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F aced with state pressure to speed up housing develop-ment and intense communi-

ty pressure to slow it down, Palo Alto officials will try to strike a delicate balance Monday night when they consider a list of revi-sions to the city’s zoning code.

The revisions, which the City Council is expected to adopt, aim to integrate into city law the programs and policies of the city’s Housing Element, a state-mandated document that the city adopted last summer. A critical component of the city’s land-use bible, the Comprehensive Plan, the Housing Element is at once a vision document that lays out the city’s housing policies and a detailed inventory of potential housing sites. Years overdue, the newly adopted document has a planning horizon of 2007 to 2014, which means the city is already preparing to adopt the next version later this year. One of its main objectives is to dem-onstrate how the city will meet its state-mandated allocation of 2,860 housing units.

Despite its miniscule shelf-life, the Housing Element is expected to spur some change in the zon-ing code. For one thing, it would increase the number of units per acre a developer can build in a neighborhood commercial (CN) zone from 15 to 20. The city has 32 such parcels, including segments of El Camino Real in College Terrace, Evergreen Park, Ventura and Barron Park neigh-borhoods.

City planners estimate that this zone change would yield an addi-tional 64 units citywide, bringing

the city closer to complying with a housing mandate all council members nonetheless see as un-reasonably burdensome.

On Jan. 6, minutes after she was elected mayor by her coun-cil colleagues, Nancy Shepherd referred to the city’s upcoming work on a new Housing Element as “one of the terrors that we get to do again.” But she stressed that consequences of ignoring the law would be “devastating to Palo Alto.”

But some residents see the new revisions as the city’s latest move toward a denser and denser Palo Alto and another example of lead-ers ignoring residents’ concerns over parking and traffic.

Cheryl Lilienstein, a Barron Park resident who helped lead the successful “Vote Against D” campaign last year and who is now president of the citizens group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning, brought up the issue at Monday’s council meeting. Lilienstein said the proposed ordinance “again greatly in-creases density for neighbor-hood commercial properties all over town, but especially along El Camino.”

“The current economic boom has resulted in accelerated com-mercial and high-density housing development and the continued departure of neighborhood-serving retail,” Lilienstein said. “So this boom is not resulting in so-called ‘pedestrian friendly’ or ‘walkable neighborhoods,’ especially on El Camino. Why is there no ordinance requiring

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Palo Alto faces competing pressures on zone changesCity Council tries to reconcile state mandates for more housing with residents’ outrage over new development

by Gennady Sheyner

A Palo Alto police officer vio-lated department policy in 2012 when he fired a Taser

at a 16-year-old bicyclist before another officer used a police car to block the boy’s path and cap-ture him, according to a new re-port by Independent Police Audi-tor Michael Gennaco.

The report details an incident in which officers were trying to pull over a youth who was not stopping for stop signs and who was not obeying officers’ commands to stop while riding a bike that was later determined to be stolen. According to the report, the two officers were pursuing the fleeing youth in a pa-

trol car. At one point, one officer left the car and discharged a Taser while the youth was bicycling at, and ultimately, past him.

“According to the officer, the ju-venile was riding right at him when he told him to stop and the officer deployed the Taser as the juvenile rode by him,” the report states.

The electric stun gun, the report notes, had no apparent effect.

Where the Taser failed, the pa-trol car succeeded. The officer in the car “drove up beside the sus-

pect” and “quickly applied brakes, blocking the path of the suspect and forcing him off his bicycle,” the report states.

The boy fell to the ground, at which point the officer got out of the cruiser and “used force to push the suspect down and then pin him in order to keep him from trying to flee.”

The other officer rejoined the struggle, according to the report, “by placing his Taser on the sus-pect’s neck and back area and tell-

ing him that he would activate the Taser if the suspect did not com-ply.” The officers then handcuffed the boy and placed him into cus-tody (both officers, the report notes, also used profanity while restraining the suspect).

The boy was later medically treated for an abrasion on his face and for neck pain, cited for the stolen bicycle and released to his father.

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Report by independent police auditor confirms finding of department’s internal investigation

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A fter saying last month that he favored a single system for handling all school bul-

lying complaints, Palo Alto Su-perintendent Kevin Skelly this week recommended that the dis-trict not adopt a bullying policy and instead only approve what is legally required for students who are part of a “protected class.”

The school board’s Policy Re-view Committee was scheduled to meet at 9 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 10, after the Weekly’s print deadline, to review and discuss Skelly’s rec-ommendation.

Skelly said the district should

go ahead and adopt legally re-quired changes to current policies for those students who are being discriminated against due to their race, disability, gender, sexual preference, or other protected characteristics, but not adopt any policy for all other students.

The district and its lawyers have

spent most of the last year devel-oping draft policies for both sets of students.

Skelly said his change of mind came after discussions with teach-ers and principals, who persuaded him that a single complaint pro-cedure for all students would be impractical.

“We want things to be simple; we want things to be solved at the lowest level,” he said Thursday.

“Our principals and staff looked at this, and I’m just not yet com-fortable that we have a policy that

Skelly reverses position on bullying policiesPalo Alto superintendent recommends against adopting ‘optional’ policies

by Palo Alto Weekly staff

Welcome, Madame MayorNow in the last year of her five-year City Council term, Nancy Shepherd was selected by her colleagues as mayor of Palo Alto on Monday. She was the city’s vice mayor in 2013. See story on page 10.

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Around TownA COWARDLY COUNCIL? ... Residents who recently posted comments on the Open City Hall website want to give City of Palo Alto officials a somewhat harsh civics lesson. The city asked the question, “What core values do you believe the City Council should use to guide them in their decisions on behalf of the community?” The responses were all over the map. Suggestions ranged from more pingpong challenges to “Tell ABAG to stuff it.” (The Association of Bay Area Governments determines how much new housing each city is required to build based on growth estimates and the jobs-housing imbalance.) But the majority of comments focused on a need to listen to constituents and to do something to preserve Palo Alto’s quality of life: “Don’t be cowardly; be willing to reject developments; stand up for us; BE a government. Quit being a dictatorship,” one resident wrote. And another gave the city leaders a civics lesson and verbal spanking: “When I think about it, it is a crying shame, not to mention an outrage, that in a city like Palo Alto, its council has to ask its citizens what its core values should be. How about ‘Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.’ This exercise just shows how far our city government has moved from reality and the ability to even understand the meaning of the word ‘governance.’ Our Founding Fathers gave us our core values — it’s called The Constitution.”

VICE AND VIRTUE ... Karen Holman may have finished second in Palo Alto’s race for vice mayor on Monday night, but she easily had the line of the night. Holman, who is one of the City Council’s top skeptics when it comes to new developments and one of its top champions when it comes to neighborhood preservation, was nominated for vice mayor by Councilman Pat Burt, who like Holman had previously served on the Planning

and Transportation Commission. Burt cited Holman’s two decades of service and praised her for her long-standing “commitment to open government and full public participation,” her “strong sense of fairness to all,” and her “courtesy and integrity.” “At this particular period in our community, with concerns of residents about preserving our quality of life, Karen is widely recognized for her strong commitment to protecting those qualities,” Burt said. With Liz Kniss also nominated for vice mayor, Burt also went “out on a limb” and predicted that in 2015, the city will elect its 13th female mayor (Nancy Shepherd, who was elected to the position Monday, is the 12th). Holman, who often finds herself as a minority vote, did so again this week, with six council members opting for Kniss (Greg Schmid joined Burt and Holman in voting for Holman, before all three changed their vote upon Holman’s request to make Kniss’ election unanimous). But before the vote, Holman offered some words of advice to the public: “I invite all of you to consider strongly participating in local governments — running for office and getting involved — because you get to hear accolades like this without having to die.”

THE GOOD OLD DAYS ... This year’s Palo Alto school board president Barb Mitchell has a long history with the school district. Arriving here with her family as a 7-year-old in 1959, she attended the old three-story, Victorian campus of Lytton School, which occupied the block where the Lytton Gardens senior housing facility now stands. Mitchell remembers it as a beautiful building, with hardwood floors, big windows and schoolyard trees to climb. The Lytton campus, built for $21,648, opened in 1905. “It was a beautiful building and if it had lasted another 10 years it never would’ve been torn down,” Mitchell said.

We want things to be solved at the lowest level.

—Kevin Skelly, superintendent of the Palo Alto school district, on his reluctance to recommenddistrict-wide procedures for handling bullying complaints. See story on page 5.

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9. Second Reading: Ordinance for Electric Vehicles Supply Equipment Requirement for all New Single Family Residential Constructions (First Reading- December 9, 2013 PASSED: 9-0)

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The report does not identify the officers involved.

The incident was the second time a Taser was used in 2012. While the first case was deemed by both the department and the independent auditor to be appro-priate, in this case both reviews concluded that the officer’s dis-charge of the Taser was not con-sistent with the department’s Taser policy. The auditor’s report notes that the department ordered the officer who deployed the Taser to undergo additional training. The officer was also “formally held accountable for his Taser deploy-ment,” the report states.

In reviewing the case, internal department investigators noted that deploying a Taser on a bi-cyclist added complexities to the case. The review noted that “since the Taser is designed to incapaci-tate the individual, a cyclist who loses muscle control as a result of a successful Taser deployment could foreseeably end up injured because of the fall.”

The other officer’s conduct, meanwhile, was deemed to be “rea-sonable and within department pol-icy,” though Gennaco’s report notes that the officer who blocked the bi-cyclist’s path with the cruiser was to receive “training with regard to the potential significant dangers” of such a technique.

The incident also led Palo Alto police to review its policies for apprehending bicyclists, the re-port states.

“Given the possibility of in-jury or other unpredictable out-comes arising from the speeds and complications of the pur-suit, the incident prompted the department to consider updates to its use of force training,” the report states. “One proposal was to incorporate weighing the se-riousness of the offense against the risks involved, similar to its vehicle pursuit policy.”

In its internal review, Palo Alto police also recommended more training regarding “pursuing and apprehending fleeing bicyclists and the attendant dangers.”

While Gennaco’s review deemed Palo Alto’s internal in-

vestigation “impressive” in iden-tifying performance issues relat-ing to both the officers and to the department as a whole, he had a few quibbles. He noted that Palo Alto police didn’t do sufficient follow-up to the alleged profan-ity used by the officers while re-straining the bicyclists (the pro-fanity was “corroborated by the in-car recording system”).

He also wrote that the officer who pursued the bicyclist and ul-timately took him down was not

interviewed about his actions, an omission that Gennaco’s report calls a “significant gap.”

This was the second of two Taser incidences that Gennaco reviewed in 2012. The first case, in which officers deployed the Taser during a traffic stop on a man deemed to be under the in-fluence of drugs, was determined to have been appropriate.

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Stanford studies explore potency of flu vaccinesWhere flu vaccines for men are concerned, with virility comes

virulence, according to a new report released by Stanford. (Posted Jan. 9, 9:53 a.m.)

Officer cited for ‘discourteous’ conductA Palo Alto police officer faced disciplinary action after he

swore at a pedestrian at a crosswalk, refused to disclose his name and proceeded to run several stop signs, according to a report from the city’s independent police auditor. (Posted Jan. 9, 9:28 a.m.)

State may declare water drought emergencyThe state of California’s water supply is in a third year of

drought and is prompting state water officials to ask for a state of water emergency in California in the coming weeks. (Posted Jan. 8, 9:56 a.m.)

Midtown resident is ‘Community Champion’Midtown Palo Alto resident Annette Glanckopf Ashton will

receive the 13th Senate District Community Champion award on Jan. 11 for her tireless work toward community disaster prepared-ness and bringing the community together, State Senator Jerry Hill’s office has confirmed.

(Posted Jan. 8, 9:37 a.m.)

Fire chief returns to work after paralyzing fallAbout nine months after a catastrophic fall, Menlo Park Fire

Protection District Chief Harold Schapelhouman is back on the job. (Posted Jan. 7, 9:58 a.m.)

Slain priest was former Saint Francis chaplainSaint Francis High School and its alumni are mourning the

death of their former chaplain, Rev. Eric Freed, after his body was found on New Year’s day in Eureka. (Posted Jan. 7, 9:32 a.m.)

Stanford gets $90 million for cancer researchLudwig Cancer Research cut a $90 million check to the Stan-

ford University School of Medicine, the school announced Jan. 6. (Posted Jan. 7, 9:32 a.m.)

Driver killed on Interstate 280A two-vehicle collision on Sunday, Jan. 5, caused one vehicle

to split in two and a second to overturn on Interstate 280, killing a 21-year-old man and injuring four others, according to the Cali-fornia Highway Patrol. (Posted Jan. 6, 9:51 a.m.)

Swine flu kills one in Santa Clara CountyA 41-year-old woman who died shortly before Christmas is

Santa Clara County’s first flu death of the season, county health officials said. (Posted Jan. 6, 9:25 a.m.)

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

The tale of a discourteous police of-ficer, and the full report from the inde-pendent police auditor, can be found on PaloAltoOnline.com.

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CorrectionsIn the Jan. 3 article “Online poker, reinvented — and legal,” the number of open-face “communi-ty” cards that Arthur Pfeiffer’s on-line poker games start with was incorrectly stated. They start with three. Also, Pfeiffer’s company is called ThwartPoker Inc., with no space between the words. To re-quest a correction, contact Editor Jocelyn Dong at 650-223-6514, [email protected] or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302.

‘Given the possibility of injury or other unpredictable outcomes arising from the speeds and complications of the pursuit, the incident prompted the department to consider updates to its use of force training.’

—report by Independent Police Auditor Michael Gennaco

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Sunday Worship and Church School at 10 a.m.City Council (Jan. 6)Election: The council elected Nancy Shepherd to be the city’s mayor for 2014 and Liz Kniss to be vice mayor. Yes: UnanimousScharff: The council approved a resolution of appreciation for outgoing Mayor Greg Scharff. Yes: Unanimous

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isn’t going to hamstring our sys-tem,” he added, referring to the idea of sending all complaints to the district office.

Skelly said his recommenda-tions to the Policy Review Com-mittee regarding “protected classes” of students, if adopted, will bring the district into legal compliance with the U.S. De-partment of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which found 13 months ago that the district had violated a disabled student’s civil rights in its mishandling of a bul-lying case.

As part of a resolution of that case, the district agreed to revise its bullying policies, and has spent the past year working to do so.

Once the changes required by the Office for Civil Rights re-garding protected classes are implemented, “then we can keep working on the optional policies,” Skelly said.

At least for now, non-protected students with bullying complaints should seek resolution through teachers and principals and, if not happy with a decision, file a complaint with the district office, Skelly said.

On Dec. 3, at the last and only public meeting of the Policy Re-view Committee, Skelly recom-mended a uniform policy that

Bullying

would treat all students alike, us-ing a new district-level “uniform complaint procedure.” But two weeks later in a communication to board members, Skelly said af-ter “discussions with principals, district staff and others” he had changed his mind.

This is Skelly’s third differ-ent recommendation in less than two months. In November, he recommended a two-tier system that created detailed but dif-ferent procedures for handling bullying complaints depending on whether the student was in a protected class.

Then in December, after criti-cism of that approach — and to follow the recommendations of the California School Board As-sociation — he urged the single, unified procedure.

Skelly’s recommendations to the committee, laid out in a lengthy set of staff materials, of-fers no clear path for students who have a bullying complaint but are not associated with a protected class.

In a 2012 resolution agreement signed with the Office for Civil Rights, Skelly agreed that the dis-trict would revise its policies and procedures on bullying, a process that has taken more than a year so far with much discussion but no resolution.

Office for Civil Rights’ jurisdic-tion does not extend beyond cases of discriminatory harassment and bullying to all bullying cases.

The California School Boards Association (CSBA) recommends that districts use “uniform com-plaint procedures when inves-tigating all bullying incidents” — including those involving non-protected classes of students — “to ensure consistent implemen-tation by district staff.”

In the Dec. 3 meeting, the two members of the committee dif-fered on how to handle bullying complaints.

Melissa Baten Caswell said that for the sake of clarity and simplicity all complaints about bullying, whether run-of-the-mill or involving protected classes of students, should be treated the same, using the uni-form complaint procedure at the district office.

But Camille Townsend wor-ried that such an approach could lead to undue “formalization” or “criminalization” of minor play-ground squabbles that are better resolved at the school level.

“The farther away we get from solving disputes in the classroom, the more formal and criminal it gets,” Townsend said. “We’ve all seen cases where someone gets tripped on purpose, or someone gets called a name on purpose. Are we really sending those up to the district office to be handled? Not in my book.”

But Caswell worried that a two-tiered complaint process, which elevates the initial level of scrutiny for children in protected classes, could put teachers, prin-cipals and playground supervi-sors in the position of having to make hasty calls, in ambiguous

situations, as to why a child is be-ing picked on.

