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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-08-12 City Council Emails701-32 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: 8/12/2024 Document dates: 8/5/2024 – 8/12/2024 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. From:Flaherty Ward To:Council, City Cc:McDonough, Melissa; Gaines, Chantal; Sarah White; Gabriel Borden Subject:Buena Vista Resident Support Letters Date:Monday, August 12, 2024 11:45:24 AM Attachments:image001.png83 Letter of support for redevelopment.pdf#59 Support Letter.docx#59 Support Letter - 2.docxSigned letters of support.pdfPetition signatures.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Councilmembers and City Staff: We often get asked by Buena Vista residents how they can help get the positive message out about their support for the Park redevelopment effort. We used last weeks wonderful National Night Out event at the property to assist residents in writing their own letters (some were sent directly), signing a template letter and/or signing a petition expressing their support for the redevelopment of the Park. Please find those attached. We look forward to presenting and dialoguing with Council tonight. We appreciate all the support getting to this important milestone. Best, Flaherty Flaherty Ward (she/her) Director of Real Estate Santa Clara County Housing Authority 505 W. Julian Street San José, CA 95110 Tel 408-975-4617 Cell 408-772-7627 flaherty.ward@scchousingauthority.org SCCHA’s mission is to provide and inspire affordable housing solutions to enable low-income people in Santa Clara County to achieve financial stability and self-reliance. NOTICE: This email message and its attachments may contain information that is confidential. It is intended only for the individuals named as recipients in the message. If you are NOT an authorized recipient, you are prohibited from using, delivering, distributing, printing, copying, or disclosing the message or content to others and must delete the message from your computer. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by return email. Estoy preparada para mover me a una nueva vivienda, voy a estar mas cómodo y un lugar mas digno para vivir. Y soy de las primeras personas que a estado decidida desde el pricipo y estoy de acuerdo en que se aga la construcción de las nuevas viviendas. Tengo 16 anos viviendo aquí, soy una persona descapacidada. No es justo que por las pocas personas que están indicisas nos toque esperar mas tiempo para poder vivir en un lugar mas digno. Attentamente Amanda Duval Serrano Casa #59 I am ready to move to a new home, I will be more comfortable and a more dignified place to live. And I am one of the first people who has been determined from the beginning and I agree that the construction of the new homes should be completed. I have been living here for 16 years, I am a disabled person. It is not fair that because of the few people who are indicted, we have to wait longer to be able to live in a more dignified place. Sincerely Amanda Duval Serrano Casa #59 16 anos viviendo aqui – hermano desabilitado y ocupa muchas necesidades. No es justo que estén alargando proyecto por los indeciso. Le pido a la ciudad que aprueben el proyecto por el bien de todos. Mas rápido el proceso / proyecto Marco Antonio Sandigo Serrano #59 16 years living here – disabled brother and occupies many needs. It is not fair that they are dragging out the project because of the undecided. I ask the city to approve the project for the good of all. Faster process/project Marco Antonio Sandigo Serrano #59 From:Wolfgang Dueregger To:Transportation; Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Baird, Nathan; Kamhi, Philip Subject:council agenda: Item #6 August 12, 2024 Meeting - Evergreen Park RPP Date:Monday, August 12, 2024 10:10:31 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi everyone, as one of the neighbors of Evergreen Park, I ask you to NOT implement the increase of business parking permits in Evergreen Park. We already have the highest load of businesspermits sold to businesses. See attached pictures on Ash Street, Leland Ave and Stanford Ave taken last week. this is what it currently looks like. Now, add another 50 permits.... Instead, direct businesses to buy permits at the Cambridge parking lots or the new big garageon Cal Ave. This is why this expensive new garage was built. Adding again more business permits to the RPP makes the RPP less and less an RPP - it loses its purpose and we are back in square one before the RPP was implemented. Wolfgang Dueregger From:Helene Grossman To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Kamhi, Philip Subject:E Meadow / Ross Rd roundabout Date:Monday, August 12, 2024 9:36:27 AM Attachments:Screenshot 2024-08-11 at 11.48.08 PM.png Screenshot 2024-08-11 at 11.46.01 PM.png CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Council members, Mr. Shikada, and Mr. Kamhi, I'd like to formally share this petition with over 300 signatures, asking for stop signs to beinstalled on Ross Rd, at the intersection with E Meadow: https://www.change.org/Emeadow_Ross_Roundabout There is widespread agreement among the community that this intersection -- which is a crossbetween a roundabout and a 2-way stop -- is confusing and unsafe. Here is a sample of comments from the petition: This roundabout is dangerous. I witness many near-misses involving cars, bikers and pedestrians.I drive it almost everyday, it’s the most confusing intersection in the city, I have very limited viability when I come to a full stop and can’t see the traffic that comes fromRoss. The currently existing intersection as hybrid between roundabout and 2-way stop isridiculous and designed like a trap. I’ve experienced this chaos and this design does not work.Many times as a driver I have stopped and then entered the roundabout very slowly based on my line of visibility, only to have an unseen driver barrel straight through fromRoss forcing me to stop in the middle of the roundabout. This intersection needs to be fixed before more children are hurt.My son had a bike accident on this intersection a few years ago. Fortunately he was not badly hurt. This intersection has been a problem for a long time. I have been reaching out to the Transportation Department for 1.5 years now, but have not been able to get any traction. Therefore, I'd like to request your help. School starts up in just a few days, and hundreds of kids will be biking through here on theirway to school - it is critical that we act quickly to keep these kids safe. Here are a couple of example pictures: Here, the white car has no stop or yield sign - it is entitled to cruise straight through. However, if it did so, it would hit the kids on bikes going around the roundabout. Similarly, here the kids on bikes have no stop or yield - we are telling kids: you're on a bikeboulevard, so you have the right of way. However, if they did so, they would get hit by a cargoing around the roundabout. These situations occur over and over, every single morning, where if vehicles and bikesfollowed the City signage, it would send them into a collision. Multiple kids on bikes have already been hit here. Fortunately, the fix is easy - If we added stop signs on Ross (and hence made this a 4-waystop), then we could keep everyone safe. Thanks for your help! Sincerely, Helene Grossman From:Natalie Geise To:Council, City Subject:Aug 12 Item 6: Support for RPP changes Date:Monday, August 12, 2024 7:48:36 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. City Council Members, Thank you for working with Caltrans to advance the re-paving proposal for El Camino with bike lanes. I live a half block from El Camino in the Mayfield neighborhood. I was supportive of theproposal and recognize the need to accommodate employee parking in the near term. I amsupportive of expanding the RPP program, as we have sufficient public parking in theneighborhood. Thanks, NataliePalo Alto resident From:Greer Ellison To:Council, City Subject:Parking permit proposal for Southgate Date:Sunday, August 11, 2024 8:45:19 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. To: City Council I want to express concerns regarding the City’s proposal to increase the number of Southgateparking permits allocated to businesses along El Camino. I understand the City’s perspective is that it is physically possible for additional cars to parkon Southgate streets, thus it is a reasonable way to address the loss of spaces on El Camino. However, I do not believe that criteria is appropriate in Southgate for the following reasons: 1. Our two-way streets allow only one lane of traffic, except for Miramonte, the primary east-west street, with access to El Camino. Therefore, it is very common for vehicles in Southgate to have to pull over to allow cars or bicycles, coming in the opposite direction, to pass (bicycletraffic on Castilleja can be especially heavy when Paly is in session). If there is not enough space to pull over, vehicles will have no choice but to back up to let the other vehicle pass.There are already times when certain streets are parked at capacity and vehicles have to reverse. As you can imagine, this creates a very hazardous situation. 2. Many people in the neighborhood already have difficulty getting vehicles out of theirdriveways because cars parked on the street make it difficult to make the necessary turns. Adding more cars will make that more challenging. In fact, because backing out of drivewaysis so challenging a good number of residents of Southgate have resorted to leaving their cars parked on the street to avoid backing up driveways. I surmise that with more cars parking onour streets, more residents will choose to park on the streets instead of driveways, so the parking situation will become exponentially worse. And with more cars parked on the street,residents will increasingly find it difficult to park proximate to their homes, let alone navigate the streets. 3. In addition to the increases in parked cars if parking permits are increased, there will beadditional El Camino business customers parking in Southgate and other adjacent neighborhoods. This will add traffic and parked cars on our already narrow streets, therebyincreasing safety issues. 4. Additional parked cars will not disperse throughout the neighborhood. They will concentrate near El Camino, mostly along Portola and east-west streets towards El Camino,making those streets especially challenging to navigate.. As shown on the attached photo (looking north on Portola), there is minimal space for additional cars on Portola. 5. Many residents have service providers, e.g. gardeners, contractors, etc. Those vehicles,often bigger trucks, need to be able to park proximate to the house they are working on. This can already be difficult, especially on certain streets and times. Of course, residents can'texpect guaranteed access to spaces in front of their homes, but there needs to be a reasonable number of vacant spaces for these vehicles. Given our narrow streets, those trucks have noability to double park as that would totally block all traffic. 6. Lastly and most importantly, the access for service vehicles, e.g. fire trucks and garbagetrucks is already highly difficult and concerning. Even if the City has not deemed access for fire trucks to be “unacceptable” as of yet, neighbors regularly have trouble navigating streets.So, it is hard to understand why the City would intentionally do anything that would exacerbate an already unsafe situation. Emergency vehicles can not wait for another car toback up to let them by or to drive around looking for a street that they can get through. I urge the City to seek input from the fire department and other City service providers to get theirthoughts on increasing cars in Southgate. I encourage the City to explore alternatives, including granting parking permits enabling employees of businesses on El Camino to park all day in parking garages along CambridgeSt., just a few blocks away. This area of Palo Alto is relatively dense (for a suburb) and it seems quite reasonable for employees to walk a few blocks to get to work. In light of the unreasonable impacts, I would implore you to deny the proposal to increaseemployee permits in neighborhoods adjoining El Camino and seek safer, less impactful alternatives. The impacts from customers parking in these neighborhoods will already make itmore difficult and less safe to navigate our streets, let alone for residents and their guests and service providers to find parking. If you are inclined to pursue this proposal further, I wouldask you to hold a follow up Council meeting, so other residents can have an opportunity to comment. Unfortunately the notice mailed to residents (received at the end of July) did notsay when in August the City Council would meet and it seems only right that people be given notice of the exact date of the meeting. Thanks for your consideration,Greer Ellison Wolfson Southgate resident Photo of Portola Ave. looking north (from Sequoia Ave.) From:Jim Harris To:Council, City Subject:Fwd: Evergreen Park residential preferential parking Date:Sunday, August 11, 2024 8:26:29 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Copying Palo Alto City Council on correspondence requested by the Office of Transportation regarding the residential parking permit program in Evergreen Park. Thank you. Jim Harris Begin forwarded message: From: Jim Harris <bislettjdh@gmail.com>Date: August 11, 2024 at 6:29:59 PM PDTTo: Transportation@cityofpaloalto.orgSubject: Evergreen Park residential preferential parking hi Folks - We have owned our home on Oxford Avenue in the Evergreen Park neighborhood for 25 years. We are in receipt of a letter from the Office of Transportationproposing 50 employee parking permits be allocated atop our small neighborhood. Please steer away from this costly-to-residents proposal. Prior to the development of the residential permit program, it had becomeincreasingly difficult to park near our home - the neighborhood was overrun with all-day car parkers, presumably in large part California Avenue employees,Stanford employees, and CalTrain commuters. (Pre-permit program photos are attached from morning and afternoon) The residential parking permit program was a success, and greatly improved thesafety and quality of neighborhood life. If the City Overlords allocate 50 employees to Zones A-D as stated in the letter from the Office of Transportation, the neighborhood will functionally be returnedfrom its residential status to something akin to a California Avenue employee parking lot. It will undo the positive result yielded by the residential permitprogram. Please change your proposed course of action on this matter and leave the residential permit program as currently implemented. Thank you and regards. Jim Harris From:Aram James To:Templeton, Cari; Josh Becker; Henry Etzkowitz; Ed Lauing; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg Cc:Julie Lythcott-Haims; Council, City; GRP-City Council; Salem Ajluni; Sally Lieber; Jeff Moore; Sean Allen; Marina Lopez; Cait James; Lewis james; Tim James; Human Relations Commission; Kaloma Smith; Karen Holman; Tom DuBois; Cecilia Taylor; Emily Mibach; Diana Diamond; Braden Cartwright; Dave Price; Jeff Rosen; Damon Silver; O"Neal, Molly; Stump, Molly; Lotus Fong; Tim James Subject:https://url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/gGUhCJEnZ6CRoKjFVfOuGo09s?domain=nytimes.com Date:Sunday, August 11, 2024 7:07:08 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Becautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. For Some Jewish Democrats, Heightened Worries About Antisemitism https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/us/politics/jewish-democrats-antisemitism.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare From:Aram James To:Ed Lauing; Josh Becker; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Zelkha, Mila; Julie Lythcott-Haims Cc:GRP-City Council; Council, City; Cecilia Taylor; Sean Allen; Jeff Moore; Stump, Molly; Sally Lieber; Salem Ajluni; Michelle; Binder, Andrew; Robert. Jonsen; Cait James; Marina Lopez; Lewis james; Tim James; Tim; Friends of Cubberley; Roberta Ahlquist; Henry Etzkowitz; Templeton, Cari; Karen Holman; Tom DuBois; Kaloma Smith; Human Relations Commission; Planning Commission; Preminger, Steve; ParkRec Commission; <michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Lotus Fong; Linda Jolley; Raymond Goins; Foley, Michael; Figueroa, Eric; Wagner, April; Shikada, Ed; Bill Newell; dennis burns; Van Der Zwaag, Minka; JIM MINKLER1; Dave Price; Emily Mibach; Braden Cartwright; swright@embarcaderopublishing.com; editor@paweekly.com; Diana Diamond; Supervisor Otto Lee; Joe Simitian; MGR-Melissa Stevenson Diaz; district1@bos.sccgov.org; Cindy Chavez Subject:Re: Progressives are growing increasingly angry with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) after“squad” member Rep. Cori Bush’s (D-Mo.) primary loss… Date:Sunday, August 11, 2024 6:52:29 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 5:05 PM Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote:Progressives are growing increasingly angry with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) after “squad” member Rep. Cori Bush’s (D-Mo.) primary loss… Source: The HillProgressive anger with AIPAC rises over Bush loss https://search.app/M9tq9ttuHCNrBsG36 From:Mary Ann Young To:Council, City Subject:Fwd: permit for removal 24TRE-00051 issued June 10, 2024; parcel 124-18-080 Date:Sunday, August 11, 2024 4:12:55 PM Attachments:Sequoia sempervirens latest cpa. pdf.docx CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Mary Ann Young ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Mary Ann Young <mayoung632@gmail.com>Date: Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 4:07 PM Subject: permit for removal 24TRE-00051 issued June 10, 2024; parcel 124-18-080To: <CityClerk@cityofpaloalto.org>, <citycouncil@cityofpaloalto.org>, <brad.eggleston@cityofpaloalto.org>, Tavera, Samuel <Samuel.Tavera@cityofpaloalto.org> I oppose the permit to remove a Coastal Redwood Tree at1959 Emerson St, Palo Alto A threatened species by the *International Union of Conservation of Nature*. The common procedure in Palo Alto is tear downs and new construction. I, with others in the community, can only hope serious thought will be considered in order to save the Magnificent Coastal Redwood tree in the very corner of the property. Thereby the new structure can be positioned to avoid the roots and theowners can enjoy beauty, clean air, shade and a home living withnature. This magnificent specimen will give back so much more. Generations of families who would have the opportunity to live among this beauty will keep memories close to their heart. Mary Ann Young Tennyson and Middlefield Palo Alto Mary Ann Young From:Carol Scott To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Baird, Nathan; Kamhi, Philip; Neilson Buchanan; Mike Eager; Wolfgang Dueregger;Paul Machado Subject:Item #6 for August 12, 2024 Meeting -- Evergreen Park RP) Date:Sunday, August 11, 2024 1:22:19 PM Attachments:MAP OF ZONES EDITED.pptx CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Council members, City Manager and City Staff, I write regarding Item #6 on the agenda for the City Council meeting for August 12, 2024. This item asks theCouncil to approve an plan developed by the City Staff in consultation with the business community (but not withEvergreen Park residents) for 50 employee permits to be added to the Evergreen Park (EVP) RPP and for a plan toallocate those permits to various zones in the RPP. I urge you NOT to approve this resolution, but instead to direct the staff to work with residents -- as well as businessowners -- to develop a plan that will minimize the damage done to our residential areas by the addition of asignificant number of employee permits -- in line with the City's Comprehensive Plan. Regardless of whatevernumber of permits the City decides is appropriate for our neighborhood (and we strongly dispute any 65% capacitytarget), the plan to allocating the permits is flawed and will exacerbate the effects of the inability to apportioncustomer parking which results in overloading certain streets in the RPP. Instead, immediately allow ECR employees to purchase permits in the lots and garages on Cambridges Ave which currently are under-utilized. Direct the Staff to work with residents AND businesses to develop a workable plan that serves both the neighborhood as well as the businesses by January 1, 2025. Parking in the garages and lots (which, unlike EVP, are commercial parking lots) for four months should not cause a hardship for businesses. Remember that customers already may park anywhere in the RPP for two hours. We are talking here only about all day employee permits. Here are is my rationale: 1. When the City wanted to add 40 permits to the EVP RPP in 2018, it was the residents whocame up with the idea to ask the State to make ECR part of the RPP to accommodate the businesses along ECR. Resident of EVP have a long history of supporting local businesses and working to help solve their problems (caused in large part by building large office buildings with insufficient parking) while minimizing the intrusion into the residential areas. Yet, the City did not engage the residents prior to developing the current plan. We deserve to be included indiscussions about plans that will affect us, and we deserve to negotiate in good faith with the City -- at least on par with businesses. The City should allow us to participate in any plan now so that we can helpdesign a solution that works for everyone. We have done it before and we can do it again. We know our neighborhood and the traffic patterns in it better than anyone. 2. The current plan for permits is flawed and will not work as the City suggests. Thebusinesses along ECR do need to have parking for their employees. Customers can already park anywhere in the neighborhood for two hours, and we expect to see more of this as allparking is eliminated on ECR. BUT, adding permits to the neighborhood should be the last resort, not the first option. Other options are available and should be explored. Parkinggarages and lots on Cambridge Ave, just a couple of blocks away from most ECR businesses have capacity and can absorb the employees permits while a better plan is developed. PLEASE SEE THE ATTACHED MAP OF THE EVP RPP. 3. Even if one accepted the need for 50 permits, the current plan will not fairly distribute theemployee permits throughout the EVP area. The Staff report already notes that some streets have over 65% parking load. Yet the City splan provides no protection for those blocks which are precisely the ones likely to be most affected by additional customer parking. The current zones were designed to distribute parking from south to north because it was designed with parking fromCal Ave in mind, and not ECR. It is not suited to distributing parking from west to east. Just looking at the map, you can see this. 4. The proposed plan is based on data that is almost a year and a half old, i.e., a survey donein March 2023. The day or the week and the time of day measurements were taken is not disclosed in the staff report. 5. There is considerable uncertainty as to what will happen to the volume of customer parkingin the neighborhood, and this should be observed prior to instituting employee parking permits in a residential neighborhood. Presumably, businesses would prefer to preserve the mostconvenient parking for their customers. 5. In addition, there will be a question of where construction workers creating the new bike lane will park. Presumably, this may also be in the neighborhood. 