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2022-08-15 City Council Emails
701-32 DOCUMENTS IN THIS PACKET INCLUDE: LETTERS FROM CITIZENS TO THE MAYOR OR CITY COUNCIL RESPONSES FROM STAFF TO LETTERS FROM CITIZENS ITEMS FROM MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ITEMS FROM OTHER COMMITTEES AND AGENCIES ITEMS FROM CITY, COUNTY, STATE, AND REGIONAL AGENCIES Prepared for: 08/15 /2022 Document dates: 08/08/2022 – 8/15/2022 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. From:slevy@ccsce.com To:Council, City Cc:Lait, Jonathan; Wong, Tim; Shikada, Ed Subject:Prescreen tomorrow Date:Sunday, August 14, 2022 7:54:45 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Mayor Burt and council members, I see that there is a prescreen on tomorrow's (8/15) agenda that meets two objectives of this council: --converting commercial uses to housing --approving projects using the PHZ zone created by council that provides 20% BMR units in exchange for zoning and development standards that can make such projects financially feasible. I support these objectives and note further that next week you will counsel staff on what is needed to make these objectives bring forth feasible projects on the large number of GM/ROLM sites you want in the HE site inventory. I feel certain that property owners for these sites will be watching (as will HCD) how council reacts to projects like the one tomorrow. I am hoping for some encouragement in the comments you provide to the owner tomorrow. Stephen Levy Palo Alto Free Press @PAFreePress @SantaClaraDA Rosen soft on @PaloAltoPolice violent crimes Past and Present. Chief of sexual detectives sentenced one year in jail bit.ly/3ROHycM if this was an #AfricanAmerican #LatinoAmerican 25 to life prison. Not an isolated occurrence it’s a national problem #CPRA pic.twitter.com/rHLCV6YP5d 8/13/22, 7:47 AM From:Palo Alto Free Press To:Wagner, April; Binder, Andrew; Shikada, Ed; Council, City; James Aram; Stump, Molly; Sean Webby; Sue Dremann; Pat Burt; Milton, Lesley; Maloney, Con; Reifschneider, James; Perron, Zachary; Robert Jonsen; Brian Welch; Jay Boyarsky; Human Relations Commission; ladoris cordell; Jeff Rosen; Bill Johnson; Bains, Paul; David Angel; mark weiss; Gennady Sheyner; Diana Diamond; Press strong Subject:Tweet by Palo Alto Free Press on Twitter Date:Sunday, August 14, 2022 2:10:58 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. What's interesting is that Twitter disallowed the promotion of this tweet in the US, it was rejected however I changed the geographic location to Nicaragua and it was accepted... Sent from my iPhone Palo Alto Free Press @PAFreePress The last time I drove my vehicle to @cityofpaloalto My home town then, I was the target of #RacialProfiling by the @PaloAltoPolice and Ticketed for not having a California license plate and registration... they are notorious for ticketing citizens from East Palo Alto too. pic.twitter.com/KPoXB4BnmE 8/14/22, 9:01 AM From:Palo Alto Free Press To:Council, City; Maloney, Con; Cody@salfenlaw.com; Cindy Chavez; Binder, Andrew; Pat Burt; Press strong; Burt, Patrick; James Aram; Stump, Molly; Human Relations Commission Subject:I was targeted by the Palo Alto Police - Tweet by Palo Alto Free Press on Twitter Date:Sunday, August 14, 2022 11:11:37 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. If at anytime you would like to see the actual evidence….let me know Chief Sent from my iPad From:Katharine Terry To:Council, City Subject:Hosting parking spots at First Congregational church of Palo Alto Date:Sunday, August 14, 2022 7:29:23 AM [Some people who received this message don't often get email from kathyt140@me.com. Learn why this is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ To the Mayor and City Council of Palo Alto, I am deeply concerned about the negative backlash against the hosting of four vehicles of homeless persons at the back of the First Congregational church of Palo Alto. I feel this is a very small and acceptable way to host just a few of our unhoused population in a safe and caring way. This is a great use of our church property and the very least we can do. I have seen such disturbing reactions to this move by our neighbors. The church pastors, Rev. Dr. Eileen Altman and Senior Pastor Dave Howell and the church office have devoted an incredible amount of time to this issue. They have listened and responded. They are leaders in our community. The vehicle occupants will be known and have access to proper facilities for hygiene and other care. They are not criminals or horrid in any way. There are only four vehicles in a quiet, out of the way spot in the back of the church. There will be every step taken to address reasonable concerns, like providing warmth in cold weather or amount of time the cars are idling. Homelessness is a terrible tragedy in the midst of wealth and plenty. Criminalizing and stigmatizing unfortunate people is unconscionable and our Palo Alto City Council should not accept that. It’s only FOUR PARKING SPACES!! Please help our church do something good for a few people. Thank you for listening. Kathy Terry 140 Walter Hays Drive Palo Alto, CA Landline 650-856-0783, feel free to leave a message From:Yahoo Mail.® To:Honky Subject:JFK SAID THAT THE WAY I WAS MEANT TO BE, I WAS BORN TO BE "FREE AND INDEPENDENT" HERE IS HOW TO DO IT Date:Sunday, August 14, 2022 12:16:31 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. IN A NUTSHELL Is the United States a Republic … or Corporation? Is the United States a Republic … or Corporation? From:Aram James To:Pat Burt; Tom DuBois; Alison Cormack; Filseth, Eric (Internal); Greer Stone; epatoday@epatoday.org; Shikada, Ed; Winter Dellenbach; Council, City; Human Relations Commission; Linda Jolley; Joe Simitian; Jeff Rosen; Jay Boyarsky; Jethroe Moore; Sean Allen; Rebecca Eisenberg; Roberta Ahlquist; wilpfpeninsulapaloalto@gmail.com; paloaltorenters@gmail.com; Planning Commission Subject:Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion Date:Saturday, August 13, 2022 10:48:19 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ > > https://youtu.be/hNDgcjVGHIw > > > Sent from my iPhone From:C Ya To:Council, City Subject:Lincoln/Middlefield Accident #11. — Nextdoor Date:Saturday, August 13, 2022 9:30:09 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from ckyana@gmail.com. Learn whythis is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. From my neighborhood: https://nextdoor.com/p/Gg933rPDBdpY? utm_source=share&extras=MjI1NzgwNjY%3D From:Allen Akin To:Kamhi, Philip Cc:Council, City; cnsbuchanan@yahoo.com; jguislin@gmail.com Subject:Is Lincoln Ave still a residential street? Date:Saturday, August 13, 2022 8:00:34 PM [Some people who received this message don't often get email from akin@arden.org. Learn why this is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Hi, Philip! Minutes ago a tanker drove past my house on Lincoln Ave. On the side was displayed a pink breast-cancer ribbon and the slogan "Fuel for the Cure". On the back it read "Got Diesel?" Craig Yana's done a great job documenting the accidents at Lincoln and Middlefield, and I sincerely hope work is under way to manage the cut-through traffic that's putting Addison Elementary kids at risk there. I'd almost become resigned to the Safeway and Sysco tractor-trailer rigs using Lincoln while making deliveries to businesses downtown. But this tanker reminded me that the non-residential traffic on a nominally-residential street is really out of control. If you're not working on it already, please think more about diverting commercial traffic away from residential areas. The Comp Plan guidance on this subject seems reasonable to me, and apparently it's time to act on it. Best, Allen Akin From:Aram James To:Planning Commission; Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Human Relations Commission; city.council@menlopark.org; Council, City; Winter Dellenbach; chuck jagoda; Jeff Rosen; Jethroe Moore; Greer Stone; Raj; Roberta Ahlquist; Joe Simitian; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org; supervisor.lee@bos.sccgov.org; Lewis. james Subject:Urgent! Request for endorsement Free Julian! Free Mumia! Free Palestine! Saturday, Sept 17 Date:Saturday, August 13, 2022 7:55:52 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Greetings all, Please forward this out to as many people as you can. Also, if your organization can endorse, please do asap, even those of you who do not live in the San Francisco Bay Area. in solidarity Donna ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jeff Mackler <jmackler@lmi.net> Date: Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 5:31 PM Subject: Urgent! Request for endorsement Free Julian! Free Mumia! Free Palestine! Saturday, Sept 17 To: Jeff Mackler <jmackler@lmi.net> Dear Friends, We organizing a major Saturday evening, 7:00 pm September 17 rally at Berkeley’s First Congregational Church. The themes are: Free Julian! Free Mumia! Free Palestine! [The Julian, is Julian Assange] We need your endorsement real soon. Endorsers will be listed on the major fliers and other advertisements.The condition for adding your name is simply that you will help promote this important event via your various lists. Here are the confirmed speakers and presenters: Those with an asterisk will be via Zoom. Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize novelist Pam Africa Chair, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu- Jamal Mumia Abu-Jamal via phone or Zoom Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize journalist* Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers defendant* Susan Schnall, National President, Veterans for Peace Joe Lombardo, National Coordinator, United National Antiwar Coalition* Jeff Mackler, National Steering Committee, Assangedefense.org; Director, Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Nozomi Hayase, Author, WikiLeaks: The Global Fourth Estate Vincent De Stefano, Coordinator, Assangedefrense.org; Amnesty International, Los Angeles Dennis Bernstein, Host, KPFA’s Flashpoints Rick Sterling, Journalist; Syria Solidarity Movement Cynthia Papermaster, Code Pink/Women for Peace Representative, Middle East Children’s Alliance Representative, Palestinian Youth Movement Sponsors: The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal Initial co-sponsors: Middle East Children’s Alliance Courage Foundation/Assange Defense.org Bay Area Committee to Defend Julian Assange Veterans for Peace/nationally Code Pink/SFBay Area Vincent De Stefano, Board member, Amnesty International/Los Angeles James Lafferty, Executive Director Emeritus/National Lawyers Guild/Los Angeles United National Antiwar Coalition Oscar Grant Committee Dennis Bernstein, Host, KPFA’s Flashpoints Popular Resistance Please let me know if you are available to help at the event. In solidarity and event coordinator, Jeff Mackler, National Steering Committee, Assangedefense.org; Director, Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal 510-387-7714 -- "Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them." Assata Shakur 2 books you must read: "Against Our Better Judgement: The hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel" by Alison Weir http://www.againstourbetterjudgment.com/ "State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel" by Thomas Suarez http://thomassuarez.com/SoT.html Free Palestine! Right of Return to Palestine for all Palestinians! Free all political prisoners! Leonard Peltier www.WhoIsLeonardPeltier.info Mumia Abu-Jamal www.FreeMumia.com Ruchell Cinque Magee http://denverabc.wordpress.com/prisoners-dabc-supports/political- prisoners-database/ruchell-cinque-magee/ Russell Maroon Shoatz https://russellmaroonshoats.wordpress.com/ Mutulu Shakur http://mutulushakur.com/site/ Julian Assange https://assangedefense.org The Holy Land Five: Shukri Abu Baker Ghassan Elashi Mufid Abdulqader Abdulrahman Odeh Mohammad Elmezain https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-trial-and-conviction-of-the-holy-land-foundation- five/237440/ and thousands more End Solitary Confinement https://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com California Prison Focus http://newest.prisons.org/our_story End United $tates of Amerikkka invasions and occupations U.S. Government and UN Occupation Force Soldiers - Hands off Haiti! http://www.haitisolidarity.net/ Donna Wallach DonnaIsAnActivist@gmail.com Skype: palestinewillbe Twitter: @PalestineWillBe (cell) 408-569-6608 -- 2 books you must read: "Against Our Better Judgement: The hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel" by Alison Weir http://www.againstourbetterjudgment.com/ "State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel" by Thomas Suarez http://thomassuarez.com/SoT.html Other important websites to visit http://www.ifamericansknew.org http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/new/ https://wearenotnumbers.org/ End the Blockade/Siege on Gaza! Tear down the Apartheid Walls in West Bank & Gaza! End the War Criminal Israeli collective punishment on the Palestinian people! End the illegal Apartheid Israeli Occupation of all of Palestine! Right to Return to their homes and land in Palestine for all Palestinians! End all U.S. aid to Israel Free Palestine! Long Live Palestine! Support Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) & Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) Campaigns! http://www.bdsmovement.net http://www.WhoProfits.org http://www.pacbi.org Support Solidarity with Gaza Fishers https://sgf.freedomflotilla.org/ https://freedomflotilla.org/ https://sgf.freedomflotilla.org/category/we-are-not-numbers Support ISM volunteers in West Bank and Gaza Strip! http://www.palsolidarity.org Donna Wallach cats4jazz@gmail.com Skype: palestinewillbe Twitter: @PalestineWillBe (h) 408-289-1522 (cell) 408-569-6608 From:Allan Seid To:Channing House Bulletin Board Subject:Fwd: Exhibit on Japanese internment camps on view at former Tanforan site Date:Saturday, August 13, 2022 2:46:06 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. From: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 2:40 PM Subject: Exhibit on Japanese internment camps on view at former Tanforan site Source: San Jose Mercury, 8/12/22 https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/12/exhibit-on-japanese-internment- camps-on-view-at-former-san-bruno-site/? campaign=sjmnsanmateocounty&+utm_email+=5471747C047CF4F134FEE503F E&g2i_eui=sqnKQBf51kRyOuCrHJAwNHEFBT0TrrOE&g2i_source=newslette r&lctg=5471747C047CF4F134FEE503FE&active=yesP&utm_source=listrak&ut m_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mercurynews.com%2f202 2%2f08%2f12%2fexhibit-on-japanese-internment-camps-on-view-at-former-san- bruno-site%2f&utm_campaign=bang-sjmn-nl-san-mateo-county-news- nl&utm_content=automated Exhibit on Japanese internment camps on view at former Tanforan site Randy McMullen August 12, 2022 at 4:57 p.m. Bob Hsiang/Sansei Granddaughters’ Journey Five artists participating in “Sansei Granddaughters’ Journey” are, from left, Na Omi Judy Shintani, Reiko Fujii, Ellen Bepp, Shari Arai DeBoer, and Kathy Fujii-Oka. Eighty years ago, the Tanforan Racetrack in San Bruno was converted into a temporary “Assembly Center” that eventually held some 8,000 Japanese Americans being rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. Today, on the same grounds, you can visit an art exhibit devoted to that dark chapter of U.S. history. “Sansei Granddaughters’ Journey, From Remembrance to Resistance,” features the works of five third-generation Japanese American artists dedicated to preserving the legacy of Executive Order 9066, under which President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the incarceration of some 120,000 Japanese Americans, most of whom were U.S. citizens. The exhibit, consisting of videos, sculptures and installations, prints, paintings and mixed-media pieces, features the works of Shari Arai DeBoer, Ellen Bepp, Reiko Fujii, Kathy Fujii-Oka, and Na Omi Judy Shintani. It’s on display at AZ Gallery in The Shops at Tanforan, the site of the original race track. “The injustice of our government incarcerating innocent men, women, and children based on greed, fear, and racial prejudice, resulting in the loss of life, homes, businesses, trust, and self-esteem, is deplorable,” said Reiko Fujii, a Bay Area glass works and installations artist who is one of the participants in the exhibit. “I am adamant about chronicling their stories so that they are a recorded part of American history and that these people’s experiences are not forgotten.” Artist-led tours of the exhibit are available noon-12:30 p.m. Aug. 13, 3:30-4 p.m. Aug. 21 and 1-1:30 p.m. Sept. 3. On Aug. 14, the gallery will host a screening of a related 27-minute film, “Sansei Granddaughters’ Journey,” which documents the five artists’ trip in 2018 to the Manzanar internment camp near Los Angeles, where some 10,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned. A discussion follows the film screening. Details: Exhibit runs through Sept. 3; AZ Gallery is at 1150 El Camino Real, Suite 254, San Bruno; hours are 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sundays; admission is free; for information visit www.sanseigranddaughters.com, or contact 650-483-6066 or SanseiGranddaughters@gmail.com. Other related events: Topaz Stories: Preserving stories of Japanese American Incarceration, led by Ruth Sasaki; 1-2 p.m. Aug. 13. Remnants of Tanforan Incarceration: Musical taiko performance by Naoko Amemiya and Lori Honjiyo and slideshow on Tanforan artifacts by Nancy Ukai; 1-2:30 p.m. Aug. 20. Flowering Cherry Blossom Workshop: 12 attendees will create textile cherry blossom flowers using personal photos of their loved ones; 1-3 p.m. Aug. 21. Tsuru For Solidarity Art and Social Justice Talk: Includes screening of two films, “Flying Cranes” and “Tsuru History”; 1-2:30 p.m. Aug. 28. From:Aram James To:Sean Allen; Binder, Andrew; Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Winter Dellenbach; Foley, Michael; michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com; Figueroa, Eric; city.council@menlopark.org; Jeff Rosen; Tannock, Julie; ladoris cordell; Enberg, Nicholas; Jethroe Moore; Rebecca Eisenberg; Greer Stone; Jay Boyarsky; Vara Ramakrishnan; Josh Becker; Cindy Chavez; Perron, Zachary; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com Subject:Will police reform in Yonkers leave along with the boss? | The Marshall Project Date:Saturday, August 13, 2022 9:17:18 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ FYI: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/07/14/we-spent-a-year-following-a-troubled-police-force-listen-to-what- we-learned-about-reform Sent from my iPhone From:Aram James To:Tannock, Julie; Enberg, Nicholas; Shikada, Ed; Human Relations Commission; Perron, Zachary; michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com; Foley, Michael; chuck jagoda; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Council, City; Binder, Andrew; robert.parham@cityofpaloalto.org; Figueroa, Eric; Jeff Rosen Subject:From The Mercury News e-edition - Ex-police officer gets 7-plus years in prison Date:Friday, August 12, 2022 10:32:56 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I saw this The Mercury News e-edition article on the The Mercury News e-edition app and thought you’d be interested. Ex-police officer gets 7-plus years in prison https://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?guid=da088cbd-d909-4822-8204- 83083b71bcf1&appcode=SAN252&eguid=1d2e0a63-63be-4eff-aa1d-8640fff49f72&pnum=20# For more great content like this subscribe to the The Mercury News e-edition app here: Sent from my iPhone From:Dilma Coleman To:comms@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk; 4201@sanjoseca.gov Cc:4106@sanjoseca.gov; snlstandbyline@gmail.com Subject:Fwd: Investigate the reality of what led to the Appearance of the 2006 stroke death on Emir Of Kuwait Sheikh Jabir Al Ahmed Al Jab Al Sabah. Date:Friday, August 12, 2022 6:24:01 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Dilma Coleman <dhappinessforever@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Aug 10, 2022, 10:08 AM Subject: Investigate the reality of what led to the Appearance of the 2006 stroke death on Emir Of Kuwait Sheikh Jabir Al Ahmed Al Jab Al Sabah. To: <info@kuwait-embassy.or.jp>, <rian.davies@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk> Cc: <falk@un.org>, <amiroffice@da.gov.kw> Hello it's Dilma Coleman aka Diva Lee MD+JD. Diva was attacked on Stanford University campus she was hung by a noose. Let's solve the cold case. Similarities between the Death of Bruce Shand the father of Camilla Shand Duchess of Cornwall. In this email, Diva Lee MD JD wants to give greater details and she could if you pay her for her investigations..Dilma Coleman aka Diva Lee MD JD has been trapped by those individuals philanthropist organizers who keep doing terrorist acts and it's obvious that it's true.. It's important to stop these attacks with the use of the Blackout GHB drugs and other fentanyl drug overdoses..and gather evidence quickly whereas these attacks could stop the occurrences of violent crimes. Jaber III Al Ahmed Al Sabah had removed noose from Diva's neck and gave medical assistance. After reviewing the incident Attachment #6-7 Diva Lee aka Dilma Coleman didn't return to work at Atascadero state hospital she was attacked furthermore at Napa State hospital St.Helena. Dilma Coleman aka Diva Lee was employed at the state mental hospital as a Law enforcement agent at the state mental hospital and had done internship as a Psychiatric nurse and gain access as a surgeon.. What led Sheikh Jabir Al Ahmed Al Sabah to Atascadero state mental hospital in 2006? The killer was Barack Obama and others from that Negro Church E.Menlo Park,CA..605 Hamilton Ave.. The attack on Sheikh Jabir Al Ahmed Al Sabah was done at Atascadero state mental hospital he had a series of physical altercations beatings whereas they administered drugs on his body.. drugs (blackout drugs)onto his body that gave him heavy breathing. There was a grand escape on state mental hospital Atascadero CA. Yes Joseph Steven Lacobs was present. Attachment #1-#3 Emir Sheikh Jabir Al Ahmed Al Sabah 2006 Emir of Kuwait. Best regards Dilma Coleman aka Diva Lee MD+JD From:Aram James To:Winter Dellenbach; Shikada, Ed; Human Relations Commission; Council, City; Pat Burt; Greer Stone; Jason Green; Rebecca Eisenberg; Sean Allen; chuck jagoda; Binder, Andrew; Joe Simitian; Jeff Rosen; Sean james; Sean Webby; citycouncil@mountainview.gov; city.council@menlopark.org; Planning Commission; Council, City; Jethroe Moore; wilpfpeninsulapaloalto@gmail.com; chuck jagoda Subject:The approval of appointment for Andrew Binder on Monday heard the persistent question of transparency, following City Manager Ed Shikada’s closed-door process for interviewing and selecting Palo Alto’s next police chief. — Nextdoor Date:Friday, August 12, 2022 5:46:49 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ From my neighborhood: https://nextdoor.com/p/3prhgqtKtrx3?utm_source=share&extras=NDU4MDU3NTA%3D Sent from my iPhone From:Aram James To:Perron, Zachary; Enberg, Nicholas; Human Relations Commission; Planning Commission; Council, City; Winter Dellenbach; Shikada, Ed; chuck jagoda; Jeff Rosen; paloaltorenters@gmail.com; Jethroe Moore; Jay Boyarsky; Greer Stone; Pat Burt; ParkRec Commission; epatoday@epatoday.org; Rebecca Eisenberg; Vara Ramakrishnan; Roberta Ahlquist Subject:Cops Throw Away Porch Camera Evidence Of Them Saying N-Word Date:Friday, August 12, 2022 5:32:39 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ https://youtu.be/pnAZ_zyqUI0 Sent from my iPhone From:Yahoo Mail.