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Home My Public Portal About20170828plCC 701-32 DOCUMENTS IN THIS PACKET INCLUDE: LETTERS FROM CITIZENS TO THE MAYOR OR CITY COUNCIL RESPONSES FROM STAFF TO LETTERS FROM CITIZENS ITEMS FROM MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ITEMS FROM OTHER COMMITTEES AND AGENCIES ITEMS FROM CITY, COUNTY, STATE, AND REGIONAL AGENCIES Prepared for: 8/28/2017 Document dates: 8/9/2017 – 8/16/2017 Set 1 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 8:08 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Juliana Walrod <juliana.walrod@gmail.com> Sent:Sunday, August 13, 2017 7:21 PM To:Council, City Subject:New Cell Towers(DAS) Dear City of Palo Alto, Recently a poster was put on my house talking about the issues new cell towers would cause. I would like to say, I am in favor of the new cell towers. If you get many angry emails about the disturbances it will cause, just know that many people I know want the cell towers, including me. Not only will they help get me decent internet, but it will also help many others as well. Please don't listen to the people who aren't in favor of the towers because I know at least hundreds of other people who will enjoy the faster and better internet. Thanks, Juliana Walrod City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 3:03 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:DPCooney <dpcooney@comcast.net> Sent:Monday, August 14, 2017 12:24 PM To:Council, City Subject:Antennas We have just learned of the plans to build a large number or cell phone antennas in Palo Alto. We object to this because of health concerns. But if the must be built to ensure the future of our civilization, then they should be spread out over the city equally and not concentrated in one area. Sincerely, Ursula and Paul Cooney, 1570 Cowper St. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 3:04 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:anne ercolani <ajecpa04@yahoo.com> Sent:Monday, August 14, 2017 2:30 PM To:Council, City Subject:Fw: Shuttle plan changes Hello, I have read that you will soon be considering changes to the free shuttle service, in particular the Crosstown Shuttle route. As the VTA routes are scaled back, I think the City should extend the shuttles as much as possible. Also, the schedule should be no less than every 30 minutes, so they are more useful throughout the day. Based on the reports I have seen, I strongly urge you to approve Variant A! It retains the route by the Rinconada Library and Jordan in addition to extending the coverage at each end of the route. I ride the shuttle from time to time, so I know that the riders are mostly people who have a physical limitation for walking very far or students. Variant A would accommodate these people better because it provides coverage of a greater number of sites that the riders would want to go to. If you choose Variant B, it would mean anyone on the East side of Newell would have an excessive distance to walk to get the bus....thus essentially eliminating them from ridership. Lastly, I don't know if it is anticipated to be added, but I hope the former Embarcadero shuttle mid-day rides we will be reinstated. It was helpful for travel to/from Paly and Town and Country/PAMF during non-commute hours. Thank you for your consideration, Anne Ercolani CITY OF PALO ALTO MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor Scharff & Members of the Palo Alto City Council FROM: James Keene, City Manager AGENDA DATE: August 14, 2017 SUBJECT: Measure B & SB1 Funding Programs for Transportation Improvements Prior to the Council’s break I asked the staff to put together a summary of the new funding that will be available through County Measure B and through SB1, including funds that will be available for local streets and roads (i.e. paving) as well as other transportation projects and programs. The resulting summary is attached and highlights each of the funding programs in Measure B and SB1, what some potential local projects these funds could be used for, and some suggested advocacy positions for local spokespersons (i.e. staff and Councilmembers). As you will see, there are eleven separate programs, some of which create an opportunity for substantial funding for Palo Alto initiatives. If you have any questions about this material, please feel free to email me. cc: Ed Shikada Hillary Gitelman Mike Sartor Josh Mello Se n a t e B i l l 1 a n d M e a s u r e B Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n F u n d i n g Pr o g r a m s S u m m a r y Pl a y b o o k - A u g u s t 2 0 1 7 dŚ ŝ Ɛ ǁ Ž ƌ Ŭ ď Ž Ž Ŭ ŝ Ɛ ŝ Ŷ ƚ Ğ Ŷ Ě Ğ Ě ƚ Ž Ɛ Ƶ ŵ ŵ Ă ƌ ŝ ǌ Ğ ƚ ƌ Ă Ŷ Ɛ Ɖ Ž ƌ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ɖ ƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ Ɛ ƚ ŚĂ ƚ ǁ ŝ ů ů ď Ğ Ĩ Ƶ Ŷ Ě Ğ Ě ď Ǉ ^Ğ Ŷ Ă ƚ Ğ ŝ ů ů ϭ ; ^ ϭ Ϳ Ă Ŷ Ě ^ Ă Ŷ ƚ Ă ů Ă ƌ Ă Ž Ƶ Ŷ ƚ Ǉ D Ğ Ă Ɛ Ƶ ƌ Ğ ͕ Ă Ɛ ǁ Ğ ů ů Ă Ɛ Ɖ Ž ƚ Ğ Ŷ Ɵ Ă ů Ƶ Ɛ Ğ Ɛ Ĩ Ž ƌ ƚ Ś Ğ Ĩ Ƶ Ŷ Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő ŝŶ ƚ Ś Ğ ŝ ƚ Ǉ Ž Ĩ W Ă ů Ž ů ƚ Ž Ă Ŷ Ě Ɖ Ž ƚ Ğ Ŷ Ɵ Ă ů Ă Ě ǀ Ž Đ Ă Đ Ǉ Ɖ Ž Ɛ ŝ Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ɛ Ĩ Ž ƌ ŝ ƚ Ǉ Ɛ Ɖ Ž Ŭ Ğ Ɛ Ɖ Ğ ƌ Ɛ Ž Ŷ Ɛ ͘ 20 1 7 S e n a t e B i l l 1 ( S B 1 ) a n d 2 0 1 6 M e a s u r e B Se n a t e B i l l 1 ( S B 1 ) - T h e R o a d R e p a i r a n d A c c o u n t a b i l i t y A c t o f 2 0 1 7 ^ ϭ ǁ Ă Ɛ Ă Ɖ Ɖ ƌ Ž ǀ Ğ Ě ď Ǉ ƚ Ś Ğ Ă ů ŝ Ĩ Ž ƌ Ŷ ŝ Ă > Ğ Ő ŝ Ɛ ů Ă ƚ Ƶ ƌ Ğ Ă Ŷ Ě Ɛ ŝ Ő Ŷ Ğ Ě ď Ǉ ' Ž ǀĞ ƌ Ŷ Ž ƌ ƌ Ž ǁ Ŷ ŝ Ŷ Ɖ 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Ǉ Ĩ Ž ƌ ƚ Ś Ğ Đ Ɵ ǀ Ğ d ƌ Ă Ŷ Ɛ Ɖ Ž ƌ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ W ƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ Ĩ Ž ƌ ƚ Ś Ğ Ɖ Ƶ ƌ Ɖ Ž Ɛ Ğ Ž Ĩ ĞŶ Đ Ž Ƶ ƌ Ă Ő ŝ Ŷ Ő ŝ Ŷ Đ ƌ Ğ Ă Ɛ Ğ Ě Ƶ Ɛ Ğ Ž Ĩ Ă Đ Ɵ ǀ Ğ ŵ Ž Ě Ğ Ɛ Ž Ĩ ƚ ƌ Ă Ŷ Ɛ Ɖ Ž ƌ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ ͕ Ɛ Ƶ Đ Ś Ă Ɛ ď ŝ Ŭ ŝ Ŷ Ő Ă Ŷ Ě ǁĂ ů Ŭ ŝ Ŷ Ő • ΨϮ ϱ ŵ ŝ ů ů ŝ Ž Ŷ Ĩ Ž ƌ ů Ž Đ Ă ů Ɖ ů Ă Ŷ Ŷ ŝ Ŷ Ő Ő ƌ Ă Ŷ ƚ Ɛ ƚ Ž Ğ Ŷ Đ Ž Ƶ ƌ Ă Ő Ğ ů Ž Đ Ă ů Ă Ŷ Ě ƌ Ğ Őŝ Ž Ŷ Ă ů Ɖ ů Ă Ŷ Ŷ ŝ Ŷ Ő 4Pr o g r a m D e s c r i p t i o n Pr o p o s e d G u i d e l i n e s SB 1 L o c a l S t r e e t s a n d R o a d s N o n - D i s c r e t i o n a r y F u n d s $1 . 4 5 b i l l i o n a n n u a l l y • &Ƶ Ŷ Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő Ğ Ɛ Ɵ ŵ Ă ƚ ĞƐ Ĩ Žƌ Į ƌ Ɛ ƚ ƚ ǁ Ž Ǉ Ğ Ă ƌ Ɛ Ĩ Ž ƌ W Ă ů Ž ů ƚ Ž ; Ŷ Ž Ŷ Ͳ Ě ŝ Ɛ Đ ƌ Ğ Ɵ Ž ŶĂ ƌ Ǉ Ϳ • &z Ϯ Ϭ ϭ ϴ ͗ Ψ ϯ ϴ ϱ ͕ ϯ ϳ ϲ • &z Ϯ Ϭ ϭ ϵ ͗ ϭ ͕ ϭ ϱ ϲ ͕ Ϭ ϲ Ϭ • /Ĩ W Ă ǀ Ğ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ž Ŷ Ě ŝ Ɵ Ž Ŷ / Ŷ Ě Ğ ǆ ; W / Ϳ ш ϴ Ϭ ͕ ƚ Ś Ğ ŝ ƚ Ǉ Đ Ă Ŷ Ɛ Ɖ Ğ Ŷ Ě ƚ Ś Ğ Ŷ ŽŶ Ͳ Ě ŝ Ɛ Đ ƌ Ğ Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ă ƌ Ǉ ĨƵ Ŷ Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő Ž Ŷ Ž ƚ Ś Ğ ƌ ƚ ƌ Ă Ŷ Ɛ Ɖ Ž ƌ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ɖ ƌ ŝ Ž ƌ ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ • EŽ Ŷ Ͳ Ě ŝ Ɛ Đ ƌ Ğ Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ă ƌ Ǉ Ĩ Ƶ Ŷ Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő ŝ Ɛ ď Ă Ɛ Ğ Ě Ž Ŷ Ɖ Ž Ɖ Ƶ ů Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ • DĂ ŝ Ŷ ƚ Ğ Ŷ Ă Ŷ Đ Ğ Ž Ĩ ī Ž ƌ ƚ ; D K Ϳ ŝ Ɛ ƌ Ğ Ƌ Ƶ ŝ ƌ Ğ Ě ƚ Ž ǁ Ă ƌ Ě Ɛ ƚ ƌ Ğ Ğ ƚ ŵ Ă ŝ Ŷ ƚ Ğ Ŷ Ă Ŷ Đ Ğ ͘ ^ Ɖ Ğ Đ ŝ Į Đ Ă ů ů Ǉ ͕ ĞĂ Đ Ś Đ ŝ ƚ Ǉ ŝ Ɛ ƌ Ğ Ƌ Ƶ ŝ ƌ Ğ Ě ƚ Ž Ɛ Ɖ Ğ Ŷ Ě Ŷ Ž ů Ğ Ɛ Ɛ ƚ Ś Ă Ŷ ƚ Ś Ğ & z Ϯ Ϭ ϭ Ϭ ƚ Ś ƌ Ž Ƶ Ő Ś & z Ϯ Ϭ ϭ Ϯ Ă Ŷ Ŷ Ƶ Ă ů Ăǀ Ğ ƌ Ă Ő Ğ Ĩ ƌ Ž ŵ ŝ ƚ Ɛ Ő Ğ Ŷ Ğ ƌ Ă ů Ĩ Ƶ Ŷ Ě ͘ d Ś Ğ ^ ƚ Ă ƚ Ğ Ž Ŷ ƚ ƌ Ž ů ů Ğ ƌ ͛ Ɛ K ĸ Đ Ğ ǁ ŝ ů ů ŵ Ă Ŭ Ğ ƚ Ś Ğ D K ĚĞ ƚ Ğ ƌ ŵ ŝ Ŷ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ ͘ • Wƌ Ž ũ Ğ Đ ƚ ů ŝ Ɛ ƚ Ɛ ; ŝ Ŷ Đ ů Ƶ Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő Ɖ ƌ Ž ũ Ğ Đ ƚ ů Ž Đ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ϳ ͕ ď Ƶ Ě Ő Ğ ƚ Ă Ɖ Ɖ ƌ Ž Ɖ ƌ ŝ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ ͕ Ğ ǆ Ɖ Ğ Ŷ Ě ŝ ƚ Ƶ ƌ Ğ Ɛ Ă Ŷ Ě ĐŽ Ƶ Ŷ Đ ŝ ů Ă Ɖ Ɖ ƌ Ž ǀ Ă ů ƌ Ğ Ƌ Ƶ ŝ ƌ Ğ Ě ƚ Ž ď Ğ Ɛ Ƶ ď ŵ ŝ Ʃ Ğ Ě Ă Ŷ Ŷ Ƶ Ă ů ů Ǉ ͘ 5 Ad v o c a c y P o s i t i o n Po t e n t i a l U s e s • Wƌ Ž ŵ Ž ƚ Ğ Ɛ ŝ ŵ Ɖ ů ŝ Į Ğ Ě Ɖ ƌ Ž Đ Ğ Ɛ Ɛ ƚ Ž ŵ Ă Ŷ Ă Ő Ğ Ɖ ƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ Ă Ŷ Ě Ě ŝ Ɛ ƚ ƌ ŝ ď Ƶ ƚ Ğ Ĩ Ƶ Ŷ Ě ŝŶ Ő • Ŷ Ɛ Ƶ ƌ Ğ ƚ Ś Ă ƚ Ň Ğ ǆ ŝ ď ŝ ů ŝ ƚ Ǉ Ĩ Ž ƌ Ă Ő Ğ Ŷ Đ ŝ Ğ Ɛ ǁ ŝ ƚ Ś W / ш ϴ Ϭ ƌ Ğ ŵ Ă ŝ Ŷ Ɛ ŝ Ŷ Ɖ ƌŽ Ő ƌ Ă ŵ Ő Ƶ ŝ Ě Ğ ů ŝ Ŷ Ğ Ɛ • Ŷ Ɛ Ƶ ƌ Ğ ƚ Ś Ă ƚ Ň Ğ ǆ ŝ ď ŝ ů ŝ ƚ Ǉ Ž Ĩ ŵ Ă ŝ Ŷ ƚ Ğ Ŷ Ă Ŷ Đ Ğ Ž Ĩ Ğ ī Ž ƌ ƚ Ő Ƶ ŝ Ě Ğ ů ŝ Ŷ Ğ Ɛ ƚ Ś Ă ƚ ĚŽ Ŷ Ž ƚ Ɖ Ğ Ŷ Ă ů ŝ ǌ Ğ ƚ Ś Ğ ŝ ƚ Ǉ ĨŽ ƌ ƌ Ğ Đ Ğ Ŷ ƚ ŝ Ŷ Đ ƌ Ğ Ă Ɛ Ğ Ě ŝ Ŷ ǀ Ğ Ɛ ƚ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ ŝ Ŷ Ɛ ƚ ƌ Ğ Ğ ƚ ŵ Ă ŝ Ŷ ƚ Ğ Ŷ Ă Ŷ Đ Ğ Ɖ ƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ • /ŵ Ɖ ƌ Ž ǀ Ğ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ɛ ƚ Ž Ɛ ƚ ƌ Ğ Ğ ƚ Ɛ ǁ ŝ ƚ Ś ŝ Ŷ ƚ Ś Ğ ŝ ƚ Ǉ ƌ ŝ Ő Ś ƚ Ͳ Ž Ĩ Ͳ ǁ Ă Ǉ • EĞ ǁ Ϯ Ϭ ϭ Ϯ ŝ Đ Ǉ Đ ů Ğ н W Ğ Ě Ğ Ɛ ƚ ƌ ŝ Ă Ŷ d ƌ Ă Ŷ Ɛ Ɖ Ž ƌ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ W ů Ă Ŷ ŝ ŵ Ɖ ů Ğ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ • ZĂ ŝ ů ƌ Ž Ă Ě Ő ƌ Ă Ě Ğ Ɛ Ğ Ɖ Ă ƌ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ɛ SB 1 L o c a l S t r e e t s a n d R o a d s N o n - D i s c r e t i o n a r y F u n d s : Pa l o A l t o U s e s Pr o g r a m D e s c r i p t i o n Pr o p o s e d G u i d e l i n e s ϲ Lo c a l S t r e e t s & R o a d s P r o g r a m $1 . 2 b i l l i o n • Ψϯ ϴ ŵ ŝ ů ů ŝ Ž Ŷ Ž ǀ Ğ ƌ ϯ Ϭ Ǉ Ğ Ă ƌ Ɛ Ă ů ů Ž Đ Ă ƚ Ğ Ě Ĩ Ž ƌ W Ă ů Ž ů ƚ Ž • Ψϭ ͕ Ϯ ϳ Ϯ ͕ ϵ ϴ ϲ Ɖ Ğ ƌ Ǉ Ğ Ă ƌ ŝ Ŷ & z Ϯ Ϭ ϭ ϴ Ă Ŷ Ě & z Ϯ Ϭ ϭ ϵ • W / ч ϲ ϵ ͗ Z Ğ Ɖ Ă ŝ ƌ Ă Ŷ Ě ŵ Ă ŝ Ŷ ƚ Ă ŝ Ŷ Ɛ ƚ ƌ Ğ Ğ ƚ Ɛ Ǉ Ɛ ƚ Ğ ŵ • W / ш ϳ Ϭ ͗ Ž Ŷ Ő Ğ Ɛ Ɵ Ž Ŷ ƌ Ğ ů ŝ Ğ Ĩ Ɖ ƌ Ž ũ Ğ Đ ƚ Ɛ • ů ů Ž Đ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ ď Ă Ɛ Ğ Ě Ž Ŷ Ɖ Ž Ɖ Ƶ ů Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ž Ĩ Đ ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ Ă Ŷ Ě ƚ Ś Ğ Ž Ƶ Ŷ ƚ Ǉ Ž Ĩ ^ Ă Ŷ ƚ Ă ůĂ ƌ Ă ͛ Ɛ ƌ Ž Ă Ě Ă Ŷ Ě Ğǆ Ɖ ƌ Ğ Ɛ Ɛ ǁ Ă Ǉ ů Ă Ŷ Ğ ŵ ŝ ů Ğ Ă Ő Ğ • Ğ ƚ Ğ ƌ ŵ ŝ Ŷ Ğ Ɖ ƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ ď Ƶ Ě Ő Ğ ƚ ŝ Ŷ ƚǁ Ž Ͳ Ǉ Ğ Ă ƌ ŝ Ŷ Đ ƌ Ğ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ɛ • sd Đ Ă ů Đ Ƶ ů Ă ƚ Ğ Ɛ Ĩ Ž ƌ ŵ Ƶ ů Ă Ɛ Ś Ă ƌ Ğ • Ő Ğ Ŷ Đ ŝ Ğ Ɛ Ɛ Ƶ ď ŵ ŝ ƚ Ă Ŷ Ŷ Ƶ Ă ů Ɖƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ Ž Ĩ Ɖ ƌ Ž ũ Ğ Đ ƚ Ɛ • ǆ Ɖ Ğ Ŷ Ě ŝ ƚ Ƶ ƌ Ğ Ɛ ƌ Ğ ŝ ŵ ď Ƶ ƌ Ɛ Ğ Ě • DĂ ŝ Ŷ ƚ Ğ Ŷ Ă Ŷ Đ Ğ Ž Ĩ ī Ž ƌ ƚ ͗ DĞ Ă Ɛ Ƶ ƌ Ğ Ĩ Ƶ Ŷ Ě Ɛ ŵ Ƶ Ɛ ƚ ď Ğ Ƶ Ɛ Ğ Ě ƚŽ Ğ Ŷ Ś Ă Ŷ Đ Ğ Ă Ŷ Ě Ŷ Ž ƚ ƌ Ğ Ɖ ů Ă Đ Ğ ĐƵ ƌ ƌ Ğ Ŷ ƚ ŝ Ŷ ǀ Ğ Ɛ ƚ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ɛ ŝ Ŷ ƌ Ž Ă Ě ƐǇ Ɛ ƚ Ğ ŵ ŵ Ă ŝ Ŷ ƚ Ğ Ŷ Ă Ŷ Đ Ğ Ă Ŷ Ě ƌ Ğ Ɖ Ă ŝ ƌ ͕ ƵƐ ŝ Ŷ Ő Ă ď Ă Ɛ Ğ ů ŝ Ŷ Ğ Đ Ă ů Đ Ƶ ů Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ ŽĨ Ă ǀ Ğ ƌ Ă Ő Ğ Ğ ǆ Ɖ Ğ Ŷ Ě ŝ ƚ Ƶ ƌ Ğ Ɛ Ĩ ƌ Ž ŵ Ă Đ ŝ ƚ Ǉ ͛ Ɛ Ő Ğ Ŷ Ğ ƌ Ă ů Ĩ Ƶ Ŷ Ě Ě Ƶ ƌ ŝ Ŷ Ő &z Ϯ Ϭ ϭ Ϭ ƚ Ž & z Ϯ Ϭ ϭ Ϯ Me a s u r e B Ad v o c a c y P o s i t i o n 7 Po t e n t i a l U s e s Lo c a l S t r e e t s & R o a d s : P a l o A l t o U s e s • Ŷ Ɛ Ƶ ƌ Ğ ƚ Ś Ă ƚ Ň Ğ ǆ ŝ ď ŝ ů ŝ ƚ Ǉ Ĩ Ž ƌ Ă Ő Ğ Ŷ Đ ŝ Ğ Ɛ ǁ ŝ ƚ Ś W / ш ϳ Ϭ ƌ Ğ ŵ Ă ŝ Ŷ Ɛ ŝ Ŷ Ɖ ƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ Ő Ƶ ŝ Ě Ğ ů ŝ Ŷ Ğ Ɛ • /Ŷ Đ ů Ƶ Ě Ğ ͞ Ɖ ƌ Ž ũ Ğ Đ ƚ Ɛ Ă Ŷ Ě Ɖ ƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ Ɛ ͟ ŝ Ŷ ů ŝ Ɛ ƚ Ž Ĩ Ğ ů ŝ Ő ŝ ď ů Ğ Ƶ Ɛ Ğ Ɛ • ů Ğ Ă ƌ ů Ǉ Ě Ğ Į Ŷ Ğ Ɖ ƌ Ž Đ Ğ Ɛ Ɛ Ğ Ɛ Ĩ Ž ƌ Ă Ő Ğ Ŷ Đ ŝ Ğ Ɛ ƚ Ž Ă Ɖ Ɖ Ğ Ă ů Ž Ɖ ŝ Ŷ ŝ Ž Ŷ Ž Ĩ s d Ɛ ƚĂ ī Ž Ŷ Ğ ů ŝ Ő ŝ ď ŝ ů ŝ ƚ Ǉ Ž Ĩ Ɖƌ Ž ũ Ğ Đ ƚ Ɛ Ă Ŷ Ě Ɖ ƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ Ɛ • /ŵ Ɖ ƌ Ž ǀ Ğ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ɛ ƚ Ž Ɛ ƚ ƌ Ğ Ğ ƚ Ɛ ǁ ŝ ƚ Ś ŝ Ŷ ŝ ƚ Ǉ ƌ ŝ Ő Ś ƚ Ͳ Ž Ĩ Ͳ ǁ Ă Ǉ • EĞ ǁ ϮϬ ϭ Ϯ ŝ Đ Ǉ Đ ů Ğ н W Ğ Ě Ğ Ɛ ƚ ƌ ŝ Ă Ŷ d ƌ Ă Ŷ Ɛ Ɖ Ž ƌ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ W ů Ă Ŷ ŝ ŵ Ɖ ů Ğ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ • EĞ ǁ ƚ ƌ Ă ĸ Đ Ɛ ŝ Ő Ŷ Ă ů Ɛ • WĂ ů Ž ů ƚ Ž d ƌ Ă Ŷ Ɛ Ɖ Ž ƌ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ D Ă Ŷ Ă Ő Ğ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ɛ Ɛ Ž Đ ŝ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ • ŝ ƚ Ǉ ǁ ŝ Ě Ğ ď ŝ Đ Ǉ Đ ů Ğ Ɛ Ś Ă ƌ ŝ Ŷ Ő Ɛ Ǉ Ɛ ƚ Ğ ŵ • WĂ ů Ž ů ƚ Ž & ƌ Ğ Ğ ^ Ś Ƶ Ʃ ů Ğ ď Ğ Ŷ Đ Ś Ğ Ɛ Ă Ŷ Ě Ɛ Ś Ğ ů ƚ Ğ ƌ Ɛ • WĂ ů Ž ů ƚ Ž & ƌ Ğ Ğ ^ Ś Ƶ Ʃ ů Ğ Đ Ă Ɖ ŝ ƚ Ă ů Ă Ŷ Ě Ž Ɖ Ğ ƌ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ɛ Me a s u r e B Pr o g r a m D e s c r i p t i o n Pr o p o s e d G u i d e l i n e s 8• Ψϰ ϭ ͕ ϳ Ϭ ϵ Ɖ Ğ ƌ Ǉ Ğ Ă ƌ Ĩ Ž ƌ & z Ϯ Ϭ ϭ ϴ Ă Ŷ Ě & z Ϯ Ϭ ϭ ϵ Ĩ Ž ƌ Ğ Ě Ƶ Đ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ă Ŷ Ě Ğ Ŷ Đ Ž Ƶ ƌ Ă ŐĞ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ • Ž Ƶ Ŷ ƚ Ǉ ǁ ŝ Ě Ğ Ɛ ŝ Ő Ŷ ŝ Į Đ Ă Ŷ ƚ Ɖ ƌ Ž ũ Ğ Đ ƚ Ɛ • Wƌ ŝ Ž ƌ ŝ ƚ Ǉ ƚ Ž Ɖ ƌ Ž ũ Ğ Đ ƚ Ɛ ƚ Ś Ă ƚ ͗ • Ž Ŷ Ŷ Ğ Đ ƚ Ɛ Đ Ś Ž Ž ů Ɛ ͕ ƚ ƌ Ă Ŷ Ɛ ŝ ƚ ͕ Ă Ŷ Ě Ğ ŵ Ɖ ů Ž Ǉ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Đ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ğ ƌ Ɛ • &ŝ ů ů Ő Ă Ɖ Ɛ ŝ Ŷ Ğ ǆ ŝ Ɛ Ɵ Ŷ Ő ď ŝ Ŭ Ğ ͬ Ɖ Ğ Ě Ŷ Ğ ƚ ǁ Ž ƌ Ŭ • ^Ă Ĩ Ğ ů Ǉ Đ ƌ Ž Ɛ Ɛ ď Ă ƌ ƌ ŝ Ğ ƌ Ɛ ƚ Ž ŵ Ž ď ŝ ů ŝ ƚ Ǉ • DĂ Ŭ Ğ ǁ Ă ů Ŭ ŝ Ŷ Ő Ž ƌ ď ŝ Ŭ ŝ Ŷ Ő Ă Ɛ Ă Ĩ Ğ ƌ Ă Ŷ Ě ŵ Ž ƌ Ğ Đ Ž Ŷ ǀ Ğ Ŷ ŝ Ğ Ŷ ƚ ŵ Ğ Ă Ŷ Ɛ Ž Ĩ ƚ ƌ Ă ŶƐ Ɖ Ž ƌ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ • ŝ Ŭ Ğ ͬ W Ğ Ě Ğ Ě Ƶ Đ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ă ů Ɖ ƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ Ɛ Ğ ů ŝ Ő ŝ ď ů Ğ • Ž ŵ Ɖ Ğ Ɵ Ɵ ǀ Ğ ' ƌ Ă Ŷ ƚ W ƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ • Ă Ɖ ŝ ƚ Ă ů W ƌ Ž ũ Ğ Đ ƚ Ɛ ; ŵ Ƶ Ɛ ƚ ď Ğ ŝ Ŷ ŝ Đ Ǉ Đ ů Ğ ǆ Ɖ Ğ Ŷ Ě ŝ ƚ Ƶ ƌ Ğ W ů Ă Ŷ Ϳ ͕ Wů Ă Ŷ Ŷ ŝ Ŷ Ő W ƌ Ž ũ Ğ Đ ƚ Ɛ ͕ Ě Ƶ Đ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Wƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ • dǁ Ž Ͳ Ǉ Ğ Ă ƌ Đ Ǉ Đ ů Ğ • ƌ ŝ ƚ Ğ ƌ ŝ Ă Ě Ğ ǀ Ğ ů Ž Ɖ Ğ Ě ƚ Ś ƌ Ž Ƶ Ő Ś d ͕ / W t ' • ^Đ Ž ƌ ŝ Ŷ Ő Đ Ž ŵ ŵ ŝ Ʃ Ğ Ğ Đ Ž ŵ Ɖ ƌ ŝ Ɛ Ğ Ě Ž Ĩ W Ă Ŷ Ě D Ğ ŵ ď Ğ ƌ Ő Ğ Ŷ Đ Ǉ Ɛ ƚ Ă ī • Ž ŵ Ɖ ů Ğ ƚ Ğ ^ ƚ ƌ Ğ Ğ ƚ Ɛ W Ž ů ŝ Đ Ǉ • ϭϬ й ŵ ŝ Ŷ ŝ ŵ Ƶ ŵ Ŷ Ž Ŷ Ͳ Ϯ Ϭ ϭ ϲ DĞ Ă Ɛ Ƶ ƌ Ğ Đ Ž Ŷ ƚ ƌ ŝ ď Ƶ Ɵ Ž Ŷ • DĂ ŝ Ŷ ƚ Ğ Ŷ Ă Ŷ Đ Ğ Ž Ĩ ī Ž ƌ ƚ ƌ Ğ Ƌ Ƶ ŝ ƌ Ğ Ě ĨŽ ƌ Ě Ƶ Đ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ W ƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ Bi c y c l e / P e d e s t r i a n P r o g r a m $2 5 0 m i l l i o n Me a s u r e B Ad v o c a c y P o s i t i o n 9 Po t e n t i a l U s e s Bi c y c l e / P e d e s t r i a n : P a l o A l t o U s e s • Ɖ Ɖ ů ŝ Đ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ɖ ƌ Ž Đ Ğ Ɛ Ɛ Ɛ Ś Ž Ƶ ů Ě ď Ğ Ɛ ŝ ŵ Ɖ ů Ğ Ă Ŷ Ě ƌ Ğ Ƌ Ƶ ŝ ƌ Ğ ƚ Ś Ğ Ɛ Ă ŵ Ğ ŝ Ŷ Ĩ Ž ƌ ŵ ĂƟ Ž Ŷ Ă Ɛ Ž ƚ Ś Ğ ƌ Ɖƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ Ă Ɖ Ɖ ů ŝ Đ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ɛ • >Ă ƌ Ő Ğ Ɖ Ž ƌ Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ž Ĩ Ğ Ě Ƶ Đ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ă Ŷ Ě Ğ Ŷ Đ Ž Ƶ ƌ Ă Ő Ğ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ɖ Ž ƚ Ɛ Ś Ž Ƶ ů Ě Ĩ Ƶ Ŷ Ě Đ Ž Ƶ Ŷ ƚǇ ǁ ŝ Ě Ğ Ğ ī Ž ƌ ƚ Ɛ ;ŵ Ğ Ě ŝ Ă Đ Ă ŵ Ɖ Ă ŝ Ő Ŷ Ɛ ͕ ď ŝ Ŭ Ğ ŵ Ž ď ŝ ů Ğ ͕ Ğ ƚ Đ ͘ Ϳ • Wů Ă Ŷ Ŷ ŝ Ŷ Ő ͕ Ě Ğ Ɛ ŝ Ő Ŷ ͕ Ă Ŷ Ě Đ Ž Ŷ Ɛ ƚ ƌ Ƶ Đ Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ž Ĩ ^ Ž Ƶ ƚ Ś W Ă ů Ž ů ƚ Ž Ă ů ƚ ƌ Ă ŝ Ŷ ŝ Ŭ Ğ ͬ W Ğ Ě ƌ Ž Ɛ Ɛ ŝ Ŷ Ő Ă Ŷ Ě DĂ ƚ Ă Ě Ğ ƌ Ž ƌ Ğ Ğ Ŭ d ƌ Ă ŝ ů h Ŷ Ě Ğ ƌ Đ ƌ Ž Ɛ Ɛ ŝ Ŷ Ő • ŝ Đ Ǉ Đ ů Ğ Ă Ŷ Ě Ɖ Ğ Ě Ğ Ɛ ƚ ƌ ŝ Ă Ŷ Ɖ ƌ Ž ũ Ğ Đ ƚ Ɛ Ă Ě ũ Ă Đ Ğ Ŷ ƚ ƚ Ž ƚ ƌ Ă Ŷ Ɛ ŝ ƚ • hƉ Ě Ă ƚ Ğ ϮϬ ϭ Ϯ ŝ Đ Ǉ Đ ů Ğ н W Ğ Ě Ğ Ɛ ƚ ƌ ŝ Ă Ŷ d ƌ Ă Ŷ Ɛ Ɖ Ž ƌ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ W ů Ă Ŷ • KƉ Ğ Ŷ Ɛ ƚ ƌ Ğ Ğ ƚ Ɛ Ğ ǀ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ɛ • ǆ Ɖ Ă Ŷ Ɛ ŝ Ž Ŷ Ž Ĩ ^ Ă Ĩ Ğ Z Ž Ƶ ƚ Ğ Ɛ ƚ Ž ^ Đ Ś Ž Ž ů Ɖ ƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ • Ě Ƶ Đ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ă ů ŵ Ă ƚ Ğ ƌ ŝ Ă ů Ɛ Me a s u r e B Pr o g r a m D e s c r i p t i o n Pr o p o s e d G u i d e l i n e s 10 • Ž Ŷ Ő Ğ Ɛ Ɵ Ž Ŷ ƌ Ğ ů ŝ Ğ Ĩ • /ŵ Ɖ ƌ Ž ǀ Ğ Ě Ś ŝ Ő Ś ǁ Ă Ǉ Ž Ɖ Ğ ƌ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ɛ Ă Ŷ Ě Ĩ ƌ Ğ Ğ ǁ Ă Ǉ Ă Đ Đ Ğ Ɛ Ɛ • EŽ ŝ Ɛ Ğ Ă ď Ă ƚ Ğ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ • ZŽ Ă Ě ǁ Ă Ǉ Đ Ž Ŷ Ŷ Ğ Đ Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ž ǀ Ğ ƌ Đ ƌ Ž Ɛ Ɛ ŝ Ŷ Ő Ɛ • Ě ǀ Ă Ŷ Đ Ğ Ě ƚ Ğ Đ Ś Ŷ Ž ů Ž Ő Ǉ ƚ Ś ƌ Ž Ƶ Ő Ś / d ^ • Ă Ŷ Ě ŝ Ě Ă ƚ Ğ Ɖ ƌ Ž ũ Ğ Đ ƚ Ɛ ů ŝ Ɛ ƚ Ğ Ě ŝ Ŷ Ʃ Ă Đ Ś ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ž Ĩ ƌ Ğ Ɛ Ž ů Ƶ Ɵ Ž Ŷ Hi g h w a y I n t e r c h a n g e s P r o g r a m $7 5 0 m i l l i o n • dǁ Ž Ͳ Ǉ Ğ Ă ƌ Ɖ ƌ ŝ Ž ƌ ŝ Ɵ ǌ Ğ Ě Ă Ŷ Ě ŝ Ě Ă ƚ Ğ >ŝ Ɛ ƚ • sd Ž Ă ƌ Ě Ă Ě Ž Ɖ ƚ Ğ Ě ƌ ŝ ƚ Ğ ƌ ŝ Ă • Wƌ Ž ũ Ğ Đ ƚ ƌ Ğ Ă Ě ŝ Ŷ Ğ Ɛ Ɛ • >Ğ ǀ Ğ ů Ž Ĩ ů Ž Đ Ă ů Đ Ž Ŷ ƚ ƌ ŝ ď Ƶ Ɵ Ž Ŷ • Ž ŵ Ɖ ů Ğ ƚ Ğ ^ ƚ ƌ Ğ Ğ ƚ Ɛ W Ž ů ŝ Đ Ǉ • ϮϬ й ŵ ŝ Ŷ ŝ ŵ Ƶ ŵ Ŷ Ž Ŷ Ͳ Ϯ Ϭ ϭ ϲ DĞ Ă Ɛ Ƶ ƌ Ğ Đ Ž Ŷ ƚ ƌ ŝ ď Ƶ Ɵ Ž Ŷ • ^Ğ Ɖ Ă ƌ Ă ƚ Ğ E Ž ŝ Ɛ Ğ ď Ă ƚ Ğ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Wƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ • sd Ž Ă ƌ Ě Ă Ě Ž Ɖ ƚ Ğ Ě ƐŽ Ƶ Ŷ Ě ǁ Ă ů ů Đ ƌ ŝ ƚ Ğ ƌ ŝ Ă Me a s u r e B Ad v o c a c y P o s i t i o n 11 Po t e n t i a l U s e s Hi g h w a y I n t e r c h a n g e s : P a l o A l t o U s e s • &Ƶ Ŷ Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő Ɛ Ś Ž Ƶ ů Ě Ž Ŷ ů Ǉ ď Ğ Ă ů ů Ž Đ Ă ƚ Ğ Ě ƚ Ž Ɖ ƌ Ž ũ Ğ Đ ƚ Ɛ ƚ Ś Ă ƚ Ă Ě Ě , K s ͕ ŵ Ă Ŷ Ă Ő Ğ Ě Ă Ŷ Ě ͬ Ž ƌ ƚ ƌ Ă Ŷ Ɛ ŝ ƚ Ͳ ŽŶ ů Ǉ ů Ă Ŷ Ğ Ɛ • Wƌ Ž ũ Ğ Đ ƚ Ɛ Ɛ Ś Ž Ƶ ů Ě ŝ Ŷ Đ ů Ƶ Ě Ğ Ĩ Ƶ Ŷ Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő ƚ Ž ŝ ŵ Ɖ ů Ğ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ă ů ů ƌ Ğ Ƌ Ƶ ŝ ƌ Ğ Ě Y ŵŝ Ɵ Ő Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ ŵ Ğ Ă Ɛ Ƶ ƌ Ğ Ɛ ͕ ŝŶ Đ ů Ƶ Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő ƚ Ś Ž Ɛ Ğ ƌ Ğ ů Ă ƚ Ğ Ě ƚ Ž s D d ŝ Ŷ Đ ƌ Ğ Ă Ɛ Ğ Ɛ • Ž Ŷ Ɛ ƚ ƌ Ƶ Đ Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ž Ĩ Ɖ ƌ Ž ũ Ğ Đ ƚ Ɛ Ɛ Ś Ž Ƶ ů Ě Ŷ Ž ƚ ŝ Ŷ Đ ƌ Ğ Ă Ɛ Ğ ƚ ƌ Ă ĸ Đ Ž Ŷ ů Ž Đ Ă ů Ɛ ƚ ƌ Ğ Ğƚ Ɛ • h^ ϭ Ϭ ϭ ŝ ŵ Ɖ ƌ Ž ǀ Ğ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ɛ ŝ Ŷ ƚ Ś Ğ Đ ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ Ž Ĩ W Ă ů Ž ů ƚ Ž Ă Ŷ Ě D Ž Ƶ Ŷ ƚ Ă ŝ Ŷ s ŝ Ğ ǁƚ Ž Ă Ě Ě ƌ Ğ Ɛ Ɛ ƌĞ Ő ŝ Ž Ŷ Ă ů Đ Ž Ŷ Ŷ Ğ Đ Ɵ ǀ ŝ ƚ Ǉ Ă Ŷ Ě Đ ŝ ƌ Đ Ƶ ů Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ ď Ğ ƚ ǁ Ğ Ğ Ŷ ^ Ă Ŷ Ŷ ƚ Ž Ŷ ŝ Ž Z Ž Ă Ě Ă Ŷ Ě Ś Ă ƌ ů Ğ Ɛ ƚ Ž Ŷ ZŽ Ă Ě Ă ƚ ƚ Ś Ğ h ^ ϭ Ϭ ϭ ͬ ^ Ă Ŷ Ŷ ƚ Ž Ŷ ŝ Ž Z Ž Ă Ě ͕ h ^ ϭ Ϭ ϭ ͬ Z Ğ Ŷ Ő Ɛ ƚ Ž ƌ ī ͬ Ś Ă ƌ ů Ğ Ɛ ƚ Ž Ŷ Z Ž Ă Ě Ă Ŷ Ě h ^ ϭϬ ϭ ͬ ^ Ś Ž ƌ Ğ ů ŝ Ŷ Ğ Ž Ƶ ů Ğ ǀ Ă ƌ Ě ŝ Ŷ ƚ Ğ ƌ Đ Ś Ă Ŷ Ő Ğ Ɛ Me a s u r e B Pr o g r a m D e s c r i p t i o n Pr o p o s e d G u i d e l i n e s 12 • dǁ Ž Ͳ Ǉ Ğ Ă ƌ Ă ů ů Ž Đ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ • &Ž Ƶ ƌ Đ Ă ƚ Ğ Ő Ž ƌ ŝ Ğ Ɛ Ɖ Ğ ƌ ƚ Ś Ğ ZĞ Ɛ Ž ů Ƶ Ɵ Ž Ŷ • ǆ Ɖ Ă Ŷ Ě ŵ Ž ď ŝ ů ŝ ƚ Ǉ Ž Ɖ Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ɛ Ă Ŷ Ě ĨĂ ƌ Ğ Ɛ Ĩ Ž ƌ ŵ Ž Ɛ ƚ ǀ Ƶ ů Ŷ Ğ ƌ Ă ď ů Ğ ƉŽ Ɖ Ƶ ů Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ • Ŷ Ś Ă Ŷ Đ Ğ & ƌ Ğ Ƌ Ƶ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ž ƌ Ğ EĞ ƚ ǁ Ž ƌ Ŭ • /ŵ Ɖ ƌ Ž ǀ Ğ ď Ƶ Ɛ Ɛ ƚ Ž Ɖ Ă ŵ Ğ Ŷ ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ • &ŝ ƌ Ɛ ƚ ͬ ů Ă Ɛ ƚ ŵ ŝ ů Ğ Đ Ž Ŷ Ŷ Ğ Đ Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ɛ Tr a n s i t O p e r a t i o n s P r o g r a m $5 0 0 m i l l i o n • Wƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ ' Ž Ă ů Ɛ ͗ • /Ŷ Đ ƌ Ğ Ă Ɛ Ğ ƌ ŝ Ě Ğ ƌ Ɛ Ś ŝ Ɖ • /ŵ Ɖ ƌ Ž ǀ Ğ Ğ ĸ Đ ŝ Ğ Ŷ Đ Ǉ • Ŷ Ś Ă Ŷ Đ Ğ ŵ Ž ď ŝ ů ŝ ƚ Ǉ Ɛ Ğ ƌ ǀ ŝ Đ Ğ Ɛ Ĩ Ž ƌ Ɛ Ğ Ŷ ŝ Ž ƌ Ɛ Ă Ŷ Ě Ě ŝ Ɛ Ă ď ů Ğ Ě • /ŵ Ɖ ƌ Ž ǀ Ğ Ă ī Ž ƌ Ě Ă ď ŝ ů ŝ ƚ Ǉ Ĩ Ž ƌ Ƶ Ŷ Ě Ğ ƌ Ɛ Ğ ƌ ǀ Ğ Ě Ă Ŷ Ě ǀ Ƶ ů Ŷ Ğ ƌ Ă ď ů Ğ Ɖ Ž Ɖ Ƶ ů Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ɛ ŝ Ŷ ^ Ž • &Ž Ƶ ƌ Đ Ă ƚ Ğ Ő Ž ƌ ŝ Ğ Ɛ Ɖ Ğ ƌ ƚ Ś Ğ Z Ğ Ɛ Ž ů Ƶ Ɵ Ž Ŷ • Ă Ŷ Ě ŝ Ě Ă ƚ Ğ Ɖ ƌ Ž ũ Ğ Đ ƚ Ɛ Ă Ŷ Ě Ɖ ƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ Ɛ ů ŝ Ɛ ƚ Ğ Ě ŝ Ŷ Ʃ Ă Đ Ś ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ž Ĩ Z Ğ Ɛ Ž ů Ƶ ƟŽ Ŷ ͗ • ǆ Ɖ Ă Ŷ Ě ŵ Ž ď ŝ ů ŝ ƚ Ǉ Ɛ Ğ ƌ ǀ ŝ Đ Ğ Ɛ Ă Ŷ Ě Ă ī Ž ƌ Ě Ă ď ů Ğ Ĩ Ă ƌ Ğ Ɖ ƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ Ɛ Ĩ Ž ƌ Ɛ Ğ Ŷ ŝ Ž ƌ Ɛ Ă Ŷ Ě Ě ŝ Ɛ Ă ď ů Ğ Ě Ɛƚ Ƶ Ě Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ɛ Ă Ŷ Ě ů Ž ǁ Ͳ ŝ Ŷ Đ Ž ŵ Ğ ƌ ŝ Ě Ğ ƌ Ɛ • Ŷ Ś Ă Ŷ Đ Ğ & ƌ Ğ Ƌ Ƶ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ž ƌ Ğ Ƶ Ɛ E Ğ ƚ ǁ Ž ƌ Ŭ • /ŵ Ɖ ƌ Ž ǀ Ğ Ă ŵ Ğ Ŷ ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ Ă ƚ ď Ƶ Ɛ Ɛ ƚ Ž Ɖ Ɛ ŝ Ŷ ŝ Ŷ Đ ƌ Ğ Ă Ɛ Ğ Ɛ Ă Ĩ Ğ ƚ Ǉ ͕ Ɛ Ğ Đ Ƶ ƌ ŝ ƚ Ǉ Ă Ŷ Ě ĂĐ Đ Ğ Ɛ Ɛ • ^Ƶ Ɖ Ɖ Ž ƌ ƚ Ŷ Ğ ǁ ŝ Ŷ Ŷ Ž ǀ Ă Ɵ ǀ Ğ ƚ ƌ Ă Ŷ Ɛ ŝ ƚ Ɛ Ğ ƌ ǀ ŝ Đ Ğ ŵ Ž Ě Ğ ů Ɛ ƚ Ž Ă Ě Ě ƌ Ğ Ɛ Ɛ Į ƌ Ɛ ƚ ͬ ů Ă Ɛ ƚ ŵ ŝ ů Ğ Đ Ž Ŷ Ŷ Ğ Đ Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ɛ Me a s u r e B Ad v o c a c y P o s i t i o n 13 Po t e n t i a l U s e s Tr a n s i t O p e r a t i o n s : P a l o A l t o U s e s • Đ Đ Ğ ů Ğ ƌ Ă ƚ Ğ Ɖ ƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ Ő Ƶ ŝ Ě Ğ ů ŝ Ŷ Ğ Ă Ě Ž Ɖ Ɵ Ž Ŷ • WĂ ƌ Ɵ Ă ů ů Ǉ Ĩ Ƶ Ŷ Ě W Ă ů Ž ů ƚ Ž & ƌ Ğ Ğ ^ Ś Ƶ Ʃ ů Ğ ^ Ǉ Ɛ ƚ Ğ ŵ • Wƌ ŝ Ž ƌ ŝ Ɵ ǌ Ğ ŝ Ŷ ǀ Ğ Ɛ ƚ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ɛ ŝ Ŷ Ă ƌ Ğ Ă Ɛ ǁ ŝ ƚ Ś s d Į ǆ Ğ Ě Ͳ ƌ Ž Ƶ ƚ Ğ Ɛ Ğ ƌ ǀ ŝ Đ Ğ ƌ Ğ Ě Ƶ ĐƟ Ž Ŷ Ɛ • ů ů Ž ǁ ů Ž Đ Ă ů Ă Ő Ğ Ŷ Đ ŝ Ğ Ɛ ƚ Ž Ă Đ Đ Ğ Ɛ Ɛ Ĩ Ƶ Ŷ Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő Ě Ğ Ě ŝ Đ Ă ƚ Ğ Ě ƚ Ž ͞ ŝ ŵ Ɖ ƌ Ž ǀ Ğ Ă ī Žƌ Ě Ă ď ŝ ů ŝ ƚ Ǉ Ĩ Ž ƌ Ƶ Ŷ Ě Ğ ƌ Ͳ ƐĞ ƌ ǀ Ğ Ě Ă Ŷ Ě ǀ Ƶ ů Ŷ Ğ ƌ Ă ď ů Ğ Ɖ Ž Ɖ Ƶ ů Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ɛ ŝ Ŷ ^ Ă Ŷ ƚ Ă ů Ă ƌ Ă Ž Ƶ Ŷ ƚ Ǉ ͟ • EĞ ǁ ^ Ž Ƶ ƚ Ś W Ă ů Ž ů ƚ Ž Ɛ Ś Ƶ Ʃ ů Ğ ƌ Ž Ƶ ƚ Ğ • ǆ Ɖ Ă Ŷ Ě Ğ Ě ƌ Ž Ɛ Ɛ ƚ Ž ǁ Ŷ Ă Ŷ Ě ŵ ď Ă ƌ Đ Ă Ě Ğ ƌ Ž Ɛ Ś Ƶ Ʃ ů Ğ ƌ Ž Ƶ ƚ Ğ Ɛ • ^Ƶ ď Ɛ ŝ Ě ŝ ǌ Ğ Ě ƚ ƌ Ă Ŷ Ɛ ŝ ƚ Ɖ Ă Ɛ Ɛ Ğ Ɛ Ĩ Ž ƌ ů Ž ǁ Ͳ ŝ Ŷ Đ Ž ŵ Ğ Ğ ŵ Ɖ ů Ž Ǉ Ğ Ğ Ɛ ǁ Ž ƌ Ŭ ŝ Ŷ Ő ŝ Ŷ W Ăů Ž ů ƚ Ž Me a s u r e B Pr o g r a m D e s c r i p t i o n Pr o p o s e d G u i d e l i n e s 14 • dǁ Ž Ͳ Ǉ Ğ Ă ƌ Ă ů ů Ž Đ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ • /ŵ Ɖ ů Ğ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ɖ ů Ă Ŷ • Wů Ă Ŷ Ŷ ŝ Ŷ Ő Θ Ŷ ǀ ŝ ƌ Ž Ŷ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ă ů ĂĐ Ɵ ǀ ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ • ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ Ă Ɖ Ɖ ů Ǉ Ĩ Ž ƌ ^ ƚ Ă ƚ Ğ Α ϭ ϵ Ϭ 'ƌ Ă Ě Ğ ^ Ğ Ɖ Ă ƌ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ W ƌ Ž Ő ƌ Ă ŵ • Ž ŵ Ɖ ů Ğ ƚ Ğ ^ ƚ ƌ Ğ Ğ ƚ Ɛ W Ž ů ŝ Đ Ǉ • ϭϬ й ŵ ŝ Ŷ ŝ ŵ Ƶ ŵ Ž Ĩ Ŷ Ž Ŷ Ͳ s d Ŷ Ž Ŷ Ͳ ϮϬ ϭ ϲ D Ğ Ă Ɛ Ƶ ƌ Ğ Đ Ž Ŷ ƚ ƌ ŝ ď Ƶ Ɵ Ž Ŷ • ŝ Ɛ Đ Ƶ Ɛ Ɛ ŝ Ž Ŷ Ɛ ǁ ŝ ƚ Ś Đ ŝ Ɵ Ğ Ɛ 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• Ś Ƶ ƌ Đ Ś ŝ ů ů ǀ Ğ Ŷ Ƶ Ğ • Ă Ɛ ƚ ͬ t Ğ Ɛ ƚ D Ğ Ă Ě Ž ǁ ƌ ŝ ǀ Ğ • Ă Ɛ ƚ ͬ t Ğ Ɛ ƚ Ś Ă ƌ ů Ğ Ɛ ƚ Ž Ŷ Z Ž Ă Ě Me a s u r e B Pr o g r a m D e s c r i p t i o n Pr o p o s e d G u i d e l i n e s ϭϲ • &Ƶ Ŷ Ě Ɛ Ĩ Ž ƌ ŝ Ŷ Đ ƌ Ğ Ă Ɛ Ğ Ě Ž Ɖ Ğ ƌ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ɛ ƚŽ D Ž ƌ Ő Ă Ŷ , ŝ ů ů Ă Ŷ Ě ' ŝ ů ƌ Ž Ǉ Ěŝ Ɛ ƚ ƌ ŝ ď Ƶ ƚ Ğ Ě Ă Ŷ Ŷ Ƶ Ă ů ů Ǉ • /ŵ Ɖ ƌ Ž ǀ Ğ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ɖ ƌ Ž ũ Ğ Đ ƚ Ɛ Ă Ō Ğ ƌ ĐŽ ŵ Ɖ ů Ğ Ɵ Ž Ŷ Ž Ĩ W Ğ Ŷ ŝ Ŷ Ɛ Ƶ ů Ă Ž ƌ ƌ ŝ Ě Ž ƌ ů Ğ Đ ƚ ƌ ŝ Į Đ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ W ƌ Ž ũ Ğ Đ ƚ Ca l t r a i n C o r r i d o r C a p a c i t y I m p r o v e m e n t s P r o g r a m $3 1 4 m i l l i o n • Ž ƌ ƌ ŝ Ě Ž ƌ Đ Ă Ɖ Ă Đ ŝ ƚ Ǉ ŝ ŵ Ɖ ƌ Ž ǀ Ğ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ɛ Ă Ŷ Ě ŝ Ŷ Đ ƌ Ğ Ă Ɛ Ğ Ě Ɛ Ğ ƌ ǀ ŝ Đ Ğ ŝ Ŷ ^ Ă Ŷ ƚ Ă ůĂ ƌ Ă Ž Ƶ Ŷ ƚ Ǉ ŝŶ Đ ů Ƶ Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő ͗ • /Ŷ Đ ƌ Ğ Ă Ɛ Ğ Ě Ɛ Ğ ƌ ǀ ŝ Đ Ğ ƚ Ž D Ž ƌ Ő Ă Ŷ , ŝ ů ů Ă Ŷ Ě ' ŝ ů ƌ Ž Ǉ • ^ƚ Ă Ɵ Ž Ŷ ŝ ŵ Ɖ ƌ Ž ǀ Ğ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ɛ • >Ğ ǀ Ğ ů ď Ž Ă ƌ Ě ŝ Ŷ Ő • ǆ ƚ Ğ Ŷ Ě Ğ Ě Ɖ ů Ă ƞ Ž ƌ ŵ Ɛ • ^Ğ ƌ ǀ ŝ Đ Ğ Ğ Ŷ Ś Ă Ŷ Đ Ğ ŵ Ğ Ŷ ƚ Ɛ Me a s u r e B City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 4:28 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:herb <herb_borock@hotmail.com> Sent:Monday, August 14, 2017 4:13 PM To:Council, City; Clerk, City Cc:French, Amy; Gitelman, Hillary Subject:August 14, 2017, Council Meeting, Item #12: Buena Vista Mobile Home Park Tentative Map Approval Herb Borock P. O. Box 632 Palo Alto, CA 94302 August 14, 2017 Palo Alto City Council 250 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 AUGUST 14, 2017, CITY COUNCIL MEETING, AGENDA ITEM #21 BUENA VISTA MOBILE HOME PARK TENTATIVE MAP APPROVAL 3972, 3980, and 3990 EL CAMINO REAL [17PLN-00197] Dear City Council: Before you approve the proposed Tentative Map for the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, you need to add to the Record of Land Use Approval conditions of approval that are included in memoranda from City departments that appear on the Building Eye web site, including comments on the Tentative Map application from Utilities Electric Engineering dated 6/8/2017 and Public Works Engineering dated 6/22/2017, and comments on the Final Map application from Public Works Engineering dated 7/10/2017. Of particular note are the comments included in both memoranda from Public Works Engineering that say encroachments on storm drain easements and proposed new property lines dividing existing buildings "are required to be addressed during the final map submittal ... and are not required to be addressed prior to the Planning entitlement approval" [but] "These structures will need to be demolished or relocated (if possible) prior to recordation of the Final Map" and "The existing building will need to be demolished prior to map recordation." The only way to ensure that the buildings and structure are demolished or relocated before Final Map recordation is to include those conditions as part of the Tentative Map approval, since determining that Tentative Map conditions have been satisfied is a key purpose of the Final Map approval that leads to map recordation. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 4:28 PM 2 Two reasons that have been given for rushing through with Tentative Map and Final Map approvals are that there is a September 1, 2017, deadline and that the Housing Authority needs to obtain ownership of the property prior to doing its use diligence. Prior to the Housing Authority's May 23, 2017, decision to purchase the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, a Housing Authority May 18, 2017, press release said the Authority had already conducted four months of due diligence prior to deciding to purchase the property, and the May 18, 2017, staff report for the May 23, 2017, meeting said that it could take six months from the date or the staff report (or until November 18, 2017) before the map approval would occur. Staff report signed May 18, 2017, for the May 23, 2017, Board of Commissioners meeting of the Housing Authority of Santa Clara County at http://hacsc.