“It’s hard to ask those people to look at what’s going on when

there’s a particular confrontation and make the judgment whether it’s a protected-class issue,” she said.

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CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to dis-cuss the status of the city’s labor negotiations with the Service Employees International Union, Local 521. The council then plans to appoint three members to the Storm Drain Oversight Committee, consider revisions to the zoning code to implement programs from the 2007-14 Housing Element and update the city’s Residential Density Bonus ordinance. The closed session will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 13. Regular meeting will follow in the Council Chambers at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).

BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will discuss plans to open a 13th elementary school and possibly a fourth middle school. They also will discuss standardized testing for 2013-14 in light of the state’s cancellation of the STAR test as well as a pilot school-lunch program at Terman Middle School. The regular meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 14, in the boardroom of school-district headquarters (25 Churchill Ave.).

ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to discuss 2209-2215 El Camino Real, a request by Karen Kam on behalf of Tai Ning Trading and Investment Company for a review of a new 9,580-square-foot, three-story development that would replace an exist-ing restaurant. The board will also discuss 2609 Alma St., a proposed three-story, four-unit condominium project; and 601 California Ave., a re-quest by Stanford University for a sign exception to allow a freestanding sign along the California Avenue frontage of the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati office. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 16, in the Council Chambers at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).

CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to re-view the performances of the City Clerk Donna Grider and City Attorney Molly Stump. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 16, at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).

PUBLIC ARTS COMMISSION ... The commission plans to elect its officers; approve an artist to create temporary artwork in the University Avenue tun-nel; and hear updates on public art in private developments, artwork for the Water Quality Control Plant and the Household Hazardous Waste Facility, and for the Municipal Golf Course. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 16, in the Council Chambers at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).

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Shepherd, Kniss to lead City Council in 2014Nancy Shepherd, an accountant with a flair for number crunching

and diplomacy, will lead Palo Alto as mayor in 2014 after earning the unanimous blessing of her colleagues Monday night.

Shepherd, a former PTA volunteer, joined the council in 2009 and will serve as mayor in the final year of her first term, which happens to be an election year in which her seat is up for grabs. She will be joined in the center of the dais by Councilwoman Liz Kniss, a coun-cil veteran who was unanimously elected vice mayor.

Shepherd is the 12th female mayor in the city’s history and the first since Yoriko Kishimoto in 2007.

Shepherd is a particularly good fit to lead the city in 2014, given her penchant for responding to constituents’ emails and reaching out to stakeholders and partners both within and outside the city borders, Councilman Larry Klein said. He praised Shepherd’s ability to “dis-agree without being disagreeable.”

“She knows that really to succeed, any council needs to reach out to people who agree and disagree on different issues,” Klein said.

Kniss, who nominated Shepherd to the mayor’s spot, lauded Shep-herd’s “resiliency” and spoke at length about Shepherd’s passion for preserving the city’s quality of life. She noted that Shepherd had four children in five years while holding a job and cited the various awards Shepherd had earned for volunteering. These include ones from the Palo Alto Unified School District (she had served as president of the PTA council) and Adolescent Counseling Services, which gave her its “Volunteer of the Year” award.

“I think the mayor in the coming year will need that toughness, that resilience, and I think we have just this kind of character in Nancy Shepherd,” Kniss said.

— Gennady Sheyner

Office for Civil Rights case alleges disability biasA recently initiated federal civil-rights probe of the Palo Alto

Unified School District is the ninth such investigation of the dis-trict opened by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights since January 2011.

In the latest case, the federal agency is investigating whether the district adequately responded to a September 2013 complaint that a student had been discriminated against because of a disability. The September complaint alleged that the district had failed last spring to implement a written plan, known as a 504, to accommodate the student’s disability.

Section 504 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act of 1973 guarantees certain rights in public schools to students with disabilities and their parents.

A spokeswoman for the school district said the new case “stems from a grade dispute.”

Superintendent Kevin Skelly received notification of the case Dec. 16 in a letter from the Office for Civil Rights.

In the letter, the federal agency said it has “determined that the allegation ... is appropriate for investigation.” But launching the in-vestigation “in no way implies that OCR has made a determination” as to the merits of the complaint, the letter said.

Of the nine Palo Alto school district investigations opened by the Office for Civil Rights, four remain pending, including the newest one. The other three include two allegations of disability-based harassment and one probe into the district’s compliance with Title IX, which bars sex discrimination in education programs receiving federal funds.

— Chris Kenrick

Students demonstrate at Sofia UniversityAs an interim president took office at Palo Alto’s Sofia University

this week, students demonstrating outside the school demanded re-placement of the three-member board that hired him and a return to the institution’s founding principles.

Students said they were committed to the school’s mission of the study of psychology in the holistic style known as “transpersonal,” which incorporates things like mindfulness and meditation, but are concerned about their futures following the abrupt firing last month of 12 administrators and senior faculty members.

Psychologist and author Fred Luskin, who was among those fired, said he would continue to teach this quarter even if he doesn’t get paid because “this is a lovely band of students, committed to being a little different and marching to their own drum, which has created an atmosphere of cordiality.”

Sofia’s Interim President Frank Ellsworth said Monday he had reviewed the school’s finances and “our numbers are solid.

“The operating budget should reflect a break-even for this fiscal year,” Ellsworth, who was president of Pitzer College from 1979 to 1991, stated in an email.

Sofia, which until two years ago was called the Institute of Trans-personal Psychology, is a 38-year-old nonprofit institution accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

— Chris Kenrick

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neighborhood-serving retail? Why is there no ordinance that requires specific pedestrian-friendly design?”

Another provision that the city plans to introduce into its zoning code on Monday would establish design standards for emergency shelters and designat-ing a commercially zoned par-cel east of U.S. Highway 101 for such a shelter. The city is work-ing with the nonprofit InnVision to develop these standards. If a developer meets the standards, he would be entitled “by right” to build an emergency shelter at this site with no additional city review.

The city is also adding to its zoning code a provision that en-titles disabled residents to request “reasonable accommodations,” such as wheelchair ramps, with a streamlined review process.

In addition to these changes, the council will also consider re-vamping the city’s “density bonus ordinance,” a law that provides zoning exceptions to developers who provide affordable housing.

If adopted, the law would limit the types of “concessions” build-ers can request from the city to a menu of allowances — such as additional height, mass or lot coverage — deemed by the city to have “minimal adverse impacts.” A developer who asks for a con-cession that is not on the menu would have to provide financial information demonstrating why this concession is necessary for affordable housing, according to a new report from the Depart-ment of Planning and Commu-nity Environment.

The granting of incentives to affordable-housing developers is far from new. A state law first ad-opted in 1979, developers already receive a bonus of 25 percent more density if they meet certain affordable-housing requirements (the bonus depends on the income level of future residents and the percentage of units devoted to af-fordable housing).

The State Density Bonus Law was further beefed up in 2004, when lawmakers instituted a sliding scale of density bonuses from 20 to 35 percent, depend-ing on the number of units be-ing built. To sweeten the deal for developers, it also enabled them to receive three “development concessions,” a heretofore vague concept that Palo Alto’s new or-dinance aims to clear up with its menu of items.

Menu items include an increase in height, a 25 percent reduction in side-yard requirements (pro-vided, in both cases, that the proj-ect is not next to a low-density residential zone), and additional density.

A report from the planning de-partment notes that because of the state law, the city has “very little discretion to deny conces-sion requests.” One goal with the new law is to limit the impacts

of these concessions by steering developers toward pre-vetted concessions. Another goal is to promote construction of af-fordable housing and to make it easier for the city to meet a state mandate that it zone for more housing units.

“Without a local ordinance, builders and developers have broad flexibility to request con-cessions, and the city has limited flexibility to deny them,” the staff report states.

Thus far, the city has been granting developers conces-sions largely on an ad hoc basis. When Eden Housing applied to build the housing development at 801 Alma St., the concessions it received included permis-sion to encroach into required setbacks, a density bonus and the waiving of a requirement to provide private open space. A developer at 195 Page Mill Road requested an addition to the density bonus he would have already received.

The revised density-bonus law will not apply to “planned community” (PC) zone projects, which grant developers zoning exemptions in exchange for nego-tiated public benefits, which have ranged from tiny public plazas and funky statues to affordable housing units and cash contribu-tions toward parking programs. The designation, which was used by developers of the new Lytton Gateway building and which the Palo Alto Housing Corpora-tion applied for in its ultimately doomed quest to build affordable housing on Maybell Avenue, has been widely criticized in the community in recent years and will be the subject of reform ef-forts in the coming year.


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Last Year’s Grant Recipients10 Books A Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Abilities United . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Ada’s Café . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$25,000Adolescent Counseling Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000Art in Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Breast Cancer Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000California Family Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000CASSY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000Cleo Eulau Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Collective Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500Community School of Music & Arts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Community Working Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Creative Montessori Learning Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Downtown Streets Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000DreamCatchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000East Palo Alto Kids Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Environmental Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Family Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500Family Engagement Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,000Foothill College Book Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,000Foundation for a College Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000Friends of Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Hidden Villa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000InnVision Shelter Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000JLS Middle School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Jordan Middle School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Kara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000Magical Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$25,000Mayview Community Health Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000Music in the Schools Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000New Creation Home Ministries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000New Voices for Youth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,500Nuestra Casa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000One East Palo Alto (OEPA). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Palo Alto Art Center Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Palo Alto Community Child Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000Palo Alto Housing Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Palo Alto Humane Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,500Peninsula Bridge Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500Peninsula College Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Peninsula Youth Theatre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Project WeH.O.P.E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000Quest Learning Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Racing Hearts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,500Raising A Reader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Ravenswood Education Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Silicon Valley FACES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500South Palo Alto Food Closet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,000St. Elizabeth Seton School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500St. Francis of Assisi Youth Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000St. Vincent de Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,000TheatreWorks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000YMCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000Youth Community Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000Youth United for Community Action (YUCA) . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000

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Through Jan. 6, 445 donors have contributed $371,061

to the Holiday Fund35 Anonymous .........................110,000

Newly Received DonationsDeirdre C. Dolan.............................. 500Roxy & Michelle Rapp ................... 1,000Ann Burrell & Charles Smith .................*Amy Harris & Joss Geiduschek ........ 100Kay & Don Remsen ..............................*Victor & Norma Hesterman ................ 50Charles Katz ................................... 500Ronald Krasnow .............................. 200Elizabeth L. Miller ......................... 2,000Ellinor Osborne................................ 100Karen Sipprell ................................. 250Stephen Westfold ............................ 500Madeline Wong ................................. 50Lisa Barr ........................................ 250Eileen Brennan ................................ 250Mr. Tim Collins ............................. 4,000Ms. Jean Doble ............................... 75Jennifer Cray ..................................... 50Ted & Frances Jenkins ....................... 50Elgin Lee ......................................... 250Richard L. Mazze ............................. 100Kim Orumchian ............................... 250Nan Prince ...................................... 100Linda Selden ................................... 200Tony and Carolyn Tucher .......................*Alan Wachtel ................................... 250Ms. Anna Welke .............................. 50Kenneth Bencala & Sally O’Neal ...... 100Diane Doolittle ................................ 100Gwendolyn Barry ............................. 100Judith & James Kleinberg .....................*Colleen Anderson & Jim Lobdell ....... 250Melanie Austin ................................ 200Kathleen & Tony Hughes ................. 500Judith Rabbie .................................... 50Trish Bubenik .................................. 500Michael Chen and Cathy Lee ................*

In Memory OfAaron O’Neill ........................................*

Foundations, Businesses & Organizations

Machiah Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund ............................100

Previously Published DonorsRick & Eileen Brooks ....................... 300Thomas Rindfl eisch ..............................*Marcie & Chet Brown ...........................*Veronica Tincher .............................. 100Diane and Brandy Sikic .................... 200Bryan Wilson & Geri Martin Wilson .. 100Russell Evarts ................................. 300Ho John Lee .........................................*Roland Hsu & Julie Noblitt ....................*Scott T. Wong .................................. 200Craig & Susie Thom ........................ 250Richard Ellson ................................. 100William Busse ................................. 200Dennis & Cindy Dillon ...........................*Merrill & Lee Newman ..........................*Marlene Arnold ................................ 500Ellie & Dick Mansfi eld ...........................*Robert & Betsy Gamburd .....................*Richard Maser................................. 150Steve & Gayle Bruger ................... 1,000Steve & Mary Chapel ...................... 250Nancy & Jim Baer .................................*Tony & Jan DiJulio ................................*Sue Bartalo & Dave Fischer ............. 100Susan Osofsky .................................. 50Charles & Barbara Stevens ..................*John and Margaret Monroe ............. 250Mark and Virginia Kreutzer ....................*Marc and Ragni Pasturel ................. 200Ken Schroeder & Fran Codispoti ...... 500Leo & Marlys Keoshian ........................*Kingsley Jack .................................. 200Hans & Judith Steiner...................... 100Sue & Dick Levy .............................. 500Shela Fisk ....................................... 100

Annette Isaacson ............................ 100Ann Mary Pine ................................. 300Dennis Clark ................................... 100Stephanie Smith ............................. 100Sandy Jain ...................................... 101Daniel Chapiro ................................ 500Julie Norman ................................... 500Carol Gilbert.................................... 100Karen Ewart ...................................... 50Dena McFarland ................................ 50Jenchyn Luh .................................... 100Margaret Tracy .................................. 75John and Ruth Devries..........................*Harry and Diane Greenberg ............. 500Elisabeth Seaman .......................... 100John Wilkes ..................................... 300Ron Wolf ........................................... 50David Labaree ................................. 200Irene Beardsley & Dan Bloomberg ... 200Michael & Marcia Katz .................... 100Bjorn & Michele Liencres .............. 1,000Robert & Connie Loarie ........................*Rosalie Shepherd ............................ 100Markus Asckwanden

& Carol Kersten ........................... 150John & Ruth Devries .............................*Chris & Beth Martin .............................*Bonnie Packer & Bob Raymakers ..... 100David & Karen Backer ..................... 250Gerald & Joyce Barker .................... 100Bruce F. Campbell ........................ 1,000Keith Clarke .................................... 100Constance Crawford ........................ 800Boyce & Peggy Nute .............................*David & Diane Feldman ................... 500Matt Glickman & Susie Hwang ........ 500Jane Holland .......................................*Bob & Joan Jack ............................. 250Eric Keller & Janice Bohman ............ 250Ms. Jan Krawitz ....................................*Laurie & Hal Luft ..................................*Lani Freeman & Stephen Monismith 100Sandra & Scott Pearson .................. 500John and Lee Pierce ........................ 250David & Virginia Pollard ................... 300Don & Dee Price...................................*Barbara Klein & Stan Schrier ................*Andrea Smith .................................. 100Anne and Don Vermeil ..........................*Mrs. Marie Viezee ................................*Lee & Judy Shulman .............................*Lijun & Jia-Ning Xiang ...................... 200Laurie T. Jarrett ....................................*Lorraine Macchello .......................... 100Bryan & Bonnie Street ..........................*Gary & Dee Ellmann .......................... 50Les and Margaret Fisher .................. 100Judy Ousterhout ...................................*Mandy Lowell .......................................*Nina and Norman Kulgein ................ 100Kathleen & Joseph Hefner ............... 250Debra Satz and Don Barr ......................*Tobye & Ron Kaye ................................*Virginia E. Fehrenbacher .................. 100Zelda Jury ............................................*Edward Kanazawa ................................*Donald and Bonnie Miller .....................*Michael and Lennie Roberts ............ 150Roger Smith .................................... 200Nanette Stringer .............................. 250Ralph and Jackie Wheeler ................ 225Bonnie Berg .........................................*Lucy Berman ................................ 2,000Micki and Bob Cardelli ..........................*Ted and Ginny Chu ...............................*Robyn Crumly .................................... 50Hoda Epstein .......................................*John & Florine Galen ............................*Margot Goodman ................................*Stuart & Carol Hansen .........................*Myron and Linda Hollister ................ 100Jon & Julie Jerome ...............................*Kevin Mayer & Barbara Zimmer ............*Joan B. Norton .....................................*Helene Pier ..........................................*Dick and Ruth Rosenbaum ...................*Mike & Ellen Turbow ........................ 250

