase
on a white board. Stop the corrupt individuals in the Oakland police department those in gangunit, Narcotics and homicides. Argue it.
Patterson CA girl Remi had a previous engagement and she had a position with San Jose
Conservation Corps. Remi a former resident of Fremont,CA San Jose,CA and current residentof Patterson CA. Argue it. Remi's voice is in music on songs by Ella Mai..dubbed for Spotify
listeners. Argue it. Why is Spotify music dubbed? That's ain't cool.
At this point, the law enforcement agents in the U.S California alone needs to arrestimmediately those who Victimized with sexual Assaults on Diva Lee. Especially arrest those
who are using hypnosis sorcerery spells to Victimized Diva Lee. At this point Diva Lee akaDilma Coleman does not understand the use of GHB so she Google it. Now Diva Lee
understand that the Children been Victimized, with sexual Assaults and thrown intoAccidents.
Attachment 3 & 5. Why did this happen? Who really killed Maddy Middleton and why was
Adrian Victimized and forced to use a set of words to describe it and admit it. U gonna need tounderstand what Carl Gully is to Santa Clara county DA Jeff Rosen. Yes they are homosexual
lovers since the 1980's. Argue it. U gonna need to kill Donald Harris and his Cohorts. Whykill Kamala Harris's father. Why? Based on his past, the attacks he made on Diva Lee, the
financial attacks his daughter Kamala Harris made on Diva Lee the past 20+ years. Argue it. DIVA's analysis of how she feels today about those drugs addictions of Kamala Harris yes the
cocaine why Her dad Donald Harris argues about His daughter's usage with Marijuana..is nothis truthful acknowledgement
..those who smoke cavey( cocaine and cigerettes) diva seen them at Little Orchard homeless
shelter. Diva aka Dilma did live there the past 6 months.
Diva Lee aka Diva Jobs a former narcotics.agent. ok with Berkeley CA police. Hurry up.That's what I am saying. Diva Lee aka Dilma don't know the cause and effects on drugs until
she got around San Jose Conservation Corps individuals. What the heck. Diva Lee isn'tgulliable she is with infallible proofs that Biden Harris presidential cabinet specialized in GHB
took money..and it's not likely that Harris Biden Presidential cabinet should be anymore.
Diva Lee aka Dilma is shocked about being VICTIMIZED by individuals around her whoused GHB.
Attachment #1 & 2 & 3. If Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi is really dead. Arrest the individualsat Little Orchard homeless shelter..those who killed him used that GHB on him.. The guy
didn't have a drug addiction. Ok. Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi had a successful businesswhereas in the past he frequently photographed Diva. Who else wanted to kill Khalid bin
Sultan Al Qasimi with drugs. And those who did used hypnosis on Khalid. No it was thatGHB ..as if Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi believe it was a scene in a movie. .
.yes Diva Lee witnessed it. Diva Lee didn't understand how she arrived in London..what the
heck. Was the murder of Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi staged elsewhere? What type ofAssaults was used on Diva Lee aka Diva Jobs whereas a flight from San Jose,CA to London
diva didn't feel a thing. Yet Diva complains about being VICTIMIZED sexually from men incurrent homeless shelter. Those men were at the party with Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi..who
in the heck keeps diva Lee Victimized with those who are doing sorcerery spells hypnosis andthat is why Diva says that San Jose homeless shelter is a hub..for the worst. What is GHB?
Diva Lee aka Dilma just realized that those around her had Victimized her with GHB. DivaLee was drugged up by GHB sexually physically assualted. Then they used GHB on Diva Lee
aka Dilma and she had a baby..she realized 5 weeks later. ..that she is trapped by theworst..serial killers in San Jose CA. Those individuals Victimized Diva Lee aka Dilma year
after year.
From:Elizabeth Arndorfer
To:Council, City
Subject:Street Closures
Date:Saturday, September 18, 2021 10:35:57 AM
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Dear Honorable City Council members,
I am writing to oppose your recent decision to reopen University Ave (and future intention to reopen California
Ave).
My understanding is that the decision was based on 2 factors: (1) negative impact of street closures on retail
businesses; and (2) anticipated impact of commuters when return to office ramps up. If I have misunderstood I
would greatly appreciate a document to review to better my understanding.
I won’t pretend that I know the ins and outs of this issue, but I do care about Palo Alto and it’s ethos as a liveable
city. The street closures have provided an intimacy and freedom that this City lacked since I moved here 17 years
ago. It feels smaller; I saw people - friends, acquaintances, colleagues. I interacted in a way that the pandemic had
limited. In short, it was great for our community’s mental and social health. It improved quality of life
tremendously.
I doubt reopening University Ave will bring back retail shoppers. There is a larger change going on that the
pandemic accelerated shifting shopping online. Moreover, by reopening the streets, I would not be surprised if fewer
people come to University Ave, harming both retailers and restaurants.
As for commuters, if that is really a reason, I wonder why university is being used by commuters at all.
Please reconsider your decision about University Ave and please do NOT reopen California Ave.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Arndorfer
3505 Laguna Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94306
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hosted deeply offensive content that was sexist, racist, and totally unacceptable to thestandards of our community. The account also elevated subversive memes thatcriticized the policies and cultural changes that have made OPD a nationally recognizedleader in progressive, constitutional policing. The creator of the offensive accountappeared to be intimately familiar with the department, and specifically the crimereduction teams, or CRTs. Since it was clear there was a possibility that the account hadbeen created by a current employee, the situation warranted an immediateinvestigation. Due to the account holder’s familiarity with CRTs, the investigation began with everyofficer who served in those units, individuals located in specialized units, and everyofficer in patrol and investigative units who intersected with those officers.Investigators took the unannounced action to seize more than 140 work phones fromthese Oakland police officers. Investigators scraped the content and online historiesfrom all of those phones. To ensure the integrity of the inquiry, Mayor Libby Schaaf and City Administrator EdReiskin took immediate action to hire a third-party independent investigator. Theinvestigator’s directives were to expose the account’s creator through IT records anddetermine if any current Oakland employees had engaged with the offensive contentand/or had otherwise violated any department policies. The result was an unprecedented investigation in its size and scope. The independentinvestigators cast a net as wide as legally and constitutionally allowable. Oakland’s Community Police Review Agency, overseen by Oakland’s Citizen PoliceCommission, also conducted a separate independent investigation. The findings anddiscipline announced today were the result of full concurrence between the OaklandPolice Department and the independent Community Police Review Agency. This broad and deep investigation revealed violations of OPD policy related to theoffensive Instagram page, as well as several other unrelated violations that werediscovered during the course of examining all content and online histories of the morethan 140 department-issued cell phones.
Of the hundreds of online histories studied, nine officers were found to have violateddepartment policy. Violations included: Accessing inappropriate material on department-issued equipment (includingmaterials unrelated to the Instagram page) Conduct that brings disrepute to OPD Sexual harassment or other conduct in violation of Oakland’s workplace standards Failure to perform duties and responsibilities Failure to report violations
The investigation determined that the offensive account was created by a formerOakland police officer shortly after he was terminated for violating department policy.Of the nine officers sustained for violating department policies, two have since takenpositions with other law enforcement agencies. Oakland has notified those twoagencies of the investigation’s findings. The nine officers who were found to have violated department policy ranged in rankfrom officer to Lieutenant. The discipline issued to them ranged from an 3-day unpaidsuspension to a 25-day unpaid suspension. In an effort to ensure this never happens again, the Oakland department will: Review and strengthen existing policies for all department-issued technology Create additional training for the appropriate use of department cell phones Develop robust training to ensure no violations of the zero-tolerance racial policythat forbids any engagement with racist, extremist, or white supremacy groups Require department employees to report all work-related social media accounts tothe OPD Office of Inspector General Require mandatory collection of all department social media account names andpasswords by the Office of Inspector General Audit content of department-issued technology at any time by the Office ofInspector General to ensure it is appropriate, work related, contains no inappropriateimages or content and that the material does not violate department policy Require that employees shall have no work-related social media accounts attachedto their personal phones nor use personal phones for OPD business Require that employees shall have no personal social media accounts attached totheir department-issued technology Require the OPD Office of Inspector General to hold all work-related social mediaaccounts and passwords Develop cultural-competency training with Stanford University and deliver to allrelevant staff Provide outside expert to conduct additional sexual harassment and inappropriatebehavior trainings in the workplace
“Sexist and racist behaviors are far too prevalent in our culture and have no place inour public safety institutions,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said. “I wholeheartedlyand strongly condemn any behavior, including online communications, that supportsor engages with sexist or racist tropes. I’m heartened by the unprecedented size,scope, and thoroughness of this independent investigation, which held officersaccountable and created new policies that raise our standards and expectations.”
Trauma Informed Care helps us understand how trauma affects us and others, including instances of mental
health crises, homelessness, disorientation and substance abuse. Trauma manifests itself physically as well as
mentally and spiritually. If we don’t understand that, we can’t really understand the best way to help someone.
Boundaries are about keeping healthy boundaries with ourselves and those we are trying to help.
Bill Wilson Center provides services to more than 5,000 children, youth, young adults and families in Santa Clara County through our various programs.Additionally, we reach more than 30,000 clients through our Street Outreach and crisis line programs. Bill Wilson Center programs focus on housing,education, counseling, and advocacy. Bill Wilson Center is committed to working with the community to ensure that every youth has access to the rangeof services needed to grow to be healthy and self-sufficient adults. Bill Wilson Center has been providing services to runaway and homeless youth since1973.
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The result was an unprecedented investigation in its size and scope. The independentinvestigators cast a net as wide as legally and constitutionally allowable. Oakland’s Community Police Review Agency, overseen by Oakland’s Citizen PoliceCommission, also conducted a separate independent investigation. The findings and disciplineannounced today were the result of full concurrence between the Oakland Police Departmentand the independent Community Police Review Agency. This broad and deep investigation revealed violations of OPD policy related to the offensiveInstagram page, as well as several other unrelated violations that were discovered during thecourse of examining all content and online histories of the more than 140 department-issuedcell phones.