6. Recommendation: The Council should direct the Parking office to : immediately allowECR businesses to buy permits in the Cambridge Ave garages and flat street lots, and (2)engage with the residents as well as with the ECR businesses to develop a better plan thatwill promote business activity, but not at the expense of quality of life in theneighborhoods in accordance with the City's Comprehensive Plan.* Thank you. Carol Scott Evergreen Park *Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan (p. 4)"....... It [Comp Plan] encourages a thriving business communitythat provides services to local residents and revenue to the Citywhile also working to protect neighborhoods and theenvironment. It encourages commercial enterprise, but not atthe expense of the city's residential neighborhoods." 5. Carol ScottSent from my iPad Carol Scott Evergreen Park/Mayfield RPP Zones ECR Cambridge Ave. Parking garages and lots From:Esmeralda aristeo To:Council, City Cc:Maria Martinez; Erika Escalante Subject:Regarding Buena Vista HP Date:Sunday, August 11, 2024 12:28:37 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Mayor and council members I want to thank you for advocated for our community, and give you an update, HA allowed 2families to add their family members who wasn’t in the lease contract, but we still have 2 more families with their problem specially Jose Ramirez who has Cancer. Flaherthy contactme to let me know that is going to be a waiting list for the families who need extra room, and she is willing to talk with residents , but there is still some issues with other families. Thankyou. Kindest regards Esmeralda From:Melanie Grondel To:Council, City; City Mgr Cc:Melanie Grondel Subject:Survey, Project Cal Ave Car Free Streets Date:Sunday, August 11, 2024 11:55:42 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. To City Manager, To request a survey to be filled out by 8/11, means to me that the last day to fill out this surveyis on Sunday 8/11 !! Last day for input is 8/11, a Sunday, as I understand it.Today I sat down around 11 am to do it and found it closed already. I think it a shame that Sunday, a good and logical time for such things, was not included. This is especially important in Summer time, vacation time. I am disappointed !! Again, I am disappointed once again in the communications reality and the snails space of results for this important Project. I strongly object to bikes on a "walking street orpromenade". I have been almost scooped far more than once and had to jump out of the way of a bike pushing through, several times over. Melanie Grondel, Palo Alto and College Terrace resident for 30 years. "Cal Ave Car Free Streets Signage and Streetscape Design Concepts SurveyShare input to help inform the design of signage and streetscape concepts for Cal Ave. This topic is closed" From:Palo Alto Forward To:Council, City Subject:8/12 Coucil Agenda Item AA1 - Buena Vista Date:Sunday, August 11, 2024 11:01:59 AM Attachments:Buena Vista Support Ltr (08.11.24).pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Honorable Mayor Stone and City Coucilmembers, Please find our attached letter of support for the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park project. Thank you, -- Amie Ashton Executive Director, Palo Alto Forward650-793-1585**Want to be counted as a supporter of housing? Add your name here.** August 11, 2024 SUBJECT: Agenda Item AA1 - Buena Vista Mobile Home Park Redevelopment Dear Mayor Stone and Honorable Council Members, We strongly support the proposed Buena Vista Mobile Home Redevelopment Project. The rehabilitation of 44 mobile homes and proposed new 61-unit apartment building will provide much needed affordable housing for Palo Alto. The site utility upgrades, green-building features, new landscaping, and improved housing conditions represent a significant win for the city, residents at the site, and the surrounding neighborhood. We applaud the Santa Clara Housing Authority (SCHA) for their work with the Buena Vista community over the past 18 months. SCHA has made significant efforts to incorporate the needs and wants of as many of the residents and neighbors as possible. Both groups have worked to come up with the best overall solution given all of the project's parameters and budget. We applaud SCHA’s efforts to work with the residents while still responding to the many comments from city staff, the Architectural Review Board, and the Planning and Transportation Commission. While no project is ever perfect and meets the individual needs of everyone involved, this project in its current form best meets the overall communities’ needs. While not every resident is completely satisfied, this is a necessary project that should move forward. We urge you to approve this project immediately so that the County does not miss their funding deadline on August 27th. Without immediate approval, the project risks (at least) six months of delay until the next funding window, as well as associated cost escalation increases in the millions of dollars. Palo Alto residents identified “more housing” as the #1 priority for the city in this year’s annual survey. Demonstrate our city’s commitment to housing by approving this project. Sincerely, Amie Ashton, Executive Director And on Behalf of the Board of Palo Alto Forward Homes for Everyone? YES! From:Herbert Fischgrund To:Council, City Cc:herb fisch Subject:It"s time to act on the burned out building Date:Saturday, August 10, 2024 6:23:10 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. The shops on the corner of Middlefield and Loma Verde have been fenced in since the fire almost 2 years ago.It’s an eyesore to the neighborhood.It prevents having shops within walking distance for the neighborhood. It’s time to force the property owner to do something NOW.Herbert Fischgrund750 Torreya CourtPalo Alto Ca. 94303fischgrundh@gmail.comhome phone: (650) 493-4440 From:D Carlson To:Council, City Subject:Expansion of the Airport Date:Saturday, August 10, 2024 3:25:55 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. To the City Council: Please consider limiting rather than expanding the airport. For the excellent reasons outlined by Shani Kleinhaus and Avroh Shah, the Baylands preserve, including the Duck Pond and theexisting levee, should be protected at all costs. They not only provide critical habitat to a wide variety of birds, plants and other species but also provide important wildlife recreation for agreat many residents of the Bay Area, including Palo Alto and East Palo Alto. Such habitat, both for wildlife and for residents, is scarce and disappearing. Residents who live near the airport are already burdened by noise and pollution from theairport. The number of those who fly in and out of this airport is small - and largely well-to- do - compared with the number whose lives are affected 24 hours a day, year-round, by planestaking off and landing. Even those of us who live at a distance are well aware of the number of small planes flying in the Bay Area. Please encourage them to use other existing airports,and keep Palo Alto's small - or eliminate it altogether. In addition, the adjustments of levees can do little in the long run to prevent incursion from sea-level rise. It would be foolish to invest further in an expensive facility that will always bevulnerable. Far better to preserve the Baylands marshes as an important natural barrier that helps to absorb and distribute rising water. I believe it is important to have a facility that emergency vehicles such as rescue helicopterscan access. Apart from those, I see no reason why residents should support access for fliers who could use SFO, OAK, or other airports in the area. Thank you for your consideration of this critical issue. Sincerely,(Mrs.) Dudley B. Carlson From:Star Teachout To:Council, City Cc:UAC Subject:PACC S-CAP meeting 8/12/24 Date:Saturday, August 10, 2024 2:57:40 PM Attachments:Screen Shot 2024-08-05 at 12.35.37 PM.pngScreen Shot 2024-08-05 at 12.42.53 PM.pngScreen Shot 2024-08-08 at 11.29.44 PM.pngScreen Shot 2024-08-08 at 11.31.43 PM.pngScreen Shot 2024-08-05 at 12.49.36 PM.png CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Council members and Utilities Advisory commissioners, In looking over the *Fourth draft of the S/CAP Goals and Key Actions - Final Version some ideas on how to reach some of our goals came to mind. [*Sustainability and Climate Action Plan] 1. Solid Waste and water quality Let’s do what Massachusetts did on June 21and pass a Plastics Reduction Ban, Not just take- out bags, lets ban plastic take-out containers and cups (paper take-out containers or ones fromhome and paper cups with large Thermoses work very well for events). And although I would love a single-use plastic bottled water ban in Palo Alto it would be seen as radical. Could weat least emphasize alternatives to this at every opportunity (city-sponsored events, campaigns, school interactions, etc.)? Over 25 Massachusetts towns and cities have already adoptedmunicipal or retail bans since the Town of Concord adopted the country’s first retail bottled water ban in 2012. And as I recently posted in NextDoor regarding the power outage from aloose helium mylar balloon, let’s ban them sooner than the puzzling CA state-wide ban scheduled for 2031. What are we waiting for? At our mayors meetings we could encourage allneighbors to do the same. 2. Water • Communication: MYCPAU currently has a Track feature which allows all of us to comparewater consumption with other same-sized households. Let’s better communicate this feature as it is more likely to cause all of us to change habits. A direct link in a monthly email/text wouldencourage people to look at their bills/consumption. We could even have a neighborhood contest for awareness and encouragement. With online paperless payments many of us neverlook at our bills. • Leak Alerts: Although our family is in the top 20% for low water use for a family of 4 (or 5), the Leak Alert did not notify us promptly despite our monthly usage being 71% higher thanthat of the previous 2023 monthly usage (and probably 200% more than the prior month). Stanford has an alert system which notifies someone promptly by text message if the waterconsumption has an atypical spike (see below). It is not clear what the timing of a PA utility Leak Alert is—is it at the next billing cycle, which is too long? Our increase, I suspect, wasthankfully due to a drought-inspired deep watering of our redwood tree that typically happens in our Aug-Sept billing cycle. The hourly feature is intriguing if it could be linked to cellnotifications of a leak/forgotten hose. • Educational & Financial support for our Trees & their stewards: Although some of us are financially able to pay an extra large water bill which follows deep watering of large trees, a neighbor recently lost a beautiful 50+ yo redwood tree, partly as aresult of poor irrigation during prior droughts. What can we do to support them and encourage proper watering? Please consider the following:- Have homeowners self-identify large trees, followed by city confirmation/registry - Hold city workshops (possibly by neighborhood) to educate people on deep monthlyirrigation methods, ground covers/plants which support root growth and soil fertility underneath the canopy, and the importance of mulching.- Provide these households (which opt in) with a monthly rebate/price reduction during the summer/early autumn months employing deep irrigation. • Removal of disruptive trees: Just yesterday I read about the superb redwood specimen onEmerson x Rinconada that neighbors are trying to keep. I am curious (as I wrote on NextDoor) whether the idea of either raising a house (w/o a slab foundation) OR removing the root-impacted section of the foundation and replacing it with an elevated bridge is ever considered? Naturally, there will be situations where this will not work, but it could be part of thedeliberation (if not already). W-1 — Residential First 6 CCF $ 2.72 $ 3.07 $ 0.35 Over 6 CCF 6.33 7.15 0.82 3. Gas & Electric • Please extend WaterSmart consumption data to Gas/Electric: I believe this is dependent oncompleting the smart metering program throughout the city, but the sooner we are able to extend the “Watersmart” data to include both electrical and gas utilities the sooner we will beable to inform people on how they compare with similarly sized households. Imagine the benefits if the water graph below also provided that data. • Rebates or loan of Induction Cooktops: Along with providing energy comparisons forelectric and gas, it might be helpful for the city to subsidize or loan 1-burner induction cooktop units to households to give people the experience. We purchased one used [Duxtop]unit and have found it quite satisfactory, and during high temperature days we also take it outside and avoid the additional heat load of cooking inside. For those who preserve their ownfruits/vegetables it is especially handy since those require 30-40 min energy-intensive processing times. • Opt-out notifications: Could we make notifications about consumption an opt out, wherebyall households get an email notification with their rates of consumption? City-Schools Liaison Role Since I am a substitute teacher and prior long-time volunteer at all 3 school levels, I’ve noticeda lack of understanding/awareness about our city government and its work in our high school population. Please be sure to communicate important goals and progress made with ourschools—especially on climate goals, teen recreation opportunities, and community connection. Perhaps we’ll improve our civic engagement as well? Thank you for considering,Star Teachout Barron Park From:Paul Machado To:Council, City; Lauing, Ed; Stone, Greer; julielythcott-haines@cityofpaloalto.org; Kou, Lydia; Burt, Patrick; Tanaka,Greg; Veenker, Vicki Subject:8/12 item 6 Date:Saturday, August 10, 2024 8:52:58 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. If you read the packet before from staff it should be clear how LONG and hard Evergreen Park worked to get an RPP that has worked for both businesses and residents for years. Please note, before the RPP the 3 by 4 block area of Evergreen Park was often aparking lot. Residents struggled to put out their garbage cans due to lack of streetspace. Our streets, which unlike other parts of the city, are only swept once every 2 weeks most of the year, but if the street is mostly parked, the sweeper happily just drives down the middle of the street picking up nothing. Further, often disabledresidents, visitors, care givers, gardeners etc. could not find parking during theweek. This was entirely opposed to the City's comp plan that promotes local businesses but not at the expense of residents. This small neighborhood actually contains 3 bike routes. The new one on ElCamino, plus Park Blvd. and also Stanford Avenue which is a direct route to schools. It is noted some touted the added safety taking parking off El Camino will do for bikes but they did not mention if adding this same parking on to other routes would negatively affect them. In the past, because of our RPP zone design, almost all the business permits were parked next to El Camino and Cal Ave. Residents in those areas received no help from the RPP. Hopefully this can be redesigned. so parking is spread out throughthe neighborhood giving every block relief. If you check the city records you may be surprised to find the number of ADUs that have been, or will be built soon in my neighborhood. Overparking thisneighborhood is not pro housing and in fact it may discourage it. Lastly, if the state's ill conceived plan to encourage children and other bicyclists to ride on El Camino amidst the huge VTA buses and construction vehicles turnsdeadly and further businesses are forced to close, would you work to restore the Evergreen Park RPP to its originally approved design with the earlier distribution of permits between residents and businesses. CalTrans is on record as being sensitive to your input, as that is why they asked for your vote on this matter. Thank you Paul Machado From:Aram James To:Barberini, Christopher; Tannock, Julie; Afanasiev, Alex; Enberg, Nicholas; Sean Allen; Raymond Goins; JulieLythcott-Haims; Council, City; GRP-City Council; Binder, Andrew; kenneth.Binder@shf.sccgov.org; Sally Lieber;citycouncil@mountainview.gov; DuJuan Green; GRP-City Clerk; Bill Newell; Josh Becker; dennis burns; HumanRelations Commission; Karen Holman; Cecilia Taylor Subject:Ex-Antioch police officer convicted in pay raise scam Date:Saturday, August 10, 2024 8:40:51 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Don't tell a soul.' Ex-Antioch police officer convicted in pay raise scam Don't tell a soul.' Ex-Antioch police officer convicted in pay raise scam https://share.newsbreak.com/857z14t8?s=i0 From:Esmeralda aristeo To:Council, City Subject:Regarding Buena Vista MHP Date:Friday, August 9, 2024 8:24:03 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Mayor and Council members We would like to know how much time we have to speak? , It's possible if we can have extra time?, please let me know, we think that we are about 20 residents who wants to talk, thankyou. Kindest regards Esmeralda From:Sue Glad and Tom Peterson To:Council, City Cc:Sue Glad and Tom Peterson Subject:Opposition to Palo Alto Airport expansion Date:Friday, August 9, 2024 7:06:57 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Palo Alto City Council members, I am writing to express my opposition to expansion of the Palo Alto Airport at the expense of Baylands NaturePreserve. Our priority must be to minimize impact on the Baylands Preserve area including Duck Pond, which has become aniconic feature of the Baylands. The issue for airport expansion is not only the physical disruption of the BaylandsNature Preserve but an increase of the already intrusive proximity and noise of incoming aircraft every few minutes. Our fundamental priority must be preservation of our open space and minimizing the impact from the airport. Sincerely,Tom PetersonPalo Alto From:Henry Etzkowitz To:Council, City Cc:Shikada, Ed; provost@stanford.edu; mickie winkler; Marty Wasserman Subject:Fwd: Airport and environmental improvement combined Date:Friday, August 9, 2024 5:45:20 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Henry Etzkowitz <H.Etzko@gmail.com>Date: August 9, 2024 at 5:39:28 PM PDTTo: Palo Post <price@padailypost.com>, "W. James Hersh" <hershj@salve.edu>, Gennady Sheyner <gsheyner@embarcaderomedia.org>, Heidi Roizen<heidi@heidiroizen.com>Cc: Roberta Ahlquist <finnroberta@gmail.com>, Rebecca Eisenberg<rebecca@rebecca4water.com>, Lotus Fong <lyfong@pacbell.net>, Brian Good <snug.bug@hotmail.com>, Jeanne Fleming <jfleming@right-thing.net>, CharlieWeidanz <charlie@paloaltochamber.com>Subject: Airport and environmental improvement combined Dear editor Rather than keep Palo Alto Airport as it is or expand the runway into the iconicduck pond, we can do better both for local airplane owners, nearby residents, both water fowl and land-based humans. Return airport responsibility to Santa ClaraCounty who devolved it to Palo Alto some years ago and move the airport function to Moffett field where the google plane is already based. Leave ducksand humans in peaceful coexistence and return the current airport to the bay lands, expanding Byxbee Park by a hundred acres. There should also be savings to PaloAlto City as well as enhanced flying safety for area pilots as additional benefits. Is this the Palo Alto that you want? This is the Palo Alto that I want! Sincerely Henry EtzkowitzA strong voice for Seniors, Renters, Environmentalists, Preservationists Sent from my iPhone From:Aram James To:Sean Allen; Jeff Moore; Rose Lynn; Raymond Goins; Robert. Jonsen; Jeff Rosen; Binder, Andrew;kenneth.Binder@shf.sccgov.org; <michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Bill Newell; Foley, Michael; Council, City;Gardener, Liz; Lotus Fong; Linda Jolley; Sally Lieber; Salem Ajluni Subject:Michael Brown’s death 10 years ago sparked change in Ferguson Date:Friday, August 9, 2024 2:36:18 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Michael Brown’s death 10 years ago sparked change in Ferguson https://apnews.com/article/ferguson-protests-michael-brown-10-years-blm-88a3dd50044c89800f5bd0e300c27351 From:slevy@ccsce.com To:Council, City; Lait, Jonathan Subject:Buena Vista item Aug 12 Date:Friday, August 9, 2024 2:10:16 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Mayor Stone and council members, I write in support of staff's recommendations to move forward with the project per their August 5 staff report Here is what I know 1) For several years city councils, staff and the Santa Clara County Housing Authority(SCCHA) have invested considerable time and money to move the project forward to thispoint. 2) SCCHA needs approval before August 27 to apply for tax credits. If that deadline is missed, they must wait another year to apply. that would mean residents who have waited patiently to move in brand new apartments with rent controlled to income would face uncertainty and at least two more years of waiting. 3) Many units and much infrastructure is in disrepair and not code compliant. There was recently a fire. Waiting another year will raise costs for SCCHA and take more of their and our staff's time. Delay will bring substantial costs and risk. 4) Some residents are dissatisfied either from not getting as large a unit as they desired orin monetary disagreement. Many projects brought to council end with not everyone satisfied--Casti for example, many housing projects and likely for any grade separation and Cubberley decisions. That is what happens in finding the common good when preferences differ among residents. 