® To:Honky Subject:The world has come a long way in the last few decades in its ability to treat cancer. ???????? BUT Date:Friday, August 12, 2022 3:12:30 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. The world has come a long way in the last few decades in its ability to treat cancer. Yet many people still die from the disease, creating growing frustrations regarding the lack of treatment options. Here at CHIPSA we have been committed to staying on the the forefront of integrative oncology for over 40 years. Below are cancer treatments that are unique to CHIPSA: https://chipsahospital.org/four-cancer-treatments.../ From:Palo Alto Free Press To:Horrigan-Taylor, Meghan; Shikada, Ed Cc:James Aram; Binder, Andrew; Wagner, April; Council, City; Pat Burt; Stump, Molly; Sean Webby Subject:Screenshot 2022-08-12 at 1.25.18 PM Date:Friday, August 12, 2022 12:26:48 PM Attachments:Screenshot 2022-08-12 at 1.25.18 PM.png CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ We're building momentum.... Sent from my iPhone From:Sumpter, Andria To:san.francisco_san.jose@hsr.ca.gov Cc:Council, City; City Mgr; Kamhi, Philip; Lait, Jonathan Subject:RE: -Updated City of Palo Alto: Comments on the High Speed Rail Final EIR-EIS Date:Friday, August 12, 2022 11:43:12 AM Attachments:City of Palo Alto - Comments on the High Speed Rail Final EIR-EIS w attachment.pdf image001.png image002.png image004.png image005.png image006.png image007.png Good morning, This email follows the email (below) submitted on August 11, 2022. On behalf of the City of Palo Alto, please find attached the updated letter with the City’s comments regarding the High Speed Rail Final EIR-EIS. This updated document contains an attachment (Attachment A), which is referenced within the letter. Please feel free to reach out to: Philip Kamhi, Director of the Office of Transportation (Philip.Kamhi@CityofPaloAlto.org) for any questions or further information. We look forward to your response/further discussion. Thank you kindly, Andria Sumpter Administrative Assistant Office of Transportation (650) 329-2552 | andria.sumpter@cityofpaloalto.org www.cityofpaloalto.org From: Sumpter, Andria Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2022 6:28 PM To: san.francisco_san.jose@hsr.ca.gov Cc: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; City Mgr <CityMgr@cityofpaloalto.org>; Kamhi, Philip <Philip.Kamhi@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org> Subject: City of Palo Alto: Comments on the High Speed Rail Final EIR-EIS Good evening, On behalf of the City of Palo Alto, please find the attached letter with the City’s comments regarding the High Speed Rail Final EIR-EIS. Please feel free to reach out to: Philip Kamhi, Director of the Office of Transportation (Philip.Kamhi@CityofPaloAlto.org) for any questions or further information. We look forward to your response/further discussion. Thank you, Andria Sumpter Administrative Assistant Office of Transportation (650) 329-2552 | andria.sumpter@cityofpaloalto.org www.cityofpaloalto.org August 11, 2022 Northern California Regional Office California High-Speed Rail Authority 100 Paseo De San Antonio, Suite 300 San Jose, CA 95113 Email: san.francisco_san.jose@hsr.ca.gov RE: The San Francisco to San José Project Section Final Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS) Thank you for the including the City of Palo Alto (City) in the environmental review process for the above- referenced project. The California High Speed Rail (HSR) will have a long-lasting and far-reaching impact on the City of Palo Alto; therefore, we appreciate the opportunity to comment on this Final EIR/EIS as a responsible agency for the Project. Executive Summary The Final EIR/EIS, similar to the Draft EIR, remains seriously flawed in numerous respects, as outlined in this letter. As the City previously commented, the document fails to adequately analyze or to mitigate a variety of clear and significant impacts on the environment. The City disagrees with the Authority’s conclusion that grade separation of at grade crossings does not warrant evaluation, either as mitigation or as an alternative in the EIR, to address the clear and significant impacts on multi-modal transportation, land use, noise, and emergency response. We support the Authority’s addition of four quadrant gates, which improve pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular safety at these crossings when compared to a project that does not include four quadrant gates. However, the EIR/EIS is flawed in its conclusion that there would be no impacts on safety and, therefore, mitigation to address safety concerns would not be warranted. The City also disagrees with the Authority’s position that the cumulative impacts of this project with the adopted Caltrain Vision Plan do not warrant analysis. By not planning for this reasonably foreseeable future condition, the Authority does not properly disclose impacts in accordance with CEQA and NEPA. For example, underreporting the realistic impacts on delays for emergency responders. In addition, it avoids identification of the need for passing tracks that the City understands would be necessary in Palo Alto, among other jurisdictions, under this cumulative scenario. Avoidance of appropriate planning for this reasonably foreseeable future condition jeopardizes local planning efforts in the design of grade separation projects. Therefore, the Final EIR continues to fall short of reasonable analysis, mitigation, and public disclosure in accordance with state law. Project Understanding The City understands that the San Francisco to San Jose Project Section (project) would provide High Speed Rail (HSR) service from the Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco to Diridon Station in San Jose along approximately 49 miles of the Caltrain corridor. Within the City of Palo Alto, the project would be located along 3.8 miles of Caltrain right-of-way through the middle of Palo Alto, where the existing Caltrain tracks bifurcate the City from east to West. The current project design proposes a blended infrastructure with Caltrain operations through the City. The current proposed project, as well as both Alternatives carried forward in the environmental analysis, propose two at-grade tracks through the City, mostly within the existing Caltrain right-of-way. The City understands that within Palo Alto, the project would require slight modifications (typically of less than one foot) to the tracks in several areas to straighten curves in order to support higher speeds. The project also requires the installation of two radio towers (one north of Embarcadero Road and one north of West Charleston Road), four-quadrant gates at existing at-grade San Francisco to San José Final EIR/EIS Comments Page 2 of 5 crossings, and either fencing or sound walls along the entire corridor within the City. The Project will provide HSR services at a downtown San Francisco station, a Millbrae station, and the San Jose Diridon Station; no station is proposed within the City of Palo Alto under the current proposed project or either of the two alternatives. The blended system would accommodate operating speeds of up to 110 mph for up to four HSR trains and six Caltrain trains per hour per direction in the peak period. HSR and Caltrain are the only passenger rail services that would operate in the blended system. North of the Santa Clara Caltrain Station, freight would use the same tracks as HSR and Caltrain but would operate at night with temporal separation to avoid conflicting with HSR and Caltrain operation, similar to existing conditions. Rail Alignment, Profile, and Safety 1. The EIR concludes that there would be a significant impact related to emergency response times within several jurisdictions, including within the City of Palo Alto’s jurisdiction at the Menlo Park/Palo Alto Boundary west of El Camino Real and North of Sand Hill Road. The impacted areas include specific land uses where response times for emergency vehicles would be particularly important, including, but not limited to, assisted living facilities. The EIR/EIS identifies SS-MM #4 which indicates that the City should implement measures to reduce impacts related to the Authority’s HSR project. Suggested measures provided in the EIR/EIS include construction of emergency vehicle and transit queue bypass lanes, modifying roadway capacity and operational improvements to facilities paralleling the rail line to improve access to adjacent grade-separated rail crossings, construction of new fire stations to reduce fire station response times in affected areas, and/or expansion of existing fire stations to reduce fire station response times in affected areas in order to reduce impacts from the Authority’s project. Alternatively, SS-MM #4indicates that the Authority, with agreement from the local jurisdiction, could make a one-time contribution toward a project that reduce impacts related to emergency response such as those listed above or grade separation. The identified mitigation improperly defers the responsibility of mitigation for the HSR project to the City, both with respect to cost and implementation. It’s unclear whether any of these measures could be feasibly implemented (for example due to lack of right-of-way for expanding roadways, lack of land to build a new or expanded fire station, or with respect to funding or staffing to facilitate any of these future projects). Further, the EIR/EIS fails to analyze the associated environmental impacts of implementing such measures, improperly stating that the responsibility of preparing environmental analysis for that mitigation would fall on the local jurisdiction. The vague alternative mitigation of providing a one-time contribution toward an unspecified project for emergency response times fails to provide any realistic, concrete reduction to the identified impacts and therefore does not provide any meaningful mitigation. Grade separation would reduce this identified significant and unavoidable impact to a less than significant level and therefore must be analyzed. As stated in the City’s previous comments on this project, if the Authority does not pursue at-grade crossings as part of an alternative or as mitigation to restore response times, the Authority must bear the full cost of restoring response times to existing conditions. 2. The EIR/EIS analyzes the effect of HSR train operations on safety for vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians crossing at at-grade crossings in section 3.11, Safety and Security. The EIR/EIS concludes that, with considerations of planned safety improvements as part of the project, there would be no significant safety impacts associated with the project and that no mitigation is therefore required. While the City concurs that the addition of four quadrant gates improves safety at these crossings, particularly for vehicles, the City disagrees that this measure reduces the significant safety impacts from the proposed project to a less than significant level. Two at-grade crossings along this corridor in Palo Alto are listed in San Francisco to San José Final EIR/EIS Comments Page 3 of 5 the top 5 locations on the FRA Accident Prediction Report (See attached Exhibit A). The addition of four quadrant gates alone would not serve to significantly reduce impacts when considering the increased hazards associated with increases in the number of trains and higher speed of trains. The conclusion also fails to consider other safety impacts caused by increased gate down times. For example, vehicle delays would result in extensive queueing spilling on to through lanes, which would create safety hazards near at grade crossings. 3. The City recognizes that the Authority’s implementation of four-quadrant gates as part of the proposed project in the Final EIR/EIS would assist the City in establishing a quite zone for Palo Alto Crossings. The City also appreciates modifications to NV-MM#4 requiring that the Authority assist with the preparation of technical analysis and materials needed for local jurisdictions to file a Quiet Zone application with the Federal Railroad Administration. The City supports this requirement and appreciates the Authority’s response to the City’s comments on this matter to reduce operational noise impacts on surrounding uses. However, because approval of quiet zones is outside of the Authority’s purview and because alternative mitigation that requires construction of sound walls across most of the City’s jurisdiction would result in further impacts to aesthetics and land use, the City continues to assert that grade separation should be evaluated to reduce the identified significant impacts related to operational noise. This mitigation would be within the Authority’s purview and would eliminate the improper need for the City to provide resources and funding to mitigate the impacts of the Authority’s project. To the extent that sound walls are installed along the corridor within the City of Palo Alto (e.g. where required regardless of implementation of a quiet zone or across most of the City if quiet zones are not implemented), the City requests that the Authority perform outreach and seek local input when preparing the design. Cumulative Impacts 4. The City reiterates the concerns raised in its previous comments that the EIR/EIS does not address the cumulative impacts of CAHSR and Caltrain service vison plans. The EIR assumes 6 trains per direction per peak hour per day, however the Caltrain Vision Plans considers up to 12 trains per direction per peak hour per day. By not analyzing the reasonably foreseeable cumulative impacts of the Caltrain Vision Plan and the proposed project, the EIR/EIS does not properly disclose the realistic delays in response times, among other environmental impacts, including but not limited to, transportation operations and safety, which may result in new or more significant impacts than those identified. The City continues to assert that impacts to all elements combined, including vehicular, bike and pedestrian safety, delays, and emergency response warrants analysis of grade separation as an alternative to the proposed project or as mitigation. Proper analysis of the reasonably foreseeable future condition would only further demonstrate the need for a comprehensive plan to address the identified impacts such as grade separation. Because passing tracks and grade separation are necessitated by the proposed project, the CHSRA must be responsible for implementation and funding of these projects. The High-Speed Rail should not commence service until these infrastructure improvements are complete. Transportation 5. The EIR/EIS contemplates the gate close time of 40-48 seconds for peak hour for 8 trains during any weekday period. Considering the advanced preemption and gate down initiation and opening times, the times assumed in the analysis are not indicative of actual field conditions. Furthermore, there are existing gate closures due to the existing Caltrain running along this corridor. The EIR/EIS must evaluate the cumulative conditions for these gate time closures and based on the realistic delays on traffic. Even when utilizing less conservative assumptions for anticipated gate down times, as noted above, Appendix 3.2A (Page 45, 46, 94, 95) indicates that eight of Palo Alto’s intersections would be significantly impacted. TR-MM#1 in Section 3.2, Transportation, of the Final EIR/EIS discusses site-specific mitigation San Francisco to San José Final EIR/EIS Comments Page 4 of 5 identified for adverse LOS effects under NEPA. The Authority developed site-specific mitigation for the Final EIR/EIS for certain locations where adverse NEPA traffic effects were identified. However, the Authority concludes that no feasible mitigation was identified that could address the effects of any of these intersections, including: El Camino Real/Palo Alto Avenue/Sand Hill Road, Alma Street/Palo Alto Avenue, Alma Street/Churchill Avenue, Mariposa Avenue/Churchill Avenue, Park Boulevard/Meadow Avenue, Park Boulevard/Charleston Road, Castilleja Avenue/Churchill Avenue, and Wilkie Way/West Charleston Road. Therefore, the significant impacts at all of these Palo Alto intersections remain unmitigated. The related impacts on the City with respect to multi-modal transportation and the physical division of the City due to these substantial delays is unacceptable. Grade separation would serve to address these impacts and therefore must be analyzed in the EIR/EIS. 6. Despite significantly higher train speeds, as noted in the Authority’s response to comments 1118-2530, the requirements for warning times and gate down times would not change. As the City previously asserted, this presents safety concerns in that there is reduced reaction time for pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles. The addition of four-quadrant gates does not address this reduction in reaction times, especially for young kids that may be crossing the tracks to attend one of the many nearby schools. Therefore, the conclusion that the project would have no impact on safety is flawed. The EIR/EIS must conclude that this is a significant impact and accordingly mitigate for the impact. 7. The Authority also notes that “Caltrain is the host railroad and is responsible for compliance withal FRA safety regulations with regard to track and warning systems and would be responsible to make any adjustments in gate activation and any connection to preemption of nearby traffic signal systems.” Again, no clarity on how the Authority may change the nearby traffic signal systems is provided and there is no requirement in the EIR/EIS to coordinate with local agencies to their traffic signal system. The EIR/EIS must be revised to address this. Land Use 8. The City continues to assert that the EIR/EIS fails to properly identify and mitigate land use impacts within the City of Palo Alto. The analysis concludes that because these tracks are existing, the project would not physically divide an established community. However, under current conditions, the gate down times do not discourage transit across the tracks. The significant increase in gate down times and substantial increase in delays at nearby intersections as a result of the proposed project will serve to discourage transit across these tracks, effectively dividing the community in a way that the existing conditions do not. Increasing the number of trains further divides the community and because these impacts have not been properly identified, appropriate mitigation to reduce impacts, such as grade separation, similarly has not been identified. Noise 9. Impact NV#1 in Section 3.4 of the EIR/EIS identifies temporary exposure of sensitive receptors to construction noise as a significant and unavoidable impact. The proposed mitigation (NV-MM#1) encourages, but does not require, daytime construction. Although the Authority’s response to comments states that some track realignments would require nighttime construction work that could exceed FRA construction noise limits at night, it’s unclear which locations these would occur, how often they may occur, and how many/what types of uses would be affected. The EIR/EIS must disclose this information. The City continues to assert that NV-MM#1 should be revised to require daytime construction given that no other measures can effectively reduce impacts to a less than significant level in accordance with the established thresholds for nighttime noise. San Francisco to San José Final EIR/EIS Comments Page 5 of 5 Historic 10. The City appreciates the Authority’s response and reference to the arborist report and MM #39, which identifies protection measures that would be implemented when working within the tree protection zone of protected trees, including the El Palo Alto Redwood. The City understands that work within the vicinity of this tree includes minor track modifications that would shift the track further from the tree. The Final EIR/EIS indicates that tree trimming of the historic Palo Alto redwood would be required. The City of Palo Alto’s Urban Forestry Division requests to be notified in advance of any tree trimming work or activities within the tree protection zone of the El Palo Alto Redwood so that the City’s arborist may be on site to monitor the work on, or within the tree protection zone, of this historic tree We appreciate the opportunity to comment and look forward to reviewing the Final EIR/EIS, including responses to the City’s comments. Should you have any questions regarding this letter, please contact Philip Kamhi, Director of the Office of Transportation at (650) 329-2136 or via e-mail at Philip.Kamhi@CityofPaloalto.org. Sincerely, Patrick Burt Mayor, City of Palo Alto Attachment A Annual WBAPS WEB ACCIDENT PREDICTION SYSTEM Accident Prediction Report for Public at-Grade Highway-Rail Crossings Including: Disclaimer/Abbreviation Key Accident Prediction List Provided by: Federal Railroad Administration Office of Safety Analysis Highway-Rail Crossing Safety & Trespass Prevention Date Prepared:7/21/2022 Data Contained in this Report: STATE: CA 2022 U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration USING DATA PRODUCED BY WBAPS (Web Accident Prediction System) WBAPS generates reports listing public highway-rail intersections for a State, County, City or railroad ranked by predicted collisions per year. These reports include brief lists of the Inventory record and the collisions over the last 10 years along with a list of contacts for further information. These data were produced by the Federal Railroad Administration's Web Accident Prediction System (WBAPS). WBAPS is a computer model which provides the user an analytical tool, which combined with other site-specific information, can assist in determining where scarce highway-rail grade crossing resources can best be directed. This computer model does not rank crossings in terms of most to least dangerous. Use of WBAPS data in this manner is incorrect and misleading. WBAPS provides the same reports as PCAPS, which is FRA's PC Accident Prediction System. PCAPS was originally developed as a tool to alert law enforcement and local officials of the important need to improve safety at public highway-rail intersections within their jurisdictions. It has since become an indispensable information resource which is helping the FRA, States, railroads, Operation Lifesaver and others, to raise the awareness of the potential dangers at public highway-rail intersections. The PCAPS/WBAPS output enables State and local highway and law enforcement agencies identify public highway-rail crossing locations which may require additional or specialized attention. It is also a tool which can be used by state highway authorities and railroads to nominate particular crossings which may require physical safety improvements or enhancements. The WBAPS accident prediction formula is based upon two independent factors (variables) which includes (1) basic data about a crossing's physical and operating characteristics and (2) five years of accident history data at the crossing. These data are obtained from the FRA's inventory and accident/incident files which are subject to keypunch and submission errors. Although every attempt is made to find and correct errors, there is still a possibility that some errors still exist. Erroneous, inaccurate and non-current data will alter WBAPS accident prediction values. While approximately 100,000 inventory file changes and updates are voluntarily provided annually by States and railroads and processed by FRA into the National Inventory File, data records for specific crossings may not be completely current. Only the intended users (States and railroads) are really knowledgeable as to how current the inventory data is for a particular State, railroad, or location. It is important to understand the type of information produced by WBAPS and the limitations on the application of the output data. WBAPS does not state that specific crossings are the most dangerous. Rather, the WBAPS data provides an indication that conditions are such that one crossing may possibly be more hazardous than another based on the specific data that is in the program. It is only one of many tools which can be used to assist individual States, railroads and local highway authorities in determining where and how to initially focus attention for improving safety at public highway-rail intersections. WBAPS is designed to nominate crossings for further evaluation based only upon the physical and operating characteristics of specific crossings as voluntarily reported and updated by States and railroads and five years of accident history data. PCAPS and WBAPS software are not designed to single out specific crossings without considering the many other factors which may influence accident rates or probabilities. State highway planners may or may not use PCAPS/WBAPS accident prediction model. Some States utilize their own formula or model which may include other geographic and site-specific factors. At best, PCAPS and WBAPS software and data nominates crossings for further on-the-ground review by knowledgeable highway traffic engineers and specialists. The output information is not the end or final product and the WBAPS data should not be used for non-intended purposes. It should also be noted that there are certain characteristics or factors which are not, nor can be, included in the WBAPS database. These include sight-distance, highway congestion, bus or hazardous material traffic, local topography, and passenger exposure (train or vehicle), etc. Be aware that PCAPS/WBAPS is only one model and that other accident prediction models which may be used by States may yield different, by just as valid, results for ranking crossings for safety improvements. Finally, it should be noted that this database is not the sole indicator of the condition of a specific public highway-rail intersection. The WBAPS output must be considered as a supplement to the information needed to undertake specific actions aimed at enhancing highway-rail crossing safety at locations across the U.S. The authority and jurisdiction to appropriate resources towards the safety improvement or elimination of specific crossings lies with the individual States. 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Third Floor West Washington, DC 20590 The lists produced are only for public at-grade highway-rail intersections for the entity listed at the top of the page. The parameters shown are those used in the collision prediction calculation. RANK: PRED COLLS: Crossings are listed in order and ranked with the highest collision prediction value first. The accident prediction value is the probability that a collision between a train and a highway vehicle will occur at the crossing in a year. CROSSING:The unique sight specific identifying DOT/AAR Crossing Inventory Number. RR:The alphabetic abbreviation for the railroad name. CITY:The city in (or near) which the crossing is located. ROAD: NUM OF COLLISIONS: The name of the road, street, or highway (if provided) where the crossing is located. DATE CHG:The date of the latest change of the warning device category at the crossing which impacts the collision prediction calculation, e.g., a change from crossbucks to flashing lights, or flashing lights to gates. The accident prediction calculation utilizes three different formulas, on each for (1) passive devices, (2) flashing lights only, and (3) flashing lights with gates. When a date is shown, the collision history prior to the indicated year-month is not included in calculating the accident prediction value. WD:The type of warning device shown on the current Inventory record for the crossing where: FQ=Four Quad Gates; GT = All Other Gates; FL = Flashing lights; HS = Wigwags, Highway Signals, Bells, or Other Activated; SP = Special Protection (e.g., a flagman); SS = Stop Signs; XB = Crossbucks; OS = Other Signs or Signals; NO = No Signs or Signals. Number of total trains per day. Total number of railroad tracks between the warning devices at the crossing. TTBL SPD:The maximum timetable (allowable) speed for trains through the crossing. HWY LNS: HWY PVD: AADT: Is the highway paved on both sides of the crossing? The number of highway traffic lanes crossing the tracks at the crossing. The Average Annual Daily Traffic count for highway vehicles using the crossing. 