Of the hundreds of online histories studied, nine officers were found to have violateddepartment policy. Violations included: Accessing inappropriate material on department-issued equipment (including materialsunrelated to the Instagram page) Conduct that brings disrepute to OPD Sexual harassment or other conduct in violation of Oakland’s workplace standards Failure to perform duties and responsibilities Failure to report violations
The investigation determined that the offensive account was created by a former Oaklandpolice officer shortly after he was terminated for violating department policy. Of the nineofficers sustained for violating department policies, two have since taken positions withother law enforcement agencies. Oakland has notified those two agencies of theinvestigation’s findings. The nine officers who were found to have violated department policy ranged in rank fromofficer to Lieutenant. The discipline issued to them ranged from an 3-day unpaid suspensionto a 25-day unpaid suspension. In an effort to ensure this never happens again, the Oakland department will: Review and strengthen existing policies for all department-issued technology Create additional training for the appropriate use of department cell phones Develop robust training to ensure no violations of the zero-tolerance racial policy thatforbids any engagement with racist, extremist, or white supremacy groups Require department employees to report all work-related social media accounts to theOPD Office of Inspector General Require mandatory collection of all department social media account names andpasswords by the Office of Inspector General Audit content of department-issued technology at any time by the Office of InspectorGeneral to ensure it is appropriate, work related, contains no inappropriate images or contentand that the material does not violate department policy Require that employees shall have no work-related social media accounts attached to theirpersonal phones nor use personal phones for OPD business Require that employees shall have no personal social media accounts attached to theirdepartment-issued technology Require the OPD Office of Inspector General to hold all work-related social mediaaccounts and passwords Develop cultural-competency training with Stanford University and deliver to all relevantstaff Provide outside expert to conduct additional sexual harassment and inappropriatebehavior trainings in the workplace
“Sexist and racist behaviors are far too prevalent in our culture and have no place in ourpublic safety institutions,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said. “I wholeheartedly andstrongly condemn any behavior, including online communications, that supports or engageswith sexist or racist tropes. I’m heartened by the unprecedented size, scope, andthoroughness of this independent investigation, which held officers accountable and creatednew policies that raise our standards and expectations.” The final investigation report was submitted to the federal court overseeing Allen v. City ofOakland. The Court will determine which parts of the investigation, if any, it will makepublicly available.
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Richard Konda
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Asian Law Alliance
991 West Hedding St., Suite 202
San Jose, CA 95126
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That could easily enlarge to capture other genres of music based upon subjective prejudice.
Cashless business establishments are discriminatory against a specific class of people with theobjective to repel them from patronizing Palo Alto.
Fred Smith
Murphy signs bill banning most cashless
stores in New Jersey
“Many people don’t have access to consumer credit and any effort by retail establishments to
ban the use of cash is discriminatory toward those people,” said Assemblyman Paul Moriarty(D-Gloucester), a sponsor of the bill, in a statement. “The U.S. dollar is legal tender and
should be accepted at any retail establishment in New Jersey.”
https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2019/03/18/murphy-signs-bill-banning-
most-cashless-stores-in-new-jersey-919093
As more stores refuse to take cash,
lawmakers step in
Carrying cash in your wallet is beginning to seem as old-fashioned as a rotary telephone.
As more people shun the nation’s currency and embrace the convenience of paying withplastic and mobile devices, some retailers have decided to ditch the hassle of counting out
change and stop accepting cash altogether.
The practice is still uncommon. But elected officials — worried about discrimination against
people without bank accounts and access to credit — are starting to fight back.
In the last several weeks, New Jersey and the city of Philadelphia each enacted legislationrequiring most places to take cash.
Massachusetts already had such a law on the books, while New York City, Washington,
D.C., Chicago and San Francisco are all considering the move.
https://www.post-gazette.com/business/money/2019/04/22/cashless-retail-debit-card-law-
legal/stories/201904210007
It’s official. Philadelphia bans cashless stores with carve-outs forsome businesses.
Philadelphia will become the first major U.S. city to force shops to take cash after Mayor Jim
Kenney signed off Thursday on a law that would ban so-called cashless stores.
Supporters of the new law said it was needed to protect low-income Philadelphians fromdiscrimination. But the measure carves out some businesses from the cash requirement andtherefore does not go far enough, said advocates for residents in poverty.
https://www.inquirer.com/business/philadelphia-cashless-store-ban-jim-kenney-amazon-20190228.html
Banning cashless stores: A little legal research may have
saved Philly’s City Council a lot of trouble
In 1984, Pennsylvania enacted the "Cash Consumer Protection Act," which made itillegal for businesses to discriminate against consumers who did not have credit cards.
Like in 1983, supporters of the proposed ban say they are seeking to protect those without
access to banking, credit cards, and smartphones. Those supporting Philadelphia’s proposedban include Cardtronics, which operates roughly 1,300 ATMs in the Philadelphia region; the
Restaurant Opportunity Center of Pennsylvania; and Philadelphia Jobs with Justice, a“coalition of labor unions and student, community, and faith groups.”
https://www.inquirer.com/business/philadelphia-cashless-store-ban-pennsylvania-amazon-20190216.html
Customer erupts into an anti-Asian tirade at
Fuki Sushi
Lumi Gardner, the owner of Fuki Sushi, was the victim of a racist tirade from one of her
customers, who screamed at her to go back to her country and that she was un-American afterthe restaurant didn’t accept his cash payment.
The outburst started in the dining room on Sunday (Aug. 1) evening and carried overinto the parking lot, in earshot of other customers and employees.
The customer started yelling at his server after she told him the restaurant was only acceptingcontactless payments and then turned his rage to Gardner.
“He was screaming at the top of his lungs, the worst things you could say to anotherhuman being,” Gardner said.
After trying to leave without paying, he eventually paid with cash. She followed him to theparking lot to make sure he didn’t damage any property, and he drove uncomfortably close to
her, continuing to yell and threatening to sue, Gardner said.
She declined to give a description of the man, his date or his car — except to the police —
because she said she fears retaliation. The Palo Alto Police Department has not responded to arequest for his description, or questions about how they will investigate the incident.
Gardner explained that she switched to cashless payment during the pandemic to make it moreefficient for her employees.
After the incident, Menlo Park Councilman Ray Mueller and Palo Alto Vice Mayor Pat Burtvisited the restaurant to hear from Gardner.
‘A reflection of our times’
“We both talked about how it was such a striking contrast to the Palo Alto that both of us have
lived in for most of our lives,” Burt said. “It’s not a reflection of our community, but it is areflection of our times.”
After Burt and Mueller asked for her, Gardner said she was first scared, then relieved.
“I went from feeling like this guy is going to get away with this, and he is going to feel
justified in his actions and that he did nothing wrong. That makes you feel worthless. Thatmakes you feel powerless,” she said. “When they came by and spoke to me, I didn’t feel like
that anymore.”
Gardner says she came forward to be a voice for her mother, her children and her team of
employees.
Gardner grew up in Palo Alto and is a third generation restaurateur. Her mother started Fuki
Sushi in 1978, and her daughter works there now.
The restaurant, 4119 El Camino Real, is a popular place for celebrating in the neighborhood.
After many media reports during the pandemic of Asian Americans being subject to racist
attacks, both verbal and physical, the California Attorney General published a report thatfound that hate crimes against Asians rose by 107% in 2020.
Palo Alto has seen a few verbal attacks on its Asian American residents, and the city hasresponded by hosting events reaffirming its support for Asian American and Pacific Islander
residents.
https://padailypost.com/2021/08/06/customer-erupts-into-an-anti-asian-tirade-at-fuki-sushi/
Conduct that brings disrepute to OPD Sexual harassment or other conduct in violation of Oakland’s workplace standards Failure to perform duties and responsibilities Failure to report violations
The investigation determined that the offensive account was created by a former Oakland policeofficer shortly after he was terminated for violating department policy. Of the nine officerssustained for violating department policies, two have since taken positions with other lawenforcement agencies. Oakland has notified those two agencies of the investigation’s findings. The nine officers who were found to have violated department policy ranged in rank from officerto Lieutenant. The discipline issued to them ranged from an 3-day unpaid suspension to a 25-dayunpaid suspension. In an effort to ensure this never happens again, the Oakland department will: Review and strengthen existing policies for all department-issued technology Create additional training for the appropriate use of department cell phones Develop robust training to ensure no violations of the zero-tolerance racial policy that forbidsany engagement with racist, extremist, or white supremacy groups Require department employees to report all work-related social media accounts to the OPDOffice of Inspector General Require mandatory collection of all department social media account names and passwords bythe Office of Inspector General Audit content of department-issued technology at any time by the Office of Inspector General toensure it is appropriate, work related, contains no inappropriate images or content and that thematerial does not violate department policy Require that employees shall have no work-related social media accounts attached to theirpersonal phones nor use personal phones for OPD business Require that employees shall have no personal social media accounts attached to theirdepartment-issued technology Require the OPD Office of Inspector General to hold all work-related social media accounts andpasswords Develop cultural-competency training with Stanford University and deliver to all relevant staff Provide outside expert to conduct additional sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviortrainings in the workplace
“Sexist and racist behaviors are far too prevalent in our culture and have no place in our publicsafety institutions,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said. “I wholeheartedly and strongly condemnany behavior, including online communications, that supports or engages with sexist or racisttropes. I’m heartened by the unprecedented size, scope, and thoroughness of this independentinvestigation, which held officers accountable and created new policies that raise our standardsand expectations.” The final investigation report was submitted to the federal court overseeing Allen v. City ofOakland. The Court will determine which parts of the investigation, if any, it will make publiclyavailable.
Rebecca L. Eisenberg Esq.www.linkedin.com/in/eisenbergwww.winwithrebecca.comrebecca@winwithrebecca.com415-235-8078
On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 6:47 PM Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Everyone: See info below from Susan Hayase and the San Jose Nikkei Resisters.
Here's the official invitation & sign up form for the virtual trainings that the SJNR Reimagining Public Safety subcommittee
has been working on :) Would love to see many of you there!
boundaries with ourselves and those we are trying to help.
Bill Wilson Center provides services to more than 5,000 children, youth, young adults and families in Santa Clara County through our various programs. Additionally, wereach more than 30,000 clients through our Street Outreach and crisis line programs. Bill Wilson Center programs focus on housing, education, counseling, andadvocacy. Bill Wilson Center is committed to working with the community to ensure that every youth has access to the range of services needed to grow to be healthy andself-sufficient adults. Bill Wilson Center has been providing services to runaway and homeless youth since 1973.
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News from: Office of Mayor Libby Schaaf
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 17, 2021
Statement Regarding the Findings of an
Investigation into the Use of Social Media Accounts
by Oakland Police Officers
Oakland, CA – The City of Oakland released the following statement regarding
the findings of an investigation into use of social media accounts by Oakland
police officers:
In January, the Oakland Police Department became aware of an Instagram account
that hosted deeply offensive content that was sexist, racist, and totally
unacceptable to the standards of our community. The account also elevated
subversive memes that criticized the policies and cultural changes that have made
OPD a nationally recognized leader in progressive, constitutional policing. The
creator of the offensive account appeared to be intimately familiar with the
department, and specifically the crime reduction teams, or CRTs. Since it was
clear there was a possibility that the account had been created by a current
employee, the situation warranted an immediate investigation.
Due to the account holder’s familiarity with CRTs, the investigation began with
every officer who served in those units, individuals located in specialized units,
and every officer in patrol and investigative units who intersected with those
officers. Investigators took the unannounced action to seize more than 140 work
phones from these Oakland police officers. Investigators scraped the content and
online histories from all of those phones.