Larry Baer & Stephanie Klein................*Fred Kohler ..........................................*Amy Renalds ........................................*Suzanne Bell ................................... 100Sally Dudley .................................... 200David and Nancy Kalkbrenner ...............*Gretchen Hoover ............................... 25Karen Sundback.............................. 500Marilyn, Dale, Rick & Mei Simbeck .......*Shirley Ely ....................................... 500Patrick Radtke .............................. 2,000Ralph Britton ................................... 250Charlotte Epstein............................. 100John Wang ...........................................*Cynthia Costell .................................. 50Hal and Carol Louchheim .....................*Lee Sendelbeck .............................. 100Faith Braff ....................................... 500Anthony and Judith Brown.................. 50Luca and Mary Cafi ero .........................*Mike and Cathie Foster ................... 500Jean M. Colby ................................. 200David & Lynn Mitchell ...................... 300Tom & Patricia Sanders ................... 100Dorothy Saxe .......................................*John Tang .............................................*Jerry & Bobbie Wagger .........................*Annette Glanckopf & Tom Ashton ..... 100Theodore and Cathy Dolton ............. 350Eugene & Mabel Dong .................... 200Herbert Fischgrund ......................... 125Dena Goldberg ................................ 100Dr. & Mrs. Richard Greene ............... 250Phil Hanawalt & Graciela Spivak ...... 500Harry & Susan Hartzell .................... 200Walt and Kay Hays .......................... 100Christina Kenrick .......................... 1,000Cathy and Howard Kroymann ........... 250Eve & John Melton .......................... 500Jim and Becky Morgan ................. 5,000Don & Ann Rothblatt.............................*Dan and Lynne Russell .................... 250Martha Shirk ................................... 500Lawrence Yang & Jennifer Kuan .... 1,000Patti Yanklowitz & Mark Krasnow ..... 100 Denise Savoie & Darrell Duffi e ............*Dr. Jody Maxmin .................................*Van Whitis ....................................... 250Don & Jacquie Rush ........................ 300Michele and John McNellis .........10,000J.D. & Renee Masterson ................. 250Martha Cohn ................................... 300Laura & Bob Cory .................................*Glenn & Lorna Affl eck ...................... 100Jone Manoogian ................................ 50Felicia Levy...................................... 250Gwen Luce ...........................................*Janis Ulevich ................................... 100Solon Finkelstein ............................. 250Eric and Elaine Hahn ............................*Teresa Roberts ............................ 2,000Craig & Sally Nordlund ..................... 500Meri Gruber and James Taylor ...............*Art & Helen Kraemer ............................*Barbara Riper .......................................*Betty Gerard .................................... 100Bob and Diane Simoni ..................... 200Carolyn and Richard Brennan ...............*Gerald and Donna Silverberg ........... 100Hersh & Arna Shefrin............................*Jim & Alma Phillips .......................... 250Lawrence Naiman ........................... 100Leif & Sharon Erickson .................... 250Mr. George Cator ........................... 100Ray & Carol Bacchetti ...........................*Rita Vrhel ........................................ 250Steve & Karen Ross .............................*Susan & Doug Woodman .....................*Tad Nishimura ......................................*Tom and Neva Cotter .................... 2,000Al & Joanne Russell ........................ 250Alice Smith ...................................... 100Caroline Hicks & Bert Fingerhut ....... 100Drew McCalley & Marilyn Green ....... 100Jan & Freddy Gabus .............................*Joe and Nancy Huber ...................... 100John & Olive Borgsteadt .......................*

Lynn & Joe Drake .................................*Patricia M. Levin .............................. 100Robert and Josephine Spitzer .......... 100George & Betsy Young ..........................*Harriet & Gerald Berner ........................*Hugh O. McDevitt ............................ 200Mary Lorey ...........................................*Nancy Steege .................................. 100Sheryl & Tony Klein ..............................*Sue Kemp ....................................... 250Andy and Liz Coe ..................................*Ben & Ruth Hammett ...........................*Hal & Iris Korol .....................................*Jessie Ngai ..................................... 100John and Mary Schaefer .................. 100Mahlon and Carol Hubenthal ................*Peter and Beth Rosenthal .....................*Maria Basch...................................... 55Owen Vannatta ............................. 5,000Gennette Lawrence ......................... 500The Havern Family ........................ 4,500Brigid Barton ................................... 250Donald & Adele Langendorf ............. 200Gil and Gail Woolley ......................... 300Greg & Penny Gallo ......................... 500Hugh MacMillan .............................. 500Mike and Jean Couch ...................... 250Nancy Hall.................................... 1,000Page & Ferrell Sanders .................... 100Peter & Lynn Kidder......................... 100Peter S Stern .......................................*Robert & Barbara Simpson ...................*Scout Voll .............................................*Stephen Berke .....................................*Tom & Ellen Ehrlich..............................*Art and Peggy Stauffer .................... 500Bill Johnson and Terri Lobdell .......... 500Carroll Harrington ............................ 100Richard Zuanich .............................. 200Daniel Cox ...................................... 200Michael & Frannie Kieschnick ...............*Richard Hallsted & Pam Mayerfeld .. 100Steve and Nancy Levy...........................*Xiaofan Lin ........................................ 50Diane E. Moore ....................................*Ellen & Tom Wyman ........................ 200Roger Warnke ................................. 300Stu & Louise Beattie ............................*The Ely Family ................................. 250Bob & Ruth Anne Fraley ..................... 50Ellen Lillington ................................. 100Jerry and Linda Elkind ..................... 250Linda & Steve Boxer .............................*Tony & Judy Kramer ..............................*Keith & Rita Lee .............................. 100Roy & Carol Blitzer................................*John & Barbara Pavkovich ............... 200Tish Hoehl....................................... 100Don & Ann Rothblatt.............................*

In Memory OfDr. John Plummer Steward .............. 100David Christy ........................................*Wanda Cooke .......................................*Willie Branch ........................................*Tinney Family .................................. 500Robert Lobdell .....................................*Edda Cabrera .......................................*Bill Roth ...............................................*Robert J. Mullen .............................. 100Becky Schaefer ....................................*Emmett Lorey .......................................*Mrs. Katina D. Higbee ..........................*Natasha Fong .................................. 200Dominic Greening .................................*Our beloved son Samuel Benjamin

Kurland ........................................ 300Our son Nick ................................... 500Bob Markevitch ....................................*Ludwig Tannenwald ..............................*Bill Roth ...............................................*August Lee King ...................................*Marty Wood ...................................... 50Joshua Alper ................................... 150Harry Lewenstein ............................ 500Mary Floyd ...........................................*Betty Meltzer ........................................*Our Dad Albert Pellizzari .......................*

Jim Jarrett ............................................*Amy Fletcher ........................................*Phillip Gottheiner ..................................*Jim Byrnes ...................................... 100Jack Sutorius .................................. 300Robert Spinrad ................................ 500Bill Lard ...............................................*Helen Rubin .................................... 150Mr. & Mrs. Max Blanker ................... 150Dr. & Mrs. Irvin B. Rubin .................. 150John F. Smith .................................. 150Ben Swan ............................................*Ryan ....................................................*Jean M. Law .........................................*Carole Hoffman ....................................*Fumi Murai ...........................................*Mary Floyd ........................................ 25Tomas W. and Louise L. Phinney ...........*Leo Breidenbach ..................................*Bertha Kalson ......................................*Nate Rosenberg .............................. 100Frank & Jean Crist ........................... 200Marie Hardin ................................... 100Baxter Armstrong .................................*Bob Makjavich ......................................*Carol Berkowitz ....................................*Bob Donald ..................................... 100Alan K. Herrick .....................................*Don and Marie Snow ....................... 100Kathy Morris ................................ 1,500Helene F. Klein .....................................*Pam Grady ...................................... 150Ruth & Chet Johnson ...........................*Robert Lobdell .....................................*Henry Radzilowski ................................*John Davies Black ........................ 1,000Yen-Chen and Er-Ying Yen ................ 250Ernest J. Moore ....................................*Florence Kan Ho ...................................*Joe, Mary Fran & Stephen Scroggs .......*Steve Fasani ................................... 100David Sager .................................... 100William Settle .................................. 500Dr. David Zlotnick ............................ 200Boyd Paulson, Jr ...................................*Al and Kay Nelson ................................*

In Honor OfDr. Cheryl Gold ................................ 500Dr. Virginia Lewis ............................. 250Dr. Peter Kono ................................. 250Darla Tupper ........................................*The Martin children ......................... 100Superintendent Skelly...................... 150The Gang of 4 ......................................*Edna Farmer ................................... 100Terri Lobdell .................................... 250Marilyn Sutorius .............................. 300Sallie Tasto ..................................... 125Paul Resnick ................................... 125Sandy Sloan .................................... 100The Barnea-Smith Family ......................*Barbara Zimmer ...................................*Gary Fazzino ........................................*Karen Ross ..................................... 100Shirley Sneath Kelley ....................... 100

Foundations, Businesses & Organizations

Palo Alto Business Park ................ 1,000United Methodist Women, First United

Methodist Church of Palo Alto .... 1,250Bleibler Properties ........................... 500Rathmann Family Foundation ................*Carl King Mayfi eld Mortgage ............ 250Harrell Remodeling ...............................*Attorney Susan Dondershine ........... 300Communications &

Power Industries LLC .................... 500No Limit Drag Racing Team ................ 25Packard Foundation ....................25,000Hewlett Foundation ....................25,000Arrillaga Foundation ....................20,000Peery Foundation .......................20,000The Milk Pail Market .............................*Alta Mesa Improvement

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POLICE CALLSPalo AltoDec. 31-Jan. 7Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Theft relatedCommercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Vehicle relatedAbandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Driving w/ suspended license . . . . . . . 7Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Vehicle accident/mnr. injury . . . . . . . . . 3Vehicle accident/prop. damage . . . . . . 3Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Alcohol or drug relatedDrunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Drunken driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8N&D possession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3MiscellaneousFound property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 1Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

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Darlene HightowerDarlene Hightower, 83, died

at home on Dec. 17 of last year. She was born in Minnesota and eventually moved to Palo Alto, where she lived the majority of her life and raised her children with her husband William.

She will be remembered for her love and support of her

family as well as her adven-turous spirit, having traveled many miles by camper, private plane,and motorcycle with her husband and family.

She is survived by her hus-band William; sister Laverne of Sisters, Ore.; sister Ava of Va-caville, Calif.; brother Duane of Rocklin; her son William of

Palo Alto; her son Mark of San Jose and three grandchildren, Megan, Ben and Beth.

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Elsa Gertrude Schundler Edwards, 97, passed away November 27, 2013, after a long, rich life full of family, friends, and travel. Born in Brooklyn, New York on July 23, 1916, she grew up in Madison, New Jersey. She was the daughter of Hans Otto Schundler of Germany and Bertha Elizabeth Davis Schundler of Barbados. She is predeceased by her beloved husband, Paul Carroll Edwards Jr. of Palo Alto, her daughter, Carol Edwards Armstrong Atwood of Santa Cruz, her siblings: Otto Schundler, Elenore Schundler Otterson and Beth Schundler Clendining; her second husband Henry Patton of Princeton, and a myriad of cousins.

She and Paul raised their family in Palo Alto and after their children were grown travelled all over the world. After Paul Jr. passed away in 1988, she married Henry and they continued ex-ploring the globe until his death in 2003.

Her loss with be deeply felt by her son, Paul Carroll Edwards III of Mountain View, her daughter, Susan Edwards Ogle of Menlo Park, her grandchildren Stewart Armstrong, Liz Atwood, Matt Edwards, Joey Edwards, Laura Ogle, and great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and all who came in contact with her vivacious spirit.

Elsa EdwardsJuly 23, 1916 – November 27, 2013


Sarah Kathryn “Kate” Yang passed away on Monday, Dec. 9, 2013, in Santa Rosa, Calif., after a five-year battle with breast cancer. A resident of Palo Alto for over 25 years, Kate was born on April 7, 1976, daughter of Harold and Georgia Yang, and grew up in Palo Alto. She attended Duveneck, JLS, and Palo Alto High School where she was a member of the Madrigal Singers, Mock Trial and named a National Merit Scholar Finalist.

In her youth, she had a passion for horseback riding and de-veloped a lifelong borderline obsession with her first car, the Dodge Dart. After graduating from Amherst College with degrees in Computer Science and Music Composition, Kate moved to Rotterdam, Netherlands. After two years abroad, she moved back to her home state where she pursued both musical ambitions and computer technology. Kate was an avid singer, improvisational pianist, and world traveler well known for her infectious laugh.

Kate was ever positive, free spirited, and fought her cancer with incredible courage. She is survived by her parents, Georgia and Harold Yang of Santa Rosa; her siblings, Genevieve Yang of Petaluma, Calif., and Houston Yang of Los Angeles, Calif.

The family will have a private remembrance and requests that in lieu of flowers, contributions be made to FORCE (Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered) at www.facingourrisk.org. FORCE is a non-profit organization specializing in the fight against he-reditary breast and ovarian cancer.

Sarah Kathryn “Kate” Yang April 7, 1976 – December 9, 2013

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Born in Grand Rapids, Michi-gan to Frank and Helen Hastings Hay, Walt died peacefully Dec 25, 2013 at his home in Menlo Park surrounded by his loving family. He was 80 years old and succumbed to cancer. Walt is survived by his wife Nancy Lane Hay, son Stephen (Yolanda) Hay, daughters, Laura (Scott) Bridge and Margot (Baylor) Capers, and step-children Darragh, Kevin (Tricia), Jeff (Alicia), and Kirk Lawrence. Walt is also survived by 15 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Walt was dearly loved by all who knew him and will be sorely missed.

Memorial Service will be at 2pm on January 25th at the Ladera Community Church on Alpine Road in Portola Valley. Please visit Walt’s memorial site at: Walter-Hay.muchloved.com

Walt supported the salvation Army. Memorial donations can be placed at: https://donate.salvationarmyusa.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=207#tribute

Walter HayJune 1933 – December 2013

Menlo ParkDec. 31-Jan. 6Theft relatedFraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Vehicle relatedAbandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . 4Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Vehicle accident/mnr. injury . . . . . . . . . 1Vehicle accident/prop. damage . . . . . . 1Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Alcohol or drug relatedDrug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Drunken driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2MiscellaneousDisturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Follow up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Info. case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Probation violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Prohibited weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Shots fired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 2Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

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Theyearahead

P alo Alto’s new year began with an election hangover — the same way it will

likely end.The City Council’s inaugural

meeting of the year, typically a jolly old affair, sounded a more somber tone this week. City Man-ager James Keene, who finds his city in the midst of unprecedented economic prosperity, called the current climate “the best of times, the worst of times.” Nancy Shep-herd, in her first speech as mayor, alluded to the “challenges” ahead and quoted residents who say Palo Alto is “stumbling over our suc-cess.”

Councilman Larry Klein ob-served that while past mayoral elections have functioned more as “coronations” or “parties,” the Jan. 6 meeting was appropriately devoid of entertainment, given the “difficult issues” the council is now wrestling with.

These issues — too much traf-fic, not enough parking, a seismi-cally deficient police headquarters and a citizenry upset about the height, density and appearance of new developments — will con-tinue to hold the spotlight at City Hall in 2014.

The year will certainly be filled with surprises: city leaders emerg-ing, public projects proposed, am-bitious development applications filing into the city’s Development Center. Undoubtedly, these factors will influence the council’s work and bring with them a fresh slate of problems and solutions. But given how much unfinished busi-ness the council is carrying over from 2013 into 2014, and given the fact that the official priorities the council set in 2013 are sched-uled to continue in 2014, it is safe to say that the new year will begin right where the old one left off —

with a downtown Battle Royale over parking policies.

Here is a preview of the coming attractions.

“ In a city of the future, it is difficult to find a space,” the rock band Radiohead

proclaimed in its 1998 song, “Palo Alto.”

As Palo Alto kicks off 2014, the lyrics sound particularly prophet-ic. As the “year of the future” — then-Mayor Greg Scharff’s phrase for 2013 — ticked down toward its final weeks, downtown’s deepen-ing parking shortages loomed as the city’s most vexing problem.

The City Council’s top priority of 2013, “the future of downtown and California Avenue,” fostered much debate and plenty of data-gathering throughout the year, with city planners and citizen ac-tivists counting cars and crafting proposals for parking-permit pro-grams. Yet when the ball dropped on New Year’s Eve, solutions re-mained beyond the horizon and finding a space remained diffi-cult, particularly during normal business hours in the residential neighborhoods of Downtown North and Professorville, which lie adjacent to downtown.

In the first few months of the

year, parking shortages and their annoying cousin, traffic jams, will return to the spotlight at City Hall. This month, the council plans to launch what promises to be a con-tentious discussion of a proposed residential parking-permit pro-gram, which would set time lim-its on cars that lack permits and, in theory, provide residents with some relief from downtown em-ployees who leave their cars in the neighborhoods to avoid the time restrictions in downtown’s com-mercial core. Residents have been clamoring for a permit program for years and have argued persua-sively that parking congestion will spill to other neighborhoods in the coming years, as more commercial developments come online. City planners note in a Dec. 16 report that community concern about parking supply and traffic conges-tion in and around Palo Alto have reached “critical levels.”

Yet solutions remain elusive. While the permit program has yet to be presented to the council, ear-ly reviews suggest that City Hall may be heading for a winter of discontent. A coalition of residents from Downtown North, Professor-ville and Crescent Park argued in a memo that the proposed program is problematic for many reasons. Citing “unreasonable hurdles” for participation, residents urge a lower threshold for participation in the permit program (the approval of 50-percent-plus-1 residents in an area, as opposed to the staff’s proposal of 70-percent-plus-1) and recommend that the program be implemented “block-by-block,” rather than neighborhood-by-neighborhood.