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Third Floor West Washington, DC 20590 ABBREVIATION KEY for use with WBAPS Reports The number of accidents reported to FRA in each of the years indicated. Note: Most recent year is partial year (data is not for the complete calendar year) unless Accidents per Year is 'AS OF DECEMBER 31'. HWY LNS: AADT:The Average Annual Daily Traffic count for highway vehicles using the crossing.AADT: TOT TRNS: TOT TRKS: U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration PUBLIC HIGHWAY-RAIL CROSSINGS RANKED BY PREDICTED RANK PRED CROSSING RR COUNTY 21*20 19 18 DATE CHG TOT TOT TRK W D TTBL SPD HWY PVD HWY LNS AADT ACCIDENTS PER YEAR AS OF 12/31/2021* 17 *Num of Collisions: Most recent year is partial year (data is not for the complete calendar year) unless Accidents per Year is 'AS OF DECEMBER 31'. TRNCOLLS. ROADCITYSTATE NUM OF COLLISIONS PCJX CA SAN MATEO BURLINGAME BROADWAY 1 1 1 1 2 GT 79 7YES1082 28,00010.625638 754879V PCJX CA SANTA CLARA PALO ALTO CHURCHILL AV 2 0 1 1 3 GT 79 3YES962 12,00020.567087 754998E PCJX CA SANTA CLARA PALO ALTO CHARLESTON R0aD 2 0 1 2 1 GT 79 4YES1082 20,00030.546431 755011Y UP CA CONTRA COSTA RICHMOND South Cutting 0 1 1 1 3 GT 79 5YES503 19,51340.509812 751678U NCTC CA SAN DIEGO SAN DIEGO WASHINGTON ST 2 0 1 1 0 GT 65 5YES2094 17,00050.413739 026857M SCAX CA LOS ANGELES BALDWIN PARK DOWNING AV AT 0 0 1 0 3 GT 70 8YES381 24,90060.393630 747282J BNSF CA LOS ANGELES SANTA FE SP ROSECRANS BLVD 0 0 2 0 2 GT 79 6YES462 31,32470.390046 027656A UP CA ALAMEDA OAKLAND High Street 1 1 2 1 0 GT 79 4YES203 20,65880.376662 749712Y SMRT CA SONOMA ROHNERT PARK GOLF COURSE DR 0 0 3 1 0 GT 79 6YES681 23,00090.375892 498673P SCRT CA SACRAMENTO RANCHO CORD BRADSHAW RD 0 0 1 1 1 GT 55 6YES2732 25,595100.371529 753524R SDTI CA SAN DIEGO SAN DIEGO 19TH ST 1 0 0 0 1 07/19 SS 30 2YES2942 2,000110.371455 661827U SDTI CA SAN DIEGO SAN DIEGO 21ST ST 1 0 0 1 0 07/19 SS 30 2YES2942 2,000120.371455 661829H BNSF CA RIVERSIDE CORONA MCKINLEY ST 1 1 2 0 0 GT 60 4YES602 29,269130.368773 026519P SDTI CA SAN DIEGO SAN DIEGO 28TH ST 1 1 0 1 0 GT 55 5YES4242 16,900140.363369 661802Y BNSF CA FRESNO FRESNO BELMONT AVE 0 2 1 1 1 GT 35 4YES341 12,760150.348946 028558M BNSF CA SAN JOAQUIN STOCKTON LINCOLN ST 1 0 2 3 0 GT 60 4YES162 5,725160.342435 029617R SCAX CA ORANGE SANTA ANA GRAND AV 1 2 0 0 0 GT 79 6YES702 30,400170.333964 026741L SCAX CA LOS ANGELES LANCASTER W AVENUE K 0 1 0 2 1 GT 79 7YES161 30,400180.327891 750608B SCAX CA LOS ANGELES BURBANK N BUENA VISTA 1 0 0 1 1 GT 79 5YES902 34,600190.324978 746010T UP CA STANISLAUS TURLOCK MONTE VISTA RO 1 1 1 1 0 GT 70 6YES201 29,914200.320493 752485Y UP CA CONTRA COSTA RICHMOND Parr Boulevard 2 0 1 1 1 GT 79 2YES502 4,584210.314712 751694D PCJX CA SAN FRANCIS SAN FRANCIS 16TH ST AT 7TH 1 0 1 0 1 GT 40 6YES922 10,000220.312910 754749Y UP CA STANISLAUS MODESTO I Street 2 1 1 1 0 GT 40 4YES201 12,339230.311466 752864Y SDTI CA SAN DIEGO SAN DIEGO EUCLID AVE 1 0 0 0 0 11/19 GT 55 4YES2942 17,000240.309873 661903K BNSF CA FRESNO FRESNO SHIELDS AVE 0 1 1 1 1 GT 79 4YES341 19,836250.303871 028580A BNSF CA RIVERSIDE RIVERSIDE CHICAGO AVE 1 0 0 1 1 GT 60 5YES663 9,846260.294690 026476Y VTAZ CA SANTA CLARA SAN JOSE PARKMOOR AVE 0 0 1 1 1 GT 55 4YES2342 8,844270.284218 750158G NCTC CA SAN DIEGO OCEANSIDE SURFRIDER WY 0 1 0 3 0 GT 90 2YES671 8,000280.279704 026813M UP CA SOLANO FAIRFIELD Canon Road 1 3 0 0 0 GT 79 3YES402 7,455290.278962 751291P VTAZ CA SANTA CLARA SAN JOSE BASCOM AVE 0 0 1 0 1 GT 55 6YES2342 43,769300.263249 750164K 24 17 26 27 2510.99788TTL: From:Loran Harding To:Loran Harding; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; David Balakian; bballpod; boardmembers; bearwithme1016@att.net; fred beyerlein; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; Council, City; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; dallen1212@gmail.com; Dan Richard; Daniel Zack; eappel@stanford.edu; Scott Wilkinson; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; jerry ruopoli; Joel Stiner; kfsndesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; karkazianjewelers@gmail.com; leager; lalws4@gmail.com; Leodies Buchanan; Mayor; Mark Standriff; margaret-sasaki@live.com; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Sally Thiessen; tsheehan; terry; VT3126782@gmail.com; vallesR1969@att.net; Steve Wayte Subject:Fwd: Google starts const. at big campus emerging in S. J Date:Friday, August 12, 2022 1:33:25 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 5:03 PM Subject: Fwd: Google starts const. at big campus emerging in S. J To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 4:38 PM Subject: Google starts const. at big campus emerging in S. J To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022 To all- This is work on nine existing bldgs owned by Google in far N.San Jose, on North First St., Nortech Parkway and Disk Drive. Google bought the buildings in four transactions during a two year period from January 2018 through January 2020. This is all just north of 237. San Jose Mercury News. Google starts construction work at big campus that’s emerging in San Jose (techinvestornews.com) Here is a better, bigger article about this in the San Jose Merc., if it will stay open for you. Often they get blocked if you are not a subscriber: Again this is NOT the Transit village Google will build around Diridon station. This is 9 existing bldges which Google has purchased and is getting ready in far north San Jose. Notice the Merc put a G on each bldg. on the map. Google starts construction work at big campus taking shape in San Jose (mercurynews.com) Re. the big Google complex around Diridon Station in San Jose, some lawsuits have been resolved to quiet title to some small properties. This is not the land involved in the nine bldg. complex above. Rather, this involves the enormous Google complex to be built near Diridon, the "transit village" called San Jose West. It will house 25,000 Google employees. Being right at Diridon, it will be one hour by HSR from Fresno, and that will raise home values in Fresno. It will raise the average education level here too. It will take ~$12 billion to build the HSR route from Merced to Gilroy to San Jose, rich people in Fresno will move heaven and earth to stop it, and they'll lose at that too. Google makes headway to resolve lawsuit over downtown San Jose village (freetips4u365.blogspot.com) This article was written in part by a computer. They use funny language to avoid CR issues. L. William Harding Fresno, Ca. From:Sumpter, Andria To:san.francisco_san.jose@hsr.ca.gov Cc:Council, City; City Mgr; Kamhi, Philip; Lait, Jonathan Subject:City of Palo Alto: Comments on the High Speed Rail Final EIR-EIS Date:Thursday, August 11, 2022 6:28:26 PM Attachments:image001.png image002.png image004.png image005.png image006.png image007.png City of Palo Alto - Comments on the High Speed Rail Final EIR-EIS.pdf Good evening, On behalf of the City of Palo Alto, please find the attached letter with the City’s comments regarding the High Speed Rail Final EIR-EIS. Please feel free to reach out to: Philip Kamhi, Director of the Office of Transportation (Philip.Kamhi@CityofPaloAlto.org) for any questions or further information. We look forward to your response/further discussion. Thank you, Andria Sumpter Administrative Assistant Office of Transportation (650) 329-2552 | andria.sumpter@cityofpaloalto.org www.cityofpaloalto.org August 11, 2022 Northern California Regional Office California High-Speed Rail Authority 100 Paseo De San Antonio, Suite 300 San Jose, CA 95113 Email: san.francisco_san.jose@hsr.ca.gov RE: The San Francisco to San José Project Section Final Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS) Thank you for the including the City of Palo Alto (City) in the environmental review process for the above- referenced project. The California High Speed Rail (HSR) will have a long-lasting and far-reaching impact on the City of Palo Alto; therefore, we appreciate the opportunity to comment on this Final EIR/EIS as a responsible agency for the Project. Executive Summary The Final EIR/EIS, similar to the Draft EIR, remains seriously flawed in numerous respects, as outlined in this letter. As the City previously commented, the document fails to adequately analyze or to mitigate a variety of clear and significant impacts on the environment. The City disagrees with the Authority’s conclusion that grade separation of at grade crossings does not warrant evaluation, either as mitigation or as an alternative in the EIR, to address the clear and significant impacts on multi-modal transportation, land use, noise, and emergency response. We support the Authority’s addition of four quadrant gates, which improve pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular safety at these crossings when compared to a project that does not include four quadrant gates. However, the EIR/EIS is flawed in its conclusion that there would be no impacts on safety and, therefore, mitigation to address safety concerns would not be warranted. The City also disagrees with the Authority’s position that the cumulative impacts of this project with the adopted Caltrain Vision Plan do not warrant analysis. By not planning for this reasonably foreseeable future condition, the Authority does not properly disclose impacts in accordance with CEQA and NEPA. For example, underreporting the realistic impacts on delays for emergency responders. In addition, it avoids identification of the need for passing tracks that the City understands would be necessary in Palo Alto, among other jurisdictions, under this cumulative scenario. Avoidance of appropriate planning for this reasonably foreseeable future condition jeopardizes local planning efforts in the design of grade separation projects. Therefore, the Final EIR continues to fall short of reasonable analysis, mitigation, and public disclosure in accordance with state law. Project Understanding The City understands that the San Francisco to San Jose Project Section (project) would provide High Speed Rail (HSR) service from the Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco to Diridon Station in San Jose along approximately 49 miles of the Caltrain corridor. Within the City of Palo Alto, the project would be located along 3.8 miles of Caltrain right-of-way through the middle of Palo Alto, where the existing Caltrain tracks bifurcate the City from east to West. The current project design proposes a blended infrastructure with Caltrain operations through the City. The current proposed project, as well as both Alternatives carried forward in the environmental analysis, propose two at-grade tracks through the City, mostly within the existing Caltrain right-of-way. The City understands that within Palo Alto, the project would require slight modifications (typically of less than one foot) to the tracks in several areas to straighten curves in order to support higher speeds. The project also requires the installation of two radio towers (one north of Embarcadero Road and one north of West Charleston Road), four-quadrant gates at existing at-grade San Francisco to San José Final EIR/EIS Comments Page 2 of 5 crossings, and either fencing or sound walls along the entire corridor within the City. The Project will provide HSR services at a downtown San Francisco station, a Millbrae station, and the San Jose Diridon Station; no station is proposed within the City of Palo Alto under the current proposed project or either of the two alternatives. The blended system would accommodate operating speeds of up to 110 mph for up to four HSR trains and six Caltrain trains per hour per direction in the peak period. HSR and Caltrain are the only passenger rail services that would operate in the blended system. North of the Santa Clara Caltrain Station, freight would use the same tracks as HSR and Caltrain but would operate at night with temporal separation to avoid conflicting with HSR and Caltrain operation, similar to existing conditions. Rail Alignment, Profile, and Safety 1. The EIR concludes that there would be a significant impact related to emergency response times within several jurisdictions, including within the City of Palo Alto’s jurisdiction at the Menlo Park/Palo Alto Boundary west of El Camino Real and North of Sand Hill Road. The impacted areas include specific land uses where response times for emergency vehicles would be particularly important, including, but not limited to, assisted living facilities. The EIR/EIS identifies SS-MM #4 which indicates that the City should implement measures to reduce impacts related to the Authority’s HSR project. Suggested measures provided in the EIR/EIS include construction of emergency vehicle and transit queue bypass lanes, modifying roadway capacity and operational improvements to facilities paralleling the rail line to improve access to adjacent grade-separated rail crossings, construction of new fire stations to reduce fire station response times in affected areas, and/or expansion of existing fire stations to reduce fire station response times in affected areas in order to reduce impacts from the Authority’s project. Alternatively, SS-MM #4indicates that the Authority, with agreement from the local jurisdiction, could make a one-time contribution toward a project that reduce impacts related to emergency response such as those listed above or grade separation. The identified mitigation improperly defers the responsibility of mitigation for the HSR project to the City, both with respect to cost and implementation. It’s unclear whether any of these measures could be feasibly implemented (for example due to lack of right-of-way for expanding roadways, lack of land to build a new or expanded fire station, or with respect to funding or staffing to facilitate any of these future projects). Further, the EIR/EIS fails to analyze the associated environmental impacts of implementing such measures, improperly stating that the responsibility of preparing environmental analysis for that mitigation would fall on the local jurisdiction. The vague alternative mitigation of providing a one-time contribution toward an unspecified project for emergency response times fails to provide any realistic, concrete reduction to the identified impacts and therefore does not provide any meaningful mitigation. Grade separation would reduce this identified significant and unavoidable impact to a less than significant level and therefore must be analyzed. As stated in the City’s previous comments on this project, if the Authority does not pursue at-grade crossings as part of an alternative or as mitigation to restore response times, the Authority must bear the full cost of restoring response times to existing conditions. 2. The EIR/EIS analyzes the effect of HSR train operations on safety for vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians crossing at at-grade crossings in section 3.11, Safety and Security. The EIR/EIS concludes that, with considerations of planned safety improvements as part of the project, there would be no significant safety impacts associated with the project and that no mitigation is therefore required. While the City concurs that the addition of four quadrant gates improves safety at these crossings, particularly for vehicles, the City disagrees that this measure reduces the significant safety impacts from the proposed project to a less than significant level. Two at-grade crossings along this corridor in Palo Alto are listed in San Francisco to San José Final EIR/EIS Comments Page 3 of 5 the top 5 locations on the FRA Accident Prediction Report (See attached Exhibit A). The addition of four quadrant gates alone would not serve to significantly reduce impacts when considering the increased hazards associated with increases in the number of trains and higher speed of trains. The conclusion also fails to consider other safety impacts caused by increased gate down times. For example, vehicle delays would result in extensive queueing spilling on to through lanes, which would create safety hazards near at grade crossings. 3. The City recognizes that the Authority’s implementation of four-quadrant gates as part of the proposed project in the Final EIR/EIS would assist the City in establishing a quite zone for Palo Alto Crossings. The City also appreciates modifications to NV-MM#4 requiring that the Authority assist with the preparation of technical analysis and materials needed for local jurisdictions to file a Quiet Zone application with the Federal Railroad Administration. The City supports this requirement and appreciates the Authority’s response to the City’s comments on this matter to reduce operational noise impacts on surrounding uses. However, because approval of quiet zones is outside of the Authority’s purview and because alternative mitigation that requires construction of sound walls across most of the City’s jurisdiction would result in further impacts to aesthetics and land use, the City continues to assert that grade separation should be evaluated to reduce the identified significant impacts related to operational noise. This mitigation would be within the Authority’s purview and would eliminate the improper need for the City to provide resources and funding to mitigate the impacts of the Authority’s project. To the extent that sound walls are installed along the corridor within the City of Palo Alto (e.g. where required regardless of implementation of a quiet zone or across most of the City if quiet zones are not implemented), the City requests that the Authority perform outreach and seek local input when preparing the design. Cumulative Impacts 4. The City reiterates the concerns raised in its previous comments that the EIR/EIS does not address the cumulative impacts of CAHSR and Caltrain service vison plans. The EIR assumes 6 trains per direction per peak hour per day, however the Caltrain Vision Plans considers up to 12 trains per direction per peak hour per day. By not analyzing the reasonably foreseeable cumulative impacts of the Caltrain Vision Plan and the proposed project, the EIR/EIS does not properly disclose the realistic delays in response times, among other environmental impacts, including but not limited to, transportation operations and safety, which may result in new or more significant impacts than those identified. The City continues to assert that impacts to all elements combined, including vehicular, bike and pedestrian safety, delays, and emergency response warrants analysis of grade separation as an alternative to the proposed project or as mitigation. Proper analysis of the reasonably foreseeable future condition would only further demonstrate the need for a comprehensive plan to address the identified impacts such as grade separation. Because passing tracks and grade separation are necessitated by the proposed project, the CHSRA must be responsible for implementation and funding of these projects. The High-Speed Rail should not commence service until these infrastructure improvements are complete. Transportation 5. The EIR/EIS contemplates the gate close time of 40-48 seconds for peak hour for 8 trains during any weekday period. Considering the advanced preemption and gate down initiation and opening times, the times assumed in the analysis are not indicative of actual field conditions. Furthermore, there are existing gate closures due to the existing Caltrain running along this corridor. The EIR/EIS must evaluate the cumulative conditions for these gate time closures and based on the realistic delays on traffic. Even when utilizing less conservative assumptions for anticipated gate down times, as noted above, Appendix 3.2A (Page 45, 46, 94, 95) indicates that eight of Palo Alto’s intersections would be significantly impacted. TR-MM#1 in Section 3.2, Transportation, of the Final EIR/EIS discusses site-specific mitigation San Francisco to San José Final EIR/EIS Comments Page 4 of 5 identified for adverse LOS effects under NEPA. The Authority developed site-specific mitigation for the Final EIR/EIS for certain locations where adverse NEPA traffic effects were identified. However, the Authority concludes that no feasible mitigation was identified that could address the effects of any of these intersections, including: El Camino Real/Palo Alto Avenue/Sand Hill Road, Alma Street/Palo Alto Avenue, Alma Street/Churchill Avenue, Mariposa Avenue/Churchill Avenue, Park Boulevard/Meadow Avenue, Park Boulevard/Charleston Road, Castilleja Avenue/Churchill Avenue, and Wilkie Way/West Charleston Road. Therefore, the significant impacts at all of these Palo Alto intersections remain unmitigated. The related impacts on the City with respect to multi-modal transportation and the physical division of the City due to these substantial delays is unacceptable. Grade separation would serve to address these impacts and therefore must be analyzed in the EIR/EIS. 6. Despite significantly higher train speeds, as noted in the Authority’s response to comments 1118-2530, the requirements for warning times and gate down times would not change. As the City previously asserted, this presents safety concerns in that there is reduced reaction time for pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles. The addition of four-quadrant gates does not address this reduction in reaction times, especially for young kids that may be crossing the tracks to attend one of the many nearby schools. Therefore, the conclusion that the project would have no impact on safety is flawed. The EIR/EIS must conclude that this is a significant impact and accordingly mitigate for the impact. 