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Vol. XLI, Number 3 Q October 25, 2019
Palo Alto Historic First Baptist
to close, sell property
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Pulse 15 Spectrum 17 Eating Out 20 Movies 21 Home 26 Puzzles 43
QArts Reveling in reverb: celebrating surf music Page 18
QBooks Memoir reveals immigrant dreams, nightmares Page 25
QSports Palo Alto football in a big game at Los Gatos Page 41
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Upfront Local news, information and analysis
Community pressures Stanford over growth plan
Funding for public schools remains a wild card as the Santa Clara County Board of to hold Stanford accountable. a right! That is why we have to
Supervisors during its rare meet- “Student pressure is absolutely fight!”
university’s permit application approaches decision point ing in Palo Alto. vital in forcing Stanford to cre- With a standing-room-only
by Gennady Sheyner The meeting was preceded by a ate decisions that are inclusive in crowd packed into the Council
boisterous rally in which speakers their scope and make sure to take Chambers and many other people
ith Stanford Univer- that the university do more to ad- urged the university to do more into account repercussions that go watching the televised meeting
W sity’s ambitious expan-
sion proposal nearing
the decision point, hundreds of
dress the impacts of its increas-
ingly divisive proposal.
The day featured more than 150
for its workers and graduate stu-
dents. Armed with signs declar-
ing “Housing for All,” “We stand
beyond the Stanford campus,” Er-
ica Scott, president of the Associ-
ated Students of Stanford Univer-
in the City Hall lobby, the board
heard area residents, Stanford stu-
dents and elected officials request
Stanford students, public school students chanting at Palo Alto’s with workers” and “Maximum sity, told a cheering crowd, which that Stanford be required to fully
advocates and elected leaders King Plaza, about 400 specta- Affordable Housing Now” and a minutes later broke into chants mitigate the expected impacts of
from surrounding communities tors cramming into City Hall and bullhorn, the university students of, “Hey hey, ho ho / Exploita-
turned out on Tuesday to demand roughly 140 speakers addressing chanted and spoke about the need tion’s got to go!” and “Housing is (continued on page 12)
TRANSPORTATION
City to
reintroduce
paid parking
to downtown
Council may commission
Dixon Resources to abolish
existing color zones
by Gennady Sheyner
arking in downtown Palo
P Alto can be a befuddling
experience, requiring visi-
tors to negotiate confusing color
zones, residential parking-permit
districts and garages that — de-
pending on location — might be
filled to capacity.
The only consolation to drivers
is the fact that parking remains free
for those who only need to visit for
two or three hours.
That, however, is about change.
In an effort to create some or-
Sammy Dallal
der and bring in some revenue,
the City Council is preparing to
approve a contract on Monday to
For new hospital, a red-letter day revamp downtown’s parking sys-
Stanford Health Care celebrated the ribbon-cutting for its new hospital, at 500 Pasteur Drive, on Wednesday. It will welcome its first tem and switch to paid parking.
patient on Nov. 17. Read an article on Palo Alto Online about hospital architect Rafael Viñoly, who spent time observing groups of The $285,126 contract with the
Stanford Hospital employees in order to come up with the complex design of the new $2 billion facility. firm Dixon Resources will require
Dixon to orchestrate the city’s
switch to paid parking, a transi-
tion that has been recommended
RELIGION by several studies and at the same
time criticized by some downtown
First Baptist Church prepares to shut down, sell assets merchants.
The council, for its part, has been
With its congregation dwindling, one of Palo Alto’s oldest churches prepares for final chapter generally supportive of the change.
Earlier this year, it enthusiastically
by Gennady Sheyner
endorsed a report from Wayne
alling it a “death with in existence for 126 years, follows for services was close to 60. To- Mixon said the church has tried Tanda, a consultant with the firm
C dignity,” parishioners
and leaders at the First
Baptist Church in Palo Alto are
decades of steady decline in the
size of the congregation, accord-
ing to Rev. Randall Mixon, the
day, it’s about 25.