Arguing the program is too complicated, they are requesting clear standards for determining when parking is considered to be

intruding on a neighborhood.Many downtown businesses are

similarly displeased with the early offering. A group of about two dozen businesses and employees have been circulating fliers and voicing opposition on their web-site, PaloAltoParkingSolutions.org. Calling the program a “huge waste of money,” they advocate as an alternative painting some curbs to reduce the number of parked cars on residential streets and designating some spaces as for residents only. The program, they argue, will push employees out of the neighborhoods without providing them with reasonable alternatives for parking.

“Employees have been park-ing on these residential streets for decades. It’s simply unfair to sud-denly evict them and give them no other workable alternative,” claims the site, which has been endorsed by Whole Foods Market, Water-course Way, Peninsula Creamery and a host of other businesses.

A t the Dec. 9 City Council meeting, City Manager James Keene cited the Da-

lai Lama, who — when asked what the main problem in the world was — replied: “Too many people.”

“What’s the main problem with traffic?” Keene asked. “Too many cars.”

From the city’s perspective, the most beneficial way to curb traffic

Traffic, parking, new developments, infrastructure needs and an election will drive the City Council agenda

by Gennady Sheyner

Streets in Palo Alto’s residential Professorville neighborhood are filled with cars every day, many owned by downtown workers.

Winter

Key issue: ParkingKey action: City Council is set to unveil in January a citywide framework for a residential parking-permit program. Key question: Can Palo Alto get cars off residential streets?

Key issue: TrafficKey action: In February, the council is scheduled to consider a “transportation demand management” program aimed at getting drivers to switch to other modes of transportation.Key question: Can Palo Alto become more like Google?

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W hile the council’s conver-sation over city growth is still in its seedling phase,

its three-year-old debate over sprucing up Palo Alto’s dilapi-dated infrastructure is poised to finally bear fruit in spring 2014.

That’s when the council is to narrow its options for a revenue measure that would appear on the November ballot and launch an aggressive outreach campaign to raise support for the measure. If things go as planned, by the time the season concludes, some of the most pressing questions pertain-ing to the council’s second pri-ority of 2013 — “infrastructure strategy and funding” — should finally be answered, albeit with the glaring exception of a new police headquarters.

So far, an increase in hotel taxes is the most promising option on the table. The city’s current rate of 12 percent is on par with the neighboring communities of Red-wood City and Menlo Park but trails Oakland and San Francisco (which both have 14 percent rates) and Anaheim (15 percent).

A 2 percent increase in a hotel tax rate, also known as the tran-sient-occupancy tax, combined with proceeds from new hotels that are scheduled to come on-line, could net the city about $4.6 million, which the city could le-verage to obtain $64.4 million in infrastructure funding through a bond mechanism known as “cer-tificates of participation.”

A recent poll by the firm Fair-bank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates showed that 77 percent of the voters would approve a 2 percent increase to the city’s ho-tel tax, well above the two-thirds threshold a new tax would need

jams would be getting commuters out of cars entirely.

In recent months, city staff has been considering a host of “trans-portation demand management” strategies, including an expan-sion of the city’s shuttle program, a program to provide Caltrain GoPasses (allowing unlimited rides) to downtown employees, and the use of car-share services such as Zipcar and City CarShare at local garages.

At the Dec. 9 meeting, coun-cil members heard from leading experts in the field — Stanford University, Google and the Contra Costa Transit Center.

But learning about initiatives is one thing; implementing them is another. Google, for instance, offers its employees a conve-nient (and, for some, foreboding) shuttle service, a plethora of car-share and van-pool programs, and “conference bikes” that can seat up to seven employees, according to Kevin Mathis, Google’s trans-portation manager.

But Google, for all its feel-good frills and new-age amenities, is a benign dictatorship, with leaders at the top enjoying a monopoly on decision-making authority. Un-like the Mountain View giant, a Palo Alto transportation-demand-management (TDM) program would have to overcome a thicket of competing interests, including downtown employers, neighbor-hood residents, city workers and regional organizations, from Cal-trains to the VTA.

In early February, city planners and the council are scheduled to consider a formal program, including the establishment of “TDM districts,” which would re-quire businesses to track metrics and meet traffic-reduction targets for their employees.

The districts will likely include the better parts of downtown, California Avenue and the Stan-ford Research Park. After that, the council will have to consider funding mechanisms (it’s worth noting that deep-pocketed Google has 122 shuttle buses, while Palo Alto has two cross-town shuttles), traffic-reduction targets, and vari-ous carrots and sticks.

“It makes sense from a health standpoint, it makes sense from an environmental standpoint, (it) makes sense from a stress stand-point,” Councilman Marc Berman

The year ahead

14 numbers for 20141 — The average number of

days it now takes for the city to is-sue a permit for an electric-vehicle charger, down from 33 in 2012.

5 — The number of open seats on the City Council in November 2014.

17 — The number of firefight-ers now eligible to retire, suggest-ing significant department turn-

over this year.

21 — The number of months that have passed since the ex-pected opening of the new Mitch-ell Park Library and Community Center, which should finally open this year.

30 — The number of years, combined, that Larry Klein and Liz Kniss will have served on the

Palo Alto City Council. Klein will conclude his second consecutive term and will not be eligible to run again. Kniss will conclude her year as vice mayor and prepare for her third stint as mayor next year.

41 — The number of lane-miles that the city repaved in 2013 as part of an effort to fix damaged streets, which represents about 10 percent of the city’s total of

403 miles. The council spent $5.1 million on street paving in 2013, compared to $1.8 million in 2011. The pace should continue in 2014.

$67.36 — The average monthly residential water bill in Palo Alto, after the city raised wa-ter rates by 7 percent in July. The city’s rates, already much higher than those in neighboring juris-

dictions, are slated to rise by an-other 7 percent in July 2014. This is largely due to the higher cost of water supply, local capital proj-ects and the $4.6-billion effort by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (which supplies Palo Alto) to refurbish the aged Hetch Hetchy system.

76 — The percent by which Palo Alto’s revenues from hotel

Crews repave a stretch of Alma Street near East Meadow in 2013.

Spring

Key issue: Infrastructure fundingKey action: City Council to decide on ballot measure to pay for infrastructure projects Key question: Will the city make any progress on a new public-safety facility?

said Dec. 9, referring to a citywide TDM program.

Everyone on the council agrees. The big question is: How will Palo Alto get there?

for passage.Other options that the council

is considering for the November ballot include an increase in sales tax. Revenues from this increase, however, cannot be pegged spe-cifically to infrastructure projects but would have to go to the city’s General Fund, which pays for police, firefighters, libraries and most other basic services. Polls suggest a simple majority of vot-ers, but not a supermajority, would approve of a sales-tax hike.

The council may also opt to pursue a “transportation bond” to fund a host of bike and pedestri-an improvements, a package that polls suggest might barely win the needed supermajority.

According to the city’s sched-ule, staff and its consultants will spend March, April and May con-ducting outreach meetings and collecting feedback about the po-tential ballot measure before the council makes an official decision in June about a ballot measure.

During the council’s Dec. 9 dis-cussion, Larry Klein called the potential measure a “complicated issue,” with so many variables still “floating around.” Yet there are plenty of positive signs on the infrastructure front. The city now has a sizable infrastructure reserve, thanks to robust growth in its tax revenues and a recent policy decision to allocate budget surpluses in the General Fund to infrastructure fixes. In the past two year alone, the council had

transferred more than $16 million into its Infrastructure Reserve.

But things look as bleak as ever for a possible “public safety bond” that would pay for a new public-safety building and the reconstruc-tion of two outdated fire stations. November polls confirmed what many have suspected based on prior surveys: While a simple ma-jority of voters would be willing to pay for a new police building, the project probably wouldn’t net the needed two-thirds to pass.

“Until there is a more fully de-veloped package that the council has reviewed and signed off on, maybe more specific in its cost and lower amounts, it’s hard to see this measure winning,” poll-ster David Metz told the council on Dec. 9.

In December, the city’s long quest toward a new police build-ing suffered another hiccup when San Francisco developer Jay Paul Company withdrew a pro-posal that would have built the headquarters in exchange for the city’s permission to build an of-fice complex at 395 Page Mill Road. Though a public-safety bond remains a tough sell, the prospects of using proceeds from tax increases to build the new fa-cility now look far brighter than ever. Councilman Greg Scharff, who served on the council’s In-frastructure Committee this year, is optimistic that by the end of the year the city will have a clear path toward the new police build-

ing, which would replace the un-dersized and seismically deficient one at City Hall.

“I predict we will have a ballot measure that will fund infrastruc-ture improvements and, as part of that effort, we will come up with a plan for a public-safety build-ing,” Scharff told the Weekly this week.

W hile the police building remains a wild card, Palo Alto residents should see

plenty of infrastructure action on the ground this spring. The city has more than doubled its street-repair budget in recent years (an-nual spending grew from $1.8 million in 2011 to $5.1 million in 2013), with the goal of giving every street a passing grade by 2019. A badly damaged portion of Greer Road — depicted in the Infrastructure Blue Ribbon Com-mittee report as an example of the city’s dilapidating infrastructure — is one of many that is now freshly paved. Sidewalk replace-ment is also proceeding apace. Keene noted this week that the

Key issue: Infrastructure projectsKey action: Dozens of small infrastructure projects to move forward Key question: What to build next?

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E very now and then, Palo Altans suffering from de-velopment fatigue need a re-

minder that economic prosperity isn’t all that horrible a thing. This year’s budget season, which kicks off in May, promises to be par-ticularly sunny on the economic front, with revenues growing at a rapid clip in every major tax cate-gory and council members open-ing their minds to new spending opportunities.

At the council’s joint meeting with the Parks and Recreation Commission in early Decem-ber, one member after another pitched capital projects for the city to pursue. Larry Klein, a dog owner, argued that it’s high time the city address its shortage of dog parks. Pat Burt lobbied for revamping the Lucy Evans Bay-lands Interpretive Center. Greg Scharff advocated rebuilding the clubhouse at the soon-to-be-ren-ovated Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course.

“Our revenues are increasing,”

taxes are expected to have in-creased between 2010 and 2014, bringing in $5.2 million more for the city in 2014 over 2010.

99 — Percent of respondents to the National Citizen Survey who rated Palo Alto “good” or “excel-lent” as a place to work.

1,366 — Downtown’s parking shortage in 2014, after

new developments such as Lyt-ton Gateway and Epiphany Hotel come online. This according to an interactive projection model developed by Downtown North residents Neilson Buchanan and Eric Filseth.

2,860 — The number of housing units Palo Alto was di-rected to zone for as part of its 2007-14 Housing Element, which

the council approved just last year. This year, the council plans to certify its next Housing Ele-ment, addressing the latest state mandate for more housing.

250,000 — The amount, in square feet, of non-residential development in down-town Palo Alto since 1986, when the city established a downtown “development cap” of 350,000

square feet.

$4.7 million — The estimated cost of the California Av-enue Streetscape Project, which is set to kick off in February and continue for much of the year. That’s about $3 million more than what was projected in 2011, when the council agreed to reduce the number of lanes and replace street furniture on the commercial strip.

$15.3 million — The amount Palo Alto has in its steadily growing dark-fiber-optic fund, which could help pay for “Fiber to the Premise,” an effort to bring ultra-high-speed Internet access to the city’s masses. Utility Department staff and consultants will be putting together a master plan for the long-deferred program throughout 2014.

The Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course will undergo a major renovation starting this spring.Summer

Key issue: City budgetKey action: Council likely to approve budget with added services, projectsKey question: Which deferred capital projects will get the city’s backing?

city has replaced 98,000 square feet of sidewalks in 2013, almost double the 51,000 square feet re-placed in 2012.

Spring will also see one high-profile infrastructure project kick into full gear and another possibly come to a close. The long-awaited streetscape project on California Avenue, which includes a new plaza, new street furniture and a reduction of lanes from four to two, is expected to get going in the spring after years of legal and political setbacks. The even-lon-ger-awaited reconstruction of the Mitchell Park Library and Com-munity Center, Palo Alto’s largest infrastructure project in decades, is also scheduled to finally conclude, though after nearly two years of delays, construction errors and failed inspections, residents are advised not to hold their breaths. This week, Keene referred to the project’s construction saga as an “extreme disappointment” and assured residents that it is finally nearing completion.

Palo Alto’s golfers will also ex-perience some disruption in April as the city shuts down the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course and proceeds with a dramatic redesign that will shift just about every hole, emphasize the course’s Bay-lands setting and make it compat-ible with a regional flood-control plan shepherded by the San Fran-cisquito Creek Joint Powers Au-thority.

Another ambitious Baylands project that should see some prog-ress come spring is the planned bike bridge over U.S. Highway 101, at Adobe Creek. The city is now completing an environmen-tal review for this project and officials plan to launch a design competition for the new bridge in the spring. With a price tag of $10 million ($8 million of which is covered by grants), the bike-bridge project is one of the most dramatic and expensive components of Palo Alto’s recently adopted Bike and Pedestrian Master Plan. But it is far from the only bike project on the council’s immediate agenda. Keene said the city has as many as 18 bike projects on its annual to-do list. These include design-ing nine bike boulevards and five “enhanced bikeways.”

Spring will also be the time for the council to consider its next steps on one of the city’s most contentious infrastructure projects — a proposed waste-to-energy fa-cility, which could be located on a 10-acre portion of Byxbee Park

in the Baylands. Ever since vot-ers agreed in November 2011 to “undedicate” this parkland site for a waste facility, the city has been soliciting proposals from companies willing to either build an anaerobic digester — a plant that converts food waste, yard scraps and biosolids into energy — or export these materials to a different site for processing.

The issue, often framed as a green-on-green feud between proponents of renewable energy and proponents of park conser-vation, had remained behind the scenes for most of 2013, with city officials surveying options and studying the costs and benefits of each. Community meetings on next steps, initially pegged for December 2013, are now planned for later this month. Pub-lic Works staff plans to present a recommendation to the council in March or April.

Scharff said. “We’re in a much better situation than we were before, and some of these things may be very well worth doing.

There is a reason why council members are feeling so optimis-tic. In November, the financial re-sults from the first quarter of fis-cal year 2013 indicated the city is now in better financial shape than it was before the economic melt-down of 2008. The combination of benefit reforms for city workers and swelling tax revenues (sales-tax revenues alone jumped by 48 percent between the first quarters of 2012 and 2013) mean that the council will not be spending its spring and summer months won-dering what programs to cut and which positions to trim.

City Manager James Keene noted in his “year in review” presentation this week that hotel occupancy has risen from 66 per-cent in 2010 to 85 percent in 2014, prompting a tax-revenue increase of 76 percent, or $5.2 million, be-tween then and now.

Home-sales values, meanwhile, have risen from an average of $1.23 million in 2009 to $1.8 mil-lion in 2013, and property-trans-fer tax revenues (collected when property is bought and sold) have been growing by 19 percent a year since 2010.

Keene acknowledged in his presentation that the economic prosperity has brought plenty of problems, including parking and

traffic congestion. These pres-sures, he said, are “as inevitable as the profits we reap as a city.”

“There’s some good news and some bad news, but they come from the same source,” Keene said.

While the bad news is expected to dominate the council’s time and energy, much of the good news will be obscured in the fine print of the fiscal year 2015 budget that the council will adopt this sum-mer. Last year’s offering showed the General Fund growing by 4.6 percent, or $7 million, from the prior year. With the economy still sizzling, this year’s budget could see a similar leap.

T he very growth that is con-tributing to the city’s fi-nancial prosperity is also

bringing political headaches and raising thorny questions about planning and zoning. The council will spend much of 2014 hosting

community meetings focusing on growth and development, with topics ranging from the city’s Comprehensive Plan (its land-use bible), to a study of down-town that will assess its capacity for growth, to the downtown site known as 27 University Ave., where developer John Arrillaga had once hoped to build four sky-scrapers and a theater.

The Arrillaga proposal is now effectively dead, even as the wave of anxiety among residents that it helped usher in continues to grow. In December 2012 — long before the 2013 uproar over the Maybell development, which led to last November’s Measure D — resi-dents mounted a protest against the Arrillaga proposal, a product of months of closed-door negotia-tions between city officials and the billionaire developer. The council, which had considered holding a special election on the Arrillaga concept, abandoned the plan and opted to arrange a se-ries of public meetings to obtain a “community vision” for the site. More recently, city officials de-cided to fold the discussion of 27 University’s vision into the broad-er conversation about downtown development.

At the same time, new Mayor Nancy Shepherd and her council colleagues will spend much of its summer considering reforms to

Key issue: Development “recalibration”Key action: Council to consider changes to planned-community zoningKey question: Will the city reform its development process?