7. The Authority also notes that “Caltrain is the host railroad and is responsible for compliance withal FRA safety regulations with regard to track and warning systems and would be responsible to make any adjustments in gate activation and any connection to preemption of nearby traffic signal systems.” Again, no clarity on how the Authority may change the nearby traffic signal systems is provided and there is no requirement in the EIR/EIS to coordinate with local agencies to their traffic signal system. The EIR/EIS must be revised to address this. Land Use 8. The City continues to assert that the EIR/EIS fails to properly identify and mitigate land use impacts within the City of Palo Alto. The analysis concludes that because these tracks are existing, the project would not physically divide an established community. However, under current conditions, the gate down times do not discourage transit across the tracks. The significant increase in gate down times and substantial increase in delays at nearby intersections as a result of the proposed project will serve to discourage transit across these tracks, effectively dividing the community in a way that the existing conditions do not. Increasing the number of trains further divides the community and because these impacts have not been properly identified, appropriate mitigation to reduce impacts, such as grade separation, similarly has not been identified. Noise 9. Impact NV#1 in Section 3.4 of the EIR/EIS identifies temporary exposure of sensitive receptors to construction noise as a significant and unavoidable impact. The proposed mitigation (NV-MM#1) encourages, but does not require, daytime construction. Although the Authority’s response to comments states that some track realignments would require nighttime construction work that could exceed FRA construction noise limits at night, it’s unclear which locations these would occur, how often they may occur, and how many/what types of uses would be affected. The EIR/EIS must disclose this information. The City continues to assert that NV-MM#1 should be revised to require daytime construction given that no other measures can effectively reduce impacts to a less than significant level in accordance with the established thresholds for nighttime noise. San Francisco to San José Final EIR/EIS Comments Page 5 of 5 Historic 10. The City appreciates the Authority’s response and reference to the arborist report and MM #39, which identifies protection measures that would be implemented when working within the tree protection zone of protected trees, including the El Palo Alto Redwood. The City understands that work within the vicinity of this tree includes minor track modifications that would shift the track further from the tree. The Final EIR/EIS indicates that tree trimming of the historic Palo Alto redwood would be required. The City of Palo Alto’s Urban Forestry Division requests to be notified in advance of any tree trimming work or activities within the tree protection zone of the El Palo Alto Redwood so that the City’s arborist may be on site to monitor the work on, or within the tree protection zone, of this historic tree We appreciate the opportunity to comment and look forward to reviewing the Final EIR/EIS, including responses to the City’s comments. Should you have any questions regarding this letter, please contact Philip Kamhi, Director of the Office of Transportation at (650) 329-2136 or via e-mail at Philip.Kamhi@CityofPaloalto.org. Sincerely, Patrick Burt Mayor, City of Palo Alto From:Tran, Joanna To:Council, City Cc:Shikada, Ed; Clerk, City; Executive Leadership Team; North, Karin; Boyd, Holly; Boyle Rodriguez, Pam; Paras, Christine Subject:Council Consent Questions Item 5 and 8: 8/15/22 Date:Thursday, August 11, 2022 4:36:42 PM Attachments:image001.png image003.png image004.png image006.png image007.png image008.png image009.png Dear Mayor and Councilmembers: On behalf of City Manager Ed Shikada, please view the following links for the amended agenda and staff responses to questions from Councilmember Tanaka regarding Monday night’s Council Meeting: August 15 Amended Agenda Staff response to Items 5 and 8 Thank you, Joanna Joanna Tran Executive Assistant to the City Manager Office of the City Manager (650) 329-2105 | joanna.tran@cityofpaloalto.org www.cityofpaloalto.org From:Palo Alto Free Press To:Aram James Cc:Winter Dellenbach; Shikada, Ed; Council, City; Human Relations Commission; Greer Stone; Pat Burt; Kaloma Smith; Horrigan-Taylor, Meghan; Stump, Molly; Milton, Lesley; ladoris cordell; lawad@dao.sccgov.org; Perron, Zachary; Sean Webby; Sue Dremann; darylsavage@gmail.com; David Angel; Diana Diamond; Brian Welch; Bill Johnson; Gennady Sheyner; gbehrens@dao.sccgov.org; Greg Tanaka; Jeff Rosen; Jay Boyarsky; Reifschneider, James; Maloney, Con; Cody@salfenlaw.com; Pat Burt; Press strong; Burt, Patrick; Bains, Paul; Binder, Andrew Subject:Re: Just out of curiosity Date:Thursday, August 11, 2022 4:30:28 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Aram, thanks for your input. The lack of transparency by the city of Palo Alto is contemptible. But, when city government officials interpret the US Constitution as a worthless document and apply there own rules of law, (blocking emails and the ability to redress grievance) and when the city attorney Molly Stumps defends there contemptible actions, its treason and betrayal. And there is NO defense for there actions…… Mark Petersen-Perez Editor-in-chief Palo Alto Free Press Reporting from Nicaragua Sent from my iPad > On Aug 11, 2022, at 4:51 PM, Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Palo Alto Free Press: > > As you know I have recently had a long and on going battle with city manager Ed Shikada over the lack of transparency in the hiring process of our new police chief. This is just one of the many transparency battles I’ve had with Ed Shikada and the recently retired former police chief Robert Jonsen. > > I am not at all surprised with any trouble you might be having in getting straight answers from other bureaucrats under Ed Shikada’s management. But don’t give up …….keep trying to pull out the dead or dying teeth from your patient’s mouth. Your patient may initially resist but will ultimately thank you when their dental health is back to normal. > > Eventually we can bring transparency to our city government….but it won’t be easy. Keep on keeping on ….in pulling out those rotten teeth. > > Best regards, > > Aram James > > > > > >> On Aug 11, 2022, at 3:18 PM, Palo Alto Free Press <paloaltofreepress@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> When you excepted your offer with the city or prior to…..did you do a review of the history of the city of palo alto? Were you aware of the sex scandal involving a chief sex directive Louis VeraBrea >> >> Fondling women sexually assaulting them in a squad car, What about the multiple well documented DUIs involving Palo Alto police officers….My god how can you even work for such a city? >> >> By the way when I worked for Cisco Systems, there were only two people that had the ability to communicate with all of the people staff worldwide, that was John Chambers my boss and yours truly. >> >> And you consider yourself a communication officer, and you can’t even answer the damn email who is pulling your puppet strings. I grew up in this city…. Stanford U, PACE U… >> >> Mark >> >> Sent from my iPad From:Aram James To:Palo Alto Free Press; Winter Dellenbach; Shikada, Ed; Council, City; Human Relations Commission; Greer Stone; Pat Burt; Kaloma Smith Cc:Horrigan-Taylor, Meghan Subject:Re: Just out of curiosity Date:Thursday, August 11, 2022 3:52:01 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Hi Palo Alto Free Press: As you know I have recently had a long and on going battle with city manager Ed Shikada over the lack of transparency in the hiring process of our new police chief. This is just one of the many transparency battles I’ve had with Ed Shikada and the recently retired former police chief Robert Jonsen. I am not at all surprised with any trouble you might be having in getting straight answers from other bureaucrats under Ed Shikada’s management. But don’t give up …….keep trying to pull out the dead or dying teeth from your patient’s mouth. Your patient may initially resist but will ultimately thank you when their dental health is back to normal. Eventually we can bring transparency to our city government….but it won’t be easy. Keep on keeping on ….in pulling out those rotten teeth. Best regards, Aram James > On Aug 11, 2022, at 3:18 PM, Palo Alto Free Press <paloaltofreepress@gmail.com> wrote: > > When you excepted your offer with the city or prior to…..did you do a review of the history of the city of palo alto? Were you aware of the sex scandal involving a chief sex directive Louis VeraBrea > > Fondling women sexually assaulting them in a squad car, What about the multiple well documented DUIs involving Palo Alto police officers….My god how can you even work for such a city? > > By the way when I worked for Cisco Systems, there were only two people that had the ability to communicate with all of the people staff worldwide, that was John Chambers my boss and yours truly. > > And you consider yourself a communication officer, and you can’t even answer the damn email who is pulling your puppet strings. I grew up in this city…. Stanford U, PACE U… > > Mark > > Sent from my iPad From:Aram James To:Pat Burt; Council, City; Human Relations Commission; Shikada, Ed; Winter Dellenbach; Binder, Andrew; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Enberg, Nicholas; Tannock, Julie; Wagner, April; Perron, Zachary; Reifschneider, James; Planning Commission; ParkRec Commission; Gennady Sheyner; Sue Dremann; Braden Cartwright; Emily Mibach; ladoris cordell; Joe Simitian Subject:No excuse for Tasers in law enforcement by attorneys Richard Konda & Aram James (must read for city council, Ed Shikada, Andrew Binder et al ) Date:Thursday, August 11, 2022 2:02:43 PM Attachments:Aram James (DJ-1-12-18) (00000003).pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Sent from my iPhone From:Angela Dellaporta To:Council, City Subject:Good work on the Business Tax proposal! Date:Thursday, August 11, 2022 12:11:14 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I want to congratulate you all on the very positive development in the movement towards a business tax in Palo Alto. Thank you for all your hard work. If approved by the voters, this will allow the city to make progress on a variety of extremely important issues. It’s only right for businesses to help pay for amenities that their workers and clients use. It’s very disappointing, of course, that the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and the Chamber of Commerce managed to reduce the amount of good that will be done. While I am not sure what leverage they used, I’m guessing that these groups simply have lots of money they could use to oppose the ballot measure — which suggests that they are simply using their deep pockets to make sure that they can amass even more money. This rather negates their claim that they are suffering from lack of income. I hope the City puts up a great campaign on this issue for the election, and I hope that this does not put an end to all negotiations. The larger 11 cent/square foot tax is needed for many quality-of-life issues in Palo Alto . Angela Dellaporta From:Aram James To:Alison Cormack; eric.filseth@cityofpaloalto.com; Greer Stone; Human Relations Commission; Council, City; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Winter Dellenbach; Pat Burt; ladoris cordell; Joe Simitian; Binder, Andrew; Jeff Rosen; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; chuck jagoda; Shikada, Ed; Planning Commission; ParkRec Commission; Jay Boyarsky; Rebecca Eisenberg; Linda Jolley Subject:Letter of protest from Aram James to then District Attorney George Kennedy ( circa 2003) from the archives of aram james Date:Thursday, August 11, 2022 11:37:55 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. 10/19/2003 Introduction and Background. “Democracies Die Behind Closed Doors” Detroit Free Press v. Ashcroft, (2002) 303 F. 3d 681 Dear District Attorney George Kennedy: As promised I’m writing you regarding my exclusion from Judge Thomas Hansen’s courtroom on Monday, September 29, 2003. On that date, I was scheduled to attend a meeting with other members of the Coalition for Justice and Accountability, an ad hoc committee formed in response to the police shooting of Bich-Cau Thi Tran on July 13, 2003. I’m sure the irony of this situation is not lost on you. That is, that the judge responsible for signing off on an open and fair grand jury proceeding, Thomas Hansen, summarily deprived a member of the Coalition, formed in large part to maximize public oversight of these proceedings, an opportunity to attend the meeting without even a pretense of due process. I had been working with the coalition as a citizen advocate based on my concern that this case raised grave community concerns re: the circumstance under which Ms. Tran was killed and based on my long-standing interest and concern that a pattern exists across this country, including in Santa Clara County, that too often police killings and other forms of police violence go unprosecuted. I have for many years observed that the police are often treated with prosecutorial kid gloves and that their alleged crimes are often not pursued with the same enthusiasm, aggressiveness, or expenditure of resources that would apply to a similar criminal allegation against an ordinary citizen. In fact one of the reasons I supported your initial candidacy for District Attorney was the interest you showed regarding the issue of the disproportionate police killings of members of the African American community across this country. I’m certain you remember our conversation in that regard despite the passage of many years. As a member of the Coalition, I had attempted to provide my support and assistance which includes, in addition to my past advocacy to improve police practices in this county, my many years of experience as a criminal defense attorney. In preparation for the meeting with Judge Hansen, I attended a meeting of the Coalition on Friday night September 26. The meeting took place over several hours and included among other subjects discussion of the upcoming meeting with Judge Hansen. During the weekend prior to the meeting with Judge Hansen, I completed several hours of research on grand jury proceedings in hope that I could ask, if necessary, some relevant questions of Judge Hansen. My intent was to ensure that our Coalition could better understand the upcoming open grand jury proceeding in the Tran case and to ensure that the Coalition and the public they represent were as fully informed as possible regarding the process. When I arrived at Judge Hansen’s chambers for the meeting on September 29, his bailiff, Tony Estrada, advised me that I could not enter the meeting and that I needed to wait to speak with Richard Konda, the head of our Coalition. Mr. Konda then stepped out of chambers and advised me that Judge Hansen did not want me at the meeting. I stated to Mr. Konda that I did not know Judge Hansen personally and to my knowledge had never appeared in his courtroom and as such there would be no reason to exclude me based on prior contact. Mr. Konda stated he had advised Judge Hansen that I was a member of the Coalition but Hansen continued in his insistence that he did not want me at the meeting. I have enclosed an e-mail from Mr. Konda, that I discovered upon returning home on September 29, expressing Judge Hansen’s desire to exclude me from the meeting. Prior to leaving the courthouse, I advised bailiff Estrada that I would be calling Judge Hansen later in the day in an attempt to speak with the judge re: the reason for my exclusion. I in fact did phone later that day but advised bailiff Estrada that I did not think it would be productive for me to speak with Judge Hansen. Instead, I provided my home mailing address to bailiff Estrada and requested that he pass it on to Judge Hansen with the request that he send me a written explanation of his action. To this date, October 19, 2003, I have received no written or other communication from Judge Hansen. Prior to the September 29 meeting, I was one of the members of the Coalition who met with Dan Nishigaya of your office with the intent of expressing my concern re: the upcoming proceedings and to ask appropriate questions designed to learn as much as possible about how the Tran case would be handled and to point out our concerns as a Coalition. I think if you were to inquire with the others present at the meeting that you would find that all members of the Coalition, including myself, participated in this meeting in a very professional manner. The Importance of Citizen Advocates in a Democracy I think it is fair to say that the criminal justice system relies on public input on numerous issues from a wide variety of citizen advocates and citizen-based groups/organizations. All of which play an essential role in allowing the community to have a say in the implementation of community standards in our local criminal justice system. In fact, such advocates play a fundamental role in shaping policy in the criminal justice system. It can be argued that such advocacy groups and individuals play at least as important a role in shaping policy as a judge, an elected district attorney, public defender, etc. As an example, but surely not exhaustive, we have groups advocating for stronger punishment – the movement for the three-strikes-law pushed by citizens after the Polly Klass case. Similarly, there have been citizen groups working to amend the three-strikes law so as to ensure that only those who have been convicted of serious or violent offenses suffer the consequence of this law. Other groups include Mothers Against Drunk Driving, numerous advocacy organizations working to curb domestic violence, advocacy groups determined to protect victims/defendants accused based on false or fabricated evidence or implanted memories of child molestation. Citizen advocates for harsher drugs laws and groups opposed to the war on drugs altogether. Citizen advocates pushing to expand the reach of the death penalty and those on the other side seeking to abolish the death penalty The list of citizen advocates just within the narrow range of the criminal justice system goes on and on. The same applies to advocates in the broader area of civil rights and civil liberties. You, George Kennedy, our District Attorney, if my memory serves me correct, are a long-time member of one of America’s best-known civil rights advocacy groups the NAACP. Imagine if you might for a moment the impact of Judge Hansen agreeing to meet with such a group on an important criminal justice/civil rights issue and then deciding to exclude one of its members from the meeting without stated reason or due process. This would be totally unacceptable. “The First Amendment, the Supreme Court has said, is designed to protect a robust public debate, and if the government can keep out persons who espouse disfavored ideas, our opportunity to hear and consider those ideas through the direct personal exchange will be diminished. More broadly, excluding people for their ideas is contrary to the spirit of political freedom for which the United States stands.” Enemy Alien: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism by David Cole attorney and professor at Georgetown University Law Center, page 65 The government and certainly our public officials/judges should do nothing to abridge the right of citizens to exercise free speech and or to discourage the people in the exercise of their right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Surely the business of the Coalition for Justice and Accountability represents one of the purest forms of First Amendment activity, citizens joining together to exercise free speech and more specifically to redress grievances in connection with a matter of utmost community importance, the Tran case. In order to act upon their rights, the Coalition requested access to its courts and to the official most directly accountable to the public vis-à-vis the upcoming grand jury proceedings. The Presiding Judge of the Superior Court by his actions in unilaterally excluding one of its members not only violated the civil rights of Mr. James but also the entire coalition and the community they represent. Conclusion I’m hopeful once you’ve reviewed this matter you will consider having your Public Integrity Division conduct an investigation of this matter and if appropriate filing charges against Judge Hansen and or convening a civil grand jury to consider the removal of Judge Hansen from office or other appropriate sanctions. I look forward to your response. Sincerely, Aram James 832 Los Robles Ave Palo Alto, Ca 94306 (650) 424-1249 abjpd1@juno.com P.S. I’ve enclosed a number of articles and other material that demonstrates the type of citizen advocacy I’ve been involved with over the last several years. I’ve enclosed this material on the possibility that something I’ve published may have influenced Judge Hansen’s conduct on September 29. Enclosures: 1) Several published articles or letters on Prop 36. 2) Letter to the editor of the Daily Journal “Jurist Shows Contempt For Public Trust” re: Judge Thomas Hastings. 3) Letter to the editor of the Metro News re: light sentences received by molesting priests in Santa Clara County. 4) Two letters, one to the Palo Alto Daily and one to the Daily Journal re: the firing and prosecution of attorney Thomas Spielbauer. 5) Articles written (Metro Eye and The Recorder) about my recent campaign, October 2002, requesting that judicial candidates answer questions re: their positions on the issues, the death penalty, abortion, gay marriage, US Aid to Israel. . 6) Silk Screen titled: Vote No on Prop 21.7) Two bumper stickers: 1) Impeach The Son Of A Bush! 2) I do not consent to a search of my person, my vehicle, or my residence So, Don’t Ask. This individual is protected by the 4th Amendment. 8) Endorsements for the general election of November 7, 2000. CC: Richard Konda, Executive Director of the Asian Law Alliance. (No enclosures) CC: Judge Thomas Hansen, Presiding Judge of The Santa Clara County Superior Court. (No enclosures) From:Aram James To:paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Binder, Andrew; paloaltorenters@gmail.com; Shikada, Ed; Winter Dellenbach; Joe Simitian; Council, City; Human Relations Commission; Jethroe Moore; Jeff Rosen; Greer Stone; Council, City; Lydia Kou; Alison Cormack; eric.filseth@cityofpaloalto.com; Tom DuBois; Vara Ramakrishnan; Rebecca Eisenberg Subject:Opinion: Palo Alto throws Buena Vista Mobile Home Park residents to the wolves – Chico Enterprise-Record. ( from the archives of aram james 2015) Date:Thursday, August 11, 2022 11:00:14 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ https://www.chicoer.com/general-news/20150427/opinion-palo-alto-throws-buena-vista-mobile-home-park- residents-to-the-wolves Sent from my iPhone From:Jo Ann Mandinach To:Council, City Subject:Skinny Chickens, Foxes in the Henhouse & Meeting Dates Date:Thursday, August 11, 2022 10:33:24 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Mayor Burt and council members, Recent CC meetings elicited much comment at your capitulation to the business "leaders" whocontinued to milk resident taxpayers like cash cows for decades by shifting the tax burden and costs of THEIR expansion from them to us. You've been outfoxed and, as Winter said, left us with a skinny plucked chicken carcass of a business tax. When the Chamber of Commerce "leader" kept asking why you kept saying "good faith" negotiations, why didn't you just reply that he was obviously unclear on the concept of good faith? Did you forget that SVLG and the business community spent LITERALLY hundreds of millions of dollars in the last election lobbying against paying their gig workers living wages or benefits? Yet they're too strapped to pay their fair share in Palo Alto. How could you be so "shocked" at their inflexibility? We hoped for more balance from you and this council after living under the last 3 mayors and too many CC members who were cravenly and predictably pro-business -- supporting every office project while laughably denying we have traffic problems from the commuters overrunning us. They left us with an imbalanced economy that's the worst in the area, the slowest to recover and excessive jobs-based housing targets only their backers could love. Do they ever take responsibility? Nope, they shamelessly exult at shifting even more of the tax burden to residents via the Utility Transfer tax for a practice found to be illegal! Where were the meetings with the resident taxpayers?? Where was OUR input? Aren't we stakeholders, too? Since businesses taxes are negotiable, residents want to negotiate OUR utility taxes because we too find them onerous (and the service unreliable). Among our demands are accrued interest based late payment of our damages awards, refunds for the cost of outside legal counsel working retained by the City Attorney o deny us our compensation, refunds for recurrent power outages due to fallen branches and mylar balloons, compensation for spoiled food, updates on undergrounding -- to name but a few. Please advise on our meeting dates at your earliest convenience. Fair's fair. Eagerly awaiting your reply, Jo Ann Mandinach From:Christina Gwin To:Council, City Subject:bike safety at corner of Bryant and Churchill Date:Thursday, August 11, 2022 8:14:52 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from my1gwinevere@gmail.com.Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hello, There are multiple houses under construction on these blocks, which adds at least 15-20 trucks a day. The construction workers are definitely trying to be respectful of neighbors and trying not to park directly in front of houses. What this means is the corner of Bryant and Churchill becomes quite dangerous to cross. As school returns to session next week, this is a concern because Bryant is on the bike boulevard and Churchill is the street Paly kids turn on, and the visibility is awful. The intersection could easily be made much safer with a long red curb on all sides because it would allow cars and bikes to see each other. Please consider. Thank you, A Churchill neighbor From:Palo Alto Free Press To:Milton, Lesley; Horrigan-Taylor, Meghan; Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Binder, Andrew; Pat Burt; Jonsen, Robert; Maloney, Con; Reifschneider, James; Perron, Zachary; Brian Welch; Wagner, April; Sean Webby; Aram James; Jay Boyarsky; Human Relations Commission; Stump, Molly; Jeff Rosen; Sue Dremann; Bill Johnson; Bains, Paul; David Angel; Gennady Sheyner; Diana Diamond; Press strong Cc:James Aram; Binder, Andrew; Stump, Molly Subject:Bullshit censored Date:Thursday, August 11, 2022 7:40:43 AM Attachments:LETTERS FROM CITIZENS Censored page 49.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ This first amendment violation is on my Twitter list. 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Sent from my iPad From:Sky Posse Post To:Council, City Subject:Re: Airplane Noise Study Session Date:Wednesday, August 10, 2022 3:10:33 PM Attachments:7.31.22 Comments for PACC study session-1.