To ensure the integrity of the inquiry, Mayor Libby Schaaf and City Administrator
Ed Reiskin took immediate action to hire a third-party independent investigator.
The investigator’s directives were to expose the account’s creator through IT
records and determine if any current Oakland employees had engaged with the
offensive content and/or had otherwise violated any department policies.
The result was an unprecedented investigation in its size and scope. The
independent investigators cast a net as wide as legally and constitutionally
allowable.
Oakland’s Community Police Review Agency, overseen by Oakland’s Citizen
Police Commission, also conducted a separate independent investigation. The
findings and discipline announced today were the result of full concurrence
between the Oakland Police Department and the independent Community Police
Review Agency.
This broad and deep investigation revealed violations of OPD policy related to the
offensive Instagram page, as well as several other unrelated violations that were
discovered during the course of examining all content and online histories of the
more than 140 department-issued cell phones.
Of the hundreds of online histories studied, nine officers were found to have
violated department policy. Violations included:
Accessing inappropriate material on department-issued equipment
(including materials unrelated to the Instagram page)
Conduct that brings disrepute to OPD
Sexual harassment or other conduct in violation of Oakland’s workplace
standards
Failure to perform duties and responsibilities
Failure to report violations
The investigation determined that the offensive account was created by a former
Oakland police officer shortly after he was terminated for violating department
policy. Of the nine officers sustained for violating department policies, two have
since taken positions with other law enforcement agencies. Oakland has notified
those two agencies of the investigation’s findings.
The nine officers who were found to have violated department policy ranged in
rank from officer to Lieutenant. The discipline issued to them ranged from an 3-
day unpaid suspension to a 25-day unpaid suspension.
In an effort to ensure this never happens again, the Oakland department will:
Review and strengthen existing policies for all department-issued
technology
Create additional training for the appropriate use of department cell
phones
Develop robust training to ensure no violations of the zero-tolerance racial
policy that forbids any engagement with racist, extremist, or white
supremacy groups
Require department employees to report all work-related social media
accounts to the OPD Office of Inspector General
Require mandatory collection of all department social media account
names and passwords by the Office of Inspector General
Audit content of department-issued technology at any time by the Office
of Inspector General to ensure it is appropriate, work related, contains no
inappropriate images or content and that the material does not violate
department policy
Require that employees shall have no work-related social media accounts
attached to their personal phones nor use personal phones for OPD
business
Require that employees shall have no personal social media accounts
attached to their department-issued technology
Require the OPD Office of Inspector General to hold all work-related
social media accounts and passwords
Develop cultural-competency training with Stanford University and
deliver to all relevant staff
Provide outside expert to conduct additional sexual harassment and
inappropriate behavior trainings in the workplace
“Sexist and racist behaviors are far too prevalent in our culture and have no place
in our public safety institutions,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said. “I
wholeheartedly and strongly condemn any behavior, including online
communications, that supports or engages with sexist or racist tropes. I’m
heartened by the unprecedented size, scope, and thoroughness of this independent
investigation, which held officers accountable and created new policies that raise
our standards and expectations.”
The final investigation report was submitted to the federal court overseeing Allen
v. City of Oakland. The Court will determine which parts of the investigation, if
any, it will make publicly available.
# # #
From:Rice, Danille
To:Council, City; Council Agenda Email
Cc:Executive Leadership Team; ORG - Clerk"s Office
Subject:Council Consent Agenda Questions for September 20: Item 6
Date:Friday, September 17, 2021 4:11:11 PM
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Dear Mayor and Council Members: On behalf of City Manager Ed Shikada, please find below the staff responses an inquiry madeby Councilmember Tanaka in regard to the Monday, September 20 Council Meeting consentagenda. Staff responses are below.
Item 6: Approval of a Three-year Contract With Northwest Woodland Services, Inc. in an
Amount Not-to-Exceed $646,950 for Trail Maintenance in the Palo Alto Baylands, Pearson-
Arastradero Preserve, Foothills Nature Preserve, and Grounds Maintenance in Utility
Reservoir Sites
1. We tried reaching out to Northwest woodlands services to ask some questions
about their practices and overall experience working with the city over the last few
years but the phone numbers listed on their website were either disconnected
went straight to voicemail. Is there a number you know of that we can reach out
to?
Northwest Woodland Services is based in Oregon and performs work throughout the
western region of the U.S. Their contact information can be found on their website:
https://www.nwws.us/. However, it should be noted that the City’s procurement
regulations do not provide for councilmembers or their representatives to contact
contractors related to pending contracts. This is not a best practice and can lead to
misunderstandings regarding the City’s approval process.
2. It seems strange that for the past several cycles of this contract there has only been
one bid for this contract. There must be more than one landscape/trail
maintenance business in Palo Alto and a 500k+ contract must be lucrative. Do you
know of any reason there was only one bid?
The work included in this contract (trail maintenance and repairs, building new trails,
re-routing damaged trails) is very specialized and must be completed in a way that
protects natural resources and sensitive habitats, ensures public safety, and maintains
the recreational benefits of the trails. To ensure a high quality of work, bidders are
required to have a qualification and membership in the Professional TrailBuilders
Association (https://www.trailbuilders.org/). Because of the specialized type of work
and qualification requirement, most landscape or general contractors do not meet the
minimum bid requirements. As noted in the report, the previous contract was
awarded for a slightly higher amount and the contractor has effectively performed the
required services. The public bidding process enables all contractors to competitively
bid on these services.
3. Building off of the last question, the website used for bidding is “Planetbids”. Upon
investigation, it seems that this website is one of many bidding websites. Why was
“Planetbids” chosen and why was the bid only posted on “Planetbids”. Could such a
contract be posted on more than one site? Perhaps using a more popular bidding
platform could be more conducive to receiving more bids.
There are many of eProcurement softwares on the market that provide a variety of
eProcurement solutions. PlanetBids has been the City’s primary
eProcurement platform since 2015 where all of the City’s solicitation opportunities are
posted. This software manages all procurement activities, such as bidding, evaluation,
and vendor communication. Purchasing and the department project manager
determine the outreach plan for all formal solicitations as part of the procurement
process. PlanetBids has the ability to notify vendors that are interested in specific type
of services and goods. Nationally, there are over 850,000 registered vendors on
PlanetBids, with over 2,000 local vendors that are registered specifically with the City
of Palo Alto under this platform. In addition, PlanetBids has over 550, primarily public,
clients, including City of San Diego, City of Anaheim, and City of Santa Monica.
Thank you.
Danille Rice
Executive Assistant to the City Manager
(650) 329-2105 | danille.rice@cityofpaloalto.org
www.cityofpaloalto.org
the parking demand will be lower than other neighborhoods. A 2020 study by the
Regional Transportation District (RTD) of Metro Denver highlights the reduced
parking utilization within half a mile of transit:
“At market-rate properties, 40% of parking spaces go unused at peak, while
income restricted properties provide 50% more parking than used.”
The City of Palo Alto has been a leader in affordable housing and sustainability in the
region. But we’ve developed a reputation for making housing difficult and expensive
to build. The mean approval time for housing proposals in Palo Alto is substantially
higher than neighborhood cities; this contributes to even higher project development
costs.. Clear development guidelines which emphasize streamlining and incentives
for affordable housing would go a long way in changing that. We have an opportunity
in NVCAP to become leaders again - and meet the current and future needs of our
community.
Gail A. Price
President, Palo Alto Forward
cc: Planning and Transportation Commission, Housing Element Update Working
Group
From:Heather L Hadlock
To:Council, City
Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space!
Date:Friday, September 17, 2021 12:04:11 PM
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I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street and California Avenue open for pedestrians and bicycles,
and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY.
I’m a 25-year resident of Palo Alto who has experienced all levels of traffic/parking congestion at all times of the
day and week, and I deeply appreciate the peace and friendliness of our downtown streets without cars!! Let’s make
this temporary situation a longer-term solution. It truly enhances quality of life.
Sincerely,
Prof Heather Hadlock
Stanford University
From:Ann Balin
To:Council, City
Subject:Paris is taking space back from cars. Here’s how.
Date:Thursday, September 16, 2021 7:05:35 PM
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I trust this is helpful and thank you for your interest in Verizon Wireless’s UWB 5G
network.
Paul
Paul Albritton
Mackenzie & Albritton LLP
155 Sansome Street, Suite 800San Francisco, California 94104
(415) 288-4000
pa@mallp.com
From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Date: Thursday, September 16, 2021 at 10:54 AM
To: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>, city.council@cityofpaloalto.org
<city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org
<Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org>, 'Architectural Review Board'
<arb@cityofpaloalto.org>, chow_tina@yahoo.com <chow_tina@yahoo.com>,
todd@toddcollins.org <todd@toddcollins.org>, wross@lawross.com <wross@lawross.com>,
hans.vestberg@Verizon.com <hans.vestberg@Verizon.com>,
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com <BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com>
Subject: Re: Re FW: Other California Cities
Dear Paul,
Thank you for your email.
Since there are so many approved sites with three Ericsson Model 6701 Units, I
would appreciate it if you would send me the addresses for a dozen or so that are
located in neighborhoods with single family homes in each of the three cities I asked
about—i.e., San Francisco, San Jose and Cupertino. Some of us in Palo Alto would
like to see what other residential neighborhoods look like with these cell towers.
Thanks very much. I appreciate that you’ll be responding later this week.
Sincerely,
Jeanne
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net
650-325-5151
From: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 4:44 PM
To: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org;
Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org; 'Architectural Review Board' <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>;
chow_tina@yahoo.com; todd@toddcollins.org; wross@lawross.com; hans.vestberg@Verizon.com;
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com
Subject: Re: Re FW: Other California Cities
Jeanne: There are literally hundreds of approved sites with this radio configuration in
these jurisdictions. You are correct, each has a slightly different design based upon
local aesthetic regulations. I’ll follow up this week with a nearby example for you in
the jurisdictions you request.
Paul
Paul Albritton
Mackenzie & Albritton LLP
155 Sansome Street, Suite 800
San Francisco, California 94104
(415) 288-4000
pa@mallp.com
From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 2:18 PM
To: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>, city.council@cityofpaloalto.org
<city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org
<Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org>, 'Architectural Review Board'
<arb@cityofpaloalto.org>, chow_tina@yahoo.com <chow_tina@yahoo.com>,
todd@toddcollins.org <todd@toddcollins.org>, wross@lawross.com <wross@lawross.com>,
hans.vestberg@Verizon.com <hans.vestberg@Verizon.com>,
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com <BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com>
Subject: Re FW: Other California Cities
Dear Paul,
Thank you for your email.