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T wo years ago, only six can-didates opted to run for City Council in Palo Alto,

making the election one of the mildest and most anti-climatic in recent years. With incumbents Pat Burt and Greg Schmid win-ning fresh seats in 2012 and Liz Kniss returning to a dais where she had previously spent more than a decade, Marc Berman was the only real newcomer to local politics.

Recent events suggest the 2014 election could be far more in-teresting, possibly resembling the council’s election in 2009. At that time, 14 candidates vied for five seats, and Greg Scharff, Nancy Shepherd, Karen Holman and Gail Price launched their council careers. The top vote-getter in that election was Larry Klein, whose second consecutive term will come to an end in 2014. Klein, who will have spent more than two decades on the coun-cil, is the only one not eligible to run for another four years. This means that when 2015 begins, the nine-member council will have at least one and possibly as many as five new members. In recent years, the city’s outgoing mayors — Peter Drekmeier (2009), Sid Espinosa (2011) and Yiaway Yeh (2012) have been reluctant to seek second terms. Scharff has no such reservations.

“I am going to run for another term in November,” Scharff told the Weekly this week, becoming the first candidate in what could shape up to be a crowded field.

The big question now is: Who will join him on the ballot?

The 2014 election should an-swer many of the questions raised by the 2013 one. Leaders of the “Vote Against D” campaign have maintained throughout the year that the 2013 election was never just about Maybell. They point to the support Barron Park received from all other city neighborhoods

the city’s development process. Councilman Pat Burt on Dec. 2 stressed the need to “recalibrate things” and “re-establish our credibility with the community.” This includes taking a stance against development propos-als that go far beyond what the public would accept and “dial-ing back” commercial develop-ment. Shepherd concurred that it’s important for the council to “recalibrate” how the council discusses development with the community.

This recalibration process, which began with a Dec. 2 dis-cussion and is set to continue in February, should heat up in the summer, when election season begins. Among the most critical questions that the council will wrestle with is whether to reform the city’s controversial “planned community” process, which al-

lows developers to swap negoti-ated “public benefits” for zoning exemptions.

So far council members have showed little appetite for abol-ishing planned communities, though some revisions may be on their way. On Dec. 2, the coun-cil offered a range of opinions on growth, with Karen Holman say-ing she would support a moratori-um on new development, Pat Burt advocating “moderate” growth, and Larry Klein rejecting any possible moratoriums and stress-ing the need to adjust to change. Gail Price also opposed a morato-rium on development, noting that the prosperous city is in desperate need of affordable housing, par-ticularly for seniors and young professionals.

“We can’t just stop and shut the doors,” Price said. “We need to keep moving.”

Yet by late summer, with elec-tion season in full swing, the pressure to act will be consider-able. The new group Palo Al-

tans for Sensible Zoning, which includes the leaders of the “Vote Against D” campaign, has been adamant about the need to kill or reform PC zoning. As Cheryl Lilienstein, president of the new citizens group, told the council on Jan. 6.: “Those of us who worked very hard against the high-density rezone of our neighborhood want to see some city-wide results from that effort.”

With new candidates joining the council-election race, crowds packing into the council chambers and disillusioned residents talking about recalling the existing coun-cil, the time may be politically ripe in late summer for the city to pivot from outreach meetings to meaningful reforms.

These reforms could take vari-ous shapes. After the 2013 election, Scharff said he would support lim-iting planned-community zones to areas outside neighborhoods. Burt argued that the council should be more forceful in immediately rejecting mega-projects such as

The year ahead

This year’s election will include a race for seats on the City Council and likely a measure to fund city-infrastructure repairs.

A proposal to build office towers at 27 University Ave., the site of MacArthur Park restaurant, has been dropped, but the city will consider what to do with the site as part of its study of downtown this year.

Fall

Key issue: ElectionKey action: Voters to choose five council members, vote on infrastructure measure. Key question: Who will rule the city in 2015?

ones proposed by Jay Paul Com-pany and John Arrillaga, thereby restoring the council’s credibility with the public. Another idea that was pitched by the Planning and Transportation Commission in-volves creating a menu of possible “public benefits” a developer could choose from in exchange for zon-ing exemptions — a reform that aims to make the zoning nego-tiations more predictable and less akin to late-night poker.

By the time the summer con-cludes, the council will have had plenty of time to consider these changes. And with the clock tick-ing toward Election Day, it may start implementing them.

and characterize their victory as a reflection of widespread public frustration about dense devel-opments, planned-community zones, unfortunately designed architecture and a council that fa-vors builders over citizens.

But for some members of the City Council, including Klein and Kniss, the Measure D message was muddled at best. On Dec. 2, Klein said he was “amazed” by the fact that “everyone seems to know what everyone felt in a vote.”

He agreed that Measure D told the council that it needs to “re-evaluate things” but said he has no idea what’s in the mind of the people who voted against the measure. He also noted that far more people voted in 2012 to elect Kniss, who supported the May-bell development, to the council. Presumably, he said, these voters endorse her views.

The city’s new mayor, Nancy Shepherd, also struggled to come to grips with the political turmoil of late 2013. At the Dec. 2 meet-ing, she marveled at the fact that so many people spoke out against the Maybell development back in June, when the council approved the zone change that enabled it, while so few stuck around after the Maybell discussion to watch the council adopt its Housing El-ement, an influential state-man-dated document that lays out the city’s housing policies and desig-nates future housing sites.

“I am trying to figure out how to navigate and read this commu-nity,” Shepherd said.

Whatever message one derives from the vote, the battle over May-bell gave birth to a new movement of citizen activists. Tim Gray, who had previously lost several bids to join the council and who helped lead the anti-D campaign, finally had a reason to celebrate in November. Joining him at the election after-party were neigh-borhoods leaders from College Terrace, Downtown North and other parts of the city nowhere near the Maybell site. Other neighborhood activists, including downtown’s Neilson Buchanan and former planning Commis-sioner Susan Fineberg, showed their solidarity with the “Vote Against D” camp by contributing money and speaking out at recent council meetings.

At the Dec. 2 meeting on the city’s future, Fineberg beseeched the council to represent “all of us,” not just a “powerful and en-trenched minority.”

“The citizens of Palo Alto should not be collateral damage in a fight for power and money,” Fineberg said, voicing a popular sentiment.

Will this sentiment coalesce into political action? Stay tuned.


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“Lone Survivor” bucks the trend of recent thought-provoking tales of survival like “All is Lost,” “Gravity” and “12 Years a Slave.” The firepower-filled film based on Marcus Luttrell’s nonfiction book (co-written with Patrick Robinson) takes for granted the simple psychological drive of survival and doesn’t pause to con-sider philosophical implications. The main impression “Lone Sur-vivor” leaves is of bodies taking incredible punishment and cling-ing to life while under constant attack.

Producer-star Mark Wahlberg plays Luttrell, one of a four-man SEAL team tasked with locating and assassinating senior Taliban commander Ahmad Shah (Yousuf Azami). Dispatched as a part of 2005’s Operation Red Wings, Luttrell’s colleagues include team leader Lt. Michael P. Mur-phy (Taylor Kitsch), Danny Di-etz (Emile Hirsch) and Matthew Axelson (Ben Foster). Based in Bagram, the men hunker down in

the Hindu Kush mountains of the Kunar province to stake out Shah and plan their move.

But their wooded cover isn’t as secure as they believed, and the mission quickly devolves. Once surrounded by dozens of Taliban, the mission becomes one of hope-ful radio contact (compromised by the rocky terrain) and pure en-durance. Bad proceeds to worse and worst before the spoiler-y title comes to pass. Echoing “China-town,” Luttrell puts it, “It’s just Afghanistan, that’s all.”

One might read into that com-ment and the failed operation a whiff of doubt about the War in Afghanistan, but tonally this “band of bros” story celebrates the toughness and fraternal bond of the American military man. Di-rector Peter Berg (“Friday Night Lights,” “Battleship”) opens with a montage, demonstrating the elite status of the Navy SEAL, that could easily double as a re-cruitment film; subsequent jocular banter attempts to endear us to the men about to be in harm’s way.

The film’s final act balances the monstrous Taliban with the Pashtun villagers who provide aid and com-fort to Luttrell out of their ancient code of honor and current hatred of the Taliban; the enemy of their enemy is their friend. So “Lone Survivor,” despite depicting trau-matic war horrors, isn’t an anti-war film. What it is, unambiguously, is pro-troops. And with reasonable accuracy and visceral expressive-ness, it depicts true events.

Still, the unwillingness to “en-gage” in larger questions dis-concertingly reduces a real-life tragedy to an action movie. When violence helps to tell a story of thematic import, that’s one thing, and when action serves as an ele-ment in an adventure fiction, that’s another, but “Lone Survivor” is something else entirely, some-thing that some will find deeply stirring and others will consider off-putting, if not distasteful.

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as little more than a catalyst for explosive reactions amongst the characters and secrets jammed into the dim, depressing Weston house. (Tapping the shades, one character ruefully remarks, “You can’t tell if it’s night or day.”)

And so the three sisters — Barbara (Julia Roberts), Ivy (Julianne Nicholson) and Karen (Juliette Lewis) — commiserate and attempt to handle, or simply bear, their overbearing mother, whose ironic mouth cancer has her doubling down on her ad-dictions to pills and sowing un-happiness. Why, Violet seems to reckon, should she be alone in being miserable? There’s enough to go around. Under-neath the vitriol, though, we’re led to believe that the lyrics of Violet’s favorite boogie (“Lay Down Sally”) express a hidden longing for the best family has to offer.

All of the play’s shock-value plot bombs, and its overdoses of self-destructiveness and destruc-tiveness, can be a bit obvious and get a bit tedious. The play-wright has adapted his own work for director John Wells (“The Company Men”) but absent the electricity of live-wire live per-formance, the play’s paucity of depth becomes more obvious. What’s left to carry the day are a nasty streak of black comedy and the redoubtable acting en-semble.

Streep does her virtuoso thing, not so much disappearing into a role as playing it like the world’s greatest electric-guitar solo; her performance is just what the film needs, and it’s nicely comple-mented by Roberts’ sourly reac-tive turn (it’s one of the play’s best jokes — and threats — that Barbara seems well on her way to becoming Violet).

Also kicking around are Ewan McGregor, the ubiquitous Bene-dict Cumberbatch, Margo Mar-tindale, Chris Cooper, Dermot Mulroney and Misty Upham, all entirely effective. With material that often spikes to 11 on the volume dial, the understatement of actors like Nicholson and Cooper redefines scene steal-ing and swiftly endears those characters and their portrayers to the audience.

One thing’s for sure. When people get a load of the dinner scene here, they’ll be counting their lucky stars for the relative calm of their own family get-togethers.

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FREE FABRIC ... The next Fab-Mo free fabric distribution event is Friday, Jan. 10, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 11, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Appointments are required, to help manage the crowds (Email [email protected] with preferred date and time), but some drop-in hours are included. The distribution, with a requested donation, takes place at 2423 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View. Volunteer greet-ers and sorters are also needed. Information: www.fabmo.org

MONTHLY PLANT CLINIC ... UC Master Gardeners staff a walk-in plant clinic at Gamble Garden, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto, from 9 to 11 a.m. on the second Saturday of each month. They will also answer garden-ing questions every Friday from 1 to 4 p.m. Information: Master Gardeners at 408-282-3105, be-tween 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Monday through Friday or http://mastergardeners.org or Palo Alto Gardening Hotline: 650-329-1356, ext. 205

TREE WALK ... An arborist will lead a free tree walk Saturday, Jan. 11, 10 a.m. to noon, around the Lucie Stern Community Center and surrounding neighborhood, meeting at the Children’s Library, 1276 Harriet St., Palo Alto. Expect to see a host of tree species, in-cluding London plane tree, eastern redbud, Floering dogwood, Aus-tralian willow and more. Informa-tion: www.canopy.org.

CREEKSIDE PLANTING ... Ac-terra is sponsoring a workday from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 11, meeting at the grassy park adjacent to the pumphouse at the intersection of Palo Alto Avenue and Hale Street in Palo Alto. Bring a reusable wa-ter bottle and sturdy shoes and long pants to spend a few hours pulling invasive ivy along San Francisquito Creek. Volunteers of all ages welcome. Information: www.acterra.org

UNDER THE OAKS ... Master Gardner Abby Garner will dis-cuss “Gardening Under Oaks and Dry Shade Gardening” from 1 to 2 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 17, at Avenidas, 450 Bryant St., Palo Alto. The free class will cover landscape plants that thrive in dry, shady conditions, such as under native oaks, as well as how to care for majestic oaks. Information: Pre-register at the front desk at Avenidas or call

Exciting? Yes! A serious offer? Ma-a-a-a-ybe. Did the market value of this house (and by the transitive property, all compa-rable neighboring homes surrounding it) just jump to $5 million? Absolutely not.

While this story may, as they say on TV crime shows, be “based on actual events,” the instances of these offers actually pan-ning out are few and far between. But let’s assume for fun that the offer is genuine and that the coveted home is your home. The person knocking on your door actu-ally has $5 million cash, is eager to hand it over and move into your house next month.

Now you need to ask yourself: Is the windfall worth pulling up roots? Are you

ready to take on all the ensuing drama and hard work? Are you willing to possibly change neighborhoods, towns, schools, jobs? Are you prepared to say goodbye to your home? If you’ve weighed the pros and cons and decided to take the money, I say go for it and never look back. This windfall will likely never happen again.

Which leads me to my next point. This $5 million offer will likely never happen again. Did I just say that? In two or three years, when you are ready to sell, your home’s market value is $3 million, not $5 million. Even assuming the $5 million cash offer was “real,” it does not mean your home value shot up into the strato-sphere overnight and never came back down. It came back down the minute you said “no thank you” and sent that $5 mil-lion wad of cash on his or her way.

Which is not to say you made the wrong decision in turning the offer down! You may have decided that it just wasn’t worth it to you or your family to leave your home. I personally think this deci-sion is often the best one. Your home is not simply an investment like stocks or CDs — it’s your shelter, your holidays, your family and friend headquarters, and in reality it may make you a lot happier than any pile of money could. Turning down the extraordinary offer is not al-ways a bad idea, even if it is a once-in-a-lifetime offer.

The reason this scenario is coming up a lot recently? I’ll give you a hint. It rhymes with Puckerberg. As we all know by now, Mark Zuckerberg bought the four homes surrounding his Crescent Park property for a lot of money — roughly $30 million. As reported by the New York Times and virtually every other media outlet in the country, he paid a “whopping $14 mil-lion” for the house next to his, twice what he paid for his own much larger home a couple of years ago. While it sits in a lovely neighborhood and by any standard is worth a number in the many millions, this neighbor’s home was not worth $14 million until Mark Zuckerberg decided it was worth $14 million. Yippee and bravo to Zuckerberg’s neighbor for that lucky geographic fluke, or what I sometimes think of as an Act of God.

Light, anecdotal dinner-party conver-sation aside, I’ve seen people base their retirement plans on one of these Acts of God (aka extraordinary offers). This is a problem. If you decide to decline one of these Acts of God and to stay in your home, you do so with my absolute bless-ing. But please do not count on someone to come knocking again with $5 million burning a hole in her pocket, or for Mark Zuckerberg to move in next door any time soon. My sense is he’s pretty well settled where he is for the time being.

Michael Dreyfus founded boutique brokerage Dreyfus Properties, with of-fices in Palo Alto and Menlo Park, in 2000. He can be reached at [email protected].

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bor/friend/coworker got a knock on his or her door offering $5 million cash for a house this neighbor/friend/coworker paid only $3 million for just last year.