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. resending a final copy, thank you. On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 12:10 AM Sky Posse Post <skypossepost@gmail.com> wrote: Please find attached a letter with 3 asks for PACC consideration regarding airplane noise. Sky Posse Palo Alto July 31, 2022 Palo Alto City Council @City.Council@cityofpaloalto.org Dear Council, Thank you for holding a study session on Airplane Noise. We would like to reiterate Council’s priorities for 2022 - Economic Recovery, Climate Change, Housing, and Community Health and Safety. Public speakers and requests from citizens during Council’s Priority setting off site was largely to address noise and air quality health concerns. Noise, and particularly night and early morning jet noise, have serious quality of life and productivity repercussions. Thus, the impact on the well being of current and future residents is significant to Palo Alto’s resilience - especially for families with our older and youngest residents, and to many who increasingly want to work from home.When the FAA rolled out the Nextgen program in 2014 the response from Palo Alto residents and neighboring communities was swift and unequivocal - noise from poorly designed Nextgen procedures is "brutal" and "unbearable.1" The FAA's quest2 to reduce separation between incoming planes meant air traffic was shifted lower and concentrated over communities. While the FAA and airports have focused on obscuring noise problems, and spend more time highlighting Nextgen "benefits,' in actuality the partnership between FAA and the airline industry is expensive and dysfunctional with benefits that cannot be traced.During a May 2021 Update3 to Congress on Nextgen, the Inspector General plainly stated that the FAA's original benefits analysis was based on “optimistic assumptions.” In the same hearing, it was made clear that Congress has yet to identify a baseline to understand Nextgen benefits or any metrics because the program was launched with none. Environmental costs have not been quantified, and we already know that the FAA's assumptions about noise are wholly flawed. In 2016, the FAA began to tell Congress that noise is a “shared responsibility”with local governments.4 In truth, the FAA has sole responsibility for noise assessments as required by NEPA in order to determine appropriate mitigation measures .The agency has also failed to improve community outreach in spite of testifying to Congress about their efforts, which takes decades to implement and inadequately serve the public or not at all.Lately, the FAA brings industry folks to talk at Roundtables about how airlines and community interests are “aligned,”ignoring public complaints about noise,health, and environmental issues.In almost nine years of observation, the FAA’s community outreach ultimately misleads the 4 FAA Report to Congress on Lessons Learned from Nextgen Projects 3 May 18, 2021 Air Traffic Control Modernization Update Roundtable 2 New FAA Procedures Reduce Separations at Major Airports 1 Petition to Elected Representatives - Reduce Aircraft Noise over Palo Alto and Neighboring Communities Sky Posse Palo Alto public, policy makers, and regularly reinterprets laws as is happening with the 2018 Ombudsman law.5 This law was initiated by quiet skies grassroots groups for the FAA to communicate with community groups, but the money to fund this law is not being used for its intent. Please consider in your study session,Status of National and Regional Airplane Noise Initiatives,the following three Sky Posse requests:1) address the jurisdictional and legal issues that prevent progress; 2) explore a city jet noise complaints app, 3) address the unanimous Select Committee recommendations that can help the MidPeninsula. 1.Jurisdictional and legal issues of FAA’s Community Outreach Policies and Practices ASK TO PACC: Please task the City Attorney to explore and propose a petition for rule change 6 with the FAA about FAA’s Community Outreach practices to address the interests of actual communities by recognizing the current dysfunction of the FAA partnership with airports in managing noise concerns.The City needs to engage advisors who have a strong environmental practice, in government ethics and compliance, and not advisors that derive most of their profits from airports. The most problematic issue about FAA’s Community Outreach is the idea of using airports and airport roundtables as the regulator’s public outreach representatives. While airports are regulated by federal laws, they are owned and operated by cities and counties whose interests are in conflict with the interests of communities impacted by Nextgen. And the stakeholders that profit from airports carry no accountability for issues outside their jurisdiction. As profit-making businesses, airports cannot speak for communities and should not be “one” with the FAA or treat the public as the FAA Western Administrator called the public - “external stakeholders.”The FAA is wrong to try to outsource their noise responsibilities while fighting the public in court, to ignore noise. The SCSC Roundtable and its eventual demise is a case study where a “seat” at the table for Palo Alto also did not help. Funded with our local tax dollars, the SCSC was launched with an agreement between the FAA and Members of Congress who decided what the regional table could or could not talk about.In San Diego, an airport community table initiative seems proud to say that they begin work with communities with an understanding that airport capacity issues are off the table. This is not at all consistent with what the FAA says it wants to do -share responsibility, and it’s an illustration that the FAA is regressing from the first time their leadership met with us in Palo Alto CIty Hall, or is deeply misguided in carrying out its job as a regulator. In 2016, when airports were not leading community discussions, and with the FAA at the table, citizens did put capacity up for discussion.Please see the unanimous Select 6 https://www.transportation.gov/regulations/rulemaking-process#rulemaking 5 https://quietskiesconference.org/2018-reauthorization Sky Posse Palo Alto Committee Recommendation 3.4, on balancing airport capacity and impacts on health. This was a process that involved 12 members and 12 alternate high level elected officials from Santa Clara, San Mateo, and Santa Cruz Counties in nearly 20 meetings over six months. The growth projections from 2016 need review in light of the IG’s comments. Recent airline cancellations are not because of new traffic growth: Capacity Limitations The Select Committee understands that the growth in air traffic for the Bay Area is projected to increase by approximately 2 percent per annum. While overall capacity limitations have not been reached at San Francisco International Airport, the availability of additional daytime flight capacity is limited, and it is anticipated that future traffic growth can only be accommodated during nighttime hours. The impact of additional flights during overnight hours is significantly greater to those on the ground, and requires stricter nighttime regulations to avoid sleep interference, as discussed further in Item 2.4 in this Report (Overnight Flights).Longer term, increased traffic levels may necessitate implementation of capacity limitations, such as longer in-trail spacing between aircraft or assigned gate slots. Recommendation:The Select Committee believes these capacity issues should be considered by any successor committee, as recommended in Item 3.1, Recommendations 1 and 2, in this Report (Need for an Ongoing Venue to Address Aircraft Noise Mitigation). (Vote: __12__ Aye, __0__ Nay, __0__ Absent or Abstain) The Select Committee also had something to say about “who makes recommendations to whom” and aptly described the FAA’s process as “fundamentally backwards.” Who Makes Recommendations to Whom In the face of widespread concern about aircraft noise over portions of three counties, the Select Committee was empaneled to provide recommendations to Members of Congress on appropriate measures to eliminate or mitigate noise where practicable. The Committee members understood and accepted that assignment, and this Report represents the Committee’s best effort to offer such recommendations. That being said, the mitigation of aircraft noise is a highly technical matter. The Committee was wholly comprised of (elected) lay people. Charging a group of elected lay people with the responsibility for making recommendations in this area seems less than ideal, particularly when the FAA has the requisite expertise and responsibility to manage aircraft traffic in the public interest. Simply put, notwithstanding the FAA’s good faith effort to provide technical expertise to the Committee,the Committee’s view is that the process is fundamentally Sky Posse Palo Alto backwards – the FAA should be going to Members of Congress and their affected constituencies with proposals for review and comment, not the other way around. Recommendation: Should a similar process be employed here or elsewhere in the country in the future, the Select Committee recommends that, to the greatest degree possible, the FAA be charged with the responsibility for identifying and proposing solutions to mitigate noise concerns, and that community groups and elected officials be consulted for review and comment, and to offer additional suggestions. (Vote: __12__ Aye, __0__ Nay, __0__ Absent or Abstain) Any rule change to address the FAA's Community Outreach practices must review how NEPA is being abused; environmental effects of Nextgen and all FAA actions are subject to NEPA disclosure and potential mitigation agreements before implementation,which the FAA evades. Please see our Special Report,The Role of Local Officials in FAA’s NEPA Practices. 2.Explore a new City jet noise complaints app ASK TO PACC: Building on Santa Cruz citizen Adam Worrall’s http://stop.jetnoise.net app that shares anonymized data with airports, academics, citizen researchers, please explore establishing a new City jet noise app. City complaint numbers exist for abandoned vehicles, shoreline noise, fireworks, etc. Reporting aircraft noise requires something like a smart phone app that can identify specific flights and elevations in order to have meaningful data to be collected, archived, and shared in a way that is considerate of the various parties that can use the information. Citizen noise reporting fulfills a communication role that goes beyond airport uses and they need to be handled better than the Airport/FAA status quo. SFO has been working to replace Adam’s app, but with unreasonable constraints. Mayor Burt will recall that prior to Nextgen, impacted citizens did not have contact with SFO’s noise office. Council’s reaction to resident concerns when we approached Council in April 2014 was - how could there be a problem if there aren’t any complaints at SFO? Our early observations, in 2014, about noise complaints to the airport are described here. Citizen reporting data is best managed independently from federal and airport contractors who have conflicts of interests with FAA and airport business - and as has been proven by Adam’s innovation done at his own personal expense.Palo Alto is affected by three international airports and other GA airports, including its own - all with different and cumbersome systems. Our area counts on brilliant researchers and engineers who can advise on a City app. Please work with community experts to modernize the various data and information systems that inform you and for future leaders. Sky Posse Palo Alto 3.Implement the Select Committee’s Unanimous Recommendations ASK TO PACC: Please take the responsible parties of Nextgen national infrastructure to task for implementing the unanimous recommendations of the Select Committee relying on lawful cumulative impacts analysis or fair data capture (not just looking at the footprint of one plane) and relevant metrics. There are several, and these should be considered in GBAS assessments.. ●Southern Arrivals – rec. 2.5.5 to assess a procedure for Southern Arrivals that does not “simply result in noise shifting” ●Flights from the North – rec. 2.2. to utilize the so-called East leg (over the Bay) as much as possible" Recommendation 2.5.5 follows Sky Posse advocacy for a Full Length of the Bay route to have aircraft at high altitudes when going over populations,and with noisy descents over water. The FAA has for too long been neglecting the SC process and its own two offers to the Select Committee for night time noise reduction for the MidPeninsula - voluntary programs and/or what FAA leadership described as infrastructure changes such as a new route. Please note that new route or flight path development is only as good as their eventual appropriate and balanced usage. The FAA recently presented in LA about “Option B” processes7 to address usage which is critical and does not need to wait for the work with GBAS. The Select Committee was formed in response to citizen complaints with the support of elected representatives, to address Nextgen noise. Private citizens devoted thousands of hours to the effort, working with the FAA and members of Congress at their direction, on their terms. In the end, the FAA ignored the committee's recommendations, effectively thumbing their noses at the entire effort. We expect better, and need PACC to be more proactive in advocating to reduce air traffic noise impacting Palo Alto neighborhoods. Thank you, Sky Posse Palo Alto 7 https://www.lawa.org/-/media/lawa-web/environment/lax-community-noise-roundtable/noise_manage ment_presentations/2022/7-20-22-faa-n-downwind-option-b-presentation.ashx From:Allan Seid To:Channing House Bulletin Board Subject:Fwd: Scan Date:Wednesday, August 10, 2022 2:35:39 PM Attachments:20220810123437104.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. From: Allan Seid Date: Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 12:46 PM Subject: Police profiling of Asian Americans Source: San Francisco Chronicle To be silent is to be complicit ! �rUHRONICLE.COM 1 Tuesday, August 9, 2022 Lawsuit: Officers targeted Asian Americans g By Bob Egelko and Dustin Gardiner Officers in rural Siskiyou County, fueled by racial preju- dice and drug fear -mongering, are stopping the county's small population of Asian American drivers at 12 times the rate of other drivers, according to a new lawsuit in federal court. County supervisors are also restricting Asian American residents' access to water and. illegally placing liens on their property, in a policy "designed to drive a disfavored racial minority from the county" the suit said. It was filed Wednes- day in Sacramento by the American Civil Liberties Union and Asian Americans Ad- vancingJusticeas.aproposed class action on behalf of the county's 1,200 Asian American residents. The suit said the policy began several years ago with reports of increased cannabis cultiva- tion in the northwestern Cali- fornia county coinciding with increases in Asian American refugees moving to the county, shortly before the outbreak of a pandemic that then -President Donald Trump called "the Chinese flu." Then-SheriffJon Lopey described all Asian Americans as pot growers and told county supervisors in January 2019 that he would assign his officers to conduct traffic stops in the county, a job they had not performed in the past, the suit said. Jeremiah LaRue, appointed sherifflastyear, continued the policy and was quoted as blam- • Brian van der Brug , INS 2021 The lawsuit says Asian American residents were targeted using water use rules, as well as being stopped more by police. ing alleged increases in drug cultivation and overall crime on "Chinese nationals that are in our community." In 2021, the suit said, Asian Americans. made up 2.4% of the county's population and more than 28% of those stopped by deputies — and during daytime hours, when a driver's race is more visible, they were 6o% more likely to be stopped than at night. Compared to white drivers, who were flagged less often than other groups, Asian Americans were 17 times as likely to be be stopped by offi- cers, the suit said. Asian American drivers who were stopped by deputies were held 56% longer than white drivers and were 25 times as likely to be searched, the suit said. But nearly three -fourths - of Asian Americans were re- leased without citation or ar- rest, and only 2.3% of the stops resulted in seizures of cannabis. That's a stark contrast to other law enforcement agencies across the state, whose officers typically stop. Asian people at far lower rates than other eth- nic"or racial groups, data shows. The Chronicle recently ana- lyzed police stop data, released by the state attorney general and found Asian drivers and pedestrians were the least likely to be stopped by officers in the state's 15 largest law enforce- ment jurisdictions in 2020. The data is based on the officer's perception of a person's race. In San Francisco, white peo- ple were nearly three times more likely to be stopped than Asian people, relative to their share of the population. hi Los Angeles and Oakland, white people were about two times more likely to be stopped than Asian people. Siskiyou County has not yet been required to report similar racial profiling data to the state. In 2018, California began re- quiring large law enforcement agencies to collect demographic data about every person stopped by their officers. The reporting requirement expands to all agencies this year, including tiny Siskiyou County, which has a population of less than 44,000 people and is situated in a mountainous region on the Oregon border. The plaintiffs behind the law- suit against the county used data from the computer -aided dispatch systems in officers' vehicles to calculate the alleged disparity in stops of Asian residents. One plaintiff in the suit said he was first stopped, for no apparent reason, in the summer of 2020 by a deputy who ap- proached his vehicle holding a gun at his side. The deputy . . searched the vehicle, found a small fruit knife, took it away and let him go. Then in the spring of 2021 another deputy stopped him on the way back from the laundromat and told him to get out with his hands raised and dumped the laundry on the ground. After the deputy searched and found nothing, the plaintiffsaid, he had to go back to the laundromat and - wash his clothes again. The suit also quoted Ray Haupt, a county supervisor, as telling a fellow supervisor in a June 2020 email that "I am fearful that we are losing a portion of our county and being turned into a no-go zone, simi- lar to what we see in foreign countries like Europe where ' Sharia Law has replaced local governance." After county supervisors voted in 2020 to prohibit prop: erty owners from extracting groundwater that was later used to cultivate'cannabis, the suit said, 68% of those prosecut- ed were Asian Americans. The suit said they were also targeted by ordinances in the spring of 2021 that required permits to transport water from an own- er's property or to carry water in large containers on trucks, forcing some residents out of their homes, until the measures were blocked by U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller last September. The suit also cited a 2020 ordinance that increased maxi- mum fines for cannabis cultiva- tion from $500 to $5,000 per day and authorized the county to. place a on the property, . which could be used to fore- close a home loan when the fine . was unpaid. Such liens are not authorized by state law, the suit said. The suit seeks judicial find- ings that the county and its officers have engaged in dis- crimination and court orders against bias in traffic stops and, water and lien policies. It does not seek damages. LaRue and Haupt did not immediately respond to re- quests for comment. Bob Egelko and Dustin Gardiner (he/him) are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. Email: begelko@sfchronicle.com and dustin.gardiner@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @BobEgelko and @dustingardiner From:michael demoss To:Council, City Subject:Help this man Date:Wednesday, August 10, 2022 2:21:50 PM [Some people who received this message don't often get email from lawreview@icloud.com. Learn why this is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.________________________________ Please take this man to a hospital for evaluation.No one should be abandoned like this poor man. Response to me with what is being done.Let me know if you do not have city funds to help him and I will help.Mike DeMoss Attorney Sent from my iPhone From:Allan Seid To:Channing House Bulletin Board Subject:Fwd: Norm Mineta may soon get a statue at San Jose airport Date:Wednesday, August 10, 2022 12:37:09 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 3:03 PM Subject: Norm Mineta may soon get a statue at San Jose airport To: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/09/norm-mineta-may-soon-get-a-statue- at-san-jose-airport/? utm_email=5471747C047CF4F134FEE503FE&g2i_eui=sqnKQBf51kRyOuCrHJ AwNHEFBT0TrrOE&g2i_source=newsletter&lctg=5471747C047CF4F134FEE5 03FE&active=yesP&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=https %3a%2f%2fwww.mercurynews.com%2f2022%2f08%2f09%2fnorm-mineta- may-soon-get-a-statue-at-san-jose-airport%2f&utm_campaign=bang-sjmn-nl-san- jose-news-nl&utm_content=automated Norm Mineta may soon get a statue at San Jose airport Group raising $150,000 for bronze tribute to late San Jose mayor, U.S. transportation secretary Sal Pizarro August 9, 2022 at 2:17 p.m. Norman Mineta, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation, talks with fellow attendees during the memorial service for the late John Vasconcellos at Mission Santa Clara church in Santa Clara, Saturday, June 21, 2014. Vasconcellos was a San Jose resident who rose to prominence as a California state legislator. (Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group) San Jose’s international airport is named after the late Norman Y. Mineta — the former San Jose mayor, congressman and U.S. secretary of transportation — but now there’s a plan to place a bronze statue of him there as well. The tribute has been in the works for two years, but it has gained traction since the May 3 death of the popular San Jose native, who became the first Asian American mayor of a major U.S. city, as well as the first Asian American cabinet secretary. The project has some high-powered names behind it serving as honorary co-chairs: U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez, state Sen. Dave Cortese and legendary judo coach Yosh Uchida. Quest Valley Charities — which has former Santa Clara County Supervisor Rod Diridon as its president and former Santa Clara County Superintendent of Schools Colleen Wilcox as its board chair — is raising $150,000 to pay for the 6-foot bronze statue and podium. The first 15 donors who contribute $10,000 or more will have their names engraved on the pedestal base, and two of those spots are already taken following pledges by former Cypress Semiconductor CEO T.J. Rodgers and Republic Urban Properties President Michael Van Every. Sculptor Steve Davis, who is in charge of the foundry at San Jose State University, designed the statue, which features Mineta standing in a business suit with his right hand placed over his heart. Davis previously worked on the Shirley Lewis Children’s Sculpture Walk at the Guadalupe River Park, which was a collaboration with Ryan Carrington. Two smaller versions of the statue will be created, with one presented to Mineta’s wife, Deni, and the other being donated to a museum. Anyone interested in contributing can find out more by emailing Terry Downing at Terry_Downing@prxdigital.com. From:Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo To:Council, City Subject:JMZ Science Outreach Program Spotlight Date:Wednesday, August 10, 2022 11:00:46 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of openingattachments and clicking on links. Logo_Full_Color_CMYK.jpg JMZ Science Outreach Program Spotlight August 10, 2022 Hello Friends, As we approach the start of a new school year, for this newsletter we profile a Friends' initiative to expand access to the Junior Museum & Zoo's Science Outreach Program—a long-standing priority for our organization. Since 1999, the Friends has funded the JMZ's Science Outreach Program in the Ravenswood City School District and in East Palo Alto Charter School (EPACS), serving elementary school children in East Palo Alto and eastern Menlo Park. Funding this program helps to address inequalities in STEM education between Ravenswood and wealthier, neighboring public school districts. Looking ahead, the Friends hopes to expand the reach of this exceptional program to additional, underserved communities in surrounding areas. In other news, the Friends is hosting a Halloween event for families at the Junior Museum & Zoo on October 28 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Proceeds from the event will help support JMZ educational programs, like Science Outreach, for youth in our community. If your company is interested in sponsoring this event, please contact Marie Ivich, our development manager, at marie@friendsjmz.org. Enjoy the rest of the summer! Lauren Angelo President, Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo Program Spotlight: JMZ Science Outreach Interview with Alex Hamilton, JMZ Director of Education What is the Junior Museum & Zoo’s Science Outreach Program? The JMZ’s Science Outreach Program offers high-quality science lessons to local schools. Aligned with current science standards, these lessons are hands-on, interactive experiences designed for children from preschool through fifth grade. This program supplements traditional classroom instruction by bringing in activities and animals for children to learn about. We even take field trips with third-graders to the Baylands Nature Preserve. How has the JMZ’s Science Outreach Program evolved since its inception? In 1955, the Junior Museum & Zoo commissioned a mobile science vehicle to visit schools, parks and playgrounds. This trailer operated into the 1970s until it was replaced by the Science Outreach Program. We have grown from two schools in the early 90s (Walter Hays and Addison) to all Palo Alto Unified School District schools and, with the support of the Friends, all elementary schools in the Ravenswood City School District. We also work with 60 other local schools on ad hoc interpretive programs. A young learner looks closely at a piece of paper under a magiscope. What new approaches do you take in order to keep lessons engaging and relevant? In 2017, we overhauled all of our lessons to support the new California State Science Content Standards (known as Next Generation Science Standards). The former collection of lessons supports Common Core Science Standards. Our teachers are also all “science nerds” so they are constantly reading about the latest developments in what we know about our world – advances in medicine and the like. We share our discoveries during our weekly department meetings and try to incorporate new science content and developments in the field into our lessons. For example, there have been a lot of new developments in our knowledge about dinosaurs, how they lived and died, and how they evolved into modern birds (rather than all of them going extinct as was previously thought). Students watch excitedly as they launch Alka-Seltzer rockets. Do you find children tend to be most excited or engaged with specific lessons or topics? Can you share those with us? They seem to get most excited about lessons that present beautiful, fascinating or unusual objects or animals (our geology programs and animal programs, and dissections, for example), and lessons that include an experiment with measurable results that reveal truths about their world (for example, our Camouflage lesson, White Powder Lab, Endo/Exo). They also love lessons that let them use real scientific tools and equipment (microscopes; telescopes; measuring devices for volume, temperature, density, salinity). Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo info@friendsjmz.org | www.friendsjmz.org DONATE NOW Connect with us Friends of the JMZ | 1451 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA 94301 Unsubscribe city.council@cityofpaloalto.org Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by info@friendsjmz.org in collaboration with Try email marketing for free today! View in browser |nytimes.com The New York Times August 10, 2022 Because of a technical error, several paragraphs were missing from this morning’s newsletter, so we’re re-sending the full version. We apologize for the mistake. By Soumya Karlamangla California Today, Writer It’s Wednesday. Los Angeles officials voted Tuesday to greatly limit where in the city unhoused people can sleep. Plus, San Bernardino County voters will From:Aram James To:Council, City; Human Relations Commission; Winter Dellenbach; Shikada, Ed; wilpfpeninsulapaloalto@gmail.com; Binder, Andrew; Joe Simitian; Jeff Rosen; Jethroe Moore; Sean Allen; Jay Boyarsky; chuck jagoda; Cecilia Taylor; Josh Becker; bnunez brnservices.com; Enberg, Nicholas; Rebecca Eisenberg; Cindy Chavez; Greer Stone; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Raj; Wagner, April Subject:California Today: L.A.’s new encampment ban Date:Wednesday, August 10, 2022 10:54:28 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious ofopening attachments and clicking on links. decide whether their government should study secession from California. A tent in downtown Los Angeles.Mark Abramson for The New York Times In a highly contested move, Los Angeles this week significantly expanded restrictions on where homeless people can sleep as the city, the nation’s second largest, grapples with its housing crisis. The Los Angeles City Council voted on Tuesday to prohibit homeless people from setting up tents within 500 feet of public and private schools and day care centers, during a contentious meeting that demonstrators halted for nearly an hour and that resulted in injuries to two police officers and one arrest. The Council’s decision reflects how severe the region’s housing crisis has become, experts say. “We are in that really tragic position of having to talk about balancing where people who are unhoused are sleeping,” said Gary Dean Painter, a professor at the University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy. “We shouldn’t be making that choice.” Before passing the restrictions on an 11-3 vote, Los Angeles officials had approved a few dozen places where people were banned from sitting, sleeping, lying or storing property. But the City Council introduced the latest measure after Alberto M. Carvalho, the Los Angeles Unified School District superintendent, raised concerns, saying young students were being traumatized by what they saw on their way to class. ADVERTISEMENT “Those who have argued that this doesn’t solve homelessness, doesn’t move us forward in this area, are absolutely right — but not on point,” said Councilman Gil Cedillo, who voted for the new rules. “The point of this measure is not to solve homelessness at all. The point of this measure is to protect safe passage to schools.” The impacts of the policy remain unclear, but they are expected to be sweeping. One councilman estimated that it would bump the number of banned sites to 2,000 from 200. Kenneth Mejia, who is running for Los Angeles city attorney, calculated that the rules would make 20 percent of the city off-limits to encampments. In some corners of the city, that figure could be as high as 48 percent, he estimated. Steve Diaz, who spoke at Tuesday’s meeting against the new rules, said the restrictions were a way to “create redlining across the city of L.A.” under the auspices of improving children’s well-being. ADVERTISEMENT “If it was really about children’s safety,” Diaz told the Council, “you would be investing more money in permanent supportive housing, wraparound services and ensuring that people were able to access housing as needed, and not into increased policing.” Officials in California and the West have been restricted from banning encampments after a 2018 court decision determined that criminalizing homelessness violated the U.S. Constitution. In the decision, Martin v. Boise, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that prosecuting people for sleeping in public amounted to cruel and unusual punishment when no shelter beds are available. But, as more people begin living on the streets, “liberal cities are doing everything in their power to get around Martin v. Boise,” said Ananya Roy, a professor and housing justice advocate for U.C.L.A. “It’s not an effort to alleviate poverty, it’s an effort to manage visible poverty and get it out of sight.” Jason Ward, associate director of the RAND Center on Housing and Homelessness in Los Angeles, said that enforcing the city’s new law would most likely be complicated and costly. And he said the city needed to focus on increasing the housing stock if it didn’t want its homelessness problem to worsen. ADVERTISEMENT “We’re creating new people that will be camping on the streets every day,” Ward told me. “A lot of people look at this problem in isolation, but I see it as inextricably linked to the fact that we don’t have enough housing in this region.” For more: We need to keep building houses, even if no one wants to buy. Twilight of the NIMBY. Los Angeles goes to war with itself over homelessness. A pop-up monkeypox vaccination site in Los Angeles.Caroline Brehman/EPA, via Shutterstock The rest of the news Monkeypox vaccines: California communities will be able to vaccinate more people for monkeypox by using a different technique that relies on one-fifth the current dosage, The Los Angeles Times reports. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Secession: Voters in San Bernardino County will soon get to say whether they want the county to study options that include seceding from the state, The Associated Press reports. The State Legislature and Congress would have to approve actual secession. Landing: The pilot and a passenger of a small airplane escaped safely after their aircraft landed and caught fire on State Route 91, The Associated Press reports. Union: The Los Angeles teachers’ union is demanding a withdrawal of extra school days, The Los Angeles Times reports. CENTRAL CALIFORNIA Sales tax: Fresno County voters will decide in November whether to increase the local sales tax to benefit Fresno State academic and athletics programs, The Fresno Bee reports. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Housing approval: Gov. Gavin Newsom began an unprecedented review of San Francisco’s housing approval process, The San Francisco Chronicle reports. Abuse: A San Jose State gymnast says that she and her teammates endured their coach’s emotional abuse on top of sexual abuse from a trainer, The Los Angeles Times reports. Antifa: The Natomas Unified School District paid a teacher three years’ salary to resign after he was secretly recorded professing his allegiance to antifa, The Sacramento Bee reports. Jim Bartsch for Sotheby’s International Realty What you get For $4 million: A Spanish-style retreat in Santa Barbara, a grand 1933 home in the Hollywood Hills and a Mediterranean-style house in Long Beach. Caroline Gutman for The New York Times What we’re eating Mexican pizza. An empty beach at Half Moon Bay.Jim Wilson/The New York Times Where we’re traveling Today’s tip comes from Leslie McLean, who lives in Sonoma. Leslie recommends a trip to Half Moon Bay, just south of San Francisco: “We walk along the beach, savoring the cooler weather. We eat delicious clam chowder at Sam’s Chowder House. And we always visit all the many nurseries, ranging from carnivorous plants to orchids to lavender to California natives to succulents to our favorite, large mom-and-pop nursery called Half Moon Bay Nursery. They blast opera on their speakers and we fill our truck with gorgeous plants every time we visit. It is a mecca of vegetative beauty.” Tell us about your favorite places to visit in California. Email your suggestions to CAtoday@nytimes.com. We’ll be sharing more in upcoming editions of the newsletter. Green Day performing during the Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco on Saturday.Ethan Swope/San Francisco Chronicle, via Associated Press And before you go, some good news Near the end of their set at Outside Lands on Saturday, Green Day invited an audience member onstage. “Who knows how to play guitar?” the band’s frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, called to the crowd. Armstrong chose a 10-year-old boy to play with them, and threw a guitar around the young performer. The boy then played the chords for “Knowledge,” a cover of a song by Operation Ivy, which, like Green Day, is a rock band from Berkeley. This is how the rest of the boy’s performance went down, from SFGate: “The boy kept going — and the crowd roared far louder than any other moment in the show. One woman standing behind me was sobbing and screaming at the same time. When Armstrong asked the boy his name, he replied it was Montgomery. Armstrong told the boy he’d call him Monty — and the crowd started chanting his new rock star name. ‘Oh, and you can keep the guitar,’ Armstrong said.” Thanks for reading. I’ll be back tomorrow. — Soumya P.S. Here’s today’s Mini Crossword, and a clue: Deep purple fruit (4 letters). Briana Scalia contributed to California Today. You can reach the team at CAtoday@nytimes.com. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Need help? Review our newsletter help page or contact us for assistance. You received this email because you signed up for California Today from The New York Times. To stop receiving these emails, unsubscribe or manage your email preferences. Subscribe to The Times Connect with us on: Change Your Email Privacy Policy Contact Us California Notices LiveIntent Logo The New York Times Company. 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 From:pennyellson12@gmail.com To:Council, City Subject:Bike/Ped Grade Separations Date:Wednesday, August 10, 2022 10:51:51 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Honorable City Council, Here are comments (pasted below) I made as an individual at yesterday’s Rail Committee meeting. I want to share these thoughts with you. At the end of yesterday’s meeting I learned that the next Rail Committee meeting will be Sept 21 with Caltrain to begin discussions on an MOU. We need to start making decisions, and my read is that the existing plans all have significant problems for people who walk and bike. I expressed my opinion at the meeting that, given what AECOM has delivered to date, complete street planning that incorporates quality bike/ped facilities (that CoPA Comp Plan requires) does not appear to be their strength. I hope a consultant with stronger expertise in this area will be hired for the next phase of planning. Some of these plans include ped/bike facilities that would be less safe than what we have today. Perhaps it is time to make funding available for additional staff to enable this bike/ped work. Not doing so in this moment (given the funding that is coming available and our urgent need to make good, multi-modal rail crossing decisions), may be pennywise and pound foolish. As always, thank you for your attention and for your service to our city. Penny Ellson (Comments to Rail Committee follow) I’m Penny Ellson, speaking as an individual. There are five existing grade separations north of Oregon Expressway and zero existing grade separations south of Oregon in Palo Alto. This disparity is a problem today (recognized in the 2012 BPTP) and will be a much more serious problem for south PA during the upcoming grade separation construction period and going forward. Construction of all three grade separation alternatives being considered for south Palo Alto will require road closure and/or lane reductions. Where will that traffic go? Cars may go to already congested San Antonio Road or Oregon Expressway, but neither of these routes is a safe or convenient alternative for bikes and pedestrians. How will students get to school? How will regional bike commuters get across town to SRP? This is a non-trivial problem for bicyclists and for motorists, perhaps worse than you think, because if those kids don’t have a safe route, their parents will put them back in cars. Understand this. Every student who is driven to school generates FOUR car trips per day for drop-off/pick-up-- in/out in the morning peak (2) and in/out in the afternoon (+2=4). Parents with students who are old enough to drive will accelerate effort to get those kids licensed and driving. This will undermine the bike culture we have worked decades to establish, and it will be very difficult to rebuild. The need to solve this problem is urgent, and the policy basis for getting started now is already in place. The 2012 BPTP offered ABC-2 recommending a project to “Construct a grade-separated pedestrian and bicycle crossing of Caltrain/Alma Street in the vicinity of Matadero Creek/Park Boulevard or between Margarita and Loma Verde Avenues. This project closes a 1.3 mile gap between existing crossings at California Avenue and Meadow Street, greatly improving east-west connectivity in conjunction with other improvements.” This is supported by Comp Plan Program T1.19.3 Increase the number of east-west pedestrian and bicycle crossings across Alma Street and the Caltrain corridor, particularly south of Oregon Expressway. A midtown bike/ped grade sep will solve rail crossing problems for midtown students, but students who live south of Meadow will still be left with a significant detour. The change could lengthen a bike commute from my neighborhood, Greenmeadow, to Gunn, for instance, from 17 minutes to 31 minutes or more. This will be a significant incentive to shift to cars. A second bike/ped grade separated crossing that is further south may be needed, and we should be considering options for that. Let’s expedite this planning to create projects that are eligible to compete for historic levels of federal, state and county funding for bike/ped projects that are coming available now. If staff believes we don’t need to work on these grade separation plans for south Palo Alto now, I would like to hear what alternatives they suggest to maintain SAFE and convenient east/west bike/ped routes through midtown and the more southern neighborhoods of south Palo Alto through construction and beyond. Thank you for considering my comments. Virus-free.www.avg.com From:Palo Alto Free Press To:David Angel Cc:Brian Welch; Binder, Andrew; James Aram; Wagner, April; Shikada, Ed; Milton, Lesley; ladoris cordell; Council, City; Pat Burt; Burt, Patrick; Press strong; Human Relations Commission; Bains, Paul; Maloney, Con; Cody@salfenlaw.com; Reifschneider, James; Perron, Zachary; Brian Welch; Jay Boyarsky; Jeff Rosen; Sean Webby Subject:Re: Factual innocence preconviction. Date:Wednesday, August 10, 2022 5:48:09 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ You know I guess my legal attitude runs in the family, my cousin Supreme Court Justice of Nicaragua…. Humberto Obregon Aguirre…. Very close friend the the current President Daniel Ortega during the 80’s. In fact, the European court wanted to convict them both of atrocities but I’d have to look that up again…. Mark Sent from my iPad > On Aug 10, 2022, at 6:07 AM, Palo Alto Free Press <paloaltofreepress@gmail.com> wrote: > > Aram, > > You once told me, Mark no one wants to mess with you legally and besides your well funded. Remember that? Well, there going to be compelled to answer my complaint…. > > Case in point, remember those two high powered Palo Alto law firms I send off with there tails dragging between there legs. To the tune of undisclosed amount of money as a settlement NDA signed sealed and deliver to my bank….. > > Mark > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Aug 10, 2022, at 5:48 AM, Palo Alto Free Press <paloaltofreepress@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> David: >> >> I have scoured legal cases involving factual innocence. There is absolutely nothing on the legal books dealing with pre-factual innocence the direct result of a botched sexual investigation and accusations by April Wagner and her sexual assault team of in-house investigators. She was the director of operations….. >> >> Secondly, I was reported to the department of justice as a child molester, let me repeat that David as a child molester without the benefit of a jury trial. I was convicted by the Palo Alto Police Department let me make this point unequivocally clear to you. >> >> This pending case we’ll set a precedent in the halls of justice, correcting an injustice of psychological damage and loss of employment the result of false accusations by the Palo Alto Police and the inaction by the Santa Clara DA’s office to set matters straight David. >> >> Mark Petersen-Perez >> Editor-in-chief >> Palo Alto Free Press >> Reporting from Nicaragua >> >> >> Sent from my iPad From:Palo Alto Free Press To:Stump, Molly; Milton, Lesley; Shikada, Ed; Pat Burt; Burt, Patrick; Brian Welch; Reifschneider, James; James Aram; Perron, Zachary Cc:Sue Dremann; Sean Webby; Council, City; Maloney, Con; Cody@salfenlaw.com; Press strong Subject:First and Forth Amendment Violations - Screenshot 2022-08-10 at 4.28.17 AM Date:Wednesday, August 10, 2022 3:37:39 AM Attachments:Screenshot 2022-08-10 at 4.28.17 AM.png CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Ms. Stump, The evidence is compiling. You willfully knowingly allowed allowed this police officer to block my (email addresses) in violation of my constitutional rights under the First and Forth Amendment to “Redress my grievance”. Your willful and wonton behavior and actions are actionable under the California State Bar Rules and published regulations for disbarment. Sent from my iPad From:Loran Harding To:antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; David Balakian; boardmembers; bballpod; bearwithme1016@att.net; fred beyerlein; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; Council, City; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian; Dan Richard; dallen1212@gmail.com; Daniel Zack; david pomaville; eappel@stanford.edu; Scott Wilkinson; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; jerry ruopoli; Joel Stiner; kfsndesk; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; karkazianjewelers@gmail.com; leager; lalws4@gmail.com; Leodies Buchanan; Mayor; Mark Standriff; margaret-sasaki@live.com; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; VT3126782@gmail.com Subject:Fwd: CSAA auto ins. sued in big class action Date:Tuesday, August 9, 2022 6:10:41 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 6:01 PM Subject: Fwd: CSAA auto ins. sued in big class action To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 6:00 PM Subject: CSAA auto ins. sued in big class action To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2020 To all- Big class action lawsuit filed in Alameda Co. Calif. against CSAA insurance group for violating Prop. 103. They allegedly kept charging the same rates on car insurance even though mileage fell a lot in 2020, 2021 with Calif. Stay at home orders. CSAA Took Advantage of Pandemic, Overcharged Policyholders by at Least $150 Million for Auto Insurance, Policyholder Lawsuit Says (prnewswire.com) If you buy car ins. from CSAA this may be of interest. Did your ins. rates from other car ins. cos. fall in 2020 and 2021 (and 2022) ? They should have, especially if you drove a lot less in those years due to the pandemic. Join the class action suit? L.William Harding Fresno, Ca. From:Aram James To:Pat Burt; Shikada, Ed; Council, City; Human Relations Commission; Winter Dellenbach; Binder, Andrew; Sean Allen; Jethroe Moore; Rebecca Eisenberg; chuck jagoda; Enberg, Nicholas; Tannock, Julie; Jay Boyarsky; Josh Becker; Greer Stone; Perron, Zachary; Foley, Michael; michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Wagner, April; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com Subject:City of Palo Alto Public Records Request :: W003761-080922 Date:Tuesday, August 9, 2022 5:34:44 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. 08/09/2022 Dear Aram: The City of Palo Alto is dedicated and responsive to our community. Your request has been received and is being processed. Your request was given the reference number W003761-080922 for tracking purposes. Records Requested: Pursuant to The California Public Records Act please provide the following documents: 1. Any and all documents reflecting the total legal cost/legal fees to the City of Palo Alto for defending the Gustavo Alverez case. Costs include the actual settlement amount and any outside legal fees and any and all additional fees to defend the Gustavo Alverez case. 2. Any and all documents reflecting the total cost to the city in defending the Julio Arevalo case. This includes the cost of the actual settlement, outside legal fees and and any all other fees related to the defense of the Julio Arevalo case. 3. Any any all documents reflecting the cost to the city of defending the Joel Alejo case. This is includes the actual settlement in the case, the cost to hire outside council and all other costs to the city of defending the Joel Alejo case. 4. Any and all documents related to the HR and IPA investigations of Captain Zack Perron since 2004 related to the alleged racist comments made by Captain Zack Perron to then officer Marcus Barbour. Sincerely, Aram James Abjpd1@gmail.com 415-370-5056 Your request will be forwarded to the relevant department(s) to locate the information you seek and to determine the volume and any costs associated with satisfying your request. You will be contacted about the availability and/or provided with copies of the records in question. You can monitor the progress of your request at the link below and you'll receive an email when your request has been completed. Thank you for using the Public Records Center. City of Palo Alto Track the issue status and respond at: https://paloaltoca.mycusthelp.com/webapp//_rs/RequestEdit.aspx?rid=3761 From:Aram James To:Binder, Andrew; Tannock, Julie; Human Relations Commission; Shikada, Ed; Council, City; Winter Dellenbach; Jeff Rosen; chuck jagoda; Enberg, Nicholas; Joe Simitian; Greer Stone; Rebecca Eisenberg; Josh Becker; Jethroe Moore; Cindy Chavez; Pat Burt; Sean Allen Subject:Aram James : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive Date:Tuesday, August 9, 2022 4:44:25 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Danger of Tasers very short …. https://archive.org/details/AramJames Sent from my iPhone From:Penny Proctor To:Council, City Subject:Yes on Business Tax Date:Tuesday, August 9, 2022 1:20:49 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Dear Mayor Burt and honorable City Council Members, Please go ahead with the business tax. We really need it! Penny Proctor Greer Rd From:mark weiss To:Council, City Cc:Shikada, Ed; Tom DuBois (tom.dubois@gmail.com); Filseth, Eric (external) Subject:apropos of the business tax: consider unicorns and VC transactions Date:Tuesday, August 9, 2022 12:04:09 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. To City Council: Here is a list of 16 unicorns based in Palo Alto. A unicorn is a privately held company valued at a billion dollars. (To remind you: a billion dollars is a thousand times more than a million dollars). I’ve said numerous times, in these pages, as public record, that a tax based on square footage is sub-optimal and likely regressive. Beyond unicorns, there are close to 100 companies here valued at between a billion dollars and close to a trillion dollars (remember: a trillion dollars is 1000x a billion dollars): Amazon, trading at $1.2T as of yesterday, and Tesla, trading at $900B. A more obvious — and popular — way to commence a business tax here would be to look at financial data and indices of these 100 or so companies and find a fair way to assess $100m for the public coffers. Why don’t we have a business tax? Without answering publicity and thoroughly that question, I suspect that the unknown answer unduly influences our current flailing and ludicrous conversation — I would not put a ballot measure without a more fundamental and honest examination on what goes on here. (My theory: landlords control leadership here and are dictating the terms of the tax discussion, which they assume will fail; its not simply that we the people - through our unfortunate proxies — are afraid of “Big Tech” but we are afraid of the shadow of Big Tech - their landlords). I suggest we also tax venture capital transactions, starting and landing here. A vc tax on the order of $1 per $1,000 might yield $2m here annually. (Enough, for example. to keep our libraries open full time and to restore furloughed workers at the Palo Alto Art Center, dark since March, 2020 in the evenings). San Jose collects $70m in business tax and likely has less business capital than we do. (We certainly have more venture capital per capita - comparing that industry with our population base — than they do). San Jose collects twice as much in business tax as it does in TOT. Here is a list of 16 unicorns in Palo Alto and their funding totals: as of March, 2022) TripActions: $7.2B/$1040M (i.e. they are worth seven billion and they have raised a billion) Gong: $7.2B/$583M SambaNova: $5B/$1132M Rubrik: $4B/$553M Houzz: $4B/$1102M —maybe you’ve noticed this one: shares an office with City’s Development staff, in a building owned by Thoits, across City Hall). Next Insurance: $4B/$881M PsiQuantum: $3.1B/$728M Plume: $2.6B/$713M UniPhore: $2.5B/$445M Medable: $2.1B/$534M Salt Security: $1.4/$271M Flipboard: $1.3/$210M Turing: $1.1B/$136M Minio: $1.0/$126M Noname Security: $1.0B/$141M Snorkel AI: $1.0B/$196M source: The 16 Unicorn Startups Founded in Palo Alto If you are in leadership and you’ve never heard of these companies, and they’ve eluded your so-called business tax screen or plans, you are a disgrace. Cumulatively, these 16 firms are valued at roughly 50 billion in valuations and total another 9 billion in income thru investment —mostly in the last decade — an awful lot to just shrug off, dismiss or not account for. (Ribbit Capital alone, located above CVS, announced a $1.1B fund this year). There's also something today in SVBJ that says a company at 1000 Page Mill in Palo Alto called Applovin has $3B in revenue, $17B market cap (NASDAQ) and is offering $17b to buy a related Bay Area company. Surely they be lovin' kicking back for our libraries, yo! Maybe between $1m and $4m. Without a serious discussion of the value of Palo Alto’s top 100 companies by value, their payroll, their market valuations and tieing a tax to those values, our tax discussion seems like a straw man designed to fail. Mark Weiss in Palo Alto not a billionaire PS might be fun to cross-reference the list of unicorns with the list of landlords; obviously Tiffany Griego and Stanford Industrial Park, Applovin's landlord or ground lease, she of the $18B in leases, is on record saying she doesn’t give a "dern" about Palo Alto PPS: I interviewed Pat Burt on this topic at Printers Inc on June 7, 2022 and he said, paraphrasing that he is afraid to tax our billionaires, centi-billiionaires and trillionaires more than about $10m for fear that they will all scurry off to Milpitas or Lubbock. Which calls to mind, ironically, that when recent Mountain View mayor Lenny Siegel was an activist at Stanford they held a Situationist exorcism on St. Patrick’s Day to try to expel the snakes from Palo Alto Square. Not to confuse you or mix metaphors: the snake metaphor was not on my recording with Pat. We spoke of this topic in baseball terminology: he said his goal was to bunt the ball back to the pitcher and not strike out. Which I called “concilatory” or “conceding”. I said Palo Altans like leaders who can hit home runs like Henry Bolte. At which point Pat ran away and called me “Eddie Mathews”. He said he was thinking of changing the family name from Burt to Bunt. I think these companies will send out press releases bragging of their earnings, their investments, their valuations AND their tenth of a percent support for Palo Alto libraries. The 16 Unicorn Startups Founded in Palo Alto Here’s a complete list of unicorn companies founded in Palo Alto,including TripActions and Gong. From:Allan Seid To:Channing House Bulletin Board Subject:Fwd: OAKLAND CHINATOWN facing triple epidemic Date:Tuesday, August 9, 2022 11:24:45 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. 