5) The SCCHA has presented council with the reasons why for physical and financial reasons, they cannot accommodate all BV park resident's desires. I have worked with SCCHA staffs during the entire period since they were given responsibility for upgrading BV and I trust that they have done their best to accommodate the law and the residents. Stephen Levy From:Jane Harris To:Council, City Subject:Proposed Increases to Parking Permits in Southgate Neighborhood - for discussion on Mon. 2/12 Date:Friday, August 9, 2024 12:10:24 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. To: Palo Alto City Council From: Jane Harris, 230 Sequoia Ave. (Southgate) I received a letter on 7/29 from the Dept. of Transportation notifying us that the City isproposing to increase the allocation of parking permits in our neighborhood to businesses to be impacted by the El Camino bike lane project. As a resident of Southgate neighborhood i am concerned about any additional parking on our streets, because access within our neighborhood is already severely restricted, especially for larger e.g. emergency vehicles, resulting in a potentially life and property threatening situation. In fact, the day i received that notice, a fire truck that responded to a medical emergency on Sequoia Ave. (to one of the many elderly residents in our neighborhood) had to back up a street to exit the neighborhood. i’m sure you know that every minute counts when it comes to emergencies. In addition, garbage trucks regularly have to back up and have at times had to blast horns and even knocked on homes to have cars moved to get through our streets. As i mentioned in my email to Mr. Baird at the Transportation Dept. on 7/29 (to which i’ve yet to get a response), the City may think it fair for all neighborhoods abutting El Camino to share the burden of increased parking demand due to the bike lane additions. Yet, Southgate's neighborhood's exceptionally narrow streets merit a more thoughtful approach - i understand they were originally designed as one-way streets. In addition, it is likely the additional parked cars will not disburse throughout the neighborhood, but will locate along Portola, the east-west streets close to Portola, and on Churchill. Access to and within our neighborhood is already quite challenging. In addition to the narrow width, Castilleja, a bike route and is often occupied by bicyclists, especially before and after high school. Bicycle traffic will be increased, if/when the Seale pedestrian underpass is constructed. That leaves only Madrono (not a bike route and with full access to Churchill - Mariposa has limited access especially when Churchill is backed up, which i assume you know happens regularly). Therefore, it can be very challenging to get in or out of our neighborhood and we can not accommodate more cars. For the reasons discussed above, i implore you not to allocate any additional parking permits in Southgate. Please consider the overall traffic/access challenges and potential safety issues we already have in our neighborhood. Thanks for your attention to this important issue. Jane Harris 230 Sequoia Ave. From:Clark Barrett To:Council, City Subject:Julie Lythcott-Haims Date:Friday, August 9, 2024 11:48:09 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I just read the article in the Stanford Daily and the essay by Olivia Haas, and I am horrified. I voted for Julie for congress. I feel deeply betrayed. I do not trust her any more. She needs tobe off the council yesterday! What an embarrassment to our city! Please recognize that this is the only path forward. Dragging your feet will just make it worse. This is going to blow up much bigger if she is not removed immediately. Clark BarrettPalo Alto citizen, parent, and Stanford employee From:MELODIE CHENEY To:Council, City Subject:Resident support letter for Buena Vista Date:Friday, August 9, 2024 11:14:33 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. My name is Melodie Cheney I have been a Buena Vista mobile home park resident for over 20 years and I was part of the original board ofdirectors that saved the park starting in 2010 The reason for this letter is to show my full support for the Santa Clara county housing authorities plan toredevelop our park At this time, I am an owner. I am planning on becoming a renter when we return to the park. I am very gratefulfor this option of housing. To me, it was an easy decision. I was told that I qualify for a fully ADA accessibleapartment, due to some mental and physical limitations. This will make it easier on me as I get older. I am newly retired. The money will be my nest egg God forbid something catastrophic happens to me or mycat Amber. This is also one way I can stay In the Buena Vista community at large as well As, I mentioned I am newly retired. I set my retirement date Accordingly to thedates for relocation, etc.given by the housing Authority originally. This has givenme time to do a thorough spring cleaning of my house and be ready forrelocation and not wait till the last minute and stressed about the whole process As Preston said at the last council meeting time is of the essence for money, which includesdeadlines for the money they have now and to apply for money to complete the project in atimely manner. Loss of money will hurt the project and the lives of the people, families, kids, inthe park. Which would also mean loss of tax money to the city and the county from theresidents, etc. So I am urging you to Support the project by approving the request by the Santa Clara Countyhousing Authority. Technically, this has been a 14 year process counting the time to save the parkinitially and the redevelopment process. Enough is enough Just Think of the future, how proud itwill be to see the finished product Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter From:Keith Ferrell To:Council, City Cc:Baird, Nathan; Kamhi, Philip; City Mgr Subject:El Camino Repaving/RPP Date:Friday, August 9, 2024 10:13:43 AM Attachments:Meetings409Action Minutes_2022120810301918 (1).pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. All, I'd like to first point out some discrepancies in the work done by Nathan Baird and city staffwith regards to the El Camino repaving project and the suggestion to move parking into the Evergreen Park/Mayfield and Southgate neighborhoods. 1) In the June 17/18 meeting discussing the permits Baird states that there have only been 2permits in the SG1 zone on ECR. https://www.youtube.com/live/eGFWM8qjqB8?si=MxLLsiE9GIYnQNBG&t=5376In the staff report, also attached, it states that there have been 5 permits sold. 2) The staff report suggests moving 20 permits into the narrow streets of Southgate. However, the total allotment of permits for SG1 is 15. 3) The staff report states that the city is engaging with business to determine the impact. Whatabout the residents? The first two items are basic careless errors that should never occur. If my numbers are incorrect, please let me know the real numbers. However, if staff is providing misleading andincorrect information on simple facts, how can the rest of the report be taken seriously? It shows a disregard for the residents and the businesses to provide shoddy work to council andexpect them to make an informed decision. Going back to the permits for Southgate. There are 15 permits available in SG1 on ECR. In addition to this there are 10 allotted for the neighborhood. Baird states that only 2 of the ECRpermits have been sold. Why then does staff suggest moving 20 permits (more than the amount of permits allotted in the original RPP resolution) into the neighborhood? Theresidents worked hard to keep parking out of the narrow streets of Southgate. Adding more cars makes it more difficult for delivery trucks, sanitation trucks, emergency vehicles, etc... toget through the streets. I would also like to note that the original RPP for Southgate did not include the 15 permits on ECR. The original resolution was approved for only 10 permits inside Southgate. My requestis that we return to the original resolution. Given that only 2 permits were sold for ECR, is it not reasonable to expect the businesses to absorb those two cars onto their lots? This is a Residential PREFERENTIAL Permit program,however, it appears that the city is bending over backward for the businesses at the expense of the residents. Staff is suggesting increasing the number of permits in the Southgate neighborhood by 200%,even though the demand is 10%. (10% using Baird's inflated 20 permits on ECR. Using the actual number of 15%, the demand is 13.3%) Why is staff recommending increasing by200%? This is not needed and only increases work on the part of the city staff. Given the mistakes made in this report, it would seem that staff might already be overworked, so maybe councilcan decrease its workload by rejecting any movement of SG1 permits and return the RPP to its original status with 10 permits in the SG zone. Thank you.Keith Ferrell Meetings409Packet_2022120807424802 (1).pdf From:Tracy Hern To:Council, City Subject:Fwd: Cunt Olympics Date:Friday, August 9, 2024 2:01:53 AM Attachments:Emergency Complaint For Corporate Fraud and Malfesance.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I was distracted from this into Palo Alto. How’s it going back there? Pardon the word the public servant encouraged my kid to throw at me, in his youngtestosterone filled ignorance, so lemme explain to him what that really looks like. The linguist, now, so this unemotional language explains itself. Burns for President Begin forwarded message: From: Tracy Hern <tracyhern8@gmail.com>Subject: Cunt Olympics Date: August 7, 2024 at 10:40:09 AM PDT To: Jack McGreevy <jack.mcgreevy@ymail.com> Message-Id: <76BCE7DA-590E-4D34-BDE0-E6B9A0550225@gmail.com> Once I knew the bank did not have the original paperwork with signatures, it was incumbent on me not to legitimize it. I’ll get better and better at this, once I master word. I was stuck for days and only started this yesterday so have at grammar mistake. I did not file this, didn’t need to. They are stupid all of them if the foreclose an a known bad deed, it’s like advising your client to kill somebody in terms of liability for the attorneys, too, that’s when they sit up straight. I just deleted all the juicy stuff. I know you hate it. From:upcomingsales@friendspaloaltolib.org To:Council, City Subject:Seriously Significant Supersized Book Sale - Friends of the Palo Alto Library Date:Thursday, August 8, 2024 10:18:25 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. BOOK SALE NEWSLETTERTHIS WEEKEND ATCUBBERLEY Visit our web site CUBBERLEY USED BOOK SALES Saturday August 10Bargain Room 9:30am - 4pmChildren's Room 10am - 4pm(no Popup Music Sale this month)Main Room 11am - 4pm Sunday August 11 All Rooms 11am - 4pm FEATURED IN AUGUST Art & ArchitectureMedicine Anthropology & Sociology Puzzles & Games Military History 4000 Middlefield RoadPalo AltoNE corner of the Cubberley Community Center(650) 213-8755 www.fopal.org Maps and Directions More information on the sales Donate your used books, DVDs, &c ALL NET PROCEEDS GO TO HELP PALO ALTO LIBRARIES Main Room In our Main Room, prices are way below what used book stores charge. Hardcover books start at $3 and softcover books start at only $2. No numbered tickets this month! Please note that due to crowding duringthe first two hours of the Book Sale, nostrollers, rolling carts, etc. can bebrought into the Main Room. This is forthe safety of shoppers and volunteersalike. By 12:30 or so, the crowd thinsout and shoppers are welcome to bringthese items into the sale. Children's Book Sale The Children's Room is located in the portable next to the soccer field near Greendell School. It is entirely filled with children's books and toys. You'll find picture books, school age fiction and non-fiction, fiction for teens, award winners, non-English titles, CDs and DVDs, and books for parents and teachers, many for 50 cents or $1. Strollers are welcome in the Children's Room at any time. Bargain Books in H-2 The Bargain Room is located in Rooms H-2 and H-3 of the Cubberley main campus, between our Main Room and Middlefield Road. On Saturday, paperbacks are $1, hardcovers are $2, and children's books are 50 cents each. The room also contains many records, CDs, and DVDs at $1 each. On Sunday, the room opens at 11 am and all prices are half off. Or, save even more on Sunday by buying green FOPAL reusable bags from us for $3/ea (or bring your own grocery-size reusable bag) and stuffing them with any items in the room for $5/bag. Fill four bags at $5/bag and fill a fifth bag FREE! (We no longer receive sufficient used paper grocery bags along with donations for this purpose.) Library News The Summer Reading for a Cause program has concluded with 1.4 million minutes of reading which exceeds its goal of one million minutes. Prizes are available for participantsto pick up at Children's, Mitchell Park, or Rinconada Libraries through August 31, whilesupplies last. Read all about it! The Library's choice of cause was Downtown Streets Team. Also, the Library will be closed on Monday, September 2, for the Labor Day holiday. Please plan accordingly. You can find out about things like this from the Palo Alto City Library Blogs page. Or you can subscribe to them with an RSS reader. You can also find out about all this stuff and more from an infrequent e-mail from the Library. There's a signup form. -Frank McConnell August Book Sale News Donations were especially strong since the last sale, and considering we had a backlog from July, our shelves are sagging under the weight of all the books. This means a super selection for buyers; this will be a great sale! Sharing the special bays, the featured sections are, Architecture, Medicine and Anthropology/Sociology. This is a result of two large donations, one from Stanford's Cantor Art Museum and the other from the Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology/Medical Library. The latter special is an unusual collection of books on anesthesia, perioperative, pain medicine and more. (Perioperative care, also referred to as perioperative medicine, is the practice of patient-centered, multidisciplinary, and integrated medical care of patients from the moment of contemplation of surgery until full recovery.) If medical books are of interest, a fair amount of this donation can be found in the Bargain Room's Medicine section. Check out the Anthropology/Sociology special as well, this section continues to impress as once again they received a bounty of books, carefully curated into subsection by FOPAL's Anthropology/Sociology section manager Natalia K. The Puzzles & Games section is jammed with a wonderful assortment in all categories, and an emphasis on puzzles as a result of a generous donation from the Pat & Andy Brown estate. You'll also find books from the Brown donation (110+ boxes) throughout other sections, especially in Military History. Look for a nice selection of Military History books this month enhanced by this generous donation and a smaller special on women who served. -Janette Herceg Art and Architecture We had a huge donation of architecture books this month, almost all in perfect condition. They range from architectural history to monographs on individual architects and specificprojects to essays on architecture and building types. You'll find them in the Specialssection just inside the entrance to the Main Room. -Melinda Sociology/Anthropology July-early August donations brought many books that primarily expanded three subsections of the Sociology/Anthropology section. They are "Race," "Foreign Affairs & Immigration," and "U.S.: Self-Reflection." Firstly, I want to draw attention to the 2016 memoir of J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy. Since J. D. Vance became the running mate of Donald Trump, the attention to the book has increased which is reflected in its price as well as the range of opinions about it. While immediately after publication the book received many positive reviews, the attitude and tone of the recent ones have significantly changed. Those interested in judging the memoir by themselves may want to read the book. They will find it in the "U.S.: Self-Reflection" subsection. The "Foreign Affairs & Immigration" subsection has been enriched by many books that can be of interest to those concerned with the often hard experience of the first immigrants from China, Japan, and Korea to the U.S. The "Race" subsection, among many other newly received books, features the last book by Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? He worked on the manuscript in 1967, while isolating himself in a house in Jamaica. A short video on YouTube reproduces the speech of Martin Luther King, Jr. in which he presents the takeaway points of his last work. The 58 years that separate us from the time he wrote the manuscript have only increased its relevance. Finally, I want to point to a few other newly donated books that stand out to me. One ofthem is a 2002 bestseller by the American urban studies theorist Richard Florida, The Riseof the Creative Class. An interested reader will find it in the "Theories and Methods" subsection. Another one is a 2003 book by American activist and academician AngelaDavis, Are Prisons Obsolete? The book is in the "Sociology of Criminology" subsection. Overall, the Sociology/Anthropology section offers 378 books for the August sale. Shelf pictures at https://fopalbooks.com/social.html -Natalia Koulinka Puzzles and Games Once again gamers, we had several donations of new or barely used strategy games--30 of them! So come peruse the now 55 of them on our shelves. Puzzlers, we had a huge donation of puzzles all by one artist. They are priced at just $3each and most are 1000 pieces. Come see who it is and grab a bargain. -Vicky Evans Children's Room On the counter under the front windows, you'll see a wonderful assortment of colorful board books for the youngest "readers," including Richard Scarry and first words and firstanimals books, in sizes ranging from very small for tiny hands, to quite large. You'll alsofind anthologies of classic poems and very short stories--just long enough to hold children'sinterest (but short enough for parents to read at the end of the day). Marvel movies are popular, and in the School-age Fiction section we have several Marvel books highlighting the adventures of the Black Panther, Captain Marvel, and the Avengers. If you need a gift book, how about a beautifully illustrated Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, or Wizardology, Dragonology, Fantastic Beasts, or Harry Potter's Journey Through a History of Magic? The Fantasy shelves and the Popular Authors cart are packed; look for an array of Star Wars books on the bottom shelf of Fantasy. On the Award Winning Authors shelves, you'll find gift-quality editions of Brian Selznick books: The Marvels and The Invention of Hugo Cabret. This is a big month in our Activity section! The shelves are bursting with games, many in giftable condition, including a wooden chess set in a wooden box that doubles as a chess board. You could pair that with one or two of the chess strategy books in our Puzzles and Games blue bin. You'll also find jigsaw puzzles for all ages, including several from Ravensburger. Once again, we have a table (next to the overflowing graphic novels bookcase) filled with math textbooks and workbooks. Our science table, located under the north window, boasts some engineering kits, as well as bins loaded with books of science experiments--perfect for science fair projects or just for fun. And once again we have a full bin of paper-airplane and origami books! -Carolyn Davidson August Book Review Warcross by Marie Lu I recommend Warcross to those who enjoy futuristic stories where technology is enmeshedwith the world and how characters grow and overcome their challenges against the odds. The setting is similar to books like Ready Player One where virtual reality is everywhere and everyday. In Warcross, people don their VR glasses as an extension of themselves, a reliance so ingrained that nearly no one is without. This sets the stage for a diverse cast of characters with unique backgrounds and quirky personalities, of which you can relate to, antagonize against, and want to read more of from the author's detailed crafting. Of these characters, the main protagonist, Emika Chen, enthralled me the most. Despite her struggles and downturns in life, she mustered the will to learn and adapt to become a strong and self-sufficient person on her own. Equipped with her smarts and skills, she launched herself into the world stage and, albeit unintentionally, caught their attention, as well as the eye of the genius inventor of the titular title, Hideo Tanaka. Warcross develops important themes of why we should stand up for what is right, and that even though it may seem you are standing alone, there will always be someone there for you. Please note that this book has scenes of violence in it as well as romantic themes. (Recommended for ages 13 - 16) -Emma Chen Children's Vintage These long, lazy days of August are just the right time to re-read the old classics. We have many this month in giftable form, some in their own slip cases that add just that extra touch of vintage! Try Grimm's Fairy Tales (illustrated by Arthur Rackham) or the double setof Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Four of the boxed books are the1940s Illustrated Junior Library editions. We also have all 8 volumes of the 1935Picturesque Tale of Progress children's encyclopedia in really fine shape. Read through thepages and see what the world was like almost 100 years ago! Our World Languages section(especially Russian and Spanish) and the Fairy Tales and Myths section are especiallyrobust this month, and we've brought out those Ladybird books from fairy tales to factualthat fit in the palm of your hand! Shelf pictures at https://fopalbooks.com/kids.html -Lisa Heitman Home & Crafts The August Home shelves include makeup, beauty, and hair care, plus How to Get Dressed. Look for The Great Fashion Designers by Brenda Polan and Roger Tredre, as well as Candy Pratts Price's American Fashion Accessories. Home decorating references feature Bunny Williams' An Affair with a House and Parish-Hadley: Sixty Years of American Design. Don't miss: Charlotte Moss Decorates and 150 Best of the Best House Ideas, as well as several kitchen and bath references. Try Candice Olson's Family Spaces, and for those with kids off to college, there's Knack's Dorm Living. Home maintenance titles range from: How to Do Just About Anything to Confessions of an Organized Homemaker, plus Home Sweet Maison, and What Your Clutter is Trying to Tell You. This August in Floral Arts a standout title is Elton John's Flower Fantasies. You can also try Willow Crossley's Inspire: The Art of Living with Nature. Another feature on our Crafts shelves: The Ultimate Papercraft and Origami Book. There are titles on drawing and sculpture, plus jewelry design, beading, and gem craft. You'll also find titles on packaging your crafts, and Twyla Tharp's The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life. In Fabric Arts there are some unique stories and essays on knitting: The Knitting Sutra: Craft as a Spiritual Practice; At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much; and Knit Lit: Sweaters and Their Stories...and Other Writing About Knitting. You saw the movie; now read the crocheting book: Crochet for Barbie Doll by Nicky Epstein. Or, like my Irish grandmother, create your own Irish Chain Quilts. Shelf photos can be found at https://fopalbooks.com/crafts.html. -Virginia Perry Antiques & Collections Antiques titles in August feature Geza Von Habsburg's Fabergé, a Feldman edition, and the 250-year history of Villeroy & Boch 1748 - 1998. There are multiple jewelry collections including: 7000 Years of Jewelry edited by Hugh Tait; Jewelry: From Antiquity to the Present by Clare Phillips; and Jewels: A Secret History by Victoria Finlay. Look for many titles on coins, medals, and stamps, especially Every Stamp Tells a Story from the National Philatelic Collection, and The One-Cent Magenta: Inside the Quest to Own the Most Valuable Stamp in the World by James Barron. Peruse through the Antique Lamp Buyer's Guide, or Collecting Historical Documents: A Guide to Owning History. For your furniture collection, try Restoring Antique Furniture: a Practical Guide. Shelf photo can be found at https://fopalbooks.com/crafts.html. -Virginia Perry Judaica Browse the Judaica section for books on the Jewish religion and culture including editions of the Torah and other basic texts, Kabbalah, Jewish history, the Holocaust, memoirs, Israel, Jewish Women, the Jewish American Experience and other related subjects. Special interest this month - The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi; Jewish Communities in Exotic Places; Australian Genesis: Jewish Convicts and Settlers 1788-1850; A Family Secret (graphic novel for younger readers); Memories of My Life in a Polish Village, 1930–1949 (pre-2024 edition); The Children of Noah: Jewish Seafaring in Ancient Times; Into the Fullness of the Void: A Spiritual Autobiography. Most fiction with Jewish themes will be found in Modern Literature/Classics or CurrentFiction. Books entirely in Hebrew are shelved in the European Languages section. Shelf photos at https://fopalbooks.com/judaica.html -Charlotte Epstein, Judaica Section Manager Classic and Modern Literature In honor of the New York Times list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century, there