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=5&clip_id=335&meta_id=11 149: “Our initial investigations indicate the City’s subdivision process could take as long as six months.” May 18, 2017, press release from Housing Authority of the County of Santa Clara at https://www.scchousingauthority.org/assets/1/6/Buena_Vista_Acquisition_rel ease.pdf: “This wraps up four months of negotiations following an extensive due diligence process by the housing authority …” What are the real reasons for suddenly acting so quickly that you have received the staff report for the Final Map approval before you have approved the Tentative Map? Thank you for your consideration of these comments. Sincerely, Herb Borock cc: Amy French Hillary Gitelman City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:55 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Mary Ann Michel <maryannm7@gmail.com> on behalf of Mary Ann Michel <mamichel@alumni.duke.edu> Sent:Friday, August 11, 2017 3:23 PM To:Council, City Subject:Message from the City Council Home Page comments: 1. I am not pleased with outsourcing city jobs the two most recent Animal shelter and Janitorial work. Adding a middle person to the cost doesn't seem to cut the price rather gives us an excuse to blame another for low wages and poor performance. Employee loyalty to the city is lost. I think you get my gist...I know it is a sign of the times...bad sign in my opinion. 2. City Shuttle. I believe the primary goal is to reduce traffic. If that is indeed the goal then the shuttle should run ever 15/20 minutes. Chances are none of council members and few city employees use the shuttle because of the infrequent run. and short hours ending the day at 5:30 is a joke. Thanks for your service Mary Ann Michel 850 Webster ST.Apt 503 Palo Alto City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/10/2017 3:43 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Svendsen, Janice Sent:Thursday, August 10, 2017 3:37 PM To:Council Members; Council Agenda Email; ORG - Clerk's Office Cc:Keene, James; Shikada, Ed; Flaherty, Michelle; Keith, Claudia; Gitelman, Hillary; Sartor, Mike; Eggleston, Brad; Magliocco, Gina; Mello, Joshuah; Cervantes, Yolanda; De Geus, Robert Subject:8/14 Council Meeting Questions: Items 13,20,22 Dear Mayor and Council Members: On behalf of City Manager Jim Keene, please find below in bold staff responses to inquiries by council members regarding the August 14, 2017 council agenda items listed below: Item 13: 425 Portage Ave. Retail Waiver – CM Filseth Item 20: Draft Palo Alto Transit Vision Plan – CM Fine Item 22: Approval of a Contract for Janitorial Services – CM Tanaka Item 13: 425 Portage Ave. Retail Waiver Q1: The Staff report says that the site, zoned Service Commercial, is considered non‐conforming for Retail because of insufficient parking. If there were more parking, would Retail be then an authorized use? In other words, if the property were redeveloped in the future to have more parking, would ground floor retail then be allowed in that zoning? A.1. The answer is yes; Service Commercial (CS) zoning permits retail. If sufficient parking were provided, retail would be a permitted land use. Ground floor retail would be allowed in a future redevelopment with sufficient parking. Item 20: Draft Palo Alto Transit Vision Plan Q. 1. For the upcoming downtown parking study, have we considered the potential for AVs to eliminate parking demand and thus the revenue? (see here) A.1. The impact of autonomous vehicles on traffic and parking demand is still a subject of debate among transportation professionals. We have seen arguments that they will result in reduced parking demand and others that they will result in increased parking demand. These divergent opinions are both based on assumptions about how autonomous vehicles will be owned and utilized, and suggest that it is too soon to make a determination of how parking demand and revenue will change with autonomous vehicles. Staff will continue to monitor this and those who are interested in more detail, may wish to review the attached white papers. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/10/2017 3:43 PM 2 https://3rev.ucdavis.edu/wp‐content/uploads/2017/03/3R.Active.InDesign.Final_.pdf; https://3rev.ucdavis.edu/wp‐content/uploads/2017/03/3R.Climate.Indesign.Final_.pdf; https://3rev.ucdavis.edu/wp‐content/uploads/2017/04/3R.LandUse.Final_.pdf; https://3rev.ucdavis.edu/wp‐content/uploads/2017/04/3R.VMT‐GHG.final_‐1.pdf; https://nacto.org/wp‐content/uploads/2016/06/NACTO‐Policy‐Automated‐Vehicles‐201606.pdf; https://www.bbhub.io/dotorg/sites/2/2017/05/TamingtheAutonomousVehicleSpreadsPDFreleaseMay3rev2.pdf Q.2 Have we considered low‐speed AV shuttles for Palo Alto’s shuttle program? A few companies (easymile, auro, navya) have tested them on universities, for senior routes, amusement parks etc, and it may be a stretch in PA ‐ but if possible, could be a big win. A.2. Currently, there is not a clear regulatory path to using Autonomous Vehicles for Shuttles on public streets, and the costs continue to outweigh the benefits at this early time in the technology. City staff toured the Bay Area’s first autonomous shuttle pilot that is being tested in Bishop Ranch where they are testing the Easymile Autonomous vehicle. This is a very exciting pilot for the transit providers, as more data needs to be collected before broader regulatory approval will be made available. At this time, due to regulations, the Bishop Ranch AV Pilot can only operate within a private Bishop Ranch parking lot. The Bishop Ranch Easymile Pilot has not been issued license plates yet, and the pilot will be reviewed by the California Department of Motor Vehicles and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration prior to potentially being issued license plates for the second phase of this pilot. When this pilot enters the second phase, it is expected to operate on low‐speed streets without signalized intersections. Also, it is not officially “driverless,” as it is required to continue to maintain (and pay) an operator. Apart from the regulatory issues, the vehicle itself is still very costly ‐‐ costing approximately four times as much as the vehicles that the City currently utilizes and providing approximately three times less passenger capacity. It is expected that the regulations will eventually support this technology and costs will continue to decrease. Staff will continue to monitor this. Item 22: Approval of a Contract for Janitorial Services Q. 1. How much lower in quality did Uniserve rank behind SWA? A. 1. Out of a possible score of 400 for Quality, performance and effectiveness of the solution, goods, and/or services to be provided, SWA scored 384, Impec Group 332, and Uniserve 276. Thank you, Janice Svendsen Janice Svendsen | Executive Assistant to James Keene, City Manager 250 Hamilton Avenue | Palo Alto, CA 94301 D: 650.329.2105 | E: janice.svendsen@cityofpaloalto.org City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 11:49 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:aldeivnian@gmail.com on behalf of Adina Levin <adina.levin@friendsofcaltrain.com> Sent:Monday, August 14, 2017 10:16 AM To:Council, City Subject:Dumbarton corridor study proposes bus improvements, rail revival Dear City Council Members and Staff, As you may well know, the new Dumbarton Corridor study from SamTrans proposes short-term improvements to bus service, including increased frequency to Palo Alto. The study recommends medium-to-long term rail improvements. This is an important program that has the potential to benefit the City's goals to reduce solo driving, traffic, and parking demand. There are also proposed roadway improvements that could speed and encourage driving as well. Attention will be helpful to shape decisions that will affect the community. Palo Alto's experience provides important perspective on Dumbarton transit. Stanford is able to achieve a 50% nondriving mode share with its commuters from the East Bay. But to date, downtown Palo Alto sees a commute mode share of 80% driving. Stanford's support with transit pass discounts, help with first-mile solutions, mid-day transportation options such as ZipCar, and of course charging for parking makes a big difference, even with the same transit options. Results could be even better if more places offered transit support and the options improved. There are several upcoming public meetings, including Union City on Tuesday evening, East Palo Alto on Wednesday evening, and Menlo Park City Council on August 29. http://www.greencaltrain.com/2017/08/dumbarton-corridor-study-needs-review-august-meetings/ See this blog post for a preliminary analysis - SamTrans' full report will be out tomorrow. http://www.greencaltrain.com/2017/08/samtrans-unveils-ambitious-dumbarton-corridor-study-for-october-board-decisions/ Thank you for your consideration, - Adina Adina Levin Friends of Caltrain http://greencaltrain.com 650-646-4344 Nadia%Naik%% 1825%Emerson%Street% Palo%Alto,%CA%94301% % Palo%Alto%Rail%Committee% % Via%Email% % August%14,%2017% % Re:$Staff$Report$#8275$Rail$Program$Problem$Statement,$Objectives$and$Evaluation$Criteria$ % Dear%Palo%Alto%Rail%Committee%Members,%% % I’m%writing%in%response%to%the%Staff%Report.%%Below%are%my%recommended%actions.%% % Recommended$Actions:$ 1.Assumptions$From$HMM$Study$On$Should$Be$Revisited$ 2.Technical$Advisory$Committee$Should$Be$Expanded$And$Meetings$Should$Be$Public$ 3. Establish$A$Process$Based$On$CSS$Best$Practices$ 4.Amend$Problem$Criteria$ 5.Only$Call$It$A$CSS$Process$If$Technical$Advisory$Committee$Is$Expanded$As$Proposed$ % 1.$Hatch$Mott$MacDonald$Study$assumptions$should$be$revisited$ % The%Staff%Report%includes%the%Hatch%Mott%MacDonald%(HMM)%Study%performed%for%the%City%in%2014.%This% study%was%requested%by%the%Rail%Committee%and%City%Council%and%overseen%by%City%Staff.%The%results%of% the%study,%while%somewhat%useful,%demonstrate%why%a%dedicated%stakeholder%group’s%involvement%in%the% process%would%produce%a%better%outcome.%% % For%example,%the%HMM%study%included%the%following%technical%constraint:%% “The$depth$and$grade$of$the$trench$is$controlled$by$the$32.5’$clearance$required$under$the$two$creeks$ (Baron$Creek$and$Adobe$Creek)$and$the$constraints$at$either$end$(Matadero$Creek$and$San$Antonio$ Rd).”1 %% This%key%constraint%is%a%reason%why%the%trench%that%was%studied%was%very%deep%and%thus%more%expensive.% While%the%report%does%include%some%discussion%of%potentially%flattening%out%the%creeks,%it%is%not%clear% whether%this%was%a%decision%made%by%HMM%based%on%their%understanding%of%the%engineering%constraints% or%whether%HMM%sought%staff%input%on%this%issue%which%is%not%apparent%in%the%final%report.%% % This%may%appear%to%be%a%minor%technical%detail,%but%the%assumption%has%very%significant%impacts%on%the% final%work%product.%The%HMM%study%included%a%number%of%other%assumptions%that%could%have%been% altered%to%make%for%a%more%effective%study,%but%there%was%no%opportunity%for%council%members%or%the% public%to%provide%any%input.%%Even%if%the%Rail%Committee%meetings%had%continued,%there%may%only%have% been%an%opportunity%to%provide%input%to%the%ongoing%work%if%regular%progress%updates%were%being%given% and%if%HMM%disclosed%the%significance%of%the%assumption.%% % !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1"Pg"11"https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/44211" Another%example%is%how%the%study%looked%at%the%impacts%of%raising%or%lowering%the%road%and%leaving%the% train%at%grade.%In%their%impact%analysis,%HMM%chose%to%close%Park%Blvd%in%their%model%to%minimize%the% eminent%domain%of%homes.%The%effect%of%that%decision%on%the%analysis%resulted%in%studying%an%alternative% that%takes%fewer%homes,%but%closes%a%major%bike%route%through%the%City.%% % Here%too,%if%a%project%team%made%up%of%community%stakeholders,%Staff%and%a%Technical%Advisory% Committee%had%been%working%with%HMM%and%reviewing%the%details%and%assumptions%of%this%ongoing% study,%these%groups%could%have%sought%feedback%from%the%City%Council%or%PA%Rail%Committee%to%make% sure%the%analysis%sought%to%answer%the%right%questions.%%% % Critically,%the%study%also%doesn’t%discuss%what%other%constraints%had%significant%impacts%on%the%study%and% did%not%inform%the%City%of%any%further%considerations%that%should%be%evaluated%to%help%reduce%costs%(for% example,%the%impact%of%freight%assumptions%on%the%corridor).%A%Technical%Advisory%Committee%like%the% one%proposed%(which%would%include%CalTrain,%HSR,%VTA,%etc.)%would%be%unlikely%to%recommend%such% action%for%political/professional%reasons,%but%a%group%that%included%more%community%viewpoints%could% likely%have%requested%that%HMM%give%their%opinion.%% % 2.$Expand$the$Technical$Advisory$Committee$and$meetings$should$be$public$ % The%Community%Engagement%Plan%put%forth%by%Circlepoint%does%not%include%having%any%citizen% stakeholders%in%a%decision]making%role.%Instead,%their%plan%references%The%Alliance%for%Innovation,% International%City/County%Management%Association%and%the%International%Association%of%Public% Participation%(IAP)%and%draws%similarities%between%the%CSS%process%and%the%best%practices%reiterated%by% these%groups.%%They%included%a%“Public%Participation%Spectrum”%created%by%IAP%in%their%report,%but%I%have% included%the%full%version%below.%% % % Omitted%in%the%report%is%the%section%that%typically%shows%examples%of%tools%that%would%be%appropriate%to% reach%each%level%of%engagement.%Notably,%in%order%to%have%“Collaboration”%would%typically%have%a%Citizen% Advisory%Committee.%To%be%fair,%IAP%practitioners%don’t% usually%include%the%bottom%level%because%they%don’t% want%people%to%believe%that%if%you%simply%have%a%Citizen% Advisory%Committee%you%necessarily%have% collaboration.2% % The%IAP’s%Public%Engagement%Spectrum%is%actually% based%on%Sherry%Arnstein’s%famous%1969%Ladder%of% Engagement,3%(shown%on%next%page)%illustrates%how% much%power%stakeholders%have%in%various%types%of%civic% engagement.% If%we%use%Arnstein’s%ladder%to%measure%the%proposed% Engagement%Plan,%it%becomes%clear%that%the%proposed% strategies%to%engage%Palo%Altans%(website,%database,% social%media,%collateral%materials,%newsletters,% advertising,%surveys%and%questionnaires,%community% workshops,%interviews,%visioning%charrettes,%pop]ups,% open%houses,%community%events,%site%visits%and%town% halls)%all%fall%under%the%“Nonparticipation”%and% “Tokenism”%levels%and%will%never%allow%the% stakeholders%to%actually%have%power%in%the%decision% making%process%as%CSS%and%the%City%Council%intended.%% % The%City’s%adopted%CSS%process%is%described%on%the% USDOT’s%website%as:%“CSS$is$about$open,$honest,$early$ and$continuous$communication$and$sharing$of$ information$and$knowledge$–$not$just$professional$ knowledge,$but$the$knowledge$that$communities$and$ stakeholders$bring$to$a$project$from$their$personal$ experiences.$CSS$involves$structuring$a$planning,$ design,$and$implementation$process$that$is$collaborative$ and$creates$consensus$among$stakeholders$and$the$ transportation$agency.”4$ $ By%not%including%community%members%in%a%decision%making%group,%Circlepoint%misrepresents%the% recommendations%of%the%public%engagement%professionals%they%cited.%% % %% !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2"Source:"IAP"via"https://sustainingcommunity.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/spectrumEofEpublicEparticipation/" 3!Source:"http://i2s.anu.edu.au/resources/stakeholderEparticipationEarnsteinsEladder" 4!Source:"https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/css/process/! Arnstein’s)Ladder)of)Engagement) The%staff%report%has%identified%the%Technical%Advisory%Committee%as:% % % G$Caltrain$ G$California$High$Speed$Rail$Authority$ G$Santa$Clara$County$Roads$and$Airports$ Department$ G$Stanford$University$ G$Palo$Alto$Transportation$Management$ Association$ G$City$of$PA$Planning$&$Community$Environment$ G$City$of$Palo$Alto$Public$Works$ G$Valley$Transportation$Authority$(invited)$ G$City$of$Menlo$Park$(invited)$ G$City$of$Mountain$View$(invited)$ G$Santa$Clara$County$Water$District$(invited)$ G$Union$Pacific$Rail$Road$(invited)$ G$PA$Pedestrian$&$Bicycle$Advisory$Committee$ (invited)$ G$Caltrans$District$4$Traffic$Operations$(TBD) The%Community%Engagement%Plan%identifies%the%following%participants%or%target%audiences:% $ T$Palo$Alto$residents$who$live$near$or$travel$ across$the$rail$corridor$$ T$Regular$transit$riders$$ T$Senior$citizens$$ T$Citizens$with$special$needs$ T$Low$income$residents$ $T$City$elected$officials$and$staff$$ T$Local$businesses$$ T$NonTprofit$organizations$(i.e.$CARRD$and$ Friends$of$Caltrain)$$ T$Local$educational$institutions$$ T$Local$environmental$advocates$$ T$CommunityTbased$organizations$$ T$Neighboring$elected$officials$and$staff$$ T$Other$members$of$the$general$public % I"would"recommend"the"City"expand"the"Technical"Advisory"Committee"to"include"residents"who" represent"the"target"audience"groups"identified"by"Circlepoint.%%The%TAC%must%stay%a%manageable%size% but%should%also%represent%a%large%cross]section%of%the%community%interests.%For%example,%a%VTA%and% Caltrain%member%could%also%represent%regular%transit%riders.%TAC%members%could%represent%multiple% community%interests.%Sub]committees%of%the%TAC%could%be%used%to%focus%on%specific%issues.%% % Some%areas%of%representation%to%be%considered%(not%all%are%necessary%–%one%TAC%member%can%wear%more% than%one%hat):% ¥ Neighborhoods% ¥ PAUSD% ¥ Public%Safety%/%Utilities%/%Historic% ¥ Stanford%University% (Academic/Residents)% ¥ Stanford%Research%Park% ¥ Stanford%Hospital/Shopping%Center% ¥ Arborist%and/or%CANOPY/%or%similar% ¥ Domain%expertise%in%Operations%and% Maintenance%% ¥ Domain%expertise%on%staging% construction%of%active%passenger%and% freight%railroad%(Caltrain%does%NOT%have% this)% ¥ Hydrologist% ¥ Largest%employers%outside%of%Stanford% % The%TAC%make]up%may%vary%based%on%how%the%project%develops%(for%example:%geographically).%The% expanded%TAC%would%be%vetted%by%City%Staff%and%final%approval%would%be%made%by%City%Council.% % In$order$to$follow$the$CSS$principle$of$transparency,$the$meetings$of$the$Technical$Advisory$ Committee$should$be$open$to$the$public.$$ % Attachment%A%includes%excerpts%of%a%report%from%a%project%in%Pennsylvania%that%was%working%on% preliminary%design%of%a%major%highway.%This%report%measures%the%effectiveness%of%the%CSS%process%for% their%project%and%offers%a%good%example%of%how%a%complex%project%can%use%the%CSS%process%to%deliver% results%and%stay%on%track.%The%Pennsylvania%project%involved%coordinating%7%different%Design%Advisory% Teams%(DATs)%into%the%process.%The%DAT%in%this%case%could%be%similar%to%our%proposed%expanded% Technical%Advisory%Committee.%The%DAT%was%specifically%designed%to%promote%constructive%and% productive%participation.% % We’ve%attached%several%excerpts%from%the%report%that%include%samples%of%how%the%DATs%were%selected,% organized,%managed,%how%they%made%decisions%and%how%their%advice%was%incorporated%into%the%project.% It%is%interesting%to%note%that%the%DAT%were%also%evaluated%for%things%like%their%attendance%at%meetings,%as% well%as%their%ability%to%work%collaboratively,%their%level%of%participation%and%their%effectiveness.%This%type% of%360%degree%evaluation%helped%keep%everyone%stay%on%task%and%ensured%that%project%goals%were%met.%% % The%full%report5%also%includes%numerous%examples%of%the%type%of%evaluation%criteria%used%to%solve%the% problems%of%the%project%(which%can%be%used%for%comparison%to%the%proposed%project%criteria%that%is% currently%in%the%staff%report%in%Staff%Report%Attachment%D).%% % The%DAT%participants,%policy%makers%and%others%not%directly%involved%with%the%project%were%all%asked%to% give%feedback%to%how%useful%the%CSS%process%was.%%Their%“strategic%reflections%and%lessons%learned”6% were:% % 1. Empowered%Decision]Making%can%save%costs% 2. Developing%Public%Trust%and%Confidence%Positively%Influences%Outcomes% 3. Direct%and%Frequent%Access%to%Designers%and%the%Owners%is%Essential% 4. Ongoing%Communication%and%Exchange%Opportunities%Facilitate%Decision]Making% 5. Careful%Design%Advisory%Team%(DAT)%Membership%Selection%and%Orientation%Results%in%Committed% Members% 6. Creating%the%Right%Balance%of%Technical%and%Community%DAT%Members%is%Key% 7. Thoughtful%Use%of%Visualization%Techniques%Increases%Community%Members’%Ability%and% Willingness%to%Make%Difficult%Decisions% 8. Unique%Characteristics%of%Individual%DATs%Influence%Decision]Making%Efficiency% 9. Organize%from%the%Start% % 3.$Establish$a$Process$based$on$CSS$Best$Practices$ % While%the%Staff%report%describes%CSS%at%a%high%level,%it%is%still%not%really%outlining%the%process%following%CSS% best%practices.%The%Staff%report%is%proposing%to%move%to%the%Project%definition%and%Criteria%phase%but%has% not%yet%defined%the%desired%goals%and%outcomes%nor%established%any%buy]in%for%the%process%from%the% community%by%specifically%laying%out%the%proposed%process%and%decision%points%and%who%will%make%those% decisions.%% % A%simple%example%of%a%good%CSS%Process%outline%is%the%six%step%overview%of%the%CSS%process%used%on%the% 1]70%Mountain%Corridor7%in%Colorado%which%is%paraphrased%below.%(Please%visit%website%for%full%details% related%to%their%project.):% !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!5"http://www.olszak.com/files/measuringCSS_fullreport.pdf"6"pg"4"http://www.olszak.com/files/measuringCSS_fullreport.pdf!7"https://www.codot.gov/projects/contextsensitivesolutions/decision/6EstepEprocess" % % Step 1: Define Desired Outcomes and Actions This step establishes the project goals and actions. It also defines the terms to be used and decisions to be made. In Colorado, a Project Leadership Team (PLT) is established and is carried through all subsequent phases of a project. (By using the 6-Step Process framework, the PLT will develop the specific process to be used during decision making, including teams, team roles and responsibilities, and interactions during the project.) The Mission of the Project Leadership Team (PLT): The PLT is a collaborative stakeholder team that leads the project, champions Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS), and enables decision making. The PLT facilitates the decision-making process and focuses on moving the process forward. The PLT ensures that the 6-Step Process is followed and that decisions are made collaboratively among stakeholders on all project teams and during project activities. The PLT steps in to analyze and formulate a process to move forward when other project teams find themselves at an impasse. The PLT does not make the final selection or endorse the project recommendation(s). Rather, the PLT ensures that the recommendation is developed in an open, collaborative process. (Note:%A%Project%Leadership%Team%like%the% one%used%in%Colorado,%would%be%similar%to% the%expanded%Technical%Advisory% Committee.)% Step 2: Endorse the Process Establish participants, roles, and responsibilities for each team. The process is endorsed by discussing, possibly modifying, and then finalizing with all teams the desired outcomes and actions to be taken. Step 3: Establish Criteria Establishes criteria that provides the basis for making decisions consistent with the desired outcomes and project goals. The criteria measure support for the Core Values of the project. Step 4: Develop Alternatives or Options The Project Staff works with the Project Leadership Team, stakeholders, and the public to identify alternatives/options relevant to the desired outcomes, project-specific vision, and goals. Step 5: Evaluate, Select, and Refine Alternative or Option The process of analyzing and evaluating alternatives applies the criteria to the alternatives or options in a way that facilitates decision-making. This may be a one-step or multi-step process depending on the complexity of the alternatives and the decision. Step 6: Finalize Documentation and Evaluate Process Documentation should be continuous throughout the process. Final documentation will include each of the previous steps, final recommendations, and the process evaluation.% These steps are intended to provide a clear and repeatable process that is fair and understandable. The order of the steps is as important as the activities within each step.% Before%staff%can%move%ahead%with%community%meetings%or%recommendations%to%City%Council,%they%should% further%flesh%out%steps%1%(Define%Desired%Outcomes%and%Actions)%and%2%(Endorse%the%Process).%% For%example,%will%Staff%be%analyzing%all%four%grade%separations%concurrently%or%just%a%few?%When%will%that% decision%be%made%and%by%whom?%Will%the%evaluation%criteria%for%each%grade%separation%be%the%same?%Can% Staff%decide%to%include%a%study%of%existing%grade%separations%for%improvements%or%will%require%a%vote%by% City%Council?%Will%Staff%direct%consultants%to%study%alternatives%that%will%require%eminent%domain%or%will% that%decision%ultimately%be%placed%before%the%City%Council?%Will%the%Technical%Advisory%Committee%decide% what%technical%criteria%forms%the%basis%of%analysis%or%will%that%be%the%role%of%the%PTC%or%the%City%Council?% Will%community%input%be%sought%and%if%so,%how%is%that%information%incorporated%into%any%decisions?% In%a%true%CSS%process,%the%roles%and%responsibilities%of%Staff,%expanded%Technical%Advisory%Committee,% transportation%agencies,%PTC%and%City%Council%would%be%articulated%before%proceeding%to%Problem% definition%and%criteria.%Without%an%expanded%Technical%Advisory%Committee,%similar%to%the%Project% Leadership%Team%used%in%Colorado,%it%is%difficult%to%follow%the%CSS%process.