I would appreciate it if you would send me the addresses of the cell towers in San
Francisco, San Jose and Cupertino that you are referencing. I’d like to have look at
them, simply because, as you’ll recall, Verizon did not provide Palo Alto with a mock-
up of the cell tower design the Planning Department approved in June.
More generally, what I understood you to say is that, while other cities have approved
cell tower designs for streetlamp poles that include three Ericsson Model 6701 units,
these installations, from the outside, do not look the same as the design approved by
the Palo Alto Planning Department. Please let me know if I am correct or not.
Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Jeanne
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net
650-325-5151
From: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 6:30 PM
To: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org;
Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org; 'Architectural Review Board' <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>;
chow_tina@yahoo.com; todd@toddcollins.org; wross@lawross.com; hans.vestberg@Verizon.com;
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com
Subject: Re: Other California Cities
Jeanne: In June, the Palo Alto City Council approved Verizon Wireless’s placement of
two or three Ericcson model 6701 integrated radio/antennas on replacement City light
poles. While the small cable shrouds around the antennas are unique to Palo Alto, to
conform to the 2019 design guidelines, the use of three Ericcson model 6701s onlight standards is common in many California cities, including Oakland, San
Francisco, San Jose, Cupertino, Bakersfield, Sacramento, Fresno, Long Beach, Los
Angeles, Fremont, San Diego, and many others.
I hope this helps.
Paul
P.S. I just found your prior email in my spam folder, thank you for following up.
Paul Albritton
Mackenzie & Albritton LLP
155 Sansome Street, Suite 800
San Francisco, California 94104
(415) 288-4000pa@mallp.com
From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 5:09 PM
To: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>, city.council@cityofpaloalto.org
<city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org
<Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org>, 'Architectural Review Board'
<arb@cityofpaloalto.org>, chow_tina@yahoo.com <chow_tina@yahoo.com>,
todd@toddcollins.org <todd@toddcollins.org>, wross@lawross.com <wross@lawross.com>,
hans.vestberg@Verizon.com <hans.vestberg@Verizon.com>,
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com <BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com>
Subject: FW: Other California Cities
Dear Mr. Albritton,
Below you will find my email to you of August 27, 2021, which I am resending with the
thought that you may not have received it.
To repeat my question, I’d appreciate it if you could tell me whether Verizon’s cell
tower design approved by Palo Alto’s Planning Department in June of this year has
been approved in any other cities and, if so, which ones. If you do not have this
information, I would appreciate it if, as Verizon’s attorney, you could direct me to
someone who can answer my question.
If you are unwilling to answer to my question—if it is the policy of Verizon to withhold
the information I am seeking from the residents of cities in which it is applying to
install cell towers—kindly tell me so.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
Jeanne Fleming
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net650-325-5151
From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2021 5:01 PM
To: pa@mallp.com
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org;
Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org; 'Architectural Review Board' <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>;
chow_tina@yahoo.com; todd@toddcollins.org; wross@lawross.com
Subject: Other California Cities
Dear Mr. Albritton,
As you know, Palo Alto’s Planning Director, Jonathan Lait, recently approved three
new Verizon cell towers to be located in residential zones (PLN20-00118), cell towers
in which two or three bulbous sets of antennae perch on top of a slender streetlamp
pole.
Palo Alto’s Planning Department tells me they do not know if any other California
cities have approved this design. Hence I’m hoping you can tell me if the design has
been approved elsewhere and, if so, where—or that, as Verizon’s attorney, you candirect me to someone who can answer this question.
.
Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Jeanne Fleming
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net
would appreciate it if you would send me the addresses for a dozen or so that are
located in neighborhoods with single family homes in each of the three cities I asked
about—i.e., San Francisco, San Jose and Cupertino. Some of us in Palo Alto would
like to see what other residential neighborhoods look like with these cell towers.
Thanks very much. I appreciate that you’ll be responding later this week.
Sincerely,
Jeanne
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net650-325-5151
From: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 4:44 PM
To: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org;
Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org; 'Architectural Review Board' <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>;
chow_tina@yahoo.com; todd@toddcollins.org; wross@lawross.com; hans.vestberg@Verizon.com;
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com
Subject: Re: Re FW: Other California Cities
Jeanne: There are literally hundreds of approved sites with this radio configuration in
these jurisdictions. You are correct, each has a slightly different design based upon
local aesthetic regulations. I’ll follow up this week with a nearby example for you in
the jurisdictions you request.
Paul
Paul Albritton
Mackenzie & Albritton LLP
155 Sansome Street, Suite 800
San Francisco, California 94104(415) 288-4000
pa@mallp.com
From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 2:18 PM
To: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>, city.council@cityofpaloalto.org
<city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org
<Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org>, 'Architectural Review Board'
<arb@cityofpaloalto.org>, chow_tina@yahoo.com <chow_tina@yahoo.com>,
todd@toddcollins.org <todd@toddcollins.org>, wross@lawross.com <wross@lawross.com>,
hans.vestberg@Verizon.com <hans.vestberg@Verizon.com>,
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com <BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com>
Subject: Re FW: Other California Cities
Dear Paul,
Thank you for your email.
I would appreciate it if you would send me the addresses of the cell towers in San
Francisco, San Jose and Cupertino that you are referencing. I’d like to have look at
them, simply because, as you’ll recall, Verizon did not provide Palo Alto with a mock-
up of the cell tower design the Planning Department approved in June.
More generally, what I understood you to say is that, while other cities have approved
cell tower designs for streetlamp poles that include three Ericsson Model 6701 units,
these installations, from the outside, do not look the same as the design approved by
the Palo Alto Planning Department. Please let me know if I am correct or not.
Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Jeanne
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net650-325-5151
From: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 6:30 PM
To: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org;
Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org; 'Architectural Review Board' <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>;
chow_tina@yahoo.com; todd@toddcollins.org; wross@lawross.com; hans.vestberg@Verizon.com;
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com
Subject: Re: Other California Cities
Jeanne: In June, the Palo Alto City Council approved Verizon Wireless’s placement of
two or three Ericcson model 6701 integrated radio/antennas on replacement City light
poles. While the small cable shrouds around the antennas are unique to Palo Alto, to
conform to the 2019 design guidelines, the use of three Ericcson model 6701s on
light standards is common in many California cities, including Oakland, San
Francisco, San Jose, Cupertino, Bakersfield, Sacramento, Fresno, Long Beach, Los
Angeles, Fremont, San Diego, and many others.
I hope this helps.
Paul
P.S. I just found your prior email in my spam folder, thank you for following up.
Paul Albritton
Mackenzie & Albritton LLP
155 Sansome Street, Suite 800
San Francisco, California 94104
(415) 288-4000pa@mallp.com
From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 5:09 PM
To: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>, city.council@cityofpaloalto.org
<city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org
<Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org>, 'Architectural Review Board'
<arb@cityofpaloalto.org>, chow_tina@yahoo.com <chow_tina@yahoo.com>,
todd@toddcollins.org <todd@toddcollins.org>, wross@lawross.com <wross@lawross.com>,
hans.vestberg@Verizon.com <hans.vestberg@Verizon.com>,
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com <BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com>
Subject: FW: Other California Cities
Dear Mr. Albritton,
Below you will find my email to you of August 27, 2021, which I am resending with the
thought that you may not have received it.
To repeat my question, I’d appreciate it if you could tell me whether Verizon’s cell
tower design approved by Palo Alto’s Planning Department in June of this year has
been approved in any other cities and, if so, which ones. If you do not have this
information, I would appreciate it if, as Verizon’s attorney, you could direct me to
someone who can answer my question.
If you are unwilling to answer to my question—if it is the policy of Verizon to withhold
the information I am seeking from the residents of cities in which it is applying to
install cell towers—kindly tell me so.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
Jeanne Fleming
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net650-325-5151
From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2021 5:01 PM
To: pa@mallp.com
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org;
Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org; 'Architectural Review Board' <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>;
chow_tina@yahoo.com; todd@toddcollins.org; wross@lawross.com
Subject: Other California Cities
Dear Mr. Albritton,
As you know, Palo Alto’s Planning Director, Jonathan Lait, recently approved three
new Verizon cell towers to be located in residential zones (PLN20-00118), cell towers
in which two or three bulbous sets of antennae perch on top of a slender streetlamp
pole.
Palo Alto’s Planning Department tells me they do not know if any other California
cities have approved this design. Hence I’m hoping you can tell me if the design hasbeen approved elsewhere and, if so, where—or that, as Verizon’s attorney, you can
direct me to someone who can answer this question.
.
Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Jeanne Fleming
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net
From:Aram James
To:Sajid Khan; Jeff Rosen; Jeff Moore; Raj; Winter Dellenbach; Human Relations Commission; Council, City; chuckjagoda; Rebecca Eisenberg; Planning Commission; Jay Boyarsky; Greer Stone; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; JoeSimitian; Greg Tanaka; Roberta Ahlquist; Binder, Andrew
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Paul Albritton
Mackenzie & Albritton LLP
155 Sansome Street, Suite 800San Francisco, California 94104
(415) 288-4000
pa@mallp.com
From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 2:18 PM
To: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>, city.council@cityofpaloalto.org
<city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org
<Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org>, 'Architectural Review Board'
<arb@cityofpaloalto.org>, chow_tina@yahoo.com <chow_tina@yahoo.com>,
todd@toddcollins.org <todd@toddcollins.org>, wross@lawross.com <wross@lawross.com>,
hans.vestberg@Verizon.com <hans.vestberg@Verizon.com>,
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com <BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com>
Subject: Re FW: Other California Cities
Dear Paul,
Thank you for your email.
I would appreciate it if you would send me the addresses of the cell towers in San
Francisco, San Jose and Cupertino that you are referencing. I’d like to have look at
them, simply because, as you’ll recall, Verizon did not provide Palo Alto with a mock-up of the cell tower design the Planning Department approved in June.
More generally, what I understood you to say is that, while other cities have approved
cell tower designs for streetlamp poles that include three Ericsson Model 6701 units,
these installations, from the outside, do not look the same as the design approved by
the Palo Alto Planning Department. Please let me know if I am correct or not.
Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Jeanne
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net650-325-5151
From: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 6:30 PM
To: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org;
Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org; 'Architectural Review Board' <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>;
chow_tina@yahoo.com; todd@toddcollins.org; wross@lawross.com; hans.vestberg@Verizon.com;
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com
Subject: Re: Other California Cities
Jeanne: In June, the Palo Alto City Council approved Verizon Wireless’s placement of
two or three Ericcson model 6701 integrated radio/antennas on replacement City light
poles. While the small cable shrouds around the antennas are unique to Palo Alto, to
conform to the 2019 design guidelines, the use of three Ericcson model 6701s on
light standards is common in many California cities, including Oakland, San
Francisco, San Jose, Cupertino, Bakersfield, Sacramento, Fresno, Long Beach, LosAngeles, Fremont, San Diego, and many others.