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Sincerely, Aram James From:Aram James To:Stump, Molly; Council, City; Human Relations Commission; Shikada, Ed; Scheff, Lisa; Linda Jolley; Winter Dellenbach Subject:California Public Records Request Date:Monday, August 8, 2022 6:57:19 PM Attachments:image002.png image003.png image004.png image007.png CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. August 7, 2022 Pursuant to The California Public Records Act please provide the following documents: 1. Any and all documents reflecting the total legal cost/legal fees to the City of Palo Alto for defending the Gustavo Alverez case. Costs include the actual settlement amount and any outside legal fees and any and all additional fees to defend the Gustavo Alverez case. 2. Any and all documents reflecting the total cost to the city in defending the Julio Arevalo case. This includes the cost of the actual settlement, outside legal fees and and any all other fees related to the defense of the Julio Arevalo case. 3. Any any all documents reflecting the cost to the city of defending the Joel Alejo case. This is includes the actual settlement in the case, the cost to hire outside council and all other costs to the city of defending the Joel Alejo case. 4. Any and all documents related to the HR and IPA investigations of Captain Zack Perron since 2004 related to the alleged racist comments made by Captain Zack Perron to then officer Marcus Barbour. Sincerely, Aram James Abjpd1@gmail.com 415-370-5056 <!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]-->MOLLY S. STUMP City Attorney Office of the City Attorney (650) 329 - 2171 | Molly.Stump@cityofpaloalto.org www.cityofpaloalto.org This message contains information that may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the addressee, you may not use, copy or disclose the message or any information contained in the message. 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Emily Foley, AICP Planner Planning and Development Services Department (650) 617-3125 | emily.foley@cityofpaloalto.org www.cityofpaloalto.org NEW Parcel Report | Palo Alto Municipal Code | Online Permitting System | Planning Forms & Handouts | Planning Applications Mapped The City of Palo Alto is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. We have successfully transitioned most of our employees to a remote work environment. We remain available to you via email, phone, and virtual meetings during our normal business hours. From: Tilli <tillik@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, August 8, 2022 2:35 PM To: Foley, Emily <Emily.Foley@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Gerhardt, Jodie <Jodie.Gerhardt@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org> Subject: Fwd: Safe Parking program CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear esteemed City Council members- I am a mother of 4 who lives in Palo Alto near the First Congregational Church. While I did not sign the appeal, because I live more than 600m from the church, I am opposed to the program in its present form and am writing to ask that you amend it to make it safe for residents. (Application 22PLN-00159) My biggest ask is for Background checks (so obvious, but yet I can't believe we still have to explain). Other programs in the country have background checks. No reason for us to compromise our residents' safety. What we hear in opposition to background checks is --> "Background checks do not always work, so no need to do them" Response: So if we apply this logic to every law, we will have to live without laws, because no law is perfect in protecting 100% of the citizens. Another thing we hear is-->"We did not have to undergo criminal background checks in order to buy our houses, why do we want it from the vehicles dwellers? Credit check for mortgage is not the same as criminal background check" As far as I recall when I got my mortgage for our house is we had a credit check, and also comprehensive questions on whether one has mental Illness, criminal and civil liabilities, pending court actions, etc. Some may actually find those checks more invasive and stricter than criminal background check. Further, if one bothers to read the actual documents submitted to the City, you will find that just about everywhere else in California where such programs are implemented, the best practices include overnight supervision and many places if not most do require background checks. We want to be able to help the homeless but not feel we are compromising our sense of security and our children's sense of freedom. I believe we MUST require transients who wish to stay to register with the Opportunity Center with full background checks, and to consent to services deemed needed by social services. Tilli Kalisky Palo Alto From:s. bogerty To:Council, City Subject:weed abatement program, assessment report, city of palo alto Date:Monday, August 8, 2022 3:17:19 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from escondido1969-stssandiego@yahoo.com. Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. To: Lesley Milton City Clerk of the City of Palo Alto I received a copy of the above report with an assessment for APN 182-49-004 for $4,428.20. I would like to have a copy of estimate for the exact work that this covers ), ie weeds, bushes, hauling away debris etc and who performs this work. I assume they are covered by worker's compensation etc. Just a listing on a report is not adequate. Alternatively is there someplace to find this information on the City Website. I would also wonder if it is possible for the city to send certified mail when there is something of a significant amount of money. A few dollars for certified mail when there is a +$4000.00 charge seems reasonable. This letter was delivered to someone else in our neighborhood who then put it in my mailbox several days later (this happens not infrequently in our neighborhood or we don't receive the mail). This is why I have my utility bills and other important information from the county or City delivered to my office address. Thank you for your assistance. Sharon Bogerty APN From:Aram James To:Council, City; Human Relations Commission; Winter Dellenbach; Shikada, Ed; Joe Simitian; chuck jagoda; Winter Dellenbach; Rebecca Eisenberg; Roberta Ahlquist Subject:NIMBY Date:Monday, August 8, 2022 1:37:52 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/05/five-candidates-vie-for-three-seats-on-the-palo-alto-city-council/amp/ Sent from my iPhone From:Planning Subject:HEU: County of Santa Clara Housing Element Update - CEQA Notice of Preparation Date:Monday, August 8, 2022 1:01:44 PM Attachments:image001.png HEU_NOP_2022-08-06_FINAL.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. County of Santa Clara Housing Element Update NOTICE OF PREPARATION OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA HOUSING ELEMENT & STANFORD COMMUNITY PLAN UPDATE The County of Santa Clara (“County”) will be the Lead Agency and will prepare a program-level Environmental Impact Report (EIR) regarding proposed updates to the County’s General Plan, including updates to the General Plan’s Housing Element and the Stanford Community Plan (the “Project”). The County requests your input on the scope and content of the environmental information to be included in the EIR that is germane to your agency’s statutory responsibilities in connection with the proposed Project. A brief description of the Project, its site boundary, and a summary of the potential environmental effects are provided on the following pages. Approval of the Project will require actions by the County of Santa Clara, including the preparation and certification of an EIR, adoption of a General Plan Amendment, and adoption of changes to the County’s zoning map and zoning ordinance necessary to maintain consistency with the General Plan. The EIR may also be used by your agency. A Public Scoping/Community Meeting to solicit comments for the Notice of Preparation will be held virtually via Zoom on August 23, 2022, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The zoom link for the meeting is: https://sccgov-org.zoom.us/j/98927011384 The deadline for your response is September 8, 5:00 p.m.; however, an earlier response, if possible, would be appreciated. Please send your response to: County of Santa Clara Department Planning & Development Attention: Bharat Singh, Principal Planner County Government Center 70 West Hedding, 7th Floor, East Wing, San José CA 95110 E-mail: Planning2@pln.sccgov.org County of Santa Clara Department of Planning and Development County Gover nment Center, East Wing 70 West Hedding Street, 7 th Floor San Jose, California 95110 Board of Supervisors: Mike Wasserman, Cindy Chavez, Otto Lee, Susan Ellenberg, Joseph Simitian County Executive: Jeffrey V. Smith 1850 NOTICE OF PREPARATION OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA HOUSING ELEMENT & STANFORD COMMUNITY PLAN UPDATE August 8, 2022 The County of Santa Clara (“County”) will be the Lead Agency and will prepare a program-level Environmental Impact Report (EIR) regarding proposed updates to the County’s General Plan, including updates to the General Plan’s Housing Element and the Stanford Community Plan (the “Project”). The County requests your input on the scope and content of the environmental information to be included in the EIR that is germane to your agency’s statutory responsibilities in connection with the proposed Project. A brief description of the Project, its site boundary, and a summary of the potential environmental effects are provided on the following pages. Approval of the Project will require actions by the County of Santa Clara, including the preparation and certification of an EIR, adoption of a General Plan Amendment, and adoption of changes to the County’s zoning map and zoning ordinance necessary to maintain consistency with the General Plan. The EIR may also be used by your agency. A Public Scoping/Community Meeting to solicit comments for the Notice of Preparation will be held virtually via Zoom on August 23, 2022, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The zoom link for the meeting is: https://sccgov- org.zoom.us/j/98927011384. The deadline for your response is September 8, 2022; however, an earlier response, if possible, would be appreciated. Please send your response to: County of Santa Clara Planning Office Attention: Bharat Singh, Principal Planner County Government Center 70 West Hedding, 7th Floor, East Wing, San José CA 95110 E-mail: Planning2@pln.sccgov.org Prepared by: ____________________ Signature Date Approved by: ____________________ Signature Date DocuSign Envelope ID: A2B1B8A8-117C-496B-93B0-1F4A7DB8BEA0 Bharat Singh 8/8/2022 Santa Clara County Housing Element Update & Stanford Community Plan Update EIR Notice of Preparation Page 2 Introduction As the lead agency, the County plans to analyze the potential environmental impacts associated with proposed updates to the County’s General Plan, including updates to the General Plan’s Housing Element and Stanford Community Plan, pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (Public Resources Code §21000 et seq.) and its implementing regulations, the CEQA Guidelines (14 Cal. Code Regs. §15000 et seq.). As required under CEQA, the EIR will evaluate and describe the potentially significant environmental effects (“impacts”) of the Project, identify mitigation measures to avoid or reduce the significance of potential impacts, and evaluate the comparative effects of potentially feasible alternatives to the Project. The EIR will be a program EIR, as provided for in CEQA Guidelines Section 15168, which states that a program EIR is appropriate for projects which are “… a series of actions that can be characterized as one large project” consisting of related actions. Preparation of a program-level EIR also “allows the Lead Agency to consider broad policy alternative and program-wide mitigation measures at an early time when the agency has greater flexibility to deal with basic problems or cumulative impacts” (CEQA Guidelines §15168(b)). Project Location Santa Clara County is located in the San Francisco Bay Area and encompasses 1,300 square miles. The County is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay and is the Bay Area’s most populous county, with 15 cities and nearly two million people. The present urban and rural landscape of Santa Clara County is diverse, comprising a complex social and economic setting that overlays a rich historic, multi-cultural, and natural environment. Named after Mission Santa Clara, the County was established in 1777 and is one of the original counties of California. In the early 20th century, the area was promoted as the "Valley of the Heart's Delight" due to its natural beauty, including a significant number of orchards. Then in 1939, the first major technology company to be based in the area was founded. Today, the County is headquarters to approximately 6,000 high technology companies, some of which are the largest technology companies in the world. While most of the urbanized areas in the County are under the jurisdiction of individual cities, the County maintains jurisdiction of 7,348 acres that are designated as Urban Service Areas (USAs) and are planned for eventual annexation to a city’s jurisdiction. Lands owned by Stanford University and subject to the County’s Stanford Community Plan comprise slightly over 4,000 acres, and the remaining 596,070 acres in the unincorporated County area comprise rural parts of the County. The County’s regional location and boundaries are shown in Figure 1. Project Background Purpose of the Housing Element Update State law requires the County to have and maintain a general plan with specific contents in order to provide a vision for the County’s growth and to inform local decisions on land use and development, including DocuSign Envelope ID: A2B1B8A8-117C-496B-93B0-1F4A7DB8BEA0 Santa Clara County Housing Element Update & Stanford Community Plan Update EIR Notice of Preparation Page 3 issues such as circulation, conservation, and safety. Santa Clara County’s General Plan is comprised of General Plan Books A and B, the Stanford University Community Plan, and three maps addressing land use, regional parks and scenic highways, and trails. Within Book A, the County General Plan includes Countywide policies regarding Growth and Development, Economic Well-Being, Health, Housing, Transportation, Parks and Recreation, Resource Conservation, Safety and Noise, and Governance. Within Book B, the County General Plan addresses similar issues for the Rural Unincorporated Area, as well as Urban Unincorporated Area Issues & Policies, and the South County Joint Area Plan. The housing chapter or “element” of the General Plan is often provided under separate cover because it must be frequently updated and monitored. The County’s current Housing Element was adopted in June 2014 and covers the time period from 2015 to 2022. Government Code Section 65588 requires the County to update this Housing Element by January 31, 2023. In accordance with State law, the planning period for the updated Housing Element will be January 31, 2023 to January 31, 2031. Concurrent with the Housing Element update, the County will consider adoption of an update to the Stanford Community Plan, which was adopted in 2000, and any amendments to other elements of the General Plan required to maintain internal consistency. Regional Housing Needs Allocation In addition to including goals, policies, and implementation programs regarding housing issues, housing elements must include an inventory or list of housing sites at sufficient densities to accommodate a specific number of units at various levels of affordability assigned to the County by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG). This assignment is referred to as a Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA). On December 18, 2020, ABAG released its Draft Regional Housing Needs Assessment Methodology and Subregional Shares document which articulated ABAG’s recommended methodology for the distribution of the regional housing need of 441,176 housing units issued by the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). Based on the draft methodology, for the 6th RHNA cycle the County was allocated 3,125 units to be planned within unincorporated Santa Clara County for the term of the 6th Cycle (2023 through 2031). The allocation represents an increase of over 1,000% in the County’s allocation from the last RHNA cycle. Subsequent to issuance of the Draft RHNA, HCD approved the recommended methodology and ABAG considered appeals from 27 local jurisdictions, including the County of Santa Clara. Following public comments and appeal hearings, ABAG rejected all of the appeals except for one, which transferred units from Contra Costa County to the City of Pittsburg. The County of Santa Clara’s appeal was rejected. Subsequently, ABAG adopted the Final RHNA on December 16, 2021. Table 1 shows the breakdown of required units in the County of Santa Clara across the four income categories. In order to accommodate the new units, the County will have to rezone sites in both urban and rural unincorporated areas and amend other elements of the General Plan as needed to ensure that the General Plan as a whole remains consistent with the HEU. DocuSign Envelope ID: A2B1B8A8-117C-496B-93B0-1F4A7DB8BEA0 Santa Clara County Housing Element Update & Stanford Community Plan Update EIR Notice of Preparation Page 4 TABLE 1 COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA 2023-2031 RHNA ALLOCATIONS BY INCOME CATEGORIESa Income Group Very Low Income (VLI) Low Income (LI) Moderate Income (MOD) >Moderate Income (>MOD) Total 828 477 508 1,312 3,125 NOTES: a Household income categories are based on those established by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for use in its Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. The 2022 Area Median Income (AMI) for Santa Clara County is $168,500 for a family of four. Very Low Income households have an income less than 50% of AMI (<$84,250) and a portion of Very Low income households qualify as Extremely Low Income, with income less than 30% of AMI (<$50,550). Low Income households have an income less than 80% of AMI (<$131,750). Moderate Income households have an income less than 120% of AMI (<$202,200. Above Moderate Income households have an income over 120% of AMI (>$202,200). SOURCES: Association of Bay Area Governments, Final Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) Plan: San Francisco Bay Area, 2023-2031, Adopted December 16, 2021. Department of Housing and Community Development. 