%% If%the%City%Council%chooses%NOT%to%expand%the%Technical%Advisory%Committee,%the%Staff%will%need%to%lay% out%a%plan%that%seeks%to%ensure%all%identified%representative%stakeholder%groups%are%adequately%engaged% on%a%regular%basis%to%ensure%consensus.%This%plan%must%be%clearly%articulated%in%advance%to%ensure%trust% and%transparency%throughout%the%project%lifecycle.%% 4.$Amend$Problem$Criteria$ The%criteria%laid%out%in%the%staff%report%had%3%tiers,%including:% % Tier"3"Criteria:"Somewhat"Important$ ¥ Construction:$minimize$disruption$and$the$duration$of$construction$activities$at$any$single$location$ ¥ Cost:$minimize$rightTofTway$acquisition$&$finance$with$available$funding$sources$ % The%final%bullet%point%in%Tier%3%is%unclear.%It%is%labeled%cost,%but%references%the%issue%of%eminent%domain,% which%is%not%just%a%cost%issue,%but%also%an%important%policy%and%land%use%issue.%$ % Second,%does%staff%mean%minimize%right]of]way%acquisition%of%property%along%the%CalTrain%corridor%or% along%the%road%rights]of]way%that%cross%the%corridor%perpendicularly%(Churchill,%Alma,%Meadow,% Charleston)%or%both?%Is%there%a%differentiation%between%acquiring%land%that%is%not%residential%(for% example,%slices%of%land%that%are%currently%owned%by%a%shopping%center%or%parts%of%an%existing%median?)% % The%second%part%of%the%same%bullet%point%states%“finance%with%available%funding%sources”%but%it%does%not% identify%any%funding%sources%currently%available.%Even%the%VTA%Measure%B%money%requires%a%match%of% funding%sources%other%than%Measure%B.%% % If%a%project%alternative%was%identified%that%could%be%financed%through%a%bond%campaign%or%other%measure,% how%would%that%be%measured?%Who%would%decide%what%was%fundable%based%on%cost?%Would%it%be% brought%to%the%public%first%or%would%that%decision%go%straight%to%City%Council?%% % Without%a%fully%developed%CSS%process%and%an%expanded%TAC,%how%will%Staff%ensure%that%a%broad% representative%group%of%community%stakeholders%will%be%able%to%provide%input%before%the%criteria%is% finalized?% % 5.$Only$Call$It$A$CSS$Process$If$Technical$Advisory$Committee$Is$Expanded$As$Proposed$ % If%this%process%will%not%include%citizens%at%levels%that%reach%the%“Collaborate”%or%“Empower”%stages%of% engagement,%then%the%City%should%drop%the%CSS%terminology%and%explicitly%change%their%stated%position%of% supporting%a%CSS%process%because%otherwise%they%will%undermine%their%credibility%with%the%community% which%will%only%serve%to%make%an%already%difficult%situation%much%worse.%% % We%would%also%warn%that%any%attempt%to%tell%the%community%they%are%actively%participating%and%engaged% without%including%citizens%in%an%empowered%decision%making%role%will%likely%have%disastrous%results.%This% was%precisely%how%the%High%Speed%Rail%Authority%lost%support%in%our%community.%In%fact,%the%proposed% engagement%process%bears%a%striking%resemblance%to%the%outreach%plan%that%was%used%to%“engage”%Palo% Alto%in%the%HSR%planning%process.%% % If%the%City%Council%ultimately%decides%not%to%expand%the%Technical%Advisory%Committee,%they%will%be%faced% with%tough%choices%that%will%likely%need%public%participation%anyway.%For%example,%if%they%seek%to%only% analyze%an%alternative%that%will%not%take%property,%they%would%still%likely%require%a%dedicated%stakeholder% group%to%help%develop%funding%alternatives%for%trenching%or%tunneling%given%the%expected%cost,%or%to%help% create%the%most%aesthetic%and%visually%pleasing%aerial%option%that%could%garner%support%from%the% community.%If%a%ballot%measure%and/or%bond%campaigns%are%deemed%necessary,%a%2/3rds%majority%vote% would%likely%mean%there%would%still%need%to%be%a%community%campaign%to%build%support.%In%contrast,%an% expanded%TAC%included%from%the%start%could%provide%the%essential%foundation%for%community%support,% likely%in%a%shorter%amount%of%time.% % This%project%is%too%big%to%fail.%We%simply%must%include%the%community%in%an%empowered%way.%With%hard% work%and%commraderie,%we%can%emerge%strong%and%with%a%solution%that%balances%both%the%transportation% goals%and%community%goals,%is%broadly%supported%and%is%fundable.%Unlike%when%we%were%dealing%with%the% high]speed%rail,%this%project%is%Palo%Alto’s%choice%and%thus%it%would%be%a%mistake%to%short%change% ourselves%by%seeking%to%rush%through%without%true%engagement%from%our%community.%%% % Please%feel%free%to%contact%me%if%you%have%any%questions%or%would%like%any%additional%information.%% % Sincerely,%% % % Nadia%Naik%% Co]founder,%CARRD% Californians%Advocating%Responsible%Rail%Design% % Attachment%A:%Excerpts%from%Using%Context%Sensitive%Solutions%(CSS)%Performance%Measures%to%Assess% the%Effectiveness%of%a%CSS%Process%During%the%Preliminary%Design%of%a%Major%Highway%Project:%% The%Mon/Fayette%Expressway%% % A Study of Context Sensitive Solutions’Measures During the Final Design of a Major Highway Project: The Mon Fayette Expressway i Using Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) Performance Measures to Assess the Effectiveness of a CSS Process During the Preliminary Design of a Major Highway Project: The Mon/Fayette Expressway By: Lisa M. Olszak, Robert L. Goldbach and James R. Long, Ph.D. March 2007 425 sixth avenue, suite 350 pittsburgh, pa 15219www.olszak.com City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/16/2017 12:32 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Sandra Pretari Hickson <sandra.pretarihickson@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, August 16, 2017 8:32 AM To:Council, City Subject:Palo Alto Animal Services Dear City Council Members - I have been an employee of Palo Alto Animal Services for over 24 years. I have only one thing to share with you in this email. We, the staff, have been lied to numerous times about many issues by the City Manager's office, Human Resources and the Police Department mainly in regards to our jobs here, but on other subjects as well. That however is not the purpose of this email. The purpose of this email is to share with you where you were lied to as well. The letter of intent was shared with us and I point you to Attachment D, Section 2, Letter C - PIN and the City will mutually draft policies and procedures that may limit the intake of animals for the purpose of improving animal care and to operate the shelter as a “No Kill” shelter, a fundamental principle of PIN. This is the one thing we were all assured would not happen. We have been told over and over again that PIN would continue offering all the services that PAAS does and caring for the animals as PAAS does. This means being an open-door, full-service animal shelter and accepting all animals presented to us from our jurisdiction. We, the public and fellow reputable rescues were assured this was non- negotiable. Although we had concerns that PIN would not continue doing this once they took over, we gave the city the benefit of the doubt thinking they were merely ignorant of what the differences were between our two organizations were. However this one sentence in the letter of intent proves this is not true and the City will negotiate with PIN to allow them to limit their intake and turn animals away. This means the most needy of animals and people will be turned away, the old, the sick, the injured, the fractious, the feral. This also means they can limit their intake by not taking returns, again something we were all assured would not happen. Again we were lied to, and not only were we lied to, you all were lied to and the public was lied to. Animals will be abandoned, suffer and die. The citizens will also suffer and will not receive the level of service they do now. Although this has all become exhausting and frankly quite inhumane, we have all resigned ourselves to the fact that we are being let go. But it is not about that anymore. It is about the animals of Palo Alto, Los Altos and Los Altos Hills and the responsibility we feel for them. I am scrambling and calling every reputable rescue I know trying to get our current animals into a safe place before PIN takes over. I have found places for some of them but I am unsure I will be successful in finding places for all of them. For the sake of the animals currently in the shelter, animals that will arrive after PIN takes over and the animals that PIN will turn away in the future, I implore you to remove this directive from the Letter of Intent. Thank you, Sandra Pretari Hickson ======================================================================== Confidentiality Notice: City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/16/2017 12:32 PM 2 This e-mail and any files or previous e-mail messages transmitted with it, may contain confidential information that is privileged or otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable law. You are hereby notified that you may not use, copy, disclose or distribute to anyone the information contained in or attached to this message. If you are not the intended addressee, nor authorized to receive for the intended addressee and you received this message in error, please immediately advise Sandra.PretariHickson@gmail.com by replying to this email and delete this message, its attachments and any copies. Please also be advised that this email may not be forwarded, copied or distributed without permission from Sandra.PretariHickson@gmail.com. Thank you City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/16/2017 12:27 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Stephanie Norton <snorton@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, August 15, 2017 4:57 PM To:Council, City Subject:Cell Towers Dear City Council, Please don't allow the installation of cell towers in residential Palo Alto neighborhoods, including Old Palo Alto. I am concerned about the radiation emitted by these towers. Thank you, Stephanie Norton City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 8:09 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Robert Moss <bmoss33@att.net> Sent:Sunday, August 13, 2017 9:53 PM To:Silver, Cara; Minor, Beth Cc:Council, City Subject:Digging Private Wells The past several months there have been a number of concerns expressed about people that drilled private wells, often without any permission, and in many cases were wasting water from those wells Seems that problems with people sneakily drilling private wells isn't a new issue. I was looking through some old files this afternoon and ran across city council minutes from the late 1970s. The minutes of July 5, 1977 note Mayor Sher raising concerns about private individuals drilling wells. He moved that staff return with a formal report on who is authorized to issue such permits, the city or the Santa Clara Valley Water District, and if the Water District must they report the approvals to the city. Seconded by Council member Brenner, passed 9-0. So far I've only found a few pages of the July 18, 1977 minutes that are supposed to have the staff report on well digging but nothing on wells in the pages I found so far. Are there any records in the city clerk files on the July 18, 1977 minutes, or any other minutes in that general time frame relating to private well drilling? Are there any city ordinances regarding private wells? I can't find them so far but I'm not sure where to look. Regards, Bob Moss City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 10:53 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Amie Ashton <aashton@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, August 15, 2017 9:56 AM To:Council, City Subject:Down with Parking Garages Dear Honorable City Council, As an urban planner and CEQA professional, I am seeing more and more about the fact that parking requirements are too high and we have too much parking in urban centers and in general. Parking revenues are decreasing precipitously. Even the City of Mountain View is subsidizing Uber rides instead of building another parking garage. Here are a few articles describing the phenomenon: In General: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2017/07/27/parking-crashes-against-reality-cre-q3- 2017.html Commercial Centers: http://www.sfexaminer.com/declining-union-square-parking-revenue-puts-rec-park-tight- space/ Airports: http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2017/07/18/airport-parking-takes- hit-from-uber-lyft I urge you to reconsider an expensive, long-lasting, horribly uneconomical land use that puts a hole in downtown areas and ruins pedestrian contentedness - not to mention the huge hit to tax revenues given the instability of parking needs. No parking garages - housing please, or if we are really dreaming of how to spend 30 million - how about a new pool and recreational center:). On another note while I am here, more bike parking please! I don't drive at all (thanks to Palo Alto's amazing bike network) but have had a very hard time finding bike parking at Stanford, on University Avenue, at Whole Foods, and on California Avenue. This is especially challenging since folks are then forced to park their bikes and bike trailers at sign posts and trees, thus blocking the sidewalk. The time has come to remove more on- street parking to provide additional bike parking off the sidewalks. Remember, you can fit 10 bike customers in the space that a single car customer takes parking-wise. That's great economics! Thank you for all you do, Amie Ashton 236 Middleifoeld City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 11:47 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Palo Alto Free Press <paloaltofreepress@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, August 15, 2017 11:15 AM To:michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com; stephen.connolly@oirgroup.com Cc:Watson, Ron; Perron, Zachary; Council, City; Keene, James; Scharff, Greg; Kniss, Liz (external); Stump, Molly; jrosen@da.sccgov.org; Bullerjahn, Rich; Reifschneider, James; Brian Welch; Philip, Brian; Jay Boyarsky; Scheff, Lisa; David Angel Subject:DUI - PAPD officer CPRA_Response_Letter_-_MPP_IPA_W000884-080417 Attachments:CPRA_Response_Letter_-_MPP_IPA_W000884-080417.pdf Re: DUI PAPD officer Clear case of obfuscation Mr. Gennaco CPRA questions posed and asked for were directly taken from your report Sir. City directed us back to the same report. Once again you have defrauded the City of Palo Alto and its citizens. Mark Petersen-Perez Sent from my iPad POLICE DEPARTMENT 275 Forest Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 650.329.2406 August 14, 2017 VIA EMAIL Mark Petersen-Perez public.records.request.tracking@gmail.com RE: California Public Records Act Request Dated August 2, 2017 – W000884-080417 Dear Mr. Mark Petersen-Perez, This letter is in response to your California Public Records Act Request dated August 4, 2017 in which you requested certain records of the City of Palo Alto relating to the IPA pursuant to the California Public Records Act, (CPRA) Cal. Gov’t Code §§ 6250 et seq. Records Request: ”Driving under the influence IPA report LA2009-02 1. Name(s) of other sister cities [agencies] used as the benchmark in determining level of discipline to be administrated in the Palo Alto police officers DUI case. 2. "Standards of progressive police agencies" A. List of progressive agencies used B. List of standards used C. List of applicable laws used and reviewed by IPA” Response to Request 1: The Palo Alto Police Depart does not have any responsive documents. The IPA Reports to Council are available online at http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/pol/auditor.asp Response to Request 2: The Palo Alto Police Department does not have any responsive documents listed in #2 above A-C. Thank you, Lisa Scheff Public Safety Program Manager/Records Palo Alto Police Department 650.329-2406/650.329- 2553 Lisa.scheff@cityofpaloalto.org 1 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/16/2017 12:31 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Carla Carvalho <ccarvalho98@hotmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, August 16, 2017 7:00 AM To:Council, City; Keene, James; Cymes Lenore; Levinsky Jeff; grocery4edgewood@gmail.com; Carla Carvalho Subject:Edgewood Plaza Public Park deterioration Attachments:Video.MOV; image2.JPG; image1.JPG; ATT00001.txt Dear City Manager Keene and Council Members, We are concerned by the deterioration of the park at Edgewood Plaza. As you know, this park serves as the public benefit of the Edgewood Plaza Planned Community (PC.) We are attaching several photos and a video demonstrating its current condition. We are particularly worried about safety from unattached boards functioning as benches, bolted boards of uneven heights that may cause pelvic injuries to those who unknowingly sit down, and highly mobile tables that may injure children in their sway. Other concerns are injuries from splinters from untreated wood and blunt force trauma to various body parts of pedestrians walking by who are poked by uneven boards sticking out. We appreciate your concern in this matter in ensuring the safety of our citizens at this park. Sincerely, Carla Carvalho Jeff Levinsky Lenore Cymes City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 11:48 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Eva Gal <evahgal@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, August 15, 2017 11:23 AM To:Greenacres2; Greg Tanaka Cc:Eva Gal; Council, City Subject:First day of school Dear Neighbors, Several of us went out this morning to observe how the children fared under the new rainbow colored traffic patterns on Donald. There were also City Staff members present, along with the crossing guard supervisor and a crossing guard. Some of the City Staff members were actually listening and interested in our comments; others were too busy defending this mess to listen to concerns. The police department is working on providing help during the worst time. A few observations: •the traffic was as confusing as expected for the children, even though actual bike traffic was diminished today due to the fact that many parents drive 6th graders to school on the first day. It will take some time for bicycle numbers to stabilize •there were two very near misses when children ended up in the middle of the light turning red; the crossing guard was not facing the children and the crossing guard supervisor was tooo busy yelling at us instead of helping the poor crossing guard •herding large groups of children to the middle of the road was crazy- they were within two inches of cars around them; •due to confusing directions/signs, children were cutting in front of cars in their attempt to cross with the lights •cars could not turn because children were all over the place •one crossing guard cannot handle directing cars and children at the same time •trafic signals were uncoordinated, and timing very poor •turning lanes were too narrow for safe left and right turns from Arastradero to Donald in both East and West directions; cars constantly crossed into green zones; stopping behind white lines (placed behind the green box) on Donald at Arastradero seriously impacted cars’ visibility and their capacity to gage if left turns were safe (as required by DMV regs.) from Donald to Arastradero; light' timing too short for safe turning All in all, I would strongly urge parents to avoid sending kids on bikes to school right now in the morning. It is an incredibly dangerous and confusing situation. As a parent and grandparent, I would do everything in my power to avoid exposing my children/grandchildren to such danger. I urge you to come out and help document the extent of this mess. Also, I URGE YOU TO GET INVOLVED AND MAKE YOUR CONCERNS KNOWN ABOUT THIS MESS!!!! From what I understand, this mess is the latest result of a grandiose “master plan” to create a green bike route across Palo Alto-regardless of the impact on children’s safety and neighborhoods. Although a highly laudable concept, what is being forgotten is that "one green bike box-size does not fit all streets and neighborhoods.” While 12 ft. wide green bike boxes in the middle of the road may be standard practice and may work well in West Hollywood, they have no place on a residential street that is perhaps 25-30 ft. wide. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 11:48 AM 2 The so-called traffic calming measures about the be implemented on Arastradero will further confuse and exacerbate the issue, not to mention the impact of what is being planned for Maybell, Georgia, Cherry Oaks, etc. Demand to know the facts about these changes, and make your concerns known now, before it is too late. Regards, Eva Gal City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 10:52 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Penny Ellson <pellson@pacbell.net> Sent:Monday, August 14, 2017 9:46 PM To:Scharff, Greg; Council, City; 'board' Cc:'Audrey Gold'; 'Leah Russin'; 'Sara Armstrong' Subject:FW: SB328: Urgent Attention Needed Hi Greg, As I mentioned in my last email (pasted below), SB328 is not on the city’s legislative agenda. City staff has made the city’s lobbyist aware of this bill. However, the lobbyist takes direction from Council. I am writing to ask for your help. Palo Alto PTAs do not meet until September. We just learned about State of California PTA’s (CAPTA) position on this bill and no Palo Alto PTA discussion or vote can be taken until the first PTAC meeting on September 13—after the Assembly Appropriations Committee meeting—too late to take action. The local Palo Alto Council of PTA’s hands are tied, so I am acting as an individual. However, I am copying local PTA leadership here to keep them informed of my actions and to enable you to reach out to them. SB328 will likely have impacts on arterial and collector routes affected by middle school and high school traffic: Embarcadero, Arastradero, Charleston, Middlefield, East Meadow, Churchill. More importantly, it will push foot-powered school commuters into peak hour traffic. Would you please work with Council and staff to submit a letter to the Assembly Appropriations Committee requesting a delay to enable time for study of potential traffic/safety impacts of the bill and related costs for mitigation? I have drafted some suggested language for a letter below. Would you please give me a call to discuss this? I plan to bring a similar request to PAUSD at the City School Liaison Committee meeting this week during Open Comment. Thank you. Penny Ellson 650-856-0736 To: Assembly Appropriations Committee (fill in names) The Assembly Appropriations Committee is scheduled to consider SB328 on August 23, 2017 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB328# SB328 has only recently come to our attention and so has not previously been City of Palo Alto’s legislative agenda. The City of Palo Alto strongly supports the values underlying SB328. However, we are concerned that SB328, as it is currently written, will create significant school commute safety and congestion impacts on arterial and collector streets that serve as school routes in Palo Alto. To our knowledge, no study has been done of the transportation impacts of SB328. We are writing to ask for a delay to enable this analysis. SB328 would require all middle schools and high schools to start after 8:30am. Palo Alto’s morning peak hour traffic starts around 8:30am. PAUSD and City of Palo Alto collaborate to coordinate and stagger school start times before the start of the peak hour in order to minimize safety impacts of auto traffic (generated by tens of thousands of inbound regional commuters going to local jobs) on students who commute to school on bikes and on foot. This is especially important in areas where arterial and collector streets function as school commute routes and where middle school and high school sites are in close proximity to each other. In addition, this change might also push some secondary student commuters into the early part of the evening peak hour. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 10:52 AM 2 While we already are working toward establishing start times that more closely conform with new research on adolescent sleep needs, school commute safety is also important to students’ health, well-being, stress reduction and safety. Traffic safety and congestion impacts on school commuters must be considered. Balance is needed. As it stands, from the transportation information that is currently available, it appears SB328 will create risk for youth school commuters in our community. Again, none of the bill’s proponents ever studied potential school commute safety and congestion impacts of SB328. The Majority of PAUSD Secondary School Students Walk or Bike to School—Safety Is Important 50% of PAUSD middle school students bike to school. 44% of PAUSD high school students bike to school. 14% of PAUSD students district-wide walk to school each day. The City of Palo Alto works in close partnership with PAUSD to put more than 4,000 children on bicycles every school day and to ensure their safety. Sleep Is Also A Very High Priority Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) already has been adjusting secondary school bell times to be in closer conformance with the recommendations of new sleep research. Current PAUSD middle school bell times range from 8:10-8:15am. High school bell times range from 8:15-8:25am. Bell times are set as late as possible without forcing students to commute during the morning peak hour. Palo Alto may not be the only community where school commute safety may be impacted by SB328. SB328 Proponents have said: Districts will have time to figure out a solution before SB328 is enforced in 2020. Palo Alto has severe congestion on some school routes now and traffic generally increases at about 2%/year in our region. Conditions are likely to worsen between now and 2020. There is no solution to this problem given the inflexibility of the current SB328 language. One example: Palo Alto has one school commute route that serves eleven public and private k-12 schools, including one high school and two middle schools. The road carries approximately 16,000-19,000 car trips/day and serves as arterial access to the Stanford Research Park. It is already severely congested at certain times of day. These schools’ bell times must be staggered. The largest volume of foot-powered student commuters are generated by the secondary schools. Morning peak hour starts at 8:30. This legislation, as it is written, would push all of these walking/bicycling middle and high school students into peak hour traffic which would: 1). Expose foot-powered student commuters to increased conflicts with autos and related safety risk and exposure to increased auto exhaust fumes. This would be neither healthy nor safe for students and it would discourage healthy, active foot-powered commutes to school. 