I hope this helps.
Paul
P.S. I just found your prior email in my spam folder, thank you for following up.
Paul Albritton
Mackenzie & Albritton LLP
155 Sansome Street, Suite 800
San Francisco, California 94104(415) 288-4000
pa@mallp.com
From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 5:09 PM
To: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>, city.council@cityofpaloalto.org
<city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org
<Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org>, 'Architectural Review Board'
<arb@cityofpaloalto.org>, chow_tina@yahoo.com <chow_tina@yahoo.com>,
todd@toddcollins.org <todd@toddcollins.org>, wross@lawross.com <wross@lawross.com>,
hans.vestberg@Verizon.com <hans.vestberg@Verizon.com>,
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com <BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com>
Subject: FW: Other California Cities
Dear Mr. Albritton,
Below you will find my email to you of August 27, 2021, which I am resending with the
thought that you may not have received it.
To repeat my question, I’d appreciate it if you could tell me whether Verizon’s cell
tower design approved by Palo Alto’s Planning Department in June of this year hasbeen approved in any other cities and, if so, which ones. If you do not have this
information, I would appreciate it if, as Verizon’s attorney, you could direct me to
someone who can answer my question.
If you are unwilling to answer to my question—if it is the policy of Verizon to withhold
the information I am seeking from the residents of cities in which it is applying to
install cell towers—kindly tell me so.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
Jeanne Fleming
Jeanne Fleming, PhD
JFleming@Metricus.net650-325-5151
From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2021 5:01 PM
To: pa@mallp.com
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org;
Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org; 'Architectural Review Board' <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>;
chow_tina@yahoo.com; todd@toddcollins.org; wross@lawross.com
Subject: Other California Cities
Dear Mr. Albritton,
As you know, Palo Alto’s Planning Director, Jonathan Lait, recently approved three
new Verizon cell towers to be located in residential zones (PLN20-00118), cell towers
in which two or three bulbous sets of antennae perch on top of a slender streetlamp
pole.
Palo Alto’s Planning Department tells me they do not know if any other California
cities have approved this design. Hence I’m hoping you can tell me if the design hasbeen approved elsewhere and, if so, where—or that, as Verizon’s attorney, you can
direct me to someone who can answer this question.
.
Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Jeanne Fleming
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net
Mr.Livingston aka Bunny Wailer was faced with Vigilantes who had different perspectivepurposes that Diva Lee was American born in America. Argue it.
Argue that Dilma Coleman isn't AFGHAN Jamacian. A group of Vigilantes created an actual
document managed with mental health documents stating that Dilma Coleman was born inAmerica at Stanford hospital with parents Ronald Coleman and Cynthia Robinson. Ronald
Coleman is the biological relative to Thailand's royal Bhuhimol Adjudev's. Ronald Coleman iscousin to Ozzy Williams and step cousin to Ozzy's Filipino wife. Ozzy's Filipino wife her
cousin is married to a cousin of O'Shea Jackson. That Filipino side from Ozzy William's wifeside of the family has done financial crimes against Diva Lee. Diva Lee believes that
Homefirst homeless shelter employee Alfredo is Affiliated and related to Filipino Marie whois married to Ozzy Williams and or Matthew Edmondson. Whereas Ronald Coleman and his
wife Elaine has done similar financial crimes..from when Ronald Coleman resided in San JoseCA. Ron had his drug addictions then became homeless. Ronald Coleman's ex wife is the
biological mother to a daughter and or son whose biological father is Edward Sullivan Lee aka"Bunny Striker" who died in October 6,2020. Diva Lee argues that Edward Sullivan Lee aka
"Bunny Striker" had an identical twin brother who was murdered in the 1990's and that it washis musical skills and mechanical engineering skills which was passed thru to Diva Lee.
In 2014, Valley Medical Mental health ER at Psychiatric emergency facility explained thatDilma Coleman was delusional schizophrenic with hallucinating behaviors. After Milpitas
Police took Dilma as a 5150 patient from the Milpitas police station to Valley MedicalPsychiatric ER because Psychiatric doctor Yvonne Maxwell said Dilma was not compliance
with her medications. Dilma Coleman had Psychiatrist Teddy Rinker as her Psychiatric doctorfor over 3-6 months at 2221 Enborg Ln San Jose CA. Dilma was in compliance with
medications.
The Doctor said that Dilma Coleman was delusional because she stated that Dr ConradMurray was her birth father. Mental health doctor said that actor Gary Coleman is the
biological father to Dilma Coleman. Now this information needed to be corrected.
DILMA'S birth father is Actor Gary Coleman ATTACHMENT #2 who is Born Zion,ILFebruary 8,1968. Argue it. Gary Coleman is not DIVA's father. Ronald Coleman is the name
on Dilma Coleman's birth certificate issued in Santa Clara county. Birth Documents states thatDilma Coleman was born at Stanford hospital in Palo Alto CA on February 14,1976..to
Cynthia Robinson and Ronald Coleman. That's what the Santa Clara county birth certificateincluding the medical records with mental health records states and assessments from medical
Professionals and Santa Clara County clerk uses to keep Diva Lee oppressed and victimized.Attachment #3 Jamacian singer Songwriter Bunny Wailer aka Neville O'Riley Livingston
submitted the request to Santa Clara County clerk to replace Diva Lee's real birth certificate toSanta Clara county..with the real place of birth. Bunny Wailer made attempts to prove that
Diva Lee is Jamaican Afghan women and born in Afghanistan. Bunny Wailer provided legalaction stating that Dilma Coleman was a fictional name produced Fraudulently on Santa Clara
county documents and entered into a database Fraudulently. Bunny Wailer provided proof thatthe Santa Clara county system had Fraudulent county officials who kept updating their system
with the wrong information. The government's clerk's argued that they could not change thedatabase but add corrections in a file. Diva Lee became a illegal immigrant protected under
DACA. The Coleman Family and Robinson family had a history of being employed byStanford hospital and Stanford University Affiliated with individuals who worked within the
Santa Clara County who manipulated all Records to prove the innocence of theRobinson/Coleman family.
Diva Lee believes that Bunny Striker Edward Sullivan Lee who died on October 6,1941 is her
uncle and her father's identical twin brother. Argue it.
Attachment#4 Diva Lee remembers the efforts that Mr.Livingston aka Bunny Wailer madetowards Diva Lee being his adopted daughter. Diva Lee misses her father and her deceased
identical twin sister Hadley Lee. Best regards Diva Lee
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Pedestrian-first approach is the right approach. Cities and towns are for people, not cars.
A city without a pedestrian zone is a dead city. In fact, University Avenue should become
permanently pedestrian! Additionally, you should consider that there is no European citywithout central pedestrian zones and centers.
A good example for the additional tremendous economic benefit is Lancaster, California. It
spent $11.5 million creating a pedestrian-friendly downtown and in just four years, itattracted $130 million private investment, doubled its downtown tax revenue, created 48
new businesses and 800 new jobs, and road injuries decreased by two-thirds.
There is no doubt in the minds of my friends and me that by becoming a pedestrian zoneonly, University Avenue will foster a healthy community, provide financial and economic
benefits and foster progress and safety.
Thank you.Dimitar
these installations, from the outside, do not look the same as the design approved by
the Palo Alto Planning Department. Please let me know if I am correct or not.
Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Jeanne
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net650-325-5151
From: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 6:30 PM
To: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org;
Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org; 'Architectural Review Board' <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>;
chow_tina@yahoo.com; todd@toddcollins.org; wross@lawross.com; hans.vestberg@Verizon.com;
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com
Subject: Re: Other California Cities
Jeanne: In June, the Palo Alto City Council approved Verizon Wireless’s placement of
two or three Ericcson model 6701 integrated radio/antennas on replacement City light
poles. While the small cable shrouds around the antennas are unique to Palo Alto, to
conform to the 2019 design guidelines, the use of three Ericcson model 6701s on
light standards is common in many California cities, including Oakland, San
Francisco, San Jose, Cupertino, Bakersfield, Sacramento, Fresno, Long Beach, Los
Angeles, Fremont, San Diego, and many others.
I hope this helps.
Paul
P.S. I just found your prior email in my spam folder, thank you for following up.
Paul Albritton
Mackenzie & Albritton LLP
155 Sansome Street, Suite 800
San Francisco, California 94104
(415) 288-4000pa@mallp.com
From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 5:09 PM
To: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>, city.council@cityofpaloalto.org
<city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org
<Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org>, 'Architectural Review Board'
<arb@cityofpaloalto.org>, chow_tina@yahoo.com <chow_tina@yahoo.com>,
todd@toddcollins.org <todd@toddcollins.org>, wross@lawross.com <wross@lawross.com>,
hans.vestberg@Verizon.com <hans.vestberg@Verizon.com>,
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com <BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com>
Subject: FW: Other California Cities
Dear Mr. Albritton,
Below you will find my email to you of August 27, 2021, which I am resending with the
thought that you may not have received it.
To repeat my question, I’d appreciate it if you could tell me whether Verizon’s cell
tower design approved by Palo Alto’s Planning Department in June of this year has
been approved in any other cities and, if so, which ones. If you do not have this
information, I would appreciate it if, as Verizon’s attorney, you could direct me to
someone who can answer my question.
If you are unwilling to answer to my question—if it is the policy of Verizon to withhold
the information I am seeking from the residents of cities in which it is applying to
install cell towers—kindly tell me so.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
Jeanne Fleming
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net650-325-5151
From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2021 5:01 PM
To: pa@mallp.com
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org;
Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org; 'Architectural Review Board' <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>;
chow_tina@yahoo.com; todd@toddcollins.org; wross@lawross.com
Subject: Other California Cities
Dear Mr. Albritton,
As you know, Palo Alto’s Planning Director, Jonathan Lait, recently approved three
new Verizon cell towers to be located in residential zones (PLN20-00118), cell towers
in which two or three bulbous sets of antennae perch on top of a slender streetlamp
pole.
Palo Alto’s Planning Department tells me they do not know if any other California
cities have approved this design. Hence I’m hoping you can tell me if the design hasbeen approved elsewhere and, if so, where—or that, as Verizon’s attorney, you can
direct me to someone who can answer this question.
.
Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Jeanne Fleming
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net
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599 Castro Street, Suite 400 Mountain View, CA 94041 www.sobrato.com
September 15th, 2021
Jonathan Lait
Director, Planning and Development
City of Palo Alto
Re: Submittal of Sobrato proposal for lands it owns in the NVCAP planning area for
consideration at the City Council hearing on September 20, 2021
Dear Jonathan,
As you know, we have been supportive of the long-term planning for the City’s Comprehensive
Plan and eventually the North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan (NVCAP) since purchasing the
Portage site in 2011. We have and continue to participate as a Working Group member and
also financially supported the process by contributing matching funds of $250,000 to the
planning process which assisted in the City securing the Metropolitan Transportation
Commission (MTC) planning grant funds.