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

Atherton95 Heather Drive J. Nazzaro to W. Shi for $3,980,000 on 12/2/13

Los Altos607 Jay St. W. Holway to Hin & Zaak Trust for $2,600,000 on 12/18/1311091 Mora Drive H. & G. Lim to P. & Y. Wang for $2,300,000 on 12/17/13; previous sale 11/00, $2,600,0001250 Payne Drive Dietrich Trust to C. & C. Afarian for $1,712,000 on 12/17/131224 Russell Ave. Russell Av-enue Associates to Machlin Trust for $3,150,000 on 12/16/13; pre-vious sale 8/12, $1,300,000

371 Warec Way Foley Trust to C. & H. Ho for $2,835,000 on 12/17/13; previous sale 10/03, $1,510,000

Menlo Park1251 Orange Ave. Tuhey Trust to V. Kapur for $1,690,000 on 11/26/13; previous sale 8/01, $750,500

Mountain View181 Centre St. #1 R. Nystrom to S. Wasson for $710,000 on 12/18/13505 Cypress Point Drive #78 Haylett Trust to J. Robbins for $392,500 on 12/17/13; previous sale 11/05, $328,000716 Pettis Ave. S. & Q. Lee to Y. Ho for $1,465,000 on 12/17/13; previous sale 5/12, $1,170,0002746 St. Giles Lane Summerhill Grant Road to A. Kenitzer for $2,250,000 on 12/17/13; previ-ous sale 11/02, $471,500

Redwood City662 3rd Ave. N. Taleghani to J. Wright for $685,000 on 11/27/13

318 A St. R. & J. Hensler to A. Lantz for $712,500 on 11/12/13; previous sale 5/10, $568,000186 Alexander Ave. Federal National Mortgage to S. Osier for $501,000 on 11/22/13; previous sale 8/03, $390,000727 Beech St. Mackenhausen Trust to A. Reichert for $675,000 on 11/27/132853 Blenheim Ave. Y. Gil to J. Ayala for $700,000 on 11/27/131918 Brewster Ave. G. Bor-rmann to Mckeon Trust for $1,155,000 on 11/26/13; previous sale 10/09, $1,114,000112 Central Ave. A. Abboud to W. Lee for $1,450,000 on 11/22/13; previous sale 9/05, $1,325,0001123 Cleveland St. Passman Trust to M. & K. Richards for $615,000 on 11/19/13464 Clinton St. #208 A. Mc-Farlin to E. Dobrea for $422,000 on 11/21/13; previous sale 9/11, $210,000101 Columbia Ave. Lencioni Trust to A. Slonina for $770,000

AthertonTotal sales reported: 1Lowest sales price: $3,980,000Highest sales price: $3,980,000

Los AltosTotal sales reported: 5Lowest sales price: $1,712,000Highest sales price: $3,150,000

Menlo ParkTotal sales reported: 1Lowest sales price: $1,690,000Highest sales price: $1,690,000

Mountain ViewTotal sales reported: 4Lowest sales price: $392,500 Highest sales price: $2,250,000

Redwood CityTotal sales reported: 47Lowest sales price: $280,000 Highest sales price: $3,700,000

WoodsideTotal sales reported: 1Lowest sales price: $1,800,000Highest sales price: $1,800,000

SALES AT A GLANCE

Owners spared no expense in creating the feeling of an Italian Villa

(in French Renaissance décor), similar to what you might expect on

Nob Hill or in Rome. The exciting and exquisite details were carefully

chosen from the 15th Century Living Room Fireplace to the architec-

tural features of the Custom Cabinets in the Dining Room matching

the frames for the imported Venetian blinds. There are decorating

surprises too numerous to mention—the Master Bedroom Walk-

in Closet is a triumph of design and organization!! Also featuring

hardwood fl oors and crown mouldings throughout, a covered patio

with wet bar looking out to the 14th Fairway, two car underground

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BYO SEWING MACHINE ... FabMo’s Bron and Marge will offer a chance for sewers to bring their own machines (and projects) for a SewMo event from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 14, at 2423 Old Middle-field Way, Mountain View. (Some machines are avail-able for use on site.) Cost is $5. Information: www.fabmo.org

GROW BIOINTENSIVE ... Eric Buteyn, man-ager of the Ecology Ac-tion headquarters farm in Willits, Calif., will teach the “Introduction to Grow Biointensive” class from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 18, at Com-mon Ground, 559 College Ave., Palo Alto. The class will cover double-digging, carbon and calorie farming, composting, intensive plant spacing, companion plant-ing and using open-polli-nated seeds. Cost is $31; the series of nine classes is $218. Information: 650-493-6072 or www.com-mongroundinpaloalto.org

Home Fronton 11/15/13855 Columbia Circle R. Zhang to J. & M. Bostock for $981,000 on 11/25/13; previous sale 2/98, $437,000326 Commander Lane Wang Trust to J. Hsu for $895,000 on 11/26/13; previous sale 4/05, $830,000429 Cork Harbour Circle #A Y. Son to E. Chinn for $548,000 on 11/13/13; previous sale 8/07, $540,0001293 Crompton Road D. Pe-terson to M. Dorywalska for $837,500 on 11/14/13890 Edgewood Road Turi-ello Trust to Moquin Trust for $3,700,000 on 11/25/13; previ-ous sale 7/09, $2,800,0004028 Farm Hill Blvd. #1 G. & E. Horng to T. Bunnell for $592,000 on 11/18/13; previous sale 4/05, $560,0004000 Farm Hill Blvd. #201 R. Lall to Yee Trust for $455,000 on 11/22/13; previous sale 8/89, $219,500168 G St. D. & R. Eikleberry to M. & L. Melendez for $755,000 on 11/22/13; previous sale 2/94, $238,000218 Hartstene Drive S. & N. Melley to H. Wang for $950,000 on 11/20/13; previous sale 3/11, $771,000988 Haven Ave. M. Barrat to F. Li for $650,000 on 11/21/13; previ-ous sale 3/84, $133,0001458 Hudson St. #213 Federal Home Loan Mortgage to B. Mur-phy for $280,000 on 11/15/13; previous sale 4/03, $252,000536 Iris St. Buch Trust to C. Modlin for $1,226,000 on 11/7/13; previous sale 6/07, $1,200,0001603 Jefferson Ave. G. Tinoco to D. Shen for $850,000 on 11/22/131057 Jones Court Cullinane Trust to F. Bou-Salman for

$730,000 on 11/14/13; previous sale 3/12, $250,00020 Kenna Court S. Probst to Kwan Trust for $1,375,000 on 11/15/13; previous sale 12/10, $998,0002731 Kensington Road D. Christie to P. & G. Mason for $1,090,000 on 11/15/13413 Lincoln Ave. K. & S. Kamio-ka to H. & P. Malkin for $675,000 on 11/21/13; previous sale 1/10, $560,0001090 Main St. #409 C. Shiver-decker to X. Liu for $430,000 on 11/19/13779 Mediterranean Lane M. Vento to J. Cox for $885,000 on 11/27/13; previous sale 1/06, $845,000757 Newport Circle J. Hsu to A. Everson-Trimble for $750,000 on 11/14/13; previous sale 2/00, $465,0002455 Ohio Ave. Barter Trust to B. Lycett for $951,000 on 11/22/1335 Palomar Oaks Lane N. & B. Ceschin to Smith Trust for $2,200,000 on 11/22/13; previ-ous sale 7/08, $352,000343 Quay Lane S. Knowles to J. Labat for $1,228,000 on 11/20/13; previous sale 10/93, $328,000115 Redwood Ave. E. & A. Buenrostro to A. Morales for $415,000 on 11/20/13; previous sale 4/04, $150,000752 Sapphire St. M. Baldwin-Pepitone to A. Botto for $825,000 on 11/22/13; previous sale 3/07, $866,000643 Scott Ave. N. & L. Lyon to L. Serrano for $703,000 on 11/12/13; previous sale 4/11, $449,500531 Shoal Circle P. & C. Mertens to B. Zhao for $832,000 on 11/12/13; previous sale 5/93, $307,000213 Shorebird Circle J. Fike to

R. Gelenberg for $510,000 on 11/26/13; previous sale 5/05, $535,000562 Stanford Ave. Spiller Trust to C. Russell for $525,000 on 12/2/13129 Stratford St. S. Cowey-Catalli to C. Clegg for $1,450,000 on 11/26/13; previous sale 6/09, $1,330,000106 Sydney Lane L. Dean to C. Wong for $710,000 on 11/27/13; previous sale 9/04, $620,000642 Turnbuckle Drive #1801 One Marina Homes to J. Tan for $917,000 on 11/19/13642 Turnbuckle Drive #1806 One Marina Homes to A. Abedi for $818,000 on 11/19/13644 Turnbuckle Drive #2002 One Marina Homes to K. & W. Pituley for $850,000 on 12/2/13839 Upland Road M. Gugliel-mana to E. & S. Roodhouse for $1,150,000 on 11/14/13; previous sale 8/00, $735,000402 West Oakwood Blvd. R. Kloppenborg to I. & M. Ahmad for $1,300,000 on 11/15/13; pre-vious sale 3/95, $410,0001136 Woodside Road M. & J. McCarty to D. Zhou for $515,000 on 11/26/13; previous sale 7/06, $575,000

Woodside15 Upper Lake Road Eldredge Trust to M. & T. Murray for $1,800,000 on 12/2/13

BUILDING PERMITSPalo Alto

4231 Manuela Ave. re-roof, $8,900267 Curtner Ave. replace three beams at roof, $3,4004133 Park Blvd. replace pipe-burst sewer all on property side, $n/a180 Hamilton Ave. install chan-delier at lobby area, $n/a147 Hawthorne Ave. demo ga-rage, $n/a4111 Park Blvd. remodel bath-room, $4,800432 Webster St. replace gas manifold to accommodate two meters and install gas service, $n/a3419 Rambow Drive reroute gas line over roof, $n/a549 W. Crescent Drive re-roof, $34,516; re-roof garage, $4,250989 Commercial St. re-roof, $9,8002514 Ramona St. emergency gas leak repair, $n/a700 Hansen Way upgrade ac-cessible restrooms, $n/a3618 Louis Road re-roof, $7,500545 N. California Ave. replace siding with stucco, re-roof, cre-ate storage loft in garage, install skylight, extend electrical to ga-rage, $15,000675 Greer Road install flush-mounted rooftop PV system, $n/a201 Creekside Drive extend gasline to fireplace for future fire-place insert, $n/a728 Gailen Ave. roof-mounted PV system, $n/a2125 Louis Road replace fur-nace, $n/a

204 Wilton Ave. install new mini split system heat pump, $n/a465 El Capitan Place upgrade electric service, $n/a4181 Donald Drive re-roof, $13,500311 Hawthorne Ave. revise structural details for concrete footings, $n/a728 Middlefield Road replace main electric panel, relocate gas meters, $n/a2303 Louis Road replace sewer line, $n/a222 Sequoia Ave. replace fur-nace, $n/a3373 Cork Oak Way relocate kitchen, remodel master bath-room, $25,000730 Middlefield Road replace main electric panel, relocate gas meters, $n/a1425 Harker Ave. relocate panel toward rear of property, $n/a828 Ames Ave. install house sewer clean out, $n/a2758 Randers Court replace three windows, $n/a1900 Barbara Drive install 12 rooftop, flush-mounted solar PV panels, $n/a1090 Tanland Drive, Apt. 202 remodel kitchen and bathroom, $11,5222150 High St. replace attic insu-lation, $1,7403333 Coyote Hill Road interior nonstructural demo, third floor, $n/a737 Center Drive remodel kitchen, $31,0002724 Ross Road install electric vehicle charging station in ga-rage, $n/a3120 Waverley St. install elec-tric vehicle charging station in garage, $n/a305 Tioga Court re-roof, $14,7873051 Alma St. re-roof, $10,9003500 Deer Creek Road tenant improvement, install lighting, out-

lets and change door swing, $n/a411 Lytton Ave. re-roof garage, $8,0003039 Alma St. re-roof, $10,9002385 Santa Ana St. install elec-tric vehicle charging station on exterior of garage, $n/a3321 Alma St. red tag, gas line repair, $n/a3500 Deer Creek Road install charging station, $5,000; add 120V quad receptacles, $n/a; Title 24 updates, $n/a1044 Forest Ave. revise bath-room framing, relocate door, $n/a298 Iris Way demo pool and pool equipment, $n/a575 High St. 125 sf upgrades to Suite 100, including new mop sink and hand sink, new storage, $6,5002327 Sierra Court remodel at-tached garage, convert to work-shop with half bath, $15,000879 Colorado Ave. add electrical for wall-mounted TV, track light-ing and wall sconces, $5001881 Page Mill Road interior tenant improvement, includes lunch room, copy room and pri-vate offices, $500,000850 Hansen Way Nest Labs: tenant improvement, includ-ing interior renovation for office and lab use, $200,000; ADA upgrades to restrooms on both floors and paths, $120,0003401 Hillview Ave. VMWare: build out teleproduction studio, $440,000900 Arastradero Road re-roof penthouse, $n/a2311 Columbia St. replace split system on side yard, $n/a2865 Park Blvd. temporary power, Port-a-Potty located in public right of way, $n/a3000 Hanover St. iron fence anchorage detail, $n/a

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ATHERTON4 Bedrooms187 Atherton Av $6,895,000Sun 1-4 Intero-Woodside 206-6200

5 Bedrooms73 Nora Wy $2,688,000Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 323-7751

6+ Bedrooms19 Prado Secoya St $14,450,000Sun 1-4 Intero -Woodside 206-6200

EAST PALO ALTO4 Bedrooms172 Jasmine Wy $649,000Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161

LOS ALTOS4 Bedrooms1452 Marlbarough Ct $1,799,000Sat/Sun 12-5 Coldwell Banker 941-7040

LOS ALTOS HILLS4 Bedrooms13464 Carillo Ln $2,695,000Sat/Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 529-1111

LOS GATOS2 Bedrooms105 Olive Street $935,000Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group 323-1900

MENLO PARK3 Bedrooms - Townhouse622 Sand Hill Ci $1,350,000Sun 8z Real Estate 799-6204

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MOUNTAIN VIEW3 Bedrooms1135 Phyllis Av $1,280,000Sat/Sun 1-4:30 Alain Pinel Realtors 941-1111

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REDWOOD CITY3 Bedrooms180 Santa Clara Av $995,000Sun Coldwell Banker 851-266615 Winston Wy $1,099,000Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 941-1111

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3360 Kingsley Court, Pebble Beach

$5,750,000Listing Provided by:Sharon Smith Lic.#01780563

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2313 Bay View Avenue, Carmel

$4,095,000Listing Provided by:James Shin Lic.#01358693

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2331 Crest Lane, Menlo Park

$3,895,000Listing Provided by:Greg Goumas Lic.#01878208

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18691 Vessing Road, Saratoga

$3,700,000Listing Provided by:CJ Brasiel Lic.#01509579

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19330 Saratoga Los Gatos Rd., Saratoga

$3,268,000Listing Provided by:Joanna Hsu Lic.#01394844

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28 Oak Creek Lane, San Carlos

$2,850,000Listing Provided by:James Shin Lic.#01358693

Pending

2819 Eaton Ave, San Carlos

$2,807,500Listing Provided by:Greg Goumas Lic.#01878208

Sold

3 Massol Court, Los Gatos

$2,750,000Listing Provided by:Dominic Nicoli Lic.#01449209

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1901 Buckeye Court, Pleasanton

$2,695,000Listing Provided by:Cathy Jackson Lic.#00816905

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19380 Bainter Ave, Los Gatos

$2,650,000Listing Provided by:Young Jacob Lic.#01274983

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15231 Quito Road, Saratoga

$2,650,000Listing Provided by:Rob Godar Lic.#01356357

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721 Orange Avenue, Los Altos

$2,400,000Listing Provided by:Dominic Nicoli & Irene Reed Lic.#01112681 & 01879122

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Casa Del Sol, Gilroy

$2,250,000Listing Provided by:Linda Pond & Kevin Godden Lic.#00827031 & 01838690

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$1,950,000Listing Provided by:Grant, Griffi th & Jones Lic.#00890691

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Los Altos By Appointment Only Call for priceEXCLUSIVE Outstanding new construction! Lots of impressive fea-tures throughout home! 5 BR/6.5 BA Rod Creason CalBRE #01443380 650.325.6161

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Portola Valley By Appointment Only $1,990,000Unique opportunity to build your dream home in Blue Oaks! Tranquil setting with views.John Alexander CalBRE #00938234 650.323.7751

San Jose Sat/Sun 1 - 4 $1,275,0001808 Mcniff Pl Remodeled! Mstr Ste,2 add’l bdrms & full bth upstairs, Jr.Ste dwnstrs. Cambrian schools 4 BR/3.5 BA John Nelson CalBRE #01152878 650.323.7751

East Palo Alto Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $649,000172 Jasmine Wy Spacious 4 bed/3 bath home with hardwood floors, sunroom and overlooking golf course! 4 BR/3 BA DiPali Shah CalBRE #01249165 650.325.6161

Los Altos Open Sat/Sun 12-5 $1,799,0001452 Marlborough Ct Large C-D-S lot. Beautiful hardwood floor-ing throughout. Updated kit. Fresh paint in & out.Lindy Latham CalBRE#01906589 650.941.7040

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MOUNTAIN VIEW 1135 Phyllis AveContemporary 3bd/3ba home near downtown Mountain View. 2-car garage. Huff Elementary School. $1,280,000


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REDWOOD CITY 15 Winston WayStunning 3bd/2ba remodeled home located at the end of a cul-de-sac in desirable neighborhood. $1,099,000


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115 AnnouncementsPregnant? Thinking of Adoption? Talk with car-ing agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families Nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby's One True Gift Adoptions. 866-413-6293. Void in Illinois/New Mexico/Indiana (AAN CAN)Dance Expressions (ages 3 +)new Holiday musicoriginal ringtonesStanford music tutoringStanford Research Healthy Womensubstitute pianist availableWPNS Preschool Open House