2). When parents see these conditions and perceive risk, they will put their students in cars, further exacerbating auto congestion, creating additional traffic delays that will require students to rise earlier to get to school on time— defeating the goal of getting more sleep. Questions: 1). Have the potential school commute safety and congestion impacts of this legislation been analyzed? 2). Has anyone looked at other communities across California to find out if they might be similarly affected? 3). Has the cost of mitigating traffic safety and congestion impacts of this legislation been studied? We request a delay of any vote on this item to allow adequate time to study transportation impacts/school commute safety implications of SB328 and to consider how to mitigate them. Please protect our community’s ability to continue providing local students with safe school commutes as well as a good nights’ sleep. Thank you for considering our comments. Sincerely, I suggest possible amendment language which might be proposed in addition to or instead of a delay if Council prefers it: (e) The governing board of a school district may request, and the state board may authorize, a waiver to implementation of this section if it can be shown that significant impacts to school commute safety and congestion will result from moving to 8:30am or later. In this case, a City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 10:52 AM 3 school district may move middle school or high school bell times to an earlier time as necessary to minimize risk to students who walk and bike to school up to 8:00am and no earlier. The waiver may be granted to two years, and, upon approval by the state board, may be extended as long as needed with periodic review every five years. From: Penny Ellson [mailto:pellson@pacbell.net] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2017 3:18 PM To: 'board'; 'Council, City' Cc: 'Mello, Joshuah'; 'Audrey Gold'; 'Sara Armstrong'; 'Safe Routes'; 'safercommutepta@googlegroups.com'; 'Marty Martinez'; 'Gitelman, Hillary'; 'Leah Russin' Subject: SB328: Urgent Attention Needed Hi Max, Sharon, Cathy, and Honorable Board of Education and City Council Members, You may be aware of SB328 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB328# which would require all middle schools and high schools to start after 8:30am. This has important implications for Palo Alto because our community’s peak hour commuter traffic rush starts around 8:30am. We stagger our school start times and try to place them before the peak hour rush in order to minimize safety impacts of auto traffic (generated by tens of thousands of inbound commuters going to local jobs) on students who commute on bikes and on foot. This is especially important in areas where arterial and collector streets function as school commute routes and where middle schools and high school share commute routes. SB328 has only recently come to my attention because it was listed by CAPTA as an “attendance” issue, however it is an urgent matter needing our attention as SB328 has already passed the Senate and is scheduled to go to the Assembly Appropriations Committee for a vote this month (probably on August 23 or 30. The agenda has not been posted yet.) As you know, the PTAs do not meet over the summer, so my ability to take action through the PTA is very limited. I am reaching out to you for some advice on actions we might take together Actions I have taken so far:  I have reached out to CoPA Chief Transportation Official Josh Mello and Planning Director Hillary Gitelman to get their professional assessment of potential impacts. Josh has been out on paternity leave, so his response to my inquiries was delayed. He returned this week and shared that the engineering team is concerned about congestion and safety impacts of putting students on school routes during the morning peak hour which starts around 8:30am. Further, he said it was possible that this change might also push some secondary school student commuters into the early part of the evening peak. Because this bill came up over the summer, it is not on the city’s legislative agenda. City staff has made the city’s lobbyist aware of this bill. However, the lobbyist takes direction from Council. Council is copied on this email. It would be helpful to learn more about the legislation and process and what the city’s options may be.  I checked with a CAPTA advocacy rep and learned that CAPTA never considered traffic safety impacts in their analysis of the legislation. Based on a preliminary search of letters of support and supporting research offered by the Senators who wrote the bill, I see no evidence that they and bill proponents (including CAPTA) ever considered traffic safety impacts of the legislation at all. CAPTA’s advocacy rep Carol Kocivar suggested possible amendment language that is unlikely to make a difference (which she has not sent me in writing and also said it “may or may not pass”). In a nutshell, based on what she said, I understand the amendment language would enable a school to open and receive students 15 minutes before an 8:30 start time to allow students who want to avoid the commute rush to come early. I explained many reasons why this would not work (chief among them being who is going to arrive early for a non-compulsory arrival time?) and also explained that I think this is a complicated traffic safety matter that really deserves the attention of transportation professionals and should not be decided by a group of PTA volunteers who have no technical understanding of statewide school commute patterns. I asked her to consider requesting a delay of the Assembly vote to enable study of school commute safety impacts and see if we could identify an amendment that might work. This request was not supported. Honestly, to be fair, she was getting ready to leave City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 10:52 AM 4 for a vacation, and I got the impression she didn’t have time needed to thoroughly address the issues. I’m not sure who, if anyone, in CAPTA was notified of these concerns. She didn’t share that with me.  I reached out to National Safe Routes to School Partnership and state legislative reps there. They were completely unaware of this legislation which was listed as an ATTENDANCE item. They are concerned that transportation was not considered and we are scheduled to talk about how they might help on Monday.  I have reached out to our local PTA leadership and our local SRTS team—who are limited in actions they can take because there are no PTA meetings over the summer. No Palo Alto PTA votes can be taken on advocacy issues until September—too late to influence the Assembly vote.  I reached out (as an individual) on Friday by phone and Saturday by email to Senators Portantino and Pan, the co-writers of SB328, to raise my concerns that traffic safety analysis had not been done and to explain potential problems this may cause in Palo Alto and probably in other communities. I have asked them to consider delaying the vote to provide time for that analysis and possible amendment of the language. I have not yet heard back from either Senator.  I am reaching out to you. While I generally support later start times in conformance with new research on adolescent sleep needs, I believe that school commute safety is equally important to students’ health, well-being, stress reduction and safety. These needs must be considered as well before a vote is taken. Some balance is needed. As it stands, from a transportation perspective, SB328 will create risk for student commuters in our community. PAUSD has more than 4,000 students per day biking to PAUSD schools and about 14% of students walking now. I hope we can work together to make a strong advocacy effort to protect their safety. I realize the timing is terrible with start of school imminent and so many people away on summer breaks. Nonetheless, this is an important matter that needs our quick attention if we are to be effective amending this legislation. Can you share PAUSD’s position on SB328, and would you be willing to meet soon with SRTS partners to discuss a collaborative strategy to make sure this bill considers/addresses the traffic safety needs of children in our community? Please let me know how you would like to proceed. Thank you. Sincerely, Penny Ellson City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 8:10 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:public.records.request.tracking@gmail.com Sent:Monday, August 14, 2017 6:43 AM To:Carnahan, David Cc:Watson, Ron; Keene, James; Council, City Subject:Fwd: Profiling Allegation California Public Records Request - Copy of MAV Video alleged racial profiling stop incident # (*13-104-0047) Mark Petersen-Perez palo alto free press Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: stephen.connolly@oirgroup.com Date: May 6, 2013 at 9:31:46 PM CST To: "Palo Alto Free Press" <paloaltofreepress@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Profiling Allegation Dear Mr. Petersen-Perez: I will send this along to PAPD, and monitor the Department's ensuing response. I will also be in touch regarding your offer to reach out to the involved motorist regarding her possible cooperation with an interview, etc. Best regards, Stephen J. Connolly . Hello Mr. Connolly: *Overview of alleged profiling stop **incident # 13-104-0047* The date and approx time in which this event occured: Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 10:30 AM - An email was sent to Lt. Zachery Perron . City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 8:10 AM 2 The context of which follows: Hi Mr. Parron: This traffic stop occurred this morning at approx 10:30am on University Ave. Driver was Latino. I had the opportunity to interview the driver and passenger. I was disturbed by the series of first questions asked. 1. Have you ever been arrested 2. Do you have any felony convictions. 3. What do you have in the vehicle. Female passenger of this vehicle has been stopped by PAPD four time this year. Please preserve MAV tape of this stop so I may confirm and review potential discriminatory line of questioning. (Future story) FYI Officer Manual Temorez <http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=19756>was one of the officers present. Please let me know when the MAV tape is available for review......or any legal reasons for denial. Thanks so much, Mark *Public Records Request to review MAV recording denied from city: * Scheff, Lisa Apr 25 (11 days ago) to me, Zachary Mr. Petersen-Perez, After reading through this email, I see that you have requested to see the MAV for the below incident. Unfortunate, the MAV is exempt from the CPRA under Government Code 6254(k)-Penal Code Section 1054.5. *Response to city - Sent to city attorney's office: May 1, 2013 at 11:20 AM* City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 8:10 AM 3 To: "Sharon.Hanks@cityofpaloalto.org" <Sharon.Hanks@cityofpaloalto.org> CPRA - Section 6255. "The agency shall justify withholding any record by demonstrating that the record in question is exempt under express provisions of this chapter or that on the facts of the particular case the public interest served by not making the record public clearly outweighs the public interest served by disclosure of the record." Furthermore, a member of the public who believes that public records are being improperly withheld may bring suit for mandate to enforce the CPRA. Govt. Code §§ 6258, 6259(a). If the Court finds that the public official's decision to refuse disclosure is not justified, it shall order the public official to make the records public. §6259(b). Therefore, please consider, Any reasonably segregable portion of a record shall be available for inspection by any person requesting the record after deletion of the portions that are exempted by law.” Gov. Code §6253(a). *Chief Dennis Burns (appearance) commitment to the community on racial profiling more importantly transparency* *of complaint process* *(related story)* http://paloaltofreepress.com/pa-racial-profiling-goes-unchecked-citizens- encouraged-too-report-police-wrongdoing/ The indecent number (*13-104-0047) *should provide additional details of all officers and victims of this alleged racial profiling stop. If in fact you find it necessary to contact the victims, I will send an email seeking their permission. Our objective is to engage the community involvement in reporting potential City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 8:10 AM 4 unconstitutional activities of the PAPD. Our concern is one of transparency and how now, the city's reaction to this reporting by throwing out case law as a matter of *convenience* in preventing the reporting and or citizen community involvement of alleged police wrongdoing without providing further mandated CPRA justification as required. Kind regards, Mark On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 3:56 PM, <stephen.connolly@oirgroup.com> wrote: Dear Mr. Petersen-Perez: Thank you for your reply. As I mentioned, I would be happy to facilitate. My understanding from PAPD is that it will consider "3rd party" allegations. However, at some point the Department's ability to frame the complaint and to investigate possible misconduct may depend on the further involvement of those persons most knowledgeable of the facts, and whose perceptions may be central to a thorough evaluation. For now, could you please provide whatever details you have about the particulars of the traffic stop at issue? (Date and time and location of occurrence, involved officer's name, etc.) I will be sure to send the information along, and to monitor the Department's response. Also, please let me know whether the individuals you cite in your article are willing to participate in interviews, or whether you yourself can provide City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 8:10 AM 5 additional information to the Department on their behalf. Best regards, Stephen J. Connolly IPA Mr. Connolly: Thank you. Yes, this would be classified as 3rd party complaint......On a personal note, this was a missed opportunity for the PAPD to allow a journalist or any other citizen to review the MAV recording of this incident to dispel any hint of racial profiling. In denying the review, again my personal observations, is tantamount to a racial profiling cover-up in light of Chief Dennis Burns commitment to the community.< http://paloaltofreepress.com/pa-racial-profiling-goes-unchecked- citizens-encouraged-too-report-police-wrongdoing/ I hope I'm wrong.....and we look forward to a follow-up story..... Kind regards, Mark On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:09 PM, <stephen.connolly@oirgroup.com> wrote: Dear Mr. Peterson-Perez: I am a colleague of Michael Gennaco's within OIR Group (though I am relatively new to the Palo Alto auditing assignment). He has made me City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 8:10 AM 6 aware of your recent correspondence. As you may recall from previous dealings with Mr. Gennaco and/or Rob Miller, we do not conduct our own investigations, but are happy to facilitate communications with the Police Department and to monitor the Department's subsequent administrative response to citizen complaints. I understand the issues raised within your news article. Would you like any assistance in making a specific formal complaint with PAPD? If you have done so already, we will be able to track its progress and to report out on the Department's handling of the case. Let me know, and thanks. Best regards, Stephen J. Connolly IPA. -- "We don't print racy material, we just expose the "Naked" truth!!" sm * el lugar adecuado en el momento oportuno* Editor - Mark Petersen-Perez -- City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 8:10 AM 7 "We don't print racy material, we just expose the "Naked" truth!!" sm * el lugar adecuado en el momento oportuno* Editor - Mark Petersen-Perez City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 8:00 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:greenacres@sonic.net Sent:Friday, August 11, 2017 8:55 PM To:Council, City Subject:Fwd: re: Letter to Donald Drive Residents Attachments:image001 214.png Importance:High Someday, somehow, it would really be nice if the City Council and staff would live by the Golden Rule, and consider the residents on the South side of town people worthy of COMMUNICATING WITH instead of being dictated to. You do realize that Bowman International's improvements are going smoothly because they reached out and are working with the neighborhood? This is a neighborhood of really nice, smart people who are extraordinarily giving and willing to help civically. We only complain when we are dictated to and unnecessary, poorly designed, poorly conceived messes like this happen and we are then treated to a bunch of after-the-fact CYA. With all these revenue-generating hotels going up, I am beginning to wonder if someday the South Side of town secedes the way Piedmont did. I hope the Council will take seriously why, after what happened at Maybell, once again residents were not informed or brought into the process. When I contacted the City about the bike improvements, I was told that Donald was not going to be marked up because of the "residential character". Meanwhile, safety issues we have been expressing concerns about for years go ignored. A long-time, dear friend, a Palo Alto resident who walked a lot and who I know was intelligent and careful, was hit and killed by a car near his home this year, and his wife seriously injured. I don't even have it in me to engage over the worsening safety conditions in this town and how things like this marking mess on Donald are less than window dressing, while the real issues, and the poor traffic circulation because of bad planning, go unaddressed. I witnessed a razor thin near-miss head-on collision between a minivan and two other cars on Park Avenue recently, CLEARLY the result of confusion related to the wishful-thinking markings. If you have to go to great lengths to explain traffic markings to people to get them to use them right, they are not safe. The City should NOT be sending people to make sure things go "smoothly" the first day of school unless whoever it is is planning on being there for every new person who has never had the advantage of that help. I realize they will anyway; if it doesn't stick, may we please have your word that you will reverse this? It is not safe to have cars turning left from so far back and with no visibility to the left, since people run the light at Arastradero so commonly. Grumpily yours, Anne Dear Chris, City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 8:00 AM 2 The most important safety improvement that could be made anywhere near there is for a crossing guard to be stationed at Donald and Maybell in the morning, so that kids biking to Terman can reasonably expect to enter the road at Donald (instead of driving up the left as is the problem this alleged fix is supposed to address), and that children walking to Briones Elementary can safely cross without being swarmed and even hit by high school students on bikes. The second safety improvement is for the bikes to all take Maybell instead of being directed through the elementary school, as we were promised would happen when Maybell was improved, but instead the City made markings on the school yard and figured a few signs would fix any behavioral issues. I have myself witnessed multiple collisions between students on bikes and elementary pedestrians because there is no way signage fixes a safety problem of putting a road between the elementary school classrooms and the playground. In fact, the large red STOP sign at Donald and Maybell seems mostly to be utterly ignored by high school students coming and going on bikes. Anyone who decides unilaterally to obey the law could endanger themselves and anyone of the gaggle they are with who inevitably won't stop. The police have come and gone giving warnings and tickets there for years, and neighbors have complained there for YEARS, far longer than you have been with the City. If we had not been ignored, then this "problem" you have apparently put so much effort into (without, somehow, bothering to do any of the many things you might have done to engage the neighbors who live here for their feedback - though I will say I asked the City about whether there would be changes on Donald and was told No) would not be an issue, because kids could actually turn left from Maybell onto Donald in the morning. Do you really think a little "wrong way" sign on the sidewalk and a box at the end of the road is going to make everyone magically do what you want, when just right up the street, every school day, hundreds of students simply do not obey the existing STOP sign? The solution is just to put a crossing guard there, period. That would have been a far better use of time and funds. And it should have been tried before this mess at the end of Donald. Anne Dear Residents of Donald Drive, I am sending a letter out by snail mail now, and I wanted to email a digital copy out as well (attached). The mailed letter will be received by residents of Donald Dr from Maybell to Arastradero Rd. If you could also please share it via the Greenacres yahoo group I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you and have a good weekend! City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 8:00 AM 3 Chris Corrao Chris Corrao, AICP, Senior Transportation Planner City of Palo Alto Planning + Community Environment 250 Hamilton Avenue | Palo Alto, CA 94301 Ph: (650) 329-2106 Fax: (650) 329-2154 Use Palo Alto 311 to report items you'd like the City to fix. Download the app or click here to make a service request. Please think of the environment before printing this email - Thank you! Content-Type: image/png; name="image001.png" Content-Description: image001.png Content-Disposition: inline; filename="image001.png"; size=11845; creation-date="Sat, 12 Aug 2017 00:34:02 GMT"; modification-date="Sat, 12 Aug 2017 00:34:02 GMT" Content-ID: <image001.png@01D312C8.03E58910> Content-Type: application/pdf; name="2017-08- 11_Donald_Arastradero_SafeRoutes_Improvements.pdf" Content-Description: 2017-08- 11_Donald_Arastradero_SafeRoutes_Improvements.pdf Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="2017-08- 11_Donald_Arastradero_SafeRoutes_Improvements.pdf"; size=810890; creation-date="Sat, 12 Aug 2017 00:26:57 GMT"; modification-date="Sat, 12 Aug 2017 00:34:02 GMT" City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 8:09 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Palo Alto Free Press <paloaltofreepress@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, August 14, 2017 6:33 AM To:michael.gennaco@oirgroup.com; stephen.connolly@oirgroup.com; Watson, Ron; Keene, James; Council, City; Kniss, Liz (external); Scharff, Greg; Perron, Zachary Subject:Fwd: Third Party Complaint Attachments:Mr. Peterson-Perez third party complaint September 2013.pdf You will now have to explain why you did not accept our 3rd complaint concerning Tony Ciampi's recent detention / arrest Mark Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: "Beacom, Bob" <Bob.Beacom@CityofPaloAlto.org> Date: September 30, 2013 at 12:34:21 PM CST To: "paloaltofreepress@gmail.com" <paloaltofreepress@gmail.com> Subject: Third Party Complaint Hello Mr. Peterson‐Perez: I just sent you an email asking for an address where I could forward you some correspondence but learned from your out of office reply that you have already embarked on your trip. I hope you have a safe and enjoyable journey. Attached is a copy of our finding for your third party complaint against Officer Temores stemming from a traffic stop on April 14, 2013. Please feel free to call me if you have any questions. Thank you. Bob Beacom Palo Alto Police City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 11:09 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Nadia Naik <nadianaik@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, August 15, 2017 10:35 AM To:Council, City; Keene, James; Gitelman, Hillary; Mello, Joshuah; Shikada, Ed; Planning Commission Subject:How many lanes of traffic does Caltrain handle? At a recent PTC meeting, the issue of why Palo Alto supports Caltrain modernization was raised. The answer is that an electrified Caltrain increases Caltrain's capacity which reduces local congestion and traffic. And grade separations allow Caltrain to increase capacity even further (and have an even more direct reduction in local congestion because cars no longer have to wait for the train). But how much traffic freeway traffic does Caltrain absorb? Clem Tillier has an excellent blog post going through the math. It is worth a read. (highlighting is mine) If you want to see the comments - visit the blog itself. http://caltrain-hsr.blogspot.com/2017/08/freeway-lanes-of-caltrain.html Freeway Lanes of Caltrain If everyone drove instead of taking Caltrain, how many more lanes would peninsula freeways need to absorb the additional traffic? The way to answer this question is to count how many train passengers ride past any given location, in each direction, within the span of one hour. Caltrain publishes all the information you need to do this calculation rigorously, without making any assumptions: the timetable tells you when each train passes each location, and the 2016 weekday passenger count by train tells you how many people are on board that train at that time. Four cases are considered: morning northbound, evening northbound, morning southbound, and evening southbound. Rather than picking a fixed morning and evening hour over which to count passengers, we slide a one-hour window across the peak period until we find the peak hour at each location, during which the most passengers ride past. Caltrain operates five trains per hour per direction repeating on an hourly cadence, so we never count more than five trains in the totals. It is an easy but tedious calculation, perfectly suited for a computer. This is what pops out: City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 11:09 AM 2 This graph reveals many of the features noted in ridership reports: the flow is asymmetrical with more riders traveling northbound AM / southbound PM, the Gilroy branch is dead, Stanford generates enormous ridership, etc. Translation to Freeway Lanes To convert the number of Caltrain passengers into freeway lanes, very few assumptions are needed, and those we need can be backed up by references. 