2022. State Income Limits for 2022. May 13, 2022. While the law requires the County to include an inventory of housing sites and requires the County to zone those sites for multifamily housing, the County is not required to develop housing on these sites. Future development on the identified sites will be up to the property owners and will be largely dependent on market forces and (in the case of affordable housing) available subsidies. Stanford Community Plan Stanford lands within unincorporated Santa Clara County, also considered the Stanford Community Plan area, are subject to policies in the Stanford Community Plan (SCP), as adopted by the Board of Supervisors (Board) in 2000, and most recently amended in 2015. The development within the SCP area is currently regulated under the SCP, the 2000 General Use Permit (GUP) conditions of approval, and the 1985 Land Use Policy Agreement (Agreement) between the County of Santa Clara, the City of Palo Alto, and Stanford University. At the direction of the Board (February, 11, 2020, Item No. 19), and as the first phase of planned work to update the County General Plan, the Administration is proposing updates to the SCP (SCP Update). Prior updates to the SCP were proposed by the Administration and considered by the Board in tandem with the proposed adoption of a new GUP applied for by Stanford in Fall 2016. However, the 2016 GUP application was withdrawn by Stanford University on November 1, 2019 and those SCP updates were not adopted by the Board. On February 11, 2020, the Board approved recommending the Administration move forward with specified items related to implementation and updates to the SCP. Project Description The proposed Project would make updates to the County’s General Plan, including updates to the General Plan’s Housing Element, the Stanford Community Plan, and other elements as generally described below. All updates will be the subject of additional analysis and community/agency input prior to consideration by the Board of Supervisors. DocuSign Envelope ID: A2B1B8A8-117C-496B-93B0-1F4A7DB8BEA0 Santa Clara County Housing Element Update & Stanford Community Plan Update EIR Notice of Preparation Page 5 Housing Element Update The proposed Project would adopt an updated Housing Element for the period from January 2023 to January 2031 in accordance with State law. The updated Housing Element would include goals, objectives, policies, and implementation programs that address the maintenance, preservation, improvement, and development of housing in unincorporated Santa Clara County. In addition, the HEU would identify sites appropriate for the development of multifamily housing, and the County would rezone those sites as necessary to meet the requirements of State law. The County also proposes to create affordable housing and farmworker housing overlay zones based on the identification of High Opportunity Areas (for affordable housing), and access to amenities and services (for farmworker housing), which would facilitate more streamlined approvals for such projects. The HEU would perpetuate the County’s fundamental policies regarding growth management and the accommodation of urban development within cities’ urban service areas (i.e., areas planned for urbanization). Outside of cities’ urban service areas, only non-urban uses and development densities are allowed, with the goal of preserving natural resources, rural character, and agricultural lands, and minimizing population exposure to significant natural hazards such as landslides, earthquake faults, and wildfire. As a whole, the Countywide growth management policies have historically been referred to as the “joint urban development policies,” held in common by the cities, County, and the County Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO), which controls city formation and expansion. Keeping in mind the development principles above, the proposed HEU will identify specific sites appropriate for the development of additional housing and sufficient to meet the County’s RHNA and provide an ample buffer. As appropriate, the County would rezone those areas if/as necessary to meet the requirements of State law and make changes to the County’s zoning map and zoning ordinance as necessary to maintain consistency with the General Plan. Because the County has been assigned a very large RHNA for the 6th Cycle, the County has been compelled to consider a wider range of sites than it has during past Cycles. First, in accordance with the County’s General Plan and the County’s longstanding commitment to concentrate development in urban areas, only the urban unincorporated areas are intended to receive urban services and infrastructure. These areas are intended to eventually be annexed to their surrounding city and for that reason the County’s General Plan defers the planning for these areas to the relevant city and planning for these areas is typically covered in the relevant city’s General Plan. However, the County has identified several sites that are in the Urban Services Areas, particularly in the USA the City of San José that have remained unincorporated and undeveloped, including some sites listed by the City of San José in its 4th RHNA cycle. The County is including those sites in the list of potential sites below, and is considering using those sites to meet its 6th Cycle RHNA requirement, along with proposing the requisite changes to the County’s General Plan to allow for their use. Second, the County is considering reusing sites on the Stanford Campus listed by the County in its 4th RHNA cycle that have not yet been developed. And third, the County is considering using a limited number of sites within rural areas that are close to a certain number of amenities for a mix of affordable and farmworker housing. The following table lists all the potential sites identified by the County and their proposed development densities, and Figure 2 shows their locations. DocuSign Envelope ID: A2B1B8A8-117C-496B-93B0-1F4A7DB8BEA0 Santa Clara County Housing Element Update & Stanford Community Plan Update EIR Notice of Preparation Page 6 TABLE 2 HOUSING OPPORTUNITY SITES INVENTORY APN Size (acres) Urban/Rural Potential Density (du/ac) Potential Units Existing Zoning Existing General Plan Low High Low High 245-01-003 13.0 Urban (San Jose) 80 100 1,040 1,300 A - Agricultural Neighborhood/Community Commercial (San Jose) 245-01-004 2.3 Urban (San Jose) 80 100 186 232 A - Agricultural Neighborhood/Community Commercial (San Jose) Unplanned Urban Village 277-06-025 0.4 Urban (San Jose) 20 30 7 11 R1-n2 – Residential (Burbank) Mixed Use Commercial/West San Carlos Urban Village 277-07-027 0.1 Urban (San Jose) 40 80 4 7 CG - General Commercial Urban Village/West San Carlos Urban Village 277-07-028 0.1 Urban (San Jose) 40 80 4 7 CG - General Commercial Urban Village/West San Carlos Urban Village 277-07-029 0.2 Urban (San Jose) 40 80 7 14 CG - General Commercial Urban Village/West San Carlos Urban Village 277-08-029 0.1 Urban (San Jose) 40 80 4 7 CG - General Commercial Urban Village/West San Carlos Urban Village 277-08-030 0.1 Urban (San Jose) 40 80 4 7 CG - General Commercial Urban Village/West San Carlos Urban Village 277-08-031 0.2 Urban (San Jose) 40 80 7 14 CG - General Commercial Urban Village/West San Carlos Urban Village 277-12-027 0.3 Urban (San Jose) 40 80 12 25 CG - General Commercial Urban Village/West San Carlos Urban Village 277-12-029 0.3 Urban (San Jose) 40 80 12 25 CG - General Commercial Urban Village/West San Carlos Urban Village 282-02-037 2.5 Urban (San Jose) 60 100 90 150 CN - Neighborhood Commercial Neighborhood/Community Commercial (San Jose) 282-03-016 3.5 Urban (San Jose) 60 100 210 350 R1-8 - SF Housing Public Quasi-Public (San Jose) 419-12-044 0.8 Urban (San Jose) 40 80 31 62 CG - General Commercial Neighborhood/Community Commercial (San Jose) Unplanned Urban Village 599-01-064 0.7 Urban (San Jose) 60 100 44 74 CN - Neighborhood Commercial Neighborhood/Community Commercial (San Jose) Unplanned Urban Village 599-39-047 0.6 Urban (San Jose) 40 80 22 45 CN - Neighborhood Commercial Neighborhood/Community Commercial (San Jose) Unplanned Urban Village 601-07-066 1.5 Urban (San Jose) 5 8 7 12 R1 - SF Housing Residential Neighborhood (San Jose) 601-25-119 1.9 Urban (San Jose) 10 20 19 38 R1 - SF Housing Public Quasi-Public (San Jose) 612-21-004 0.8 Urban (San Jose) 5 8 4 7 R1-6 - SF Housing Residential Neighborhood (San Jose) 142-04-036 17 Urban (Stanford) Varies 700 900 A1 - General Use Special Purpose Base District Major Educational & Institutional Uses (County) 142-04-036a 8.0 Urban (Stanford) 70 90 560 720 A1 - General Use Special Purpose Base District Major Educational & Institutional Uses (County) DocuSign Envelope ID: A2B1B8A8-117C-496B-93B0-1F4A7DB8BEA0 Santa Clara County Housing Element Update & Stanford Community Plan Update EIR Notice of Preparation Page 7 TABLE 2 HOUSING OPPORTUNITY SITES INVENTORY APN Size (acres) Urban/Rural Potential Density (du/ac) Potential Units Existing Zoning Existing General Plan Low High Low High 142-04-036b 6.0 Urban (Stanford) 70 90 420 540 A1 - General Use Special Purpose Base District Major Educational & Institutional Uses (County) 790-06-017 1.0 Rural (Gilroy) 5.2 16 5 16 A-20Ac - Agriculture Open Space Reserve (County); Neighborhood District High (Gilroy) 790-06-018 4.2 Rural (Gilroy) 5.2 16 22 67 A-20Ac - Agriculture Open Space Reserve (County); Neighborhood District High (Gilroy) 790-09-006 1.1 Rural (Gilroy) 5.2 16 6 18 A-20Ac - Agriculture Open Space Reserve (County); Neighborhood District High (Gilroy) 790-09-008 3.4 Rural (Gilroy) 5.2 16 18 54 A-20Ac - Agriculture Open Space Reserve (County); Neighborhood District High (Gilroy) 790-09-009 18.4 Rural (Gilroy) 5.2 16 96 294 A-20Ac - Agriculture Open Space Reserve (County); Neighborhood District High (Gilroy) 790-09-010 2.3 Rural (Gilroy) 5.2 16 12 37 A-20Ac - Agriculture Open Space Reserve (County); Neighborhood District High (Gilroy) 790-09-011 2.9 Rural (Gilroy) 5.2 16 15 47 A-20Ac - Agriculture Open Space Reserve (County); Neighborhood District High (Gilroy) 790-10-007 2.3 Rural (Gilroy) 5.2 16 12 36 A-20Ac - Agriculture Open Space Reserve (County); Neighborhood District High (Gilroy) 790-17-001 5.5 Rural (Gilroy) 5.2 16 28 88 A-20Ac - Agriculture Open Space Reserve (County); Neighborhood District High (Gilroy) 790-17-002 2.6 Rural (Gilroy) 5.2 16 13 41 A-20Ac - Agriculture Open Space Reserve (County); Neighborhood District High (Gilroy) 790-17-003 1.0 Rural (Gilroy) 5.2 16 2 16 A-20Ac - Agriculture Open Space Reserve (County); Neighborhood District High (Gilroy) 790-17-004 0.4 Rural (Gilroy 5.2 16 2 7 A-20Ac - Agriculture Open Space Reserve (County); Neighborhood District High (Gilroy) 790-17-005 0.4 Rural (Gilroy) 5.2 16 2 7 A-20Ac - Agriculture Open Space Reserve (County); Neighborhood District High (Gilroy) DocuSign Envelope ID: A2B1B8A8-117C-496B-93B0-1F4A7DB8BEA0 Santa Clara County Housing Element Update & Stanford Community Plan Update EIR Notice of Preparation Page 8 TABLE 2 HOUSING OPPORTUNITY SITES INVENTORY APN Size (acres) Urban/Rural Potential Density (du/ac) Potential Units Existing Zoning Existing General Plan Low High Low High 790-17-006 0.4 Rural (Gilroy) 5.2 16 2 7 A-20Ac - Agriculture Open Space Reserve (County); Neighborhood District High (Gilroy) 790-17-007 1.2 Rural (Gilroy) 5.2 16 6 19 A-20Ac - Agriculture Open Space Reserve (County); Neighborhood District High (Gilroy) 790-17-008 1.2 Rural (Gilroy) 5.2 16 6 19 A-20Ac - Agriculture Open Space Reserve (County); Neighborhood District High (Gilroy) 790-17-009 2.5 Rural (Gilroy) 5.2 16 13 39 A-20Ac - Agriculture Open Space Reserve (County); Neighborhood District High (Gilroy) 790-17-010 9.3 Rural (Gilroy) 5.2 16 48 148 A-20Ac - Agriculture Open Space Reserve (County); Neighborhood District High (Gilroy) 726-19-003 2.7 Rural (Morgan Hill) 5 7 13 19 A-20Ac - Agriculture Agriculture Medium Scale (County); Residential Detached Medium (Morgan Hill) 726-19-004 1.0 Rural (Morgan Hill) 5 7 5 7 A-20Ac - Agriculture Agriculture Medium Scale (County); Residential Detached Medium (Morgan Hill) 726-19-005 1.5 Rural (Morgan Hill) 5 7 8 11 A-20Ac - Agriculture Agriculture Medium Scale (County); Residential Detached Medium (Morgan Hill) 726-19-010 4.1 Rural (Morgan Hill) 16 24 65 97 A-20Ac - Agriculture Agriculture Medium Scale (County); Residential Detached Medium (Morgan Hill) 726-19-013 1.5 Rural (Morgan Hill) 16 24 24 35 A-20Ac - Agriculture Agriculture Medium Scale (County); Residential Detached Medium (Morgan Hill) 726-19-014 1.3 Rural (Morgan Hill) 16 24 21 31 A-20Ac - Agriculture Agriculture Medium Scale (County); Residential Detached Medium (Morgan Hill) 726-28-003 3.7 Rural (Morgan Hill) 6 16 22 59 A-20Ac - Agriculture Agriculture Medium Scale (County); Residential Detached Medium (Morgan Hill) 726-28-004 2.5 Rural (Morgan Hill) 5 7 13 18 A-20Ac - Agriculture Agriculture Medium Scale (County); Residential Detached Medium (Morgan Hill) 726-28-005 2.5 Rural (Morgan Hill) 5 7 13 18 A-20Ac - Agriculture Agriculture Medium Scale (County); Residential Detached Medium (Morgan Hill) 726-28-006 2.5 Rural (Morgan Hill) 5 7 13 18 A-20Ac - Agriculture Agriculture Medium Scale (County); Residential Detached DocuSign Envelope ID: A2B1B8A8-117C-496B-93B0-1F4A7DB8BEA0 Santa Clara County Housing Element Update & Stanford Community Plan Update EIR Notice of Preparation Page 9 TABLE 2 HOUSING OPPORTUNITY SITES INVENTORY APN Size (acres) Urban/Rural Potential Density (du/ac) Potential Units Existing Zoning Existing General Plan Low High Low High Medium (Morgan Hill) 726-29-001 15.9 Rural (Morgan Hill) 5 7 80 111 A-20Ac-sr - Agriculture Agriculture Medium Scale (County); Residential Detached Medium (Morgan Hill) 726-29-002 3.8 Rural (Morgan Hill) 5 7 19 26 A-20Ac - Agriculture Agriculture Medium Scale (County); Residential Detached Medium (Morgan Hill) 726-29-003 3.7 Rural (Morgan Hill) 5 7 7 10 A-20Ac - Agriculture Agriculture Medium Scale (County); Residential Detached Medium (Morgan Hill) 728-33-009 14.2 Rural (Morgan Hill) 6 16 85 277 A-20Ac - Agriculture Agriculture Large Scale (County) TOTAL UNITS 4,091 6,192 RHNA Allocation 3,125 San Jose Sites 1,715 2,388 Gilroy Sites 312 959 Morgan Hill Sites 385 685 Rural Area Housing Sites 1,562 2,734 Stanford university Sites 1,680 2,160 Farmworker/Affordable Housing Sites 222 502 DocuSign Envelope ID: A2B1B8A8-117C-496B-93B0-1F4A7DB8BEA0 Santa Clara County Housing Element Update & Stanford Community Plan Update EIR Notice of Preparation Page 10 Stanford Community Plan Update The SCP Update recommends a coordinated approach to housing and circulation policy and implementation measures. This approach will result in Stanford University providing the housing needed to accommodate future growth of academic or academic support uses directly on campus or other contiguous Stanford land-grant lands. This approach also expands the previous housed population from “students and faculty” to “undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, staff, postgraduate fellows, and other workers.” The call to provide all needed housing to accommodate future development on campus and enhance the coordination between housing policies and transportation policies will facilitate a reduction in Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT), as well as other negative impacts associated with commuting and local trips. The following list includes additional SCP Updates under consideration: • Limitation of future GUP approvals to a maximum of 10 years; • Relocation of the “possible future school site” designation; • Requiring any increase in total academic space over the allowance in the existing SCP to require a Community Plan amendment and GUP application; • Extension of the Academic Growth Boundary for 99 years, subject to the four-fifths vote required to modify; • Establishment of new campus design guidelines; • Incorporation of Health Element updates; and • Other changes suggested by staff, including policies based on graduate student housing affordability, municipal services, and childcare. Other Amendments to the General Plan In addition to the amendments that would take place within the General Plan’s Housing Element and Stanford Community Plan, a number of amendments to other elements of the General Plan would be required to fully conform those elements to changes made in the Housing Element and Stanford Community Plan Update. The County would amend its Land Use Element and General Plan Land Use Designations map as needed to reflect the Housing Sites Inventory and would make any corresponding changes to other elements of the General Plan needed to ensure internal consistency within the General Plan as a whole, including the updated Housing Element. Required Project Approvals In addition to certification of an EIR, the County Board of Supervisors would consider adoption of one or more resolutions making amendments to the County’s General Plan, including: • An update of the County’s Housing Element for the planning period from January 2023 to January 2031 in accordance with State law; DocuSign Envelope ID: A2B1B8A8-117C-496B-93B0-1F4A7DB8BEA0 Santa Clara County Housing Element Update & Stanford Community Plan Update EIR Notice of Preparation Page 11 • An update of the Stanford Community Plan as described above; • Other amendments needed to ensure internal consistency between the elements of the General Plan. In addition, the County Board of Supervisors would consider adoption of changes to the County’s zoning map and zoning ordinance necessary to maintain consistency with the General Plan. Potential Environmental Effects of the Housing Element and Stanford Community Plan Update The environmental analyses and technical sections presented in the Draft EIR will describe the existing conditions in the County. Relevant federal, State, and local laws and regulations, including the County’s current General Plan goals and policies, will be summarized. The methods of analysis and any assumptions that are important to understand the conclusions of the analysis will be described, along with the standards of significance used to determine impacts of the Project. The standards for determining impact significance will be based on existing State and federal rules, regulations, and laws, County ordinances and policies, and past practices. The standards will be used to determine whether an impact is significant and the effectiveness of a recommended mitigation. Feasible mitigation measures will be identified for each significant impact. The description of mitigation measures will identify the specific actions to be taken, the timing of the action, and the parties responsible for implementation of the measure. At this time, it is anticipated that the following issues/technical sections will be addressed in the EIR: • Aesthetics/Light and Glare • Land Use and Planning • Agricultural and Forestry Resources • Mineral Resources • Air Quality • Noise and Vibration • Biological Resources • Population and Housing • Cultural Resources • Public Services and Recreation • Energy • Transportation • Geology and Soils • Tribal and Cultural Resources • Greenhouse Gas Emissions • Utilities and Service Systems • Hazards and Hazardous Materials • Wildfire • Hydrology and Water Quality In order to provide a “range of reasonable alternatives”, as required by CEQA Guidelines section 15126.6, the EIR will examine alternatives to the Project, including the required No Project Alternative. Public Scoping Meeting A Public Scoping/Community Meeting to solicit comments for the Notice of Preparation will be held virtually via Zoom on August 23, 2022, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The zoom link for the meeting is: https://sccgov-org.zoom.us/j/98927011384. DocuSign Envelope ID: A2B1B8A8-117C-496B-93B0-1F4A7DB8BEA0 Santa Clara County Housing Element Update & Stanford Community Plan Update EIR Notice of Preparation Page 12 The deadline for your response is September 8, 2022; however, an earlier response, if possible, would be appreciated. Please send your response to: County of Santa Clara Planning Office Attention: Bharat Singh, Principal Planner County Government Center 70 West Hedding, 7th Floor, East Wing, San José CA 95110 E-mail: Planning2@pln.sccgov.org Submitting Comments The County welcomes all input on the scope and content of the EIR in response to this Notice of Preparation, and especially welcomes responses that will assist the County in: 1. Identifying significant environmental issues; 2. Identifying and evaluating potential alternatives to the proposed Project or mitigation measures that could avoid or reduce significant impacts; and 3. Confirming which agencies will be a responsible and/or trustee agency for this Project or subsequent implementing actions and providing information germane to these agencies’ statutory responsibilities as they relate to the County’s analysis of potential effects. The deadline for your response is September 8, 2022; however, an earlier response, if possible, would be appreciated. Please send your response to: County of Santa Clara Planning Office Attention: Bharat Singh, Principal Planner County Government Center 70 West Hedding, 7th Floor, East Wing, San José CA 95110 E-mail: Planning2@pln.sccgov.org DocuSign Envelope ID: A2B1B8A8-117C-496B-93B0-1F4A7DB8BEA0 San Francisco Bay Alameda County Alameda County £¤101 ¨§¦680 ¨§¦880 ÄÅ92 ÄÅ84 ¨§¦280 ÄÅ82 ¨§¦880 ÄÅ17 ÄÅ84 ÄÅ85 ÄÅ237 ÄÅ84 ÄÅ1 £¤101 ÄÅ85 ÄÅ130 ÄÅ9 ÄÅ152 ÄÅ129 £¤101 Stanford University San Jose Morgan Hill Gilroy Santa Cruz Watsonville Fremont Santa Clara Mountain View Los Gatos Milpitas Cupertino Palo Alto Menlo Park Pa t h : U : \ G I S \ G I S \ P r o j e c t s \ 2 0 2 1 x x x \ D 2 0 2 1 0 0 6 9 2 _ S a n t a C l a r a C o _ H E U \ 0 3 _ P r o j e c t \ S a n t a C l a r a C o _ H E U . a p r x F i g 1 _ R e g i o n a l L o c a t i o n , E P i m e n t e l 7 / 2 8 / 2 0 2 2 SOURCE: Esri, 2022; County of Santa Clara, 2022; ESA, 2022 County of Santa Clara Housing Element Update NOP Figure 1 Regional Location Map N 0 5 Miles Santa Clara County Boundary Detail Area SANTA CLARA COUNTY ALAMEDA COUNTY SAN MATEO COUNTY SANTA CRUZ COUNTY DocuSign Envelope ID: A2B1B8A8-117C-496B-93B0-1F4A7DB8BEA0 San Francisco Bay Alameda County Alameda County £¤101 ¨§¦680 ¨§¦880 ÄÅ92 ÄÅ84 ¨§¦280 ÄÅ82 ¨§¦880 ÄÅ17 ÄÅ84 ÄÅ85 ÄÅ237 ÄÅ84 ÄÅ1 £¤101 ÄÅ85 ÄÅ130 ÄÅ9 ÄÅ152 ÄÅ129 £¤101 Stanford University San Jose Morgan Hill Gilroy Santa Cruz Watsonville Fremont Santa Clara Mountain View Los Gatos Milpitas Cupertino Palo Alto Menlo Park Pa t h : U : \ G I S \ G I S \ P r o j e c t s \ 2 0 2 1 x x x \ D 2 0 2 1 0 0 6 9 2 _ S a n t a C l a r a C o _ H E U \ 0 3 _ P r o j e c t \ S a n t a C l a r a C o _ H E U . a p r x F i g 2 _ H o u s i n g O p p o r t u n i t y S i t e s _ O v e r v i e w , E P i m e n t e l 8 / 5 / 2 0 2 2 SOURCE: Esri, 2022; County of Santa Clara, 2022; ESA, 2022 County of Santa Clara Housing Element Update NOP Figure 2 Housing Opportunity Sites Overview N 0 5 Miles Potential Housing Inventory Site Santa Clara County Boundary Detail Area SANTA CLARA COUNTY ALAMEDA COUNTY SAN MATEO COUNTY SANTA CRUZ COUNTY DocuSign Envelope ID: A2B1B8A8-117C-496B-93B0-1F4A7DB8BEA0 82 G2 101 680 82 17 G4 G8 G8 237 130 101 101 880 280 17 G8 101 ¨§¦680 ¨§¦880 ¨§¦880 ÄÅ85 ÄÅ237 ¨§¦280 ÄÅ82 ÄÅ130 £¤101 £¤101 £¤101 ÄÅ17 ÄÅ17 San Jose Morgan Hill Los Gatos Milpitas Santa Clara Saratoga Campbell Sunnyvale Fremont Pa t h : U : \ G I S \ G I S \ P r o j e c t s \ 2 0 2 1 x x x \ D 2 0 2 1 0 0 6 9 2 _ S a n t a C l a r a C o _ H E U \ 0 3 _ P r o j e c t \ S a n t a C l a r a C o _ H E U . a p r x F i g 2 a _ H o u s i n g O p p o r t u n i t y S i t e s _ S a n J o s e , E P i m e n t e l 8 / 5 / 2 0 2 2 SOURCE: Esri, 2022; County of Santa Clara, 2022; ESA, 2022 County of Santa Clara Housing Element Update NOP Figure 2a Housing Opportunity Sites in San Jose N 0 5 Miles City of San Jose Potential Housing Inventory Site SANTA CLARA COUNTY DocuSign Envelope ID: A2B1B8A8-117C-496B-93B0-1F4A7DB8BEA0 84 Middl e f i e l d Rd ValparaisoAve Jef fersonAve MarshRd SelbyLn AthertonAve B ay Rd Alameda de las Pulgas El Camino Real W oodsideRd Bayshore Fwy 84 280 Porto la Rd AlpineRd S a n d Hill Rd Jun i pero SerraBlvd J unipero Serra Fwy Skyline B lvd Willow Rd University Ave Pulgas Ave Middlefield Rd Embar cade ro Rd Bayshore Fwy Middlefield Rd Arast radero Rd StanfordAve Alma St PageMill Rd El Camino Real Foothill Expy OregonExpy Junipero SerraFwy Moo d y R d ¨§¦280 ÄÅ82 Palo Alto Atherton East Palo Alto Los Altos Hills Stanford University Portola Valley Woodside Menlo Park Redwood City Pa t h : U : \ G I S \ G I S \ P r o j e c t s \ 2 0 2 1 x x x \ D 2 0 2 1 0 0 6 9 2 _ S a n t a C l a r a C o _ H E U \ 0 3 _ P r o j e c t \ S a n t a C l a r a C o _ H E U . a p r x F i g 2 b _ H o u s i n g O p p o r t u n i t y S i t e s _ S t a n f o r d , E P i m e n t e l 8 / 5 / 2 0 2 2 SOURCE: Esri, 2022; County of Santa Clara, 2022; ESA, 2022 County of Santa Clara Housing Element Update NOP Figure 2b Housing Opportunity Sites at Stanford University N 0 1 Miles Stanford University Potential Housing Inventory Site SANTA CLARA COUNTY DocuSign Envelope ID: A2B1B8A8-117C-496B-93B0-1F4A7DB8BEA0 101 Hale Ave Monterey Rd Sig Sanchez Fwy G8 Hale Ave WE dmundson Ave ButterfieldBlvd De W ittAve MontereySt SouthValley Fwy G8 Uva s Rd HillRd FoothillAve E Main Ave MontereyRd SouthValley Fwy 101 SantaTeresaBlvd MontereyRd San Jose Morgan Hill £¤101 £¤101 Pa t h : U : \ G I S \ G I S \ P r o j e c t s \ 2 0 2 1 x x x \ D 2 0 2 1 0 0 6 9 2 _ S a n t a C l a r a C o _ H E U \ 0 3 _ P r o j e c t \ S a n t a C l a r a C o _ H E U . a p r x F i g 2 c _ H o u s i n g O p p o r t u n i t y S i t e s _ M o r g a n H i l l , E P i m e n t e l 8 / 5 / 2 0 2 2 SOURCE: Esri, 2022; County of Santa Clara, 2022; ESA, 2022 County of Santa Clara Housing Element Update NOP Figure 2c Housing Opportunity Sites in Morgan Hill N 0 1 Miles City of Morgan Hill Potential Housing Inventory Site SANTA CLARA COUNTY DocuSign Envelope ID: A2B1B8A8-117C-496B-93B0-1F4A7DB8BEA0 D a y R d G9 101 101 SantaTeresaBlvd Day Rd New Ave MontereyRd MontereyRd SouthValleyFwy 152 Santa TeresaBlvd W 10t h St E 6t h S t W 6 t h S t 1 s t S t South Valley Fwy 101 G9 New Ave 25 G9 101 FrazierLakeRd B l oo mfield Ave £¤101 £¤101 Pa t h : U : \ G I S \ G I S \ P r o j e c t s \ 2 0 2 1 x x x \ D 2 0 2 1 0 0 6 9 2 _ S a n t a C l a r a C o _ H E U \ 0 3 _ P r o j e c t \ S a n t a C l a r a C o _ H E U . a p r x F i g 2 d _ H o u s i n g O p p o r t u n i t y S i t e s _ G i l r o y , E P i m e n t e l 8 / 5 / 2 0 2 2 SOURCE: Esri, 2022; County of Santa Clara, 2022; ESA, 2022 County of Santa Clara Housing Element Update NOP Figure 2d Housing Opportunity Sites in Gilroy N 0 1 Miles City of Gilroy Potential Housing Inventory Site SANTA CLARA COUNTY DocuSign Envelope ID: A2B1B8A8-117C-496B-93B0-1F4A7DB8BEA0 From:Kou, Lydia To:Tran, Joanna; Council, City Cc:Shikada, Ed; Kamhi, Philip; Bhatia, Ripon; Sumpter, Andria Subject:Re: City of Palo Alto: Four-tracking Refinement Request and Request to Review and Respond to Key Technical Issues/Questions Date:Monday, August 8, 2022 12:23:09 PM Attachments:image003.png image004.png image006.png image007.png image008.png image002.png image010.png Outlook-1485341581.png Thank you Joanna. Please add as "just added" memos (link in the left margin) to August 9th Rail Committeemeeting agenda. Thanks, -------- Lydia Kou - Vice Mayor Contact Info: https://goo.gl/BcgCQS From: Tran, Joanna <Joanna.Tran@CityofPaloAlto.org> Sent: Monday, August 8, 2022 11:49 AM To: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org> Cc: Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Kamhi, Philip <Philip.Kamhi@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Bhatia, Ripon <Ripon.Bhatia@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Sumpter, Andria <Andria.Sumpter@CityofPaloAlto.org> Subject: FW: City of Palo Alto: Four-tracking Refinement Request and Request to Review and Respond to Key Technical Issues/Questions Hello Mayor and Councilmembers, My apologies for the delay on forwarding these letters regarding Grade Separation Planning in Palo Alto. Please see attached for two letters of request sent to Ms. Michelle Bouchard on June 16th. Thank you, Joanna Joanna Tran Executive Assistant to the City Manager Office of the City Manager (650) 329-2105 | joanna.tran@cityofpaloalto.org www.cityofpaloalto.org From: Tran, Joanna Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2022 12:05 PM To: bouchardm@samtrans.com Cc: Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Kamhi, Philip <Philip.Kamhi@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Sumpter, Andria <Andria.Sumpter@CityofPaloAlto.org> Subject: City of Palo Alto: Four-tracking Refinement Request and Request to Review and Respond to Key Technical Issues/Questions Hello Ms. Bouchard, On behalf of the City Manager, please find attached two (2) letters of request for your review regarding Grade Separation planning in Palo Alto. Please feel free to reach out to: Philip Kamhi, Chief Transportation Official - Office of Transportation (Philip.Kamhi@CityofPaloAlto.org) for any questions or further information. We look forward to your response/further discussion. Thank you, Joanna Joanna Tran Executive Assistant to the City Manager Office of the City Manager (650) 329-2105 | joanna.tran@cityofpaloalto.org www.cityofpaloalto.org