“We just aged out,” Mixon
told the Weekly. “The congrega-
numerous initiatives to revitalize
its operations. When he came to
First Baptist, there was talk about
Municipal Resources Group, that
included 35 recommendations for
improving parking downtown, in-
preparing to close one of the church’s pastor. In its heyday, in tion has continued to shrink to a a possible federation with anoth- cluding asking drivers to pay.
city’s oldest churches and sell its the late 1950s and early 1960s, the relatively small number of people. er local church — a partnership Dixon, which in 2016 con-
steepled North California Avenue church had a congregation of 600 Most of the people are older and in which the institutions would ducted its own review of down-
building. to 700 people, Mixon said. By the we don’t really have a strong lead- share resources — and even a town’s parking system, similarly
The pending closure of First time Mixon joined the church 13 ership pool to draw from to lead
Baptist Church, which has been years ago, the average attendance the church in the future.” (continued on page 11) (continued on page 10)
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We just aged out.
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Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane (223-6517)
Home & Real Estate Editor —Rev. Randall Mixon, pastor at First Baptist
Heather Zimmerman (223-6515)
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Advertising Services Manager
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Sales & Production Coordinators track and field which reopened on change in the future, he said. At
Diane Martin (223-6584), Nico Navarrete (223-6582) Oct. 16. Workers spent about three the ceremony, Stanford Health
DESIGN months adding the rubberized Care CEO and President David
Design & Production Manager material over the previous granite Entwistle manned giant scissors to
Kristin Brown (223-6562) track that had decomposed. The slice the Cardinal-red ribbon in the
Senior Designers Linda Atilano, Paul Llewellyn city held a noon ribbon-cutting hospital atrium, a moment he said
Designers Amy Levine, Doug Young ceremony on Oct. 18 to celebrate was “surreal” after 10 long years of
BUSINESS
the completed project attended planning and construction. “For so
Payroll & Benefits Cassadie Gonzalez (223-6544)
by about 40 residents, including long, Stanford Hospital has been
Business Associates Kristine Cortes (223-6543),
Mayor Eric Filseth, city staff and a distant dream. It’s exciting, it’s
Suzanne Ogawa (223-6541), Rushil Shah (223-6575) commissioners from the Parks innovative, it’s peaceful,” he said.
ADMINISTRATION
and Recreation Commission. The
Courier Ruben Espinoza
new track is next to a memorial THE NEXT CHAPTER ... Monique
bench added in honor of the late le Conge Ziesenhenne, who in
Bill Green Jr., a nationally known 2011 was hired to serve as Palo
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President William S. Johnson (223-6505)
up in Palo Alto and is a member up at City Hall. City Manager Ed
Vice President Michael I. Naar (223-6540)
of Cubberley High School’s Class Shikada has tapped Ziesenhenne
Vice President & CFO Peter Beller (223-6545)
of 1979, the final class before the to be the new assistant city
Vice President Sales & Marketing
Tom Zahiralis (223-6570)
school shut down and turned into manager, a position that was
Director, Information Technology & Webmaster
Frank A. Bravo (223-6551) the present-day community center. last held by Shikada himself and
Director of Marketing and Audience Green’s parents, Bill Green Sr. and that has remained vacant since
Development Emily Freeman (223-6560) Loretta Green, made remarks at December 2018. The promotion,
Major Accounts Sales Manager the ceremony and were joined by which the City Council is set to
Connie Jo Cotton (223-6571) his grandmother, Elise. approve on Nov. 4, is the latest
Circulation Assistant Alicia Santillan in a series of transitions for
Computer System Associates Chris Planessi, DESIGNING INTO THE ‘DNA’ ... Ziesenhenne, who in March 2017
Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly was temporarily assigned to
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Upfront
Neighborhoods A roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann
CRESCENT PARK
Around Two residents launch
the Block MyNabes neighborhood app
ALLERGY-FREE TREATS ... Parents
of trick-or-treaters won’t have to paw Mobile networking app brings residents
through treat bags or read candy together in real time
wrappers for harmful ingredients
this Halloween. The Nextdoor Treat by Sue Dremann
Map lists homes in Palo Alto where
hen Elodie Bottine lived application. The free app lets
children with allergies can collect
allergen-free candy and other
spooky treats. The maps, which
cover neighborhoods surrounding
W in Paris as a young
woman, she learned of
a 93-year-old neighbor had who
people connect in 19 categories,
from sports to playdates, volun-
teer opportunities and tool shar-
a registered user’s address, have lived alone in the same apartment ing to “need it now” for immedi-
Magali Gauthier
blue-green pumpkin icons marking building since 1935. The neigh- ate needs, such as a cup of sugar.
addresses where the safe treats are bor had no one to look after her, The new app launched on Oct. 16.
offered. Candy-corn icons represent so Bottine looked in, then took Bottine was put off by the neg-
treats in general and purple houses care of her until she died at age ativity she found on other sites, Created by two friends who live in Menlo Park and Palo Alto’s
mark a haunted house. 102. she said. On a French-cooking Crescent Park, the new mobile app MyNabes lets neighbors post
Now a mother of two and an networking site she belongs to, requests for everything from sport partners to the loan of tools.