is a shelf with as many of the pre-2014 titles as we have this month. They're on the top shelf of the section near the middle aisle. -Melinda The West The West covers the U.S. from the Mississippi to Hawaii. There are several sections. On the top shelves are large oversize books divided into Palo Alto/Stanford, San Francisco, California, and the West groups. On the intermediate shelves there are groups on Palo Alto/Monterey, San Francisco, California, the West, and Western Novels (including 30 Louis L'Amour stories in faux leather bindings). The West group has books on ranching, mining, cowboys, outlaws and women in the West. Finally, on the bottom shelves are more oversize Palo Alto history books and other books on the West. -Ed Walker Philosophy An unexpected book for August is the illustrated Plato! Titled Journey to the Moon, it's a pairing of engravings by Gustave Dore to selected quotes from Plato, a very well produced book. We have 15 books on or by Aristotle including Aristotle's Children which discusses those who have been influenced by his philosophy. For a first appearance we have a very fine edition of Charles Taylor's Secular Age. Recently we have received a collection of books touching on the subjects of ethics and morality, these will be found on the bottom left bookshelf. Shelf pictures at https://fopalbooks.com/philosophy.html -Nigel Jones Humor This month we have two versions of the ever popular Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker, one being the hardback with all the cartoons in print and no CDs, and the other being the complete cartoons on eight DVDs. For a first appearance we have Hannah Gadsby's memoir, Nanette, based on her award winning Netflix special. Shelf pictures at https://fopalbooks.com/humor.html -Nigel Jones Romance Novels We've opened a new section in the Main Room for Romance Novels. These include hardcover books by best-selling authors, many in like-new condition; the crossover genreof cozy romance/mystery; and historical romance novels (if you liked The FrenchLieutenant's Woman). You'll find the new Romance section in the Main Room next toMystery. (Romance Novels will also continue to be available in the Bargain Room.) -Nancy Tillman Poetry Featured this month: A collection of poems by Jimmy Carter (autographed); several volumes from former Poet Laureate Billy Collins with his quirky and funny take on everyday life; Advice for aspiring poets; and Images of a Complex World - a beautiful book of poetry and art concerning the artistic expression of complex scientific systems. -Nancy Tillman History Current politics got you down? Think the world is a mess and getting worse? The planet's seen and survived worse, and you can read all about it! This month we have books on a number of US presidents and also-rans, as well as revolutions and uprisings all over the world. And if you're looking for something lighter, the Offbeat History shelf on the red cart has some unusual looks at history's odd corners. -Lin McAllister Self Help/Personal Growth Pricing books this month was especially fun with many titles, some quite recent, that I haven't seen before. Most books are just 2-3 dollars so check out the four full shelves of New Books and the Enneagram section which has exciting new additions! There's a small subsection of colorful, inspirational SARK books; a subsection of 'Signed by Author' books; and now 2 FULL SHELVES of books on ADDICTIONS! Some Featured Books this month are: Briefly Perfectly Human; Healthy Brain, Happy Life; How to Know a Person; 12 Rules for Life; and Self Compassion by Kristin Nerf including a workbook. Look for a few of the popular, higher priced books in the 'Marked Down' section. Enjoy browsing, -Marnie STEM While the quantity of donations have been strong this month the quality has not matched. Thus, many books can be found in the bargain room. Popular science continues to outpaceother books and overflows to the left around the corner this month. The other sections arecompressed into slightly different locations as sheet music expands its shelving needs. Shelf photos can be found at https://fopalbooks.com/STEM.html -Edwin El-Kareh Sheet Music Musicians are definitely cleaning out their closets this summer. The quality and quantity of sheet music donations continues to grow this month. Shelving will expand rightward into the STEM section. Shelf photos can be found at https://fopalbooks.com/sheetmusic.html -Edwin El-Kareh Donations We accept donations on Monday through Saturday from 3-5 pm in the Main Room. But we close to donations in the week before the sale so that we can prepare the Main Room forthe sale. Which means that we are closed for donations from Sunday August 4 throughSunday August 11. Please hold your donations until Monday August 12. 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From:Sky Posse Post To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed Subject:Input for City Survey re: Palo Alto Airport Date:Thursday, August 8, 2024 8:03:06 PM Attachments:Input for City Survey.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Mayor, Council, City Manager, Please see attached letter regarding the City survey about Palo Alto Airport. Thank you Sky Posse Palo Alto August 8,2024 Mayor,City Council,and City Manager City of Palo Alto Letter submitted by Email Dear Mayor,Councilmembers,and City Manager, The following is in response to the City Survey seeking input for a Long-Range Facilities & Sustainability Plan (LRFSP)for Palo Alto Airport. We are concerned that the survey’s presentation of alternatives did not reveal serious risks for communities with each of the options.We want to highlight that electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOLs)introduce a type of noise that has not been evaluated for their physical effects on people,children,or the natural environment;noise effects which cannot be mitigated even by insulation.As the City evaluates how to proceed on airport issues,we ask for the City to invest in solutions that address aviation noise and nighttime operations affecting Palo Alto.Below we point out some steps the City can take. City Survey: The airport planning process has from the beginning lacked a coherent rationale or substantive factual details,nor has there been transparent oversight or a public participation mechanism.It is obvious now that the Menu of alternatives presented in the City survey were put together by airport interests but the City had the duty to explain this at the outset -that the alternatives were composed without environmental impact information,or any meaningful community participation.The planning process is also being carried out without Council oversight or by a relevant commission or Council Committee.The City Council has yet to establish an Airport Commission with adequate public representation.The Survey does not explain why the City is devoting resources to the LRFSP although it appears to be preliminary to applying for grants from the FAA.FAA airport grants impose standards and restrictions that prevent airports from implementing mitigations to respond to community concerns.For example,SFO has denied putting permanent noise monitors in Palo Alto because,among other things,the FAA’s airport grants have a clause that deems noise monitors not inside an area by the runways as “revenue diversion.” Before applying for FAA grants,the City should thoroughly analyze and disclose the airport’s ability to fund itself without unreasonable conditions.This is a sustainability issue and it should be made clear whether the airport has the potential to be self-sustaining,or whether it must rely on outside funding to continue operations.If this City property is not able to support ongoing operations or raise funds for improvement projects then that is a critical factor in the current planning process.FAA grants that do not allow noise abatement or prevent other environmental mitigations should be clearly noticed in the planning process to allow public vetting of these Sky Posse Palo Alto highly questionable terms.The prohibition on addressing environmental and noise effects are why cities like East Hampton have stopped accepting FAA grants.Palo Alto should pursue no less and use this analysis to better inform any further planning discussions. We also reiterate our request that the City needs to present an analysis of the Legal and Regulatory Framework for Palo Alto Airport,focusing on what -if any -pathways the City has to control or restrict operations to protect people and the natural environment.For this comprehensive analysis we suggest that the City retain legal expertise from additional outside counsel;experts on environmental and other relevant laws and not solely advice from airport advocates which over the years have been Council’s primary legal source. EVTOL’s: There is no governance at the FAA,state or local level about the type of noise that eVTOLs emit and,unlike electric road vehicles,they are not quiet.The FAA has not finished reviewing their noise policies that encompass impact disclosure laws and other statutes to better inform policymakers,the public,and agency decisions for legacy vehicles –for which there is FAA research and experience.There is no FAA or city experience with eVTOL noise. As part of the FAA’s Noise Policy Review process,the FAA asked 11 questions on various topics for legacy and new vehicles that the agency is reviewing.Our response to the FAA’s solicitation about how FAA and airport noise abatement policies should consider new entrants such as eVTOLs,is as follows; The Aviation Noise Abatement Policy (ANAP)needs to be clear that all vehicles cannot be evaluated in a vacuum (vehicle noise depends on how they are flown,altitudes and number of operations).Furthermore,new vehicles have low-frequency sounds which are felt;sounds that penetrate walls,presenting new health risks.Federal,state and local governments need to be discouraged from “accepting”or promoting new vehicles with new sounds that they have no guidance on.Health safety guidance needs to be sought. It is unreasonable for local governments to subsidize infrastructure for new and untested uses with unknown consequences they may not be able to regulate or control --even in the name of innovation.eVTOLs should also be objectively weighed against the biggest transportation and climate problems in the Bay Area,and if they justify urgency. Night time Noise: Eliminating nighttime noise is an urgent priority given the public outcry and complaints.As is the need for the City to address potential impacts from massive growth plans from other Bay Area Airports.We were disappointed that the City did not submit input or questions to OAK’s recent growth plan proposals.And we continue to seek City follow up on proposals to eliminate night time noise;namely the FAA’s offer during the Select Committee on South Bay Arrivals for “a collaboration with the FAA,the airport and the airlines that are flying during those times…an Sky Posse Palo Alto agreement on how we can do this better”-including the potential design of a new standard terminal arrival route to specifically help the MidPeninsula.This follow up cannot be accomplished without City leadership. One step the City can take immediately to address nighttime noise and Bay Area airport growth is to look at the need for noise assessments,sophisticated tracking and analysis.Offending airports and the FAA have spent years negotiating to not offer sufficient noise information;they are unlikely to change anytime soon.We recommend that the City evaluate the cost and feasibility for the City to invest in the necessary noise assessments and tracking.In 2014, City Council approved an analysis to look at regional historical noise baselines with an investment of $230,000.Much has evolved since,to guide noise assessments.Exploring what can be produced independently from the FAA and airports is important.We look forward to adding more details about this topic for the upcoming Palo Alto Airport Study Session,including why noise assessments and tracking are relevant. On a final but very important note,last month a Supreme Court ruling ended the “Chevron Deference”doctrine,with substantial implications for the legal landscape for airport planning. Previously,when communities challenged FAA actions in court,such as the Nextgen implementation,the courts automatically upheld the FAA’s interpretation of statutes -which in turn favored airports.Attorney Barbara Lichman addressed the question about the significance of the decision to end Chevron deference,for communities impacted by the growth and operation of airports,as follows: “The answer is that the decision is fundamental for the grant of justice to those communities. This is because,up to now,the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies with some jurisdiction over airports have used that power as a justification for their own interpretation of the meaning of statutes,thus allowing them to avoid the mandates of such statutes as the National Environmental Policy Act,the Clean Air Act,the Clean Water Act and others that are typically affected by the growth and operation of airports.The Courts,on their part,have deferred to the Agencies,allowing them to basically adjudicate their own compliance.Under the Supreme Court’s current regime,an agency may present its factual justification,but it will be up to the Court to determine if that rationale can be squared with the mandates of the relevant statute or statutes.In other words,there will now be a disinterested referee between the agency and the community in their battles over the impacts of airport growth and operations.” This opens up more possibilities for the City to advocate for citizens'concerns about airport growth.We look forward to supporting the City and actions that can lead to progress in the efforts to reduce aviation pollution to protect people and the natural environment. Thank you, Sky Posse Palo Alto From:Tran, Joanna To:Council, City Cc:Executive Leadership Team; ORG - Clerk"s Office Subject:Council Questions for City Council Meeting 8/12/24 Date:Thursday, August 8, 2024 6:51:39 PM Attachments:image001.pngimage003.pngimage004.pngimage006.pngimage007.pngimage008.pngimage009.png Dear Mayor and Council Members, On behalf of City Manager Ed Shikada, please view the following links for the amended agenda and staff responses to questions submitted by Council Member Tanaka: August 12 Amended Agenda Staff responses to Consent Item 4 and Action Item 6 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:Clerk, City To:Council, City Cc:Clerk, City Subject:FW: To City Council opposing Airport expansion Date:Thursday, August 8, 2024 3:40:36 PM Attachments:CC re airport.pdf Hello City Council, Please see the below email. Best, City Clerk's Office -----Original Message----- From: Emily Renzel <marshmama2@att.net> Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2024 1:45 PM To: Clerk, City <city.clerk@cityofpaloalto.org> Cc: gsheyner@embarcaderopublishing.com; price@padailypost.com Subject: To City Council opposing Airport expansion CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Mayor Stone and Members of the City Council: Attached are my comments about the proposal to expand the Airport. I hope you will continue to spport preservation of our Natural Baylands as the Number 1 priority. Thank you. Emily Renzel August 8, 2024 Dear Mayor Stone & Members of the City Council: I have just read Alice Mansell’s letter to you with her perspective on Palo Alto’s decisions about our treasured baylands. There is considerable mixing of facts and opinions and I would like to straighten out the record a little. First of all, when John Fletcher Byxbee, City Engineer, set out to acquire some 1900 acres of Baylands, he regarded all of it as potential reclaimed land. Due to similar thinking all around the Bay, over 90% of the Bay’s wetlands were lost. With each loss, the options to restore the natural areas were reduced. Each City Council had fewer options to course correct. Highway 101 became known as the “Bayshore Freeway”. The City of Palo Alto owned a lot of land that was in San Mateo County and to correct that, the City re-routed the San Francisquito Creek, then considered the County bound- ary, to bring the Palo Alto owned land into Santa Clara County. Grand plans for the Airport and the Yacht Harbor were too expensive for Palo Alto, so the city leased those facilities to the County of Santa Clara. Re-routing of the Creek created some remnant sloughs. One of these is the lagoon that still envelopes the Duck Pond. In 1964, the Voters of Palo Alto, by a 90-10 margin, approved the Park Dedication Charter Amendment. Parklands may not be converted to other uses without a vote of the public. There have been fewer than 10 such amendments in subsequent years. One of these amendments undedicated three parcels to allow expansion of the airport. The City also kept expanding the “dump” into 126 acres of wetlands. By the early 1970’s the approved footprint of the dump was completely filled. The City, however, continued to fill new wetlands. By that time the Clean Water Act had been adopted by Congress and there was a new permit process required to fill wetlands. In 1975, the City was required to mitigate unpermitted fill by 1) installing pipes to one remnant of San Francisquito Creek (now commonly known as the Lagoon) to improve water quality and create a marshy fringe, and 2) installing a flexible tide gate in the 600-acre Flood Basin to also improve water quality and create marshland. Those mitigation requirements are a permanent obligation of the City of Palo Alto. Also in 1975, the 109 Boaters berthed in the Palo Alto Yacht Harbor were seeking to dredge the channel to the Bay. They argued that re-routing the Creek had caused the harbor to fill in. In fact, the Harbor was filling in because with each dredging, wetlands -1- were filled and the natural twice daily tidal prisms that kept the channel open, were obstructed. The Bay Conservation and Development Commission had jurisdiction and required a Comprehensive Baylands Master Plan as part of that approval. The City spent a couple of years to adopt the Baylands Master Plan which was subsequently revised and adopted in 2008. The Yacht Harbor was closed around 1980 and through natural tidal action, at least 20 acres of wetlands have been restored. Since the 1970’s, the City has recognized the environmental value of having a nearby natural marshland and has resisted additional fill and incompatible uses. The 2008 Adopted Baylands Master Plan proscribed expansion of the Airport and also acknowledged the protected areas surrounding it. The three parcels that were undedicated in 1969 were incorporated into the airport and the Regional Water Quality Control Plant. The airport paved some of this land for parking cars and airplanes. But much of that land remains unpaved. The City should consider rededicating this land as parkland instead of allowing the airport to expand. Byxbee’s vision of a Salt water swimming pool did not last long as it became a haven for the Bay’s wildlife and soon became the beloved Duck Pond. It continues to be a favorite place to take children for an outing. The lagoon that envelopes the Duck Pond continues to provide important habitat for migratory birds as envisioned in the 1975 mitigation. There have been many policy decisions made in the last fifty years, each with more and more constraints. Councils have done their best but not every decision was perfect. The 2008 Baylands Master Plan provides a comprehensive history of each of the major areas of the Baylands and I urge you to respect its conclusions - especially those protecting and enhancing wetlands. Please protect our very special Baylands and encourage the Airport to operate within the confines of its existing footprint and flight limitations. Sincerely, Emily M. Renzel, Planning Commissioner 1973-79 & Councilmember 1979-91 P.S. The 2008 Baylands Master Plan is available at <https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/ files/assets/public/v/1/planning-amp-development-services/file-migration/current- planning/forms-and-guidelines/baylands-master-plan.pdf> -2- From:Aram James To:Ed Lauing; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Josh Becker; Zelkha, Mila; Templeton, Cari; Henry Etzkowitz Cc:Joe Simitian; Dave Price; Sally Lieber; Raymond Goins; Sean Allen; Lewis james; Jeff Moore; Rose Lynn; Jeff Rosen; Council, City; GRP-City Council; citycouncil@mountainview.gov; WILPF Peninsula Palo Alto; Baker, Rob; Roberta Ahlquist; Lotus Fong; Tim James; Cait James; Marina Lopez; Michelle; Binder, Andrew; kenneth.Binder@shf.sccgov.org; Robert.Jonson@shf.sccgov.org; Lee, Craig; Afanasiev, Alex; DuJuan Green; dennis burns; Kaloma Smith; Karen Holman; Tom DuBois; Bains, Paul; Paul George @ PPJC; Diana Diamond; yolanda; Julie Lythcott-Haims; Cecilia Taylor; Friends of Cubberley; Supervisor Otto Lee; Cindy Chavez Subject:Watch "Kamala Harris brutally heckled by Pro Palestine protesters" on YouTube Date:Thursday, August 8, 2024 3:28:04 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. https://youtu.be/EMlVvZHWzLg?si=H8M6YQ61JiEhJPD7 From:City Mgr To:Council, City; Eggleston, Brad; Swanson, Andrew; Luetgens, Michael Cc:City Mgr; LWV of Palo Alto Subject:FW: Comment on Palo Alto Airport LRFSP Date:Thursday, August 8, 2024 2:35:14 PM Attachments:airportltrv.4 (10) (1) (2).docxExhibit_1_PA_Baylands_Pamphlet (1) (1).pdf Good afternoon Mayor and Council Members— Forwarding on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Palo Alto. LWV of Palo Alto, please note the correct Council email address: city.council@cityofpaloalto.org. Respectfully, Danille Danille RiceAdministrative AssistantOffice of the City Manager|Human Resources|Transportation From: LWV of Palo Alto <lwvpaoffice@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2024 1:23 PM To: PAO Planning <PAOPlan@CityofPaloAlto.org> Cc: CityCouncil@cityofpaloalto.org; City Mgr <CityMgr@cityofpaloalto.org> Subject: Comment on Palo Alto Airport LRFSP CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. The League of Women Voters of Palo Alto comments on the proposed airport expansion, attached, is based on the LWV Palo Alto Baylands Position (2017) as well as the Baylands Master Plan (2008), a 1965 city initiative which places the areas proposed for expansion in dedicated park land, and the climate action policies of the state and city which identify wetlands as natural carbon sinks essential to lessening the effects of climate change. The Department of Public Works has commissioned a Long Range Planning and Sustainability Plan and has requested public comment on its 5 alternative proposals for expansion by August 10. We believe the city planners have forgotten to include discussion of important restraints on airport development. Sincerely, Karen Kalinsky Megan Swezey Fogerty LWV Palo Alto Co-Presidents -- League of Women Voters of Palo Alto3921 E. Bayshore Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: (650) 903-0600Web: www.lwvpaloalto.orgFacebook: www.facebook.com/PaloAltoLeague/Twitter: www.twitter.com/lwvpaloalto 3921 E. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto CA 94303 (650) 903-0600 www.lwvpaloalto.org 1 August 7, 2024 Jonathan Lait, Planning Director Palo Alto Public Works Department, Airport Division PAOplan@cityofpaloalto.org Re: Palo Alto Airport Long Range Facilities and Sustainability Plan (LRFSP) comments on 5 Airport Alternatives Survey The League of Women Voters of Palo Alto (LWVPA) supports measures that retain the maximum possible undeveloped land in the Palo Alto Baylands. The League therefore strongly urges the City to select Alternative 1, No Action for the Palo Alto Airport’s Long Range Facilities and Sustainability Plan (LRFSP). We urge the city to reject any Alternatives which involve filling wetlands, intruding over existing airport boundaries into open space by lengthening the runway, filling in parts of the lagoon or the Duck Pond, interfering with existing trails, or increasing the intensity of airport use. Many people have already submitted comments objecting to losing any wetlands to this project. These comments are directed primarily to the danger many of the alternatives pose to the Baylands critical habitat for wildlife and its benefits of recreational, public health, natural beauty and enjoyment. We agree with these comments. In addition to posing a danger to the critical habitat and recreational use, filling in wetlands is inconsistent with the 2008 Baylands Master Plan which generally forbids any airport intensified use or significant intrusion into open space and calls for continuation of use of the Duck Pond and Lagoon. Losing wetlands as an important natural carbon sink is also of great concern because climate change impacts such as wildfires and drought are being felt all over the country. Protecting wetlands to reduce carbon emissions is consistent with the goals of the City’s S/Climate Action Plan, the 2017 Comprehensive Plan, and the California Air Resources Board’s Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy (2022). Alternatives which require filling in wetlands are inconsistent with those goals. Finally, a vote of the people of Palo Alto in1965 dedicated the Baylands as conservation park land. Any use of lands outside current Airport boundaries which intrude into Baylands conservation land would require a public vote on the discontinuation of use of dedicated park land under Palo Alto Municipal Code 22.08.002. Discussion 1---No Action is the only alternative that aligns with the 2008 Baylands Master Plan (BMP) which states: “In general, make no changes in airport activities that will increase the intensity of airport use or will significantly intrude into open space.” (2008 BMP, p. 179). Extending the runway into conservation lands outside the Airport’s boundaries and filling in the lagoon and duck pond are activities which increase the intensity of use or significantly intrude into open 3921 E. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto CA 94303 (650) 903-0600 www.lwvpaloalto.org 2 space. The 2008 BMP also provides for continued use of the Duck Pond and Lagoon: “The Duck Pond and Lagoon area will stay the same.” (2008 BMP, p. 125) 1 2---No Action is the only alternative that aligns with both the City and the State’s climate goals 2 - to reduce greenhouse gas emissions well below 1990 levels and minimize the impacts of climate change (extreme heat, wildfires, drought, sea level rise). The California Air Resources Board (CARB) identifies wetlands as “natural and working lands” capable of naturally sequestering carbon. Protecting wetlands from filling or degradation is an important priority of California Air Resources Board (CARB) Natural and Working Lands Program in its Climate Smart Strategy to reduce carbon emissions to avoid the “most catastrophic impacts of climate change.” 3,4 The City’s 2022 Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (S/CAP), provides that “Palo Alto will continue to build and restore the natural environment and its ecosystem services and bio-capacity that supports it”5 and notes that “restoration of wetlands can both sequester carbon and be implemented in a way that may protect shoreline communities and habitats from sea-level rise and storm surge.”6 Palo Alto’s 2030 Comprehensive Plan Open Space goals also require the city to act consistently with the Baylands Master Plan to protect the city’s open space as a source of public health, natural beauty and enjoyment” 7 and “Preserve and protect the Bay, marshlands, salt ponds, sloughs, creeks, and other natural water or wetland areas as open space, functioning habitats, and elements of a larger, interconnected wildlife corridor, consistent with the Baylands Master Plan.” 8 3---The No action Alternative does not intrude on dedicated Baylands conservation parkland. Other Alternatives which incorporate conservation lands lying outside existing Airport boundaries would likely require a referendum vote to discontinue the park land use. See Palo Alto Municipal Code 22.08.002. The 1975 League of Women Voters “Palo Alto Baylands Handbook” gives a detailed historical, ecological, and jurisdictional description of the Baylands. Chapter II, “Current Land Uses”, describes the 1965 initiative which dedicated the Baylands as park land: “DEDICATED PARK LANDS Much of the area east of Bayshore Freeway is owned by the City of Palo Alto, and of this about 1700 acres are dedicated to park purposes. The area includes: flood basin, Nature Interpretative Center, duck pond and lagoon and marsh areas, including city-owned land in San Mateo County. 1chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/v/1/planning-amp- development-services/file-migration/current-planning/forms-and-guidelines/baylands-master-plan.pdf] Baylands Master Plan” 2 City climate goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80% of 1990 levels by 2030. State climate goal is to reduce emissions by 48% of 1990 levels by 2030 and remove more carbon than we generate by 2045. 3 California Air Resources Board, Natural and Working Lands Program website. https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our- work/programs/natural-and-working-lands, last accessed 7/30/24 4 Ibid., p. 40. 5 https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/v/1/sustainability/policies-and-plans/2022-scap-goals-and-key-actions.pdf, pg. 17. 6 Ibid. 7 https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/v/4/planning-amp-development-services/3.-comprehensive- plan/comprehensive-plan/full-comp-plan-2030_with-dec19_22-amendments.pdf Pg. 110. 8 Ibid. pg. 111 3921 E. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto CA 94303 (650) 903-0600 www.lwvpaloalto.org 3 In 1965, the voters of Palo Alto passed an initiative charter amendment which provides that “All lands owned or controlled by the City which are or will be used for park, playground, recreation or conservation purposes shall be dedicated for such purposes by ordinance.” Further sections of Article VIII of the Palo Alto city charter provide that any park land dedicated cannot be sold or disposed of or its use abandoned or discontinued unless a majority of the electorate votes to approve such a change and that “no substantial building, construction reconstruction or development upon or with respect to any lands so dedicated shall be made except pursuant to ordinance…” These ordinances are subject to referendum. Examples of dedicated park lands that have been undedicated and changed by referendum are the airport expansion area and the sewage disposal plant area (see Fig 4).” Figure 4 map of undedicated park land does not include the lagoon or any part of the duck pond. See excerpts from League of Women Voters Palo Alto Baylands Handbook, attached. Palo Alto is fortunate to have a pristine wetland that provides habitat for wildlife including migratory birds, recreational opportunities for residents and nearby communities that is a natural carbon sink. To our great benefit, previous generations of Palo Altans worked collaboratively to ensure that these vital lands would not be lost to development by adopting a Bayland Master Plan which provides: “In general, make no changes in airport activities which would increase the intensity of use or significantly intrude into open space.” Palo Alto airport is one of the busiest in the Bay Area, accommodates about 160,000 operations per year, and generates revenue for the City.9 But modernizing infrastructure should not come at the loss of irreplaceable Bayland conservation lands. The City has faced this choice in 2007, when it correctly rejected a County proposal to construct new hangars at the airport to generate more revenue as contrary to the BMP’s policy not to significantly intrude into open space. Palo Alto’s decision to protect its Baylands permanently from development in 1965 was prescient. It preserved the Baylands’ natural ability to sequester carbon and equitably safeguarded passive recreational activities of birdwatching, hiking, and enjoying nature available to residents, regardless of their ability to own or fly a plane. This decision should not be undone in the absence of compelling health or safety reasons. Sincerely, Karen Kalinsky Megan Fogerty Co-Presidents, LWV Palo Alto Cc: CityCouncil@cityofpaloalto.org CityMgr@cityofpaloalto.org 9 https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2024/05/23/palo-alto-airport-under-pressure-as-residents-debate-competing-visions- for-its-future/ 3921 E. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto CA 94303 (650) 903-0600 www.lwvpaloalto.org 4 Attachment: Excerpts from Palo Alto Baylands Handbook 3921 E. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto CA 94303 (650) 903-0600 www.lwvpaloalto.org 5 Palo Alto Baylands Handbook League of Women Voters of Palo Alto First published, 1972 Revised Edition, 1975 3921 E. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto CA 94303 (650) 903-0600 www.lwvpaloalto.org 6 3921 E. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto CA 94303 (650) 903-0600 www.lwvpaloalto.org 7 3921 E. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto CA 94303 (650) 903-0600 www.lwvpaloalto.org 8 3921 E. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto CA 94303 (650) 903-0600 www.lwvpaloalto.org 9 3921 E. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto CA 94303 (650) 903-0600 www.lwvpaloalto.org 10 From:matt@evolutionaryteams.comTo:palo-alto@fridaysforfutureusa.org Subject:FFF Follow Up – Aug 2 (Week #134) Date:Thursday, August 8, 2024 8:41:25 AM Attachments:image005.png CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments andclicking on links. We took to the streets on Friday and shook lunchtime diners and passersby out of their climate complacency. We encountered more cheering allies. One detractor cowardly expressed his displeasure with our action from his moving pickup, but we received more encouraging honks than catcalls from passing vehicles. We remain immensely amused by the reactions from Apple Store workers, who give us secret waves, and slack-jawed Apple customers as we pass the crowded window-front store. All-in-all another energizing outing! After our march and debrief, Rick regaled us with a number of climate actions he is undertaking. He is attending the annual Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action conference in Cupertino. With Elders Climate Action, he is organizing a multigenerational climate retreat to be held at SJSU on Oct 20. He will attend the San Mateo County “Thrive” conference on sustainability on Oct 8 in SSF. And, of course, he is an active member of our group, finding innovative ways to engage with people as we march. Thanks, Rick, for all your energy and enthusiasm! Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – Kimberly showed off her cool purse made from aluminum can tops. Now that is some creative reuse! Thanks, Kimberly, for your Triple-R leadership! Rick suggests we watch Eating for Tomorrow. Here’s the trailer. He has been in touch with the film’s producer and plans to help promote it. You can watch a free screening here. I am watching it as I write. Thanks for the recommendation, Rick! George reread The Heat Will Kill You First. Kimberly noted that heat-related deaths have doubled in just the last 5 years. Homo Sapiens emerged during the Pleistocene, an epoch punctuated by periodic ice ages. This next epoch, that some call the Anthropocene, will be marked by increasing heat. With all the new greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, we’ve locked in between 2°C and 5°C (3.6°F and 9°F) heating (we’ve already heated over 1.5°C for the last 12 months). Further, we are heating much faster than most life systems, including human systems, can adapt. Heat will be a huge challenge for all life of the planet for the foreseeable future. Thanks, George, for raising this important issue. Ingrid has rejoined us after an extended camping trip on the beautiful Olympic Peninsula. Life, big and small, is stunningly beautiful there, she reports. She is motivated now more than ever to take climate action. Thanks, Ingrid, for sharing your wonderful experience! Matt plugs away reading Steinbeck’s nonfiction The Log from the Sea of Cortez. At page 73, he came across this amazing passage highlighting Steinbeck’s insightfulness of human nature. Matt gave a brief presentation on the concept of Degrowth. GDP is the primary metric in a growth-based economy. Human well- being and living within planetary boundaries serve as metrics for degrowth models. See the short video here. Christine is encouraging high school students interested in climate and sustainability to join the City’s Youth Climate Advisory Board to help advance the City's climate policies and lead sustainability efforts at local high schools. Apply by August 19 to make a difference in our community and beyond! Thank you, Christine, for encouraging youth climate action! This Friday the Climate Strikers! perform at LifeMove’s 2nd Annual Resource Fair in Mountain View. We performed last year and want to support our partner once again this year. We will *not* strike in King Plaza this Friday. We will be back in the plaza on August 16. Keep Up the Fight and See You Soon! Music the Great Communicator Upcoming Events Friday, Aug 9, Noon to 4:00: The Climate Strikers! perform for LifeMoves at their 2nd annual Resource Fair event at their Mountain View facility. Learn more about the terrific work LifeMoves does here: https://www.lifemoves.org/ Note: There is currently no climate strike action planned at King Plaza on 8/9. Monday, Aug 19: Deadline to apply for Palo Alto’s Youth Climate Advisory Board to help advance the City's climate policies and lead sustainability efforts at local high schools. Apply by August 19 to make a difference in our community and beyond! Friday, Aug 16, Noon to 1:00PM: Climate Strike! –– King Plaza in front of Palo Alto City Hall. Friday, Sept 6, Noon to 1:00: Climate March –– We meet at King Plaza in front of Palo Alto City Hall and march through downtown Palo Alto. Friday, September 20, Noon to 1:00: Global Climate Action (GCA) –– This is an International Day of Action with events around the country and the world. Palo Alto City Meetings: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/City-Clerk/City-Meeting-Groups/Meeting-Agendas-and- Minutes (Will Sustainability Task Force meetings be posted here?) Climate Community Center: https://climatecommunitycenter.org/ Peninsula Peace and Justice Center calendar: https://peaceandjustice.org/events-calendar/ Heat Pump Water Heater Program Update Update coming soon. As of:6/27 6/6 5/2 4/4 2/29 1/31 12/28 HPWH full-service interest list signups 1009 991 970 878 797 750 687 Site assessment agreements (SAA) sent 1009 991 970 878 783 748 679 Signed SAAs 824 805 776 696 613 579 522 Completed site assessments 754 727 679 615 538 510 473 Installations Total Full Service HPWHs installed 280 267 243 226 224 184 158 Total DIY HPWH installed 83 77 68 68 57 49 44 Total HPWHs installed 363 344 311 294 281 233 202 Target Installations 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 Monthly Installation Rate Monthly Installation Rate 19 33 17 13 48 31 19 Target Monthly Installation Rate 83 83 83 83 83 83 83 Weekly Photos FFF Aug 2: https://photos.app.goo.gl/noQpwbG77RrZyAnB9 What We Are Reading/Watching/Listening to: Planet Critical (podcast) with climate-corruption journalist Rachel Donald: https://music.youtube.com/playlist? list=PL9fwSCB4W5gsPemwntzrkGKzxLGN1PoTy Latest episode guest Matt Huber: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9fwSCB4W5gsPemwntzrkGKzxLGN1PoTy The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens (podcast): https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/ Latest episode – guest Johan Rockstrom: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=JaboF3vAsZs Follow Fridays For Future Palo Alto: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fridaysforfuture_paloalto/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Fri4Future_PA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FridaysForFuturePaloAlto Email notifications of FFF Palo Alto events: https://mailchi.mp/c8c130127345/join-fridays-for-future-palo-alto You are receiving this email because you have expressed an interest in supporting climate action in Palo Alto. 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Matt Schlegel Organizer Fridays For Future Palo Alto Cell: 650-924-8923 Email: Palo-Alto@FridaysForFutureUSA.org Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fridaysforfuture_paloalto/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Fri4Future_PA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMGKrv_ADB5k7HPK9FJO_Hw Green Mic Web: https://www.greenmic.org FFF Web: https://fridaysforfutureusa.org/local-groups/palo-alto/ Email List: https://mailchi.mp/c8c130127345/join-fridays-for-future-palo-alto From:David Coale To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Ciralsky, Philip; Star-Lack, Sylvia; City Attorney; Transportation Cc:Ellson, Penny; Mesterhazy, Rose; Durham, KathyF; Neff, Robert; Nordman, Eric; Joye, Ken; Rothstein, Jane; Swent, Richard; Liberman, Art Subject:Re: Illegal parking on El Camino Way - very dangerous for our school kids Date:Wednesday, August 7, 2024 9:31:25 PM Attachments:IMG_5180.movtraffic-advisory_sr82_paving-operations.pdf Importance:High CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of openingattachments and clicking on links. Hi City Council Members, City Manager and others, Last September I sent you all a video of cars illegally parked on El Camino Way in the bike lanewith kids forced into the travel lane with cars going in both directions endangering them and otherbike riders. Since then, the City has trimmed trees so that the no parking signs could be seen and they have done some enforcement. As of today and even months earlier, this has had little or no effect on the problem here, see videobelow. Just a few days ago, I went by and there were three cop cars parked on the east side and four cars illegally parked on the west side. Enforcement is not working! No one is paying anyattention/flaunting the no parking here. Even the cops as they were there for some other reason. On Sept 3rd, the repaving effort of El Camino will start and there will be no parking on El Camino. Thank you to Council and the Ad-hock committee for making bike lanes possible here. However,this will make the situation much worse on El Camino Way since the cars that were parking on ElCamino, will now park on El Camino Way. It is time to take the next step here and paint the bike lane green so that people will really see thatthey are parking in a bike lane. This should have been done six months ago followed by moreenforcement. The good news is that this could happen pretty quickly if the City is serious about thesafety of our school kids. The City could also lower the no parking signs so that they are easier for drivers in their cars to see. The parking on El Camino Way will always be a problem since the Palo Alto Commons does nothave enough parking. The longer term solution might be to make El Camino Way a one-way, one- lane street with parking on both sides and well marked bike lanes in each direction. While thiswould solve the parking issue, you would still have lots of people crossing the street from theparking on the west side to get to the Palo Alto Commons. Council, please direct staff to paint the bike lane green ASAP to safe guard our school kids and alsodirect staff to look into a longer term solution for this area. Sincerely, David Coale > On Sep 19, 2023, at 9:13 PM, David Coale <david@evcl.com> wrote: > > Hi City Council Members, City Manager, City Attorney, Transportation staff and some PABACmembers,> > I am writing you to inform you of a very dangerous situation that needs fixing ASAP - yesterday! I have submitted this to PA 311 many months ago and had no response. I talked to the PA policedepartment a few months ago (National night out) and the one individual I talked to had not evenheard of PA 311. At his suggestion I file a police report on this about a week later. > > Later on, I actually did see a police officer ticketing people in this area. The problem is, the treeshide the no parking signs that are there and people keep parking there anyway.> > Today I was riding by and captured this video (see attached): three cars illegally parked in the bikelane and young riders having to go around them while cars are coming in both directions. This willlikely be a terrible crash with all the traffic in this area and a very sad story as the city will have toexplain to someone’s parents why they did not do enough to avoid this when it was brought to theirattention through all the normal channels many months ago.> > I think the actions to be taken to prevent such a potential tragedy is to post no parking signs on thetrees at no higher then 6 feet so that they can be seen. Right now the trees keep the signs from beingseen. With signs on every tree trunk, at eye level, this could really make a difference. This wouldonly be about three additional signs, a very small price to pay to keep our school kids safe.> > The other solution I see is to to make parking illegal 24/7 instead of from just 7 am to 7 pm andthen paint the curb red so that there is no mistake that we value our school children more then streetparking - all the time.> > Please take action on this item and get back to me ASAP as this has been happening for far toolong and is a tragedy in the making.