130 Classes & InstructionAirline Careers begin here - Get FAA approved Aviation Maintenance Technician training. Job placement and Financial assistance for qualified students. CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance 888-242-3382 (Cal-SCAN)Airline Careers begin here - Get trained as FAA certi-fied Aviation Technician. Housing and Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance, 877-492-3059. (AAN CAN)German language classInstruction for Hebrew Bar and Bat Mitzvah For Affiliated and Unaffiliated George Rubin, M.A. in Hebrew/Jewish Education 650/424-1940

Learn to Square Dance Exercise your brain by learning new things. You will have fun and make new friends. Adult Singles and Couples New Class Starts Monday, Jan. 20, 7:30 pm Loyola School 770 Berry Ave., Los Altos www.bowsandbeaus.org Info - call Nanci 650-390-9261

133 Music LessonsChristina Conti Private Piano Instruction (650) 493-6950Hope Street Music Studios In downtown Mtn.View. Most Instruments voice. All ages & levels 650-961-2192 www.HopeStreetMusicStudios.com Piano Lessons in Palo Alto Call Alita at 650.838.9772

135 Group ActivitiesEarth Day on the Bay

145 Non-Profits NeedsDONATE BOOKS/HELP PA LIBRARYWISH LIST FRIENDS PA LIBRARY

150 VolunteersFosterers Needed for Moffet CatsFRIENDS OF THE PALO ALTO LIBRARY

For Sale201 Autos/Trucks/Partstoyota 2001 highlander - $11,000

202 Vehicles WantedCash for Cars Any Car/Truck. Running or Not! Top Dollar Paid. We Come To You! Call For Instant Offer: 1-888-420-3808 www.cash4car.com (AAN CAN)DirecTV Over 140 channels only $29.99 a month. Call Now! Triple savings! $636.00 in Savings, Free upgrade to Genie & 2013 NFL Sunday ticket free!! Start saving today! 1-800-291-0350 (Cal-SCAN)Donate Your Car Fast Free Towing 24 hr. Response - Tax Deduction. UNITED BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION. Providing Free Mammograms and Breast Cancer Info. 888-792-1675 (Cal-SCAN)

210 Garage/Estate SalesPalo Alto, 4000 Middlefield Road, Jan. 11 &12, 10-4Palo Alto, 50 Embarcadero Rd, 9:00-3:00

215 Collectibles & AntiquesNice! Grateful Dead Poster Rare! - $79.00Wow Jimi Hendrix Rock Poster! - $29.00Wow! Grateful Dead Rock Poster - $69.00Wow! See! The Rolling Stones - $29.00

235 Wanted to BuyCash for Diabetic Test Strips Don't throw boxes away-Help others. Unopened /Unexpired boxes only. All Brands Considered! Call Anytime! 24hrs/7days (888) 491-1168 (Cal-SCAN)

240 Furnishings/Household items Sewing Machine Cabinet - $85.00Antique Loveseat, Rocker, Chair - $100.00Teen Bedroom Locker Furniture - $500

245 MiscellaneousAT&T U-verse for just $29/mo! BUNDLE & SAVE with AT&T Internet+Phone+TV and get a FREE pre-paid Visa Card! (select plans). HURRY, CALL NOW! 800-319-3280 (Cal-SCAN)DISH TV Retailer Starting at $19.99/month (for 12 mos.) & High Speed Internet starting at $14.95/month (where available.) SAVE! Ask About SAME DAY Installation! CALL Now! 1-800-357-0810 (Cal-SCAN)Reduce Your Cable Bill Get an All-Digital Satellite system installed for FREE and programming starting at $24.99/mo. FREE HD/DVR upgrade for new callers, SO CALL NOW! (877)366-4509 (Cal-SCAN)Reduce Your Cable Bill* Get a whole-home Satellite system installed at NO COST and programming starting at $19.99/mo. FREE HD/DVR Upgrade to new callers, SO CALL NOW 1-866-982-9562 (Cal-SCAN

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425 Health ServicesMedical Guardian Top-rated medical alarm and 24/7 med-ical alert monitoring. For a limited time, get free equipment, no activation fees, no commitment, a 2nd waterproof alert button for free and more - only $29.95 per month. 800-761-2855 (Cal-SCAN)Safe Step Walk-in Tub Safe Step Walk-In Tub Alert for Seniors. Bathroom falls can be fatal. Approved by Arthritis Foundation. Therapeutic Jets. Less Than 4 Inch Step-In. Wide Door. Anti-Slip Floors. American Made. Installation Included. Call 800-799-4811 for $750 Off. (Cal-SCAN)

Jobs500 Help Wanted

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Needed — Part Time Assistant for a Mountain View Family Childcare M-F 8am-1:30. Fluent English & legal to work in US. Call Mitiko after 6pm (650)917-9501

540 Domestic Help Wanted

Technology Hewlett-Packard Company is accept-ing resumes for the position of IT Developer/ Engineer in Palo Alto, CA (Ref. #PALKKA1). Research, design, develop, configure, integrate, test, document and maintain existing and new business applications and/or information systems solutions (including security and identify management infrastructure and databases) through the integration of technical and business requirements. Mail resume to Hewlett-Packard Company, 5400 Legacy Drive, MS H1-6F-61, Plano, TX 75024. Resume must include Ref. #, full name, email address and mailing address. No phone calls please. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. with-out sponsorship. EOE.

560 Employment InformationDrivers: CDL-A Train and Work for Us! Professional, focused CDL training available. Choose Company Driver, Owner Operator, Lease Operator or Lease Trainer. (877) 369-7126 www.CentralTruckDrivingJobs.com (Cal-SCAN)Drivers: Top 1% Pay Pet & Rider Progs. Exp Pays - up to 50 cpm. Full Benefits + Quality Hometime. CDL-A Req 877-258-8782. www.ad-drivers.com (Cal-SCAN)Homemailer Program Make extra money in our free ever popular homemailer program, includes valuable guidebook! Start immediately! Genuine! 1-888-292-1120 www.easy-work-fromhome.com (AAN CAN)Mail Brochures from Home $1,000 WEEKLY!! Helping home work-ers since 2001. Genuine Opportunity. No Experience required. Start Immediately www.mailingmembers.com (AAN CAN)Media Makeup Artists Earn $500 a day. Airbrush & Media Makeup Artists For: Ads - TV - Film - Fashion. Train and Build Portfolio in 1 week. www.AwardMakeupSchool.com (AAN CAN)Work and Travel $$$$$ Energy jobs available in Northern California... $500.00/$1200.00 per week... must be 18+. BBB accredited Company... apply online at www.ener-gyplus1.com, 1(208)590-2870. EOE. (Cal-SCAN)

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624 FinancialGuaranteed Income Guaranteed Income For Your Retirement. Avoid market risk & get guaranteed income in retirement! CALL for FREE copy of our SAFE MONEY GUIDE Plus Annuity Quotes from A-Rated companies! 800-375-8607 (Cal-SCAN)

640 Legal ServicesInjured in an Auto Accident? Auto Accident Attorney. Call InjuryFone for a free case evaluation. Never a cost to you. Don`t wait, call now. 1-800-958-5341 (Cal-SCAN)

HomeServices

710 CarpentryCabinetry-Individual Designs Precise, 3-D Computer Modeling: Mantels * Bookcases * Workplaces *Wall Units * Window Seats. Ned Hollis, 650/856-9475

715 Cleaning ServicesLARA’S GREEN CLEANING Lucy’s Housecleaning Service Residential. Window washing, plant care. 20 years exp., refs. Free est. 650/771-8499; 408/745-7276 [email protected]’s Housecleaning Service 19 years exp., excellent refs. Good rates, own car. Maria, 650/207-4709Olga's Housecleaning Res./Com. Wkly/mo. Low Rates. Local Refs. 25 years Exp. & Friendly. I Love My Job! Ins. (650) 380-1406

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730 ElectricalClarence Electric Co.

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Residential SpecialistTroubleshooting Experts

Sr/Mil Disc/CC acceptLive Response!

Call 650-690-7995737 Fences & GatesLopez Fences *Redwood fences *Chainlink fences *Repairs *Decks, retaining walls 12 years exp. Free est. 650/771-0908 or 771-2989

748 Gardening/LandscapingCitiscapes I have landscaped here for over 30 years. Free consultation. Ken MacDonald 650-465-5627 Lic# 749570

J. Garcia Garden Maintenance Service Free est. 20 years exp. (650)366-4301 or (650)346-6781

LANDA’S GARDENING & LANDSCAPING *Yard Maintenance *New Lawns *Clean Ups *Tree Trimming *Rototilling *Power Wash *Irrigation timer programming. 17 years exp. Ramon 650-576-6242 [email protected]

Leo Garcia Landscape/Maintenance Lawn and irrig. install, clean-ups. Res. and comml. maint. Free Est. Lic. 823699. 650/369-1477.

R.G. Landscape Yard Clean-ups, maintenance, installa-tions. Call Reno for free est. 650/468-8859Tired of Mow, Blow and Go? Owner operated, 40 years exp. All phases of gardening/landscaping. Ref. Call Eric, 408/356-1350

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995 Fictitious Name StatementTALENTS UNLIMITED FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 585779 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Talents Unlimited, located at 580 Constanzo Street, Stanford, CA 94305, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): OLGA RODSTEIN 580 Constanzo Street Stanford, CA 94305 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 6, 2013. (PAW Dec. 20, 27, 2013, Jan. 3, 10, 2014)PRIME CAB FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 585936 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Prime Cab, located at 3831 Ramirez Ct., San Jose, CA 95121, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A General Partnership. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): INDERJIT KAUR 903 Laurie Ave. Santa Clara, CA 95054 GURPREET SINGH 3831 Ramirez Ct. San Jose, CA 95121 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 12, 2013. (PAW Dec. 20, 27, 2013, Jan. 3, 10, 2014)CRYSTAL GARDEN MASSAGE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 585690 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Crystal Garden Massage, located at 903 E. El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94034, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): YI WU 1056 N. Abbott Ave. Milpitas, CA 95035 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 5, 2013. (PAW Jan. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2014)PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION SERVICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT File No.: 586272 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Professional Communication Services, located at 260 Sheridan Ave. #216, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: Married Couple. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): KAY F. MILLS 38 Birkdale Circle Rancho Mirage, CA 92270 HERBERT MILLS 38 Birkdale Circle Rancho Mirage, CA 92270 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/01/1991. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 24, 2013. (PAW Jan. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2014)ENDODONTIC HEALTH OF PALO ALTO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 586287 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Endodontic Health of Palo Alto, located at 3525 Alma Street, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): TRI N. HUYNH DDS, PHD DENTAL CORPORATION 3525 Alma Street Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 24, 2013. (PAW Jan. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2014)M2M ANGEL FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 586139 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: M2M Angel, located at 3351 Alma St. Apt. 324, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): HAIHONG GAO 3351 Alma St. Apt. 324 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 19, 2013. (PAW Jan. 10, 17, 24, 31, 2014)OMNIREAL FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 586523 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: OMNIREAL, located at 4292-H, Wilkie Way, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): JUNFA FAN 4292-H, Wilkie Way Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 3, 2014. (PAW Jan. 10, 17, 24, 31 2014)

997 All Other LegalsNOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ANNE C. FLETCHER Case No.: 113PR173725 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ANNE C. FLETCHER. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: DAVID V. FLETCHER and THEODORE A. FLETCHER in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: DAVID V. FLETCHER and THEODORE A. FLETCHER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to

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PALY’S NEW COACH . . . The man behind Palo Alto defensive effort in the 2010 CIF Division I state football championship is the team’s new head coach. Jake Halas, who was Paly’s defensive coordinator from 2008 to 2012, has been hired to replace veteran Earl Hansen. This is the first head coaching job for Ha-las, who left the program following the birth of his third child. He also coached the Paly softball team five years ago before his wife gave birth to twins. Halas, who is a special education teacher at the school, coached the Paly defense during a 48-12-2 record. He was behind the Vikings’ stunning 15-13 upset of nationally ranked, offensive-minded Centennial-Corona in the 2010 state finals. Palo Alto finished 14-0 that season, the best mark in school his-tory. Hansen, who announced his resignation as head football coach and athletic director a few weeks ago, is still looking to fill the AD position.

SIGNUPS . . . The Palo Alto Babe Ruth and Palo Alto Girls Softball programs are currently holding registration for their respective up-coming seasons. The registration site for the 2014 Palo Alto Babe Ruth season is now open at www.pababeruth.org. Tryouts will be held for all new players on Saturday Jan. 18 at Sacred Heart Prep and Sun-day Jan. 26th (tentatively at Canada College), beginning at 9:30 a.m. Palo Alto Babe Ruth organization is a premier baseball organization for players age 13-15 as of May 1, 2014. The league boundaries in-clude Redwood City, Menlo Park, Atherton, Ladera, Portola Valley, Woodside, East Palo Alto and Palo Alto . . . Palo Alto Girls Softball is now registering players ages 5 to 16 for the 2014 season. For more than 30 years, PAGS has been provid-ing a positive and and fun program. For registration information, go to the PAGS web site at www.paloal-togirlssoftball.org or call the infor-mation hot line at (650) 209-0454. Scholarship assistance is available.

STANFORD ROUNDUP

A toughroad to

the finalsMen’s volleyball opens season with Final Four

as its eventual goalby Rick Eymer

S enior outside hitters Brian Cook and Steven Irvin have been through the Mountain

Pacific Sports Federation men’s volleyball wars enough to know that there’s never an easy week-end.

It will take some doing to quali-fy for the NCAA championships in Chicago come May, though fourth-ranked Stanford certainly has the talent to get to the Final Four.

Stanford (1-0) plays No. 8 Lewis in its home opener on Fri-day at 7 p.m. at Maples Pavilion. The Cardinal also plays Saturday in Burnham Pavilion at 7 p.m. against Grand Canyon College.

Stanford opened its season with a seventh-place showing at the UC Santa Barbara tourna-ment last weekend, with only its final match, a regulation contest against then No. 2 UCLA, count-ing toward its record.

Cook and Irvin return as the most experienced players for a team that returns its top six point producers, top setter and top two liberos from last year.

Cook (475 points) and Irvin (394 1/2) are two of the four se-niors upon whom the Cardinal (12-12 in the MPSF last year, 15-15 overall) will look for leader-ship this season.

Eric Mochalski (247) and Den-ny Falls (119 1/2) are also seniors with plenty of experience to bring to the table.

Add redshirt junior Daniel Tub-lin (111 1/2) and sophomore setter James Shaw (101 1/2) to the mix, along with redshirt junior liberos Scott Sakaida (.957 reception re-turn success) and Grant Delgado (.959) and coach John Kosty has to be feeling pretty good about Stanford’s chances.

Kosty’s squad won the 2010 NCAA championship in front of a home crowd. A new set of seniors hope to return to the top.

The journey, as is usual in the highly competitive MPSF, will be lined with pitfalls, rough edges and tough teams, including two-time defending national champion UC Irvine and current No. 1 Long Beach State.

In fact, eight of the top 10 na-tionally ranked teams are mem-bers of the MPSF, which features a home- and-home format that makes every meeting notable.

The 49ers, who won the UCSB tournament to earn its top rank-ing this week, reached the MPSF tournament championship last year before losing to BYU.

Palo Alto’s Sunny Lyu (10) and her teammates battled defending CCS Division II champion Los Altos to a 2-2 deadlock to open the SCVAL De Anza Division soccer season on Wednesday.

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SHP boys happy fall season is overGators bounce back in basketball thanks to additional players from football team

by Keith Peters

I t was not a coincidence that Sacred Heart Prep’s greatest finish in football was going

on while its basketball season was off to a lackluster start.

Four members of the football team that played in the CIF Divi-sion III state championship game on Dec. 21 also were members of the Gators’ hoop squad, whose season already was under way.

Thus, it was easy to see why SHP opened its basketball sea-son with an uncharacteristic 0-3 start.

“We also had four guys injured during that time,” said SHP head coach Tony Martinelli. “We were down to five varsity players at one time.”

Martinelli had to call up two players from his JV squad, one of which (Connor Moses) wound up sticking.

Nonetheless, said Martinelli, “We had one game when we had only six players. I looked out at the floor and we had more players out there than on the bench.”

Practices weren’t much better.“I was searching for things to

do,” Martinelli explained. “It made it tough for us, but it also challenged us. We like to practice the way we play.”

On January 2, however, Marti-nelli welcomed back his injured players and the four from the foot-ball team — Andrew Daschbach, Mason Randall, Justin Harmon and Mitch Martella. What a dif-ference that made in practices and games.

