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Home My Public Portal About20211101plCC701-32 DOCUMENTS IN THIS PACKET INCLUDE: LETTERS FROM CITIZENS TO THE MAYOR OR CITY COUNCIL RESPONSES FROM STAFF TO LETTERS FROM CITIZENS ITEMS FROM MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ITEMS FROM OTHER COMMITTEES AND AGENCIES ITEMS FROM CITY, COUNTY, STATE, AND REGIONAL AGENCIES Prepared for: 11/01/2021 Document dates: 10/25/2021 – 11/01/2021 Public Comments Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. From:Allan Seid To:DENNIS LEE; ADAM SEID; ALBERT CHING; ALEX LEE; ALEX LEE; ALICE KAWAZOE; ALICE WOO; ALISONCORMACK; ALLAN CHIN; ALLAN LOW; Allan Seid; ALMA BURREL; AMADO PADILLA; AMY YANG; ANDREA WOLF;Anita Wong Kwock; ANN XU; ANNA WANG; ANNE CLARK; ANNE IM; ANNE SEID CHAN; ANNIE CHO; ANTHONYLIN; ARLENE SEID; ARMINA HUSIC; ARTURO CAZARES; BALDWIN CHIU; Beethoven Bala; BEN and FRANCESBURR; BEN STONE; BERRY YUET; BETTY KWONG LEE; BETTY MEISSNER; Bill Johnson; BILL JONES; BLANCAALVARADO; BOB BROWNSTEIN; BRENDA WONG; BRUCE REYES-CHOW; CAROL BACHETTI; CAROL ECKAEDTECKARDT; CAROLE CHINN; CHARLENE LIAO; CHARLOTTE FU; CHRIS and MAX WEI; CHRIS HIOKI; CHRISTIANJOCHIM; Christian Jochim, PhD; CHRISTIE LI; CHRISTINE PHAM; CHRISTY CHUNG; CHUNLIN CHUNLIN;CHYRISE KING; CINDy CHAVEZ; CITY COUNCIL CITY COUNCIL MT. VIEW; CLARISSE LI; Clark Agbayani;CONNIE YOUNG-YU; CRAIG HELMS; CRAIG HELMS; CYNTHIA CHANG; CYNTHIA CHOI; DAIMEN SEID; DALELIEBES; DALE MINAMI; DALE TROCKEL; Dan & Shirley Mock; DANIEL YANG; David & Josie Tom; DAVID CHIU;DAVID COHEN; David Cortesi; DAVID KWOH; DAVID MINETA; DAVID PEREZ; DAVID THORNTON; DAVIDTORIN; DEANNA SEID; DEBRA HUI CEN; Delores Quan; DESI HAMMOND; DIANNE MCKENNA; DINAH CHENG;DION LIM; DIRK BENNETT; DOCTOR DUNN JOCELYN; DON AUSTIN; DON WOO; Donald TAMAK; Summa, Doria;Dr.Albert WANG; EASTWINDBOOKS EATWINDBOOKS; Shikada, Ed; Ed.D. YEE Wan; EILEEN. CHOW; EIMIOKANO; ELAINE SEID; ELIZABETH HUNT; ELIZABETH SCHMIDT; ELLEN KAMEI; ELLENBERG; EMILY BOLTZ;EMMALYNN EMMALYNN; EMORY LEE; Filseth, Eric (external); ERNIE ORDUNA; EUGENE MOY; EUNICE CHENG;EVA TROCKEL; EVAN LOW; FANDT SUE; FLO OY WONG; Flowers Nancy; FRANCES MORSE; FRANCES SHIH;FRANKLIN. (JEAN) WOO; FRED CHIN; FU-TI MAN; GARRET VAN DYKE; GAY YUEN; GAYLE CHAN; GEORGIASEID; GERRYE WONG; GILBERT WONG; GINA DALMA; GINA DALMAS; GINGER LAI; GORDON. (PH. .D) CHANG;GREER STONE; GREG TANAKA; GREGORY SNOW, CPA; HANLEY CHEW; HANNAH LU; HELEN LEI; HELEN PH.D.HSU; HELEN TSOU; HELEN YOUNG; HENRY DER; HENRY MANAYAN; HISPANIC CHAMBER ( DENNIS KING)CHAMBER OF COMMERCE; IAN AITCHISON; IGNACIO (LYDIA) MATA; ISAO KOBASHI; JACK SUN; JADE CHAO;JANE FONG; JAQUI GUZMAN; Jay Thorwaldson; JEANETTE ARAKAWA; JEFF ROSEN; JEFFREY LEE; JENNIFERDIBRIENZA; JERRY UNDERDAL; JESSIE FURUKAWA; JETHROE MOORE; Jingjing Xu; JODI LINDENTHAL; JOESIMITIAN; JOHN A. MORSE; JOHN MARSHALL COLLINS; JOHN SINK; JOHN STCLAIR; JORGE WONG; JOSHBECKER; JOSHUA ZHANG; JOY SLEIZER; JUDY CHU; JUDY LAI; JUDY NA OMI SHINTANI; JULIE CHANG; JULIELAU; K.C. CHAE; K.W. LEE; KAREN MORRISON; KASEY KASEY; KATHERINE WANG; Kathleen GOLDFEIN; KELLYTSAI; KELLY. (Ph.D) CHAU; KELSEY MARTINEZ. (SHE/HE) COMBELLICK; KEN PETERSON; KEN YEAGER;KENNETH CHU; KENNETH DAUBER; KENNETH KAMEI; KERI WAGNER; KEVIN PARK; KIANA SEID; KIMBERLYENG-LEE; KIMBERLY KIM-SHIMAZAKI; Kimberly Mendez; KOLOMA SMITH; KYUNG (KW) LEE; LADONNA YUMORIKAKU; LADORIS CORDELL; LADORIS CORDELL; LARRY CHEW; LARRY GERSTON; LAURA LAU KEE; LAURIESEID; LEAH NGO; LENNIE STOVEL; LESLIE SEID; LILY LIM; LILY LOH; LILY MEI; LIN SUN-HOFFMAN; LING-CHIWANG; LINUO LIANG; LIPPMAN CHOY; LISA CHEN; LISETTE YUNG; LOREEN SEID JUNG; LOTUS. YEE FONG;LUCIA WU; LULA TAMARA; LYDIA KOU; LYNDA. (doctor) WOO; LYNETTE LEE-ENG; LYNN MITCHELL; LYNNEFAUST; M KITAYAMA; MAE LEE; MAELEY TOM; MAGDALENA CARRASCO; MAGGIE; MAMJUSHA KULKARNI;MANUEL HERRERA; MARC BERMAN; MARC BERMMAN; MARC. ALLAN SEID; MARCIA PUGSLEY; MARCINE SEID;MARGARET ABEKOGA; MARIA FUENTES; MARIA MAO; MARJORIE CALINAWAN; MARLYS KEOSHIAN; MARSHAFONG; MARY ALICE THORNTON; MARY ANNE SIMPSON; MARY BETH TRAIN; MARY GLOMER; MARY MUNTER;MARY NGUYEN; MARY VINCENT; MARY. ANN MICHEL; MAYA ESPARZA; MEI KUANG; MELISSA (PHYSICIAN)NUON; Melissa Helms; Melissa LUKE; MICHAEL CHU; MICHAEL HONDA; MICHAEL SETO; MICHAEL TRUONG;MICHELE LEW; MICHELLE SHABATA; MICKEY TROCKEL; MIKE ENG; MIKE KAKU; MIKE WOO; MIKI PAN;MILDRED JONES; MINH and LI JEN (TRUONG) LAM; MINI SAMANTARAY; MOLLY VAN DYKE; MONICA DAVIS;MONICA LYNCH; MONICA NAYAR; MONICA YEUNG ARIMAS; MUNSON KWOK; Myrna & Will Tsukamoto; NANCYFLOWERS; NATALIE MASUOKA; NATHAN LOUIE; NELSON BUCHANAN; NORMAN MINETA; OTTO LEE; OTTOLEE; Ozzie & Izzie Young; Council, City; PAMELA C. SEID; PAT BURT; Pat Chin; PATSY SEID; PAUL FONG; PAULWONG; PAWAN. (PROFESSOR) DINGRA; PETER EVANS; PEYING LEE; PINKI (KAI-YING) FUNG; PINKI andDANIEL LEE; PINKIIO FUNG; QUYNH NGO; RAINBOW CHAN; RAINBOW CHAN; RAJ CHAHAL; RAJ JAYADEV;RANDON SEGNEP; RANDY SEID; RAUL GOROSPE; RAUL PERALEZ; RAYMOND SEID; REV. HARDY KIM; Rev. JoeyJOEY; REYMUNDO ESPINOZA; RHONDA BEKKEDAHL; RICHARD ANDERSON; RICHARD KONDA; RICK ENG; RODDIRIDON Sr.; RONA HU; ROSE DAO; ROSE SEID; ROSEMARY KAMEI; ROSS PUSEY; ROY & PJ HIRABYASHI; ROYTAKEUCHI; RUBY HE; RUSSEL. M JEUNG; SABRIYA SEID; SALLY LIEBER; SALLY Mahoney; SALLY WU; SAMRATHNUON; SANDY SONGY; SARA ARMSTRONG; SARA Woodham; SARAH MARC-GUERTIN; SARITA KOHLI; SERGIOJIMENEZ; SHARON VEECH; SHOUNAK DHARAP; SIU KUEN HA; SKYLER DITTMAR; SLOAN SEID; SOPHIA LIU;Stephen Lee; STEVE CHANECKA; STEVE PREMINGER; SUDs JAIN; SUELLEN KWOK CHANG; SULEE TOM; SUSANGILBRT; SUSAN HAYASE; Susan Mann; Susan Mann; SYLVIA ARENAS; T LE; T.H. SHIH; TERRY McCAFFREY;THUY THI NGUYEN; Timothy Van Dyke; TITI LIU; TOM DUBOIS; TOM TSAI; TOM VICIAN; TOMARA SEID; TONYALEXANDER; TONY LY; Tracy McCLOUD; TRINH PHAM; TSAN H. SHIH; VANESSA VANNESSA; VICKIE TAKETA;VICTOR GARZA; VICTOR OJAKIAN; VICTOR Wong; VICTORIA EVANS; VIET NGUYEN; WALTER WILSON; WAYNENG; WEI DONG; WES MUKOYAMA; WILFORD LOW; WILLIAM SHU; William Tsai; William. (bill) Tamayo; WILLYWONG; YINGDONG LI; YOSH KUMAGAI; YOUN SHIH; YUKARI LAKE; YVETTE LEE; YVONNE MAXWELL; ZENYSEID; VICTOR GARZA Subject:Fwd: Scan Date:Monday, November 1, 2021 10:52:05 AM Attachments:20211101090848853.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. DON'T LOSE A CHAMPION ! Foothills Board of Trustees owes the community and its tax paying supporters transparencyand explanation for their decision to not renew the contract of President Thuy Nguyen. We expect more than vague commentsaccompanied by a faculty no confidence resolution. We as your supporters resent your disrespect by excluding us fromany open and honest discussion. on such an important matter. Many of us, long-participants, involved with education socialjustice and equity issues feel disappointed, betrayed, and angry at both your decision process and ill-advised decision. We call on you torestore our mutual relationship of openness and transparency by reconsidering your refusal to renew the contract of Dr.Nguyen and this time engaging the public fully. in the discussion. Allan Seid, Co-founder, Asian Americans for Community Involvement, Santa Clara County. President Thuy Nguyen placed on paid administrative leave By Zoe Morgan oothill College President Thuy Nguyen is out of a job, with the community college district's board of trust- ees voting unanimously Monday night, Oct. 25, not to renew her contract. · The decision comes amid inter- nal strife at the college; Foothill's academic senate took a vote of no confidence in Nguyen at a meet- ing earlier on Monday. Nguyen, who has led Footh~ll since 2016, will be put on paid administrative leave effective Nov. 1. Her current contract runs through June 2022 and her ann~al base salary is $262,038.12, dis- trict spokesperson Becky Bartin- dale confirmed. Former Foothill President Ber- nadine Chuck Fong will take the helm and serve as acting president starting next week, according to a letter Chancellor Judy Miner sent to staff Monday night. Fong previously served as J:oothill's president from 1994 ~ntil her ~e- tirement in 2006, Bartmdale said. District board President Peter Landsberger said at Monday's meeting that not renewing Nguy- en's contract was "needed to al- low the college to move beyond the current state of conflict." The board's vote came in a closed session Monday evening. An audio recording of pub- EDUCATION' Foothill .College president oust Foothill (continued from page 5) lie comments before the board went into closed session included faculty speaking out against Nguyen. Attached to the meet- ing agenda were 74 pages of written com- ments weighing in on Nguyen's leadership at Foothill. Some called for her ouster, arguing that she ignores faculty input and lacks leader- ship skills, while others contended that her re- moval would be a reflec- tion of institutional bias and a lack of willingness to address inequity at the college. Thuy Nguyen Sara Cooper, an asso- ciate professor of biology, wrote the board that faculty lacks confidence in Nguyen but fears retribution if they speak up, adding that the governance process at Foothill is in "tatters." "President Nguyen,Aos relationship with faculty is beyond repair;' Cooper wrote. "There is no collaborative or collegial con- sultation about anything." Others wrote to support Nguyen, includ- ing Asian Law Alliance (ALA) Executive Director Richard Konda, who told the board that addressing injustice and systemic rac- ism is necessary, especially at higher educa- tion institutions like Foothill. "Instead of engaging in the difficult but necessary dialogue, it may seem more con- venient or expedient to some to marginalize a leader of color like President Nguyen be- cause she is only one person;' Konda wrote. ''ALA wants you to know that President Nguyen is not alone, and that she has the support of many and she represents many." In a public letter after the decision was announced, Nguyen wrote that it has been an "absolute honor" to serve as president and went on to thank the board of trustees, Miner, district faculty and staff, students and the community. Nguyen also outlined achievements the college has made during her tenure, in particular pointing to Foot- hill's work on racial equity. "I have put my best efforts into this task, even to the very end, of advancing Foothill College's commitment to racial equity," Nguyen wrote. Nguyen is the first Vietnamese American college president in the country, according to her biography on Foothill's website. She and her family fled Vietnam when she was 3 years old and ultimately settled in Oakland. Landsberger said at Monday's meeting that the board prioritizes equity and stu- dent success but believes its decision not to renew Nguyen's contract was necessary to ensure administrators, faculty, staff and students can work collaboratively. "Nothing in this action should be inter- preted as a retreat from Foothill's equity agenda," said Landsberger. "Foothill-De Anza has a long history of advancing equity and inclusion, and this work will continue uninterrupted." 11 Email Staff Writer Zoe Morgan at zmorgan@paweekly.com. • Page 6 • October 29, 2021 • Palo Alto Weekly•· From:Shannon McEntee To:Council, City Subject:Close Churchill crossing? Date:Monday, November 1, 2021 8:58:11 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Council, We must keep Churchill open. Crossing town east to west is already difficult. Closing Churchill would cause longer drives (hence more air pollution) and shunt yet more trafficthrough our already burdened neighborhood streets. Sincerely, Shannon Rose McEntee 410 Sheridan Ave. #216Palo Alto From:Joann Meredith To:Council, City Subject:New building at University & Middlefield Date:Monday, November 1, 2021 8:53:31 AM [Some people who received this message don't often get email from meredithjoann@gmail.com. Learn why this is important at http://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification.] CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ There are many reasons why this building should not be approved. One is the office spaces are non-conforming and should not be approved. How about the fact that it is in a flood zone and the very deep construction of parking area should not be approved? Another, the very small studio apartments can house only 1 person. Not likely that they would be suitable for those who can afford. I urge you to reject the proposal as presented Joann Meredith From:Ann-Yeawon Lee Subject:COVID 19 update: Perspectives on FDA approval of COVID 19 vaccination for ages 5-11 Date:Monday, November 1, 2021 7:11:02 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from annyeawon@gmail.com. Learnwhy this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. To my dear friends, family and esteemed colleagues, On October 29, an immediate release by the FDA announced its authorization of COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use in children ages 5 to 11. In his opening remarks at the 170thcommittee meeting, head of FDA Dr. Peter Marks states that 1.9 million children in the United States have been infected with COVID-19 with "close to 100 deaths," making COVID 19among the top 10 causes for deaths in this age group (https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=laaL0_xKmmA&t=2836s, @24:10), and accounting for 0.00012 percent of COVID 19related deaths in the US (https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/cdc-94- children-ages-5-11-have-died-covid-000012-all-covid-deaths). In their perspective, COVID19 is a high enough cause of morbidity and mortality in youth ages 5-11 that emergency use of a novel biological agent is justified. To put this in clearer perspective, let's look at the top causes of death in ages 5-11 fromOctober 2020 to October 2021 (https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/cdc-94- children-ages-5-11-have-died-covid-000012-all-covid-deaths): 1. Accidents - 9692. Cancer - 525 3. Birth defects (congenital malformations, etc.) - 2744. Homocide/Assault - 207 5. Heart disease - 1156. Chronic lower respiratory disease - 107 7. INFLUENZA AND PNEUMONIA - 848. Suicide - 66 9. COVID 19 - 66 More deaths were caused by the seasonal flu in this age group than COVID 19. Does thiswarrant emergency use of a novel vaccine? (This data does not include the 2019-2020 flu season, which would show a greater discrepancy.) Far from being a consensus, top FDA officials have resigned due to push for boosters andshots for young children despite no long term safety data. Researchers and other scientists contest this decision. Over 10,000 physicians and medical scientists have signed a declarationin protest to mass vaccinations, vaccination of the young and vaccine mandates (see references below). The available vaccinations for COVID 19 have caused more reported deaths in one year thanall other vaccinations combined since 1990 (see reference below). There is more to understand than what is being touted by government officials and the media. Look at the data. Please be informed. For our children, Ann Y. Lee, MD REFERENCES: https://rumble.com/vmrp3b-top-fda-vaccine-officials-resign-over-fast-tracked-booster-shot- approval-by.html Breaking: FDA Panel Endorses Pfizer Shots for 5- to 11-Year-Olds, Experts Say Vaccine forKids Is ‘Unnecessary, Premature and Will Do More Harm Than Good’ • Children's Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org) Global Covid Summit http://vaersanalysis.info/2021/10/29/vaers-summary-for-covid-19-vaccines-through-10-22-2021/ From:Leily Rezvani To:Council, City Subject:[Response Requested] Comment on Labor Shortage and Housing Date:Monday, November 1, 2021 7:05:15 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from lrezvani@stanford.edu. Learnwhy this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hello, I hope this email finds you well! My name is Leily Rezvani, and I am a reporter from thePeninsula Press at Stanford. I am writing a story about how the labor shortage is impacting small businesses in Palo Alto and have a few questions I am hoping someone from your officecan answer. Is the city still planning on rezoning some areas to allocate as affordable housing units?Some small business owners have said that there are not enough affordable housing units for the number of service workers in the area and that the cost of living is too highfor those service workers. Does the city have a response to this? Is this city planning any initiatives to provide affordable housing for workers in the areaand/or relief for small businesses and workers? Some small business owners have said that the city is working against small businesses.What is the city's response? I'm on deadline and would appreciate a response by the end of the day on Tuesday. I can alsobe reached at (858) 335-6191. Thank you! Leily Rezvani • • • • From:mark weiss To:Jason Miller Cc:Shikada, Ed; tomforcouncil@gmail.com; Council, City; Don Austin Subject:Re: We’re the tops Date:Sunday, October 31, 2021 10:06:44 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. The mayor of Palo Alto is being asked to find a job for James Lambert's dad, currently the head of SF libraries: maybe Michael can run our city the way James runs that offense. On Sunday, October 31, 2021, 08:23:41 PM PDT, Jason Miller <jasmiller@pausd.org> wrote: Big honor for James Lambert https://youtu.be/lQuk2UHyOVY Get Outlook for iOS From: mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2021 10:31:21 AM To: Jason Miller <jasmiller@pausd.org> Subject: Re: We’re the tops So Jason Miller has a better winning percentage than Earl Hansen here, all time. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 31, 2021, at 9:54 AM, Jason Miller <jasmiller@pausd.org> wrote: This geek has done the math about 10 times, and I'll probably do it another 10 today! From: mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2021 5:19 AM To: Jason Miller <jasmiller@pausd.org> Subject: Re: We’re the tops I’m gonna stand by the way I say it in Plastic Alto… Sent from my iPhone On Oct 31, 2021, at 4:38 AM, Jason Miller <jasmiller@pausd.org> wrote: We may be left out of the playoffs if Cupertino beats Los Altos. Have funcalculating the possibilities Use the formula to do the math, if Cupertino winsit comes down to this. You geeks figure it outhttp://cifccs.org/sports/fball/2019-20/football_bylaws_2019.pdf Get Outlook for iOS From:Aram James To:Andrew.Binder@cityofpaloalto.com; Tannock, Julie; Enberg, Nicholas; Human Relations Commission; Council,City; Planning Commission; Jeff Moore; wintergery@earthlink.net; Sajid Khan; Raj; Jay Boyarsky; RobertaAhlquist; Jeff Rosen; chuck jagoda; Greer Stone; Cecilia Taylor; Betsy Nash; Tony Dixon; Joe Simitian;cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org; Reifschneider, James; Rebecca Eisenberg Subject:NYTimes: The Demand for Money Behind Many Police Traffic Stops Date:Sunday, October 31, 2021 8:43:24 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ The Demand for Money Behind Many Police Traffic Stops https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/us/police-ticket-quotas-money-funding.html?referringSource=articleShare Sent from my iPhone From:Wolfgang Dueregger To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Kamhi, Philip; Baird, Nathan; Tom DuBois; Filseth, Eric (external); Greer Stone; GregTanaka; Pat Burt; alisonlcormack@gmail.com; lkou@apr.com Subject:Consent calendar item 11 Date:Sunday, October 31, 2021 8:03:28 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email fromwolfgang.dueregger@alumni.stanford.edu. Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City of Palo Alto, As a longtime resident of Evergreen Park, I fully support and ask for the elimination of all-dayemployee parking permits in the residential zones of the Evergreen Park/Mayfield RPP. 1. Some business owners state that the new garage does not provide enough parking spaces. The new garage on Cal Ave was built to accommodate employees of small businesses andtheir patrons with ample parking. Pick a day and time, and I did that myself a few times recently, there are usually up to 500 (five hundred) EMPTY spaces available in the garageduring a given business day. There is zero justification to push employee and business parking into the surrounding neighborhoods. Our neighborhoods worked with the city and agreed toTEMPORARILY have business parking in the neighborhoods, but now, since ample parking is available, this temporary solution has to expire - as agreed upon before between the city andour neighborhoods. 2. it came to my attention that VISA has or had secured about 200 parking permits. Bitgo about 100. It is immaterial if this was pre Covid or recently. But just taking these 2 cases asexample, this is 300 spots that are bought up by some rich software and financial service companies. This is exactly what is wrong with the whole approach allowing high-density/employee companies to grab hundreds of permits which leaves then the cobbler store and other small businesses scramble for a few parking spots. You need to fix this root cause ofour parking problem which is causing the intrusion of business parking into our neighborhoods. If you don't solve this problem, then another 10 garages with thousands ofmore parking spots will only attract more businesses filling up those spaces. And this is the problem, nothing else. Also, what I heard from small businesses and restaurant owners, theydo NOT want to park in our neighborhood (unless this is the only choice they have), they want to park close to their businesses. And the same applies to their customers. Which customerparks 4 blocks away? Hardly anybody wants to do that. 3. Get high-density software companies out of the Cal ave business district. They can go somewhere along Page Mill Road into the Stanford Research Park - where there are lots ofempty buildings. (e.g. look at Tesla who are expanding into the HP campus), but not into a small knit community with restaurants and retail. This approach is wrong from the beginningand this needs to be fixed. As a first step, move forward by eliminating business parking in our neighborhoods and then continue addressing the root cause of the problem - which is causing all this mess. Sincerely Wolfgang Dueregger Evergreen Park resident From:YORIKO KISHIMOTO To:Council, City Subject:Connecting Palo Alto (rail crossings): November 1st agenda, Item 15 Date:Sunday, October 31, 2021 6:12:59 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Honorable Mayor Dubois and City Council members: Thank you for your continued hard work on the “Connecting Palo Alto" challenge. At this point in the decision-making, I would urge the city council to: * keep the current Churchill options on the table for the time being * if anything, take the option of closing Churchill off the table The main reasons: * This project has been called “Connecting Palo Alto”, not Dis-connecting Palo Alto. In this era of climate change crisis, every step we take as a city must move us towards a more walkable, sustainable city. Closing Churchill will cause a cascade of changes that will change Palo Alto into a more expressway oriented city by moving even more traffic to Embarcadero Road, a residential arterial already over-impacted. * Please proceed with making the right decisions for grade separating South Palo Alto rail crossings since they currently lack one. Perhaps this will allow time for an integrated plan including Alma, University, Embarcadero and Churchill and one that includes sustainable circulation for schools and places such as Town and Country. * While I have great respect for the diligent work done by XCAP members, it is disingenuous to give the vote of six people the standing of a representative city-wide working group on this critical topic. The vote to close Churchill was by 6 members out of 14 appointed, and two of them lived on Churchill. There were no representative voting from the University South/Embarcadero neighborhood. I would also strongly urge the city council to direct staff to move forward on the recommendations to add more bicycle and pedestrian crossings to better “Connect Palo Alto” in a sustainable way. Excited about the new bike bridge across 101- thank you. Thank you for your consideration, Yoriko Kishimoto Former Mayor of Palo Alto Embarcadero Road resident From:Loran Harding To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; fred beyerlein;bballpod; Leodies Buchanan; beachrides; bearwithme1016@att.net; boardmembers; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field;Council, City; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; Daniel Zack; DanRichard; davonkelly@novadconsulting.com; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; eappel@stanford.edu;grinellelake@yahoo.com; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; huidentalsanmateo; IrvWeissman; jerry ruopoli; Joel Stiner; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; lalws4@gmail.com; leager; Mayor;margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mark Standriff; newsdesk; nick yovino; david pomaville; russ@topperjewelers.com;Sally Thiessen; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; VT3126782@gmail.com; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Severe illness after vaccination- Dr. John Campbell, UK- who gets it?? Good report Date:Sunday, October 31, 2021 5:25:32 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org>Date: Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 3:28 PM Subject: Severe illness after vaccination- Dr. John Campbell, UK- who gets it?? Good reportTo: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> To all- Sunday, October 31, 2021 Halloween- Hope you don't get your car or housevandalized. If there is one holiday to outlaw, this is it. Free reign for vandals. Great. Here Dr. Campbell goes over a very good- and pretty much rare study on this topic- as towho gets severe illness after being fully vaccinated. No need for a doctorate in statistics tounderstand this. Study done in Connecticut- peer reviewed. Just follow along here and you will learn what they found. Severe illness after vaccination - YouTube Really interesting how the chance of this varies according to which company'svaccine you got in the first two shots, at least in this study. Also how a lot of people doing the vaccinating know next to nothing about how to do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! People doing vaccinating at pharmacies, e.g. I'll stick with Kaiser for myModerna booster. Now scheduled for sometime later this year. But on the Kaiser website, you schedule your booster and then you see many paragraphs about what to expect after "the vaccine"...!!!! As if the booster will just beanother shot of the original shots!! No!! The Moderna booster is supposed to be one half of the original dose Original dose of Moderna was 100 mcg. The Moderna booster issupposed to be 50 mcg. (The original Pfizer shot was only 30 mcg. See the vid to see which company's shot led to more breakthrough infections later). I sent a barn-burning email toKaiser about this. How about some paragraphs about what to expect after the booster, or at least SOME acknowledgement that they see that you are scheduling a BOOSTER BOOSTER SHOT and not one of the first two shots, which I had in Jan. and Feb. 2021? They are also giving those there at the same time where I am going for the booster! I said "almost criminal negligence" in my comment to Kaiser on the vaccination and boosterscheduling website. Maybe I'll hear back from them on Monday or Tuesday. Inconceivable that they would just be injecting the regular-- i.e. first or second dose as a booster. Get this: They talk about the "3rd vaccine Immunity Clinic Fresno." and "Fresno Moderna vaccine 3rd R.N.", when the shots are given on the 3rd floor of the Yosemite building at Kaiser Fresno. Does their system see that I am scheduling the third shot (I.e. thebooster) or that it will be on the third floor of the Yosemite building? Christ how confusing. I'll be on the phone to Kaiser and sending more emails to them tomorrow before theforeseeable booster apptment. Jesus how incompetent. Some incompetent with a rich Nazi affirmative action job must have written that. That's who was loading the ammo on the movieset at Santa Fe too. She says she was scared and was learning on the job a year ago when she was hired. She was recorded saying that. Now to watch the World Series. L. William Harding Fresno, Ca. From:Barbara Ann Hazlett To:Council, City Subject:Churchill Ave. Grade Separation, Agenda Item #15, Nov. 1, 2021 Meeting Date:Sunday, October 31, 2021 3:14:55 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Palo Alto City Council RE: Monday, November 1, 2021 Meeting Agenda Item 15, Grade Separation Churchill Avenue Dear Council Members: My name is Barbara Hazlett, I am a 41 year home owner on Emerson St. in Professorville. I am against closing Churchill and urge you to take it off the table. The proposed traffic mitigations for closing Churchill are insane. Most immediately, putting stoplights at High Street and Embarcadero, together with the addition of 7000+ cars per day onto Embarcadero, will cause gridlock on Embarcadero and its cross streets. Drivers stuck in this mess will cut through neighborhood streets, creating intolerable and dangerous conditions. I predict this will necessitate closures of High St., Emerson, Bryant, Waverley -- a domino effect all the way to Middlefield. How is this meeting your goal of Connecting Palo Alto? Furthermore, Professorville and Embarcadero neighbors foresee that the proposed traffic mitigation plans, while not resulting in aboveboard eminent domain, will nevertheless have the impact of a significant taking. Examples include loss of street parking, restricted access to individual properties and driveways, serious increase in traffic and in air and noise pollution, delays in emergency response times, where minutes can make the difference between life and death. And how about the isolation this closure would impose on the Southgate neighborhood? Simply put, where is the fairness, where is the equity of degrading these neighborhoods for the benefit of one street? Leaving Churchill the way it is, open at grade, and building an underpass for peds & bicyclists makes the most sense. Nobody loses their home, hundreds of millions of dollars are saved, the kids have a safe way to get to school and the drivers who can’t tolerate the new wait times, which will occur only twice a day, will find an alternate route. More robust signage and technical advancements in signaling can be installed at the tracks. Or, at minimum, I urge you to explore Mike Price’s design for the modified underpass crossing at Churchill, which would preserve most movements through the intersection and deserves further attention. But please, take the closing of Churchill off the table. Thank you, Barbara Hazlett From:John Bender To:Council, City Subject:Churchill closure Date:Sunday, October 31, 2021 2:18:35 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from bender@stanford.edu. Learnwhy this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I oppose the closure of Churchill. Jus spend the money on an underpass. John Bender John Bender—owner 2160 Newell Rd. Palo Alto 94303 From:Aram James To:Tanaka, Greg; City Mgr; Council, City; Planning Commission; Human Relations Commission;wintergery@earthlink.net; chuck jagoda; Raj; Sajid Khan; Jeff Rosen; Jeff Moore; Joe Simitian; Roberta Ahlquist;Vara Ramakrishnan; Jay Boyarsky; Rebecca Eisenberg; wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com;cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; supervisor.ellenberg@bos.sccgov.org; james pitkin; Greer Stone; Jonsen, Robert;Binder, Andrew; Tannock, Julie Subject:They were homeless now they are running for office -including against Anna Eshoo Date:Sunday, October 31, 2021 1:36:20 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ > > FYI: Greg Tanaka you are not the only one intending to run against Anna Eshoo. You have some very interesting competition: (see link below to the front page of today’s Sunday’s Mercury News) > > https://mercurynews-ca.newsmemory.com/?publink=34e32f91f_1345f7b From:Michael Eager To:Council, City Subject:Consent Calendar Item #11 Date:Sunday, October 31, 2021 11:39:54 AM [Some people who received this message don't often get email from eager@eagercon.com. Learn why this is important at http://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification.] CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Dear City Council -- I encourage you to pass item #11 on the Monday, Nov. 1, City Council Consent Calendar. I strongly support the elimination of all-day employee parking in the residential Evergreen Park/Mayfield RPP. There are hundreds of parking spaces available to employees in the California Avenue business area. The new garage on Sheridan is almost empty most of the day. There is no foundation for selling employee parking permits in the residential area. -- Michael Eager From:Jeremy Erman To:O"Kane, Kristen Cc:City Mgr; Kamhi, Philip; Council, City; Lauren Angelo Subject:Re: Wrong transit information on JMZ website Date:Saturday, October 30, 2021 11:06:30 PM Dear Director O'Kane, Thank you for your reply. I hope you will update the public transit information for the new museum as soon as possible,as it seems even the information for the temporary museum had not been updated in years. City officials make a big deal out of the idea of trying to get people to use publictransportation in Palo Alto, but then seem unaware of what public transportation is actually available--or unavailable--in the city. If tickets to the Junior Museum and Zoo will be available at the door, then I hope you makethis clear on the city's website and in other news releases Just today, Palo Alto Online published an article about the new museum that ended with "The zoo is set to open to thepublic on Nov. 12. Visitors will have to purchase tickets in advance at cityofpaloalto.org." This contradicts what you said in your e-mail. Which is correct? There seems to be a lack of clear communication about how to visit the new museum. The oldmuseum was easy to visit--one could drop by whenever one wanted. So far, the city seems determined to restrict access to the new museum by making everyone pay, even on openingday, and implying that tickets are only available through an online system that you yourself acknowledge is cumbersome. Sincerely, -Jeremy Erman On Friday, October 22, 2021, 02:21:10 PM PDT, O'Kane, Kristen <kristen.o'kane@cityofpaloalto.org> wrote: Hello Jeremy, I am responding on behalf of the City Manager. Thank you for letting us know about the outdatedtransit information on the JMZ website. We are working on updating that prior to the opening. At this time, we are using our existing recreation software system, CivicRec for ticket and membershipsales. While we are encouraging visitors to purchase their tickets in advance, they will have theopportunity to buy them at the entrance on the day of their visit. There will also be free passes at thelibrary similar to the free passes we offer for Foothills Nature Preserve. We recognize that CivicRec iscumbersome for a one day ticket and we are researching other ticketing software systems for both theJMZ and the Children's Theatre that would make the process more efficient and accessible. Thank you again for your feedback.Kristen KRISTEN O’KANEDirector Community Services Department (650) 463-4908 | Kristen.O’Kane@cityofpaloalto.org www.cityofpaloalto.org -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Erman <jeremy_erman@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2021 4:18 AMTo: FunScience <FunScience@CityofPaloAlto.org>; News <News@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>; O'Kane, Kristen <Kristen.O'Kane@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Administrative Services <AdminSvcs@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Kamhi, Philip <Philip.Kamhi@CityofPaloAlto.org> Cc: Lauren Angelo <lauren.angelo@gmail.com> Subject: Wrong transit information on JMZ website CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachmentsand clicking on links.