1. A congested freeway lane operating at 45 mph can carry 2000 passenger cars per hour, according to the Federal Highway Administration's HPMS Field Manual (Parameter values: FFS = 45 mph, BaseCap = 2150 pcphpl, PHF = 0.95, fHV = 0.98, fp = 1.0). 2. The average vehicle occupancy (AVO) is 1.3 people, based on two studies of the 101 corridor in San Mateo County. This figure includes buses, van pools and corporate shuttles. This means a single freeway lane can theoretically carry 2600 people in one hour. Note this is a very optimistic figure because slight perturbations in the flow of traffic can cause slow-downs that reduce throughput due to lower free flow speed (FFS). But we'll use this very high number to make an extremely conservative estimate of how many lanes of freeway can carry all of Caltrain's ridership. Freeway lanes typically do not change directions to accommodate peak flows. That means we must consider northbound lanes separately from southbound lanes, with no possibility of re-allocating the lane capacity to accommodate the AM/PM flow asymmetry that is observed on Caltrain. In practice, this means we must add the northbound peak flow (AM or PM, whichever is highest) to the southbound peak flow (again the highest of AM or PM) to size the number of equivalent freeway lanes. Looking at the graph above, which shows the highest flow is northbound AM and southbound PM, we must add AM northbound and PM southbound people per hour, and divide by 2600 people per hour per freeway lane. Here is the result: City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 11:09 AM 3 So as of 2016, plain old diesel Caltrain equals about 2.5 lanes of freeway, including both directions. If you integrate the area under this curve, you get how many lane-miles of freeway would be needed to replace Caltrain. That number is 119 lane-miles. These are very conservative lower bounds. When you hear the argument that "millions" of people use highway 101 but only about 30,000 people use Caltrain, shut it down with facts: today Caltrain amounts to 2.5 / 8 or at least 30% of the lane capacity of highway 101 during rush hour. The reply might be that not all those people would end up on 101, but with an average trip length of 23 miles, which driver wouldn't use a freeway? Future Capacity Implications Caltrain capacity is set to increase considerably, first by ~30% with the initial electrification and modernization project, and by ~60% once the system is running at 6 trains per hour with 8 cars each. (If you don't count standees, those figures are ~10% and ~25%, but why would you not count standees?) A 60% capacity increase is equivalent to one and a half lanes added to the entire length of highway 101 from San Jose to San Francisco. It doesn't have to stop there: more trains per hour and longer trains are possible, because EMU trains scale up in a way that diesel can't. A future Caltrain capacity increase to about 10,000 passengers per peak hour per direction (about triple today's throughput) isn't out of the question, does not require adding tracks or expanding the rail corridor, and would equate to adding 5 new freeway lanes. In certain quarters of Silicon Valley that are enamored of Hyperloops, self-driving Teslas and Boring underground tunnels, electric Caltrain is looked down upon as a last-century technology that is about to be made obsolete. That particular outlook fails to grasp the importance of throughput or to recognize the enormous carrying capacity of modern electric rail. Self-driving Teslas and Hyperloops will achieve dismal throughput capacity as measured in passengers per hour, and no amount of whiz-bang technology will change the underlying geometry of this increasingly urban region. The way forward is to add more freeway lanes of Caltrain. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 9:10 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Deborah Goldeen <palamino@pacbell.net> Sent:Monday, August 14, 2017 9:01 AM To:Council, City Subject:iSing iSing, the organization that is being ousted from the Baptist Church on Bryant and California because so many residents feel that they should be able to drive their cars, but no one else should, is a fabulous organization that brings enormous social and cultural value to our kids and to our community. I can not be at meeting tonight to speak as I work evenings. Please work to find some other option than kicking them out. Thanks. Deb Goldeen 2130 Birch St. 94306 321‐7375 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 4:34 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:James Little <jglittle@aol.com> Sent:Monday, August 14, 2017 4:26 PM To:Council, City Subject:Message from the City Council Home Page Dear Palo Alto City Council My wife and I have lived in Palo Alto since 2006 (and owned property in Palo Alto since 2000). We are long time folk dancers and musicians. We have attended Stanford Folk Dancers (international dancing) and Northern California Spelmanslag (Scandinavian dancing) events and concerts held at the First Baptist Church for many years. We are appalled that all of the groups that rent space from the First Baptist Church should be forced to seek new venues because of overzealous code enforcement based on complaints from neighbors of the church that could most likely be resolved by negotiation with the church. We think that First Baptist Church provides a valuable community resource by renting space to community based cultural and social groups. We think that the zoning code should be revised to permit these rentals as part of the outreach activities of the church. James Little and Linda Persson ‐‐ James Little jglittle64@alumni.rice.edu City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:47 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Gertrude Reagan <trudy@myrrh-art.com> Sent:Wednesday, August 9, 2017 3:19 PM To:Council, City Subject:Message from the City Council Home Page Dear Council Members— I can’t tell you how distressed I was to learn about the “non‐conforming” tenants being kicked out of First Baptist Church. I would have written you sooner, but I have been ill. I am a member of a congregation in a residential neighborhood, Palo Alto Friends Meeting, and it is active in the Hotel de Zink program. I have also been an organizer of a shoe‐string non‐profit arts group that held forums. We were the beneficiaries of free space at such facilities, which helped it get off the ground. A lot of worthwhile programs could not exist without the existence of free or low‐cost space. About 35 years ago, city facilities began charging rent on its spaces, for instance at the Palo Alto Cultural Center (as it then was.) Now, a lot of city‐subsidized space will disappear at Cubberley. If all the Churches that offer space that are in residential neighborhoods were brave enough to list all the organizations that they allow to use their facilities, you would see what a benefit this is to the whole community and beyond. But, they don’t want to be found in violation with stiff penalties. I understand that what sparked this was a complaint. I believe that a variance in the code is warranted, and that mediation between the parties and the church could solve a lot of the problem. Adjustments could be made (soundproofing, etc.). The church may have been there before the offended party bought the home, and should be grandfathered in. Please keep me apprised of progress on this issue. ‐‐Gertrude Reagan Trudy Myrrh Reagan www.myrrh‐art.com Founder of YLEM: Artists Using Science and Technology, which lasted 28 years. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 10:53 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:jamespoppy@comcast.net Sent:Tuesday, August 15, 2017 9:39 AM To:Council, City Subject:More Lies Last Night from Castilleja at City Council Meeting Dear Councilmembers, I have faith in your intelligence that you can see past the shameful display Castilleja put on last night during public comments. They tried to draft off of the iSing vibe in order to promote their own agenda, and they told blatant lies to your face. Castilleja is not working with the neighbors; they continue to promote falsehoods through direct mail pieces and through their private PR firm. The only meetings with the school are those mandated by the conditions of the CUP violations. Castilleja is not integrated into the neighborhood. Drive around the neighborhood and see all of the protest signs for yourself. Why does Castilleja have permission to hold 100+ events, when other private schools in Palo Alto can have a maximum of ten, or none at all? The City of Palo Alto determined in 2001 that 415 students is the maximum for the space. That has not changed. Are you going to continue the legacy of favoritism towards the school or will you finally stand up for residents? Residents have gained nothing in the last 20 years. Are you in favor of residents who pay taxes or do you support a business that pays no taxes? Your campaign rhetoric is hollow. Please read the recent PA editorial. https://www.paloaltoonline.com/print/story/2017/06/16/editorial-castillejas-unwise-stubbornness Jim Poppy 135 Melville Ave (40 years) City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 11:09 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Arlene Goetze <photowrite67@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, August 15, 2017 10:26 AM To:Ken Yeager; Joe Simitian Subject:NO compensation for Vaccine damaged kids Educational email: Arlene Goetze, No Toxins for Children, photowrite67@yaho.com Shalala Takes Away Compensation for DPT Injured Children by Barbara Loe Fisher, Natl. Vaccine Information Center Published August 9, 2017 | Vaccination, History\ * During past 7 years, $500 million paid to vaccine-injured children * Whole cell pertussis vaccine in the DPT shot caused death * HHS Donna Shalala defies compensation law for DPT vaccine damage * HHS actively opposed passage of the vaccine safety and compensation law * HHS, FDA, CDC work to take away children's rights to compensation * Pediatricians shielded from liability since 1986 * Misleading evidence on DPT shot given public and Congress “When a mother takes her child into a doctor’s office to be vaccinated, particularly with DPT, she had better understand that if her child reacts and is injured, there Is no government program to help with medical bills or therapy for her child.” — Kathi Williams, National Vaccine Information Center Editor’s Note: Between 1995 and 2005 The Vaccine Reaction was published in print form and mailed to supporters of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC). This was the lead article in the first edition published in March 1995, and it is the first in a series of articles written by TVR founder and Executive Editor Barbara Loe Fisher being republished in TVR to provide an historical context to the conversation about vaccination, health and autonomy in the U.S. today. In a calculated move designed to bolster the federal government’s claim that the DPT vaccine does not kill or injure children, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Donna Shalala and her department published final rules in the Federal Register (Vo. 60, No. 26 – Wed. Feb. 8, 1995) that effectively destroyed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. HHS’s action makes it impossible for most children injured or killed by DPT vaccine to receive compensation under the no-fault federal vaccine injury compensation program Congress set up nearly a decade ago as a non-adversarial alternative to lawsuits against drug companies and physicians. “America no longer has a vaccine injury compensation program,” said Kathi Williams, Director of NVIC. “When a mother takes her child into a doctor’s office to be vaccinated, particularly with DPT, she had better understand that if her child reacts and is injured, City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 11:09 AM 2 there Is no government program to help with medical bills or therapy for her child.” Nobody Will Qualify As of Mar. 10, 1995, the only adverse events presumed to be associated with DPT vaccination are anaphylaxis occurring within four hours and encephalopathy/encephalitis (brain inflammation) occurring within 72 hours of a DPT vaccination. In order to qualify under HHS’s new definition of encephalopathy, a child would have to exhibit a “significantly decreased level of unconsciousness” (unconsciousness or inability to respond to most stimuli) for more than 24 hours following a DPT shot or be hospitalized. No longer will a child, who suffers classic pertussis vaccine reaction symptoms such as high pitched screaming, collapse/shock, bulging fontanelle, or seizures within 72 hours of a DPT vaccination and sustains permanent neurological damage, including a residual seizure disorder, be presumed to be eligible for compensation in the federal program. One lawyer who represents vaccine injured children in the U.S. Court of Claims, commented, “What you have now can be compared to a federal program that will compensate anyone who is in a plane crash in a snow storm within 10 miles of Tahiti. Nobody will ever qualify.” Vaccine Advisory Commission Protests The Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV), formerly headed by Georges Peter, MD, and now chaired by Curtis Webb, a plaintiff’s lawyer from Twin Falls, Idaho, voted on Mar. 1, 1995 to send a formal request to HHS Secretary Donna Shalala recommending that she “indefinitely postpone” the effective data of the portion of the final rules that removes seizure disorders from the vaccine injury table for DPT vaccine and changes the definition of encephalopathy in the 1986 law. ACCV, which is composed of doctors, lawyers, parents and consumers, had asked HHS to show them the final rules before they were published on Feb. 8, 1995, but HHS refused. The ACCV vote was split, with three doctors and a vaccine manufacturer representative voting to endorse the new rules and five consumers, parents and lawyers voting to oppose them. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act was passed after years of negotiations between the vaccine manufacturers, American Academy of Pediatrics and Dissatisfied Parents Together (DPT). The law set up a compensation program funded by surcharges on each vaccine given (in effect it is a self-insurance program for each individual who is vaccinated) and currently the compensation fund has accumulated more than 825 million dollars in reserves. HHS actively opposed passage of the vaccine safety and compensation law. CDC and FDA Officials Defy the Law In the past seven years during which time the law has been in effect, more than 500 million dollars has been awarded to vaccine victims, most of whom were injured or killed by the whole cell pertussis vaccine in the DPT shot. Unhappy with the fact that so many awards are being given for DPT vaccine injuries and deaths because each award is an acknowledgement that the vaccine can kill and injure, HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have been actively working to defy the law and will of Congress by taking actions to weaken the law’s compensation and vaccine safety provisions. Among their accomplishments are: * distorting scientific information provided by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on DPT vaccine side effects in order to mislead the public and Congress into believing that the pertussis vaccine almost never causes permanent damage, and that children who die or are brain injured after being vaccinated with DPT are inherently defective and would have City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 11:09 AM 3 died or been brain injured even if no vaccine had been given. * subverting Congress’s mandate that HHS provide parents with complete information on vaccine benefits and risks by eliminating most truthful information about vaccine risks from the parent information packet [Vaccine Information Statements]; * deliberately covering up vaccine injuries and deaths by refusing to follow up on reports of adverse events following vaccination and failing to identify highly reactive lots of vaccine and pull them off the market; * successfully fighting almost every vaccine injury claim that is filed using well paid Department of Justice lawyers and HHS sponsored medical witnesses that turn U.S. Court of Claims compensation hearings into court trials, while simultaneously dragging out the bureaucratic process to the point where few lawyers will represent parents in the compensation program because legal costs are too high; * offering so little compensation to many vaccine injured children, who are mentally retarded, epileptic and multiply handicapped compared to what the child financially requires for a lifetime of care, that parents are forced to turn down the compensation award because they can’t afford to lose public assistance; and * continuing to place newborn babies at increased risk of vaccine injury and death by failing to approve use of the less reactive acellular pertussis vaccine in children under 18 months of age and, at the same time, allowing the drug companies to create new combined vaccines, such as DPT and HIB, using the reactive whole cell pertussis vaccine. Shalala Takes Vaccine Injured Girl to the Supreme Court In her zeal to cover up DPT vaccine injuries by denying federal compensation to vaccine injured children, HHS Secretary Donna Shalala has taken DPT vaccine-injured Maggie Whitecotton, now 19 years old, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Maggie, sitting in her wheelchair with her parents beside her, was in the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on a rainy and cold Feb. 28, 1995 day to witness the Court’s nine justices hearing of oral arguments in the case of Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services vs. Maggie Whitecotton. Maggie’s parents are fighting for their daughter’s right to receive compensation under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 because Maggie’s DPT vaccine seizure reaction falls within guidelines approved by Congress in 1986. Government Says Maggie, Not the Vaccine Was to Blame Maggie was a healthy baby who developed normally, even though her head size at birth was at the low end of the head circumference chart. Within six hours of her third DPT shot, she suffered her first seizure, followed by a series of seizures 30 hours later. After her vaccine reaction, she stopped developing normally and, today, Maggie is severely brain injured with multiple handicaps that make her totally dependent on her parents for daily care. Shalala, together with HHS doctors and U.S. Department of Justice lawyers, contend that Maggie should not receive federal compensation because her head was smaller than normal at birth and she would have been brain damaged even if she had never gotten a DPT shot. Dissatisfied Parents Together (DPT) which operates the National Vaccine Information Center and the United Cerebral Palsy Association, the National Tuberous Sclerosis Association, and the Center on Disability and Health filed an amici brief in support of Maggie’s right to receive compensation for her vaccine injuries. The American Academy of Pediatrics, which represents pediatricians in private practice who give children such as Maggie DPT shots everyday [and were shielded from vaccine injury lawsuits in the 1986 law] filed a brief supporting Shalala and her attempt to take compensation away from Maggie. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 11:09 AM 4  The Smallpox Vaccine Was No Silver Bullet Published June 6, 2017 Modern beliefs and opinions about the validity of vaccine science are based on the thinking and observations of British physician... Read |12 Comments |Share  Oral Polio Vaccine Was Contaminated with Monkey Viruses Published October 15, 2016 Public health officials in the United States today recommend that infants in the U.S. receive four doses of an inactivated,... City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 11:08 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Shannon Keuter <shannon0126@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, August 15, 2017 9:59 AM To:Council, City Subject:"No parking 9-10 on school days" signs in Green Acres II Hello, I am writing to something that has been a huge pain for residents for years, and I'm not sure it has brought any gains or is worth it at all. Please consider the point of view of residents and their guests thoroughly and consider alternative options to the current system. What I am referring to is the signs on Georgia Avenue between Juana Briones Elementary and Gunn High. These signs say "No Parking 9-10am on school days". Evidently, the impetus behind this parking restriction was that residents were annoyed that Gunn students were using Georgia Avenue as a parking lot, instead of using the Gunn High parking lot. However, the result is that people who live on Georgia Avenue and their guests cannot park there from 9-10 every day! This is a *huge* inconvenience. My parents, Stephen and Nancy Madsen, live at 639 Georgia and I visit them frequently. But I have to move my car every morning at 9:00 into their driveway (thereby blocking them in) and then move it out of the way if they need it, and/or move it back to the street at 10:00am. This is ridiculous, I hope you will see. Residents of Georgia Avenue should be able to have guests and they shouldn't have to do that. One time I pointed out to my mom that it doesn't seem like the street is being patrolled so why don't I just risk it and leave my car there because it is such an enormous hassle to have to move it every day, but she didn't think it would be worth the risk of a huge ticket. If you are unwilling to consider simply removing the parking restriction, I think I have another solution, which is to issue Guest Placards to residents of the area, who can then give the placards to guests. The placards could be hung from the rear-view mirror, showing that they are a guest of a local resident and not a Gunn student parking on the street instead of in the Gunn parking lot. I urge you once again to consider the origin of this parking restriction and weigh it against the effect it is actually having on RESIDENTS and their guests. Is this parking restriction actually helping? Or is it causing more trouble than it is helping? And are there workarounds like guest placards? Please. Please please please. This has been an annoyance for *years*, and I was in touch with a former city council member about it (just personal communication) and nothing ever happened. Please consider this request and consider the possibility that sometimes laws or parking restrictions either just don't make sense, or they do more harm than good. Thank you very, very much. Sincerely, Shannon Madsen Keuter Daughter of Stephen and Nancy Madsen City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 11:08 AM 2 639 Georgia Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306 My phone number: 650-793-6787 Their phone number: 650-493-2079 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 10:52 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Sharleen Fiddaman <sf@sharleenfiddaman.com> Sent:Monday, August 14, 2017 8:00 PM To:Council, City Subject:no Verizon cell towers in Old PA City Council, I urge you to protect our neighborhoods, especially Old Palo Alto, from the installation of Verizon cell towers! These would be ugly and noisy, disturbing our peace and quiet, and quite possible lowering our home values. Thank you. Sharleen Fiddaman on Webster Street in the Old Palo Alto neighborhood City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 11:49 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:carole/steve eittreim <eittreimcs@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, August 15, 2017 11:46 AM To:Council, City Subject:Parking Garages Dear Mayor and City Council, I wanted to support David Coale's recent letter that suggests you delay the decision about building new parking garages. Hopefully such garages will be obsolete in a decade or two leading to the need to tear them down, if Palo Alto's sustainability plan goals are successful. Alternatively, as suggested by Stew Plock recently, perhaps the garages could be built with a design enabling conversion to low-cost housing in the future. Not being an architect I cannot vouch for the practicality of such an idea, but perhaps it's worth considering. Steve Eittreim 1975 Ivy Lane