The NVCAP planning process has been ongoing for an extended period of time. One thing is
clear is that there is no consensus of any one alternative nor is it clear which would be the more
successful. Each has clear and differing benefits and challenges.
We are pleased to read in the latest staff report for the September 20th Council meeting about
a proposed change in the approach to developing the preferred alternative. Staff is
characterizing the new approach as “Comparing the component parts to puzzle pieces”.
Over these past several years we have spent a significant amount of time participating on the
Working Group and have listened intently trying to understand how our one puzzle piece, being
just 20% of the total NVCAP planning area, might best fit within the larger puzzle. Since the
beginning, we have wanted to be a collaborative partner in this planning process and want to
continue in the same approach.
Our design team has developed a plan for our property that we believe integrates many of the
principal design concepts identified through the NVCAP planning process and expressed in the
current three alternatives (Attachment A). We feel that our design fits very well within all of
the proposed alternatives and achieves the following:
• Retains 142,744 sf of the existing approximate 232,000 sf of the main Cannery
Building, and would retain and rehabilitate the Monitor Roof portion of the historical
Cannery Building. This is rendered on the attached exhibit and uses a historical picture
as reference (Attachment B).
• Retains the historic building on Ash and Portage.
• We propose NO NEW R&D/Office sf. Only the existing 142,744 sf would remain within
the main Cannery Building and the 4,707 sf Ash building. The additional existing ancillary
buildings would also remain.
September 15, 2021
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• Provides 91 new high quality for-sale townhomes along Park Ave, including 15%
affordable to moderate income households.
• Respects the proposed vehicle circulation through the site.
• Respects the proposed bicycle and pedestrian connection along Portage through our
site.
• Respects the proposed pedestrian trail along Matadero Creek.
• Creates a complimentary focal gathering point at the proposed park at the corner of
Park Ave and Olive Ave.
We are hopeful that the City Council will appreciate how well our puzzle piece fits within the
larger NVCAP plan. Staff has indicated in their staff report that if the City Council is interested
it could be incorporated into the NVCAP, which we would support.
We look forward to continuing to work collaboratively with the City in the NVCAP planning and
implementation process.
Sincerely,
Tim Steele
Senior Vice President, Real Estate Development
The Sobrato Organization
Attachment A Proposed Sobrato Concept with NVCAP Alternatives
Attachment B Renderings of the monitor roof rehabilitation with historical reference
Cc: Palo Alto City Council
Ed Shikada, City of Palo Alto
Albert Yang, City of Palo Alto
Rachel Tanner, City of Palo Alto
Robert Tersini, The Sobrato Organization
Steve Emslie, Lighthouse Public Affairs
Richard Hackmann, Lighthouse Public Affairs
Tamsen Plume, Holland & Knight
Genna Yarkin, Holland & Knight
Deborah Brundy, Holland & Knight
conform to the 2019 design guidelines, the use of three Ericcson model 6701s on
light standards is common in many California cities, including Oakland, San
Francisco, San Jose, Cupertino, Bakersfield, Sacramento, Fresno, Long Beach, Los
Angeles, Fremont, San Diego, and many others.
I hope this helps.
Paul
P.S. I just found your prior email in my spam folder, thank you for following up.
Paul Albritton
Mackenzie & Albritton LLP155 Sansome Street, Suite 800
San Francisco, California 94104
(415) 288-4000
pa@mallp.com
From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 5:09 PM
To: Paul Albritton <pa@mallp.com>
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>, city.council@cityofpaloalto.org
<city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org
<Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org>, 'Architectural Review Board'
<arb@cityofpaloalto.org>, chow_tina@yahoo.com <chow_tina@yahoo.com>,
todd@toddcollins.org <todd@toddcollins.org>, wross@lawross.com <wross@lawross.com>,
hans.vestberg@Verizon.com <hans.vestberg@Verizon.com>,
BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com <BaskingRidgeReceptionist@Verizon.com>
Subject: FW: Other California Cities
Dear Mr. Albritton,
Below you will find my email to you of August 27, 2021, which I am resending with the
thought that you may not have received it.
To repeat my question, I’d appreciate it if you could tell me whether Verizon’s celltower design approved by Palo Alto’s Planning Department in June of this year has
been approved in any other cities and, if so, which ones. If you do not have this
information, I would appreciate it if, as Verizon’s attorney, you could direct me to
someone who can answer my question.
If you are unwilling to answer to my question—if it is the policy of Verizon to withhold
the information I am seeking from the residents of cities in which it is applying to
install cell towers—kindly tell me so.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
Jeanne Fleming
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net
650-325-5151
From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2021 5:01 PM
To: pa@mallp.com
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org;
Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org; 'Architectural Review Board' <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>;
chow_tina@yahoo.com; todd@toddcollins.org; wross@lawross.com
Subject: Other California Cities
Dear Mr. Albritton,
As you know, Palo Alto’s Planning Director, Jonathan Lait, recently approved three
new Verizon cell towers to be located in residential zones (PLN20-00118), cell towers
in which two or three bulbous sets of antennae perch on top of a slender streetlamp
pole.
Palo Alto’s Planning Department tells me they do not know if any other California
cities have approved this design. Hence I’m hoping you can tell me if the design has
been approved elsewhere and, if so, where—or that, as Verizon’s attorney, you can
direct me to someone who can answer this question..
Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Jeanne Fleming
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net
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To repeat my question, I’d appreciate it if you could tell me whether Verizon’s cell
tower design approved by Palo Alto’s Planning Department in June of this year has
been approved in any other cities and, if so, which ones. If you do not have this
information, I would appreciate it if, as Verizon’s attorney, you could direct me to
someone who can answer my question.
If you are unwilling to answer to my question—if it is the policy of Verizon to withhold
the information I am seeking from the residents of cities in which it is applying to
install cell towers—kindly tell me so.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
Jeanne Fleming
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net650-325-5151
From: Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@metricus.net>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2021 5:01 PM
To: pa@mallp.com
Cc: 'Clerk, City' <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org>; city.council@cityofpaloalto.org;
Planning.Commission@CityofPaloAlto.org; 'Architectural Review Board' <arb@cityofpaloalto.org>;
chow_tina@yahoo.com; todd@toddcollins.org; wross@lawross.com
Subject: Other California Cities
Dear Mr. Albritton,
As you know, Palo Alto’s Planning Director, Jonathan Lait, recently approved three
new Verizon cell towers to be located in residential zones (PLN20-00118), cell towers
in which two or three bulbous sets of antennae perch on top of a slender streetlamp
pole.
Palo Alto’s Planning Department tells me they do not know if any other California
cities have approved this design. Hence I’m hoping you can tell me if the design hasbeen approved elsewhere and, if so, where—or that, as Verizon’s attorney, you can
direct me to someone who can answer this question.
.
Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Jeanne Fleming
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net
9/11/21
High Cost of Gas to Electric Conversion
City councils are considering gas to electric conversion options.
Since little was said in the recent Menlo Park on-line presentation by their consultant about the typical
conversion costs, I got an actual estimate from a local electrical contractor and added the costs of the
new appliances that are needed. Here is the result for our 3 bd, 2 bath ranch house in Palo Alto:
Electric service upgrade to 200 Amp panel, breakers, riser, conductors and permits $5382
New circuits for Space Heater, Water Heater, Range/Oven and Clothes Dryer $5105
Appliances: Water Htr 50 gal, Forced-air Heater 65k Btu/hr, Range/Oven GE 30 inch, Clothes
Dryer, GE 7.5 cu-ft and $500 installation charge for new piping to wtr htr and appliance
connection. $4479
Total: $14,996
Then, there is the on-going large electric power cost at PG&E’s current residential rate of $0.25/kW-hr
(Palo Alto rate is lower).
I think Dave Price (Daily Post) got it right when he suggested that the residents should vote on this
expensive proposition. Before the vote, they should be informed of the approximate cost to the city (us)
of the electricity distribution upgrades this consumption will drive and the net effect on global warming
reduction it would provide.
Stuart Hansen, 184 Walter Hays, Palo Alto. 650-328-0638
Dear Mr. Albritton,
As you know, Palo Alto’s Planning Director, Jonathan Lait, recently approved three
new Verizon cell towers to be located in residential zones (PLN20-00118), cell towers
in which two or three bulbous sets of antennae perch on top of a slender streetlamp
pole.
Palo Alto’s Planning Department tells me they do not know if any other California
cities have approved this design. Hence I’m hoping you can tell me if the design hasbeen approved elsewhere and, if so, where—or that, as Verizon’s attorney, you can
direct me to someone who can answer this question.
.
Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Jeanne Fleming
Jeanne Fleming, PhDJFleming@Metricus.net
From:Aram James
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Subject:Louisiana Police Head Would Welcome A DOJ Probe Into Racial Profiling : NPR
Date:Tuesday, September 14, 2021 5:09:35 PM
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Subject:Honoring Attica After Half a Century | The Nation
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Foundation, with whom they have worked in Palo Alto and other communities.
They will work with them to consider Magical Bridge play spaces in the
proposed Park area.
The owner believes that this location is ideal for this transit-oriented development with
Caltrain and multiple bus lines within easy walking distance.
Without these levels of additional office space redevelopment, the owner is not
motivated to redevelop the site, given the highly successful development with thecurrent tenancy.
The owner looks forward to helping the City make this NVCAP effort a reality and is
available for further conversation.
Thank you,
Tom Gilman, AIA
C. Thomas Gilman, AIA, LEED APPrincipal | President DES Architects + Engineers | 399 Bradford Street | Redwood City, CA 94063T: 650.364.6453 | tgilman@des-ae.com | www.des-ae.com | @DESarchitects Architecture | Interior Design | Landscape Architecture | Structural Engineering | CivilEngineering | Visual Communications | LEED Coordination
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Subject:Police Misconduct Costs Cities Millions Every Year. But That’s Where The Accountability Ends. | The Marshall
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Subject:Federal Prisons Deny Compassionate Release During Pandemic | The Marshall Project
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Meaning
published in The Atlantic.
If you want to make sense of the number of COVID hospitalizations at
any
given time, you need to know how sick each patient actually is. Until now,
that’s
been almost impossible to suss out.
The federal government requires hospitals to report every patient who
tests positive
for COVID, yet the overall tallies of COVID hospitalizations, made available
on
various state and federal dashboards and widely reported on by the media,do not differentiate based on severity of illness.
Some patients need extensive medical intervention, such as getting
intubated.
Others require supplemental oxygen or administration of the steroid
dexamethasone.