________________________________ Dear Palo Alto, Following links from the October 21 "Uplift Local" newsletter, I went to the website for the new JuniorMuseum and Zoo and found that it has incorrect information for public transit to the new museum--notonce, but twice. https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/Community-Services/Arts-Sciences/Junior-Museum-Zoo/Plan-Your-Visit The page says it was "Last updated on October 16, 2021" and is clearly about visiting the new museum on Middlefield Road, but the public transit information is for visiting the temporary museum atCubberley Community Center, and has outdated information even for that location. Near the top it says: "Getting to the Junior Museum & Zoo We are located directly in front of the VTA #35 bus stop at Montrose Road.Caltrain stops at the San Antonio station. The museum is a 20 minute walk." These are obviously instructions for going to the temporary museum, but the bus route is wrong even for that location, since VTA eliminated route #35 and replaced it with #21 several years ago, even before the pandemic. Later these errors are repeated and more outdated information is added: "Parking, Biking, and Public Transportation Onsite parking is free. Bike racks are available. Caltrain stops at the San Antonio station. The museum is a 20 minute walk. The Museum is located directly in front of the VTA #35 bus stop at Montrose Road. The Palo Alto Free Shuttle runs Monday through Friday. The Crosstown Shuttle stops at Middlefield& Charleston, and the museum is a four minute walk." Again, wrong Caltrain station, wrong bus stop intersection, and wrong bus route number, but now italso says you can ride the Palo Alto Free Shuttle to the museum. This would be nice, but the Cityeliminated the entire shuttle program in the 2021 budget. The website also seems to indicate that all tickets for the new Junior Museum and Zoo must be boughtonline by registered users of Enjoy Online. So only those with internet access can buy their way intothe museum? I registered for Enjoy Online this summer to buy a Palo Alto Children's Theatre Hotdog show ticket, andfound it to be a horrible system for buying a ticket for a one-time event, as the system was obviouslydesigned for signing up for ongoing classes. The registration process was cumbersome and asked forlots of personal information I did not want to give and which had no relevance for a one-time event,such as emergency contact information. At one point it even asked me to select my cell-phone carrierfrom a drop-down menu. What the heck??? Enjoy Online lists one-time events like theatre performances in a cumbersome, redundant way thatdoes not resemble any theatre ticketing website I have used before. Forcing people to use this systemto get into the Junior Museum and Zoo will certainly depress attendance. Also, unless it's changed since I registered, Enjoy Online does not allow most non-US citizens toregister for an account (because it was designed for local residents to sign up for classes), so peoplevisiting from overseas would not be able to buy tickets for themselves, but would have to have friendsbuy them. And children cannot register for Enjoy Online or buy tickets for themselves, even teenagerswho want to see a Children's Theatre play, unless an adult has listed them by name in the adult'saccount. So if you are forcing everyone to buy tickets through Enjoy Online for the Junior Museum and Zoo, Ithink this will definitely decrease attendance. Of course previously, anyone could stroll in for free on a moment's whim. Even if the city wants to limitthe number of attendees at first because of COVID-19 concerns, I strongly urge you to open themuseum with free attendance for the first few months to encourage people to visit this new treasure inthe heart of Palo Alto. Thank you, -Jeremy Erman From:UNAFFTo:Council, CitySubject:24th UNAFF Closing Day (Oct. 31)Date:Saturday, October 30, 2021 8:45:37 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from info+unaff.org@ccsend.com.Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious ofopening attachments and clicking on links. 24th UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION FILM FESTIVAL (UNAFF)PRESENTS CLOSING DAY ON OCTOBER 31 FILM SCREENINGS FOLLOWED BY AWARDS CEREMONYINCLUDING UNAFF GRAND JURY AWARDS UNAFF VISIONARY AWARD PRESENTED TOCONGRESSWOMAN BARBARA LEE AND HARRY BELAFONTE The United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF), in its 24th year, marks its closing day of documentary films on October 31, 2021, finishing 11 days of in-person filmscreenings and panel discussions. Three separate film programs screen on UNAFFClosing Day, in the afternoon and evening, followed by the Awards Ceremony, and aclosing reception, all taking place at the Mitchell Park Community Center in Palo Alto. On Closing Day, a special thank you will be given to many local health professionals, asinvited guests to the medical care documentary IN CASE OF EMERGENCY. The screening of TO THE STREET (A LA CALLE) happens at a crucial and exciting timefor one of the documentary’s subjects. Youth resistance leader and former politicalprisoner Nixon Leal, featured prominently in the film, was granted asylum in the UnitedStates on Thursday, October 28, and is working on obtaining release from ICE detentionin South Texas to attend the Closing Day screening. Nixon was imprisoned, tortured, andpersecuted by Venezuela’s Maduro regime before escaping the country. In addition, the film’s co-directors/producers Nelson G. Navarrete and Maxx Caicedo will be inattendance, along with producers Shawna Brakefield-Haase and Marcus Cheek. The final Closing Night film echoes what we often ask of the issues we face – are theresolutions? The film SOLUTIONS helps to address this, as a perfect complement to thisyear’s UNAFF theme of “Moving Forward.” The annual UNAFF Visionary Award will be presented to two extraordinary leaders in thecommunity dedicated to human rights: unique public servant Congresswoman BarbaraLee; and legendary singer, songwriter, musician, and activist Harry Belafonte. The awardis bestowed to each of them in recognition for their life-long unwavering commitment tohuman rights, and their leadership, persistence, and vision, which have inspired severalgenerations to promote economic, racial, and social justice, moving us forward to a better and more just and peaceful society. Congresswoman Lee, who is the subject of a filmscreened on UNAFF Opening Night, BARBARA LEE: SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER, AF 021 , tlonal umentary Film Festival 24th UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION FILM FESTIVAL October 21-31, 2021 • Palo Alto • East Palo Alto • San Francisco • Stanford University unaff.org will accept the award via a special recorded message. Winners of the UNAFF Grand Jury Awards for Best Documentary, Best ShortDocumentary, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Youth Vision Award will also beannounced. UNAFF Visionary Award winners Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Harry Belafonte Below is the Closing Day schedule of programs: SUNDAY OCTOBER 31Mitchell Park Community Center, 3700 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto Session 221:00 PM / THE SEED (US, 30 min)1:40 PM / IN CASE OF EMERGENCY (US, 81 min) Session 233:10 PM / ISRAEL-PALESTINE: A SWISS MAN IN THE EYE OF THE STORM(Israel/Palestine, 53 min)4:20 PM / TO THE STREET (A LA CALLE) (Venezuela, 111 min) Session 246:30 PM / A FISTFUL OF RUBBISH (Spain, 14 min)6:50 PM / SOLUTIONS (Denmark/US, 110 min) 9:00 PM / Awards Ceremony and Closing Night ReceptionSponsored by Coupa Café and Hobee’s / Music by the Potential Jazz Ensemble Ticket: $12 per film session (excludes reception) at https://tickets.stanford.edu For more information: www.unaff.org ABOUT UNAFF The award-winning United Nations Association Film Festival has grown to be one of theoldest and most respected documentary film festivals in the United States. UNAFF wasoriginally conceived to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the UniversalDeclaration of Human Rights. It was founded by Stanford educator and filmcritic Jasmina Bojic. In addition to providing early outlets for films, many of which havegone on to win major awards and accolades, UNAFF takes pride in creating a community forum for discovery and dialogue about different cultures, social issues, and solutions.Over the years, UNAFF has screened some of the most awarded and talked aboutdocumentaries in the industry, including seven that went on to win Academy Awards andthirty-two that were nominated. In 2014, the ICFT (International Council for Film,Television and Audiovisual Communication of UNESCO) presented the UNESCO FelliniMedal to Jasmina Bojic, Founder and Executive Director of UNAFF, in recognition of her exceptional contribution in promoting the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through the art of documentary film. UNAFF’s mission has expanded to broad, year-round programs that augment its reach. Inaddition to the annual film festival, UNAFF organizes panel discussions, initiates programsthat engage children, students, seniors, and veterans, hosts a traveling festival that keeps the films alive well beyond their initial festival showings, and opens its doors to documentary film students and researchers. ‌ ‌ ‌ UNAFF | PO Box 19369, Stanford, CA 94309 24th United Nations Association Film Festival umentary Film Festival DOCUMENTARIES THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR VIEW OF THE WORLD October 21-31, 2021 Stanford University • Palo Alto East Palo Alto • San Francisco unaff.org oos Unsubscribe city.council@cityofpaloalto.org Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by info@unaff.org powered by Try email marketing for free today! ,;~ Constant ~ Contact From:herb To:Council, City; Clerk, City Subject:November 1, 2021 Council Meeting, Item #11: Expanded Commercial District Employee Eligibility Boundaries Date:Saturday, October 30, 2021 5:03:49 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Herb BorockP. O. Box 632Palo Alto, CA 94302 October 30, 2021 Palo Alto City Council250 Hamilton AvenuePalo Alto, CA 94301 NOVEMBER 1,2021 CITY COUNCIL MEETING, AGENDA ITEM #11EXPANDED COMMERCIAL DISTRICT EMPLOYEE ELIGIBILITY BOUNDARIES Dear City Council: I don't believe the proposal to expand employee eligibilityboundaries can be effectively implemented based on both (1) thenumerous resident complaints about the administration of thecurrent residential preference parking program, and (2) theunintended consequences of adopting this proposal. Allowing the targeted employees to be eligible for employeepermits means that additional employees could obtain permits inthe residential district boundaries, enable those employees'businesses to expand in the residential neighborhood, andincrease the adverse impacts of the businesses in thoseneighborhoods. How can the permit eligibility requirements be adequatelyverified if every residence is entitled to have a homebusiness? If you believe this proposal should be adopted, perhaps you canlimit it to those businesses in the residential area that arenot home occupations and are listed in the most recent BusinessLicense application filed as of today, and for thosebusinesses, limited to the number of employees disclosed in theBusiness License application. Thank you for your consideration of these comments. Sincerely, Herb Borock From:Kellerman, Thomas W. To:Council, City Cc:Shikada, Ed; Kamhi, Philip Subject:Submission regarding Staff Report - Connecting Palo Alto Date:Saturday, October 30, 2021 12:30:02 PM Attachments:City Council Letter 11-1-21- Staff Report Response.docxCity Council Letter 3-5-21- Final XCAP Report.docx CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. 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C:\Users\MP014805\Documents\City Council Letter 3-5- 21- Final XCAP Report.docx 1 March 10, 2021 Palo Alto City Council 250 Hamilton Ave., #7 Palo Alto, CA 94301-2531 Re: Expanded Community Advisory Panel Final Report Dear Honorable Council Members: We are writing on behalf of a number of concerned citizens in the Professorville, Embarcadero, and Southgate neighborhoods with respect to the final report delivered by the Expanded Community Advisory Panel (“XCAP”) to the City Council dated March 4, 2021. This document is part of a coordinated community effort of concerned citizens that asks Council to reject the XCAP’s majority opinion recommending Churchill Closure with Mitigations. Before a decision can be reached, a full traffic analysis needs to be completed and vetted by experts involved in city planning and transportation, bicycle and pedestrian advocates, neighbors and neighboring institutions such as schools and businesses, and the community at large. This letter is limited solely to issues and concerns related to the mitigation steps contemplated in the Hexagon traffic study, which is incorporated into the XCAP recommendation concerning the proposed closing of the Churchill Avenue crossing. As set forth in some detail below, we believe that the proposed mitigations are incomplete and inadequately analyzed at this point in time. Many of the points made in this submission are also referenced in the Minority Position discussion at Section 4.5 of the XCAP Report. We ask that the Council members read that portion of the report with care. Please be aware that the previous City Council committed not to adopt any specific proposal with respect to the Churchill Avenue crossing until it is satisfied that an adequate mitigation plan is in place. The Current Mitigation Plan Does Not Align with Council Motion In June 2018 the Council adopted a resolution1 with respect to the Churchill crossing that requires the following: 1 https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?t=83343.25&BlobID=65728 Part E C:\Users\MP014805\Documents\City Council Letter 3-5- 21- Final XCAP Report.docx 2 “Add to Churchill Avenue crossing closed (CAX) idea, “study additional options for addressing traffic in the Embarcadero Road underpass area including actions to minimize redirected traffic onto residential streets in adjacent neighborhoods and commit to adopting appropriate mitigations to address the impacts” As evidenced by the discussion below, the foregoing standard has not been met by the proposed mitigation plan. Indeed, the definition of mitigation that appears on a slide 5 of the January 8, 2020 traffic presentation is as follows: “Street system changes that would allow additional capacity to accommodate diverted traffic.” This definition focuses exclusively on the volume of vehicular traffic that can be accommodated by an existing street. This definition does not consider the nature of the street in question (purely residential v. residential arterial v. arterial), or the effect on pedestrians, bicyclists, residents, schools and businesses. The Council needs to insist on a fulsome mitigation plan that addresses the issues identified in its June 2018 resolution prior to taking any action with respect to this crossing. Lack of Community Engagement Even before the onset of the pandemic, the traffic study process lacked robust community engagement. Under the current pandemic conditions, the prospects for achieving that engagement are even more daunting. Our neighborhoods asked for and never received direct engagement between community members and city staff with the various traffic consultants. The virtual town hall presented useful information, but it was not truly interactive and did not afford the opportunity to engage in any meaningful way with the traffic consultants. This type of interaction would have provided an opportunity to understand the assumptions underlying the study and the proposed mitigations, as well as provided direct “on-the- ground” input to the consultants to help inform their conclusions. In addition, a number of other important constituencies have not been included in the dialogue. The bicycle community was never formally engaged in the mitigation evaluation process, and the views of Palo Alto High School students, staff and administrators were not included in the proposals regarding changes to this major artery to school.2 3 There has been no meaningful input from Stanford, Town and Country or the business community generally. As you are aware, several relevant community 2 https://connectingpaloalto.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-01-13_emails-public-comments.pdf (p 3) 3 https://connectingpaloalto.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-01-20_emails-public-comments.pdf (p 5) C:\Users\MP014805\Documents\City Council Letter 3-5- 21- Final XCAP Report.docx 3 voices, including the PAUSD, Chamber of Commerce and University South representatives, resigned from the XCAP early on and were not part of the recommendation process. As a result, the so-called “majority recommendation” from XCAP actually represents a minority of the Committee as originally constituted and therefore does not achieve the goal of obtaining a balanced consensus. This lack of neighborhood engagement has led to confusion and frustration and diminishes the value of the conclusions expressed in the final report. Flaws and Gaps in the Traffic Study There are several areas where the traffic study appears to be flawed or at least incomplete, resulting in inadequate mitigations in the XCAP Report. In fact, as stated in Section 4.3 of the Report, the proposed mitigations are “early conceptual designs, not final plans”. Given the critical importance of effective mitigations to the viability of the plan to close Churchill, a “conceptual approach,” with promises to determine the actual designs in the future, is not an adequate basis on which to reach a final decision. Findings from a traffic study by Dr. Michelle DeRobertis, P.E., an independent traffic consultant, were delivered to XCAP, but are not referenced in their recommendation.4 This independent analysis identified several deficiencies in the traffic study. It is also worth noting that seven out of nine XCAP members agreed that additional mitigation measures beyond those included in the recommendation should be considered, as described in Section 4.3 of the XCAP Report. However, the report acknowledges that these additional potential mitigations have not been studied yet and will require detailed analysis. Section 4.1.1.3 of the XCAP Report sets forth ten specific mitigation proposals identified by XCAP. Our commentary on the first seven of these proposals is provided in red below. A. Construction of a pedestrian/bike overcrossing at Embarcadero Road and Alma Street. We are supportive of this proposed mitigation, although the details of the integration with the overall bicycle and pedestrian pathways on the north side of Embarcadero road is an essential element that is missing at this time. B. Reconstructing or replacing the existing Alma Street overpass over Embarcadero. 4 https://connectingpaloalto.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2020-09-23_emails-public-comments.pdf (comment 11 of 82) C:\Users\MP014805\Documents\City Council Letter 3-5- 21- Final XCAP Report.docx 4 With respect to the Alma/ Embarcadero bridge, the traffic study expressly states: “Widening would require extensive modification or potential replacement of the existing bridge structure.”5 This one sentence describes a huge undertaking that has not been described or analyzed. No meaningful study has been undertaken regarding this almost 100-year-old bridge and the true cost of modifying or replacing it is not known. C. Adding a right turn lane from eastbound Embarcadero Road to Kingsley Ave. A right turn is currently permitted at this intersection, although impact on the traffic volume at this juncture from the addition of a new lane has not been studied because the traffic study does not capture any data on the existing volume of traffic on Embarcadero Road. D. Adding a left turn lane from southbound Alma Street to Kingsley Ave. This proposed measure is closely aligned with mitigation proposal #6. There is not yet good data on traffic volumes here and, most importantly, there has been no analysis of the ability to accommodate increased traffic volumes, given the existing traffic volumes on Embarcadero Road. E. Installation of two new signal lights on the Alma Street overpass at Embarcadero Road, at the Embarcadero slip road and at Kingsley Ave. We have a number of concerns with respect to this design. It is unknown what volume of traffic will use these two intersections, but it is likely to be significant. Currently traffic traveling eastbound on Embarcadero seeking to turn south onto Alma generally uses Churchill. Opening the Embarcadero slip road to this traffic is likely to increase substantially the number of vehicles on the slip road, although volumes and impact have not been studied. This additional traffic will need to traverse the bicycle and pedestrian crossing at High Street -- a crossing that is already very busy (over 300 bicycles at the morning peak hour) and quite dangerous. The increased vehicular traffic crossing this intersection seems likely to greatly exacerbate the dangers to students, bicyclists and pedestrians, and the current mitigation plan does not mention this concern at all. The mitigations illustrated in figure 8 (p 27) take away the current left turn from Lincoln to Alma, inviting cars to use High Street to access the new left turn on the 5 https://connectingpaloalto.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020-07-22_Item-3A_Traffic- Report_Churchill_MeadowsCharleston-Grade-Separation-Analysis.pdf P 17 Paragraph 2 C:\Users\MP014805\Documents\City Council Letter 3-5- 21- Final XCAP Report.docx 5 Embarcadero slip read. This new traffic movement creates safety concerns on this very narrow residential block. F. Installing a new signal at Embarcadero Road/Kingsley Avenue/High Street with two possible options: One that provides full connectivity to and from High Street, or an option that maintains the movements to and from High Street as they are today. The traffic study did not address the intersection level of service (LOS) or operating conditions expected to result from either of these modifications. Because the traffic volumes on Embarcadero have not been studied, it is unknown what the impact will be of installing an additional traffic signal on Embarcadero Road. The projected traffic counts do not correspond with the anticipated changes. For example, the projected traffic flow indicates a decrease in the number of vehicles traveling through the Alma/ Kingsley intersection after the mitigation when in fact the point of the mitigation is to direct additional traffic to that intersection. During the morning and evening peak hours the traffic on Embarcadero is already in a gridlock condition. Given the traffic volumes that would use the Kingsley to Embarcadero light, the traffic flow will likely be impeded further. Again, these volumes have not been included in the study. With respect to the design option that would connect High Street to Embarcadero Road, it seems likely that Alma Street traffic seeking to travel to westbound Embarcadero will use the “around the block” cloverleaf, resulting in much increased traffic on the narrow, residential block of High Street. G. Improvements at Embarcadero/High Street for bicycles and pedestrians per the Neighborhood Traffic Safety and Bicycle Boulevard (NTSBB) projects plans. We are very much in favor of these improvements in concept. But, as noted in the response to proposed mitigation #5, this is already a busy bicycle and pedestrian corridor and the changes to the slip road will increase the danger for this crossing. Much more work needs to be done to this plan to truly create a safe bicycle and pedestrian route. . Limited Focus on LOS (Vehicles) Ignores Bicycle and Pedestrians North of Embarcadero & Does Not Follow Comprehensive Plan The Hexagon traffic study only looks at vehicular traffic level of service (LOS) at select intersections and ignores other impacts of diverted traffic, such as effects on the very busy school/community bicycle and pedestrian route that runs along the north side of Embarcadero. This route is an official Palo Alto bicycle route, but that fact is not reflected in the conceptual design. Moreover, the traffic study does not count bicycles and pedestrians along the Embarcadero corridor because they were not asked to do C:\Users\MP014805\Documents\City Council Letter 3-5- 21- Final XCAP Report.docx 6 so.6 Residents did a daily count of bicycles and pedestrians that crossed the busy intersection of Emerson/Kingsley/Embarcadero between 7:30-8:30 am on a typical school day and counted over 300 bike and pedestrian crossings against 100 cars that stopped or more often paused at the stop sign. The proposed mitigation to add a new Alma Street traffic signal at the slip road will exacerbate this problem. While the closure of Churchill is seen as a way to address bicycle and pedestrian safety south of the Embarcadero corridor, which is a very important consideration, the accompanying plan makes no comprehensive attempt to address safety issues on the north side of the corridor. Embarcadero Road Traffic Volume Needs More Analysis Embarcadero Road is a residential artery with over 200 driveways and should be analyzed differently than Oregon Expressway, which is a different roadway category. In normal peak-hour traffic times, the traffic on Embarcadero moves glacially, especially through the tunnel. The addition of a light at Kingsley and Embarcadero is likely to create gridlock on Embarcadero during peak hours when traffic enters Embarcadero from Alma. The studies to date do not consider what alterations to Embarcadero Road or to the Alma underpass may be required to accommodate the level of traffic, nor do they address the potential costs of such alterations. In addition, there are assumptions but no clear analysis of how traffic congestion on Embarcadero Road will impact the busy neighborhood streets that surround Embarcadero, or local destinations such as Town and County shopping center, Palo Alto High School, Castilleja, Walter Hayes and Addison Elementary schools. Drivers using routing apps can easily navigate neighborhood streets as they attempt to avoid traffic congestion on Embarcadero Road. Because Embarcadero traffic has not been studied, the current mitigations seem insufficient to deter traffic cutting though neighborhood streets and are likely to worsen the already poor function of this artery. In the traffic consultant’s presentation from February 2020, they indicate that studying Embarcadero would cost $20,000. We have no idea if this figure is accurate, but we do know that understanding traffic volume increases on Embarcadero is essential for any mitigation plan to succeed.7 6 https://connectingpaloalto.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Item3-Hexagon-Responses-to-XCAP-Traffic- Questions.pdf Page 6 7 https://connectingpaloalto.