> > Sincerely,> > David Coale> > <4075 ElComino Way.mov> From:Alice Mansell To:Council, City Cc:shani kleinhaus; gsheyner@embarcaderopublishing.com; price@padailypost.com; Staiger, Steve; Swanson, Andrew Subject:Palo Alto"s "Black Lagoon" Date:Wednesday, August 7, 2024 8:41:04 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Missing in the Palo Alto Airport's planning options required for public consideration under thelatest FAA regulations is some history of the Palo Alto Baylands and the Airport. Many "original sins" from land use decisions in the past plague both the Baylands and the Airporttoday thanks to past "good" ideas beginning by the 1920s. To deal with any of the Airport's current issues today from flooding to the need to move its terminal out of the latest FAAsafety zone means we need to fix many of those past "good" ideas. First, more than 100 years ago, the City of Palo Alto thought it was a great idea to "reclaim" wetlands to create more dry land to be used by people so it built long straight levies in a "Z"pattern to drain the wetlands. One baylands area was allowed to remain as mostly soggy wetlands for a City dump and a local radiotelegraph company to use those wetlands tobounce radio signals across the Pacific Ocean and North America using new technologies; technologies so advanced that company's facility in the Palo Alto Baylands received the firstnews to the USA mainland of the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. Today, the big circle of wooden poles of one of its antennae systems remains around its old transmitting and receivingbuilding. An obsolete huge magnet from that building was sent to a junkyard and then used by Ernest Lawrence of Cal Berkeley to build his first cyclotron. Around the same time, the City relocated San Francisquito Creek. It used to meanderthrough what is now the Baylands Golf Course and Palo Alto Airport. By rerouting it into straight channels along East Palo Alto's southern border, the natural channel opening to SanFrancisco Bay was cut off. That left a small ephemeral pond off Geng Road with a thriving frog population today and "The Black Lagoon" which wraps itself around one side of theDuck Pond. That lagoon is twice every day due to tides a man-made fetid black mess, an ecological disaster made worse by decades of City dredging and pumping the fine clay creekbed sediment spoils onto dry-ish land to make more dry land such as where now sits the current Airport Terminal mobile home, a large part of its airplane parking tarmac, and part ofthe runway. That terminal structure was placed "temporarily" on that site more than 50 years ago by a helicopter taxi and charter company which went bankrupt. That building and its parking lotshould be removed to make better open space for the new FAA safety zone for planes taking off and landing. Why can't the old wide choked off creekbed's Black Lagoon be made into truly healthy tidalwetlands including perhaps a semi-fresh water pond fit for wildlife with viewing platforms and new trails for people as well as, perhaps, an unpaved emergency overrun for the runway? Maybe include a burrowing owl managed sanctuary nearby for those endangered birds who require habitat with few trees. Their burrows are low enough to coexist with planes. I recallwith fondness decades ago many evenings watching the burrowing owls by the FAA Tower living in an unplowed narrow field along the airport fence line before that land was more frequently plowed by County Airport management after the owls were declared a species ofspecial concern. Several years ago, I attended a community public input session at the Mitchell Park community center for Palo Alto's water and sewage facility's latest new water outflowsystem to San Francisco Bay. The only option considered was adding a new parallel line along an older water line running to the dead straight water channel along the old 1920s levyby the runway. Today, treated fresh and semi-salt water is pumped from the treatment plant, under Embarcadero Road, and through the ever bigger pumping station in the middle of theairplane parking tarmac to that channel. No public discussion of letting at least some of that increased fresh water outflow meander a bit through the wetlands, not even to clean up theBlack Lagoon. No discussion of any alternative treated water outflow options because the existing straight water channels are the comfortable old 1920s -1960s era of "get the water off the land fast!"dogma. And, given the sometimes infamous Palo Alto Process plus numerous state and federal water and environmental laws, that was the cheapest and fastest option proposed by thepaid consultants and City engineers. Put another bandaid on top of a gangrenous old wound of literally mucked up water drainage. Was that wise in the long run? Second, after making more dry land at the Palo Alto Baylands, the lead City Engineer, Mr.Byxbee, wanted to build the City's first sewage treatment plant and a clean harbor for his motor yacht. For many decades the City's sewage plant outflow went into the cutoff old SanFrancisquito Creek close to the present day Byxbee Park's parking lot until that outflow in recent decades was pumped to both the old straight water channel along the runway and intothe Emily Renzel pond system which drains into what is the merged outflow of Adobe, Barron and Matadero creeks, all now stuck behind an aging flood control structure on the SanFrancisco Bay's shore. In 1998, Palo Alto flooded because a thunderstorm squall line parked itself on the San Francisquito Creek watershed in the hills and flood waters backed up at the Newell, Chaucerand US-101 bridges. The Airport's FAA Tower, part of the runway, and several hangars flooded. In nearby Sunnyvale which received the same amount of rain all its streets remaineddry because that City had built big storm pumps to push water into the Bay when its flood control system reaches capacity. Palo Alto does not have such bayshore pumps. And, theChaucer and Newell Bridges have not been improved since the 1998 flood. Both cities put most all their creeks by the 1960s into concrete channels between the train tracks and the Bay to make more dry land for human use. Those creeks used to flood overtheir banks every 10-12 years in normal Pacific Ocean slow moving El Niño/ La Niña weather cycles. Instead of letting all our creeks meander to let the water flow slowly to the Bay everywinter and recharge our shallow aquifers, where beavers dug creekside dens and steelhead salmon used to spawn, we got straight concrete lined creeks to create more flood-proof land.So much easier to grid for new subdivision plat maps. Those concrete creek beds are being slowly and expensively removed today such as the $100,000s of federal cash spent a couple years ago on 600 feet of Hale Creek in Los Altos andMountain View to remove an old concreted creekbed. Meanwhile, there is new talk of building in our South Bay Peninsula cities a regional desalination plant but maybe if we couldlet a few sections of our creeks recharge our aquifers we might not need that very expensive plant nor need the massive amount of electricity it uses. Thus, in the present day we arespending ever more cash to remediate past "great" ideas. As our local creeks' health slowly improves, more of our wildlife is returning. A beaver family was spotted recently in Matadero Creek near I-280 by Bill Leikamof urbanwildliferesearchproject.org after those animals were exterminated to make beaver fur felt waterproof hats. One female beaver was found alone and hypothermic in a nest of leavesin a concreted creek channel in Palo Alto. (In our mild climate beavers usually dig creekside dens and thus don't build here the classic beaver pond lodges.) Leikam has also been monitoring foxes at the Palo Alto Baylands and Airport all stuck now inan unhealthy genetic island. I've watched the Airport foxes many times as they hunt jack rabbits racing through the wildlife holes in the Airport fence. Many local environmentalistslike Renzel insisted on those fence holes after 911 when the FAA suddenly demanded a taller airport fence and new tarmac light poles. She also helped ensure the new "required" fence wasnot plain metal but black and surrounded by native plants to screen its unnatural appearance as well as getting those fence holes to help prey animals escape predators. The FAA at firstinsisted the new tarmac lights be bright white. They are now a more discrete blue. Those local efforts show while FAA rules may seem monolithic, local communities can tweak them. Third, we need to look honestly at what the Duck Pond truly is. It was created in the early1930s by dredging out part of the baylands, piling up a rim of concrete sandbags, and building a concrete Art Deco bath house for humans to use the pond as a salt water swimmingpool built right next to the City's new yacht harbor. The harbor master's office is now a Palo Alto Park Ranger's office. The bath house has sunk about 50% into the bay mud looking a bitnow like a World War 2 artillery bunker on the French Normandy coast. One section of the swimming pool's rim became Palo Alto's first bird sanctuary. The tidal saltwater swimming pool was in many ways a political and marketing stunt by Mr.Byxbee, a City staff "engineer," as a bayside amenity for the masses to offset any public backlash for his new yacht harbor developed in the Great Depression. As an insurance and realestate professional he was eager to develop the new dry land of the baylands. The pool was a City statement to say our "mudflats," as the baylands were called back then, are thanks to thenew sewage treatment plant no longer a polluted pile of smelly wet mush thanks to decades of past dumping of all the City's sewage untreated into creeks. But, shortly after the pool openedthere was a polio scare, few families wanted to use it, and then the human saltwater swimming pool was taken over by aquatic birds. Swimmers chose instead to use the new 1940sRinconada swimming pool. Today, if you want to find escaped domestic ducks and their hybrid offspring at the Baylands, go to the Duck Pond or the treated water long and straightoutflow by the runway and they are likely there. Man-made ducks at man-made unnatural habitats. I urge everyone to look at the historic photos and maps in the links below and also see someenlargements of the Palo Alto Historical Association (PAHA) photos I hung in 2017 on the walls of Palo Alto Airport's Terminal lobby. They show how the airport moved from Stanfordto the Baylands and the many configuration changes of both over time. We have a rare opportunity now to use some FAA funds to make both the Airport and Baylands better. Let'snot lose this chance. At minimum, we can convert The Black Lagoon into a healthier marsh and uplands habitat, and maybe also turn some of the Duck Pond into something better forboth people and wildlife. Alice MansellLos Altos, California Served two terms while a Palo Alto resident as an appointed member of the City of PaloAlto's Joint Community Airport Relations Committee in the late 1980s and early 2010s. Many thanks for help with historical facts and edits in this essay from current and past members ofthe Palo Alto Airport Association. The opinions expressed are mine alone. Photos & Maps San Francisquito Creek watershed: https://explore.museumca.org/creeks/1460-SFrancisquitoWS.htmlOld San Francisquito creek bed: https://explore.museumca.org/creeks/1460-TopoPaloAlto1899.html PAHA photos:Byxbee's real estate and insurance office: https://cdm16865.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/PAHA/id/187/rec/2His yacht: https://cdm16865.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/PAHA/id/10125/rec/11https://cdm16865.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/PAHA/id/8237/rec/22 https://cdm16865.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/PAHA/id/10129/rec/3Byxbee and a dredge: https://cdm16865.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/PAHA/id/10111/rec/8 Baylands dredging:https://cdm16865.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/PAHA/id/10188/rec/8 1938 with dredging piles where Rossi's large brown hangar is before the Duck Pond/SaltwaterSwimming pool was built: https://cdm16865.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/PAHA/id/5486/rec/2 Palo Airport at Stanford:1929: https://cdm16865.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/PAHA/id/12709/rec/10One of two hangars moved from Stanford to the new Baylands airport: https://cdm16865.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/PAHA/id/5505/rec/2 Saltwater swimming pool:https://cdm16865.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/PAHA/id/10183/rec/24 https://cdm16865.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/PAHA/id/10186/rec/25 Dredge and newly planted trees by the harbor and pool:https://cdm16865.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/PAHA/id/10197/rec/27 1943 aerial: https://cdm16865.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/PAHA/id/160/rec/21947 "Z" shape dykes aerial: https://cdm16865.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/PAHA/id/10121/rec/9 From:Aram James To:Raymond Goins; Jeff Moore; Rose Lynn; Lewis james; Sean Allen; Linda Jolley; Lotus Fong; Sally Lieber; RobertaAhlquist; Salem Ajluni; WILPF Peninsula Palo Alto; Binder, Andrew; kenneth.Binder@shf.sccgov.org; Robert.Jonsen; Jeff Rosen; Henry Etzkowitz; Templeton, Cari; Council, City; citycouncil@mountainview.gov; GRP-CityCouncil; Cecilia Taylor; Greg Tanaka; Kou, Lydia; Braden Cartwright; Shikada, Ed; Jack Ajluni; Karen Holman;Human Relations Commission; Stump, Molly; O"Neal, Molly; Angel, David; Damon Silver; Emily Mibach;Gardener, Liz Subject:The state is doing whatever it wants:’ Homeless advocate arrested while trying to block Oakland sweep Date:Wednesday, August 7, 2024 6:42:20 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. The state is doing whatever it wants:’ Homeless advocate arrested while trying to block Oakland sweep https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/08/07/the-state-is-doing-whatever-it-wants-homeless- advocate-arrested-while-trying-to-block-oakland-sweep/ From:Carol Scott To:Baird, Nathan Cc:Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Planning Commission; Wolfgang Dueregger; Paul Machado; Mike Eager Subject:Addition of employee permits to Evergreen Park Date:Wednesday, August 7, 2024 5:34:30 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Nathan, Thank you for informing the residents of Evergreen Park of your decision to add 50 employee permits to theEvergreen Park residential neigborhood. I must admit that I am very disappointed that you chose to come to this decision by talking only to the businessesand offices along ECR, and did not come to the residents to discuss this proposal and seek our opinion as to possibleways to ameliorate the poor consequences of such a proposal for the neighborhood. And, it appears that the City hasplans to add even more permits to our neighborhood should the businesses simply request them in the figure -- withno consideration given the residents. I am also disappointed that apparently the City did not follow through on its earlier assurances to us that CollegeTerrace -- another neighborhood that borders on ECR -- would also be considered to participate in helping the localbusinesses along ECR. Once again, instead, Evergreen Park is being asked to assume almost all of the damage fromthe State's decision to eliminate parking along ECR, save for only 5 permits to be allocated to Southgate. Only ECRis being asked to once again become an overflow parking lot for the City. It is disappointing that the Staff's report is deficient in presenting sufficient description of any data used tounderstand its accuracy as a representative picture of the neighborhood. And, it is disappointing that once again, aneighborhood is being evaluated along the lines of a commerical parking lot -- 85% parking coverage is fine for aparking lot, but not a residential community. Once again,we are back to the overflow parking definition -- but onlyfor Evergreen Park. I will be following up with a formal letter to the City Council prior to its meeting next Monday evening. I believethere are ways to mitigate the harm you are planning for my neighborhood. As we have in the past, we support thesmall businesses along ECR, but we feel it is important for the City to take every step it can to work within thecurrent Comprehensive Plan for the City: to encourage and support businesses, but not at the expense of residentialareas. There are some other solutions that could help. When the State presented its proposal, the talk was all about no one needed parking because (1) we want to reducecars, and (2) everyone would bike or walk. Apparently, that is not the case as the pressure to provide parkingattests. And, apparently, we can't even ask that employees walk a few blocks for their low cost parking permits --although I must admit I do not know if the City is still selling permits and, if so, at what price. There is plenty ofparking available within a reasonable distance. Nor am I aware of any current enforcement efforts taking place inEvergreen Park. I look forward to discussing our ideas with the Council and the Staff if we are given the opportunity to do so. Wewould respectfully ask that the residents be given their chance to weigh in on decisions the City seek to make thatwill affect the quality of life in their neighborhood. Carol Scott -- Carol Scott From:Neville Morcom To:Council, City Cc:"Neville Morcom" Subject:Palo Alto Airport Date:Wednesday, August 7, 2024 4:24:39 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Honorable Council members: I write today to share my thoughts on the importance of maintaining and upgrading the Palo Alto airport (PAO). I am a pilot who regularly flies in and out of PAO, sometimes for flight training or my family’s pleasure, but more importantly in my role as a command pilot for Angel Flight West (AFW). AFW arranges donated fights which remove transportation as a barrier to people in need of medical care around California and the West. These people gain access to Stanford Medical Center and their specialists (and other medical facilities up and down the west coast) because pilots like me are willing to donate the flights needed to bring them from their homes in the western region. Not only is PAO a critical hub for these flights, but it serves as a critical resource during local and regional emergencies, and above all, contributes significant economic activity to the city and region. I implore you to support the ongoing operation of, and much needed upgrades and maintenance to the Palo Alto airport. Sincerely, Neville Morcom From:Raymond Goins To:Aram James Cc:<michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Afanasiev, Alex; Baker, Rob; Binder, Andrew; Braden Cartwright; Templeton, Cari; Cecilia Taylor; Council, City; Ed Lauing; Emily Mibach; Henry Etzkowitz; Human Relations Commission; Jeff Moore; Jeff Rosen; Joe Simitian; Jose Valle; Josh Becker; Kaloma Smith; Lewis james; Michelle; Raj Jayadev; Reifschneider, James; Richard Konda; Robert. Jonsen; Roberta Ahlquist; Rose Lynn; Salem Ajluni; Sally Lieber; Sarah Wright; Sean Allen; Shikada, Ed; Supervisor Otto Lee; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Tim James; Vara Ramakrishnan; WILPF Peninsula Palo Alto; Perron, Zachary; district1@bos.sccgov.org; jeff_conrad@msn.com; Tannock, Julie; kenneth.Binder@shf.sccgov.org; Foley, Michael Subject:Re: Tim Walz on Criminal Justice: 5 Things to Know Date:Wednesday, August 7, 2024 10:04:00 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Interesting Artical, and changes made by the Governor. I just wonder what his national stancewill be when it comes to criminal Justice Reform. Raymond Goins Silicon Valley De-Bug Community Organizer For the hanged, and beaten. For the shot, drowned, and burnedFor the tortured, Tormented, and Terrorized We Will RememberWith Hope because Hopelessness is the enemy of justice With Courage because Peace requires BraveryWith persistence because Justice Is a constant struggle With Faith because we shall overcome!!! On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 9:40 AM Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote:Tim Walz on Criminal Justice: 5 Things to Know https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/08/06/tim-walz-kamala-harris-vp-criminal-justice From:Aram James To:Sean Allen; Raymond Goins; Jeff Moore; Rose Lynn; Raj Jayadev; Jose Valle; Henry Etzkowitz; Templeton, Cari;Braden Cartwright; Perron, Zachary; Binder, Andrew; kenneth.Binder@shf.sccgov.org; Robert. Jonsen;Reifschneider, James; Tim James; Richard Konda; Council, City; <michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; SalemAjluni; Michelle; Sally Lieber; Sarah Wright; Ed Lauing; Shikada, Ed; Afanasiev, Alex; Foley, Michael; Tannock,Julie; Vara Ramakrishnan; Lewis james; Emily Mibach; Cecilia Taylor; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Joe Simitian;Josh Becker; district1@bos.sccgov.org; Supervisor Otto Lee; Human Relations Commission; Kaloma Smith;WILPF Peninsula Palo Alto; Roberta Ahlquist; Baker, Rob; Jeff Rosen; jeff_conrad@msn.com Subject:Tim Walz on Criminal Justice: 5 Things to Know Date:Wednesday, August 7, 2024 9:40:42 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Tim Walz on Criminal Justice: 5 Things to Know https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/08/06/tim-walz-kamala-harris-vp-criminal-justice From:Bill Newell To:Salem Ajluni Cc:Aram James; Josh Becker; Jeff Moore; Templeton, Cari; Jeff Rosen; Ed Lauing; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Council, City; Jack Ajluni; Michelle; <michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Dave Price; Emily Mibach; Diana Diamond; Figueroa, Eric; Cecilia Taylor; Lewis james; Sean Allen; Rose Lynn; Cait James; Marina Lopez; Daniel Kottke; Damon Silver; Friends of Cubberley; Stump, Molly; O"Neal, Molly; Foley, Michael; Raymond Goins; Gardener, Liz; Lotus Fong; Henry Etzkowitz; Roberta Ahlquist; district1@bos.sccgov.org; bob nunez Subject:Re: Thank God Kamala didn"t select Josh “Genocide Shapiro Date:Wednesday, August 7, 2024 1:24:42 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I believe it should have been a progressive leader from a Swing State! Gotta win the Swings so we don't end up being swinged!?! Bill On Tue, Aug 6, 2024 at 11:05 PM Salem Ajluni <ajluni@hotmail.com> wrote: Walz was a way of placating the "uncommitted" Democrats (who I hope won't be fooled)— there is no substantial difference between Walz's allegiance to pro-Israel U.S. policy and that of Shapiro. Salem From: Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2024 3:32 PM To: Josh Becker <becker.josh@gmail.com>; Jeff Moore <moore2j@att.net>; Cari Templeton <cari@caritempleton.com>; Jeff Rosen <info@jeffrosen.org>; Ed Lauing <elauing@equitysearchpartners.com>; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg <supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org> Cc: CityCouncil <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Salem Ajluni <ajluni@hotmail.com>; Jack Ajluni <jaxpolo@gmail.com>; Michelle <michelle1771@gmail.com>; <michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com> <michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Dave Price <price@padailypost.com>; Emily Mibach <emibach@padailypost.com>; Diana Diamond <dianaLdiamond@gmail.com>; eric.figueroa@cityofpaloalto.org <eric.figueroa@cityofpaloalto.org>; Cecilia Taylor <cmrstaylor@gmail.com>; Lewis james <alphonse9947@gmail.com>; Sean Allen <sallen6444@yahoo.com>; Rose Lynn <roselynn95035@yahoo.com>; Cait James <caitlin.a.james@gmail.com>; Marina Lopez <marinalopez8@gmail.com>; Daniel Kottke <daniel.k@earthlink.net>; Damon Silver <damon.silver@pdo.sccgov.org>; Friends of Cubberley <friendsofcubberley94303@gmail.com>; Stump, Molly <molly.stump@cityofpaloalto.org>; Bill Newell <billnewell2850@gmail.com>; O'Neal, Molly <Molly.ONeal@pdo.sccgov.org>; michael.foley@cityofpaloalto.org <michael.foley@cityofpaloalto.org>; Raymond Goins <goinsrayl@gmail.com>; Liz Gardner <Gardnerjaqua@gmail.com>; Lotus Fong <lyfong@pacbell.net>; Henry Etzkowitz <H.Etzko@gmail.com>; Roberta Ahlquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu>; district1@bos.sccgov.org <District1@bos.sccgov.org>; bob nunez <bnunez51@yahoo.com> Subject: Thank God Kamala didn't select Josh “Genocide Shapiro https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/08/06/2024-election-campaign-updates- harris-trump/ From:Salem Ajluni To:Aram James; Josh Becker; Jeff Moore; Templeton, Cari; Jeff Rosen; Ed Lauing; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg Cc:Council, City; Jack Ajluni; Michelle; <michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Dave Price; Emily Mibach; Diana Diamond; Figueroa, Eric; Cecilia Taylor; Lewis james; Sean Allen; Rose Lynn; Cait James; Marina Lopez; Daniel Kottke; Damon Silver; Friends of Cubberley; Stump, Molly; Bill Newell; O"Neal, Molly; Foley, Michael; Raymond Goins; Gardener, Liz; Lotus Fong; Henry Etzkowitz; Roberta Ahlquist; district1@bos.sccgov.org; bob nunez Subject:Re: Thank God Kamala didn"t select Josh “Genocide Shapiro Date:Tuesday, August 6, 2024 11:06:37 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Walz was a way of placating the "uncommitted" Democrats (who I hope won't