But there are many COVID patients in the hospital with fairly mild
symptoms, too, who have been admitted for further observation on account of theircomorbidities,
or because they reported feeling short of breath.
Another portion of the patients in this tally are in the hospital forsomething unrelated to COVID, and discovered that they were infected only
because they were
tested upon admission. 40 to 45 percent of the hospitalizations thattheyexamined were for patients for other reasons.
How many patients fall into each category has been a topic of much
speculation.
In August, researchers from Harvard Medical School, Tufts Medical Center,
and
the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System decided to find out.
Researchers have tried to get at similar questions before. For two
separate
studies published in May, doctors in California read through several hundred
charts
of pediatric patients, one by one, to figure out why, exactly, each COVID-
positive
child had been admitted to the hospital.
recommended by
Did they need treatment for COVID, or was there some other reason for
admission, like cancer treatment or a psychiatric episode, and the COVID
diagnosis
was merely incidental?
According to the researchers, 40 to 45 percent of the hospitalizations
that theyexamined were for patients in the latter group.
The authors of the paper out this week took a different tack to answer a
similar
question, this time for adults.
Instead of meticulously looking at why a few hundred patients were admitted
to a
air of hospitals, they analyzed the electronic records for nearly 50,000 COVID
hospital
admissions at the more than 100 VA hospitals across the country.
Then they checked to see whether each patient required supplemental
oxygen or
had a blood oxygen level below 94 percent. (The latter criterion is based on
the
National Institutes of Health definition of “severe COVID.”)
If either of these conditions was met, the authors classified that patient
as having
moderate to severe disease; otherwise, the case was considered mild or
asymptomatic.
The study found that from March 2020 through early January 2021—
before
vaccination was widespread, and before the Delta variant had arrived—the
proportion
of patients with mild or asymptomatic disease was 36 percent.
From mid-January through the end of June 2021, however, that
number rose
to 48 percent.
In other words, the study suggests that roughly half of all the hospitalized
patients
showing up on COVID-data dashboards in 2021 may have been admitted for
another reason entirely, or had only a mild presentation of disease.
This increase was even bigger for vaccinated hospital patients, of whom
57
percent had mild or asymptomatic disease.
According to Shira Doron, an infectious-disease physician and hospital
epidemiologist at Tufts Medical Center, in Boston, and one of the study’s
co-authors,
the latter finding may be explained by the fact that unvaccinated patients in
the
vaccine era tend to be a younger cohort who are less vulnerable to COVID
and
may
be more likely to have been infected in the past.
The idea behind the study and what it investigates is important, says
Graham
Snyder, the medical director of infection prevention and hospital
epidemiology at
the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, though he told me that it would
benefit from a little more detail and nuance beyond oxygenation status.
But Daniel Griffin, an infectious-disease specialist at Columbia
University, told
me that using other metrics for severity of illness, such as intensive-care
admissions,
presents different limitations. For one thing, different hospitals use different
criteria
for admitting patients to the ICU.
The study suggests that COVID hospitalization tallies can’t be taken as a
simple
measure of the prevalence of severe or even moderate disease, because they
might
inflate the true numbers by a factor of two.Meanwhile, according to leaked NHS data more than half of those
hospitalized with
Covid-19 in the UK only tested positive after admission to the hospital.On the other hand, you aren’t legally allowed to know which variantgave you
COVID-19, even if it’s Delta. No test exists for any variant of Covid, and
no laboratory anywhere is planning to make one.Its an open COVID-19 variant fraud and why
they won’t tell you which variant you areinfected with.
From GreatGameIndia, SEpt. 14, 2021
Forwarded by Arlene Goetze, MA, writer/editor. No Toxins for Children
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Subject:State finally beginning to crack down on bad cops
Date:Tuesday, September 14, 2021 9:29:42 AM
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Hello,
A few community members would like to present at the meeting tonight. Would itbe possible to add us? How much time can we get?
The list of speakers is:
Victor TsaranAngie EvansPavel SirotinMisty CohenJeff SelzerNancy Coupal
Here are the slides.
Thank you!
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Apologies for the delay in responding.
Karo Caran and I, Victor Tsaran, would like approx. 8 minutes to present our group's vision
and then use the remaining time to let the rest of the group add their comments.
Does this sound good?
If this is acceptable, do you need us to send you the slides?
Thanks a lot.
Victor
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Hi Pavel,
According to our Council Procedures and Protocols, if you have a group representing five or more
speakers you can either a) all speak independently and will be given 3 minutes each, or b) you candesignate one speaker to represent all present in your group and be allowed 10 minutes in total.
If you wish to designate one person, I would need the name of the designated speaker and I will
communicate with the Mayor. Please note that the other members will have to be present in the
meeting, on the zoom call too. (It states you actually have to be present to be able to give your time
away).
Let me know how I can help.
Best,
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Lesley Milton
City Clerk
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www.cityofpaloalto.org
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Adding the City Clerk.
On Mon, Sep 13, 2021, 11:21 AM Pavel Sirotin <pavel@bevri.com> wrote:
Hello,
A few community members would like to present at the meeting tonight. Would it bepossible to add us? How much time can we get?
The list of speakers is:
Victor TsaranAngie EvansPavel SirotinMisty CohenJeff SelzerNancy Coupal
Here are the slides.
Thank you!
Best,
Pavel
Forwarding reply
Hi Pavel,
According to our Council Procedures and Protocols, if you have a group representing five or morespeakers you can either a) all speak independently and will be given 3 minutes each, or b) you candesignate one speaker to represent all present in your group and be allowed 10 minutes in total.
If you wish to designate one person, I would need the name of the designated speaker and I willcommunicate with the Mayor. Please note that the other members will have to be present in themeeting, on the zoom call too. (It states you actually have to be present to be able to give your timeaway).
Let me know how I can help.
Best,
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City Clerk
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Hello,
A few community members would like to present at the meeting tonight. Would it be
possible to add us? How much time can we get?
The list of speakers is:
Victor Tsaran
Angie Evans
Pavel Sirotin
Misty Cohen
Jeff Selzer
Nancy Coupal
Here are the slides.
Thank you!
Best,
Pavel
From:Ken Joye
To:Council, City
Subject:finding employees
Date:Monday, September 13, 2021 7:13:06 PM
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In the discussion this evening about an Economic Development Strategy, one of the Council members stated that
2/3’s of Palo Alto businesses say that finding employees is their greatest challenge.
Are the employees sought by those local businesses able to afford market rate rent in our community?
If the answer is “no”, then perhaps the greatest aid to local businesses would be to establish policies and make
zoning changes to increase the construction of BMR housing. We all know that Palo Alto lags in that housing
segment…
thank you for your service,
Ken Joye
Ventura neighborhood
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economic stability.
If we don’t start to “normalize” our downtowns ASAP it will only take longer to revive. To
start we need to steam clean the streets and sidewalks regularly. We need to pick up trashmore regularly. We need to allocate the necessary resources to enable the social workers and
police department to provide the outreach and services to the homeless and to enforce existingordinances to protect others and to protect property. Cleanliness and safety should be our first
priorities.
Economic vitality is critical especially as the City faces this significant downswing in retail
sales, is facing a significant judgment to refund residents for over charging for gas rates, andasking voters to approve new taxes on businesses or otherwise is just not prudent.
We need to:
1) Welcome our office workers back and we do that by opening up our downtown. They
will bring hospitality back and the TOT tax revenues.
2) <!--[endif]-->Implement regular steam cleaning (furniture moved by restaurants)
3) <!--[endif]-->Enable social worker and police to share services with homeless andenforce ordinances
4) <!--[endif]-->Fast track the revisioning of University Avenue that was started a year agoto explore best practices for permanent parklets that meet building codes for safety and
inclusiveness as well as open streets and new parking off the avenue.
Respectfully,
John ShenkThoits Bros., Inc.
From:Marjan Wilkes
To:Council, City
Subject:Housing at Fry"s, not offices please!
Date:Monday, September 13, 2021 6:38:30 PM
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Re: Agenda Item 6, September 13, 2020
Dear Mayor DuBois and Council Members:
I strongly urge the Council discontinue the non-conforming use for
offices by the Sorbrato Corporation at the Fry's site. There are
several new office buildings on Park Blvd that are still empty. We
don't need more. Instead please make sure that the current zoning is
affirmed and that the site be used for new housing which is a top
priority for the city.
By discontinuing non-conforming uses at the Fry’s site, there will
room not only for housing, but for parkland and community amenities
that will make this new neighborhood a vibrant addition to Ventura,
and ultimately to the city.
Thank you.
Marjan Wilkes
Ventura neighborhood
From:Aram James
To:Filseth, Eric (Internal); DuBois, Tom; Council, City; Dave Price; Braden Cartwright; Greer Stone; Binder, Andrew;Stump, Molly; Winter Dellenbach; Human Relations Commission; Sajid Khan; Jeff Rosen; Emily Mibach
Subject:Alvarez was not the only case where there was a delay in disclosure see the Gustavo Arevalo —happy donut
case- Joel Alejo case dog bit case —one $10 million pending law suit and Alejo 20 million pending —in other
words Alvarez was not a one off case
Date:Monday, September 13, 2021 6:07:29 PM
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From:R S Raman
To:Council, City
Subject:keeping University blocked to car traffic
Date:Monday, September 13, 2021 6:07:04 PM
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Respected Council,
I've been enjoying the open air dining and sauntering along University Avenue. I have long thought that University
Avenue should become a pedestrian mall for a number of blocks.
I spent some years in Boulder, Colorado which has the lovely and vibrant pedestrian Pearl Street Mall on its main
downtown street. Ever since retiring to Palo Alto, I have wished it had such a vibrant downtown. I would highly
recommend investigating what Boulder has done.
I've heard that some of Palo Alto's downtown merchants are against the closure because they fear they will lose
business. I believe they are quite wrong. If they think people won't come downtown because they wouldn't be able to
get a parking spot on University - well, most of the time now we can't get parking spots on University, and we still
come. Frankly, I would go downtown more often if it was a more pedestrian friendly area.
Having seen how the Boulder Pearl Street Mall is a "destination" - for an evening, for a meal, for entertainment - I
believe that having a vibrant downtown mall would actually attract more people to the area for browsing and dining
and shopping.
Thanks,
Raji Raman
From:Salar Hassani
To:Council, City
Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space!
Date:Monday, September 13, 2021 6:04:34 PM
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I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to
automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto
Thanks
Mbl Msg
From:Ann Balin
To:Council, City
Subject:Please keep the Avenues closed to cars
Date:Monday, September 13, 2021 5:59:35 PM
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Dear Mayor DuBois & fellow council members,
As we endure in the pandemic era I urge you to please keep both avenues University and California closed to cars.