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Item3-Hexagon-Responses-to-XCAP-Traffic- Questions.pdf page 5 & 6 C:\Users\MP014805\Documents\City Council Letter 3-5- 21- Final XCAP Report.docx 7 The Baseline Date for Traffic Analysis is Inappropriate As the minority XCAP opinion points out, the study estimates future traffic volumes as of 2030 but not beyond that date. Often, future traffic analyses use a horizon of 20 to 25 years in the future, especially for projects that are expected to be in place for decades, Likewise, the analysis does not incorporate anticipated external changes during the relevant time horizon that are likely to affect the area, such as potential expansions and alterations at Stanford, Castilleja, Palo Alto High School and Town and Country, or the implementation of a Downtown Plan. Lack of Integrated Planning with Palo Alto Avenue Crossing The ultimate decisions regarding the Palo Alto Avenue crossing and a Downtown Plan will significantly impact the adjoining neighborhoods and need to be coordinated with the planning associated with the Embarcadero corridor. We agree with the Minority Position which states: “The few east/west traffic crossings in the City are inextricably linked. The relationship of the future grade separation of Palo Alto Avenue or changes to the existing University Avenue and Embarcadero grade separations should be part of the analysis.” (Section 4.5.1) C:\Users\MP014805\Documents\City Council Letter 3-5- 21- Final XCAP Report.docx 8 Conclusion Based on the foregoing, we urge the Council not to adopt any proposal with respect to the Churchill crossing until there can be a more inclusive community process and thorough city planning analysis of this seemingly simple but in fact very complex question. Given that there are already three below-grade rail crossings on the north side of Palo Alto, Council should prioritize solutions for south Palo Alto while continuing to analyze equitable solutions for the north. Thank you for your tireless efforts on this challenging and important project. Very truly yours, Thomas W. Kellerman Rachel H. Kellerman Yoriko Kishimoto Cc: Ed Shikada, City Manager Philip Kamhi, Chief Transportation Official C:\Users\MP014805\Documents\City Council Letter 11-1- 21- Staff Report Response.docx October 30, 2021 Palo Alto City Council 250 Hamilton Ave., #7 Palo Alto, CA 94301-2531 Re: Connecting Palo Alto - Staff Report Dear Honorable Council Members: We have read with interest the Staff Report to City Council dated November 1, 2021 with respect to the status and action items to be considered with respect to the Connecting Palo Alto project (the “Staff Report”). We have one specific point to bring to the attention of the Council. The Staff Report references the final report delivered by the Expanded Community Advisory Panel (“XCAP”) to the City Council dated March 4, 2021, in which the XCAP recommended the closure of the crossing at Churchill Avenue. The Staff Report identifies certain mitigations with respect to this proposal that are recommended by the City’s traffic consultant. However, the Staff Report neglects to mention that the XCAP also found that the suggested mitigations in the consultant report were not sufficient and recommended, by a 7 – 0 vote (with two abstentions) that addition mitigations should be considered prior to implementing any closure (see page 23 of the XCAP Final Report). This further recommendation from the XCAP is of particular importance for the Council’s analysis. It is clear the mitigations proposed by the consultant have not yet been adequately studied and are likely insufficient to remedy the impact of a closure on traffic flow and bicycle and pedestrian safety. We believe that the bicycle safety issues associated with a potential closure are of special concern. While a bicycle underpass at Churchill would be a welcome addition, empirical evidence indicates that that feature alone will not alleviate the hazards associated with adding substantial additional vehicular traffic to the Embarcadero corridor. A more detailed analysis of these ramifications needs to be undertaken before a conclusion is reached with respect to the closure alternative. A detailed discussion with respect to these issues is set forth in our earlier letter to Council dated March 10, 2021, a copy of which is attached to the cover email message. C:\Users\MP014805\Documents\City Council Letter 11-1- 21- Staff Report Response.docx Palo Alto City Council Page 2 We urge the Council to ensure that adequate analysis of the ramifications of a Churchill closure is undertaken and that appropriate and comprehensive mitigations are included before any vote is taken on the proposed closure of this crossing. Therefore, it is premature to approve a closure of Churchill at this time. Please do not vote for closure. Thank you for your continued efforts to resolve this important issue. Very truly yours, Thomas W. Kellerman Rachel H. Kellerman Enclosure Cc: Ed Shikada, City Manager Philip Kamhi, Chief Transportation Official From:Rebecca Eisenberg To:amollica@petsinneed.org; Council, City Subject:Re: A Statement from Pets In Need Date:Saturday, October 30, 2021 11:55:58 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from reisenberg@gmail.com. Learn why thisis important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious ofopening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Pets in Need: Your email below, regarding the criminally negligent death of seven puppies while inyour care is unprofessional, irresponsible, and dishonest. We learned only a few days ago from the news media that three of your staff werecharged criminally for the negligent and avoidable death of seven puppies while in yourcare. Rather than expressing remorse and taking responsibility for this wholly intolerableact, you deflect and defend. Our community deserves better! I demand that you provide evidence that every staff member involved in this tragic andcriminal action was terminated, and that more safe transport was acquired. Attemptingto defend the safety of transport vehicles that clearly killed companion animals whoselives were your paid job to save is tone-deaf and improper. The City of Palo Alto deserves to work with a nonprofit who will save animals, notmurder them. You failed in your criminally negligent actions on August 2, and you failedfurther by refusing to take responsibility for your actions and change the conditions thatled to the senseless death of innocent animals. The City of Palo Alto deserves much better than what you provide. Sincerely, Rebecca Eisenberg, Esq. Founder & Principal, Private Client Legal ServicesFounder & Principal, Netskink Sustainable Capital Fund On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 11:13 AM Al Mollica | Pets In Need <amollica@petsinneed.org> wrote: Our Response to the Palo Alto Investigation View this email in your browser. Dear Rebecca, We want to provide an update on the tragic events of last August 2, when -W~- PETS IN NEED -FOUNDED1965- seven puppies in our care perished while being transported from Madera to our Palo Alto shelter. This incident has shaken everyone at Pets In Need, not only because of our proven dedication to providing at-risk animals with loving care, but because this is the first time something like this has happened in more than 55 years of operation. While we have saved thousands of pets’ lives, an event like this simply should not have happened. We are determined to investigate the incident, follow the facts where they lead us, and make whatever changes are necessary to ensure that a tragedy like this never happens again. Here are the actions we have taken since August 2: 1. The Pets in Need Board of Directors has stepped in to support a thorough investigation, working closely with Executive Director Al Mollica. With the collaboration of independent outside counsel, the Board hired an experienced investigator to conduct interviews of all those with knowledge of the incident. The investigator also did an evaluation of the vehicle used in the rescue run. 2. The Palo Alto Police Department has initiated an investigation which has led to three PIN employees being cited. The Board is not privy to any of the details of their investigation. We are fully cooperating with the police and the District Attorney’s Office. We are working to ensure that the cited employees’ side of the story is heard, and a fair and complete account of their role is communicated to the authorities. 3. The independent investigator inspected operations and conditions of the vehicle used in bringing the animals to us. We have been concerned about some media reports that suggest there was either no air conditioning in the van, or none delivered to the rear cabin. Our knowledge of the van’s systems and our investigation confirm that was not the case. We intend to work to correct any press accounts that suggest otherwise. 4. Finally, the Pets In Need Board is committed to using this information to make any necessary changes in policy, procedure, training and communications – not only to prevent a recurrence of such a tragedy, -- Rebecca L. Eisenberg Esq.www.linkedin.com/in/eisenbergwww.winwithrebecca.comrebecca@privateclientlegal.comrebecca@winwithrebecca.com415-235-8078 but to restore the trust and confidence that the community has placed in us since 1965. We are committed to doing the hard work it will take to regain that trust. We will keep you posted on our progress and invite you to contact either of us with questions or suggestions. We thank you for your faith, trust, and support through this most difficult time. Gratefully, Rob Kalman Board President Al Mollica Executive Director FOLLOW US COPYRIGHT © 2021 PETS IN NEED. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. OUR MAILING ADDRESS IS: PETS IN NEED 871 5TH AVENUE REDWOOD CITY, CA 94063 Unsubscribe from all Pets In Need emails | Update subscription preferences 11 @ W' From:Ken Horowitz To:Council, City Subject:Ruling in CA Sugary Drink Tax Preemption Lawsuit | ChangeLab Solutions Date:Friday, October 29, 2021 6:49:02 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Attached is a recent court ruling Please direct the Policy and Services Committee per your Council meeting from June 4, 2018 to explore a sugar sweetened beverage tax in 2022 Thank you Ken Horowitz 525 Homer Ave Palo Alto, CA https://www.changelabsolutions.org/news/ruling-california-sugary-drink-tax-preemption Sent from my iPhone From:Carol Scott To:Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Kamhi, Philip; Baird, Nathan Cc:Lydia Kou; Tom DuBois; Filseth, Eric (external); Greer Stone; Greg Tanaka; Pat Burt; alisonlcormack@gmail.com; Gennady Subject:Consent Calendar Item #11 - Monday, November 1, 2021 Date:Friday, October 29, 2021 3:52:57 PM Attachments:Comments on Consent Calendar Item 102921.docx Some people who received this message don't often get email from cscott@crossfieldllc.com.Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Council Members, City Manager, and City Staff, I am attaching a document that contains comments on Item #11 on the City Council's Consent Calendar for Monday, November 1, 2021. This item pertains, among other things, to the elimination of all-day employee parking permitsin the residential zones of the Evergreen Park/Mayfield RPP. Although this document is four pages long, most of it is taken up by photographs that I hope will provide someneeded facts and perspectives on the parking availability in the Cal Ave business district. I hope to be able to present a short version of these photos and comments at the meeting on Monday evening. To summarize, my points address the following: 1. Despite the claims of some business owners, there are hundreds of parking spaces available in the Cal Ave areaeven during the lunch period between 11:30 and 1:30 p.m. Please remember that RPP restrictions do not apply inthe evening, or dinner, hours. 2. Several businesses are not even using their own parking spaces. 3. Several restaurants are not open during the lunch hours and have no need of daytime parking in the residentialareas. 4. As stated by council members and developers on many occasions, the Cal Ave area is "transit rich." Thereshould be no need to parking intrusions into the residential areas. 5. Residents were promised that employee permits would not be permanent -- as attested to by the Councildiscussion when the funding for the Sherman Ave garage was approved. 6. Residents have also been promised an end to employee intrusions into the residential areas by the City's ownpolicies. 7. Getting employee traffic and parking out of the residential neighborhoods, and indeed reducing automobiletraffic in the area in general, is consistent with the City's stated S/Cap goals. 8. Getting the cars out of the residential areas is consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan. 9. With the new State housing laws, there will soon be increased demand for parking by residents of new, dense,under-parked housing developments (subdivided lots, ADUs and junior ADUs with no parking requirements, etc.). I hope you will read the attached document, and agree with me that it is now time to remove the noise, traffic,pollution, and interference with the quality of life in residential areas due to all-day employee parking. Thank you. Carol Scott Evergreen Park resident -- Carol Scott 1 Comments on Consent Calendar Item #11: Approve Modifications to the University Avenue and California Avenue Parking Policy November 1, 2021 Respectively Submitted by Carol Scott, resident of Evergreen Park October 29, 2021 I am writing in support for the Consent Calendar Item #11 which seeks, in part, to eliminate all-day employee parking permits in the residential area zones (A – F) of the Evergreen Park/Mayfield RPP. This action is long overdue. It brings the EP/M RPP into alignment with the RPPs for other residential areas, e.g., College Terrace, Old Palo Alto, and Crescent Park. It also recognizes (a) the City's stated objectives for S/Cap efforts, (b) its Comprehensive Plan statements and policies, (c) promises made to residents of this area, and (d) the objective reality of sufficient parking availability to commercial businesses in the California Ave business district during the daytime hours. RPP parking restrictions do not apply during the evening hours when Cal Ave. now sees most of its activity. I provide some needed facts in this document to provide perspective. I hope to be able to present some of these facts and photographs at the Council meeting on Monday night, November 1, 2021 A summary list of why you should also support this proposal: 1. Despite the claims of some businesses in the Cal Ave business district, there are hundreds of vacant parking spaces available in the City-owned garages and lots – even at presumably the busiest time of the day (, e.g., the 11:30 to 1:30 p.m. lunch period). RPP time limits do not apply during evening hours. The photo of the Sherman Ave garage, one of several I took at various locations around Cal Ave. during the lunch period on October 27, 2021, indicates 510 available spaces on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 12:50 p.m. Other lots of garages offer many other available spaces (see other photos). There is no need to use the residential streets as overflow parking lots for business employees or customers. 2 510 spaces available in Sherman Top floor of Ted Thompson Ave garage – 12:50 p.m. Wed. garage on Cambridge Top floor of Cambridge Garage near ECR Lot 2 on Cambridge Ave. Lot 4 on Cambridge Ave. 3 2. Businesses are not using their own parking spaces during the day. These are only two examples. This restaurant, like some others, is not 450 Cambridge uses car lift spaces for open for lunch storage 3. Several restaurants are not even open for lunch, and thus have no need of parking in City lots or residential areas. These include La Bodeguita del Media, Palo Alto Sol, Terun, and Sun of Wolf among others. 4. As Council Member Eric Filseth stated, and as stated by every developer seeking a parking exemption from the City: Between Caltrain, the Marguerite, El Camino and VTA and so forth, this is about as transit rich as it gets. If we can't get it to work here, we ought to throw in the towel and build giant garages everywhere." Council meeting January, 23, 2017 – as quoted in the Palo Alto Weekly, January 24, 2017. 5. Residents were promised that, in return for their support for a publicly funded garage on Sherman Ave., all-day employee parking permits would be removed from the residential neighborhoods: " . . . I think it [the Sherman Ave. garage] is going to make a big difference on Cal Ave in terms of parking, getting the cars out of the neighborhood and Making that area a lot more, ah, I would say a lot better for everyone involved." . . . . Council Member Greg Scharff, Council meeting to approve contracts to build the new Cal Ave garage. City video archives, City Council Meeting, December 10, 2018, at 2:21. Council Member Liz Kniss seconded his motion 4 6. Getting the cars out of the neighborhoods is in line with the City's stated S/Cap goals. Council Members Burt and Cormack currently head up this effort. "(8) The system of residential permit parking, as enacted by the ordinance codified in this chapter, will serve to promote the safety, health and welfare of the citizens of College Terrace by reducing unnecessary personal motor vehicle travel, noise, and pollution; and (b) by promoting improvements in air quality and the convenience and attractiveness of urban residential living, now and in the future." Ordinance No. 5060 establishing the College Terrace RPP, 2009 7. Getting the cars out of the neighborhoods has also long been promised by the City's own policies: "The following Comprehensive Plan programs and policies are relevant to parking management policies: Policy T-5.5 Minimize the need for employees to park in and adjacent to commercial centers, employment districts and schools Policy T-5.11 Work to protect residential areas from parking impacts of nearby businesses and uses, recognizing that fully addressing some existing intrusions may take time. 8. Getting the cars out of the neighborhoods is in line with City values as expressed in the Comprehensive Plan: "....... It [Comp Plan] encourages a thriving business community that provides services to local residents and revenue to the City while also working to protect neighborhoods and the environment. It encourages commercial enterprise, but not at the expense of the city's residential neighborhoods. The City is committed to retaining existing businesses, maintaining vibrant commercial areas, and attracting innovative small and independent businesses.” --- City Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan 2030, p. 4-5 Adopted by the City Council November 13, 2017 9. New State laws that allow the construction of new, dense housing with no parking provisions will soon enough increase residential demand for street parking in residential neighborhoods. We will no longer be able to accommodate business as well as residential demand for parking. Thus, from a practical as well as a policy and strategy perspective, there is absolutely no valid reason to sell employee parking permits in the EP/M RPP residential zones. 5 From:Jo Ann Mandinach To:Council, City Subject:DO NOT CLOSE CHURCHILL / Embarcadero is already clogged enough Date:Friday, October 29, 2021 11:54:24 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Please read the comments on https://paloaltoonline.com/square/2021/10/28/decision-time-palo-alto-city-council-to-weigh-closure-of-churchill-avenue about how dangerous Embarcadero already is and please DO NOT even think of closing Churchill to through traffic. Please don't make any decisions until traffic returns to its usual level and you canconduct ACCURATE traffic counts. Also consider bringing this to a community vote. Most sincerely, Jo Ann Mandinach Middlefield Road Palo Alto, CA 94301 From:Tran, JoannaTo:Council, CityCc:Kamhi, Philip; Harper, Paul; Deschamps, Jessie; Executive Leadership Team; ORG - Clerk"s OfficeSubject:Council Consent Agenda Question for November 1: Item 11 Date:Thursday, October 28, 2021 6:07:20 PM Attachments:image001.pngimage002.pngimage010.pngimage011.pngimage013.pngimage014.pngimage003.png Dear Mayor and Council Members: On behalf of City Manager Ed Shikada, please find below the staff response to a question made by Councilmember Cormack regarding the Monday, November 1 CouncilMeeting consent agenda item: Item 11, Approve Modifications to the University Avenue and California Avenue Parking Policy to Expand Eligibility for City Garage Parking Permits and Update Feeds; Adopt an Ordinance to Amend the FY 2022 Municipal Fee Schedule Increasing Parking Permit Fees; Adopt Three Resolutions Modifying the Downtown, Evergreen Park Mayfield, and Southgate Residential Preferential Parking (RPP) Programs to Reduce Employee Parking in the RPP Districts and Allow for Monthly Employee Permits; and Direct Staff to Develop a Program to Alleviate Parking Requirements in the California Avenue Area (Continued From October 26, 2020. Councilmember question and Staff response are below: 1. If the projections in Table 7 on page 261 materialize, what can/should any fund balances be used for? Answer: Fund balances are usually built up over time to be used for large one-time expenses, such as capital improvement projects or emergency situations that impact the ability to collect revenue, such as the COVID-19 Pandemic that stopped revenue collection for parking. Staff strives to keep revenues in line with annual expenses within each parking program, but as costs like staffing, contract services and miscellaneous operational expenses increase over time for the various parking programs expenses, the fund balances are generally available to fund services provided by the City and have been historically used to cover costs in excess of the annual revenue collected in each program as part of the annual budget process. Thank you,Joanna Joanna Tran Executive Assistant to the City Manager Office of the City Manager (650) 329-2105 | joanna.tran@cityofpaloalto.org www.cityofpaloalto.org -------------- •fi CITY OF '-7 PALO ALTO Council Consent Agenda Responses From:Jessica Roth To:Council, City Subject:California Avenue Parking The Cobblery"s perspective Date:Thursday, October 28, 2021 3:25:34 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from jessicasadee@gmail.com.Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hello council, I am writing today with concerns and frustration about the TMA's proposal regarding parking on California Ave. Specifically removing the permits from the evergreen park RPP program.We, as a business community, have not had any outreach from the TMA regarding these changes. I have spent the last 20 years begging for more parking in our district and petitioningfor maximum spaces in the new garage. If the city adapts the proposal, I feel it's all for nothing. They will take any added spots that we fought so hard for and paid so much tax $$$$for. They want to move 200 permit spaces from existing spots to the new garage. Where are my customers supposed to park? I can't stress this enough. WE NEED MORE CUSTOMERPARKING (that's why we have been fighting for more parking for decades).The City staff has been speaking about data over the last few days. Their data doesn't match up with the actualCal Ave experience. Don't forget if we have a continued closure of the street that takes away parking spots as well. Pre Covid, California Ave was extremely short on customer parking. Iunderstand this is not the case currently but we need to prepare for the future. I have a hard time believing we will ever get these spots back once they are taken away. I also don't see therush on this. There is no one parking in the neighborhoods currently. We don't know what a post covid California Ave area looks like, Stanford has just returned. Offices will be back insome form and until we understand that it makes no sense to give up 200+ parking spaces. How much is a parking space worth in PA?? That number multiplied by the spaces in the RPPprogram that we lose is no small amount. Please consider putting this off. We are headed for many changes. Our street has 16 empty storefronts, We need to make California Ave desirablefor business to come here, not less desirable to do business here. Please reach out if anyone has any questions for me. BestJessica Roth The Cobblery650-776-8675 From:Ken Joye To:Council, City Subject:private use of public space Date:Thursday, October 28, 2021 3:22:44 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from kmjoye@gmail.com. Learn why thisis important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious ofopening attachments and clicking on links. I would like to invite each of you to meet me at the corner of Park Blvd & Olive Ave. I am interested in your take on the security fencing which impinges upon the sidewalk (seeappended image). I can understand that a developer may feel the need to protect an unoccupied building, but fail tounderstand why security fencing is not placed within the property line of the parcel. This fencingseems to be quasi-permanent, as the exterior of the building at this location has been complete forquite some time. I believe you would agree with me that residents of our community should have full access to thesidewalk. Such access makes walking more attractive; as the climate crisis accelerates, we shoulddo everything to shift trips away from automobiles. This security fencing does not do that. Please contact me if you wish to view this in person some time. thank you for your service,Ken JoyeVentura neighborhood Sent from a device which thinks it types better than I do From:Deborah Goldeen To:Council, City Subject:Airplane Noise Date:Thursday, October 28, 2021 1:42:25 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I record an average of 20 extremely loud planes going overhead every day. On more than a few occasions I’ve recorded as many as 50. After a years of dillgent work, Sky Posse managed to get Palo Alto a seat at the table of the roundtable of cities authorized to interact directly with the FAA. Council chose Lydia Kou to represent. I listened to first meeting with Kou in attendance. I heard one woman, Darlene, speak in detail as to what was wrong with the plan under discussion and why it needed to be changed in order to be effective. Ms.Kou didn’t hear a word she said and simply continued talking out of whatever playbook the roundtable had devised. These planes are a constant and unnecessary torment. There doesn’t even need to be any flight path modifications to get improvement. The FAA has prohibited “idle descent,” complete whooey in the minds of professional pilots. That requirement needs to be amended/should have been amended years ago. But Ms. Kou doesn’t seem to know this. I think Ms.Kou is the wrong person to participate in the roundtable. For the sake of all of us who suffer, please have someone else take part. Thank you. Deborah Goldeen 2130 Birch, 94306 (650)799-3652 From:Mike Meffert To:Council, City Subject:California Ave Parking Proposal to be presented to City Council 11/1/21 Date:Thursday, October 28, 2021 11:50:57 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from mmeffert@alhousedeaton.com. Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments andclicking on links. Dear City Council, Today I participated discussion between City and California Ave businesses on proposed parking changes in the California Ave district. I took a couple screenshots (below). I’m a commercial property owner and commercial real estate on California Ave. In past years, I participated in numerous meetings often extending after midnight to increase the number of parking spaces as office owners and merchants lost business due to inadequate parking supply. After many years this helped result in the new garage. I respect the needs of residents seeking to reduce employee parking in Evergreen Park/Mayfield neighborhoods but needs of all parties need consideration as businesses rely upon parking. Businesses haven’t recovered from the pandemic and employee parking has not returned to pre-pandemic levels. Furthermore, it was clear from today’s discussion that the business interests were not represented as part of the City’s community engagement. At present, current demand is low relative to supply. Reallocation of parking at the current time is poorly timed, there is no reason for urgency to make a change now especially as the timing is not representative of the area once it returns to economic health. I do not support eliminating 250 parking spaces for employees in the Evergreen RPP. This part of the proposal should be postponed until economic health is restored and there’s a clearer picture of the parking demand/supply. In concept, I support a reasonable increase in the parking permit price. The 61% proposed increase from $403 to $650 is excessive. As an alternative, I suggest that such a large increase be phased in over several years. RECOMMENDED PARKING PROGRAM CHANGES (TABLE 5) Talk,ng Nate Baird I Residential Employee Permits Employee Permits Permits Parking District (Full Price/yr) (Reduced Price/yr) (price/yr) University Avenue $006$900 N#, $225 N/A RPP -Downtown $006 $1050 $006 $262.50 $50 (fi~t one free) California Avenue $4ffi$650 N#, $162.50 N/A RPP -Evergreen $4ffi $750 ~$187.50 $50 Park/Mayfield (fi1!t 01,e f1ee) RPP -Southgate $4ffi $750 $006 $187.50 $50 (fi~t one free) Other Residential Preferential Parking Programs RPP -College Terrace None None r----------+----- RPP -Crescent Park None None RPP -Old Palo Alto None None =8$50 $50 $SO • (~ CITY OF _ _, PALO AL TO Number of Employee Permits Available r,8z6 3,326 r,000 580 (+200 in reserve) 5851,075 z50 0 for Zones A-F; 40 for Zone G (expand) 25 None None None Respectfully, Mike Meffert│Commercial Real Estate Salesperson│DRE# 01361294 230 South California Avenue, #212 │Palo Alto │California 94306 (c) 650-207-4754│(f) 650-852-0361 www.alhousedeaton.com CALIFORNIA AVE OFF-STREET SUPPLY & DEMAND Spaces Garage/Lot Prior to Total Avg. Hourly Peak Hourly New Spaces /Permit 2019 /Permit 2019 Garage New Cal Ave Garage 626 Lot 1 Cambridge/Park 27 27 Lot 2 Cambridge/Birch 38 38 Ted Thompson Garage 183 183 Lot 4 Cambridge/Birch 28 28 Lot 5 Garage Cambridge/New Mayfield 157 157 Lot 6 Sherman/Park CLOSED (181 Spaces) 181 Lot 7 CLOSED (129 Spaces)• 129 Lot 8 Sherman/ Ash 147 147 Lot 9 Birch/Cambridge 28 28 918 1234 •• *Lot 7 was likely closed during the survey, staff is assuming similar occupancy to neighboring Lot 6 . .. ALHOUSE'" ■ l ■DEATON D CITY OF ~ PALO ALTO Possible Possible Peak Permit Additional Capacity Permit Permits Available Capacity Parked Prior to Available 2019 New (60% Gara e showrate) 538 24 5 5 31 11 11 165 29 29 27 1 1 154 5 5 159 35 114 25 137 16 16 27 2 2 837 129 607 From:Aram James To:Sajid Khan; Jeff Moore; Jeff Moore; Human Relations Commission; Jeff Rosen; chuck jagoda; PlanningCommission; wintergery@earthlink.net; alisa mallari tu; Raj; Roberta Ahlquist; Vara Ramakrishnan; Tanaka,Greg; Jay Boyarsky; Council, City; Binder, Andrew; Greer Stone; Tannock, Julie; Enberg, Nicholas; Joe Simitian;Jonsen, Robert; cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; Cecilia Taylor; Perron, Zachary; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com Subject:Will our district attorney candidates debate Zionist Supremacy, White Supremacy, and Hindu Nationalism-and class shaming in our community— or pretend these issues are beyond the scope of an election for the top lawenforcement official in Santa Clara C... Date:Wednesday, October 27, 2021 10:28:19 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. FYI: anti-semitism raising its ugly face in France? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/world/europe/france-murder-trial-holocaust-survivor- mireille-knoll.amp.html Hi folks: Will our district attorney candidates debate the impact of Zionist Supremacy, WhiteSupremacy, and Hindu Nationalism-and class shaming in our communities or pretend these issues are beyond the scope of an election for the top law enforcement official in Santa ClaraCounty. I want a real robust debate on the issues not just the standard safe criminal justice reform issues. Aram “ It’s past time to begin the debates” James Sent from my iPhone From:Aram JamesTo:paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Tannock, Julie; Binder, Andrew; Enberg, Nicholas; Council, City; Human Relations Commission; Planning Commission; chuck jagoda; Winter Dellenbach; Jeff Moore; Raj; Roberta Ahlquist; Greer Stone; Joe Simitian; Jay Boyarsky; Sajid Khan; Jeff Rosen; Jonsen, Robert; Reifschneider, James; Rebecca Eisenberg; james pitkinSubject:No More Canine Units-and other fence artDate:Wednesday, October 27, 2021 5:40:44 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links.________________________________ Sent from my iPhone From:Dan Zalles To:Council, City Subject:Two suggestions for solving our gas leaf blower problem Date:Wednesday, October 27, 2021 4:31:57 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from danroyzal@gmail.com. Learnwhy this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Council, I am a longtime Palo Alto home owner and resident and have two suggestions about our gasleaf blower problem.. First, I suggest that to enforce this ban, the police department should assign officers to go out every once and awhile to drive through the neighborhoods and I guarantee they will find atleast several violations, especially during a weekday. They could then issue a citation to the owners of the house that the gardeners are servicing. An analogy would be to traffic police. Tostop speeders, police departments assign officers to do sting operations at specific intersections. It has a deterrent effect. Second, I recommend that to ameliorate the social justice implications of the ban on poorgardeners, the city can subsidize gardeners’ transitions from leaf blowers to other gardening devices, and use taxpayer money to do so. Sincerely, Dan Zalles From:Cyrus Shahriari To:Palo Alto Airport Cc:Council, City Subject:October 27, 2021 - 1300 to 1500 PDT Date:Wednesday, October 27, 2021 3:13:08 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from cyrus.cti@gmail.com. Learnwhy this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. To whom it may concern: The N186CS owner or similar small engine airplane has been circling around West San Jose for the past two hours. With many people still working remotely, this is inconvenient andinconsiderate to say the least. Please investigate and fine the owner if legally possible. The air space over the residential area is not a playground. If I'm mistaken, please refer me to yourpolicies. Thank you, Cyrus From:Money MotivationTo:Council, CitySubject:Networking Happy HourDate:Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:26:19 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email fromnoreply@campaign.eventbrite.com. Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious ofopening attachments and clicking on links. Enjoy the vibe We’re launching a new happy hour and we’d love to see you there. Join us for Access Smoke Room Presents: The Red GODdess Experience November 5 2021 at 6:00 PM. Come join DMVs sexiest happy hour at The Republic Garden. Food, hookah, and drink specials from 6-10pm. Cigars and Hookah available! Follow @asrcigar on IG Email asrcigar@gmail.com to reserve table specials. Register soon because space is limited. We hope you’re able to join us! Friday, November 5, 2021 6:00 PM ASR presents: The Red GODdess Experience: Happy Hour + Networking + Food Register Republic Garden ASR Group, LLC 8402 Georgia Ave , Silver Spring , Md 20910 US Unsubscribe | Privacy Policy From:Labiba Boyd To:Library Director; Council, City; Library, Pa Subject:Suggestion for City Library with Microsoft - to get Microsoft Software donated to Libraries of City of Palo Alto Date:Wednesday, October 27, 2021 1:17:53 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from labiba@att.net. Learn why thisis important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hello Palo Alto City Council and Hello City Library, None of the Palo Alto City Libraries have Microsoft Word installed, which is a hardship for the patrons, especially the student patrons. To get Microsoft Word (and Microsoft Suite) donated to Palo Alto City Libraries, it would make sense tocontact the former mayor of Palo Alto, Sid Espinosa, because he will be able to get the software donatedto the City Libraries. Mr. Espinosa was Mayor of Palo Alto in 2011 and has been Director of Corporate Citizenship for Microsoft Corporation in the Silicon Valley for a few years. Sid Espinosa Sid Espinosa Thank you very much for your time and we hope that you will be able to help the patrons of the City of Palo Alto Libraries by contacting Mr. Espinosa. Best Wishes, Labiba BoydPalo Alto Resident650-833-8076 From:Jeff HoelTo:UAC; Council, CityCc:Hoel, Jeff (external); Shikada, EdSubject:TRANSCRIPT & COMMENTS -- 10-06-21 UAC meeting -- Item VII.1 -- FTTPDate:Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:50:04 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Commissioners and Council members, I have made a transcript of UAC's 10-06-21 meeting, Item VII.1, which is about FTTP. (See below the "######" line.) Agenda:https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/agendas-minutes/utilities-advisory-commission/archived-agenda-and-minutes/agendas-and-minutes-2021/10-06-2021-regular/10-06-2021-uac-agenda.pdfStaff report (with presentation slides on pages 3-17):https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/agendas-minutes/utilities-advisory-commission/archived-agenda-and-minutes/agendas-and-minutes-2021/10-06-2021-regular/10-06-2021-id-13591-item-2.pdfVideo (0:21:25-1:45:56)https://midpenmedia.org/utilities-advisory-commission-31-1062021/ I have also added my comments (paragraphs in red beginning with "###"). (And paragraphs in purple beginning with "###" mark where the presentation slides and other visuals appeared.) I'd like to make some additional comments here, above the "######" line.. 1. I failed to notice this item until 10-06-21, when it was too late to comment before the meeting. My bad. 2. The staff report was pretty minimal, so there wasn't much to comment on. Nevertheless, Herb Borock made some good comments here (pages 18-20):https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/agendas-minutes/utilities-advisory-commission/archived-agenda-and-minutes/agendas-and-minutes-2021/10-06-2021-regular/10-06-2021-public-letters-to-uac.pdf 3. The discussion by communications staff about "community engagement" (between 0:26:57 and 0:58:33) focused on how staff was developing automated tools so that members of the public could converse with each other about the FTTP project. But, as Commissioner Smith pointed out, the task Council asked staff to do was tolet the public know what the FTTP project was all about, and why the City supported it, BEFORE staff sent out a FTTP-related survey to selected residents and businesses, so that survey participants would be more knowledgeable about it. If staff wants to do the surveys in the November timeframe (0:22:54) they're running out oftime to inform the public first. 4. There was NO discussion of the dark fiber network expansion. That's extraordinary. Is the $22 million cost estimate still valid? Are any new dark fiber cabinets required? Now that staff is recommending that the City's FTTP network have only 2-3 huts, maybe it's time to re-evaluate whether you really need a $22 million backbone just to connect 2-3 huts to the central office (plus whatever else staff wants the dark fiber network expansion to do). By the way, I wonder whether it might be better to have, say, 9 huts -- say, one at each electric substation. Fiber already goes to each electric substation. Having more huts would shorten the average premises-to-hut connection. I suppose the public already thinks that electric substations are ugly but necessary, and that adding ahut wouldn't make much difference. 5. Up to now, the choice of FTTP fiber architecture -- Active Ethernet (point-to-point) or PON (point-to-multipoint), and, if PON, then split how many ways -- has been a can kicked down the road.a. A 05-07-03 staff report (no longer available online) proposed a hypothetical "reference system" that featured a point-to-point fiber architecture but non-standard 8-way PON electronics in 100 cabinets. (Go figure.) (And it proposed eight hut-equivalents at the next hierarchical level.)b. A 06-16-08 "overview" document from the 180 Connect Consortium (Attachment B here)https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/reports/city-manager-reports-cmrs/year-archive/2008/cmr-304-08-12688.pdfproposed point-to-point.c. Had Google deployed here, that would have been PON.d. A 09-28-15 staff report proposed (PDF page 45) a mixture:https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/reports/city-manager-reports-cmrs/year-archive/2015/id-6104-fttp.pdf"It is important to emphasize that the suggested network design will have enough fiber capacity to provide either Active Ethernet service or Passive Optical Network (PON) service to any business or resident."e. A 04-21-21 staff reporthttps://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/agendas-minutes/utilities-advisory-commission/archived-agenda-and-minutes/agendas-and-minutes-2021/04-21-2021-special/id-12118-item-no-1.pdfmentions both Active Ethernet (point-to-point) and passive (PON) but doesn't propose anything.f. Magellan's website says (I think) that it could deal with either architecture.https://www.magellan-advisors.com/solutions/design-engineering.stml So, why am I concerned that staff and consultant might have decided it should be PON without telling UAC, Council, and the public? Because they're proposing cabinets that would contain only passive elements (splitters and patch panels, I suppose), which would not be needed in an Active Ethernet network. 6. Here's why I think Active Ethernet is better than PON:a. It's more futureproof. You can upgrade the electronics of one premises without having to worry about other premises. (Some PON roadmaps have figured out how multiple generations can share a PON net by requiring each generation to use separate wavelengths. For example Nokia's 25G PON is compatible with both XGS-PON and GPON.https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/11/19/2129760/0/en/Nokia-launches-world-s-first-25-Gbps-symmetrical-PON-solution.htmlBut it's more complicated.)b. It's lower latency, because a premises' electronics can send messages without waiting for permission.c. It doesn't send data meant for you to your neighbors too.d. It's possibly less expensive than PON. "Much cheaper," according to this:https://www.bbcmag.com/multifamily-broadband/gigabit-fiber-comes-to-los-altos-hillse. It's easier to debug problems.f. No unsightly splitter cabinets. Also, no having to route fiber away from the preferred path in order to site a cabinet in a non-controversial location. 7: How big would a hut have to be, as a function of:a. How many premises it could support (3,300, 10,000, 15,000)b. Architecture supported (Active Ethernet, PON)c. Premises supported per PON net (16, 32, 64, 128)d. Battery backup (various duration options) Thanks. Jeff -------------------Jeff Hoel731 Colorado AvenuePalo Alto, CA 94303------------------- ################################################################################################# TRANSCRIPT 0:21:25: Chair Forssell: The next item, then, is our discussion of the fiber backbone and Palo Alto broadband expansion. Are there any members of the community that want to speak on this topic? 0:21:41: David Yuan: Does anyone from the public want to speak on this item? If so, please raise your hand. No hands are raised, Chair Forssell. 0:21:48: Chair Forssell: All right. Then, I assume there is -- is there a staff presentation on this? 0:21:54: Dean Batchelor: There is, Chair Forssell. So, tonight, we thought that we would bring back some updates on what we've been doing with the fiber backbone. We have our consultant, Magellan, with us. Jory Wolf and John Honker, who have been our consultants, and working with us on this. 0:22:15: ### Slide 1 -- Title (Slides 1-15, appear on PDF page numbers 3-17 of the staff report.) And we also have some staff members, that will be giving some of the presentation as well. So, with that, I'm going to turn it over to John. 0:22:24: John Honker: Great. Thank you, Dean Batchelor. And good evening, Chair Forssell and commissioners. Good to be back in front of you again. It's been a few months. And what we wanted to do is really kind of provide an informational update on the fiber project. Since we last saw you, which I believe was April of last -- ofearlier in the year. ### It was item VII.1 on UAC's 04-21-21 agenda.https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/agendas-minutes/utilities-advisory-commission/archived-agenda-and-minutes/agendas-and-minutes-2021/04-21-2021-special/uac-agenda-april-21-2021.pdf So, a significant amount of progress has been made since that time. And we're on track, in really all phases of the project. Which is exciting. 0:22:54: ### Slide 2 -- CURRENT ACTIVITIES Because this is a significant undertaking for you, for the community, and also for the entire Palo Alto team. So, I wanted to first really bring you back up to speed. Since it's been a little bit of time, just a quick refresher on what's happening with the fiber project currently. So, as you remember, we had consolidated a couple of thephases in the fiber project, to really accelerate the timeline, to get to a combined fiber-to-the-home broadband AND a fiber backbone design. What we've been able to do is pull together, really, the first piece of this, which is the community engagement, as well as the broadband surveys that will be going out in sort of the Novembertimeframe, for residents and businesses. 0:23:49: And, in parallel, what we're working on on the technical and the engineering side is Phase 2, which is the detailed backbone engineering design. As well as the aerial and underground design, construction standards, and the final packages. This Phase 2 really gets you to a point where your can put the construction -- I'm sorry,put the engineering design out for bid to construction contractors, and begin building the fiber backbone. 0:24:23: Concurrent to that, we're also working through Phase 4, which is the fiber-to-the-home design. And we have a lot of synergy between Phases 2 and 4, because the backbone and fiber-to-the-home both interconnect with one another. Both, you know, interoperate with one another. And it gives us efficiencies of being to do bothdesigns simultaneously, and get those completed for you well ahead of the timeframe that it would be to do them separately. So, Phase 4 design is really focused on your fiber-to-the-home. Or fiber-to-the-premise, as we call it. ### Some of us call it fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP).https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/premises The broadband engineering design, to pass -- to reach 100 percent of homes and businesses across Palo Alto. It will focus really on the best way to deploy, and at the least cost to deploy, both aerial and underground fiber. Utilizing your existing telephone -- or, utility poles, and your existing right-of-way that's out there. They willalso be coupled with construction standards for fiber-to-the-home that are based on the City's existing civil standards, as well as more specific standards for fiber construction itself, and equipment specifications, and other things that are associated with the fibe- -- the final fiber-to-the-home build. You'll also have, with that, a full setof construction prints and packages that, like the backbone, you'll be able to go out and immediately put this out to bid for construction, if it's the Council's decision -- or the Commission's decision -- to do so. ### It's Council's decision, but UAC can recommend. So, along with that, there's some other planning tasks that we're working on for you, which include the Broadband Business Plan, which is going to be kicking off this month. As well as an assessment of the potential grant opportunities that are out there that may be able to fund certain components of the fiber optic network. As wellas, really, a regulatory risks analysis of what Palo Alto, as a city and a municipal utility, needs to be aware of, as you're moving closer to fiber-to-the-home. So, building the awareness around those regulatory issues of potentially providing service -- internet service -- will be coming in the next 45-60 days. ### Did Honker mean a report about these things will be coming to a UAC meeting? The 12-01-21 UAC meeting is 54 days from 10-06-21. The agenda for this meeting would be posted on 11-25-21 (Thanksgiving), which is 48 days from 10-06-21. If staff can't be ready by then, the next regular meeting date would be 01-05-22. Historically, UAC often cancels its January meeting (e.g., in 2011-2018, 2020), but sometimes it doesn't (e.g., in 2008-2010, 2019, 2021). UAC could also consider meeting at an unusual time. ### Will the "regulatory risk analysis" include an analysis of any limitations on how the City can finance the FTTP network? 0:26:50: So, this really provides a snapshot of where -- what, you know, the activities that are happening in the project today. 0:26:57: ### Slide 3 -- COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT As we talk about them in a little bit more detail, you know, one of the key -- and most important -- aspects of the fiber-to-the-home campaign is really to develop the community engagement around that, and help bring the community along, to understand where Palo Alto is today, solicit feedback on -- understand demand, andcommunicate, and educate the community about fiber-to-the-home. You've done this already in the past. But now we're at a new stage, and we're in a new era. Right? Of needs for broadband internet. And this Engagement Campaign is really focused on, really, bringing that information to your residents. And then hearing backfrom them what they want to say. What they have to say. And it's really a couple of tools here. One is, the fiber website has been established. And we'll link over to those in just a minute. But I want to just go through these quickly. 0:28:01: The FAQ and the content's been completed for the website, and, really, all the front-facing Palo Alto pages. An Engagement Portal has been established, which Meghan and Amanda from Communications are going to go through with you. ### At 0:30:11. The residential and business surveys have been developed, and are actually ready for launch. So, you know, in addition to just the engagement activities, we also want to look at the quantitative demand in Palo Alto for internet services. Which will help you gain intelligence on pricing, on packages, on speeds, on things that people - really want, and what's really important to Palo Alto citizens' and businesses' internet services. So, think of this as really true-to-the-market analytics behind the engagement and behind what the community -- how the community feels about broadband. 0:28:58: Finally, branding has been complete. You can see the new Palo Alto Fiber logo up here [upper-right corner of each slide]. And there's a whole set of brand guidelines that have been developed with that. 0:29:11: Community Engagement Next Steps are really to 1) launch the residential and business surveys. As I mentioned before, we're looking at sort of the November-December timeline to have those surveys out to your citizens and your businesses. ### The residential survey should be surveying a representative sample of residents, not just "citizens." Separate surveys for both. Right? Or, for each group. Because the broadband needs and the markets are very different. As we go through that launch and collection of those surveys and responses, we'll be providing you results back in January. So, those are very -- There's a quick turn on these surveys, generally, becausewe'll be using email distribution for them. ### Using email rather than phone is good, because people have the opportunity to think about the questions before they answer them. From what email list will the survey participants be selected, and how will you get a "representative sample" of participants? (People without email addresses will be underrepresented.) ### Will the system be secure, in that only the people chosen to do the survey can send in the completed survey form? That gives us an opportunity to get the results back of that, and then come back at a later date to report those results 0:29:57: And, with that, I'd like to turn it over to Meghan and Amanda, from Communications, who are going to walk you really through the 0:30:03: ### Hub view 1 -- Connecting the Community Through Local Broadband ------ This view does not appear in the staff report's slides. portal, and some of the branding that's been created for Palo Alto Fiber. 0:30:11 Meghan Horrigan-Taylor: Good evening. Thank you, John. I appreciate being here this evening. Meghan Horrigan-Taylor. Wanted to introduce, first, the other members of our team, that will help walk us through our new digital platform. Wanted to make sure to introduce, of course, Darren Numoto, our IT Director. And amember of his team who's critical to this project, Jay Sivarajah. And also, a member of my team, Amanda de Jesus. They will all help this evening to help walk you through a preliminary look at our digital platform that we're launching very soon. It's a pretty exciting collaboration between our office and the IT department, as well asthe Utilities department. And John's team as well. So, we appreciate all the work there. A lot of the content developed that you'll see, as part of this effort. And we're really excited. We're piloting this new platform with the fiber initiative. 0:31:16: And, closely thereafter, another topic that I know is of interest to Commission is sustainability and climate action. And that is actually the next initiative that will be launched through this platform. So, we may be back with you at another point, to walk through that secondary content with you at another time. ### How will the City prioritize a) getting the platform to work at all, b) using it in support of FTTP, and c) using it in support of any number of other worthy causes? Who's going to focus on FTTP? 0:31:40: So, what we wanted to do tonight is just walk through the platform itself. But before we do that, I did just want to take a moment to talk about the goal. The goal of this overall platform is both to inform the community about different major initiatives that the City is working on. And also help to engage around these major initiatives. Obviously, fiber is -- has been and is -- a major initiative for our community. And we're excited that -- and hope that this platform helps to bring the community together, in an exciting, different way than before. And so, tonight, you'll have a preliminary look at what we'll be launching soon. As part of that effort, we will be launching arobust communications plan, as part of the process, as well. And some of the tools. To, hopefully, engage the community, and have THEM engage with each other, through being ambassadors for fiber. We'll see some of those tools, as well, as part of the platform tonight. So, I think I covered most of the items that I wanted tocover So, I think, at this point, I'll hand it off to Darren, to say a few words. And then we'll get into showing you the platform itself. 0:32:58: Darren Numoto: Yeah, thank you, Meghan. Just briefly wanted to give an overview. So, we are leveraging a platform that we have been building over the past few years. And it's built on the ESRI platform. Which is a market leader in the GIS space. And, you know, the great thing with this is, it's included with our licensing. So,the only cost is really development efforts to develop the content and the -- some of the backend features. But, again, we're just leveraging an existing platform to be able to deliver this service. And I will introduce Jay to walk through some of the other details on it as well. So, Jay, off to you. 0:33:41: Jay Sivarajah: Thank you, Darren. 0:33:48: Meghan Horrigan-Taylor: And while Jay pulls up his screen, to show you the platform, I did just want to mention, you'll see, as part of the -- as we walk you through it -- we do have some add- -- new branding opportunities, as part of this effort. You'll see that we have a fiber logo. And some fiber branding colors, as part of that. And that is an opportunity, as well, to help us communicate about this overall initiative. So, -- Thank you, Jay. 0:34:18: Jay Sivarajah: Thank you, Amanda. Thank you, Meghan. Before I dive in and show you guys the fiber hub, I just want to take a minute and just give an overview of the technology and the platform we have been using to build this fiber hub. As part of the CDS/GIS modernization efforts, as Darren mentioned, a few years ago --which started a few years ago, we started leveraging and transitioning into -- from our legacy GIS system into ESRI's ArcGIS platform. It is -- ESRI's ArcGIS platform is the leading mapping and analysis solution, and it's also -- It's been estimated that a big portion of the GIS systems used in federal, state, local government isrunning on ESRI ArcGIS platform. And they are also a dominant player in utilities -- electric, gas, water, telecom -- and also other departments, like public works and public safety. They're a big player in those too. So, this specific solution, we used ESRI's platform called ArcGIS Online, ### ArcGIS Online:https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-online/overview plus another component, called Hub. ### ArcGIS Hubhttps://doc.arcgis.com/en/hub/get-started/what-is-arcgis-hub-.htm?adumkts=industry_solutions&aduse=national_government&aduc=email&adum=list&aduSF=NGwebinar&utm_Source=email&aduca=cra_national_government_community_building&aduco=transformengagecollaborate&adut=hubdoc&adulb=multiple&adusn=multiple&aduat=webpage&adupt=awareness&sf_id=7015x000000agEBAAY With Hub, what it does is, it gives you an ability to configure community engagement platforms, like you're going to see like now. And this also helps engage and collaborate with the community easily. 0:35:31: And here is the hub that we set up for the fiber initiative. Amanda, do you want to walk through the different -- 0:35:38: ### Hub view 1 -- again Amanda de Jesus: Sure. Um. Yeah. So, this -- Hub is a great communication and -- engagement tactic really. This first page is just an overview. The whole point of this, as Meghan and others have stated already, is a way to help inform and engage with the community on fiber and eventually other topics, like sustainability andclimate action. ### Note: de Jesus says (0:35:38) other topics "eventually," but Horrigan-Taylor (0:31:16) says "closely thereafter." So, this page is just an overview about what Palo Alto Fiber is. What it entails, what the project is. If you want to scroll down a little bit, you can see pretty basic, good information. ### This Hub view 1 is way too complex to work well as a presentation slide. Moving on to the benefits. It provides a high-level introduction about the benefits to having fiber in Palo Alto -- specifically to residences -- residents. And businesses. We'll skip over the "get involved" tab for now. 0:36:38: ### Hub view 2 -- resources The resources. This page, in particular, is where we identify various resources that will be useful to the community. For example, our FAQs that we've developed. And then, on the right, there, is a fact sheet that is downloadable. And as we create more elements, more infographics, fact sheets, other things that come up, as theproject progresses, we will be including them on this resources page. Eventually, our idea is to have a type of page -- maybe on this one, maybe an entirely new tab -- that connects the community to different social -- essentially we're calling it social connections -- being able to connect the community to different stakeholdersrelated to fiber. And then, on other pages, related to the topic. ### Hub view 3 -- Contact Us Contact us is a very basic. Just provides information for people to connect with the City, specifically through the fiber email. ### fiber@cityofpaloalto.org And back to the City's home site. One thing, too, I think, that was glossed over is the -- On the resources page, we also connect back to the City's website, which we created a dedicated project webpage. I think it's on here. A dedicated project webpage that's consistent with the rest of our City projects' websites -- or, webpages. Excuse me. Clearly, that needs to be updated. [laughs] 0:38:02: So, then, moving over to the "get involved" tab, Jay, do you want to talk a little bit about the mapping feature? Or do you want me to go ahead with the engagement feature? 0:38:10: Jay Sivarajah: I can talk about the mapping. 0:38:11: Amanda de Jesus: OK. Thank you. 0:38:13: Jay Sivarajah: And -- So, part of the GIS, it will be used -- this is the biggest advantage we get. Mapping, really, of the functionality. We can easily leverage. And so, here, you can -- Anyone in the community can put in these entry fields. ### Does the system make any attempt to verify that the user really is a Palo Alto resident or business? ### PaloAltoOnline has a system where people can comment anonymously on articles. They can identify themselves using a made-up name if they want. Sometimes, people try to comment using multiple made-up names, so they can fake online discussions, and PaloAltoOnline has a way of detecting that (sometimes?) anddisallowing those comments.https://www.paloaltoonline.com/about/terms_of_use/ We are collecting -- These are the fields we're collecting: First name. Last name. Are you a resident or a business? ### Or both? How would you use fiber? At home? Your current service provider? ### Also, your current service? Mbps down? Mbps up? Current service provider's technology? Any other thoughts, a free-form exports where you can put in whatever. Neighborhood you belong to. ### Can't the system figure out the neighborhood from the address? I don't think we want people to be able to use different names to identify the same neighborhood. And -- So, you have two ways to mark in where you live. You can either drop a pointer, wherever you live. ### This may be a misfeature, because it might specify the wrong address. Or you can also type in an address. If you type in an address partially, it will fill it out. ### How does the system know how to fill out the address accurately? If it can't, this may be a misfeature. Like you could see right now. In this small section here. I will just drop a pointer. And once you do drop a pointer, and you can say report it. And then, data gets recorded, in the cloud system. And, for privacy reasons, we don't show the precise location. ### Please rethink this. Perhaps give the user a choice about whether to show the precise location or not. Regardless of what's shown, does the City know what the precise location is? We put a 50-meter buffer. And that's the location we show. ### The "50-meter buffer" (yellow circle) apparently obscures the map behind it, which is maybe not a good idea. Is the 50-meter buffer centered on the precise location? If so, that's doesn't really assure privacy. Or is centered on a random location that is within 50 meters of the precise location? If so, that's potentiallymisleading. And all entered records -- we have lots of test records here -- we would clean it up before we go live. And once an existing collective record is clicked, these are the attributes we display. First name. How do you use fiber. ### Previously (0:38:44), Sivarajah said the user would be asked how the user WOULD use fiber. And the neighborhood. 0:39:55: Amanda de Jesus: So, this feature we wanted to implement to allow an extra level of engagement on -- for the community. Really, just to show support, learn about what other people think about Palo Alto Fiber, and really have a way where people can interact with each other through this platform. Eventually, of course, as youcan tell, that this website is still in the process of being finalized and fine-tuned. And we have some really great ideas to help facilitate more engagement through this site. And, in a way, that may be something to where we -- people can interact with each other, and talk to each other. Whether it's a "like" button, or something likethat. We're talking about having a little bit more of an in-depth engagement aspect on this page. Versus just being able to see what people are saying about Palo Alto Fiber. We're in the process of completing our communications plan. And, in that, we -- we're planning on developing a video series to complement the launch of the-- of this hub site. A social media campaign. And other fun ways that the community can engage on this topic. Right now -- I mean, we're -- right now. And we will continue to seek excited community members -- community members who are ambassadors, who want to become further involved. And this is one way that weenvision being able to identify people who are excited about Palo Alto Fiber. By being able to sign up through here, providing your email address, we can send notifications, updates, what have you, as this project progresses. I think that's a little bit about the engagement piece that I have. So, back to Meghan. 0:41:44: Meghan Horrigan-Taylor: Yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you, ** ... 0:41:46: Amanda de Jesus: Oh. 0:41:46: Meghan Horrigan-Taylor: Sorry, Amanda. 0:41:448: Amanda de Jesus: One last thing I wanted to say is that -- Like I was saying, the Palo Alto Fiber webpage is live right now. On the City's website. It's just cityofpaloalto.org/paloaltofiber. ### A.k.a.https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/City-Manager/City-Policy-Initiatives/Palo-Alto-Fiber So, this hub will be integrated onto that -- Not integrated. It will be on that website, so you can go back and forth. Once this hub is live, you'll be able to go back and forth between the two. ** 0:42:11: Meghan Horrigan-Taylor: Thank you. I was going to ask you to share the direct link to the project page. So, thanks for that. And thank you both for all of your work. We appreciate getting to this point. We're pretty excited to share this with the Commission, and also to gain input and feedback on this new tool and other thoughtsyou might have. So, I think -- John, I'm not sure if we can take questions at this point. Or do you have some other slides that you wanted to present first. 0:42:40: John Honker: Um. No. I think that's fine. That -- Meghan, that would be great. It's a -- Why don't we take some questions now. And then I'll continue with the slides. 0:42:48: Meghan Horrigan-Taylor: Perfect. 0:42:48: Darren Numoto: Yeah. I just want to clarify one thing, just with this demo site. We don't have it publicly available. So you have to have a userID and password to get into it. And once we launch it, then we will make it anonymous access. So -- but at this point, it's not publicly available. So, -- ### Update: it seems to be accessible as of 10-14-21. 0:43:04: Meghan Horrigan-Taylor: But it will be soon. And we're very excited about that. So, thank you. 0:43:14: Chair Forssell: All right. Commissioner Johnston, and then Commissioner Smith. 0:43:20: Commissioner Johnston: Well, thank you for the presentation. It's really good to see that we're making progress on this project, which we all have been talking about for a long time, and are excited about. One of the things that we spent a lot of time talking about back in April, when you were last with us, was kind of theimportance of educating the community before we really did the community survey. So that we would get kind of meaningful results from the survey. So, my question really is, how are you going to put out information about this project, other than the webpage that you just showed us? Are there other means by which you're goingto put information out? 0:44:11: Meghan Horrigan-Taylor: Yes. I can start that conversation. And then, Amanda, if you'd like to add some additional information, that would be great. So, yes, we are working on a robust communications plan to share information about the project, This portal is one-way. And is also a pretty major means to share the benefits ofthe project. Really help inform the project, and all the different attributes of the -- of fiber, to the community at an initial stage, at an initial point of -- now. As part of that, we will be doing a social media campaign. And so, we'll be sharing information, of course, through social media, through our website. The project page has otherdetails and information, which I think will be helpful and valuable to the community, including a project timeline, and project costs, and a number of things that I know this Commission has been very involved with helping to set and define. In addition, we are creating some video series as part of this effort, to help inform and engagethe community. And we're also looking for ambassadors, as part of this process, to host small group meetings, to talk about fiber together, as a team. And print the different materials. And that is one reason why we made them printable. And share those with their community networks as well. So, part of the opportunity is toprovide the information, and then hope that the community also -- it stimulates conversation, between the community members themselves, as well. 0:45:48: Amanda de Jesus: Yeah, no. One -- well, two -- pieces I would add to that is -- We're going to be sharing this information throughout our regular communications channels -- newsletters, what have you. As well as connecting with local organizations, like the Fiber League, to help promote this work. ### What is this "Fiber League"? Google " 'palo alto' 'fiber league' " 10 hits, but none relevant. And, of course, you all. [laughs] If you could help out, too. The more people that is sharing this information, the more people that we're actually going to reach. 