City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/16/2017 12:23 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:Kiya Mirmozaffari <kmirmoza@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, August 15, 2017 12:56 PM To:Council, City Cc:Melrose Huang Subject:Question about 8/21 Agenda items and participation Hello, My friend and I would like to inform ourselves about the topics being considered by the City Council and attend some meetings going forward. We are new to this and would appreciate your help in guiding us to information about the topics being discussed on the agenda. Also, are there specific things we should know about attending and participating in the public portion of the meeting? At present, my understanding is that we arrive at 250 Hamilton Avenue on Monday at 6 pm and put in a request to speak at the start of the meeting. Is that correct? Thank you very much, Kiya City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:48 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Keene, James Sent:Thursday, August 10, 2017 8:35 AM To:Bob Wenzlau; Council, City Cc:board@neighborsabroad.org Subject:Re: Correspondence to the Sister City of Palo, Leyte Associated with Children's Library Bob, Thank you and Neighbors Abroad for your fine work. James Keene | City Manager 250 Hamilton Avenue | Palo Alto, CA 94301 E: james.keene@cityofpaloalto.org Sent from my Macbook Please think of the environment before printing this email – Thank you From: Bob Wenzlau <bwenzlau@neighborsabroad.org> Date: Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 6:57 AM To: "Council, City" <city.council@cityofpaloalto.org> Cc: "board@neighborsabroad.org" <board@neighborsabroad.org> Subject: Correspondence to the Sister City of Palo, Leyte Associated with Children's Library Honorable City Council, The attached letter was written given the circumstances that the children's library in Palo, Leyte will be closing by the end of this year. Palo Alto had constructed this library on leased land, and the 25‐year lease ended. Those members of Neighbors Abroad that supported the library were devastated by the news given the depth of our commitment. However, the loss marked a transition as now the Mayor of Palo and as such the city of Palo will assimilate the children's library into the municipal city hall. Neighbors Abroad supports and funds the librarians. This to me is a commitment that I inherited as President. The more I learn of the good work of our community and Neighbors Abroad, the more engaged I am with the mission of our sister city programs. I thought it important that you as our City Council be aware of the good work in our sister cities. Positive foreign engagement from the local level is of great symbolic importance. We trust our actions are aiding in this regard. Yours, Bob Bob Wenzlau President Neighbors Abroad of Palo Alto 650-248-4467 Facebook | Web | Twitter August 10, 2017 Hon. Remedios L. Petilla Municipal Mayor Palo, Leyte Philippines Honorable Mayor Petilla, As the President of Neighbors Abroad of Palo Alto, I write to express our organization’s appreciation for the interest Palo’s municipal government has placed in supporting the children’s library. For twenty-five years, we have supported the library and the librarians. As the 25-year lease has ended, and the library must find a new home, our Board was pleased to learn of the support of Palo’s municipal government. As the Mayor of Palo, we understand and applaud your personal interest in this unique children’s library. For Neighbors Abroad of Palo Alto and more broadly the City of Palo Alto, supporting children’s libraries is a core principal. Not only in Palo, but also in Oaxaca, Mexico and across Morocco, Neighbors Abroad has supported helping children discover the wonders of books. Your own local civic organization, the GIANTS Club of Palo, shares the same commitment to children and reading. After fears of loss of this library, we rejoiced to learn that the library will be located in a bright and sunny portion of Palo’s city hall. While we will miss the library we helped build, knowing that a new children’s library is part of the municipal facility gives us confidence in the endurance of a children's library in Palo’s future. Neighbors Abroad will continue to support the children’s librarians. We also are ready to engage and support in future needs associated with the children’s library. While we have our own budgetary constraints, we seek to understand the plans and needs Palo holds for the children’s library. Please share with us how we can support your efforts to support children’s reading. As a representative of Neighbors Abroad, I hope to visit Palo, visit the new library and of course meet you. Palo shares a long history with Palo Alto, and perhaps those are stories that can be shared with our children. There are stories of the original members that created the sister city relation. There are stories of those that built the library. And Honorable Mayor Petilla August 10, 2017 into the future there will be more stories as generations likely will learn and support our relation as sister cities. As your travels allow travel to Palo Alto, know that we welcome you as a guest to our city. Let us explore new ways of engagement including student education exchanges, collaboration in sustainability, and promoting adult visits between our distant cities. Wishing you peace and prosperity. Sincerely, Bob Wenzlau President Neighbors Abroad of Palo Alto cc. Palo Alto City Council GIANTS Club of Palo, Leyte Board of Neighbors Abroad of Palo Alto City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:52 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sent:Thursday, August 10, 2017 1:59 PM To:Maximilian Goetz; Council, City; Loran Harding Subject:Re: Former Sect. of Defense William Perry- Stmt today re N. Korea and U.S. language Thurs. August 10, 2017 Mr. Max Goetz Legislative Aide for Palo Alto City Councilman Greg Tanaka Mr. Goetz- No, I have no concerns about the City of Palo Alto and there is nothing the city can do for me. There is no need for me to meet with Councilman Tanaka. I note that he has a Japanese name, and I have expressed disagreement in my mails with the United States providing a free military defense for all of Europe, Japan and S. Korea when our people have not one inch of high speed rail, millions of our people have no health care, and our graduates leave university owing $50,000. I have also noted that the Japanese and Germans get rich treating our severely wounded every time we fight a war on the rim of Asia or in the middle east, in part to keep them safe to live the good life. I've suggested that Europe, Japan and S. Korea should defend themselves 72 years after WWII. As a GM retiree, I have noted that Japan has never opened its domestic car market to Ford and GM. Perhaps views like that have irritated Councilman Tanaka. If he cares to meet with me in person to discuss those subjects, let me know and we can schedule a meeting in Palo Alto. I had no idea that anyone on the Palo Alto City Council was of Japanese ancestry, but it would not have affected my emails. I send the occasional email to the Palo Alto city council if the topic is of general interest to cities in your area. High speed rail is one which I thought the council might be interested in. The huge "transit village" to be built around Diridon Station in San Jose by Google is one that I thought might be of interest to the council. Building a big transit hub at the current Santa Clara Caltrain station was a recent topic since it would allow Silicon Valley workers riding BART and HSR to easily access Central Expressway, which becomes Alma St. in Palo Alto. My understanding is that Palo Alto does not want a high speed rail station because there is not room at the current Caltrain station for parking. I have written to the council about Uber and Lyft pretty much eliminating the need for a lot of parking at a high speed rail station in Palo Alto, thinking that that might change their feelings about that. I'll bet there are people at Stanford who wish that Palo Alto would get a HSR station. Water issues in the Central Valley and global warming issues are ones which I have included in the mails. Every city needs water, and sea level rise will certainly impact Palo Alto. I thought that information about those topics would be of interest to the Palo Alto City Council. Attempts by the Republicans in Congress to deny health care to 22 million Americans, which sounds like something which Joseph Stalin might have done, defund Planned Parenthood, roll back consumer protection legislation, damage Medicare and Social Security, destroy the unions, ruin the Department of Education, stop high speed rail, gut environmental protection by increasing coal production and damaging the EPA, and many other actions to enrich the one-percent and ruin lives of most Americans, are topics which I thought might be of interest to your council. Perhaps Councilman Tanaka is a Republican. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:52 AM 2 The tenor or your mail to me suggests that my mails to the council are burdensome to them since they do not always involve a topic which they can affect directly. I notice in your mail to me that "the views I state are my own and may not represent those of... the full Council". But, I'll assume that on this topic at least, you do speak for the full Council. To be sure, I will now forward this mail to the full Council. And then I will cease and desist sending emails to your council unless they do indeed relate to something which pertains to Palo Alto specifically and is something which they can address directly. City councils do occasionally express support for or disagreement with actions by the national or state government. Thank you for your mail. Palo Alto is a beautiful, well-governed community. It is a real gem. Mr. L. William Harding Fresno, Ca. (559) 432-4635 On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Maximilian Goetz <max.goetz@gregtanaka.org> wrote: Dear Mr. Harding, My name is Max and I am a legislative aide for Palo Alto City Councilman Greg Tanaka. I have noticed that you frequently send emails to the city council. Do you have any concerns about the city or is there anything the city can do for you? If so, I would be happy to have you meet with Councilman Tanaka in person. Let me know if you would like to schedule a meeting. Best, Max Maximilian Goetz | Legislative Aide Palo Alto City Council Member Tanaka’s Office W: www.GregTanaka.org | D: (650) 665-9734 | E: max.goetz@gregtanaka.org Please think of the environment before printing this email – Thank you. This message contains information that may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the addressee, you may not use, copy or disclose the message or any information contained in the message. If you received the message in error, please notify the sender and delete the message. Views I state are my own and may not represent those of this Office or the full Council. On Aug 9, 2017, at 4:09 PM, Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> wrote: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 3:59 PM Subject: Former Sect. of Defense William Perry- Stmt today re N. Korea and U.S. language To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:52 AM 3 Wed. August 9, 2017 To all- Here is the statement issued today by former Secretary of Defense William Perry regarding the language back and forth between the U.S. and N. Korea re the use of nuclear weapons on each other: https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/news/perry-issues-statement-north-korea-crisis LH City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:53 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Fine, Adrian Sent:Thursday, August 10, 2017 9:23 PM To:Arthur Liberman Cc:Council, City Subject:Re: Music on the Plaza Thanks for the nice note, Arthur and Annie. I also enjoy the music a lot, particularly as I get off the train downtown after work :) Regards Adrian > On Aug 10, 2017, at 17:36, Arthur Liberman <art_liberman@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I am at Lytton Plaza for another of the wonderful Thursday evening Downtown Palo Alto concerts. These are possible only through support of the City of Palo Alto, and so I want to thank you for your sponsorship and associated staff for their support. They bring life to the downtown area and hours of enjoyment to the many attendees. I hope you will sponsor another concert series next year. > > Arthur (& Annie) Liberman > 751 Chimalus Drive > > Sent from my iPhone > City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:46 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Martha <marthalg@sonic.net> Sent:Wednesday, August 9, 2017 2:52 PM To:Council, City Subject:Retail signage Dear City Council members, I realize the council worked hard to ensure that there was a grocery store at the new College Terrace office development. Unfortunately the signage is almost non-existent for the store. Instead there is a huge sign for First Republic where there should be a College Terrace grocery store sign. Our family has noticed this and we read that one of the employees also pointed this out in a newspaper article. Grocery stores have a history of failure in Palo Alto; the lack of signage certainly won't help this store succeed. Can someone from the city rectify this problem? Thank you, Martha Gregory City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 8:07 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Giselle Rahn <gmrahn@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, August 12, 2017 10:11 AM To:Council, City Subject:Shocked at City's lack of maternity leave Dear Council Members, I've become aware of the City of Palo Alto's appalling lack of a parental leave policy for city employees. Not only is the City of Palo Alto behind the times in not offering a leave policy to new fathers, we don't even offer a basic paid-leave policy for women who have just given birth. Of all the cities in the area, I would expect reasonable treatment of parents and families from Palo Alto. I was incredulous when I first heard about this from my friend - a highly qualified and capable employee, and expectant mother, working for the City of Palo Alto. I prodded her for details - “You mean they have no paid leave of their own to offer, on top of the 16 weeks of partially paid leave you get through SDI and PFL. Correct?”. No - it turns out the City does not even participate in the SDI program. So effectively, the City of Palo Alto offers its employees the following number of days, or hours, even, of paid maternity leave: zero. How can the city expect to retain dedicated and talented employees? Let's explore how a young mother with a growing family could potentially deal with the financial stress of having a child while working at the City of Palo Alto: The first, obvious and inevitable solution, is to piece together any vacation and sick hours she may have accrued - if she’s lucky. The vacation and sick leave of city government employees of today, are anything but generous, contrary to the popular impression we may have made from observing city government employees that joined the workforce over a decade or so ago. So, the young mother first burns through her entire accrued paid leave – vacation and sick, and then, “unpaid” leave kicks in. Depending on the financial situation of a particular Palo Alto mother’s family, the length of her mostly unpaid leave may vary from 2 weeks to a couple of months. The sick and vacation leave benefits for today’s City of Palo Alto employee who hasn’t yet completed 3-4 years of employment with the City of Palo Alto, can amount to as little as 10 vacation days in the year, and 12 sick days per year (these numbers may vary slightly depending on the bargaining unit that the mother belongs to). It would take a City of Palo Alto employee about 6.65 years of never getting sick to accrue 16 weeks of sick leave - the same duration of paid leave that the employee would have received after just 1200 hours of work, had they been working for pretty much any other employer in California - other than the City of Palo Alto. To put things in context, this is the hand being dealt to the City of Palo Alto employees at a time when the state of California, with its progressive agenda, is gearing up to enhance SDI benefits to be 70% tax-free in 2018. As if to add insult to injury, the City of Palo Alto even has a voluntary leave donation program that currently specifically excludes pregnancy and related complications. The first thing that strikes anyone who has ever been a parent, is the sheer irony of the situation of having to return to work so early after having used all sick leave and vacation, and having to send a very young baby to daycare as a result, that makes the need for the sick leave and vacation (also used in lieu of sick leave), that much more necessary! How do parents deal with the now zero balance of sick and vacation hours? Here’s the only solution: more unpaid leave. More financial stress. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 8:07 AM 2 I probably shouldn’t be surprised that I was completely unaware of this, since it turns out that most employees are unaware of this issue festering in their workplace either. They either come face-to-face with it when they’re pregnant and start working their way through Palo Alto’s maternity leave “policy”, only to discover that none exists. Or, in slightly better situations, they find out after they have accepted the offer of employment with the City of Palo Alto, on the day of New Employee Orientation, with a casual mention that the City does not participate in the SDI, and with absolutely no mention of what this means for parents-to-be. And for employees who come to the City of Palo Alto, choosing a life of public service after having worked with several other private companies, and after having the SDI tax deducted from their paychecks for years, the discovery that they are going to get absolutely nothing in return for it is, to put it mildly, a blow. As a Palo Alto resident, I’m appalled and embarrassed that my City, the incubator of some of the most incredibly successful companies, many of who are now pioneers in the area of maternity leave, has not, in this day and age, even made an attempt to ensure a paid maternity leave that values its employees who work hard to make Palo Alto such a great place to live in. Why so few people, including Palo Alto residents like me, aware of this shocking, unfortunate reality that is playing out in our town is about to change, I am organizing parents who live and work in Palo Alto as possible to bring this issue to light. We can do better in advocating for our peers, and we ask that you do better too. City of Palo Alto, I hope you will acknowledge this elephant in the room, and take action to fix this problem immediately. I hope you will change our City from one with the worst (no) maternity leave offerings in the Bay Area, to become a City that pioneers one of the best City maternity leave programs in the country instead. Sincerely, Giselle Rahn gmrahn@gmail.com City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 11:50 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Mary Holzer <mbholzer@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, August 14, 2017 11:30 AM To:Council, City Subject:Singing . . . iSing Dear City Council Members, I am writing to support approval for iSing to continue to offer its wonderful program at the First Baptist Church. I have been singing for a good deal of my adult life ‐ 30 + years with the Bay Choral Guild. I am a competent choral singer, but if I had had the opportunity to participate as a child in a program like iSing's, I would be much better. Their program provides a thorough grounding in singing: vocal technique, ear training, ensemble singing, performing and musical theory. It is invaluable for any child who likes to sing, teaching them all the things they need to know to become good singers and the opportunitiy to perform at a very high level. If you have not heard an iSing concert, you owe it to yourself to go. They are amazing. Based in Palo Alto, the program draws a large number of girls from the city. My grandchildren participate and they and their friends car pool to practices, rehearsals, etc, and many of the older chidren ride bicycles when possible. If the program is forced to relocate outside Palo Alto, it would mean much more driving, adding to the local traffic, and would possibly mean that some girls could no longer participate. That would be a great shame. Singing is something a person can do for their entire life and speaking for myself, I can say that it has been of immense value and joy to me. There is also research that indicates that singing and music and experiencing the discipline required to learn and and perform pieces of music is valuable to brain function. The iSing program gives the girls knowledge and experience they can carry through their lives. Please support continuing the program!! Best Regards, Mary Holzer City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:53 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Palo Alto Free Press <paloaltofreepress@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, August 11, 2017 5:52 AM To:Brian Welch Cc:Council, City; jrosen@da.sccgov.org; Keene, James; Jay Boyarsky; DOkonkwo@da.sccgov.org; Wagner, April; Ryan, Dan; Bonilla, Robert; Watson, Ron; Kniss, Liz (external); Scharff, Greg; Stump, Molly; Perron, Zachary; Philip, Brian; Reifschneider, James; Keith, Claudia; swebby@da.sccgov.org; csumida@da.sccgov.org Subject:Subpoenas - Tweet by Palo Alto Free Press on Twitter Won't be suing for money.... Thus bypass your rubber claims stamp "denied" Ms. Stump... Subpoenas have incredible powers, and in this case Ms. Stump....you will not be able to squash and then 170.6..... Brain...Get ready..... 'The fury and the likes you have never witnessed' Donald Trump Palo Alto Free Press (@PAFreePress) 8/11/17, 6:44 AM @PaloAltoPolice @cityofpaloalto @SantaClaraDA Embarking soon to litigate, a first #factualinnocence pre-arrest pre-incarceration & certificate of #exoneration Penal Code section 851.8[i] pic.twitter.com/wleg9ZBIOp Download the Twitter app Sent from my iPad City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:49 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Audrey Gold <audreygold@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, August 10, 2017 1:03 PM To:Council, City; Walkowiak, Cherie; Star-Lack, Sylvia Subject:Thank you for the Bike Lane improvements on Donald Drive Dear City Council Members, This is a THANK YOU for the improvements for bicycles on Donald Drive near Terman Middle School. I have two children that bike to school and use this route. I believe the green bike areas and red curbs will make it much safer for kids and more clear where they are suppose to wait for the light. Having children bike to schools makes a big difference in reducing traffic and I appreciate all that Palo Alto does to support cycling. Regards, Audrey Gold 855 Lathrop Dr., Stanford, CA City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 10:52 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Geri <geri@thegrid.net> Sent:Monday, August 14, 2017 11:10 PM To:Council, City; Geri Mc Gilvray Subject:The buses are ALL empty Hello, The buses don't go ANYWHERE that I have EVER needed to go. They are empty. They sometimes speed terribly at MARION. The poor drivers have no music, one sleeping passenger, if any, and no destination anyone would want to go to. They must be so bored. NO ONE IS ON THE VTA. Most of our traffic are your busses. The Grocery Outlet is awful. COSCO is nice. ALL The Trader Joe's are nice. LUCKYS had good products. Geri McGilvray I WOULD HAVE NEEDED a bus to get to a concert at the JCC, if it got me to an entrance. People go to Kaiser, to Sent from my iPhone City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/16/2017 12:26 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:LWV of Palo Alto <lwvpaoffice@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, August 15, 2017 1:55 PM Subject:The September Palo Alto VOTER from the League of Women Voters of Palo Alto Attachments:September 2017 VOTER .pdf The Palo Alto VOTER The September 2017 issue is attached as a PDF. Please save this to your desktop and enjoy! On the front page: In Studio with Congresswoman Anna Eshoo: The View from Silicon Valley to D.C. Saturday, September 9, 10:30 am-noon MidPen Media Center, 900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto Please RSVP by September 7 at lwvpaoffice@gmail.com or 650-903-0600. -- League of Women Voters of Palo Alto 3921 E. Bayshore Road, Suite 209 Palo Alto, CA 94303 (650) 903-0600 LWVPA !2 September, 2017 So many of us are understandably distracted by the utter madness constantly emanating from the White House and from Congress. We applaud and actively support the work of LWVUS in challenging their attacks on voting rights, health care, equity and so much more. Yet we cannot and should not ignore those local issues where the League’s advocacy can make a difference. We support efforts to protect the rights of undocumented people – we have done so and will continue to do so at the County level. We support efforts that reduce our carbon footprint – we do so at the regional level via the Bay Area League and in Palo Alto by supporting the City’s efforts on sustainability. We advocate for early childhood education and more civic engagement education in the upper grades. We also must continue our efforts to address the Bay Area’s housing crisis by advocating for more housing, particularly affordable or low income housing, here in Palo Alto. Housing is no less important than the other issues listed above. This issue affects all of us right here. The City of Palo Alto has not been as proactive in addressing the housing crisis as have some of our neighboring cities, such as Mountain View and Redwood City. The last affordable housing project in Palo Alto opened in 2014 (801 Alma St., Eden Housing). Now is the time for that to change. In the next several months, our League will have the opportunity to evaluate, and hopefully support, several housing project proposals. Three of these have begun the approval process through the City: the Windy Hill project on the corner of El Camino and Page Mill Road; the Sobrato project on El Camino; and a Palo Alto Housing 100% affordable housing project on El Camino and Wilton. LWVPA’s Housing and Transportation Committee is looking deeply into these projects. See the article on page 5. Our League’s advocacy in this area is critical. LWVPA’s various committees each contribute to these advocacy efforts. For example, the Speaker Series Committee provides educational opportunities for the public; the Communications Committee facilitates effective publicity via the VOTER, Facebook and our webpage; our new Civic Savvy Committee can ensure that Palo Altans appreciate that facts matter and that civility is honored; the Collaborations and Community Outreach Committee can help build bridges over the divisions that exist in our community. A recent op-ed piece in the San Jose Mercury News on the importance of civic engagement in our schools stated, “Civic engagement empowers citizens to change or make a difference in their quality of life through both political and non-political processes.” http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/08/opinion-teaching-civic-engagement-to-kids-can-change-their-lives-and- their-communities/ This is the League’s work. Thank you for what you do. Bonnie Packer Bonnie Packer President president@lwvpaloalto.org Aisha Piracha-Zakariya 1st Vice President Ellen Forbes 2nd Vice President, Communications, Webmaster Karen Kalinsky Secretary, Collaborations Co-chair Steve Levy Treasurer, Housing and Transportation Chair Diane Rolfe Edu. Co-chair and Collaborations Co-Chair Sigrid Pinsky Edu. Co-chair Veronica Tincher New Voices for Youth Valerie Stinger Budget Chair Mindy Anderson Facebook Admin. Mary Jo Levy League Presentations Liza Taft Voter Reg., VOTER Distr. Mary Alice Thornton Fundraising Chair Paula Collins Auditor Nominating Committee Chris Logan, Chair Nancy Smith Ellen Springer Lynne Russell LWV of Palo Alto: Officers, Directors, Off-Board Roster (650) 903-0600, www.lwvpaloalto.org OFF-BOARD Jeannie Lythcott Voter Services Megan Swezey Fogarty & Lynne Russell Membership Lisa Ratner Advocacy Maureen O’Kicki Program/Events Organizer Sue Hermsen VOTER Editor Tory Bers Publicity/Media David Springer Voter’s Edge Ellen Smith Board Development Chair Lisa Peschcke-Koedt Civic Savvy Chair DIRECTORS Message from our President OFFICERS LWVPA !5 September, 2017 Advocacy Report by Lisa Ratner Voting Rights—LWVUS has spoken out against two powerful methods of voter suppression: purging of voter registration lists and requiring documentary proof of citizenship. LWV President Chris Carson recently issued a statement condemning the Trump administration’s reversal of its position on the Ohio voter purge case, Husted v. Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI). Ohio has a practice of targeting voters who fail to vote in a two-year period for eventual removal from the voter roll —even if they have not moved and are still fully eligible to vote. This practice, known, as the supplemental process, resulted in the removal of hundreds of thousands of Ohioans from the voter rolls in 2015 alone. After a lawsuit was brought in early 2016 challenging the supplemental process, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and struck down Ohio’s purge of infrequent voters from its voter rolls. In September 2016, the Sixth Circuit found that the process violates the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 by removing voters from the voter registration rolls merely because of their failure to vote. The U. S. Supreme Court has agreed to review the case in its next session. Ohio’s purge of eligible voters has served as a powerful mechanism of voter suppression. 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The first opportunity will be at a study session before the Palo Alto City Council on August 28 on a proposal by the non-profit Palo Alto Housing for a project at El Camino and Wilton focused primarily on very low income seniors, including some units for developmentally disabled adults. The City Council agenda for August 28 will be posted on the City's website on August 17. The Planning and Transportation Commission is reviewing the Land Use Element in the new Comprehensive Plan. The staff report for their August 9 meeting includes two ideas from the Citizen's Advisory Committee that would help increase housing affordability for many residents. One idea is to raise the height limit only for housing and only in specific locations, like downtown, and for projects that provide a component of below market rate housing. The other idea is that affordability is a challenge for many residents who are not poor and not eligible for below market rate housing, for example most teachers and public safety workers. These are opportunities for all of us to make our voices heard on decisions that are being made right now in our city. And hold November 15 for a chance to participate in the Silicon Valley Community Foundation "On the Table" small group discussions on housing. Steve Levy Chair, Housing and Transportation Committee City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:57 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Jeff Hoel <jeff_hoel@yahoo.com> Sent:Friday, August 11, 2017 4:13 PM To:UAC Cc:Hoel, Jeff (external); Council, City Subject:TRANSCRIPT & COMMENTS -- 08-02-17 UAC meeting -- Item IX.1, study session with Council Commissioners, Here's a transcript of Item IX.1 of UAC's 08-02-17 meeting, a discussion of what to talk about at UAC's joint meeting with City Council. (Apparently, it's not going to be on 08-21-17, as previously advertised. When will it be?) http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/59056 I have added my comments (paragraphs beginning with "###".) Thanks. Jeff ------------------- Jeff Hoel 731 Colorado Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94303 ------------------- ########################################################################## 08-02-17 agenda; http://cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/58834 08-02-17 UAC meeting video: http://midpenmedia.org/utilities-advisory-commission-29/ 0:22:57: Chair Danaher: Let's go on to our first agenda item, which is a study session between the Council and the UAC. And we do have a citizen comment. Jeff, do you want to start the discussion for us? 0:23:13: Jeff Hoel: Sure. So, when you have your meeting with Council, I think one of the things that you should do is to ask, who's job is it to make sure that they're annual? Because this one is two years and four months later than the previous one. And -- well, enough said, maybe. It seems to me that more important than talking about any particular topics for Utilities to do would be sort of the meta-topic of what does UAC need to do its job? And I've suggested some things in the past. One is, how about verbatim minutes. Council gets verbatim minutes. The Planning and Transportation Commission gets verbatim minutes. Council Member Schmid asked for them at the last joint session. He said it would be really handy for him if he could just read through such a thing in twenty minutes rather than listening to a two- or three- or four-hour video. And my understanding is that it doesn't cost a lot more. That's why Council decided to do it for Council. Because they think it's cost-effective. Another thing is, is there a formal mechanism in place now so that if UAC wants to agendize an item, they can do it? Or do they simply have to ask staff, and staff can decide whether to agendize it or not? Also, when you agendize an item, is City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:57 AM 2 it going to be an action item or not? Because if it's just a discussion, it's pretty hard for Council to get your advice about what you as a body think. Rather than what each individual commissioner says during the time that he or she speaks. From the last session, there are a number of important topics. And UAC decided to make a subcommittee for each important topic. Which I think has not turned out very well. Just because it hasn't resulted in colleagues memos that UAC can consider and discuss as a body. So, how can important topics get focused -- by the whole UAC? And if a subcommittee can help that process, OK. But I haven't seen it so far. As far as specific projects, undergrounding -- At the last UAC meeting, Commissioner Schwartz thought it was time to take undergrounding "off the plate," as something the City even cares about. And, I think, before you do that, maybe you should ask Council where they're at about that. It's not only about electric reliability. It's about aesthetics and property values, and the fact that the City -- ever so long ago -- promised all of its citizens that it was going to happen, 100 percent, over the years. So, that deserves a discussion at a high level, I believe. The so-called second transmission line -- which in fact, I think, would be a fourth transmission line -- I think Council has to be clear on whether that's still worth doing or not. And it's not exactly clear to me how UAC's watching it on a monthly basis is going to make it happen any faster. But if Council thinks that it will, that's fine. Then the next question is, well, how is UAC going to make it happen faster? Fiber to the premises I will leave for another occasion. You know I feel about that. Since the last joint session, Commissioner Eglash tried very hard to set up a mechanism whereby important topics can be advanced more easily. And it turns out that his fellow commissioners didn't really agree with his particular plan. But maybe Council would think that some kind of plan is worth attempting. In the case of the drought, UAC decided to agendize it each month, whether there was anything to say about it or not. And I don't know if that had any effect, but at least it gave the opportunity, at each meeting, for UAC to make some comments if there were any to make. That's probably not the best idea for all these other topics. But it's, you know, your job to figure out what is a better idea. And the website, right now, as far as the subcommittees and the most important topics are concerned -- It just sits there. It's more than a year old. Is it anybody's job to update that? And would it help if you could click on each of the important topics and go to someplace that has a more up-to-date description of the status of that topic? Thanks very much. 0:28:57: Chair Danaher: And, Jeff, thank you very much. Just -- Ed -- one comment on this question of agendizing items. I think the way it's been working this last year is that if we want something on the future calendar, we bring it up at that part of the meeting, and it's been put on the calendar. And we have dialog as to how much time is needed for preparation. So I think that's working better than it had in the past. I appreciate that. ### The question I'd ask is: should the ability of the UAC to do its job depend on the willingness of staff to permit it? The -- So, we have this joint study session. Ed, do you want -- your team want to start with any comments on that? 0:29:35: Ed Shikada: Sure. We don't have a presentation. But just simply to perhaps note that the report that we gave you is basically a foundation that could be used to present some foundational information for your joint session with Council. It goes through prior years, accomplishments, and then talks about the two topics moving forward. Primarily the Strategic Plan and some of the subtopics that were identified in your last session. And then, really, the calendar, which is a bit of a litany of topics that will be coming. But if nothing else, I think it demonstrates the docket -- the magnitude of the workload ahead. And so, to what extent the UAC would like to raise specific issues that the -- you'd like to have the Council's perspective on, you know, we could certainly queue up the version of this report that adds, you know, any specific topics you'd like to be a focus of your discussion with the Council. 0:30:43: Chair Danaher: OK. Great. Anybody want to start the discussion? Judith. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:57 AM 3 0:30:53: Commissioner Schwartz: So, one thing I want to just comment on is that, since I was the one that was really pushing for a more of a workshop setting that the public could be involved in -- that we didn't get to have any input into when the date would be. And it got scheduled when I can't be here. And if -- I just want to say that if the point is to have us listening to the public, then I think it's important that we at least get to weigh in. If a quorum can come, and it's a day I can't come, then that's fine. But the fact that it -- we didn't even get asked strikes me as problematic, for the purpose of the -- of doing it. And then the other thing -- it is my experience that the public doesn't just automatically show up. OK? That you have to actively do things that get people to participate. And the best processes that I've worked on is when you have people identified in the community who you know are leaders in particular areas. So, for example, we'd want to make sure that we reached out to Acterra, and asked them to bring a group to participate. There -- In Palo Alto, we have different neighborhood associations for different neighborhoods. I think it would be, you know, worth going to the team captains and the people who do block parties and things like that, to get them to invite people. So, I -- Going to the business community. The Chamber of Commerce. So, I think that it needs to be more than just -- have a date. And so, I think there needs to be more "best practice" around that process. ### I'm not sure it's a good idea to invite "the usual suspects" specifically. The usual suspects already participate. 0:32:39: Ed Shikada: I'd like to perhaps comment on that. Commissioner Schwartz.is referring to the September 14th tentative date for the Strategic Planning community meeting. I think it's noted on the top of page 3 of your report. So, a couple of comments there. I think the question of the role that the UAC would like to plan in that community workshop is open for discussion. As it happens, based on both the feedback we've received from Commissioner Schwartz as well as staff discussion, we think it may actually work better to push that out a bit. So perhaps the first week in October, if that would work logistically. As it happens, the Commission has a meeting that week. And either to add a meeting that week -- if we did it on Thursday. Or, potentially, even in lieu of the regular Commission meeting that Wednesday, on the 4th of October. So, that would hopefully maximize the likelihood that the Commissioners could make it, since that, hopefully, is a date that is already on your calendar. So that's just another couple of dates that we looked at. But, back to the original point. The question of the role the UAC would have is, I think, an important one for us to have some clarity on. Both in preparation for the meeting as well as at the meeting. The date is, as much as anything else, I think, going to be driven by our consultants' availability. And, really, the thought we had, based upon the UAC feedback earlier, was that we'd want to get it to the point where we have some material that the community at large could react to, rather than have it be more a blank slate. And it looked like that late September, probably early October, timeframe would work better than mid-September. So that -- just some comments for your consideration. 0:34:34: Commissioner Schwartz: OK. Then the other thing is, there was an article in the Merc the other day about cohousing projects that are happening locally. And I just want to emphasize that I think -- I've been thinking a lot about what was made at the last -- the comment at the last meeting that 30 to 50 percent of the Utilities staff is going to retire in the next five years. And I think -- And so I was talking to people in Washington about this. And, you know, we're not the only utility facing that. And so I think that this is a really important thing. And so, looking at -- you know, maybe cohousing opportunity is the way to do it. Doing a program with Foothill College, with Stanford, with other local colleges, to try and see what we can do to attract people who are already tied to the area in some way, or familiar with the area, to come and be part of it. I think that the utility industry as a whole has not necessarily communicated the heroic nature of what people in utilities do, to keep the lights on. And how it really is interesting. And I know, you know, I'm a little wonky, and I think this stuff is really fun and cool. And -- you now. But I think that this is really a big part of, you know, the future of what it is going to mean for American society. And -- to have a -- you know, it's all well and good to talk about sustainability and what you want to do. But if you don't have people to operate the system, it's not really going to be very effective. And I think that there are more things -- you know, again, just hoping people show up is -- it's not necessarily the thing. And I think we just have to make sure that where people are going to live -- even if it's just apartments -- even if they have something on the weekend. But if we're trying to attract younger people, who maybe don't need a whole house for a family, whatever, that we could do something creative and take advantage of one of these organizations that is actually -- are managing these kind of housing developments. Because I think, younger people, we're seeing, don't have the same need to own their own car, and have their own house. So, ... 0:36:58: City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:57 AM 4 Chair Danaher: So, Judith, I agree these are good topics. And I actually discussed some of this with Ed after the meeting last month. But not as extensive as you're thinking. But I'm going to bring this back to the agenda for a while. 0:37:08: Commissioner Schwartz: OK. Well, I just think that ought to be part of the study session -- is my point. 0:37:12: Chair Danaher: Oh. Staffing issues. And how -- solutions for staffing issues, including the technical ... 0:37:18: Commissioner Schwartz: Right. And so, that -- So, I think they're interrelated for some of the other things that we're doing. I also -- OK, so that's -- And, as I said in the last meeting, I think the idea of focusing on reliability as a larger issue for us to look at in the joint study session is an important thing. 0:37:40: Chair Danaher: Um hum. 0:37:41: Commissioner Schwartz: Because I think we haven't been looking at how things fit together. We've been looking at things in a more siloed, piecemeal fashion. 0:37:47: Chair Danaher: All right. So, you know, my understanding is, from the study session, we're not going to get formal Council policy, but we'll get viewpoints of different Council members on policy issues, to the extent we get them surfaced there. We'll get viewpoints of individual Council members on areas they want us to focus on. And we maybe want to put questions about -- there's -- Council members want us to focus on X, Y, or Z. And then, ** as a study session could be briefing for the Council and the UAC on key points. And in that respect, Judith, what you brought up, about this being a near- to mid-term issue -- or mid-term issue -- coming up about staffing and resources for Palo Alto -- maybe that's worth a few minutes of the study session, Ed, to remind the Council and the UAC of that -- what's being faced. 0:38:48: Commissioner Schwartz: Is it just a passive thing, where the -- I mean, I didn't go to the last one, 'cause, as Jeff pointed out, it wasn't -- it occurred before I joined, and then there wasn't one since then. ### In my message of 07-31-17, 1:04 pm, I recommended seeing the video and reading the transcript of the 04-20-15 joint study session. Apparently, Commissioner Schwartz didn't do that. 04-20-15: staff report: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/46764 04-20-15: transcript: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/48363 04-20-15: video: http://midpenmedia.org/city-council-33/ So, are we just supposed to be passive, and just do whatever the Council says, and not come up with anything that we think should happen? I guess I'm asking Councilman Filseth if -- I mean, do I not understand what the study session is supposed to be? 0:39:21: Council Member Filseth: I think the -- I think the UAC has a huge amount of latitude over what they want to talk with the Council about. I think, you know, strategies for staffing in the long run, given that it's sort of escalated to one of the concerns is fair game to talk that with the City Council. I mean, I think it's not an issue that's unique to the Utilities. Right? But I think it could be part of the discussion. Um hum. City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:57 AM 5 0:39:53: Chair Danaher: Yeah, Judith, I wasn't saying we can't bring anything up. We got to figure out how to make this most productive. In the past, those were some of the things that we did -- were getting guidance on what topics are of interest in the Council members for us to pursue, guidance on policy, understanding of policy views. And then, we can bring up whatever we want. The -- It's partly to help us determine the agenda for the following year. On that. 0:40:25: Commissioner Schwartz: Right. Right. And since I know I can't be there, this is my chance to get you guys to talk about it. ### I see that the agenda for Council's 08-21-17 meeting has been posted http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/59056 and that the joint study session with UAC is not agendized for 08-21-17. Also, the latest Tentative Agendas document http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/59057 doesn't say when it will be agendized. 0:40:30: [laughter] 0:40:31: Chair Danaher: Yeah. So, I agree. And we have talked about it that staffing is a major thing, and it's worth comment on, ... 0:40:39: Ed Shikada: Yes. And, in fact, if it's helpful, I might refer your attention to the attachment in that report -- Attachment B -- which is the memo we have from our consultant on the Strategic Plan. And so, it encapsulates in basically two pages. So you've got the memo and the series of bullets thereafter. And at the top of page 2, it is, you know, certainly listed: "Organizational, operational, and workforce issues." And so, it identifies a number of sub-bullets. That if this were a helpful framework -- And I think part of the question for discussion tonight would be if this adequately captures many of the issues. I don't think it could be comprehensive. But it can capture many of the issues. And provide something of a frame for -- Here are some of the major topics that we see as important for the Utility, both in terms of its Strategic Planning effort, as well as, you know, for communication to the Council, in terms of some of the policy issues that Council could give you some feedback on. Whether this is the right outline or not, I think, again, could be helpful to discuss tonight. And perhaps, to Commissioner Schwartz's point, as it relates to reliability -- whether, you know, it's been adequately captured, it's described. Perhaps one point here is this resiliency under climate change. And that may not be the right sort of framing. As you pointed it out. 0:42:16: Chair Danaher: Um hum. 0:42:17: Ed Shikada: So, maybe -- swapped, in some ways -- You know, the focus on reliability from the utility perspective. And climate change is one of the factors in ability to provide reliability as a system. As opposed to the other way around. 0:42:32: Chair Danaher: I think ... 