One retailer on California Avenue told me that she and her husband miss the commuters that would pour off the
trains. This retailer said that the internet was partly to blame for decrease in sales and acknowledged that people
driving cars on the avenue were not their main marketshare. They said that their sales have improved this summer.
In other words it is not about the cars.
The tempo has changed and the quality of life has improved for many during this difficult period in our lives.
Residents and others enjoy the ambiance of the avenues sans automobiles.
However, I do feel that the council needs to address the complexity of the situation. The parklets need to be clean
and at a unified standard. Some are terrific while others detract from the avenues. Could we have more greenery on
the avenues in very large pots to soften ballards etc.
The scale of the parklets should be addressed as well.
One Palo Altan recently told me that the condition of the downtown with respect to University Avenue has
deteriorated with some merchants and restaurant owners having to clean up feces in the street.
In one town in Northern California (Chico) the landlords pay an annual amount approximately $900 to fund the
Downtown Ambassador teams. These individuals work as a team and wear vests to identify their position. The
sidewalks are cleaned and steamed. Graffiti is removed. The merchants are pleased with their regular attention to
maintaining downtown Chico as an attractive destination. Retailers are content and the shoppers and diners are more
than pleased.
If you think Palo Alto has a homeless issue then you have not been informed about the situation in Chico. Some of
these people are poor souls who lost their homes in Paradise. Others have been coming to Chico because as a
college town they found tolerance. Others still are mentally ill and drug users. Again, Palo Alto is not close to these
conditions yet Chico has come up with a SOLUTION to keep the downtown clean.
We need the police to walk the beat. Who would these officers be? They need to be EDUCATED and work as
liaisons WITH social workers. One suggestion is to have an officer paired with a social worker.
In sum, please keep the avenues closed to cars.
Sincerely,
Ann Lafargue Balin
From:Aram James
To:Greer Stone
Cc:Council, City; Dave Price; Braden Cartwright; Sajid Khan; Jeff Rosen; michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com
Subject:See 2019 report: and others I don’t agree with Gennaco’s assessment frequently the camera is blocked or othertechnical problems make it difficult for investigators to get a clear picture of the particular incident ….stressed inOIR’s reports
Date:Monday, September 13, 2021 5:54:03 PM
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From:Keith Bennett
To:Council, City
Subject:Re: Agenda Item 6, September 13, 2020
Date:Monday, September 13, 2021 5:41:23 PM
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Dear Mayor DuBois and Council Members:
Simply put, Palo Alto has too many offices and too little housing for
the people that work in the offices. For each square foot of office
space, many more square feet of housing and retail are required.
Especially with part-time work-at-home, about 100 - 200 square feet of
office space will be enough for one employee. That same person and
their family will want 1,000 square feet of build space for living and
amenities. It's time to end the externalization of the costs of office
space on Palo Alto's residents and quality of life.
I strongly urge the Council discontinue the non-conforming use for
offices by the Sorbrato Corporation at the Fry's site. Instead please
make sure that the current zoning is affirmed and that the site be used
for new housing which is a top priority for the city.
By discontinuing non-conforming uses at the Fry’s site, there will room
not only for housing, but for parkland and community amenities that will
make this new neighborhood a vibrant addition to Ventura, and ultimately
to the city.
Thank you.
Keith & Atsuko Bennett
2225 Webster St.
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Keith Bennett
http://savepaloaltosgroundwater.org
possible to add us? How much time can we get?
The list of speakers is:
Victor Tsaran
Angie EvansPavel Sirotin
Misty CohenJeff Selzer
Nancy Coupal
Here are the slides.
Thank you!
Best,
Pavel
Attached is an article elaborating on the perils of planning in uncertain times. San
Jose is a good example of urban plans prematurely set in concrete. Greater Silicon
Valley economics coupled with social change now is rapid and uncertain. Few cities
incur as much risk as commuter-dependent Palo Alto.
Both commercial cores are subject to great RTW and retail goods/services risk.
Competition from Town/Country, Stanford Shopping Center and adjacent cities is
expert and permanent. Affordable housing costs and adaptation are as disruptive
risks as new work and retail patterns.
Now is the time to take deep breathe and plan properly for the two commercial cores.
The agenda tonight suggests that land use decisions, including transfer of public
property, are being rushed unnecessarily.
Neilson Buchanan
155 Bryant Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
650 329-0484
650 537-9611 cell
cnsbuchanan@yahoo.com
From:Casey Leedom
To:Council, City
Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space!
Date:Monday, September 13, 2021 2:30:50 PM
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I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to
automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto
Casey Leedom
Resident 27 years
From:Catherine Cohen
To:Council, City
Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space!
Date:Monday, September 13, 2021 2:28:40 PM
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I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to
automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto
Catherine cohen
51 year resident
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155 Bryant Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
650 329-0484
650 537-9611 cellcnsbuchanan@yahoo.com
From:Kamran Tahamtanzadeh
To:Council, City
Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space!
Date:Monday, September 13, 2021 12:50:52 PM
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Dear City Of Palo Alto,
I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to
automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto
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From:Benita Kenn
To:Council, City
Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space!
Date:Monday, September 13, 2021 12:33:01 PM
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automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto
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From:Benita Kenn
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Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space!
Date:Monday, September 13, 2021 12:32:56 PM
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Foundation, with whom they have worked in Palo Alto and other communities.
They will work with them to consider Magical Bridge play spaces in the
proposed Park area.
The owner believes that this location is ideal for this transit-oriented development with
Caltrain and multiple bus lines within easy walking distance.
Without these levels of additional office space redevelopment, the owner is not
motivated to redevelop the site, given the highly successful development with thecurrent tenancy.
The owner looks forward to helping the City make this NVCAP effort a reality and is
available for further conversation.
Thank you,
Tom Gilman, AIA
C. Thomas Gilman, AIA, LEED APPrincipal | President DES Architects + Engineers | 399 Bradford Street | Redwood City, CA 94063T: 650.364.6453 | tgilman@des-ae.com | www.des-ae.com | @DESarchitects Architecture | Interior Design | Landscape Architecture | Structural Engineering | CivilEngineering | Visual Communications | LEED Coordination
the parking demand will be lower than other neighborhoods. A 2020 study by the
Regional Transportation District (RTD) of Metro Denver highlights the reduced
parking utilization within half a mile of transit:
“At market-rate properties, 40% of parking spaces go unused at peak, while
income restricted properties provide 50% more parking than used.”
The City of Palo Alto has been a leader in affordable housing and sustainability in the
region. But we’ve developed a reputation for making housing difficult and expensive
to build. The mean approval time for housing proposals in Palo Alto is substantially
higher than neighborhood cities; this contributes to even higher project development
costs.. Clear development guidelines which emphasize streamlining and incentives
for affordable housing would go a long way in changing that. We have an opportunity
in NVCAP to become leaders again - and meet the current and future needs of our
community.
Gail A. Price
President, Palo Alto Forward
cc: Planning and Transportation Commission, Housing Element Update Working
Group
Sincerely,
350 SV Palo Alto Steering Committee
the rights of applicants or other interested parties to respond to information contained in orattached to a Staff Report.
-Fred Balin
9/19/21
On Sep 19, 2021, at 5:49 PM, Margaret Heath <maggi650@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Mayor DuBois and City Council Members:
Please postpone discussion of the two proposals being offered in the At
Places Memo for City Council’s discussion about NVCAP at the 9/20/21
meeting.
I am particularly disappointed that staff continues to present council
members with late-breaking "at places memos" containing substantive
new information. A practice completely contrary to council policy thatsuch documents must be made available to the public at large a specificnumber of days ahead of any council action. Substantive late information
should automatically trigger postponement of any council discussion
until this requirement is met.
Not only do "at places memos" do a major disservice to council
members who are not given the courtesy of sufficient advance notice to
fully consider any ramifications, this practice contributes to theappearance of secrecy and collusion to subvert council policy for thebenefit of specific individuals or companies. Which continues to
severely undermine public trust.
In this particular case, the applicant's proposals offer major departuresaway from the intent of the NVCAP working group’s findings. These are
major not minor concerns. Consideration of any development on this
property should be postponed until the issue of how much, if any,
commercial development vs housing is resolved.
This proposal is particularly galling to our friends and neighbors who
gave thousands of hours in service to crafting a new vision for North
Ventura. I am particularly disappointed that staff presented this late-breaking information instead of pulling the item from the agenda.
Unfortunately, this gives all the appearance of a thinly disguised attempt
to undermine NVCAP's work and manipulate the outcome in favor of the
applicant.
Thank you for your attention,
margaret heath
2140 cornell street.
From:Susan Usman
To:Council, City
Subject:Item # 8 - At Places Memo
Date:Monday, September 20, 2021 7:36:35 AM
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Dear Mayor and Council Members,
I’m not sure how this item got on your agenda. It has nothing to do with the work the NVCAP working group has
done trying to determine the best use of the “Fry’s" space for the citizens of the city of Palo Alto. Please, please
don’t sell out to a big developer!! We need to develop this land for the betterment of our community. Sobrato is
just seeing $$$. They don’t care about quality of life in this part of the city. The NVCAP working group and the
general citizens of Palo Alto need to be able to study this new proposal.
Thank you,
Susan Usman
Triple El
From:Keri Wagner
To:Council, City
Cc:Keri Wagner
Subject:NVCAP report: biking considerations
Date:Monday, September 20, 2021 10:49:10 AM
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Dear Council Members —The most recent NVCAP report considers fully the development options for the area, however not much time wasleft for the committee to really consider a rail/Alma separated bike crossing in the North Ventura area. Theseparated bike/ped crossing in North Ventura is especially critical given that staff is proposing a reduction to therequired on-site parking for these developments. If parking requirements are reduced, more cars could be pushed topark on the streets which would degrade bike safety.
Given the severe shortage of park space currently existing in and planned for the Ventura neighborhood, a separatedbike/ped crossing becomes more critical for children and families who must bike farther for park-like amenities. Thebike/ped crossing in Ventura will also grant easier access for bikes to connect North Ventura with Midtownshopping and cafes, the Mitchell Park Library with its community center and wide variety of recreationalopportunities, and the Charleston Shopping Center.
The City has a rare opportunity when developing the North Ventura area, which is the chance to improve bikeconnectivity for South Palo Alto residents and to provide a long-awaited separated bike/ped crossing, of which thereare none in South Palo Alto. A separated bike/ped crossing in North Ventura also allows safer bike connectivity andhelps abate the impact to bikes and pedestrians during the construction of the grade separations at EastMeadow/Alma and East Charleston/Alma.
I am a resident of Charleston Meadows and I strongly urge Council to fund a study of where to build this separatedbike/ped crossing, and how to mitigate the impact to bikes and pedestrians during the multi-year construction whichwill take place in North Ventura and at the two rail crossings.
Thank you,Keri WagnerEdlee AvePalo Alto
650-740-7964