0:46:13: Meghan Horrigan-Taylor: Thank you. 0:46:13: Commissioner Johnston: So, I'm glad that you're thinking broadly about this, because I think it IS going to be important to find multiple ways to kind of let the community know that they need to be paying attention to this. Am I correct in thinking that the way you're going to survey the community is really through the website? ### At 0:29:11, Honker said email (not the website) would be used for the official survey. 0:46:38: Meghan Horrigan-Taylor: Um. Well, John can speak directly to the actual survey tool itself. It will be -- We will be sharing it through the website, but also through the community. All of our channels. But John's really helping us to -- with a platform of how the community will take the survey. 0:46:55: John Honker: Thanks, Meghan. And, Commissioner Johnston, really what we're looking at is kind of two -- two approaches. One, as Meghan said, using the sort of the engagement, and the tools that have been developed by the Palo Alto team to sort of push that out and get some direct engagement from the community. Wealso want to survey, in sort of a more quantitative, and a more -- sort of a technical approach, that will give us good information on, you know, market -- market data, demand data, pricing. You know, ask all the questions. The more detailed questions, that will really help shape the demand picture for Palo Alto. And we'll do that ina way that is very statistically significant and relevant, by, you know, doing more email-based distribution and random samples across the community. So, we see it really as two tiers. One, to really get the -- some more of the anecdotal and the engagement information directly from the community. But then, get that quantitativedata on the back end, that we really need to help shape the business side of broadband for Palo Alto. 0:48:10: Meghan Horrigan-Taylor: And just to know something that I remembered, in discussions with John is, part of the survey will also be a tool to inform. And so, we'll have links to these different online resources for the community, than may not have heard about the project yet but want to get more information before they take thesurvey. So, it will also be an opportunity for us to share more information, as well. ### Good idea. 0:48:36: Commissioner Johnston: So, I'm comforted by the fact you've obviously thought about this deeply. And I appreciate that. My last concern really has to do with the timeline. It sounds like you're looking to get responses back from the survey in the November/December timeframe. And I'm just wondering if that's -- if that's too shorta timeframe to both get the information out, get the level of engagement that -- that you want -- and I think that is important -- and then get responses back that are really going to be kind of comprehensive and meaningful. 0:49:23: Meghan Horrigan-Taylor: John, do you want me to -- 0:49:24: John Honker: Um. Sure. You know, we've discussed that quite a bit. And, you know, because of the holidays, you know, it's -- we have a good window between, you know, Thanksgiving and Christmas. There's a couple of weeks there where the quantitative work can get done. Right? Because that piece of it -- the actual, sortof the scientific survey that goes out, usually, we get the results within a week. I think the question becomes, is there enough runway in the front of that just to get the education completed. We think there is, because the process has already started. But we'll continue to track it. If we see -- If we need to push things forward a bit,it's always an option. Because there are other tasks in the -- in this phase of the project that can still be -- that they're still not going to be done until sort of the March timeframe. So, you know, I think there's an opportunity to push it if we felt like it needed to be. 0:50:23: Meghan Horrigan-Taylor: Yeah. I want to just echo that. I think that there is some flexibility with the timeframe. We did take a look at the overall timeline, and tried to use some of our best practices as some of the other campaigns that we've launched. And looked at some of the timeframes of those. And, really, it seems like the6-8 week timeframe is a good one, in terms of informing the community, especially with what we're planning. So, I do think that that does provide us with a good window of time to do that informing and engaging, and in advance of the survey being launched. 0:50:58: Commissioner Johnston: Because, obviously, it's not only -- I mean, the survey will build -- hopefully -- build support for this project, as well as gather information. And I think that one of the things that I think we're concerned about is to make sure that there's an adequate kind of take rate from the community to make this projectreally work. So, I appreciate the fact that you're going to be looking at making sure you've got thorough engagement and response, here, before moving forward. So, thank you very much. 0:51:36: Chair Forssell: Commissioner Smith. 0:51:38: Commissioner Smith: Thank you. I think Commissioner Johnston and I were reading from the same playbook. And, quite frankly, his concerns are mine. But before I get to concerns, I want to say, first of all, kudos. Because I think the website is fantastic. And it really does -- I love the logo. I love the branding. I love the factthat we're trying to get out there on a front foot. And I think that's fantastic. But, harkening back to our conversation in April -- and this was -- we spent a couple of meetings going in depth on what the requirements would be for making this happen. And we had extensive discussions about our need to not only inform but toeducate. And the reason is because we are literally talking about black-box stuff. And most of us know broadband from -- we turn on our computer and we'd better be connecting very, very quickly. That's about what we know. We know we have to pay AT&T, or we know we have to pay Xfinity. But it better be fast. And that'swhat we know. And one of the things that I think we are -- we need to pay particular attention to is drawing a distinction between "inform" and "educate." And they can't necessarily be one and the same. Nor can they be necessarily simultaneous efforts. They can be. But it's better if you inform -- In my view, it's better if you"inform," and offer an alternative to "educate." ### I'm not quite clear on this point. 0:53:11: There are a couple of concerns that I have with respect to a survey tool that asks you for your opinion about broadband -- and all this detailed information about your own broadband bill and experience -- but at the same time, I'm going to offer you a little bit of education on what broadband is. It's slighted, if you will. It would -- From my view, it would be better to have education first, and then go forward with the survey. I think, also, as I go back upon our notes from April, one of the things that we, as a Commission, really -- Quite frankly, we were quite direct in our language. And that was that education would take place BEFORE the survey. ### Yes. For example, in my transcript of UAC's 04-21-21 meeting, at 2:58:08 (PDF page 110 here), Commissioner Smith makes this point.https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/public-letters-to-council/2021/06-01-21-ccm-public-letters-set-4.pdf And I think that's -- I think that was done purposely. And, in fact, as I look back from my own memory, that is my impression. I, too, am concerned about the timeline. As Commissioner Johnston had highlighted. Yes, it's true that many of us will be "available," if you will, during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday, even intothe new year. Simply by the fact that we'll probably be taking some time off for the holiday. But you have to count on the fact that many of us take time off during those periods, quite frankly, to be with family, not necessarily to be online, when we've had to be online for the last few years. So, I would encourage us to reinvestigatenot only our sequencing of events but the timing associated. I think there is still time for you to extend your results to the end of Jan with February, and still meet your March deadlines. 0:54:50: From a platform idea, it's great. I've seen similar platforms via other alternatives. I think it's fabulous. It's very interactive. I get to see within my own community of Palo Verde who would be interested, even if it is a 50-meter bubble. Which I think is, from a security and a privacy perspective, is also fantastic, and a great way ofworking -- and going forward. 0:55:24: I think, my last commentary, I would like to see a little more -- um -- detail with respect to when we are launching, what are we looking for in terms of ambassadors, how are we getting those ambassadors up to speed, and how -- quite frankly -- are we qualifying ambassadors? Are we educating our ambassadors? Are we puttingtogether a program for our ambassadors? Or are, simply, they are going to the website, downloading the website, and holding a coffee chat? Which is perfectly fine. It's certainly a -- definitely way. But the hope is that ambassadors would be truly ambassadors, to build -- to A. C. Johnston's earlier comment -- to build this takerate. This is an extremely -- Well, this is a HUGE investment for the City of Palo Alto. And it's going to shape the City of Palo Alto. Not for the next ten years. For the next 20-30 years. So, we need to take the time necessary to do things exactly right. And that's my comment. ### Is "ambassador" the right word? Ambassadors usually go to foreign countries to negotiate things.https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ambassadorNeighborhoods are not foreign countries. I don't know if the City's "ambassadors" should be negotiating things with individual neighborhoods (so that each neighborhood gets a different FTTP deal). ### Los Altos Hills Community Fiber calls them champions.https://lahcommunityfiber.org/champions/ 0:56:30: Chair Forssell: Thank you, Commissioner Smith. Is there any response? 0:56:37: Meghan Horrigan-Taylor: Sure. I can talk a little bit about the items that he listed with just some detail. Of course, we're wanting to have this conversation first, before we actually launch the platform. So, it's pretty much ready to go. So, very soon, within the week, it will be launched. So, just giving you a timeframe related to that. In addition, your questions around the ambassadors and kind of what tools will they be provided, we are working on a tool kit, as part of that process, to provide them with tools, so that they have an idea of how to launch a meeting. With what type of tools they could use to help communicate and educate the members that they'reinviting in to have conversations. So, that is part of our opportunity, and part of the next steps. Which will be launched as part of the website as well. The fact sheet, of course, is kind of the first piece of collateral that we have. It is a good starting point to educate. It provides benefits. It provides information. It provides tools. Andthe project page also has very detailed information about just overall timeframe, what it means, what the project is. So, there -- it's a lot of detail is available there as well. So, we're pretty excited about that. It's -- New webpages. They didn't exist before. So, it also will be collateral and pieces that the community can absorb anduse as part of the effort. So, I don't know if I answered all your questions there. I can definitely -- and would like to meet with you offline, and discuss other ideas that you might have, to build on that tool kit. So, we can definitely do that, as well, as a next step. 0:58:33: Commissioner Smith: Terrific. Thank you. 0:58:35: Chair Forssell: So, did I understand correctly? There's more presentation. Right? 0:58:39: John Honker: Yes, Commissioner Forssell. I've got a couple more slides just on the update for the engineering design. And we should be through. 0:58:46: Chair Forssell: Yeah. Why don't we go ahead with that, and then we'll see if there are additional questions at the end. 0:58:51: John Honker: Perfect. Share my screen again. OK. So, switching topics. Over to the engineering design. We just wanted to provide you, you know, a high-level update on where we are, as far as the backbone and the fiber-to-the-home engineering. You know. Our goal, again, is to have this completed by March of 2022, if notsooner. The backbone for fiber-to-the-home. The backbone, we're expecting to have completed by the end of the year. 0:59:18: David Yuan: John, sorry to interrupt. We're not seeing the presentation. 0:59:22: John Honker: Oh. I'm sorry. Let me try to share that again. [pause] Is everyone seeing my screen now? 0:59:38: Chair Forssell: No. 0:59:57: John Honker: Hmm. 1:00:15: John Honker: How about now? 1:00:17: Dean Batchelor: Still no. 1:00:22: John Honker: OK. 1:00:38: David Yuan: I can try to share the presentation that we attach, John, if you want. 1:00:41: John Honker: That would be great, Dave, if you could. I'm going to try this one more time, but in the interest of everyone's time, -- That would be great. 1:00:54: Dean Batchelor: Still no. 1:00:55: David Yuan: OK. Let me try then. 1:01:03: ### Some graphic thing appears, but it's not any of the presentation slides. 1:01:07: John Honker: We'll be on Slide 4, Dave. 1:01:09: David Yuan: OK. ** try to minimize some of this. 1:01:22: David Yuan: OK? ### Slide 4 -- FIBER BACKBONE & BROADBAND ENGINEERING 1:01:23: John Honker: OK. Let me start again, quickly, just to refresh. So, as far as the engineering design work that's being done on both the backbone and the fiber-to-the-home, we have basically completed the 30 percent design on both fiber-to-the-home and on the backbone. Which is a pretty important step, because we actually metthe deadline about 30 days ahead of schedule. Which puts us in a better position to move into the next stage of design. Which is really what we call a constructability fielding. Where Magellan's field engineers will be in -- on -- in market, within Palo Alto, really serving all of the areas where fiber will be installed. Both from the polelines and underground. And the goal of that phase is really to make sure that, as the design is being developed, we know exactly what the construction environment's going to look like. Down to the street level. Down to the literally the flower pot level. Throughout the community. And to every pole in Palo Alto, as well. So, this isgoing to -- As you develop this design, it's going to give you a very, very detailed understanding of both construction costs and actually how construction will be carried out, in the aerial environment and in the underground environment. 1:02:48: So, as we're going through this process, you'll see, we basically provided signage. We've been working with the utility to bring our fielders in market, give them the right signage, give them the right policies and procedures, as they're walking these routes throughout Palo Alto. They'll be wearing hard hats. And Magellan vests. Wehave magnets with "City of Palo Alto Contractor" on them -- on our fielders' vehicles. And they will be in market for a good 4-5 months. For the entire project. So, you'll probably come across them, in just your daily goings in Palo Alto. They are basically -- They are very discrete, though. They kind of stand out of the way as muchas they can. They want to be, you know, invisible, as -- wherever possible. So, that fielding will really give us all of the data that we need to actually get to the final design, which will be toward the beginning of the -- the end of the year for the fiber backbone, and in the first quarter for fiber-to-the-home. 1:03:56: There are a couple of important aspects that we do want to discuss tonight, around placement of facilities. Specifically, for fiber-to-the-home. Dave, if we can go to the next slide. So -- OK. Yeah. 1:04:21: ### Slide 5 -- FIBER BROADBAND OVERVIEW -- HUT & CABINET REVIEW (1st) Great. Thank you. So, we really have -- In the community, we have what we call fiber huts and we have fiber cabinets. The fiber huts -- you'll also hear them termed "points of presence" [POPs]. These are prefabricated buildings that are specifically designed for telecom. Specifically designed for fiber-to-the-home. Everythingcomes back into them. Just like your substations, you know, aggregate customer meters across your electric plant, the POPs are the fiber equivalent to distribution substations. They bring all of the customers across the market into one area, where they're aggregated, and and then their connections are basically routed out to theinternet from those locations. These are really -- can be strategically located in Palo Alto. And we've identified 4 or 5 locations that are optimal. We've been working with the CPAU team to determine, you know, what the best locations are. But we realize that it also needs to be a process that goes through, you know, Palo Alto'spermitting, and, you know, just the governance process, to identify the locations. Because they are relatively large. These are, you know, 10 x 20 si- foot -- x 8 foot high -- tall -- sized structures. And most of our municipal clients that we work with either try to conceal them, in a -- you know, in a substation area, in an unusedportion of a park, that can be fenced and can be covered with landscaping, or even integrate them inside an existing facility. So, we're looking, basically, on -- based on the size of Palo Alto -- we're looking at 2-3 of these huts, being strategically placed throughout the community. ### The slide says each POP will serve 10,000-15,000 customers. I assume that means the POP will handle all the fiber that passes 10,000-15,000 premises, regardless of how many premises are customers. And we'll show you some of these locations in a moment. 1:06:16: The other aspect is -- are the fiber cabinets. Now, the fiber cabinets are considerably smaller. They're about, you know, 3 feet x 4 feet x 2 feet. In volume. And they will be placed throughout the community. You have some of them today -- out in the market today -- that connect to your existing fiber network. ### For example, two cabinets used by the City's dark fiber network are:* 1131 Colorado Avenue (across from Colorado Place) -- #2994 -- 30" high x 64" wide x 23" deep* 2675 Middlefield Road (at Palo Alto Cafe) -- #3479 -- 36" high x 44" wide x 22" deep But we're looking at, you know, about 130 locations where these cabinets would be placed. And we also have options for the cabinets. We can place them on the ground. Right? On a pad. On a mounted foundation. We can actually also conceal them underground, inside of vaults, so that it's not disruptive to sight lines inneighborhoods. The goal would be to try to work through these locations with the Palo Alto team, to identify the least disruptive places where they can be located, and then use the technology to conceal them wherever possible. You know, the goal would be to try to go underground with some of these cabinets. But we realize thatsome of them will likely have to be above ground. 1:07:22: Just to give you some visuals of this, Dave, if we could skip to slide 9, actually -- ### It's actually slide 7, on PDF page 9 of the staff report. (Slide 6 appeared later, at 1:19:38.) ### Slide 7 -- FIBER BROADBAND OVERVIEW -- HUT & CABINET REVIEW So, really, this is what the huts and the cabinets look like. So, in your top-left corner, the fiber hut exterior. Typically, what you'd see at the bottom of a cell phone tower. So, you know, your fiber hut is, you know, approximately 10 feet wide by 15-20 feet long. And generally needs to be fenced, but then can be landscaped, and,you know, relatively -- concealed relatively well. Behind the landscaping. It does need, generally, a generator. ### I'd like a lot more information about this. What kind of generator? What kind of fuel? Located inside the hut, or outside? (I assume outside.) Does a person have to start it? Does it have to be tested once a month? How much noise does it make? ### Years ago, staff created a specification for a fiber-to-the-premises network that required that huts have backup batteries that could power the equipment for up to two weeks. That might be overkill. But I think it didn't require an on-site generator. And HVAC systems, which you'll see on the front of the hut. So, we're looking for locations for 2-3 of these throughout the Palo Alto community. And we can look -- you know, we can really squeeze it in, we can probably shoot for 2. Inside of each of the huts, you'll basically -- You know, they don't look like much from thesepictures, but all of the electronics for fiber-to-the-home basically sit in the huts. And those are going to be accessed typically by telecom technicians, fiber contractors, potentially City staff. They're secure facilities. Generally, they'll be fenced. And they'll have, you know, security systems, both on the doors and, on the inside, formotion sensors. 1:08:48: So, this really covers those huts. Then, the underground -- Or, I'm sorry, the cabinets, you'll see here in the two pictures below. This is, on the right, a typical above-ground cabinet. So, you know, proportions of this are about 4 feet tall by about a foot and a half wide by about 3 feet long. ### In other words, not the same shape as cabinets used by the City's dark fiber network. Generally sits in a concealed area, again. And they're normally going to be landscaped. Alternatively -- Because this is generally the best access platform. It's easiest for technicians to be working in ### The technicians would be working next to the cabinets, not in them. for fiber-to-the-home. But, you know, one of the newer technologies is to actually bury these cabinets. So, what you see on your left-hand side, is one of the same cabinets -- enclosures -- but it's actually mounted in an underground vault. And, you know, again, in those sensitive areas, which are going to be probably more thanless, we can look at using these underground cabinets, to conceal, you know, anything that's, you know, visibly sensitive to the community. ### How often would technicians have to access a cabinet? Would access involve moving the cabinet from underground to above-ground? Does this potentially cause reliability problems? 1:09:56: ### Slide 8 -- FIBER BROADBAND REVIEW -- HUT & CABINET REVIEW (part 2) So, we'll be going through a process of locating those. What we've done to date is really identified some locations. This is a schematic from one of our customers up in Hillsboro, Oregon, that is actually utilizing some parkland. And built the hut on the corner of that park. But completely concealed by tree cover and shrubs in front of it. Generally, these are -- can pretty well easily be concealed. But we want to take note of any, you know, sensitive areas in Palo Alto. So, Dave, if you want to go to the next slide, we've got a couple of locations we can quickly go through. 1:10:43: ### Slide 9 -- FIBER BROADBAND REVIEW -- HUT & CABINET REVIEW (part 3) Um. The goal would be -- Maybe before we do that, let's just talk through this slide. You know, as we look through the hub and cabinet locations, our goal is really to try to narrow those down to the best locations. By, really, the end of 2021. That doesn't mean, necessarily, that all the permitting and all of the governance to getthat passed through as an actual location has to be done. But it allows us to really finish the fiber-to-the-home design. Because those huts really become important. Just like in your electric network, your substations, you know, tie in multiple theaters and multiple distribution cables, your huts do the same thing. So, our goal is tokind work with CPAU, and, you know, bring these to leadership, so that some decisions -- at least preliminary decisions, or preferences -- could be made around the hut locations. And then determine what steps would need to be taken to move those forward through the governance process. Which may take open space approval,you know, planning review, or Architectural Review Board, just the engineering review, maybe public works permitting. You know, anything that the City needs to really be focusing on, to move a location. Or, to finalize a location. So, again, we don't necessarily need to be through all that process by the end of 2021. We just needto have a good level of confidence that that's where those huts will be placed. If we want to scroll down to the next page, we can kind of go through some of these locations. 1:12:26: ### Slide 10 -- FIBER BROADBAND REVIEW -- POTENTIAL HUT LOCATIONS (1st example) So, the first one is really that Colorado substation. Which is at Colorado and Bayshore. ### The street address is 1082 Colorado Avenue. This is a -- these can be good locations. Because, again, you know, it's substation property. Access is good. There's available space. You can see the red outline of that hut, where it would be. On the substation property. So, this is one of five choices that we have. ### The existing building shown here is 23'-5" wide x about 58' long (and 12'-4" high). So the red rectangle illustrates a hut that is about 23' wide x 50' long. That's larger than what Honker said (at 1:07:22) a hut would typically be: 10' wide by 15-20' long. Anyhow, it's good to know there's room to spare. The red rectangle iswithin a fenced-in area. 1:12:56: ### Slide 11 -- FIBER BROADBAND REVIEW -- POTENTIAL HUT LOCATIONS (2nd example) We also have the Animal Shelter, at 3182 East Bayshore. A lot of different potential opportunities here. We located it here in the corner, over by the -- it looks like the maintenance yard. But it could -- You know, it could -- we didn't want to take it out into the open space here, because I know there's some restrictions on that. Butsomewhere within that property, on the existing pavement, could work. ### Three buildings close to the red rectangle have a combined footprint of about 20' x 80' (scaled using Google Maps), so the red rectangle is about 20' x 38'. Apparently, the red rectangle is not within a fenced-in area. 1:13:24: ### Slide 12 -- FIBER BROADBAND REVIEW -- POTENTIAL HUT LOCATIONS (3rd example) Next location is Fire Station #5. So, Fire Station #5 has some property, sort of on this corner here, that could be utilized for the hut. Again, a good, convenient location. And there's ample space in that location for it. ### An existing building to the left of the fire station is about 20' x 31' (scaled using Google Maps), and the red rectangle is about the same size. The location of the red rectangle is not within a fenced-in area. Is it perhaps in Briones Park? Next -- 1:13:47: ### Slide 13 -- FIBER BROADBAND REVIEW -- POTENTIAL HUT LOCATIONS (4th example) Ryan brought this one to us. The water facility at 1955 Old Page Mill Road. Where the City has some existing property. 1:14:01: ### Slide 14 -- FIBER BROADBAND REVIEW -- POTENTIAL HUT LOCATIONS (5th example) And then, finally, the Hale Well, at 998 Palo Alto Avenue. So, each of these locations -- You know, our goal is to try to find, geographically -- or, let's say, network-friendly locations for placing a hut. We also have, instead of, you know, looking at a new construction with these huts -- or, these prefabs -- we also have -- Dave, if youwant to scroll to the last page -- 1:14:31: ### Slide 15 -- FIBER BROADBAND REVIEW -- POTENTIAL HUT LOCATIONS (6th example) City Hall. Right? So, we could look at integrating one of the huts inside City Hall. With some retrofit, and some remediation work, to make sure the environment is, you know, acceptable for all the electronics, and -- That's another alternative. We like that alternative, of course, because, you know, no new huts in the community. Right? No community impact. You've got an existing facility. But we just need to work on sort of the retrofit plan, to make sure that hut can function like a stand-alone hut would. 1:15:07: So, these are like five or six of the best locations that we've found. Again, they're -- In terms of where they are in the network. They work well for the fiber network. For placement. And placement's important, because, as we have all those fiber lines coming back into the hut -- linear miles of fiber -- increases. Right? So, wherewe place those huts becomes very important, to minimize the amount of construction we have to do, and the amount of fiber that comes into them. Because we want to keep those linear assets as short as possible. So, this is really where we're at, in terms of the huts. Or, potential hut locations. No decisions to be made tonight. This is informational, to get you all thinking about it. But those are really the six locations we've identified as being most optimal for the project. 1:16:04: Dave, was there anything you would like to add on the huts? Or discussion? 1:16:11: David Yuan: Hmm. OK. Sorry, I'm trying to get back to my buttons here. Yeah, I think, as John had mentioned, we do have to go through the Planning and Architectural Review for the visual impacts of the huts. And then for the construction of the huts, we will have to go through the building department review process. We'llhave to look for fire, if there's urban forestry, utilities -- conflicting utilities. Also, Public Works will be involved. And traffic control plans, and what not. So, there is a -- lots of reviews that will be required. But, like John said, we are just bringing up to your consideration tonight, just to see if any sound feasible, or if there's otheropportunities elsewhere that you can think of, and propose. And we'd be happy to explore. 1:17:02: Chair Forssell: All right. Well, thank you. Looks like Commissioner Smith has additional questions. 1:17:10: Commissioner Smith: Super. Thank you, John. Great presentation. I really have just one question. What determines the number of huts? ### Great question. 1:17:17: John Honker: Ah -- 1:17:18: Commissioner Smith: Sorry. Go ahead. 1:17:20: John Honker: No, finish your question, Commissioner Smith. Sorry. 1:17:22: Commissioner Smith: Well, I was just getting thrown by the number. If each POP serves 10-15 thousand customers, and we have 27,000 residences, plus 4,000 businesses. ### Staff should maintain more precise data, in a place that can be conveniently referred to going forward. Also, what about infill, as property owners take advantage of SB 9 and SB 10?https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2021/09/17/newsom-signs-housing-bills-that-reform-single-family-zoningAlso, why not have more huts, each serving fewer premises? We're at either 2 or 3 [huts]. I think that's the way that math works. But the locations that you've chosen don't necessarily match with all of those customers. 1:17:46: John Honker: Right. So, as we look at -- We'll have to make some decisions on, you know, which huts we want to use in those areas. So, you know -- out of the different huts. We don't want to locate two huts right next to each other. Right? We want to sort of geographically disperse them. But we can keep within the ones thatwe've shown. We could select, potentially, three locations out of there, and still serve the entire customer base. So, the goal would be to really kind of refine the numbers down, and determine which ones are the best. And then, from a network plan, we can go back and basically do all the engineering, to determine how thatserving area would look. Right? If -- And then, if there are any issues with that, we can actually move some to another hut. Right? Because it gives us -- In the feeders -- Just like in the electric system, we can move a feeder from one hut to another hut relatively easily And that gives us flexibility to say, well, OK, if we need to re-dimension huts, or rebalance huts, we can do that in the network design. Within each of these options. 1:18:56: Commissioner Smith: Great. 1:18:56: David Yuan: And, also, I think if we were to reduce the number of huts from three to two, we may need more of those fiber cabinets, or the size of them, to serve the same number of customers. ### This makes no sense. That's the alternative. 1:19:06: John Honker: That's correct. ### Why is it correct? Changing the number of huts will change the average number of cabinets served by each hut (if the average number of premises served by each cabinet remains the same). But that's different. 1:19:07: Commissioner Smith: Yeah. So, just a point of clarification. And I think it was in your slide presentation. We were talking about the internet exchange. Or the data center. The huts. To the cabinets. Right? It's almost like a web. Is that roughly correct? 