0:42:33 Commissioner Johnston: I do think the attachment from the consultants is a good -- is a good list of issues. The ones that I'm -- have found the most interesting, in our discussion over the last couple of meetings, have been these really City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:57 AM 6 resiliency issues. And, I mean, you mention community solar. But I think it's -- And that's a specific program. But I think that the resiliency issues are really much broader. And you capture some of them in here. Storage. Microgrids. I'm also -- think it's -- would be good to start talking about, you know, how we're going to move forward on smart metering, and so on. I mean, you're telling us this is coming, but it seems like it's still a ways down the road. And there's an awful lot of things that we could do if we had that technology, that we want to do, it seems to me. 0:43:36: Chair Danaher: Lisa. 0:43:37: Commissioner Forssell: Is this on? Yeah. Let's see. A couple of thoughts. Given that this is an action item, and the recommendation is that we approve this report as the basis for the joint study session, I'm focused on -- to me, you know, a "basis" of a study session is an agenda, which this report isn't quite. But there are four bullet points, that look to me like an agenda. And I just wanted to suggest that from my point of view, they're in kind of the reverse order of the order in which I'd like to talk about them with City Council. I think the discussion, you know -- a two-way discussion of -- Council giving us direction on its priorities and what it wants for us, as well as an opportunity for us to raise issues with Council. And community solar is given here as an example. And when we talked about community solar a while back -- it was, I forget, one or two or three months ago -- I feel like what really surfaced was a policy issue. That staff was pursuing community solar based on a directive from City Council to pursue four percent local solar generation. And what the UAC was bringing up was, we're not so sure anymore that that's a good policy objective, given the duck curve, and how the grid has changed, and how, you know, that might stress it, and how the economics of it don't pencil out. And so I feel like what we want to be discussing isn't community solar, necessarily, in and of itself, but that as an example of an initiative that might not make sense, because the four percent local solar is a thing that might not make sense. So, I think it would be great if we could just frame the discussion that way. And -- But I think talking about the electric integrated resource plan is a great idea. Talking about the strategic planning process is a great idea. I don't know that we're going to spend much time looking in the rear-view mirror -- at 2017. And then I just had one comment on the memo. Because I don't see anything on here about drought. And I just want to raise the issue. Same issue raised last session with the consultant. That I think it's worth spending a little bit of time on the thought exercise of, you know, what if another five-year, ten-year drought is around the corner? And what is -- how do we think about the future of water availability, as well as hydroelectric power availability? If -- I mean, it's kind of under the climate change heading. But I think that could be a good thing to talk about as well. 0:46:45: Chair Danaher: The way I approach this -- or think about it -- is, there are different categories. And some of these have come up. One would be, as Lisa said, a category is Council direction on UAC priorities. That should be an agenda item for the study session. A second area would be -- how do we want to phrase it -- discussion of policy views. And, an area we identified and Lisa touched on that as well is, how much do we subsidize local solar? Whether it's rooftop or community solar. And what are the reasons for subsidizing it? And I think it would be helpful to hear -- have a discussion of that, and hear viewpoints from Council members -- as to that. And that should be preceded by a short summary that says, here's what it costs the City to produce -- community solar, rooftop -- for people to produce rooftop solar. And our utility-scale solar from the Central Valley -- including transmission costs. How much ate we willing to subsidize these higher-cost sources? That would be one policy area we ought to get direction on. To the extent it factors -- it doesn't -- and some of the things that don't factor in the day-to-day or month-to-month discussions, but factor in the budget, would be, is there policy guidance -- back to Jeff's point -- on how much to spend on undergrounding? ### For example, is it still two percent of electric revenues? Is there policy guidance on how much to spend to promote EVs? Specifically with chargers. I don't know what else we can do -- so much to promote that. I don't know what other areas we might want to get an airing of policy views. 0:48:46: Commissioner Schwartz: So, I think that -- to speak to the issue that you just brought up -- So, cost is one issue. OK? But if you -- Again, if you look at it in a more holistic fashion, the value of having the -- generation that's closer into the City may have value that doesn't have to do with cost. So you don't want to only have the price per kilowatt-hour to be the only thing you look at. So, if you're setting it up so that City buildings can run in an islanded City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:57 AM 7 fashion if there's a major earthquake. OK? And they can have inverters that can allow this thing to be a separate island, and so the City's services can keep going, that may be a reason to do it, that has -- And so, I think that that is the -- I think the policy perspective needs to be that we can look at things other than just cost. We can look at -- There may be reasons -- where we say we don't want to do it because it costs too much. But, you know, if there's congestion in the transmission, you know, we're going to get curtailment. And it won't -- And you won't necessarily be having the electrons coming up here, even during the time when the solar is producing. And, you know, again, they made a policy issue -- a discussion around electrification of buildings -- OK? -- that didn't take into account the idea that if you're using electricity at night and in the morning, it's not coming from our solar plant. So, you know, we -- you know, I think that one of the things that is challenging is that the City Council has a lot to cover, and they can't be expert on everything. And it seems to me that our value added is to help focus attention on some of the things that they might not have time to think about, while they're doing their policy discussions. Because they're things that sound good in principle that don't necessarily make sense when you're looking at -- on a practical basis of what does it take to deliver it. So, I think, to the extent that the discussion can be including staff on what's really practical and work- -- that would be really a valuable thing. 0:51:00: Chair Danaher: OK. All right. By the way, I agree with you. Cost is not the only value. And it would be worthwhile to hear from City Council members what else they would value. Now, the UAC's technical expert, Arnie Ballantine, is not here tonight. He's stranded in Asia somewhere. But he's explained to us that we don't get resiliency benefit from the rooftop and the community solar. It doesn't keep the grid powered. 0:51:23: Commissioner Schwartz: No, no, no, no. But -- OK -- But that's if it's not -- OK. It can be, if it's designed that way. So, it's just that inverters don't put -- You don't want to solar put on the system -- just generally -- But if you design a microgrid so that it's designed to be for a unit, that it can operate alone, that can be done. So, don't -- So, I think you may be misinterpreting what Arnie said, and interpreting it too broadly. Somebody from the Utility wants to add to that? 0:51:58: Commissioner Forssell: The -- Oh -- Well, I was just going to .. 0:52:00: Ed Shikada: ** speak for me. That's accurate. 0:52:03: Commissioner Forssell: I was just going to -- But I think this is what makes it a really great topic to discuss with City Council. Because there's -- We don't know what their thinking was behind four percent local solar. And if it was -- if the objective was carbon neutrality -- you know, if the objective was resiliency -- if the objective -- I doubt it was financial. But, you know, given what the objective -- You know, if it's resiliency, subsidizing storage might be a better option. Or, you know, if we just feel good having panels on our rooftops, then, you know, it's going to stand under any circumstances. I just -- I think that's what makes it a good topic -- to find our sort of what are our more specific sustainability, carbon neutrality, resiliency -- what are the objectives? 0:52:53: Chair Danaher: So, Ed, I think -- Oh, I'm sorry. Please. 0:52:57: Council Member Filseth: So, none of us -- none of us was there when this happened, I think. But, you know, I'm going to -- I'm going to take a guess here that when that goal was set, nobody really had any idea what it was going to cost to reach it, and so forth. And, you know, there was undoubtedly some interest in getting there. And somebody did a little more than throw a dart and say let's give this a try. So I think that's a reasonable question to ask -- is this a good time thatwe should revisit that, and -- you know, in light of things we've learned in the meantime. 0:53:27: City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:57 AM 8 Chair Danaher: I'd have to -- Good point. There's been turnover in the Council, as well as a lot of developments in the market. And I guess the way it could be opened up would be data on cost of relevant sources. Some discussion of resil- -- of -- do these stay turned on, do these help when the grid is down? And, if not, why? And what would have to be done to change that? That's useful background. And then a list of other benefits people have cited. You know, the psychic benefit of seeing it there. Or the educational benefit. Or the benefit of shading. Or whatever. But list all those. And we can ask the Council how much -- Well, I guess I would also list, what are we required to do under state law? And how much more does Palo Alto policy advocate above that, currently? So, that would be -- That would be good background for this study session. 0:54:29: Ed Shikada: (unamplified) Sure. ** (inaudible) 0:54:38: Jonathan Abendschein: Yeah. So, we can speak to a lot of those topics, queue up some information on that. As far as state obligations, what's remaining right now is that we offer net energy metering to -- up until we reach the net energy metering cap -- it's about a megawatt left. Beyond that, there really aren't any serious mandates out there from the state perspective. I'd also note, in the local solar plan, one of the important principles in that plan was that none of the programs should create any subsidies from other ratepayers. So we've been holding to that in the local solar plan. 0:55:23: Chair Danaher: Oh. Then we can't do it. There's no way to do it without subsidies from other ratepayers. 'Cause you're doing it at a loss. Right? 0:55:30: Jonathan Abendschein: Well, ... 0:55:33: **: (inaudible) 0:55:33: Jonathan Abendschein: Right. The community solar, for example, is a subscription program. So the ratepayers who want to buy the community solar pay for it. For example. 0:55:41: Chair Danaher: OK. But people -- The proposal we had didn't have people paying for the full cost of that energy. As I understood it. 0:55:49: Jonathan Abendschein: I'm going to turn to ... 0:55:53: **: (inaudible) 0:55:56: Commissioner Schwartz: You know, if you position it as a premium program, like Palo Alto Green was, and people know they're doing it as a premium program, then they're covering the costs. 0:56:04: Jonathan Abendschein: Maybe we could be prepared to speak to those questions when ** ... City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:57 AM 9 0:56:08: Chair Danaher: That would be fine. So, the -- I think -- to preface that discussion for the Council, saying this is the kind of information that should be presented. And then people could have an informed discussion about what are the values of these things. And, I see, even all of us aren't fully informed, And we've had the benefit of several discussions. So that would be good. So, I started out, for a while, go- -- different categories of what could happen. What are Council direction on UAC priorities. Policy discussions. And maybe, really, rather than multiple policy discussions, we have this one on how much do we subsidize local solar? What's the value in it, relative to other sources of electricity that we get? And then, a third topic could be information that we want the Council to be aware of. To draw their attention to. Judith brought up the one about all the whole work force plan. Or Terry did. Yes. 0:57:08: Council Member Filseth: At the risk of flogging that one just a little tiny bit more, you know, a real back-of-the-envelope is that, you know, currently, to get local solar to happen, we need to subsidize it about 7 cents a kilowatt-hour. Total electricity consumption in the City is about 900,000 megawatts. ### 900,000 megawatt-hours per year, right? So if you multiply 4 percent times $70 times 900,000, you get about $2.5 million a year. And so, the question is, you know, local solar basically is -- to that 4 percent is costing us about $2.5 million a year. And so, the kind of things we ought to discuss are, you know, how much resilience are we getting? You know, what are other factors? You know, who's paying the $2.5 million a year? Fundamentally, is it worth it? I mean, that's the kind of thing that ... 0:57:54: Chair Danaher: Thank you. And trading it off against energy efficiency measures, ... 0:57:59: Council Member Filseth: Exactly. 0:57:59: Chair Danaher: ... and the like. 0:58:00: Ed Shikada: Storage. 0:58:01: Chair Danaher:I personally would like to see an attitude where, any particular program, we're comparing all the alternatives. Sort of a cap-and-trade kind of way of looking at things. 0:58:13: Ed Shikada: [laughs] 0:58:13: Chair Danaher: On that. But if we bucket things like that -- UAC priorities, policy of local solar, and the like -- and all the considerations that go into that -- I don't want to exclude any of them. And then, information we want to bring to the Council's attention -- Let's talk about that last one for a moment. I think several people have mentioned the staffing -- you know, future staffing crisis. I think we want the Council to be aware of the Strategic Planning process. But we don't need to bore them with that, in great detail. It's going to be a lot of interesting discussion coming along. The -- What other topics would you like to -- or things would you like to bring to the Council? To make sure they're aware of? They know we're paying attention to -- or we want them to be ... City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:57 AM 10 0:59:11: Commissioner Trumbull: So, I guess the kind thing for me to say is, I think we're completely going about this the wrong way. I think it's great to brainstorm on these things. But the major question I have is what Jeff raised at the start. Why is it two years and four months since we had this meeting? And I think it is incumbent on us to make this meeting relevant, and to fit for the needs of the Council members. I don't think we want to cover a big range of issues. I want -- what I see the staff proposed -- list what's happened since the last meeting, list what we're planning on doing, and in between, pick one major topic -- and I think it's got to be the Strategic Plan. Because that's so relevant for them. They're going to have community members showing up as part of all this. They're going to want to know what we're doing, for that kind of a big, enormous kind of meeting. And that's all I would do. ### To me, the highest-level problem with the Strategic Plan is that is doesn't consider the fiber utility at all really. UAC could ask Council whether it should. 1:00:15: Chair Danaher: Well, ... 1:00:16: Commissioner Trumbull: Judith has mentioned it. They cover such a big range of issues. I am not going to put a Council member over a barrel and say, well, you know, should we be subsidizing this, or what's the right way to do things? They get agenda items for each one of these things when they come up. But I think it's really unfair to try and put them over a barrel on individual issues. 1:00:40: Chair Danaher: So, I sharply disagree on the last point. We have policy that was set some years back, by other people on the Council. We have a better understanding of these issues now. We're all 100 percent clean electricity -- never mind the tradeoffs for a moment. And this is an issue. We're not going to get formal policy out of the Council. But I think a lot of us have identified, we think we want to surface, and hear viewpoints. Because it affects so much of what comes up on our agenda. And they won't be put on the spot. They'll know in advance what's coming. And there will also be a pre-meeting with the Mayor and Deputy Mayor and Arnie and I and Judith, just to set things up for the meeting. So we will be, hopefully, responsive to their needs as well. But I do think that's a topic I've wanted to see discussed with them for a long time. And there's no other forum to do that. Except the joint session. I don't disagree with the rest of your comments. 1:01:42: Ed Shikada: If I could suggest that the structure, in fact, that Commissioner Trumbull described can achieve that goal. And as we talk about what's upcoming, clearly it's just Strategic Plan. And that will be work to come. But it basically has a framework to it. And you've also got your other items on the upcoming agendas. So, within even the context of Strategic Plan, but also more broadly, with our Integrated Resource Planning, to raise the topic of -- or, to inform the Council that the Commission is somewhat struggling -- I guess I'll call it -- use that term -- with the question of how far to go with community solar, as an example. Recognizing that from your prior discussion, I think you effectively had consensus that it doesn't seem to pencil out. And not sure that there's a value proposition, so to speak, with the program as presented. And to get some feedback from Council. It wouldn't be direction, and it wouldn't be, in all likelihood, very definitive. But it could give you a sense of whether they say, we really think we ought to keep pushing on that, because it's really important to provide other opportunities for local solar, or, in contrast, perhaps, just a recognition of, you know, good point, I don't think any of us are really locked into community solar as the way either to get to the 4 percent, or resilience, or, you know, what have you, in terms of the initial goals. Some of them may also disavow having been on the Council at the time that the direction was presented. And I suspect that you'll hear from the Council a very -- a clear willingness to entertain whatever recommendations the Commission wants to bring forward, as you do deeper dives on this specific topic, as well as others. And, you know, we would suggest -- we take that feedback -- again, depending on how it plays out -- and then organize what we present to you in the Strategic Plan, in your upcoming agenda items, that reflect that feedback. 1:03:54: City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/16/2017 12:32 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:tomhoster@gmail.com on behalf of Tom Hoster <tom.hoster@gmail.com> Sent:Wednesday, August 16, 2017 11:56 AM To:Council, City Subject:Verizon Cell Sites To the City Council: I received a flyer under my doormat asking me to appeal to the City Council to block Verizon's plans to erect cell sites in Palo Alto. I appreciate the opportunity to weigh in on this important topic. I am in fact in favor of allowing Verizon to proceed with their plans. Let me explain. I am not a Verizon subscriber nor do I expect to become one, so the quality my personal connectivity does not influence my position. Rather, quality of life in this age depends increasingly on our ability to get strong, clear signals from the cellular network, so I am in favor of the improvements Verizon would like to make. Let me address the points that the two authors of the flyer made, one by one:  The antennas are ugly and unsightly. o Really, the unsightliness is the utility poles and the wires that hang off of them. If the authors want to get rid of unsightly blots on Palo Alto, they should be asking that the city to resume the undergrounding project of the utility lines.  There are "health issues". o Completely unsubstantiated. The antennas will work inside of federal guidelines, as they do in hundreds of other cities around the country.  The sites emit radiation. o Yes they do. Electromagnetic radiation in the bandwidth used by cellular phones. o The authors find this radiation disturbing. But do they use cell phones? Do they hold their cell phones up to their heads when they make phone calls? Do they hold their cell phones next to their bodies as they text? They find the tower radiation distressing, but they don't find the radiation emitted by their phones to be a concern?  The antenna radiation will be measured once a year. o Verizon will send a technician out to the site once a year to do a field test, but you can be sure that Verizon will be measuring the radiation levels every few seconds to make sure that they are within spec. Verizon doesn't want a cell site to be out of spec any more than we do. (Their motivation would be performance, while ours might be safety.)  The authors cite Berkeley as a model for "tough, new ordinances." o Really? We want to use Berkeley as a model for how to run a city?  The authors claim to "care about good cell service as much as anyone". o No, actually they do not. Thank you for your consideration. Tom Hoster 2345 Byron Street Palo Alto City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/16/2017 12:32 PM 2 650-619-1972 City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/16/2017 12:31 PM 1 Carnahan, David From:joycelcyang@gmail.com on behalf of Joyce Yang <jyang.gsas@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, August 15, 2017 9:15 PM To:Council, City Subject:Verizon Cell Towers Dear PA City Council, We have been informed of Verizon's plans to install cell towers in Palo Alto and would like to voice our objections. Please help protect our neighborhood environment and aesthetics. Thank you! Best, Joyce City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 11:50 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Annette Rahn <annetterahn@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, August 14, 2017 11:19 AM To:Council, City Subject:Verizon Poles Dear Members of the City Council, Please reconsider the positioning of the Verizon cellular poles in Old Palo Alto that will go on top of telephone poles. They will add to the eyesore of utility wires that already are connected to houses in Old Palo Alto. The noise and disruption of crews working on these poles will also add to the almost continuous construction of new houses in our neighborhood. Construction on one house has continued for three years and another for four years. When will it stop? Thank you for your consideration. Annette Rahn Old Palo Alto City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 11:48 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Gary Lindgren <gel@theconnection.com> Sent:Tuesday, August 15, 2017 11:25 AM To:Council, City Subject:Wrong Way Drivers Hello, I have lived in Palo Alto for more 45 years and up to a few months ago I have never observed someone driving or attempting to drive the wrong way on our one‐way streets. Four months ago I was behind a car going South on Emerson and approaching Channing. The car had their right‐turn signal on and I beeped my horn several times to alert the driver that he or she was going against the traffic. The car completed the turn, but immediately realized the error and made a U‐turn. The same thing happened 2 weeks later. I reported the issue on Palo Alto 311. My suggested solution was to install a black and red sign with the right‐turn arrow crossed out on the stop sign post. The response from the city was that there was an arrow sign on the far corner and it was sufficient. See PLN5854 on the Palo Alto 311 web page. I contend that the arrow is not sufficient as it seems these drivers do not see that one‐way arrow. I think the problem is that Palo Alto has many new visitors and they are not familiar with our one‐way streets. I contacted Philip Kamhi to see if he could make things happen, his answer was, " I can't do anything, I'm only an administrator." This is a safety issue and we should do everything possible to prevent accidents. Please help to fix this issue. If it's a man‐ power issue I will volunteer to install the signs. Thank you, Gary Lindgren Gary Lindgren 585 Lincoln Ave Palo Alto CA 94301 650-326-0655 Check Out Latest Seismometer Reading @garyelindgren Be Like Costco... do something in a different way Don't trust Atoms...they make up everything Listen to Radio Stations Around the World A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said. The difference between being very smart and very foolish is often very small. So many problems occur when people fail to be obedient when City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/15/2017 11:48 AM 2 they are supposed to be obedient, and fail to be creative when they are supposed to be creative. The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours. It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place. Amos Tversky City of Palo Alto | City Clerk's Office | 8/14/2017 7:52 AM 1 Carnahan, David From:Nancy Krop <nkrop@kroplaw.com> Sent:Thursday, August 10, 2017 3:45 PM To:Council, City Cc:Walkowiak, Cherie; Audrey Gold; Sara Armstrong; Mesterhazy, Rosie; Star-Lack, Sylvia; Star B. Teachout; Markevitch, Pat; Anne Sanchez LaWer Subject:Yes for Donald Green Striping Dear City Council, I am writing to support of the green paint bicycle safety additions to Donald. As the former VP of Advocacy for the Terman PTA, I advocated for three years for increased bicycle safety on Donald for our Terman students commuting by bike to Terman. For 3 years now, I’ve been quite concerned about, and have alerted Terman and the City to, the incredibly dangerous student bicycling on Donald during the student morning commute to Terman:  student bicyclists literally weave in-and-out of cars driving both directions on Donald to cross mid- block (in the section of Donald just before Arastradeo) to the wrong, left (Terman bike cage) side of Donald;  student bicyclists ride down the left (wrong) side of Donald, directly at traffic incoming from Arastradero. It was truly terrifying to watch the Terman morning bicycle commute on Donald. That’s why I am so very grateful for the bicycle safety improvements added to Donald. The green paint gives the Terman bicyclists a “safe” place - on the proper right side of the street - when they commute to Terman every morning. I also very much appreciate the great work by Sylvia Star-Lack of hearing, understanding, and responding to our concerns about the Terman students' bicycle safety. Nancy Krop Former VP of Advocacy Terman PTA