be fooled)— there is no substantial difference between Walz's allegiance to pro-Israel U.S. policy and that of Shapiro. Salem From: Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2024 3:32 PM To: Josh Becker <becker.josh@gmail.com>; Jeff Moore <moore2j@att.net>; Cari Templeton <cari@caritempleton.com>; Jeff Rosen <info@jeffrosen.org>; Ed Lauing <elauing@equitysearchpartners.com>; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg <supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org> Cc: CityCouncil <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; Salem Ajluni <ajluni@hotmail.com>; Jack Ajluni <jaxpolo@gmail.com>; Michelle <michelle1771@gmail.com>; <michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com> <michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Dave Price <price@padailypost.com>; Emily Mibach <emibach@padailypost.com>; Diana Diamond <dianaLdiamond@gmail.com>; eric.figueroa@cityofpaloalto.org <eric.figueroa@cityofpaloalto.org>; Cecilia Taylor <cmrstaylor@gmail.com>; Lewis james <alphonse9947@gmail.com>; Sean Allen <sallen6444@yahoo.com>; Rose Lynn <roselynn95035@yahoo.com>; Cait James <caitlin.a.james@gmail.com>; Marina Lopez <marinalopez8@gmail.com>; Daniel Kottke <daniel.k@earthlink.net>; Damon Silver <damon.silver@pdo.sccgov.org>; Friends of Cubberley <friendsofcubberley94303@gmail.com>; Stump, Molly <molly.stump@cityofpaloalto.org>; Bill Newell <billnewell2850@gmail.com>; O'Neal, Molly <Molly.ONeal@pdo.sccgov.org>; michael.foley@cityofpaloalto.org <michael.foley@cityofpaloalto.org>; Raymond Goins <goinsrayl@gmail.com>; Liz Gardner <Gardnerjaqua@gmail.com>; Lotus Fong <lyfong@pacbell.net>; Henry Etzkowitz <H.Etzko@gmail.com>; Roberta Ahlquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu>; district1@bos.sccgov.org <District1@bos.sccgov.org>; bob nunez <bnunez51@yahoo.com> Subject: Thank God Kamala didn't select Josh “Genocide Shapiro https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/08/06/2024-election-campaign-updates-harris-trump/ From:Soheila Mozayan To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Van Der Zwaag, Minka; Nose, Kiely Cc:Bryan Neider Subject:Important Clarification on the $250K Grant Request for AbilityPath Date:Tuesday, August 6, 2024 8:47:51 PM Attachments:image003.pngimage004.png CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Mayor Stone, Chair Burt, council members, and Members of the Palo AltoFinance Committee, We are deeply grateful to the Finance Committee for considering the $250,000seed funding for the AbilityPath Mitchell Park Place project, which promises totransform our city. Following your finance meeting today, here are clarifications to yourquestions: One-time request: this is a special, one-time request to serve as seed funding for additional community support. The Impact: benefiting not only people with developmental disabilities but the entire community with inclusive programs and services for Palo Alto seniors and residents. Use of funds: Requesting the $250K matching grant to support AbilityPath’s programs at Mitchell Park Place. (art, music, exercise, computer training, recreational therapists) and acquiring equipment (musical instruments, exercise, computer, art supplies). AbilityPath’s Investment: This grant will contribute to the over $1 million we need to raise to build the ~2,800 sq ft program space. Programs include employment coaching, inclusive art/music classes, exercise/wellness, workshops, senior programs, computer training, and services for stroke/brain injury clients. Your Support Will Benefit the Entire Community. We appreciate your confidence and investment in our shared vision. We arefully prepared to provide any necessary information or documentation. Thankyou for your time and consideration. With gratitude,Soheila Soheila Mozayan (she/her)Vice President, Community and Donor EngagementCell: (650) 862-4801AbilityPath + Via Servicesabilitypath.org and viaservices.org ​Sean’s Story and the Power of Inclusion From:Nick Ulman To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto Airport Date:Tuesday, August 6, 2024 7:16:28 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Council, I hope you will act to ensure that Palo Alto Airport remains a vibrant and beneficial asset to the city. The airport provides emergency services, for example to lifeflight, firefighting, coastguard helicopters, humanitarian airlift for Stanford hospital patients. Thousands of pilots learn to fly there and thousands more spend countless hours of enjoyment there. The airportshould be modernized within reason. Sincerely, Nick Ulman From:Loran Harding To:Loran Harding; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; David Balakian; bballpod;bearwithme1016@att.net; fred beyerlein; Leodies Buchanan; boardmembers; beachrides; Cathy Lewis; Council,City; cramirez.electriclab133@gmail.com; carloslawnservice14@gmail.com; Doug Vagim; dennisbalakian;dallen1212@gmail.com; eappel@stanford.edu; Scott Wilkinson; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu;Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; Sally Thiessen; Joel Stiner; jerryruopoli; karkazianjewelers@gmail.com; kfsndesk; Kevin.Nower@bestbuy.com; MY77FJ@gmail.com; margaret-sasaki@live.com; maverickbruno@sbcglobal.net; merazroofinginc@att.net; Mayor; Mark Standriff; nick yovino;news@fresnobee.com; newsdesk; russ@topperjewelers.com; Steve Wayte; terry; tsheehan;vallesR1969@att.net; yicui@stanford.edu Subject:Fwd: Tech stocks are collapsing- Watch 4 sure Date:Tuesday, August 6, 2024 5:26:55 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 6, 2024 at 5:16 PM Subject: Fwd: Tech stocks are collapsing- Watch 4 sureTo: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Tuesday, August 6, 2024 To all- This is great. He says new highs in the near future for GOOG, NVDA and MSFT and thatthe AI revolution is real (not a scam- LH). Watch this and take it to heart: Hope he's right. (205) The REAL Reason Stocks Like Nvidia Are Crashing (DO THIS NOW) - YouTube Here is my reaction to the Monday, Aug. 5, 2024 tech stock crash: Your trade was executed in your Schwab account ending in 130 - loran.harding@alumni.stanford.edu - Stanford Alumni Mail (google.com) L. William Harding Fresno, Ca. He has a vid on YouTube into which I stumbled at 2 AM this morning. They examine MFST, GOOG, NVDA and AMZN. He and two other guys, including a technical analyst.GOOG is just the king of search. (I know, judge ruling today. That will be appealed for years). (Waymo is expanding the deployment of its self driving service- today's news). With AMZN,you are getting the biggest retailer in the world AND a big cloud provider, AWS, Amazon Web Services, in one stock. Two big businesses in one stock. Note that word "biggest" amongretailers: Here it is: 43:55: E11: IS TESLA DOOMED? Top AI Stocks to Buy After Earnings (youtube.com) From:Aram James To:Josh Becker; Jeff Moore; Templeton, Cari; Jeff Rosen; Ed Lauing; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg Cc:Council, City; Salem Ajluni; Jack Ajluni; Michelle; <michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Dave Price; Emily Mibach; Diana Diamond; Figueroa, Eric; Cecilia Taylor; Lewis james; Sean Allen; Rose Lynn; Cait James; Marina Lopez; Daniel Kottke; Damon Silver; Friends of Cubberley; Stump, Molly; Bill Newell; O"Neal, Molly; Foley, Michael; Raymond Goins; Gardener, Liz; Lotus Fong; Henry Etzkowitz; Roberta Ahlquist; district1@bos.sccgov.org; bob nunez Subject:Thank God Kamala didn"t select Josh “Genocide Shapiro Date:Tuesday, August 6, 2024 3:32:52 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/08/06/2024-election-campaign-updates-harris-trump/ Location Time Eden Housing-801 Alma St 5:30-7pm Palo Alto Gardens-650 San Antonio Rd 5-6pm Gamble Gardens - 1431 Waverley St 5-8pm Buena Vista Mobile Home Park - 3980 El Camino Real 5:30-7:30pm 3400blk Janice Way 5-8pm 3708 Ortega Ct.6-7pm 4100blk Interdale Way 6-8pm 800bl of Garland 6-7:30pm From:Bates, Amanda To:Council, City Cc:Shikada, Ed; Nose, Kiely; Blackshire, Geoffrey; McNally, Kevin; Batchelor, Dean; Dueker, Kenneth; O"Kane, Kristen;Binder, Andrew Subject:RE: National Night Out is Set For Tuesday August 6th from 5-8pm Date:Tuesday, August 6, 2024 3:01:06 PM Attachments:image001.pngimage002.png image004.png image005.pngimage006.pngimage007.png Good afternoon Councilmembers, Today’s the day – Happy National Night Out! Sharing the confirmed list of block parties for this evening: Amanda Bates Administrative Assistant Palo Alto Police Department (650) 329-2556 | amanda.bates@cityofpaloalto.org www.cityofpaloalto.org | www.papd.org From: Binder, Andrew <Andrew.Binder@CityofPaloAlto.org> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2024 3:19 PM To: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org> Cc: Shikada, Ed <Ed.Shikada@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Nose, Kiely <Kiely.Nose@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Blackshire, Geoffrey <Geo.Blackshire@cityofpaloalto.org>; McNally, Kevin <Kevin.McNally@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Batchelor, Dean <Dean.Batchelor@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Bates, Amanda <Amanda.Bates@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Dueker, Kenneth <Kenneth.Dueker@CityofPaloAlto.org>; O'Kane, Kristen <Kristen.O'Kane@CityofPaloAlto.org> Subject: National Night Out is Set For Tuesday August 6th from 5-8pm Councilmembers – It’s that time of the summer again and I’m excited to share with you that National Night Out is set for Tuesday, August 6th, from 5 to 8 p.m. As a reminder, National Night Out is a national initiative that seeks to enhance the relationship between neighbors and law enforcement while fostering a sense of community. It also provides a great opportunity to bring police and neighbors together under positive circumstances. Palo Alto's version has two parts: encouraging neighborhoods to host their own National Night Out-related events (that the Police Department will visit upon request) and, once again, we’ll be hosting events at two locations: Eleanor Pardee Park at 851 Center Drive and Bol Park at 3590 Laguna Avenue. You can find additional details on the attached flyer or at the dedicated Police Department website at www.cityofpaloalto.org/PAPDNationalNightOut. For the hosted outdoor events, personnel will be on hand to talk with the community and showcase various aspects of the Department, to include our animal control officers, park rangers, the Office of Emergency Service’s Mobile Emergency Operations Center (MEOC/MSV), PAPD patrol vehicles, and more. The Fire Department will also have a fire engine at each location, and a Utilities team will be at Pardee Park to provide information on heat pumps. The Department and City have been communicating with neighborhood group leaders across Palo Alto and have advertised the events on various platforms, including in the weekly Uplift Local newsletter. To date, the Department has received five invitations to block parties to which police/city staff will travel and attend. Last year the Department received a few last-minute block party requests, and we expect the same for this year. If you would like to attend with staff, or attend on your own, let me or Amanda Bates know by 07/31. Amanda can send you a final list of "block party" locations to include Buena Vista, Eden Housing, and others if you wish to visit on your own schedule. We hope you will be able to attend some or all the events, and I’m looking forward to connecting with you soon. If you’d like additional information, feel free to email or text. Thanks – andrew Andrew Binder Police Chief Palo Alto Police Department (650) 329-2449 | andrew.binder@cityofpaloalto.org www.cityofpaloalto.org | www.papd.org From:Aram James To:Jeff Moore; Rose Lynn; Sean Allen; Raymond Goins; Lewis james; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Daniel Kottke;Julie Lythcott-Haims; Council, City; Binder, Andrew; kenneth.Binder@shf.sccgov.org; Reifschneider, James;Wagner, April; Tannock, Julie; <michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Foley, Michael; Figueroa, Eric; Jensen, Eric;Afanasiev, Alex; Cecilia Taylor; chuck jagoda; Lotus Fong; Gardener, Liz; Sally Lieber; Salem Ajluni; SarahWright; Dave Price Subject:Bloomberg gives $600 million to four Black medical schools’ endowments Date:Tuesday, August 6, 2024 1:59:59 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Bloomberg gives $600 million to four Black medical schools’ endowments https://apnews.com/article/mike-bloomberg-hbcu-medical-schools-morehouse-meharry-howard-charles-drew-d997c100e4161dffd03e282d8df31c70 From:Aram James To:Ed Lauing; Greer Stone; Burt, Patrick; Henry Etzkowitz; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Josh Becker; Emily Mibach Cc:Salem Ajluni; Jack Ajluni; Lewis james; Council, City; Joe Simitian; Diana Diamond; MGR-Melissa Stevenson Diaz; district1@bos.sccgov.org; Cindy Chavez; Supervisor Otto Lee; Perron, Zachary; Binder, Andrew; kenneth.Binder@shf.sccgov.org; Reifschneider, James; Wagner, April; Robert. Jonsen; Raymond Goins; Sean Allen; Jeff Moore; Cecilia Taylor; Stump, Molly; O"Neal, Molly; Damon Silver; Jeff Rosen; Figueroa, Eric; Tannock, Julie; Foley, Michael Subject:Re: Microsoft Encourages Employee Donations to Illegal West Bank Settlements, While Barring UNRWA Date:Tuesday, August 6, 2024 1:53:57 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Another organization Microsoft encourages gifts to, the Ein Prat Academy, describesitself as a "pre-military leadership" program for Israeli youth. Itsfundraising campaignsexplain the academy's mission as "training Israel’s next generationof IDF [Israel Defense Forces] officers and commanders of the highest caliber," whileadding that it is, "the sole pre-military institution with a formal agreement with the IDF."Based in the West Bank settlement of Kfar Adumim, the academy is described onBenevity as a "volunteering organization who helps and support any one who gotlost/wounded or any other problem in Judea desert area." On Tue, Aug 6, 2024 at 12:56 PM Ryan Grim <dropsitenews+murtaza-hussain@substack.com> wrote: Forwarded this email? 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Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images) Microsoft Encourages Employee Donations to IllegalWest Bank Settlements By Murtaza Hussain Microsoft includes a number organizations based in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including at least one that fundraises to support the Israeli military, in its employee charitable giving platform. Yet the company has delisted the UN agency providing relief in Gaza, according to Microsoft employees petitioning the company internally to change its policy. The listing of the charities on the expansive platform means Microsoft will automatically match contributions. Last week, a group of Microsoft employees began circulating a petition calling on the company to cease matching contributions to three organizations, the Ma'aleh Adumim Foundation, Ein Prat Academy for Leadership, and the Megilot Dead Sea Rescue Team, which they say "are in direct violation of international law," citing the Geneva Conventions. Drop Site News is a reader-supported publication. Consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Upgrade to paid "Microsoft is directly funding these illegal and immoral settlements by allowing these organizations to remain," the petition states, imploring the company to stop matching funding to the three organizations. "This is not only unethical, but also goes against our inclusive values as a company." They are still in the process of collecting signatures before approaching Microsoft's management. Microsoft did not provide a statement for Drop Site's story, and the West Bank charities were still available on the platform, Benevity, as of Tuesday. Since October 7, Microsoft employees have been embroiled in a fierce conflict over the company's response to Israel's bombing of Gaza. A report by Business Insider last November described an acrimonious culture within the company, with divisions among employees and management emerging as a result of the war and ongoing humanitarian crisis. One point of contention has been the continued provision of Microsoft Azure cloud computing and AI software to the Israeli military, support that has been targeted by an employee led-campaign called No Azure for Apartheid. The internal strife grew worse earlier this year when the company decided to delist the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, the major United Nations program serving Palestinian refugees, as a beneficiary for matching donations for the company. The internal strife grew worse earlier this year when the company decided to delist the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, the major United Nations program serving Palestinian refugees, as a beneficiary for matching donations for the company. Israel accused UNRWA employees of participating in Hamas's October 7 attacks—claiming in January that up to 10% of the agency had ties to Hamas—but those allegations have not been substantiated. Microsoft's decision to delist UNRWA is now the subject of a separate petition by Microsoft employees to reinstate the organization for charitable giving. The three organizations listed in the petition by Microsoft employees are all described online as having an active role in the occupation itself. In particular, the Ma'aleh Adumim Foundation goal is to "promote and improve the cultural and social welfare of the residents of the city of Ma’aleh Adumim, Israel and its environs," according to its 2020 tax documents. Located just outside Jerusalem, Ma'aleh Adumim is a particularly controversial settlement that some analysts blame for rendering the two-state solution impossible by physically blocking the possibility of a contiguous Palestinian state emerging in the West Bank. Another organization Microsoft encourages gifts to, the Ein Prat Academy, describes itself as a "pre-military leadership" program for Israeli youth. Its fundraising campaigns explain the academy's mission as "training Israel’s next generation of IDF [Israel Defense Forces] officers and commanders of the highest caliber," while adding that it is, "the sole pre-military institution with a formal agreement with the IDF." Based in the West Bank settlement of Kfar Adumim, the academy is described on Benevity as a "volunteering organization who helps and support any one who got lost/wounded or any other problem in Judea desert area." Growing Tech Outcry Workers across the tech world are pressuring their employers over the industry's role in human rights abuses in the occupied Palestinian Territories. Dozens of employees of Google were fired in April after holding a protest against a program called Project Nimbus which they alleged helped bolster the surveillance capacity of the Israeli government over Palestinians. Earlier this year, a group of employees at Apple also circulated a petition that called on the company to cease making matching donations to organizations like Friends of the IDF and others involved in supporting the continued settlement of West Bank territories or Israeli military activities. Ma'aleh Adumim is a particularly controversial settlement that some analysts blame for rendering the two-state solution impossible by physically blocking the possibility of a contiguous Palestinian state emerging in future in the West Bank. Both Microsoft and Apple make employer-matched contributions to settlement organizations via an internal charity-matching platform known as Benevity. According to employees at the company as well as publicly available documentation about its matching program, Microsoft states that it will match up to $15,000 per calendar year for each U.S. employee who gives to an organization registered on the platform. Donations to non-profits abroad are typically not tax- deductible, however. Upgrade to paid On its corporate website, Microsoft says its approach to international affairs has been guided in part by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, a document which says that companies must "comply with all applicable laws and respect internationally recognized human rights, wherever they operate," as well as, "treat the risk of causing or contributing to gross human rights abuses as a legal compliance issue." The apparent disconnect between Microsoft's proclaimed commitment to abide by international law and human rights standards and its real-world actions and partnerships has upset some employees who are now calling for the company to live up to its stated values. "Microsoft has aided, abetted, and even accelerated this genocide by continuing to sell Azure services to the Israeli military, while disregarding and suppressing internal employee dissent and silencing Palestinian, Arab, and pro-Palestinian employees," said Hossam Nasr, a software engineer at Microsoft and organizer in the No Azure for Apartheid Campaign. "It is as disappointing as it is unsurprising that Microsoft would withhold funding to UNRWA, the most crucial organization providing humanitarian support to Palestinians, while at the same time helping fund settlement projects that are universally recognized as being in violation of international law." Leave a comment Thank you for reading Drop Site News. This post is public so feel free to share it. Share You’re currently a free subscriber to Drop Site News. For the full experience, and to support our work, upgrade your subscription. Upgrade to paid LIKE COMMENT RESTACK © 2024 Drop Site News, Inc.Drop Site News Inc., 4315 50th St. NWSte 100 Unit #2560, Washington, DC 20016 Unsubscribe View this email in your browser LWV Santa Clara County Civil Discourse Committee Presents From:LWV Palo AltoTo:Council, CitySubject:What is Ranked Choice Voting & Why Should We Care? - Wednesday, Aug 7, 7 pmDate:Tuesday, August 6, 2024 12:14:39 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious ofopening attachments and clicking on links. Opening the Door - Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) - A Fairer Way toElect Your Representative? What are the advantages and disadvantages of another method of voting? Join us on Wednesday, August 7 at 7pm with our voting experts to explore Ranked Choice Voting (RCV). You will learn how and why RCV will: Open the field to more candidates Get more voters to the polls Get quicker election results Confuse Voters And more! Our speakers include: Associate Professor Jason McDaniel of SFSU Steve Chessin, President, Californians for Electoral Reform (CFR) Our experts will discuss: Who uses this method? How well does it work? What are your questions? Register Now LWVPaloAlto.org Facebook YouTube Email Email Copyright © 2024 League of Women Voters Palo Alto, All rights reserved. From Voter Recipient List Our mailing address is: League of Women Voters Palo Alto 3921 E Bayshore Rd Ste 209 Palo Alto, CA 94303-4303 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. From:Aram James To:Raymond Goins; Jeff Moore; Robert. Jonsen; kenneth.Binder@shf.sccgov.org; Binder, Andrew; Reifschneider,James; Wagner, April; Julie Lythcott-Haims; Vara Ramakrishnan; Gardener, Liz;<michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Michelle; Sally Lieber; Salem Ajluni; Council, City; Jose Valle;citycouncil@mountainview.gov; Perron, Zachary; Emily Mibach; Braden Cartwright; Diana Diamond; Burt, Patrick;Dave Price; Angel, David; Jeff Rosen Subject:. Prison leaders chastised for ‘unconscionable’ conditions at now-shuttered women’s prison Date:Tuesday, August 6, 2024 8:46:03 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Prison leaders chastised for ‘unconscionable’ conditions at now- shuttered women’s prison Prison leaders chastised for ‘unconscionable’ conditions at now-shuttered women’s prisonhttps://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?guid=62e6acc6-499c-4b21-8e73-f1849684ddae&appcode=SAN252&eguid=a5ccf05c-5821-4cb8-b2af-cb82df51a745&pnum=2# For more great content like this subscribe to the The Mercury News e-edition app here: From:Lisa Tayeri To:Transportation; Council, City Subject:El Camino Real RPP Date:Tuesday, August 6, 2024 7:44:56 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Nathan, As both a home owner/resident and an employer with a business on El Camino Real, I would hope that the city would allow as many employee permit spaces as are being taken away from El Camino Real. This should include both sides of the street. I have three employees who park on the west side of El Camino Real (where permits are not necessary) and cross the street to come to work. They do not buy permits because they only come to work in this office one or two days a week (they work in our San Jose office the rest of the week). This model of working at different sites on different days of the week is common in medicine. The employee permit process has never had an allowance for employees who only need to park in the area part time, though we have asked for one before. A hanging tag, rather than a sticker, would allow part time employees to share a permit. We also have two employees who carpool (and trade which car they use every week). They park on the 'free' side of ECR so that they did not have to pay for two permits. I am sure that there are far more than 70 parking spaces that will be turned into bike lanes. The neighborhoods are nowhere close to overparked on the northern end of El Camino where we work. Please also remember that we are almost all medical services on the northern end of El Camino. We are providing necessary medical care and most of our patients are Palo Altans. We are some of the few private practices still operating in Palo Alto that have not been gobbled up by Sutter/PAMF or Stanford. We are small, locally-owned and family-owned businesses, the kind that Palo Alto should be supporting. Yes, we have a parking lot but at our busiest times there are not enough spaces for both staff and patients. We reserve the spaces for our patients as some have procedures that require over two hours in office (they would be ticketed if they parked in the RRP zones). Please advise the council to allow more than 70 additional employee parking spots in the ECR RRP zones. With out them, Palo Alto may lose even more independent businesses and medical resources. Thank you, Lisa Tayeri Palo Alto Eye Group 1805 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 94306 p: 650-324-9200 f: 650-326-5793 paloaltoeye.com fiatlux.org From:dena hill To:Council, City; Glanckopf, Annette Subject:Sprucing up Midtown shopping area Date:Tuesday, August 6, 2024 6:48:21 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi Lydia, Julie and Patrick! I live in Midtown and, along with my friends in the Midtown Residents Association, we’re so excited for Kirks to join our community, and we’d like to do what we can to make sure theysucceed! One way we can do that is to make the shopping center a beautiful and welcoming place for people to enjoy. Currently, the plants are tired, there are weeds everywhere, there are no flowers blooming orlights on trees. Is there something you can do to help us? Thank you! dena From:Kenneth Streib To:Council, City Subject:Parking Date:Monday, August 5, 2024 11:46:34 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. City council, I appreciate the efforts many of you are putting in to get adequate parking for the new projects. We have a new project going up at 400 Curtner, and I am SURE the parking is not adequate, and Curtner will be packed with more cars than we have even now. Thanks so much for your time, Ken Streib From:Roy Kornbluh To:Transportation; Arce, Ozzy Cc:Star-Lack, Sylvia; Council, City; Planning Commission; Amie Ashton; Roy Kornbluh Subject:El Camino Park bicycle path safety issue Date:Monday, August 5, 2024 9:07:22 PM Attachments:El Camino Park bike path access issue map.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Palo Alto Transportation Official, I would like to bring a long-standing transportation and safety issue to your attention. The issue is the difficulty in accessing the northern end of the bicycle/pedestrian path through El Camino Park for bicyclists traveling from Menlo Park or down Palo Alto Avenue. Specifically, the path cannot be legally or safely accessed without dismounting and then walking the bicycle through three or four pedestrian signals. Please see the attached slides that indicate the location and issue. The issue is of particular importance as it is a primary means of safely traveling across the two bicycle bridges that cross San Francisquito Creek from Menlo Park at El Palo Alto Park and Waverly Street. While this access has been a problem for many years, it is worthy of particular attention now because Palo Alto is considering a redesign of transportation within El Camino Park. We are referring to the proposed Quarry Road extension to allow better access to the Palo Alto Transit Center. Solutions to that issue could also potentially benefit cyclists. There are several possible solutions to the bicycle access issue. One is to provide a protected or marked crossing with a wider bidirectional path on Alma Street (which may extend onto the ample border of the park outside of the park fence). The purpose of this letter is not to definitively promote a single solution, but to start the process that will correct this safety issue. We hope that, given the upcoming improvements associated with the El Camino Real bike lanes and proposed Quarry Road transit connection, this intersection will be added to the Bicycle and Pedestrian plan as a priority area for improvements. While we recognize that this area may be subject to significant changes as part of the grade separation for Caltrain, such changes could be years away. We should not wait years to address this current safety issue. We look forward to learning about how this long-standing issue can be addressed to encourage safe cycling for all. Thank you for your consideration. Roy Kornbluh Downtown North resident since 1994, Bicycle Commuter Life member Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition kornbluhroy@gmail.com 650-279-5003 cell Amie Ashton 17-year Palo Alto Car-free Resident Board Chair of the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition 1. Cyclists traveling across the Alma Street bike bridge or down Palo Alto Avenue must dismount at the pedestrian signals 2. Cyclists must walk their bicycle across 3 or 4 pedestrian traffic signals to arrive at the start of the El Camino Park bike path. 3. Cyclists can remount and continue on the bike path to points in southern Palo Alto and elsewhere (including the Palo Alto Transit Center). From:pearl karrer To:Council, City Subject:Fwd: airport versus Duck Pond & Bayland habitat & trails Date:Monday, August 5, 2024 7:23:12 PM Importance:High CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Attention: Mayor and Council Members. As residents for over 60 years, we strongly advocate for preserving the jewel of Palo Alto, its baylands nature preserve, providing flood control, respite to millions of migrating birds, trails open to hiking and some biking, interpretative centers, and the classic Duck Pond, a popular attractionfor children. This area is heavily used, not only by Palo Alto residents. It welcomes visitors from up & down the Peninsula. The Palo Alto Airport can be maintained as a teaching center for light aircraft, emergency transport, & personal aircraft. We don't need to expand & competewith other available & larger airports in the area. Sincerely, Pearl & Henry Karrer, Erik & Linda Karrer,Anne Michelle Karrer 570 Kingsley Avenue From:Henry Etzkowitz To:Council, City Cc:Palo Post; Lotus Fong; Dr. Gloria Hom; Roberta Ahlquist; Jeanne Fleming; Brian Good; Jim Hersh; Charlie Weidanz; Chunyan Zhou Subject:Reconsider Fry’s Iconic Cannery Site Date:Monday, August 5, 2024 6:34:49 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Council Members The fate of the iconic Chinese entrepreneurial venture can still be taken beyond a bronze plaque. Given thesuperfluity of underutilized and unrented office space, Council should offer the Sobrato organization the opportunityto donate at least part of the Fry’s site to the city for a Chinese History Museum as part of the Palo History Museumproject. This is the Palo Alto I want. Is this the Palo Alto you want? Sincerely,Henry EtzkowitzCandidate for City Council Sent from my iPhone From:Elizabeth Wong To:Council, City Cc:Stump, Molly; Shikada, Ed; Eggleston, Brad; Boyd, Holly; McCarty, John; Paul W. Windust; Andrew Wong; Hoyt, George; PA Daily Subject:UNFAIR AND ILLEGAL TREATMENT OF PALO ALTO TENANTS Date:Monday, August 5, 2024 6:23:43 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Council Members: Today in the Consent Calendar you will be again extending the deadline for the Parklet Ordinance yet one more time to March 2025, the large part of a year from now. The parklet ordinances have been extended about seven times since inceptionin 2020, perpetuating the unfairness and illegality of the ordinance as it relates toaffected neighbors' lack of accessibility to the street spaces in front of their business. In particular, my tenants April 23 Florist and Good Vibrations have been deprivedof the use of their street spaces. Attorney Michael von Loewenfelt filed a Claim Against The City of Palo Alto,Claim C23-0053, on September 21, 2022, stating among other claims "Theblockade of Ramona Post easement ... damages to business activities....." This lawsuit has been discontinued when Council seemed to respond to my tenants concerns when it adopted the requirement of the consent letter from affectedtenants. Since its adoption of the consent letter, council has bastardized the consentletter by requiring it only when the usurping parket had roofs and other paraphernalia. Subsequently Council made the infringement even worse when it back tracked and "rescinded their earlier requirement of a Letter of Consent from neighboring property and business owners .... until permanent guidelines areadopted and go into effect." Well it has been two years since our lawsuit and four years since the adoption of the passage of the first ordinance: Ordinance number 5500 on June 23, 2020. Ramona Post, the owner of 532-536 Ramona St., has objected to the occupation of the frontage street since 2020. What is striking is the blatant biased and favorable treatment of the usurping tenant Coupa Cafe by the Council and total disregard of my tenants and property at 532- 536 Ramona Street. Think about this letter. I encourage you to vote your conscience for fairness and justice in what appears to be an identity vote following the most vocal and forceful members of the Council. Elizabeth WongRamona Post LP From:Jenny Cruz To:Council, City Cc:Flaherty.Ward@scchousingauthority.org Subject:Buena Vista Date:Monday, August 5, 2024 5:56:38 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hello, my name is Jenny from unit 10. I’ve been a long time resident of Buena Vista. Ever since westarted fighting to keep our park open our goal has been to save our homes and be able to upgrade the failing infrastructure of the park. But now we are divided into 2 groups, onegroup that only cares about taking advantage and getting more money, more rooms, more space. And the other group that cares about getting the park redone and the safety of our parkspecially for those of us that have children at home like me that have two boys. For example yesterday Sunday morning we woke up do to a weird noise and my son yelling “there is fire inthe back of the house”. When I came out to check it looked like the fire was coming out of the bottom of the electrical box and then smoked started coming out of the box. My concern wasthat all the dry weeds around it would fought fire and spread to the mobile homes. I used to keep the back of my house clean of weeds but since my neighbor had his sewer clogged andpeople came to fix it by digging a trench in the back and then they put the gas pipes above ground I’m not able to clean back there because I’m afraid of falling or getting hurt with thepipes. Please as you discussed Buena Vista also keep in mind those of us that are looking forward to getting this project moving forward and fixing everything that needs upgrades sowe don’t have to worry about fires or broken gas lines. Here is a photo of yesterday’s electrical fire behind my unit, there was also another box damage to fire a few units down butdon’t have a picture of that one. Thank you and I hope this keeps moving forward, Jenny Enviado desde mi iPhone From:Aram James To:Council, City Subject:Youth Education - Congregation Beth Am Date:Monday, August 5, 2024 5:26:05 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Youth Education - Congregation Beth Am https://search.app/LUyDR2zi531uj52e8 From:Aram James To:Council, City; Dave Price; Braden Cartwright; Emily Mibach Subject:Section 54956.8 - Closed session prior to purchase, sale, exchange, lease of real property, Cal. Gov. Code § 54956.8 | Casetext Search + Citator Date:Monday, August 5, 2024 5:10:33 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Section 54956.8 - Closed session prior to purchase, sale, exchange, lease of real property, Cal. Gov. Code § 54956.8 | Casetext Search + Citator https://search.app/tjZSd6vR5GZyhbdf8 From:Keith Ferrell To:Council, City Cc:Kamhi, Philip; Baird, Nathan Subject:Re: Evergreen Park and Southgate RPP Date:Monday, August 5, 2024 3:41:13 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Following up on this. According to the March 5, 2018 city council meeting, the number ofpermits in the S1 zone is 15 and not the 20 mentioned in the staff report for the Aug 12, 2024 meeting. Given that only 5 are purchased, even 15 would be far too many to move into theneighborhood. Our stance remains that zero move into the neighborhood for the same reasons that were given back in 2018. I am happy to furnish you with several of the emails that weresent to council back in 2018. Keith Ferrell On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 11:43 AM Keith Ferrell <ferrell.keith@gmail.com> wrote: We recently received a notice about possible changes to the Evergreen Park-Mayfield andSouthgate Residential Preferential Parking Programs. I strongly disagree with the staff's recommendations. This should not be a surprise as even the staff report states that thefeedback from both businesses and residents "are not in alignment" with the recommendations. We request that no employee permits be moved into the Southgateneighborhood as was the plan when it was initially approved. The employee permit are was established on ECR specifically to limit the amount of cars parking and driving in theneighborhood. To now move those cars into the neighborhood cancels the previous work that was done and the agreement the council made with its residents. There are currently 20 employee permits allocated to zone S1 for Southgate. These spotsare located on the eastern side of El Camino Real south of Churchill. The report states that of the 20 available, only five have been sold. This would imply that the demand foremployee permits is five. Yet, the staff recommends reallocating all 20 permits into the neighborhood. When the Southgate RPP was approved, the employee permit zone (S1) wasestablished specifically to prevent that number of cars from parking in the neighborhood. Now, staff is trying to go back on that plan and move that parking into the neighborhood. I would like to remind you all that the streets of Southgate are extremely narrow. In additionto this, the two businesses that are eligible for these permits are located at the outer corners of the neighborhood. The likely place for these people to park would then be concentrated ina very small area on the corners of the streets. Parking in these areas makes it even more dangerous to drive, walk and bike in those areas. The goal of the ECR project is to make it safer to bike and walk along ECR. By movingparking into Southgate, the result will be to make it less safe to bike and walk in our neighborhood. The businesses should be able to absorb the current demand of the five employees currentlyparking on ECR. There is not a need to move 20 cars into Southgate. I have a few clarifying questions: 1) The report states that there was stakeholder engagement in May and July. Can you tellme who, in Southgate, that you contacted? 2) The report states that 130 parking spots are being removed. How was that numberestablished? The report only mentions losing 50 in EPM and 20 in SG 3) The column labels in Attachement A are not complete. Several of the labels are "X"d outso it is impossible to analyze the data given there is no way to determine what the data represents.4) Between Galvez/Embarcadero and Park/Serra, is parking being eliminated on both sides of the street? Is there a published plan that can be viewed? ThanksKeith Ferrell From:Alan Cochran To:Council, City Subject:Fwd: BV support letter for City Council tomorrow Date:Monday, August 5, 2024 3:28:36 PM Attachments:image001.png CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Alan Cochran <onejumpwonder@gmail.com>Date: June 17, 2024 at 5:21:52 PM PDTTo: city.council@cityofpaloalto.orgSubject: Fwd: BV support letter for City Council tomorrow Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Brandi Johnson <Brandi.Johnson@scchousingauthority.org>Date: June 17, 2024 at 4:32:08 PM PDTTo: onejumpwonder@gmail.comCc: Fidel Contreras <Fidel.Contreras@scchousingauthority.org>,Kris Adhikari <Kris.Adhikari@scchousingauthority.org>Subject: BV support letter for City Council tomorrow  Hi Alan, Thanks for calling me back. Here is the drafted letter. Feel free to make any edits or add in your own words of how long you have lived at BV, etc…. Please send this to the City Clerk as a written public comment. city.council@cityofpaloalto.org Thanks so much for your help. You can call/text me with any questions. Dear Palo Alto City Council, As a resident of Buena Vista, I am writing to express support for the new development in our community. Our community is thriving, a place that families, children, and seniors call home. We want to make sure that our Buena Vista community remains safe and affordable housing in the community we all love. Affordable housing is critical to the diversity and vibrancy of our community. As a resident of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, I believe the proposed housing development aligns with the vision for the community's future. This proposal will allow us to stay in our neighborhood, ensure our children stay in the award-winning school district, and preserve homeownership opportunities for so many. Thank you for hearing our voice. We look forward to the positive changes this will bring to our community. Sign your name here Date Buena Vista Resident Brandi Johnson (she/her) Communications Program Manager Santa Clara County Housing Authority 505 W. Julian Street San José, CA 95110 Cell 559.908.7269 brandi.johnson@scchousingauthority.org SCCHA’s mission is to provide and inspire affordable housing solutions to enable low-income people in Santa Clara County to achieve financial stability and self-reliance. NOTICE: This email message and its attachments may contain information that is confidential. It is intended only for the individuals named as recipients in the message. If you are NOT an authorized recipient, you are prohibited from using, delivering, distributing, printing, copying, or disclosing the message or content to others and must delete the message from your computer. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by return email. From:Susan Phillips Moskowitz To:Council, City Cc:City Mgr Subject:The Palo Alto duck pond Date:Monday, August 5, 2024 2:19:02 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I have lived in Palo Alto for 49 years and in my old Palo Alto home for 48 years. I frequentlyenjoy going to the Duck Pond. I am very disturbed reading the news about the airport expansion and the possibility that the duck pond will disappear. PLEASE SAVE THE DUCK POND. If you have to use more land then use the golf course. Susan Phillips MoskowitzMrs. Moskowitz’s Knits www.mrsmoskowitz.com650-322-3505 susanpm@gmail.com From:Sabrina To:Council, City Cc:Flaherty Ward Subject:Buena vista Date:Monday, August 5, 2024 2:04:17 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. City council Good afternoon, my name is Sabrina and I’ve lived in Buena Vista since 1999. I fought really hard along with my neighbors to keep the park open and thankfully we achieved our goal. Iwanted to email you guys today so you can also hear from people that are anxiously looking forward to the redevelopment. Yesterday morning we had a small fire where the electrical boxbehind unit 26 caught on fire, and the electrical box behind my house unit 23 also had lots of smoke coming out of it. two neighbors quickly put the fire out with the water hoses and Icalled the office to report the emergency and management came quickly to assist the situation. Management was also able to get an electrician out to fix the problem and get our power backon the same day. The reason I’m sharing this story from yesterday is to let you all know about the dangers, we all are facing here at Buena Vista, we all know we can’t keep putting Band-Aids on issues that need fixing since years ago. When people keep blocking the project from moving forward they don’t just put their safety at risk but everyone in the park. Please take oursafety into consideration when making a decision. As always thank you for all your support for Buena Vista from the very beginning. If possible kindly let me know you got my email, Sabrina Ramirez From:Aram James To:Perron, Zachary Cc:Ed Lauing; Shikada, Ed; Emily Mibach; Braden Cartwright; Council, City; Foley, Michael; Julie Lythcott-Haims; ladoris cordell; Kaloma Smith; Palo Alto Free Press; Burt, Patrick; Greer Stone; Vicki Veenker; DuJuan Green; dennis burns; Dennis Upton; Binder, Andrew; Reifschneider, James; Tim James; Wagner, April; walter wilson; WILPF Peninsula Palo Alto; Jeff Moore; Stump, Molly; O"Neal, Molly; Supervisor Susan Ellenberg; Susan Hayase; Supervisor Otto Lee; Cindy Chavez; district1@bos.sccgov.org; Richard Konda; Raymond Goins; Gardener, Liz; Tom DuBois; Karen Holman; Figueroa, Eric; <michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com>; Linda Jolley; Josh Becker; Bill Newell; Joe Simitian; Enberg, Nicholas; Afanasiev, Alex; Daniel Kottke; KEVIN JENSEN; Sheriff Transparency; Rose Lynn; Baker, Rob; Jay Boyarsky; Roberta Ahlquist; citycouncil@mountainview.gov; Greg Tanaka; GRP-City Council; Human Relations Commission; Henry Etzkowitz Subject:Re: California Supreme suit allowed over single use on N word Date:Monday, August 5, 2024 1:05:17 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 12:54 PM Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote: From:Aram James To:Perron, Zachary Cc:Jeff Moore; Sean Allen; Rose Lynn; Jeff Rosen; Robert. Jonsen; Julie Lythcott-Haims; Raymond Goins; Salem Ajluni; Sally Lieber; Binder, Andrew; kenneth.Binder@shf.sccgov.org; Council, City; editor@paweekly.com; Dave Price Subject:California Supreme suit allowed over single use on N word Date:Monday, August 5, 2024 12:55:24 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links.