1:19:21: John Honker: That's correct. Yup. So, think about your exchange -- or, your head end, or your data center -- as the center of the universe. Right? 1:19:29: Commissioner Smith: Yup. 1:19:29: John Honker: The nerve center of the entire network. And then, one tier down from that, -- Dave, if you want to pull down that diagram, that would be -- 1:19:38: ### Slide 6 -- FIBER BROADBAND OVERVIEW -- HUT & CABINET REVIEW (2nd) Oh, beautiful. [laughs] Great timing. 1:19:40: Commissioner Smith: Bingo. 1:19:40: John Honker: So, this is really your data center. Right? This -- Well, it's actually upstream from this. So, the fiber hut really is connected to the backbone. Right? So, this is your fiber hut here. Your data center would be back here. Right? ### Because the image on the screen is coming from Palo Alto, not Magellan, it's not showing any cursor Honker may be using to point to various "here"s. That would be your central point where multiple fiber huts are connected. 1:20:01: Commissioner Smith: Is there any power in the fiber cabinet? Or is power only required in the hut? ### Great question. 1:20:05: John Honker: It's only required in the hut. So, the cabinets are all passive. ### Well, in that case, what IS in a cabinet? If the architecture is PON, splitters and patch panels would be there. But what if the architecture is Active Ethernet? If NOTHING would be there, then maybe we don't need any cabinets. That would be one way to deal with the contentious issue of which cabinets should beundergrounded. 1:20:09: Commissioner Smith: Yup. 1:20:10: John Honker: And no -- Nothing energized. Nothing with a plug is in those cabinets. 1:20:15: Commissioner Smith: Gotcha. 1:20:16 John Honker: Yup. So, your fiber huts will have multiple cabinets coming off of it. Just like you have multiple transformers coming off of a -- you know, off of a substation. And each one of those cabinets, then, will feed homes and businesses along those routes, either aerial or underground. So, as we look at the placement ofthese huts, and the cabinets, you know, we want to place them strategically. But what we can also do is, if we find one location that's not as optimal is better for the community, then we extend our feeders. Right? Into that hut. We send our feeders further into that hut, wherever that's located within the City. So it increases ourfeeder lengths a little bit. Right? And our costs a little bit. But, for the sake of the community, if that is a much more palatable option, you know, it's not -- it's not breaking the bank on the network. You know. There's small incremental increases of feeder cost, versus, potentially, the community impact that it has. So, we always --we al- -- that's why we start this conversation early. Because it's good to really identify, you know, where the least path of resistance ### Path of least resistance? is for fiber huts. ### And, presumably, cabinets. Or, through utilizing existing facilities. And then we can design the network around that. 1:21:42: Commissioner Smith: Understood. Fantastic. Thank you. 1:21:47: John Honker: Absolutely. You're welcome. 1:21:48: Chair Forssell: Vice Chair Segal. 1:21:52: Vice Chair Segal: Thank you. I'm still trying to understand. When I look at this plan, it almost seems like we've bent over backwards to have the huts sort of outside any community area. Which I understand, if we're sensitive -- we're concerned about community members being sensitive. But, I mean, like, I look at -- the AnimalShelter's on the other side of Highway 101. We're worried about sea level rise. It seems so far away. We're adding cost. And I'm just wondering whether we looked at things like parks, the Community Center, areas that are much more central to the community, where maybe we can control costs, and maybe there is an area thatwe can set aside, and try to make it look nice. 1:22:29: David Yuan: Well, we do have a park ordinance. We did reach out to CSD. And the City is very dear to the park. ### That is, the City loves its parks. So, -- In order to undedicate any parkland, it would require a residents' vote. So we have to put it out on a ballot. And the residents would have to decide. So, that would take some time, as well. 1:22:56: Vice Chair Segal: OK. So, that's parkland. And what about, like, the Community Center library. Is it the same situation? With -- Or a school, you know, for that matter? Or is it the same with any of those? 1:23:05: David Yuan: Right. If it's inside a City facility, that's something we're also exploring. But, for schools, we would have to probably negotiate some sort of deal with them, I'm sure. To find the suitable space. But that is something that we are definitely exploring. Is inside of facilities of existing buildings. So it won't be an eyesore,and there won't be as much public scrutiny, I guess. And their infrastructure is already there. 1:23:29: Vice Chair Segal: So, yeah. So, yes, I'd like to understand -- Or maybe it's next time -- understand what those tradeoffs are. And what you said -- You said it would be a LITTLE bit more expensive. I'd like to to understand how much a little bit more expensive is. Because we're talking about the other side of Highway 101, up inthe foothills. I'm not seeing a lot of -- Maybe the one at ** -- or. Colorado station is a little more community-centered. But -- ### Maybe there should have been a presentation slide showing a map of all of Palo Alto, showing the boundaries, with dots of one color for each of the nine electric substations,https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/reports/city-manager-reports-cmrs/year-archive/2020/id.-10698-cip-projects-update-december-2019.pdf?t=59254.69dots of a different color for each of the 20 schools,https://www.pausd.org/schoolsdots of yet another color for each of the seven fire stations,https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/Fire/Operationsetc. Ideally, the viewer could zoom in to get the kind of detail shown on Slides 10-12, with the dots morphing into rectangles (scaled to the right size) representing the huts. 1:23:54: David Yuan: I think Dean's even asked us to reach out to the real estate manager, to see if there's any properties for sale. And there's really nothing for this size available. Anything available right now would probably be in the million-dollar range. For a vacant building. For sale. 1:24:10: Dean Batchelor: Well, also, if I could just add, Vice Chair, you know, one of the -- the thing with these huts, we were looking, actually, for three different locations: one on the south side, one in the middle, and then also one on the north side. So, that way, there, when you build your network, or a portion of it, you're actuallybreaking it in sections, so that when you build out to an area, you're not overloading, as John said. And not having too many huts all in one area. Or, you know, making one giant hut, that you would then want to then disperse. It doesn't make sense that way. So -- as you build it. So, we had looked at a couple locations on thesouth side, which is down by Fire Station #5. It's kind of the far south side. And then Hale Well is something that the Utilities owns, as you saw in that ** -- in that fenced-off area, the we could probably -- MAY be able to build something back there. Something that we're also anticipating. And then, Colorado is in the center, moreor less. And it's on the other side of 101. ### The Colorado substation, at 1082 Colorado Avenue, is on the southwest side of Highway 101, that is, the same side as Fire Station #5 and Hale Well. It's the Animal Shelter, at 3281 East Bayshore Road, that's on the northeast side of Highway 101. So, you know, we're looking at those considerations. 1:25:13: Vice Chair Segal: I guess had one more follow-up. Sorry. But if there is a hut -- So, most of these huts, one or two sides of them doesn't really have a lot of customers, if you look out from one or two sides of them. Whether you're talking about Animal Center, or Colorado Substation, or even Hale. Right? You're along the water,or the road -- the highway, or something. Does it matter, from a build-out in the future, is it better to have it where you have potential customers surrounding it 360? Does that matter? Does it shorten the amount of -- I don't know -- wiring, or whatever it is that has to be built? 1:25:56: Dean Batchelor: Well, I think, as John and Dave talked about, is that -- You know, I think the thing is that we would have to put in more huts -- Or, I'm sorry -- more cabinets. ### Batchelor repeats Yuan's claim at 1:18:56 above, which I think is false. These cabinets throughout the neighborhoods. Which -- I think that those are going to be more of an eyesore. As we get deeper into neighborhoods. Which is something that we really don't want to have. Maybe on the outskirts. Or if there's areas -- But, you know, no -- As I can look at it as wanting customers to want to buildunderground for their overhead -- you know, trying to find places for those transformers is really difficult. ### Batchelor is comparing the siting of FTTP cabinets with the siting of above-ground transformers in the Green Acres neighborhood, which has underground electric wires, and historically had underground transformers.https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/agendas-minutes/utilities-advisory-commission/archived-agenda-and-minutes/agendas-and-minutes-2018/final-uac-minutes-of-august-1-2018-meeting.pdfAnyway, it's changing the subject. Vice Chair Segal was talking about the siting of huts. And so, I'm thinking that, even though that these are smaller than a transformer, they're still going to be a problem. Nobody's going to want that in front of their home. So, if we don't have as many huts, then we're going to have to put more of these cabinets throughout the City. ### Batchelor repeats Yuan's claim at 1:18:56 above, which I think is false. Which -- I just don't think that that's really going to be something -- Right now -- You know, when you look at a traffic signal -- We have traffic signal boxes mostly at all the traffic signals. And that's about the size of the boxes that we're looking at. But, you know, they're downtown areas, wherever the traffic lights are, they're atthe corners, things like that, that we've been able to find. But I think, though, that if you get deeper into it, you're going to find that some of these cabinets are going to have to be inside the neighborhoods. So, I think -- that was the trade-off. Correct me if I'm wrong, John. 1:27:25: John Honker: No, no. You're exactly right, Dean -- Director Batchelor. We look at -- You know, the cabinets hold about -- up to about 500 customers. Typically. So, think about that as a neighborhood area -- a neighborhood cabinet. Some are smaller. Some will be 250. But, generally, that's the range of size -- the number ofcustomers served by those cabinets. So, you know, if you increase the number of huts, we can use fewer cabinets. And we can also reduce the size of the cabinets, generally. Because we can bring more of the feeders out into the neighborhoods. Versus having so much distribution. And that, actually, is good for the network,because it keeps our costs down. But, as he mentioned, it's a trade-off. So, we'll work through those trade-offs with you all, as we get further along, to try to really dimension it the best way. Keep the costs down. But also to keep the sightlines in the community minimally impacted. Because we deal with it in every project. We -- In Hillsboro [OR], we're just -- You know, we went through sort of a four-month planning process, to relocate four huts that were originally designed in a certain area, and the city -- you know, community -- just -- We went through a charrette process with them. And they decided, yup, these are the locations we want them. And thisis how we're going to do it. So, it's just -- It's a process. It'll take some work. 1:28:48: Vice Chair Segal: I'm a little more worried about the hut -- sorry, the cabinets. The huts, I think we can find places. But, you know, we've sort of been to that rodeo before, with transformer boxes. And so, I don't want -- You know, it would be good to start thinking about that early, I guess. We have experience, but -- 1:29:08: John Honker: Chair Segal, I can -- Or, Vice Chair Segal, I think also we can -- you know, we can get pretty customized with the network. And even if we had communications closets, if we have more property that we can use, other City facilities, you know, more, smaller spaces can be good in this respect. To limit the amount ofthose cabinets that are out there. So, we'll take a deeper dive on that as we get into this phase of the project. Because our staff will actually be out there visiting sites, and working with your team to find the best locations. 1:29:48: Chair Forssell: Let's see. Commissioner Bowie. 1:29:52: Commissioner Bowie: Yes. So, my question with these huts versus the cabinets. There's been significant allocations of state money, I think, over the summer. For middle- and last-mile. Is there a distinction within this infrastructure that puts us in that realm? Of those new pots of money that are coming available? And whetherthat's being considered? 1:30:15: John Honker: It has. We're actually -- Commissioner Bowie, we're working on, really, a grant portfolio for you now, to show you what's out there and available. Palo Alto is -- is -- There are programs at the state level that are bringing new infrastructure into cities. One of Palo Alto's challenges is that the demographics are strong. And that doesn't necessarily lend the best when you're going grant funds. You're pretty well served, from a telecommunications project. Most of the grants are designed for rural and underserved. And low- and moderate-income areas. But there are programs that are coming up with the state and federal level that we're analyzingfor you, to determine at least if there's part -- you know, SOME funding that could be utilized in the build-out. So, we should have that in the next few weeks. And presenting to the project team. ### Honker didn't directly address Commissioner Bowie's question about whether grant funding is related to the huts vs. cabinets issue. I think it's not, but I'm not a grants expert. 1:31:10: Commissioner Bowie: Great. Thank you. 1:31:11: John Honker: You're welcome. 1:31:13: Chair Forssell: Commissioner Johnston. 1:31:17: Commissioner Johnston: Well, I share the concerns that others have mentioned, about these -- the cabinets. And what the community reaction is going to be, to cabinets spread throughout the neighborhoods. So, -- And I expect that there's going to be a strong preference -- if we give people a preference -- a choice -- to haveunderground cabinets. What's the cost difference between the underground cabinet and an above-ground? 1:31:47: John Honker: It's not significant in the overall scope of the project. So, really, the most -- the most significant is the fiber and the construction. The materials for the cabinets and the underground enclosures, you know, may be a 20 percent delta from a pad-mounted cabinet. Or above-ground cabinet. The one challenge is thesize. Right? We have to scale down, because we can't get as many customers into that. It's just too big of a space, you know, to mount undergrounds. So, we would need to find locations -- You know, the goal would be, if there are some locations that could have an above-ground cabinet, great. But for others, that need thoseunderground ones, dimension the network so that we can use those as much as possible. 1:32:33: Commissioner Johnston: So, you mentioned, in the slide, reusing existing cabinets. What's an example of an existing cabinet? 1:32:41: John Honker: Oh, well, just existing facilities. if there's an existing -- any of the City's existing facilities that are out there, we can potentially use that as a -- as either a hut or even as a cabinet location. So, instead of having that, you know, cabinet mounted in a neighborhood -- or, let's say, a hut mounted in a neighborhood -- wecan move that inside of an existing facility. If there's available space. And the environment is supportive of, you know, power, cooling, security -- you know, the things that you need to basically run a broadband facility. 1:33:19: Commissioner Johnston: I take it you're not talking about colocating these cabi- -- these fiber cabinets with kind of other cabinets for traffic signals and what not that are scattered around. 1:33:29: John Honker: You know, it sounds like a great idea. But it's a real challenge when it comes to security. I mean, especially with traffic, and transportation. And even electric. Right? It just -- The operational challenges become a little bit more. 1:33:44: David Yuan: We did talk with the operational team, and there are some potential cabinets that are out there. ### Or, rather, some actual cabinets out there that potentially could be used. Some co-ax power supply that are abandoned. So, 27 of those. ### Does the City own these cabinets? So, we would retrofit those. Or, reuse those cabinets. As one -- to reduce the new ones. So, there are a few opportunities. ### Also to be considered: are the existing cabinets in the best places? 1:34:02: Commissioner Johnston: Thank you. 1:34:06: Chair Forssell: Commissioner Metz. 1:34:09: Commissioner Metz: Yes. Chair Forssell, I had some broader questions. I don't know if this is the correct time. If we're still talking about infrastructure. Do you want to wait? Or, I can address them now. 1:34:23: Chair Forssell: Ah -- I mean, do they pertain to the topic as listed on the agenda? 1:34:28: Commissioner Metz: Yeah. to the broad -- fiber broadband expansion, but not the physical infrastructure. 1:34:35: Chair Forssell: Yeah. Go for it. I mean, there's nobody else with their hand up, so I think this is a fine time. 1:34:39: Commissioner Metz: OK. Great. Um. Folks, thank you very much for the presentation, and also for the immense amount of work that went into this. That's very evident. And, also, the idea of piggybacking on the City's network needs, I think, is really a great idea. ### Historically, it's the other way around. Council believed a 09-28-15 staff report that said FTTP was financially infeasible, so Council was looking for an affordable way to take a first step towards FTTP, and staff offered what it called FTTN -- bringing fiber to a bunch of nodes, and then seeing how much closer we were toFTTP. Only later did staff propose to beef up FTTN to meet all of the City's present and future dark fiber needs. I had three questions. One a technical question and two kind of business planning questions. The technical question is, I inferred from reading the documents ### Which documents? The 10-06-21 staff report to UAC really only provides the presentation slides,https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/agendas-minutes/utilities-advisory-commission/archived-agenda-and-minutes/agendas-and-minutes-2021/10-06-2021-regular/10-06-2021-id-13591-item-2.pdfbut it cites a 05-24-21 staff report to Council, which cites a number of other documents.https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/reports/city-manager-reports-cmrs/2021/id-12117.pdf that the service that we're providing to residents is -- would be 1 gigabit internet. Something like that. ### I think "everybody knows" (except possibly new commissioners) that what the City wants is a municipal network that can provide state-of-the-art wired telecom services for the next several decades. And that will require supporting speeds that increase exponentially over the years. And that will require fiber infrastructure. From time to time, premises that want to go faster will need to upgrade electronics. But they won't need to upgrade the fiber infrastructure. ### A rule of thumb is that to keep up with the state-of-the-art, you need to upgrade the electronics every 7 years or so. Some municipalities have been using GPON technology (2.4 Gbps down, 1.2 Gbps up, shared by, say, 32 customers on a PON net) since 2008 or so. So, those systems that haven't upgraded from GPON arepast due. Some municipalities have been offering 10 Gbps internet service since 2010, and 10 Gbps residential internet service since 2015.https://muninetworks.org/tags-344?page=1Palo Alto should probably plan on using technology that can support 10 Gbps internet service from the beginning, even for customers who only want 1-Gbps internet service. And if that's the case, do we really need fiber-to-the-home? I can see the need for fiber in the network. But do we really need fiber-to-the-home? ### See this 02-01-21 article, "Why Fiber?" by consultant Doug Dawson. (The title might not be entirely clear, but I believe he's answering the question "Why FTTP?")https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2021/02/01/why-fiber/ It seems like -- you know, that drives most of the cost of this implementation. ### Deploying new wires is not cheap, but deploying new fiber is often LESS expensive than deploying new copper. And, you know, I wonder if we really need -- from a technical standpoint -- if we really need that, you know, kind of approach. Um. I don't know if you want to talk about that now. Or -- We could address that now, and then we could talk about the other questions. 1:35:46: John Honker: Sure. Would you like me to field that, Commissioner Metz? 1:35:50: Commissioner Metz: Sure. 1:35:51: John Honker: OK. So, sure. So, I mean, at a fundamental level, fi- -- I mean, fiber really is the only technology that can truly provide 1 gigabit symmetrical. So, you know, there are other technologies out there that provide "up-to-gigabit," but the difference is twofold. One, those technologies are very oversubscribed. Veryshared. Meaning that there may be 1 gigabit available, but the actual speeds that everyone is receiving in that area -- let's say, connected to that cabinet -- may be much lower, because they're all -- it's 5 o'clock, and everybody's home from work, and is on the internet. So, you know, the difference with fiber is -- and this specifictype of infrastructure -- is that, you know, everyone has their dedicated connectivity. ### There are different FTTP architectures. An Active Ethernet architecture provides a dedicated (not shared), point-to-point fiber from the customer premises to the electronics in a hut. With a PON (Passive Optical Network) architecture, fibers from several premises go to a splitter, and then the fiber from the splitter to theelectronics in the hut is shared. So a PON net is point-to-multipoint. It might connect to as many as 16, 32, 64, or even 128 premises. In the old days, when internet traffic was mostly "bursty," premises might not notice that they were sharing a PON net. But with applications like Zoom, which require more continuous bandwidth,they might start to notice. The second difference is, it's symmetrical versus asymmetrical. So, even though those other technologies may be able to provide higher speeds -- or, let's say, high speeds -- close to fiber, the uploads are still, you know, 5-10-20 meg. Right? You can't get gigabit uploads or even 100 Mbps uploads with the other technologies thatare out there today. ### Comcast might choose to upgrade its hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) network to DOCSIS 4.0 technology so it could offer 1 Gbps symmetrical service. But it won't happen soon.https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2021/05/20/comcast-tests-docsis-4-0/Anyhow, DOCSIS 4.0 isn't going to allow an HFC network to provide 10 Gbps internet service to individual customers. So, that's really the first aspect of this, is the difference between sort of the shared and the copper technologies versus fiber. 1:37:15: Commissioner Metz: OK. Thank you. Um. One of the two business plan questions I had relates to the market. I was, you know, kind of concerned, in reading the document, that there was an assumed take rate, which I know is pretty high -- 30-50 percent -- you know, depending on the details of which area you're talking about,for residential. But it sounds like, from the discussion tonight, that we're really just starting the market research. That's what I understood you to be saying before. So, I guess my concern is -- and I guess the market research will tell the tale -- that, you know, based on my experience, you know, a 30+ percent market share for anew -- small, new entrant, against 2+ large competitors, you know, selling essentially an undifferentiated service, against two well-entrenched competitors -- and very well financed companies, in their core business, you know, getting a third of the market sounds pretty challenging. Is -- I mean, do you have experience that, youknow, that's doable? 1:38:24: John Honker: Yeah. If you look at most of the -- most of the municipal utilities that provide service today, their average take rate is around 40 percent. And when they're in a market dominated by the -- a duopoly. Right? Meaning the existing cable provider and the existing telephone company. So, a good example of that is likeLongmont, Colorado. Longmont's competing against Comcast and CenturyLink in their market. They're a little bit larger than Palo Alto. They're 36,000 homes, give or take. They have 57 percent market share. They've been operating for 6 years. Chattanooga is very similar. They have about 53 percent -- 54 percent -- maybehigher. Their market is a little bit larger. They're at 180,000 population. A lot of the municipal providers out there today are sort of in the 40-percent sweet spot. Seem to grow over time, beyond that. And those are all sort of in the suburban, tier 2, tier 3 cities. Similar in size and scale to Palo Alto. 1:39:39: Commissioner Metz: OK. And thank you. And what -- You've just raised, you know, what is actually my biggest concern, which is retaliation by the incumbent competitors. You know. I mean, there's a statement in one of the documents that they may temporarily lower their prices. But it just seems like, you know, basic businessstrategy that, you know, we're attacking a core business of very large companies. And it seems like they're going to retaliate in every way they can. Because -- I don't know. Threatening to sue. Or, you know, using their market power. For example, offering a premium service at a lower price. Or bundling services that we don'toffer. Like cable TV. Maybe, eventually, lowering price. But it just seems like -- You know, I welcome your experience, and what you're seeing in other cities. It just seems like these folks, you know, really, you would expect to fight to the death, to defend this market. 1:40:40: John Honker: Yeah. It's -- And there's a couple of different dynamics that are going on there, Commissioner Metz. One is -- one of pricing. Right? Price competition. Against an entrant like Palo Alto, or any municipal utility that's entering the market. Two is really the product differentiation. Right? When we look at, well, whatdoes the existing provider have, versus Palo Alto, how is that different? Because the products are a bit different -- Right? -- in terms of the aspects of fiber that I talked about earlier. That's really what the municipal utilities use as a competitive advantage against the existing providers. Right? Higher speeds. Symmetrical service. And higher reliability. Those are sort of the three features of fiber that are -- really dominate the -- or, in the consumer's mind, is -- are the important aspects in their choices of internet providers. When we look at the pricing, I think one thing that's interesting is, you would tend to think that pricing -- you know, the big providers wouldjust drop their prices. But, you know, what it does is, it has a knockdown effect on communities -- the neighboring communities. So, for example, we saw some price decreases -- maybe 5-10 percent in Longmont, when Longmont, Colorado, launched. From the incumbent. But, you know, we didn't see significant decreases. And,really, why that was was, you know, they control a much larger market in the Front Range of Colorado. Right? Between Fort Collins and Loveland and Longmont, there's, you know, 350,000 residents. Right? And that's a large subscriber pool. So, we see that in those markets, where a large provider, you know, could drop theirprice. Regionally, they have to be very careful. Right? Not to erode prices at the larger levels. So, they'll make a calculation. And how important it is to maintain their market share in Palo Alto, versus, let's say, the general Bay Area. Because if they start eroding their prices in Palo Alto, to compete with Palo Alto, but they don'thave that type of competition in other areas -- other parts of the Bay Area, it starts to give them more erosion across those other markets. Right? Meaning that, oh, my prices are now lower in Palo Alto. Well, why am I -- a Comcast customer in Mountain View -- paying a higher price than I'm paying in Palo Alto? So, you start tosee that erosion. They want to keep that price as high as possible. And we've seen small decreases in price But we haven't seen significant price competition. 1:43:21: Commissioner Metz: OK. I'm kind of surprised. Because, I mean, you know, if you're in Menlo Park or Mountain View, you know, you can't really move easily. And it's easy for them to change the price. But, anyway, you -- I think that you've addressed what I was concerned about. Because I didn't see these issues addressed inthe documents that we received. So, I would hope that this would be addressed, in detail, going forward. It's sounds like we're just getting into this quantitatively. 1:43:48: John Honker: Yeah. And in two parts, Commissioner Metz. One is really the market research. And two is the -- sort of the business planning. So, those two go hand in hand, to really determine what the business risks are, how we mitigate those risks, you know, as Palo Alto, and what should we expect as -- you know, in thecompetitive environment. Right? Because, you're right, there are, you know, deep pockets. And they -- the providers -- are intent at stopping, you know, municipal projects where they see it feasible. 1:44:21: Commissioner Metz: Right. And I'm actually kind of surprised. I mean, it's -- I think it's really important what you describe. Some of the empirical outcomes that you've seen. I think that's really critical to knowing, you know, what's going to happen, rather than, you know, what people say they will do, you know, in terms of take rateand such. ### Consultants have various rules of thumb for discounting what survey participants say when coming up with predicted take rates. 1:44:39: John Honker: Absolutely. 1:44:40: Commissioner Metz: And -- But I'm a little surprised, because, you know, it seems like -- ah -- if I were them, you really want to put out the fire. Right? You wouldn't want one municipality to be doing this, because everybody else would look at it and say, wow, they're doing it, why don't we do it as well. 1:44:49: John Honker: Yeah. 1:44:50: Commissioner Metz: So, it seemed that would be viewed as quite a threat. So, you know, I'm concerned about that, in terms of us being able to do this, viably. So, anyway, thank you very much for addressing that. 1:45:14: John Honker: Sure. 1:45:17: Chair Forssell: OK. Well, thank you. I don't see any other hands up. I don't have any additional comments myself. Great presentation. Good discussion. Thank you, everybody, for coming and sharing all this material with us. 1:45:32: END From:Ken Horowitz To:Council, City Subject:Ruling in CA Sugary Drink Tax Preemption Lawsuit | ChangeLab Solutions Date:Wednesday, October 27, 2021 11:34:22 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Hello Council In case you did not receive my original email, I am resending the item I am proposing a ballot measure for 2022 or 2024 to address the effects of sugar on our residents especially our children Thank you for reading Dr. Ken Horowitz 525 Homer Ave Palo Alto, CA https://www.changelabsolutions.org/news/ruling-california-sugary-drink-tax-preemption Sent from my iPad From:Ken HorowitzTo:Council, CitySubject:Mail - Ken Horowitz - OutlookDate:Wednesday, October 27, 2021 11:21:30 AM [Some people who received this message don't often get email from klhorowitz67@gmail.com. Learn why this is important at http://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification.] CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. 