EAST PALO ALTO’S FIRST entrepreneur living in Menlo what should have been a pleas-
HALLOWEEN ... The inaugural Park’s Menlo Oaks neighbor- ant exchange between people was
Halloween in the Park! celebration hood, Bottine longed for similar frequently negative. A woman posting by sending a private mes- needed while in the middle of a
in East Palo Alto takes place on Oct. intergenerational connections. seeking ingredients for a tradi- sage to a neighbor. recipe. One post under the gro-
31 from 5-7 p.m. at Joel M. Davis In fast-paced and overscheduled tional recipes was bombarded Those making a request post ceries category could save a trip
Memorial Park, between Tate and Silicon Valley, she found them with unflattering comments criti- what they want under one of the to the store if a neighbor is al-
McNair streets. The free event, which lacking. cizing the recipe as too fattening app’s categories: Loan of tools or ready there.
is hosted by residents, is a social She and a friend, Raluca Per- or too sugary. objects, Playdates, Need a hand/ Perkins and Bottine said the
gathering with free candy, games, kins, a resident of Palo Alto’s “All she wanted was to find out DIY, Sport partners, Pets, Gro- app can help save on trips, thus
a costume parade with prizes for Crescent Park neighborhood, where she could buy the ingredi- ceries, Donate/exchange, Meeting benefiting the environment. In-
best children’s, adult’s, group and have launched a smartphone ap- ents,” Bottine said. with neighbors, Babysitters, Car- stead of purchasing a tool one
pet costume in the park, followed plication to help their neighbors Perkins agreed. pool, Request advice, Events and only needs to use a couple of
by a safe and supervised trick-or- build community. MyNabes links “We wanted a tool to connect celebrations, Teaching/coach- times a year, the app lets neigh-
treat train walk around neighboring people together in real time with- neighbors to each other, one ing, Volunteers, Courtesy visits, bors share with each other.
houses. The event is open to all. out the bother of annoying ad- where people can’t bash each Garage sale, Computer and web, The categories also offer op-
Volunteers can email Carly Lodge at vertising and negative comments other. When communities work Daily help/work and Need it now. portunities to check on an elderly
carlylane@gmail.com. found on other social-networking together and help each other out, After making a request through or sick neighbor. Retired neigh-
sites, she said. it is the best way to create a social a short post, a user can also decide bors can connect with younger
BE EMBER AWARE ... October is Two years ago, Bottine set bond for all generations, and that the urgency of his or her request ones when they volunteer skills,
the season for wildfires in California, out to build her own neighbor- is our future,” she said. by choosing either “now,” “when- such as tutoring or woodwork-
and the current blazes in Sonoma hood social-networking mobile On MyNabes, users reply to a ever” or by a specified date. Us- ing, Bottine said. Perkins said
County are a good reminder that ers can also choose who will see she met with some of her neigh-
Palo Alto neighborhoods are the post by selecting “just your bors on her street to discuss what
as vulnerable as anyplace else. street,” “your neighborhood” or they’d like to see in a neighbor-
The Palo Alto Fire Department “your nearby neighborhood.” hoods app. The categories align
has posted tips on how to be Lastly, posters choose how they with their suggestions.
ember aware to keep homes and want to compensate someone for “Our goal is to bring a social
neighborhoods safe. The tip sheet is the favor by selecting one of six bond between all generations,”
available at tinyurl.com/y47sytfy. The reward categories. Compensation Bottine added.
fire department also has a blog with can be a simple thank you, shar- Bottine and Perkins said they
fire-safety tips and how to plan an ing fruits or vegetables, exchang- chose to launch the app around
escape route in a wildfire at tinyurl. es of items or errands, a drink, Halloween, which is one of the
com/yyhou5nh. homemade cooking or money. few times of the year when peo-
Bottine said her children were ple get out to mingle with their
VENTURA TREE PLANTING ... in French school where they neighbors.