“Night and day,” Martinelli said of the difference in having addi-

Paly soccer promotions deserved Vikings boys and girls show they belong in the SCVAL De Anza Division again

by Keith Peters

T he opening of the SCVAL De Anza Division soccer season this week marked a

new beginning for the Palo Alto boys and girls. Both teams spent last year in the El Camino Divi-sion, the first two both squads were relegated to the lower league at the same time.

Nonetheless, both teams ad-vanced to the Central Coast Sec-tion playoffs before their seasons came to a close.

While the Vikings will face stiffer competition in the De Anza

Division, both are off to a good start. The boys posted a 3-1 win over host Los Altos on Wednesday and the girls battled the Eagles to a 2-2 standoff on Tuesday.

“Los Gatos is apparently the ‘team to beat’ followed by Moun-tain View,” said Paly boys’ coach Don Briggs. “Fremont and Santa Clara lost several players from last year, as did we. I think we will be competitive with most teams. Our lack of age/size and experience is my concern. I think we have a good upside as these players grow for the next few years.

Palo Alto, with only three se-niors, was the only winner on Wednesday as the other two matches ended in ties. Thus, the Vikings (1-0, 5-3-1) sit atop the division standings — for now.

Against Los Altos, the Eagles went on a strong offensive push early on but had one shot on goal. The game begin to turn Paly’s way after about 15 minutes. The Vikings had several attempts be-fore Dami Bolarinwa took a ball down the left flank and crossed

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Mackenzie DuffnerMenlo basketball

Emma HeathMenlo-Atherton basketball

Riley HemmSacred Heart Prep basketball

Hannah PayeMenlo basketball

Ofa SiliMenlo-Atherton basketball

Chelsea WilsonMenlo-Atherton wrestling

Michael AbramovitchGunn wrestling

Ryan BricePinewood basketball

Will ChisholmMenlo soccer

Josh DeckelmanPalo Alto wrestling

James GiacciaPalo Alto wrestling

Greg NaumannPinewood basketball

* previous winner

Honorable mention

Donya DehnadMENLO SCHOOL

The senior guard scored 16 points and grabbed seven rebounds and was named to the all-tournament team at the Steve Geramoni In-vitational before adding 12 points and eight rebounds in another nonleague win.

Stephen MartinGUNN HIGH

The senior wrestler went 4-0 with three pins and a 6-0 decision in the finals to capture the 182-pound title at the 36-team Bianchini Memorial Invitational while helping the Titans finish third overall as a team.

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The Anteaters did not even reach the title match of the confer-ence tournament but came back to win the national title with a vic-tory over the Cougars. That’s how tough it is to win in the MPSF.

Cook, whose older sister Kar-issa played volleyball at Stanford, is one of six returning first team All-MPSF selections. Irvin was a second-team pick.

Shaw, whose father Don coached both the men’s and women’s volleyball programs at Stanford, was accorded honor-able mention. He was also named to the all-freshmen team.

Junior middle blocker Spencer Haly made 15 starts last year, av-eraging 1.12 kills and 1.08 blocks per set. Juniors Matt Aiello and Sean Kemper saw limited action.

Shaw leads a sophomore class that also includes Conrad Kamin-ski, who recorded 16 kills in 19 sets. Joe Ctvrtlik, Gabriel Vega

and Madson Hayden also saw action. Alex Stephanus recorded four kills in one set.

With so many returning veter-ans, the highly-regarded freshmen may find it difficult breaking into the lineup. Seven-footer Kevin Rakestraw leads a decorated four-man rookie class that should push for playing time. Setter Cole Fiers and outside hitters Clay Jones and Colin McCall complete the new-comers.

Women’s basketballFor the fifth time this season,

Stanford senior basketball for-ward Chiney Ogwumike was named Pac-12 Player of the Week. It is also the 14th time in her ca-reer that she has earned the honor, extending her Pac-12 record.

Ogwumike enjoyed a milestone weekend as No. 4 Stanford (2-0, 13-1) opened the Pac-12 season with a home sweep of Oregon and Oregon State. The Cypress, Texas native became the Pac-12’s all-time leading rebounder Friday against the Ducks, grabbing 14 re-

bounds and passing former team-mate Kayla Pedersen’s benchmark of 1,266.

Ogwumike followed that with 13 rebounds in Sunday’s 89-67 win over Oregon State, increas-ing her career rebounding total to 1,284 at the end of the weekend. She averaged 32.0 points and 13.5 rebounds over the two wins, scor-ing 33 points in Friday’s 96-66 win over Oregon before netting 31 against the Beavers, and shot 59.6 percent from the field.

FootballStanford junior Ty Montgomery

was named the recipient of the Jet Award, presented to the nation’s top kick return specialist.

Women’s gymnasticsStanford senior Amanda Spin-

ner was named the Pac-12 Spe-cialist of the Week, as announced by the conference Tuesday.

Stanford plays host to No. 8 Georgia this Sunday at 2 p.m. in Maples Pavilion. Admission is free.

Stanford

tional bodies. Two days after having every-

one back, the Gators pulled off a shocker with a 48-47 victory over host Serra. On Tuesday night in Sunnyvale, SHP dressed all 14 roster players for the first time.

With Randall and Daschbach combining for 14 points and ju-nior Corbin Koch leading the way with 18 points, including 12 in the second half, Sacred Heart Prep posted a 55-48 victory over host King’s Academy in a West Bay Athletic League opener for both teams.

James McLean hit two big free throws following a technical foul on the King’s coach, giving the Gators (1-0, 4-4) a 46-35 lead in the third quarter. King’s rallied to within 50-46 before Randall sank a 3-pointer to hold off the Knights.

“Corbin has shouldered the offensive load up to now,” said Martinelli. “It’s nice to have oth-er guys around him now . . . The camaraderie is forming. I already see that winning attitude that

came from football. They’re just refusing to lose.”

In Los Altos Hills, Pinewood opened its WBAL season with a big 49-45 victory over visiting Harker. The Panthers (1-0, 9-2) were led by senior Greg Nau-mann’s 18 points. He was 6-for-10 from the field and grabbed four rebounds while helping Pinewood lead at each quarter.

In Hillsborough, Menlo School snapped a six-game losing streak with a 64-25 victory over host Crystal Springs. The Knights (1-0, 2-9) jumped out to a 30-15 halftime lead and cruised from there while holding the Gryphons to just 10 second-half points. Liam Dunn led Menlo with 15 points while fellow junior Jack Hammond added 10. Alex Gross-man finished with nine points and eight rebounds plus four blocks.

On Wednesday, Palo Alto opened its SCVAL De Anza Di-vision season with a 58-45 win over host Los Gatos. The Vikings (1-0, 6-6) made 10 3-pointers and had four players in double figures, paced by 14 points each from Noah Phillips and Kevin Mullin.

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it to Fernando Rodriguez, who quickly made a give-and-go pass to Roberto Sotelo and placed the ball into the lower left corner.

Paly kept on the attack the rest of the first half and came up with a second goal when Cina Vazir hit a 25-yard shot off the cross bar that bounced toward Ro-driguez, who beat one defender then placed a nice touch shot into the upper left corner.

Los Altos came out strong and scored early into the second half. Paly’s final goal came unexpectedly when midfielder Sid Srinivas placed a long arching ball over the Los Altos keeper, who was caught off his line.

The Palo Alto girls, meanwhile, also showed that they belong in the De Anza Division following their tie with visiting Los Altos, the defending CCS Division II champion.

Sophomore Heidi Moeser scored both goals for the Vikings (0-0-1, 3-2-2), the first coming just five minutes in off an assist from junior Katie Foug.

Los Altos tightened up its de-fense for the next 15minutes, but

still did not have a shot on frame. At 23 minutes in, Paly strung together a drive that ended with sophomore Jacey Pederson tak-ing a heel pass from Sunny Lyu and, finding herself surrounded by three defenders at the 18-yard penalty box, passing to Moeser for the easy goal.

The second half was unevent-ful for 15 minutes until Paly was

called for a handball in the box, leading to a red card, an ejec-tion, and a penalty kick for Los Altos that Katie Winters converted. With five minutes left and Paly playing with only 10, the Eagles’ Rebecca Andrews lobbed a shot cross frame over the head of Pa-lyís keeper that hit the far post and just bounced in to dead-

lock the match.In other girls’ action this week:Gunn grabbed a 1-0 lead in the

second half, but couldn’t hold on and had to settle for a 1-1 deadlock with host Fremont in a SCVAL El Camino Division soccer opener on Wednesday. Caroline Ander-son gave the Titans (0-0-1 (3-1-2) the lead off an assist from Kasta-nia Dahlen before the Firebirds got the equalizer.

In Atherton, Menlo-Atherton opened its PAL Bay Division sea-son with a 3-0 win over visiting

Aragon on Tuesday. M-A domi-nated the first half, out-shooting the Dons by 9-0. The Bears (5-0-2) got on the scoreboard when senior Sabiha Viswanathan collected a ball from sophomore Sarah McLeod and beat a couple of defenders. McLeod followed with her own goal minutes later on an assist from freshman Katie Guenin for a 2-0 halftime lead. Guenin helped make it 3-0 when she found junior forward Annie Harrier open in front of the net to convert. The tough defense from M-A preserved the shutout vic-tory.

Also in Atherton, senior Alex Bourdillion scored two goals as Sacred Heart Prep opened its West Bay Athletic League (Foot-hill Division) season with a 4-0 victory over visiting Pinewood (0-1, 1-8), which was making its first appearance in the upper di-vision.

The Gators (1-0, 6-1-1) got the winning goal in the 22nd minute of the first half from sophomore Carey Bradley, who assisted on Bourdillion’s first goal in the 48th minute. Tierna Davidson made it 3-0 in the 58th minute before Bourdillion finished things off in the 80th minute.

In nonleague action, Castilleja lost a close game to host Mon-ta Vista in Cupertino, 2-1. The match was tied, 1-1, at the half with Castilleja’s equalizer coming from sophomore Anais Sarrazin on an assist from Kathleen Mha-

tre. Castilleja (2-2) is still playing with a depleted roster.

BoysMenlo-Atherton opened its PAL

Bay Division with a 2-1 victory over host Carlmont on Wednes-day. The Bears (1-0, 4-1) grabbed a 1-0 lead when Efrain Garcia-Lopez headed a corner kick in front of the goal and Kori Smith controlled the ball and finished. In the second half, it was Garcia-Lopez getting the goal in the 47th minute. Carlmont just missed get-ting a goal in the 66th minute but finally converted in the 80th min-ute just before the final whistle.

In Atherton, Isaac Polkinhorne had a hand in three goals and teammate Andrew Segre scored twice to pace Sacred Heart Prep to a 4-1 victory over visiting Harker in a WBAL opener on Wednesday. Polkinhorne provided the first goal and assisted on both of Seg-re’s goals in the second half as the Gators moved to 2-4-1 overall.

Just down the street from SHP, host Menlo School emerged from halftime firing with sophomore Will Chisholm scoring the first of his three second-half goals, and the Knights wrapped up a 4-0 vic-tory over Pinewood in a WBAL opener. The Knights (3-2-2) also got a penalty kick from senior Justin Wang.

Elsewhere, Gunn (0-1, 3-4-1) dropped a 4-1 match to visiting Homestead to open SCVAL El Camino Division play.

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In the SCVAL El Camino Di-vision, Gunn (0-1, 8-4) dropped a 79-52 decision to host Wilcox despite a combined 25 points from Chris Russell and Patrick Skelly.

In the PAL South Division, Menlo-Atherton (0-1, 7-5) opened with a 48-34 loss to Burlingame.

Girls basketballMenlo School (8-4) jumped out

early and easily defeated visiting Urban, 61-38, in nonleague action Tuesday night with Hannah Paye leading the way with 13 points.

In the PAL South Division, Menlo-Atherton (1-0, 8-3) tipped off league play with a 40-26 win over host Burlingame. M-A’s Emma Heath, Ofa Sili and Naomi Baer combined for 30 points, but the Bears’ defense was the differ-ence as it limited the Panthers to 11 first-half points.

In nonleague action Wednesday, Pinewood (12-1) rolled to a 59-51 win over visiting International as senior Leeana Bade had 15 points and eight rebounds and junior Marissa Hing had 15 points, four assists and four steals.

In Cupertino, sophomore Riley Hemm continued her hot shoot-ing from 3-point range, knocking down a trio and finishing with 17 points as Sacred Heart Prep de-feated host Monta Vista, 50-36.

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HANNA SHACHAM650.752.0767

[email protected] #01073658

707 WESTRIDGE DR $13,000,000Magnifi cent contemporary estate, built by RJ Daily. Private, yet convenient, on over 2.5 acres. Open, spacious fl oor plan. Outdoor kitchen, pool, spa.

PORTOLA VALLEY | NEW LISTING

ROD CREASON650.325.6161


789 MANOR WY CALL FOR PRICEEXCLUSIVE New construction! Outstanding custom home, impressive attention to detail. Basement with bedroom suites, home theater, oversized garage.

LOS ALTOS | BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

GINNY KAVANAUGH650.400.8076

www.KavanaughGroup.comCalBRE #00884747

280 NATHHORST $6,250,000Completed in 2009, this centrally located 4BD/5BA home features landscaped 1.28 +/- acres with Windy Hill views. www.280Nathhorst.com

PORTOLA VALLEY

JAN STROHECKER650.325.6161CalBRE #00620365

222 PORTOLA STATE PARK RD $4,998,000Create your own retreat. Existing structure livable. Sold “As-Is”. Gated with electricty, well, septic, phone. Open space with awesome view on 39 Acre

LA HONDA | BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

ERIKA DEMMA650.740.2970


20 PATROL CT $2,198,0003BD/2.5BA Wonderful Woodside retreat with amazing panoramic views! This fully updated home on 2.4 acres is one of a kind. www.20patrol.com

WOODSIDE | OPEN SUNDAY

LYN JASON COBB650.464.2622


725 MARIPOSA AV #305 $448,800Top-fl oor 1BR/1BA end unit with a peek-a-boo view of the East Bay Hills. Spacious and very private. Lovely Redwood trees views from all windows.

MOUNTAIN VIEW | NEW PRICE!

COLLEEN COOLEY650.325.6161


1517 S NORFOLK $579,000Home for the Holidays. Freshly painted interior, new wood fl ooring, carpet, and vinyl. Dual paned windows. Upgraded electrical panel. Landscaped.

SAN MATEO

GINNY KAVANAUGH650.400.8076

www.KavanaughGroup.comCalBRE #00884747

5922 ALPINE RD $7,700,000Built in 2012, this 5BD/4.5BA home with separate guest house sits on 9.3 +/- ac w/Bay, Valley & City views. Pool & 3 car garage. www.5922Alpine.com

PORTOLA VALLEY

ELAINE WHITE650.566.5323


15601 KIRKORIAN WY $2,499,000Sparkling traditional ranch w/spacious light-fi lled rooms, HW fl rs, remodeled chef ’s kitchen, 5th BD used as offi ce. Spectacular grounds (under 1 ac.)

MONTE SERENO | OPEN SUNDAY

DIPALI SHAH650.325.6161


172 JASMINE WY $649,000Spacious 4 bed/3 bath home with hardwood fl oors, sunroom, new carpet, and nice yard with views of golf course and walking trail.

EAST PALO ALTO | OPEN SUNDAY

SUSIE DEWS & SHENA HURLEY

[email protected]

CalBRE #00781220 & 01152002

141 TUSCALOOSA AV $33,000,000Rare opportunity to own 3.8 acres on West Ather-ton Street. 10,000 sq ft main house includes 5BDS, 5.5 BA,3 car garage & au pair unit w/kit. & bath.

ATHERTON | BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

SUSIE DEWS & SHENA HURLEY

[email protected]

CalBRE #00781220 & 01152002

18 FAIR OAKS LN $5,250,000Beautifully renovated 5+BR/4+BA home w/original accents. Over 5800sf w/large rooms, beautiful mas-ter suite, full guest house & charming landscape.

ATHERTON | BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

KEN MORGAN & ARLENE GAULT

650.328.5211CalBRE #00877457/01242236

424 HOMER AV $2,199,000Beautiful home near downtown. Current use is du-plex a) 3 bed/ 2 bath & b) 2 bed/ 1 bath. Approx 2200 sq ft total. Bonus basement area!

PALO ALTO

MARGOT LOCKWOOD & ERIKA DEMMA

650.400.2528/[email protected] #01017519/01230766

2 BRIDLE LN $4,850,0004BD/3.5BA Spacious 4940 sf contemp. home on 3.78 level ac in Central WDS. Enjoy views at the beautiful pool & garden area. www.2Bridle.com

WOODSIDE | OPEN SUNDAY

PAM HAMMER & KATIE RIGGS

650.400.1039/515.5255CalBRE #01216437/01783432

$2,695,000Distinctive and inviting home in coveted Allied Arts.5 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms. Approx. 2850 square feet of living space.

MENLO PARK | COMING SOON!

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