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Dr Anthony Fauci Has Been Abusing Animals For 40 Years by GreatGameIndia 10/25/21 The stuff you've seen on social media barely scratches the surface. Dr Anthony Fauci has been abusing animals for 40 years. Read more of this post----- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beyond #BeagleGate: Fauci’s Long History of Atrocities, Including Torturing Children By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. the Defender;, childrenshealthdefense.org. The Defender is experiencing censorship on many social channels. Be sure to stay in touch with t the news that matters by subscribing to our top news of the day. It's free. The public is just now learning that Dr. Anthony Fauci used U.S.taxpayer money to fund atrocious experiments on beagles, but as my new book, due out Nov. 16, reveals, torturing animals for drug company profits is just the tip of the iceberg. Highlights: Incarcerated children on Staten Island were Victims Infected Fleas kill 28 Beagle dogs $400,000 to Graft Fetal Scalps on Rats Eisenhower Farewell Address warned about End ofDemocracy Fauci elevates Tyrannical Medical Technocracy ** In 1965, my father kicked down the door of the Willowbrook State School on Staten Island, where pharmaceutical companies were conducting cruel and often-deadly vaccine experiments on incarcerated children. * At worst, he is a sociopath who has pushed science into the realm of sadism. After an investigation revealed Dr. Anthony Fauci used U.S. taxpayermoney for an experiment that involved torturing beagles, a bipartisan group of Congress members lastweek wrote to Fauci to express their “grave concerns.” I was not surprised by the news — it’s one of many examples ofatrocities, approved by Fauci and funded by taxpayers — that I write about in my upcoming book, “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.” #BeagleGate made headlines this weekend after the White Coat Waste Project, the nonprofit organization that first pointed out that U.S. taxpayers were funding the controversial Wuhan Institute of Virology, revealed experiments on 44 beagle puppies in a Tunisia, North Africa,laboratory. To conduct the experiments, researchers removed the dogs’ vocal cords, allegedly so scientists could work without incessant barking. In their letter, the members of Congress asked Fauci — director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and President Biden’s chief medical adviser — why the need for such testing, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not require drugs to betested on dogs. According to the letter: “While the documents state that the ostensible purpose of this study was to ‘provide data of suitable quality and integrity to support the application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory agencies,’ the FDA itself has recently stated that ‘it does notmandate that human drugs be tested on dogs.’ This is apparently not the first time the NIAID has commissioned drug tests on dogs in recent years.” As I learned during research for my book, Fauci hasn’t just experimented on dogs — he’s also experimented on humans, including children. ( ORDER TODAY: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s New Book — 'TheReal Anthony Fauci) My book comes out Nov. 16, but today I’m releasing the excerpt below where I write about some of the atrocities attributed to Fauci and the NIAID over his long tenurewith the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Read the excerpt from my book, “The Real Anthony Fauci”: Incarcerated children on Staten Island were Victims In 1965, my father kicked down the door of the Willowbrook State School on Staten Island, where pharmaceutical companies were conducting cruel and often-deadlyvaccine experiments on incarcerated children. Robert Kennedy declared Willowbrook a “snake pit” and promoted legislation to close the institution and end the exploitation of children. Fifty-five years later, national media and Democratic Party sachems have beatified a man who presided over similar atrocities, somehow elevating him to a kind of secularsainthood. What dark flaw in Anthony Fauci’s character allowed him tooversee — and then cover up — the atrocities at Incarnation Children’s Center? At very best, there must be some arrogance or imperiousness that enables Dr. Fauci to rationalize the suffering and deaths of children as acceptable collateral damage inwhat he sees as his noble search for new public health innovation Infected Fleas kill 28 Beagle dogs At worst, he is a sociopath who has pushed science into the realm ofsadism. Recent disclosures support the latter interpretation. Freedom of Information documents obtained in January 2021 by the White Coat Waste project show that Dr. Fauciapproved a $424,000 NIAID grant in 2020 for experiments in which dogs were bitten to death by flies. The insects carried a disease-carrying parasite that can affect humans.The researchers strapped capsules containing infected flies to the bare skin of twenty-eight healthy beagle puppies and kept them in agonizing suffering for 196 days before euthanizing them.NIAID acknowledged it subjectedother animals, including mice, Mongolian gerbils, and rhesus monkeys to similar experiments. $400,000 to graft fetal scalps on Rats That same year, Dr. Fauci’s agency gave $400,000 to University of Pittsburgh scientists to graft the scalps of aborted fetuses onto living mice and rats. NIAID sought to develop rat and mouse “models” using “full-thickness fetal skin” to “provide a platform for studying human skin infections.” Dr. Fauci’s sidekick and putative boss, Francis Collins — who castshimself as a pious Catholic — kicked in a $1.1 million sweetener from NIH for this malignant project. Of all the desperate public health needs in America, of all the pain that a well spent $2 million might alleviate, Tony Fauci and his government confederates deemed thesedemented and inhumane experiments the most worthwhile expenditures of America’s taxpayer dollars. These disclosures beg many other questions: From what moralwilderness did the monsters who devised and condoned these experiments descend upon our idealistic country? How have they lately come to exercise such tyrannical power over our citizens? What sort of nation are we if we allow them to continue? Most trenchantly, does it not make sense that the malevolent minds, the elastic ethics, the appalling judgment, the arrogance, and savagery that sanctioned the barbaric brutalization of children at the Incarceration Convent House, and the torture of animals for industry profit, could also concoct a moral justification for suppressing lifesaving remedies and prolonging a deadly epidemic?Could these same dark alchemists justify a strategy of prioritizing their $48 billion vaccine project ahead of public health and human life? Did similar hubris — that deadly human impulse to play God — pave the lethal path to Wuhan and fuel the reckless decision to hack the codes of Creation and fabricate diabolical new forms of life — pandemic superbugs — in a ramshackle laboratory with scientists linked to the Chinese military? Eisenhower Farewell Address warned about End of Democracy On my birthday in January 1961, three days before I watched myuncle John F. Kennedy take his oath as president of the United States, outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower, in his farewell address, warnedour country about the emergence of a Military Industrial Complex thatwould obliterate our democracy. In that speech, Eisenhower made an equally urgent — although less celebrated — warning against the emergence of a federal bureaucracy, which, he believed, posed an equally dire threat to America’s Constitution and her values: “In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government. Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by taskforces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct ofresearch. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. . . . [We] must . . . be alert to the danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.” Eisenhower demanded that we guard against this insipid brand oftyranny, by entrusting our government to responsible officials ever-vigilant against the deadly gravities of technocratic power and industry money that would pull our nation away from democracy and humanity and into diabolical dystopian savagery: “It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integratethese and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system — ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.” Fauci elevates Tyrannical Medical Technocracy During his half-century as a government official, Dr. Fauci has utterly failed in this charge. As we shall see, he has used his control of billions of dollars to manipulate and controlscientific research to promote hisown, and NIAID’s, institutional self-interest and private profits for his pharma partners to the detriment of America’s values, her health and her liberties. Of late, he has played a central role in undermining public health and subverting democracy and constitutional governance around the globe and in transitioning our civil governance toward medical totalitarianism. Just as President Eisenhower warned. Dr. Fauci’s COVID-19 responsehas steadily deconstructed our democracy and elevated the powers of a tyrannical medical technocracy. Subscribe to The Defender - It’s Free! * Name* * Email* * Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s reputation as a resolute defender of theenvironment stems from a litany of successful legal actions. He is nephew of Prs. 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Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/world/middleeast/israel-jews-palestinians-journey.amp.html Sent from my iPhone From:Arnout Boelens To:Council, City Cc:Zoeller-Boelens, Nicole Subject:In favor of the bicycle and pedestrian tunnel (option 2). Date:Tuesday, October 26, 2021 5:11:30 PM Attachments:embarcaderoKingsley.pdf Some people who received this message don't often get email from a.m.p.boelens@gmail.com.Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Council members, We are writing to urge you to follow the recommendation of XCAP in favor of closing downChurchill for motorized traffic and building the bicycle and pedestrian tunnel (option 2). There are many reasons to favor this design: It is by far the cheapest option. Making a connection for pedestrians and bicyclists only (i.e. filtered permeability) willmake it more convenient to walk and bike. This should result in a mode shift toward active transportation, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and traffic congestion.In the comprehensive plan, Churchill is marked as a local street. Page 35 of the TJKM traffic report shows that a significant amount of traffic on Churchill Ave is causedby cut-thru traffic which should not be there in the first place. Instead of building a partial underpass or viaduct and installing traffic calming, it is much more cost effectiveto build a bicycle and pedestrian tunnel. In addition to these general benefits, option 2 is also the best solution for pedestrians andbicyclists [1]: It is the safest option because it eliminates the need to cross Alma and because it has aclear line of sight. Blind corners could be dangerous when large groups of students are present in the tunnel.It provides the most direct crossing of both Alma and the train tracks. Having a direct route will ensure that Paly students will remain riding to school in large numbers.It is the most cohesive option within the existing bicycle network and will connect seamlessly with the Churchill Ave Enhanced Bikeway.It is the most comfortable because it does not have sharp corners which are difficult to navigate for small children and cargo bikes.It is the most attractive because it allows pedestrians and bicyclists to stay away from traffic and congestion on Alma. All in all, option 2 is the safest design for road users of all ages and abilities. Regarding the Mitigation Measures at Alma/Embarcadero, we would like to remind Council that there is an existing plan for this corridor that has been approved already. The newlyproposed mitigations only focus on Level Of Service and show a complete disregard for road safety. Road safety is more important than arriving at your destination a minute late. Analternative proposal with ideas on how to make this corridor safer is attached to this email. • • • • • • • • Kind regards, Nicole, Arnout, & Ava Zoeller Boelens [1] Crow, design manual for bicycle traffic (2016) from Kingsley to Embarcadero a safe street for everyone Arnout Boelens ampboelens@gmail.com November 22, 2020 1/32 Summary Currently, there is no bicycle infrastructure along Embarcadero Rd, and the connection from Bryant St to Town & Country, PALY, and Stanford is a key missing link in the bicycle network. The goal of this design is to make improvements along the north side of Embarcadero Rd to turn this section of the road into a complete street. i.e. a street for all road users, of all ages and abilities. The guiding principle for this design is to increase road safety and prevent unnecessary tra c deaths. This design is inspired by alternative 2 of the Embarcadero Road/El Camino Real Corridor and Intersection Improvements Project from 2016 (City of Palo Alto 2016a). As was approved by city council on September 19, 2016, this design can be combined with alternative 1 with a protected intersection at Kingsley and Embarcadero. 2/32 Why promote bicycling in Palo Alto? Climate emergency Increased bicycle use means lower greenhouse gas emissions (Harms and Kansen 2018) 2030 Target: Increase bike mode share, including work commute trips, from 7% to 25% (City of Palo Alto 2016b) Tra c congestion Building walking and biking infrastructure can result in a signi cant mode shift away from single occupancy vehicles (SOVs) (Koska and Rudolph 2016) Goal T-2: Decrease delay, congestion, and vehicle miles travelled with a priority on our worst intersections and our peak commute times, including school tra c. (City of Palo Alto 2017) Economy Cyclists shop more locally, and more often (Haubold 2016) Policy B-4.6: Encourage and support the operation of small, independent retail businesses and locally-serving professional services. (City of Palo Alto 2017) 3/32 How to increase adoption of bicycling among the general population? Develop programs to foster a bicycling culture and design infrastructure for all ages and abilities (Oldenziel and de la Bruh eze 2011). One approach to design bicycle infrastructure for all ages and abilities is to use the ve design principles for bicycle infrastructure (Talens et al. 2016): Cohesion:cycle from anywhere to everywhere Directness:create short and fast routes Safety:avoid di erences in speed and mass Comfort:minimal stops and nuisance Attractiveness:create infrastructure that people enjoy using Policy T-4.2:Continue to construct tra c calming measures to slow tra c on local and collector residential streets, and prioritize tra c calming measures for safety over congestion management. (City of Palo Alto 2017) 4/32 Why Kingsley to Embarcadero?Why Kingsley to Embarcadero? Cohesion:currently, there is no bicycle infrastructure present on Embarcadero Rd and this segment is a missing link in bicycle network. This makes it hard to get from Bryant to Town & Country, PALY, and Stanford. 5/32 Why Kingsley to Embarcadero?Why Kingsley to Embarcadero? Current situation:there is room for signi cant improvement compared to the current situation. This can be illustrated by looking north along Emerson St and east at High St as indicated by the red arrows. EmersonEmersonHighHigh EmbarcaderoEmbarcadero KingsleyKingsley 6/32 Why Kingsley to Embarcadero?Why Kingsley to Embarcadero? Directness:riding on the sidewalk, the current infrastructure provides an indirect route with sharp corners at both High St and Emerson St. 7/32 Why Kingsley to Embarcadero?Why Kingsley to Embarcadero? Safety:the existing infrastructure is unsafe to walk and ride. Cars turn from Embarcadero Rd onto Emerson St at high speed, parked cars block the view down Emerson St, and cars exit Embarcadero Rd at high speed without using their indicators at High St. 8/32 Why Kingsley to Embarcadero?Why Kingsley to Embarcadero? Comfort:the sidewalk is very narrow, making it hard to pass pedestrians and other bicyclists. In addition, because of the narrow sidewalk there are a number of sharp corners that are hard to navigate at both High St and Emerson St. 9/32 Why Kingsley to Embarcadero?Why Kingsley to Embarcadero? Attractiveness:the current route is unattractive and stressful to navigate for bicyclists and pedestrians due to the proximity to high speed tra c and dangerous crossings. 10/32 From Kingsley to Embarcadero A design is needed that is safe for all ages and abilities The presented design is: Cohesive Direct Safe Comfortable Attractive 11/32 Top down view Embarcadero Kingsley Kingsley Emerson High 12/32 Top down view Cohesion:this new bicycle path provides a missing link in the cycling network from Bryant to Town & Country, PALY, and Stanford. 13/32 Top down view Directness:this path provides a direct connection without stop signs or tra c lights. 14/32 Top down view Safety:separate facilities are provided for motorized tra c, pedestrians and bicyclists. 15/32 Top down view Comfort:the route provides a continuous smooth surface without sharp corners and ramps for both pedestrians and bicyclists. 16/32 Top down view Attractiveness:the Kingsley Ave route reduces time spent next to tra c on Embarcadero Rd. 17/32 Embarcadero: looking west 18/32 Embarcadero: looking west Safety:the lane width is reduced to 10 ft to reduce speeding on Embarcadero Rd. The design vehicle for turning radii is DL-23 (National Association of City Transportation O cials 2013). 19/32 Embarcadero: looking east 20/32 ~ -' -. :--. -~~.i<~-; ~:-:-=-~ ~.:..:::_ > ---:;i",";.. . -_~_'t .:--_,, ,- ~\-' - Embarcadero: looking east Comfort:The Caltrain underpass remains unchanged. To indicate the transition from the bicycle path to the mixed use underpass the transition is made of alternating green asphalt and concrete. 21/32 Emerson: looking southEmerson: looking south 22/32 Emerson: looking southEmerson: looking south Safety:to limit speeding, the lane width is reduced to 10 ft. Separate parking lanes are painted onto the street, including a door zone. This way the bulb-outs do not create a funnel for bicyclists and motorized tra c. 23/32 Emerson: looking southEmerson: looking south Safety:Bi-directional bicycle lanes are more dangerous than uni-directional bicycle lanes. Therefore it is very important to slow down cars to 20 mph. Bulb-outs and speed bumps are both part of this e ort. Street sign locations and sight lines need to be further investigated. 24/32 High: looking eastHigh: looking east 25/32 High: looking eastHigh: looking east Safety:to limit speeding, cars leave Embarcadero Rd through a chicane. The turning lane should make it more clear for pedestrians and bicyclists whether a car is turning or not. 26/32 High: looking eastHigh: looking east Safety:The speed bump aims to reduce vehicle speeds down to 20 mph. Street signs will have to be put in place to alert drivers to bicycle and pedestrian tra c from two directions. 27/32 Kingsley: looking northKingsley: looking north 28/32 Kingsley: looking northKingsley: looking north Safety:to limit speeding, the lane width is reduced to 10 ft. A separate parking lane is painted onto the street, including a door zone. This way the bulb-outs do not create a funnel for motorized tra c. 29/32 Comparison to 2016 design This design is inspired by alternative 2 of the Embarcadero Road/El Camino Real Corridor and Intersection Improvements Project from 2016 (City of Palo Alto 2016a). Improvements on this design include: Separate facilities for pedestrians and bicyclists Sidewalk (7 ft) and bicycle path (8 ft) both have the recommended width (Talens et al. 2016) Bicycle path is positioned in between the sidewalk and the roadway and is protected from the roadway by a bu er (1 ft minimum) Speed of motorized tra c is reduced to 20 mph on crossings with Emerson St and High St Parked cars do not block the view on Emerson St 30/32 Comparison to grade separation mitigation design Provided PALY students can cross Embarcadero easily, this design has the following advantages: Separate facilities for pedestrians and bicyclists Sidewalk (7 ft) and bicycle path (8 ft) both have the recommended width (Talens et al. 2016) Bicycle path is protected from the roadway by a bu er (1 ft minimum) Motorized tra c is calmed on crossings with Emerson St and High St Parked cars do not block the view on Emerson St Bicyclists and pedestrians are not exposed to cars cornering at high speed at the intersection of Kingsley Ave and Embarcadero Rd. As was approved by city council on September 19, 2016, this design can be combined with alternative 1 of the Embarcadero Road/El Camino Real Corridor and Intersection Improvements Project from 2016 (City of Palo Alto 2016a). Alternative 1 would be greatly improved by the installation of a protected intersection at Kingsley and Embarcadero. 31/32 Conclusions Kingsley Ave to Embarcadero Rd is a known missing link in the Palo Alto bicycle network A design is needed that is safe for all ages and abilities The presented design is: Cohesive Direct Safe Comfortable Attractive 32/32 References I City of Palo Alto.Embarcadero Road/El Camino Real Corridor and Intersection Improvements Project.2016.url:https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/ depts/trn/transportation_projects/embarcadero_road_el_camino_real_ corridor_and_intersection_improvements_project.asp. City of Palo Alto.Sustainability and Climate Action Plan Framework.Nov. 2016. City of Palo Alto.Comprehensive Plan 2030.Nov. 2017. H. Haubold.Shopping by bike: Best friend of your city centre.Tech. rep. Brussels: European Cyclists' Federation, 2016. L. Harms and M. Kansen.\Cycling Facts".In:Netherlands Institute for Transport Policy Analysis (KiM). Den Haag: Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (2018). 33/32 References II T. Koska and F. Rudolph.The Role of Walking and Cycling in Reducing Congestion: A Portfolio of Measures.Tech. rep. Brussels: FLOW Project, July 2016.url: http://www.h2020-flow.eu. National Association of City Transportation O cials.Urban Street Design Guide.New York: Island Press, 2013.isbn: 978-1-61091-494-9. R. Oldenziel and A. A. de la Bruh eze.\Contested spaces: Bicycle lanes in urban Europe, 1900-1995".In:Transfers 1.2 (2011), pp. 29{49.doi: 10.3167/trans.2011.010203. H. Talens, F. Heijnis, and R. van de Weerd, eds.Design Manual for Bicycle Tra c. CROW-Fietsberaad. Dec. 2016.isbn: 978 90 6628 659 7. 34/32 From:Allan Seid To:DENNIS LEE Subject:Fwd: California Gov. Declares October 25 "Larry Itliong Day" – AsAmNews Date:Tuesday, October 26, 2021 5:10:26 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com>Date: Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 5:06 PM Subject: California Gov. Declares October 25 'Larry Itliong Day' – AsAmNewsTo: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> https://asamnews.com/2021/10/26/california-gov-declares-october-25-larry-itliong-day/ California Gov. Declares October 25 ‘Larry Itliong Day’ October 26, 2021 Drawing of Larry Itliong by dignidadrebelde via Flickr Creative Commons https://www.flickr.com/photos/dignidadrebelde/29495086484/in/pho tolist-LWo2BS-9c3RZ4-fwnUfx California Governor Gavin Newsom officially declared October 25, “Larry Itliong Day,” KTVU reports. On Monday students, farm workers and many more celebrated the Filipino American activist. Earlier this month, Itliong was also inducted into the California Hall of Fame. The 14th California Hall of Fame Virtual Induction was held on October 12. Larry Itliong immigrated to the U.S. from the Philippines when he was 15, according to the California Museum. He had dreams of becoming a lawyer but spent his early years working on farms. His experiences drove him to become an activist for farm laborers. Itliong became a U.S. citizen after serving in the army during WWII. He moved to Stockton, California and began organizing for Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee. He was so good at his job that AWOC asked him to move to Delano to recruit more union members. In 1965, he led a strike among grape vineyard workers who wanted to better working conditions and pay equal to the federal minimum wage. He joined forces with César Chávez to create the United Farm Workers (UFW). He worked in the organization until his death in 1977. On Monday, farm laborers from across California came to Delano to celebrate Itliong, KGET reports. The Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS Delano) met the workers for a symbolic ceremony. Students at Itliong Vera Cruz Middle School in Union City also celebrated Itliong. “I think how he was outgoing and bold and how he stood up for what he thought was right and even something so small created something so big,” Eighth Grade Student Miguel Rodriguez told KTVU. AsAmNews has Asian America in its heart. We’re an all-volunteer effort of dedicated staff and interns. Check out our new Instagram account. Go to our Twitter feed and Facebook page for more content. Please consider interning, joining our staff, or submitting a story or making a contribution. From:Ken Horowitz To:Council, City Subject:What Is the Nutritional Value of Boba? Date:Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:39:07 PM [Some people who received this message don't often get email from klhorowitz67@gmail.com. Learn why this is important at http://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification.] CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Hello Council Another reason why a sugar sweetened beverage tax is important to Palo Altans especially our children. Note the number of these stores have propped in our City since the pandemic. Thank you for reading Ken Horowitz 525 Homer Avenue Palo Alto https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/nutritional-value-of-boba Sent from my iPad From:Frank Viggiano To:Council, City Subject:Please follow XCAP recommendation when deciding Churchill St. crossing Date:Tuesday, October 26, 2021 10:36:26 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from fpviggiano@gmail.com. Learnwhy this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Members of the City Council:I urge you to follow the carefully considered recommendation of XCAP to turn the Churchill crossing into a pedestrian and bicycle crossing (closing it for cars). The most important usersof that crossing are Palo Alto High School students, who overwhelmingly get to school by bike and on foot. Their commute will be easier without the cars.That railroad crossing has always been tight and problematic for cars, and drivers actually can best access the most frequent destinations, such as Stanford Shopping Center and the PaloAlto Clinic, via the University Ave. underpass. Thanks for your consideration,Frank Viggiano From:Palo Alto Free Press To:darylsavage@gmail.com Cc:Human Relations Commission; Council, City Subject:White Privilege Date:Tuesday, October 26, 2021 6:38:09 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Daryl: You served on the hrc commission for years in this issue although written years ago continues to persist in your case you heard and I witnessed along with others many, many complaintscomplaints brought before the hrc and you would stare as they poured out their hearts can you reacted like a corpse. Quite frankly I have no idea how you live with yourself supporting the police its rank and fileon any level on any level. https://www.facebook.com/117648714926049/posts/1650042038353368/?d=n Palo Alto Free Press Lastly you were completely aware of Dave Price in the Palo Alto daily post shutting down our humble newspaper paloaltofreepress.com (millennium digital copyright act) and I complainedbitterly about the poor treatment that I received unfair treatment and you did nothing to investigate my claim that Palo Alto daily post sabotaged paloaltofreepress.com Shame on you for such a horrible legacy you leave behind. Palo Alto Free Press Sent from my iPhone From:Barry M Katz To:Council, City Subject:Oct. 25 Council Meeting: Leaf Blowers Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 8:29:31 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. To the Palo Alto City Council: The following comments were prepared for your meeting of October 25, 2021 in regard togas-powered leaf blowers: I would first like to offer my thanks the City Council for taking up a matter that has plagued our community for decades. I also want to thank those of our fellow citizens who haveinvested time and effort in an attempt to help Council resolve this issue. My name is Barry Katz. I am a 40-year resident of the Ventura District. I know that it isannoying for the Council to hear the same points repeated by multiple speakers. I expect we will hear plenty tonight about the well-documented health, safety, and environmental costs ofgas-powered leaf-blowers, so I will confine myself to two points: First, you are aware that on account of Covid-19, a great many of us have spent the last twoyears working from home. It is now clear that this situation is likely to be permanent; many of our largest local employers—Stanford, Apple, Google, Facebook…—are exploring permanentoffsite or hybrid options. In my own case, attempting to teach college courses online above the persistent din of these infernal machines has been an absolute nightmare. Other speakers havecommunicated their own experiences. Second, I wish to address the situation of the gardeners, many of whom are low-paid, hard-working, and otherwise vulnerable, and also of our police, who have better things to do than chase them down—usually long after the offenders have departed the scene. The solutionseems to me to be obvious: Fine the property owners! Unlike gardeners, houses and apartment buildings are not going anywhere. A warning or two, followed by a $300 citation,would provide a strong incentive for property owners to require their gardeners to transition to electric machines (or rakes!), and perhaps contribute financially to their doing so. In the age ofthe ubiquitous cell-phone camera, this is easily done. I join my fellow citizens in asking the City Council to do no more than ensure the enforcementof existing state and local laws. Respectfully, BK Barry M Katz 233 Margarita AvenuePalo Alto, CA. 94306 650.644-8697 From:Deborah Goldeen To:Council, City Subject:Enforcement of Gas Powered Leaf Blower Ban Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 8:15:32 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Evidently Mayor DuBois changed the order on the consent calendar because when I logged in at 7:40 items 3 and 4 had yet to be heard, but 5 was done with? I was one of the peole who spoke at meetings several times, wrote letter and collected signatures to get gas ban twenty (?) years ago? I am furious that the city can’t figure out enforcement. Property owners, not gardeners, could be liable and/or citizens could be allowed to ticket. New York City has set up program to allow citizens to ticket cars and trucks violating idling ordinance. Many restrictions, but it would work. Deb Goldeen, 2130 Birch St., 94306, 321-7375 From:Carol Kiparsky To:Council, City Cc:Ian Irwin Subject:Prohibit gas blowers Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 7:57:46 PM [Some people who received this message don't often get email from ckiparsky@sbcglobal.net. Learn why this is important at http://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification.] CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clickingon links.________________________________ Dear Mayor DuBois and Council members, Here are two more of your constituents who favor prohibiting gas blowers and mowers due to their dangerousemissions that contribute to climate change, and also to the damage they do to the health of people who use them allday long as part of their job. Their noise affects both their users and people living nearby. However, this is just the easy part, the tip of the iceberg. What we really need to regulate is lawns! Without lawnsmost of the motivation for gas mowers - and also electric mowers - goes away! At least as important, an incrediblewaste of water (largely potable water though all water is precious in our arid climate) would be averted. Yours truly,Carol Kiparsky and Ian Irwin800 Cowper StPalo Alto From:Lawrence Garwin To:Council, City Subject:Gasoline powered leaf lower ban Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 6:44:43 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from lawrencegarwin@yahoo.com.Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Palo Alto City Council, Please do everything in your power to effectively enforce the existing gasoline powered leafblower ban. The use of these pollution, dust, and sound spewing machines has been banned for a good reason, as they cause real harms to individuals, the community, and the world. I added my detailed comments on this issue when I signed the petition that I understand willbe made available to you tonight. I found the petition at: https://www.change.org/p/palo-alto-city-council-stop-illegal-gas-leaf-blowers-enforce-palo-alto-s-leaf-blower-law? utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=custom_url&recruited_by_id=2c7935c0-2d9c-11e9-86b0-1d61f734d9dd Please refer to my comments there. As well, I think this would be good time to pursue banning the use of all two stroke engines inthe city; starting with researching the affordability of (preferably electric) alternatives for residential (and commercial!) landscaping care. The state will ban the sale of these engines in a few years, but their operation will remaincommonplace long after that unless we ban their use locally. Thank you for your diligent efforts in these two regards. Lawrence Garwin Palo Alto From:Carolyn Curtis To:Council, City Subject:Agenda Item 5, gas-powered leafblowers Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 5:51:37 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Council, Please take steps to properly enforce the city’s longstanding ban on gas-powered leafblowers. These are the bane of the work-at-home crowd (not going back to the office in full force ever, probably) and anyone who wants to breathe decent air in our hard-fought-for gardens & would like to enjoy them in peace—particularly since these devices are against the law in the first place. Not to mention parents with kids playing at home. Don't we have enough noise and air pollution without these machines? And there are nonpolluting ways to accomplish the job they (sort of) do. Let’s not wait for the admirable AB1346 to take effect, that’s years away. Why delay when we already have an ordinance here? Please move to rid our city of these infernal contraptions. Carolyn Curtis 531 Alger Drive, Palo Alto 94306 From:Steve To:Council, City Subject:Questions for Action Item #7, 10/25/21 Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 5:28:52 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from eskchan@gmail.com. Learnwhy this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hello, I have two questions: 1. What sunset provision(s) for current code would be made if/when objective standards are adopted; in particular, how long will current code apply to remodeling and additionprojects? 2. Within proposed objective standards, is it likely that setback standards for R-1 remodeland addition projects will be stricter than those currently in effect? Thank you, Best, Steve C. From:James Felix Cook To:Council, City Subject:Gas leaf blower enforcement needed for climate goals Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 5:05:12 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from jamesfelixcook@yahoo.com.Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Council members, Thank you for your leadership on climate goals. I urge you to please add the enforcement of the City's existing ban on gas leaf blowers to the list. I use an electric leaf blower at home that we bought a few years ago and today there are many choices of electric blowers with and without batteries that are powerful and effective. There is no need to use gas leaf blowers any more. Along with other gas powered devices, they pollute our air. Thanks! James Felix Cook 730 College Ave, Palo Alto From:Leland To:Council, City Cc:lgauthier@cityofepa.org Subject:UN WORLD FOOD DAY AND BEYOND Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 5:02:51 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from unoakland@aol.com. Learnwhy this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. TO: CITY OF PALO ALTO OFFICE OF MAYOR AND MEMBERS TO COUNCIL CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF OCT. 25TH PUBLIC CMMENT RE: UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF OAKLAND'S WORLD FOOD DAY AND BEYOND PARTICIPATION I HAVE FORWARDED TO OUR NEIGHBORS A BRIEF ONLINE DIALOG BETWEEN OUR UN OAKLAND VOLUNTEERS AND THE ADMINISTRATORS OF OUR UNUSA WORLD FOOD PROGRAM. IN VIEW OF THIS YEARS UNASSOC. FILM FESTIVAL AND POSSIBLY OTHER RELATED UN ACTIVITIES IN AND ABOUT SUNDAYS' OFFICIAL, OCTOBER 24TH, ANNUAL UN DAY, WE WANTED TO SHARE WITH OUR NEIGHBORS SOME OF OUR VOLUNTEERS WORLD FOOD DAY ACTIVITIES. ON BEHALF OF RAVENSWOOD GARDENKITS PRODUCTS, OPERATED WITHIN THE RAVENSWOOD INDUSTRIAL PARK BUSINESS DISTRICT.. AS EACH OF YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN AWARE OF, OAKLAND CALIFORNIA AND RAVENSWOOD HAS PLENTY OF HISTORIC TIES TO THE ORIGINAL APRIL 27, THRU OCTOBE 24, 1945 UN CEREMONIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS... "WORLD FOOD DAY" AND BEYOND 2021 IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL CONCERNED CITIZENS TO GET INVOLVED IN OUR ZERO HUNGER THEME...A TARGET SET TO 2030 AND YOU CAN GUESS THE REST. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT US THROUGH THE BELOW CONTACT INFORMATION IF YOU WOULD LIKE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION... THANKS! -----Original Message----- From: Leland <unoakland@aol.com> To: Gabriella Morris, World Food Program USA <giving@wfpusa.org> Sent: Sat, Oct 16, 2021 2:48 pm Subject: Today is World Food Day! Thank you staff of WFPUSA for providing opportunity for partici- pation during Thursday's online discussion on the future of global food production. Our team is already tooling.up for producting our assorted line of Gardenkits products and today should be everyday across theglobe. Gardenkits Products P.O. Box 51524Ravenswood Industrial Park Calif. 95303+1524. U.S.A. 650 518 4029. 650 461 0276 On Saturday, October 16, 2021, 07:20:53 AM PDT, Gabriella Morris, World Food Program USA <giving@wfpusa.org> wrote: DONATE Today is World Food Day, Leland! Up to 811 million people in the world — that is one in 10 people — do not get enough to eat. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is working tirelessly around the world each day to reach Zero Hunger. Thanks to our generous community of donors, we are able to bring lifesaving food assistance to the world's most vulnerable (UN' ~WFP~ ~ ~ ~ World Food Program USA communities including families displaced by conflict, farmers threatened by climate change and children at risk of malnutrition. This World Food Day, we are so grateful for your support of our efforts to end global hunger. Your support makes all the difference. Thank you for your dedication to Zero Hunger! Gabriella Morris Chief Philanthropy Officer World Food Program USA P.S. How much do you know about hunger hotspots around the world? Click here to learn more. Our Future Begins With Food. With the support of people like you, we can do good better. DONATE GIVE MONTHLY DONOR INQUIRIES (202) 627-3939 | GENERAL INQUIRIES (202) 627-3737 PO Box 37239 Boone, IA 50037-0239 | Fax (202) 530-1698 World Food Program USA is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) public charity (tax ID# 13-3843435) This email was sent to UNOakland@aol.com. Email is the best way to quickly alert you about our work to provide lifesaving food to vulnerable people around the world. You can update your email preferences or unsubscribe here. From:Allan Seid To:DENNIS LEE Subject:Fwd: FBI: Hate crimes spike 76% against Asian Americans – AsAmNews Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 5:01:31 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. From: Allan Seid <allanseid734@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:52 PMSubject: FBI: Hate crimes spike 76% against Asian Americans – AsAmNews https://asamnews.com/2021/10/25/greatest-surge-of-hate-crimes-in-2020- occurred-in-the-asian-american-community/ FBI: Hate crimes spike 76% against Asian Americans October 25, 2021 Art by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya under Wikimedia Creative Commons license https://www.instagram.com/alonglastname/ New updated statistics released today by the FBI reveal that hate crimes against Asian Americans spiked 76% in 2020, reports ABC News. The agency originally released the report in September, but analysts found an error in data from Ohio and rereleased it today with new numbers. The same report also found that Whites made up more than half the offenders while African Americans comprised 20% of the perpetrators. “Every hate crime is an attack on the community,” Jay Greenberg, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s criminal division, said to ABC. Greenberg acknowledged the surge in crimes against Asian Americans from 161 to 274 can be attributed to COVID-19. It’s important to realize that the specific legal definition of a hate crime means the number of cases that are prosecuted is extremely low compared to the number of hate reports. From March 2020 to February 28, 2021, the reporting site StopAAPIHate logged 3,795 incidents. Those complaints include verbal harassment, avoidance, and workplace discrimination as well as physical assault. The vast number of hate crimes involved Black American victims- 11,126 victims in 2020 compared to 8,552 victims in 2019. “Because a hate crime is defined as a violent or property crime with a bias motivation, that crime could be categorized a number of different ways,” he explained. “We would like the public to reach out to us if they believe that they are a victim of a hate crime. It’s not for the public to make that determination; we will work with our state and local partners and help determine how best to investigate that.” AsAmNews has Asian America in its heart. We’re an all-volunteer effort of dedicated staff and interns. Check out our new Instagram account. Go to our Twitter feed and Facebook page for more content. Please consider interning, joining our staff, or submitting a story or making a contribution. From:Caryn Huberman To:Council, City Subject:Enough is Enough! Gas Blowers Need to Go NOW! Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 4:54:02 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from yackybooks@hotmail.com.Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. To the members of the City Council of Palo Alto: Gas blowers have NO place in Palo Alto or in any city for that matter. A source of pollution and noise they are an antiquated "solution" to caring for landscaped property. The filth they throw into the air is a hazard to the gardeners using them, to passersby and to the homeowner should she or her children or grandchildren dare open her windows during yard maintenance. For too many years now Palo Alto has neglected enforcing the "no gas blowers" rule. They must be banned NOW to save our environment and sanity. The noise alone of multiple blowers on various days on even a single street is absurd. They are a public nuisance as well as a health hazard for everyone. Insist on replacement of all gas blowers with electric blowers --or better still, with those quaint tools known as brooms! I've witnessed, innumerable times, gardeners and homeowners spending twenty minutes or more raising enormous clouds of dust, gas fumes, dog filth and other noxious debris, while they blew leaves from a property into the street and then another fifteen minutes blowing the mess into a pile. When is the City Council going to put some teeth into the gas blower ban?? Gas Blowers should be gone with the wind! Respectfully, Caryn Huberman 567 Lincoln Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 From:Julian Ashton To:Council, City Subject:Ban gas blowers and mowers! Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 4:51:34 PM [Some people who received this message don't often get email from corkhead@pacbell.net. Learn why this is important at http://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification.] CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ Sick of the constant noise and pollution from gas blowers! Palo Alto should be leaders in the fight against pollution, global warming etc….. Enforce the law, provide a path to report owners of property! Regards, Julian From:Aram James To:Tannock, Julie; Jeff Moore; chuck jagoda; Human Relations Commission; Enberg, Nicholas; Perron, Zachary;Planning Commission; Binder, Andrew; Jonsen, Robert; Council, City; Winter Dellenbach; Cecilia Taylor; Raj;Rebecca Eisenberg; Jay Boyarsky; Sajid Khan; Jeff Rosen; Roberta Ahlquist; Greer Stone; Joe Simitian;cindy.chavez@bos.sccgov.org; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; DuBois, Tom; Reifschneider, James; Tony Dixon;Greg Tanaka; alisa mallari tu; Betsy Nash; michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com Subject:In a Tennessee City, a Conference statue stays, but gets company NYT October 25. ( I say the Confederate statue should go-torn down- or put in a museum for those who wish to study a part of racism in America) Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 3:53:45 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/us/confederate-statue-tennessee-black-troops.html Shared via the Google app Sent from my iPhone From:Ellen Smith To:Council, City Subject:Leaf blower ban Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 2:57:36 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from ef44smith@gmail.com. Learnwhy this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. I endorse the request for the city to enforce the leaf-blower ban that has been on thebooks for 16 years. But, speaking as a homeowner who does not like confrontation,I suggest that the city also mail to each property owner at least once a year a statement of the city's policy that can be shared with gardeners. Ellen SmithDana Ave From:Ellen Forbes To:Council, City Subject:Please start enforcing PA"s leaf-blower ban Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 2:19:05 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from eforbes820@att.net. Learnwhy this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Sixteen years ago the City Council passed a ban but then stopped enforcing it, so ever since then we have endured the noise but far more importantly, their smog-forming pollution across the city. I encourage this Council to educate property owners about the illegality and harm of gasblowers and similar products, issue warnings to those whose gardeners continue to pollutewith them, and only as a last resort, fine repeat violators. Let’s put our money where our environmental mouth is on this issue! Thank you. Ellen Forbes From:Mark Grossman To:Council, City Subject:Enforce the gas leaf blower ban, and help with replacement Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 1:47:58 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from grossman_mark@yahoo.com.Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Council, Gas leaf blowers have been banned in Palo Alto for the last 16 years, but the law is not enforced. Gas leaf blowers: Are super polluters. They have no pollution control devices. The CA Air Resources Board has found that gas leaf blowers and similar equipment cause more smog-forming pollution than all passenger cars in CA — and those are also greenhouse gases disrupting Earth’s climate. Cause serious health issues for workers who utilize them every day Are extremely noisy - the low frequency noise can be heard across multiple city blocks and penetrate the walls of homes In recognition of these harms, CA recently passed a law to ban the sale of gas leaf blowers and similar equipment. However, this law will not take effect until at least 2024, and even then, gardeners can continue to use gas powered equipment that they already have. We don't need to wait - we can act now. We want the Palo Alto City Council to: 1. Educate property owners who employ gardeners that gas leaf blowers are illegal and harmful2. Issue warnings to property owners who continue to use gas leaf blowers on their property 3. As a last resort, fine property owners who have multiple violations (as an alternative, this fine could be waived if they purchase an electric leaf blower --only $59 at Home Depot! -- for their gardener) 4. Provide a toolkit that incentivizes groups of homeowners to share the expense of acquiring and charging electric equipment Thank you - Mark Grossman 2063 Byron 350 Silicon Valley • • • From:Stuart Bernstein To:Council, City Subject:Leaf blowers Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 1:09:01 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from snbernst@gmail.com. Learnwhy this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. We can’t attend the meeting tonight, unfortunately, but we are in favor of banning not only gasleaf blowers but all blowers. The data clearly demonstrates that they are both noise and air safety hazards. The particulate matter blown in the air is dangerous to residents, especiallythose with pulmonary issues, some of whom are our most vulnerable neighbors. Best, Stuart and Marcella Bernstein From:Council, CityTo:Jamie Beckett; Council, CityCc:Terry Holzemer; Suzanne Steimle; Kim Griffin; Julia Grinkrug; George Thomas; Anoja Herath; Jeff Levinsky; Valerie MilliganSubject:RE: 10/25, Agenda item #7 - Objective Standards hearingDate:Monday, October 25, 2021 1:01:43 PMAttachments:image001.pngimage002.png Dear Jamie, Thank you for reaching out. I apologize for the understandable confusion on Item 7, which is to be heard tonight. The reason for this schedule is that this report was continued from the October 4th meeting. On that meeting, the item was presented to City Council with the public hearing, which began at around 7 p.m. Since public hearing was held and members of the public had the time and ability to voice their comments during that scheduled period, we are proceeding with the continuation of City Council discussion. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to reach out. Thank you for your understanding. Best, Dani Danielle KangAdministrative Associate III Office of the City Clerk250 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 P: 650.329.2159 | E: Danielle.Kang@CityofPaloAlto.org From: Jamie Beckett <jmbeckett@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2021 8:48 AM To: Council, City <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org> Cc: Terry Holzemer <holz@sonic.net>; Suzanne Steimle <suzanne.steimle@gmail.com>; Kim Griffin <kimberly.griffin6@gmail.com>; Julia Grinkrug <ujulka@gmail.com>; George Thomas <vbthomas@pacbell.net>; Anoja Herath <anojaca@gmail.com>; Jeff Levinsky <jeff@levinsky.org>; Valerie Milligan <valerie.milligan5@gmail.com> Subject: 10/25, Agenda item #7 - Objective Standards hearing CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Council Members,We have just received the agenda packet for your meeting on Monday, Oct. 25. We were appalled to see that you've scheduled the hearing on ObjectiveStandards to start at 10 p.m. As you are aware, there is considerable interest in this item among many Palo Alto residents. Yet by scheduling the hearing to start at 10 p.m., you havealmost guaranteed that few members of the public will be able to attend the hearing. In our view, then, this is NOT a public hearing but an opportunity for staff to push through their ideas with little opposition. We can see that you already havea very full agenda for Monday. We urge you to continue this item to another week and to set a reasonable time when working people can attend. We have already written to you twice about how city zoning discriminates against residents of RM-40, denying them the light, air and space enjoyed byresidents of other zones in the city. We have attached previous letters as reference. Besides being unjust, this unequal treatment violates the city’s own policies outlined in the Race & Equity Statement, adopted only a little over a year ago. We are grateful for the willingness expressed by council members Dubois, Greer and Kou to explore ending the long-standing inequities that RM-40 residentsface. We hope the rest of the council can show us they are similarly open-minded. As the city goes through these vast changes to the zoning code, we urge you to eliminate an unfair and unequal system. Like all of you, we want Palo Alto tobe the kind of city residents and others point to with pride. We ask you to take action to show that Palo Alto is a city that values all of its citizens, not just a privileged few. Please include justice for RM-40 residents inany motions directing staff modifications to the zoning code overhaul. best regards,Jamie BeckettPeter Shuler Park Boulevard, Palo Alto CITY OF PALO ALTO HiliiHdi ------------- From:Debbie Mytels To:Council, City Subject:Leaf Blowers Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 12:53:29 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from debbie.mytels@gmail.com.Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Council Members, “It’s hard to catch ‘em in the act” has often been given as the reason why there’s very limitedenforcement of Palo Alto’s 16-year old ban on using gasoline-powered leaf blowers. However, I think the problem has been that we have looked to cite the users of those blowers — when instead, we should be citing the property owners who hire people to use these polluting tools. It’s been clear for years that gasoline-powered garden tools (includinglawnmowers and other such tools) are a detriment to our environment. They create significant ground-level air pollution, they are excessively nosiy, they blow away important soil nutrients(leaves) that should be allowed to compost in place — and, perhaps most importantly, they contribute to hearing loss and lung ailments in the garden workers who use them. But we should not be penalizing the typically low-income (and often non-English speaking)landscape workers who wield these tools. The property owners are really the responsible party: they should provide a charged-up electric blower for their workers to use — and paythe workers for any “extra” time it takes to use this less polluting tool. With tonight’s review of the city’s mid-year budget report, the Council has an opportunity to add back a position in the Code Enforcement area — and some of this person’s time should bespent on identifying the property owners who are responsible for employing people who use polluting blowers nd other gasoline-powered garden tools. It will also be a LOT easier to identify the property owners than to have a code enforcementofficer chasing after a garden worker’s van that has moved on to the next work site. With this approach, there should be no more excuses of “we couldn’t catch the perp." — Debbie Mytels Debbie Mytels 2824 Louis Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303 (650) 759-0888 debbie.mytels@gmail.com Please note my new email address. Visit The Switch is On to learn about electrifying your home. From:Arlene Goetze To:Sara Cody; Britt Ehrhardt; george.han@phd.sccgov.org; County Public Health Department; Michele Seaton Subject:Covid Shots NOT INJECTED properly Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 12:48:17 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of openingattachments and clicking on links. 2. The Vaccinated Are Dragging Out the Pandemic --Shots are not meeting experts’ expectations (below) Defense Department’s Project Salus. 3. ‘Ample Scientific Data’: Congresswoman Introduces ‘Natural Immunity Is Real Act’ protection against reinfection, Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.) said. The Epoch Times 1. Covid Shots NOT Injected Properly . . . vaccinators are neglecting to draw back the needle and check for blood before injecting the vaccine. . . . vaccine was erroneously injected into a vein, rather than the muscle. In this stunning evaluation of how he’s observed COVID injections being given improperly, John Campbell, Ph.D., senior lecturer in nursing studies at the University of Cumbria, England, explains how vaccinators are neglecting to draw back the needle and check for blood beforeinjecting thevaccine. Campbell, who is both a clinical nurse and nurse educator, points out that the Covid injections are to be given into the muscle, which means the provider should check to makesure the needle hasn’t hit a vein or artery before actually injecting the vaccine. This involves simply retracting the needle; if blood enters the syringe, thenyou don’t inject it, he says, because you would be giving it intravenously — and that’s not something you want to do because evidence shows that inadvertent intravascular administration can causeacute myopericarditis. Looking back at the number of reported cases of myocarditis, Campbell conjectures that they may have been the result of a vaccine that was erroneously injected into a vein, rather thanthe muscle. Not only that, the spike antigen of the mRNA vaccines also goes to the liver. While liver BY ZACHARY STIEBER October 25, 2021 Updated: October 25, 2021 There is plenty of evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 have problems haven’t yet been noticed as a problem after the vaccine, they could be possible, he says: “It was noticed in the mice [in clinical studies] so it could happen in humans as well.” So, to circumvent possible intravenous injection and possible adverse events because of it, all vaccinators should simply be pulling back the needle to check forblood (which means they’ve hit a vein) before injecting the vaccine. “ Both Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna have clearly stated that their vaccine should only be given by the intramuscular route … so why on earth are we not ensuring that themanufacturer’s recommendations are being obeyed?” SOURCE: YouTube September 26, 2021 --------------------------- 1. New Study Proves the Vaccinated Are Dragging Out the Pandemic --Shots are not meeting experts’ expectations 73%occurred in fully vaccinated individuals.” * October 23, 2021 A leaked Department of Defense slide show presentation that was quickly removed from the internet, but has been preserved in archives and on private websites shows that theshots are not meeting experts’ expectations. Using hospitalization records from 5.6 million Medicare beneficiaries who werefully vaccinated , the researchers found that 148,000 fully vaccinated individuals age 65 and oldercame down with COVID anyway; 30,000 were hospitalized in an intensive care unit and 9,400 wereadmitted to an intensive care unit. The death rate was 2.2%. In the slide show, authors point out that the vaccine effectiveness against infection and hospitalization “is lower than reported in smaller studies.” Specifically, using metrics showing that80% of persons over age 65 as vaccinated, “73% of COVID-19 cases occurred in fully vaccinatedindividuals.” Not only that, according to Slide 8, “Breakthrough infection rates five to six months post vaccination are twice as high as three to four months post vaccination.” The waning immunity was observed in both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna shots. And — contrary to “official” reports in the media — Slide 12 says it was theVACCINATED driving the high infection numbers during the summer of 2021, as “61% ofCOVID-19 of COVID-19 hospitalizations occurred in fully vaccinated individuals in the week of July 24alone. The study concluded that the jabs are more effective at preventinghospitalization than infection, and that “prior COVID-19 infection has a major protective effect againstbreakthrough hospitalization.” The study was done by the Defense Department’s Project Salus. SOURCES: Wayback Archives September 21, 2021, ‘Ample Scientific Data’: Congresswoman Introduces ‘Natural Immunity Is Real Act’ “Capitol Report BY ZACHARY STIEBER October 25, 2021 Updated: October 25, 2021 There is plenty of evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 have p rotection against reinfection, Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.) said.“There’s ample scientific studies that show that natural immunity is absolutely one of the best things you could have—and some studies even show that it’s more effective [than vaccination],” Harshbarger said during a recent appearance on NTD’s Multiple studies have indicated that natural immunity among past COVID-19 patients is strong and similar or superior to the protection from COVID-19 vaccines. Some experts have pushed for federal health officials to take natural immunity into account when issuing recommendations and rules. But federal authorities currently recommend virtually everybody get a vaccine, including the recovered, arguing the strong protection gets even better when those people have a jab. Harshbarger, though, says a number of Americans object to getting a vaccine while pointing out that natural immunity to other diseases is accepted as an alternative to vaccination. She and 10 other members of the House of Representatives late last week introduced the "Natural Immunity Is Real Act," a companion to a Senate bill from Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska). It would require federal agencies to "acknowledge, accept, and agree to truthfully present, natural immunity pertaining to COVID-19 pursuant to promulgating certain regulations." The congressmembers are presenting the bill as President Joe Biden's Forwarded by Arlene Goetze, MA, Writer/editor, No Toxins for Children. photowrite67@yahoo.com administration works to finalize a regulation that would force private companies with over 100 employees to mandate presenting proof of COVID-19 vaccination or have staff members be tested weekly for the disease. There is no opt-out for natural immunity. Other mandates are already in place on the federal, state, and local level that have led to some Americans losing their jobs. "I've read some of the studies that show that natural immunity, in a lot of ways, can be more .effective. And I know there's one study that shows that the percentage of protection is even better than twn doses of the vaccine, in some cases. There is ample scientific data out there that show that. Think about it. We have immunity against measles, and smallpox, and they accept that. vVhy won't they do it for OOVID?" said Harshbarger, a licensed pharmacist since 1987. ''Too many medical leaders are refusing to publicly recognize what overwhelming data has already shown-protection afforded to individuals with natural immunity is real, robust and durable," Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) added in a written statement. ''Denying science only contributes to existing confusion, misinformation, and mistrust among the American • From:Richard and Dorrit To:Council, City; Raybould, Claire Subject:1033 Amarillo Avenue (21PLN-00212) Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 12:31:02 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from billpeople@mindspring.com.Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Please do not permit such a dense housing development as planned for 1033 Amarillo Avenueto be crammed into our neighborhood. The plan submitted is essentially cramming a 20 bedroom, 16 bath (+ 2 half bath) apartment complex onto less than 4 lots of area withoutproper accommodation for the associated parking or trash removal. Because of the lot shape and effective size, and its complete mismatch to the surrounding neighborhood this kind ofplan would be a blemish on the neighborhood. Our neighborhood is one of houses that fit their lots well-enough to have pleasant gardens and privacy from neighbors. Those with ADU's(legal or not) do so without ruining this appealing aspect of our community. The four lot area under consideration only has frontage for 2 lots. Right now, when all four units put out their garbage cans, it takes up at least half of their frontage. Double the numberof units putting out their garbage ALONE will utilize at least all of their frontage, if not more. As 4 R-1-like structures, they will not have to have the garbage disposal accommodations anapartment house complex would have to. The four lot area requires utilizing a substantial amount of the property for a driveway, so there isn't really 4 lots worth of area being re-zoned/re-utilized for 4 structures. This will beessentially shoe-horning an apartment complex into substantially less than 3 full lots worth of space. The plan doesn't account for enough parking spaces for the units planned for, so it willsubstantially increase use of street parking. Were this zoned an apartment house, it would have to come up with a parking plan for a structure that has 20 bedrooms spread amongst 8 units. 20 bedrooms amongst 8 units suggests need for at least 15 cars, not 8, and more likely 20 cars. The parking issue has an additional consequence the City should consider - our block of Amarillo already fills to overflowing with parking for Greer Park on weekends, and it fillsespecially at the end where this property is located, for pick up and drop off of students for Ohlone and when there are special events at Ohlone. I don't think the neighborhood mindsaccommodating this additional parking, but to effectively remove another 8 or more street parking spaces will not be happily accommodated by the neighborhood. Examining the drawings, they are deceptive. They show structures that will be substantiallytaller than surrounding structures as drawn - on the order of a half story taller. However, the drawings are incorrect, as they show the ground levels of the structures as being built at grade.This can't be. This is a flood zone, and the ground floor would need to be at least another 4 or 5 feet about ground level, so these structures would be approximately a story taller than any ofthe surrounding buildings. Finally, while we understand that there are many pressures on the City of Palo Alto to increase the density of housing in the City, it need to do so in a way that spreads that impact over manyneighborhoods. And it needs to do so that doesn't destroy the character of the existing surrounding neighborhood. As I said earlier, our neighborhood is one of houses that fit theirlots well-enough to have pleasant gardens and privacy from our neighbors. Those with ADU's (legal or not) do so without ruining this appealing aspect of our community. Thanks for your attention on this issue. Richard BillingtonDorrit Billman 1020 Amarillo AvenuePalo Alto