Palo Alto urban forest advocates didn’t have the opportunity for How to engage the new popu-
Canopy will host a neighborhood many playdates. She also likes to lation of immigrants is a frequent
Sammy Dallal
tree planting in the Ventura run and could have used such an lament among neighborhood as-
neighborhood on Oct. 26, 9 a.m. to app to plan get-togethers for her sociations. Perkins, a native of
12:30 p.m. The group will meet at children and herself, she said. Romania, said MyNabes helps
the Palo Alto Community Child Care The “need it now” category is new eliminate social and cul-
building, 3990 Ventura Court, Palo WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE? kind of an SOS catch-all, and one tural differences for new immi-
Alto. Planting leaders and volunteers Where: 3585 El Camino Real, Palo building materials. The development
to which Perkins said she relates. grants and could make it easier
will plant trees around residents’ Alto (at Matadero Avenue) will have 14 parking spaces on site.
“I was at home and the fire to connect.
homes. No experience is needed alarm started ringing,” Perkins “Everybody comes from a dif-
What: Demolition of an 800-square- Eleven of the cars would be parked
and all ages are welcome. To said, recalling a frantic moment ferent way to approach people.
foot Quonset hut that has been in a two-tiered mechanical car-lift
register, visit canopy.org or call Elise when the children were at home This app offers a way for people
vacant for 27 years to construct a system. The project will have five
Willis at elise@canopy.org for more and she couldn’t leave the house. who don’t connect by knocking
new 6,691-square-foot, three-story parking spaces for bicycles: two
information. Q Using the app, she could have on doors and who don’t want
mixed-use building, which includes short-term and three long-term.
quickly borrowed a battery from to bother other people to reach
commercial space on the first Who: Developer is KSS
Got a good neighborhood a neighbor to end the noise, she people. It’s bringing knocking
floor, an office and a two-bedroom Management LLC; architect is
story, news, upcoming meeting said. on neighbor’s doors back into
residential unit on the second floor Joseph Bellomo Architects; project
or event? Email Sue Dremann, The same goes for a badly the modern age.”
and two one-bedroom residential architect is Pratima Shah
Neighborhoods editor, at needed wrench while in the midst The MyNabes app is down-
units on the third floor. The building When: Estimated completion March
sdremann@paweekly.com. of a plumbing project or those loadable on GooglePlay and the
will be composed of sustainable 2021
two eggs that are so desperately App Store. Q
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Upfront
EDUCATION
Firing of Paly water polo coach
prompts team protest
Citing lack of respect and communication, players don pink caps
to signal their criticism of the school district
by Elena Kadvany
he sudden termination of
INSPIRING CURIOSITY,
T Palo Alto High School’s
varsity girls water polo
coach has sparked questions and
criticism from some players and
CREATIVITY, CHARACTER their parents about the school dis-
trict’s handling of his firing.
Doug Stotland, who has been
a coach at Paly since 2017, was
fired on Oct. 18 due to his “per-
formance,” Deputy Superinten-
dent Karen Hendricks said in
an interview. At the team’s final
regular season game on Tuesday
night, players protested what they
have described as the district’s
lack of communication and re-
Rick Eymer
spect for the team members by
wearing pink caps instead of
their school caps. In a statement, Members of the Palo Alto High School varsity girls water polo team
the student-athletes criticized the wear pink caps instead of their green school caps in protest Tuesday
district for conducting a “compli- of the school district’s handling of their coach’s termination. Former
cated and muddled investigation” Coach Doug Stotland is seated in top row of the bleachers, to the right.
that left them with more questions
than answers about how and why Coaching Alliance, a nonprofit said it was investigating a new
their coach was fired days before in Mountain View that provides complaint filed against him and
playoffs are to start. resources to coaches and student- that he couldn’t continue coach-
“The focus of the district should athletes. Emmanuel called the ing while under investigation, his
always be on its students, and on complaint “frivolous” and said lawyer said. He was notified of his
how to maximize their opportu- Stotland appealed it out of con- termination on Friday, Oct. 18.
nity and well-being in and out of cern that the player’s parent would Emmanuel called Paly’s deci-
the classroom,” players wrote in continue to push for his firing. sion to fire him “hasty and im-
a statement handed out at Tues- Under what Emmanuel de- moral” and laid the blame on the
day’s game. “We have seen (the) scribed as a “side agreement” school’s staff.
administration fall short of this crafted by the Paly administra- “This is not a situation where a
expectation, as we feel the district tion, Stotland was also not permit- teenage player should be blamed
has failed to consider the impact of ted to address the player directly, for the coach’s termination,” Em-
this change on the players (and) on and she was allowed to leave any manuel said. “That’s not where
the team as a whole and instead ca- team meeting or event if she be- accountability lies.”
tered only to the opinions of a few.” came uncomfortable. Hendricks The district defended its ac-
Stotland was fired three days would not comment on this agree- tions and insisted that Stotland’s
after he suspended a player for ment or whether the district was termination was based strictly on
“speaking disrespectfully” to involved in creating it. his performance rather than con-
him, “berating” her teammates But following the player’s al- cerns from any specific player or
and walking out of a team meet- leged behavior at the Oct. 15 family. The decision to fire him
ing on Oct. 15, he wrote to her in game, Stotland decided to sus- — which was made by the Paly
an email provided to the Weekly. pend her for two games. administration rather than the
OPEN HOUSE EVENTS This player, whom the Weekly is “My expectations for everyone district office, Hendricks said —
not identifying to protect her pri- on the team are that they will treat was “squarely not based on any
November 16, 2019 vacy, had this summer filed a for- their teammates and the coaches complaints.”
Lower Campus mal complaint against Stotland, with respect,” he wrote in an “The district oversaw the deci-
the district confirmed. email to her late that evening, sion and concurred with it,” she
Her family, who did not respond
477 Fremont Avenue
copying his assistant coaches, the said. “Anytime we end an employ-
to interview requests, filed the re- Paly athletic director and her par- ment relationship there is always
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9:00am - 11:00am
port under the district’s Uniform ent on the message. “I hope you going to be cause involved and
Complaint Procedure after a pre- will rejoin the team on Friday, that’s not something that’s taken
November 16, 2019
season meeting between Stotland be supportive of your teammates lightly or without deliberation or
Middle Campus and the player. According to Stot- and coaches and play a big role in without facts and evidence.”
327 Fremont Avenue land’s lawyer, he suggested to her, making the team successful, en- Hendricks declined to explain
Los Altos, CA 94024 as part of a conversation about joy the rest of the season and be the reasons for Stotland’s termi-
11:30am - 1:30pm how she could improve as a play- a positive contributor to our team nation, citing confidentiality of
er and teammate, that she join his mojo through the rest of the year.” personnel issues. As an athletic
November 9, 2019 club water polo team. Stotland’s According to the other players’ coach, Stotland was a seasonal
Upper Campus attorney Todd Emmanuel said the statements from Tuesday night, employee of the district.
26800 Fremont Road student became visibly upset dur- there were “multiple occurrences Players expressed frustration
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 ing the meeting. Stotland asked of open conflict between select that they were not informed in
10:00am - 12:15pm whether she wanted to end the players and the coach” during the a timely manner about their
conversation, but she declined and Oct. 15 game against Gunn High coach’s employment status. They
they continued, Emmanuel said. School, which Paly lost. said they were unaware of his
According to Emmanuel, the Paly Athletic Director Nelson one-game suspension until the
Register online at www.pinewood.edu district determined that Stot- Gifford and Assistant Principal start of the Oct. 16 evening game
land should have ended the Wendy Stratton informed Stotland and that they learned of his fir-
meeting with the player sooner on Oct. 16 that he was suspended ing through a text message that
and required Stotland to attend for one game, according to Em-
educational courses at Positive manuel. On Oct. 17, the district (continued on page 14)
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Upfront
YOUTH
At long last, Palo Alto to get a mental
health center where teens can just walk in
CityView
A round-up of Palo Alto government action this week
Clinic expected to open with psychiatric, other wellness services in May 2020 City Council (Oct. 21)
Old Palo Alto: The council approved the creation of a Residential Preferential
by Elena Kadvany Parking program in a section of Old Palo Alto near the California Avenue Caltrain
station. Yes: Cormack, DuBois, Fine, Filseth, Kou, Tanaka Absent: Kniss
yearslong effort to open early interventions services to our United States.
A a first-of-its-kind youth
mental health center in
Palo Alto reached a major mile-
community,” Steven Adelsheim,
director of the Stanford Uni-
versity Center for Youth Mental
“Time after time, the saddest
part of the story is that a kid didn’t
reach out earlier, didn’t have the
Parks and Recreation Commission (Oct. 22)
Urban Forest: The commission discussed the city’s Urban Forest program. Action:
None
Community Gardens: The commission discussed revisions to program guidelines
stone on Tuesday: approval of a Health and Wellbeing, said in an opportunity to get help when they for the Community Garden program. Action: None
lease for space in the Midtown announcement. really needed it,” Board of Su-
Shopping Center. Adelsheim has been working pervisors President Joe Simitian
The Board of Supervisors ap- with local mental health profes- said. “The appeal of programs
proved a five-year lease for about sionals, county staff and youth like Allcove is that they’re de- with something or know exactly for the clinic in Palo Alto proved
5,200 square feet of office space advocates to bring Allcove to life signed to engage youngsters who what’s going on. You can ... seek difficult; the county reviewed 30
at 2741 Middlefield Road, near since 2016, spurred in part by a are struggling long before they hit help no matter how big or small potential sites and toured eight.
Colorado Avenue. The ground- string of teenage deaths by suicide a crisis point.” what you’re dealing with is.” The Middlefield Road site
floor space is part of the building in Palo Alto. The county is also Stanford Medicine will provide Carreno struggled to find men- is centrally located, near pub-
that once housed Bergmann’s de- opening an Allcove site in San psychiatric services at both the tal health support as a sophomore lic transportation and offered a
partment store and more recently Jose, which it expects to be a “na- Palo Alto and San Jose locations, when he fell into a depression af- “competitive” rent for Palo Alto,
The Territory Ahead Outlet and tional prototype for international and Stanford will also provide ter his parents got divorced. He according to a staff report. The
NoXcuses Fitness. visitors, funders and elected offi- primary care services in Palo went to Gunn’s wellness center first year of rent at the space will
This will be the future home of cials to tour.” Alto. but had to recount his story to cost just under $268,000. The
Allcove, a walk-in mental health The centers are meant to be Jake Carreno, a Gunn High several different counselors due lease will run through October
clinic inspired by Australian cen- one-stop shops for young people School senior who serves on a to turnover. He eventually found 2024 and includes two five-year
ters that provide support services, with mild to moderate mental youth advisory group for Allcove, a therapist through his doctor. extension options.
education and other wellness health issues, from breakups, anx- said he’s hopeful the center will “It would have been nice to The clinic will be designed
resources at little to no cost to iety and academic stress to more help alleviate the stigma teenagers know there was one place I could and operated with strong in-
youth ages 12 to 25. It’s expected severe mental illness. Substance feel in reaching out for help when go to that would handle it prop- put from youth, including from
to open by May. abuse treatment, peer support they’re struggling. erly,” Carreno said. “I remember the 24-member youth advisory
“These innovative services, and employment and educational “It’s really important for youth not really knowing where to go.” group (which selected the name
developed in consultation with support will also be available to to know Allcove is a space where The Board of Supervisors al- Allcove).
the youth of our community, are teens. no matter what you’re dealing located $2.1 million for the Palo Local and national statistics
important components of a con- The organizers describe All- with, you can drop in and talk Alto lease and related improve- speak to the importance of a
tinuum of mental health care cove as the first youth mental to someone,” he said. “You don’t ments. Finding a suitable site
that will hopefully bring critical health center of its kind in the necessarily have to be diagnosed that met the space requirements (continued on page 12)
Stanford University Development Project and the General Use Permit Application
County of Santa Clara Board of Supervisors Meeting
Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 1:30 pm
Board of Supervisors’ Chambers, 70 West Hedding Street, San Jose, CA 95110
At this meeting, the Board of Supervisors may receive comments from the public
and deliberate on the General Use Permit Application.
DID YOU KNOW?
Stanford University is proposing to add more than 3.5
million square feet of new development and 9,600 people to
its campus. The project is the largest ever to be reviewed by
the County of Santa Clara in its 169-year history.
The process of the County’s consideration of the General
Use Permit Application will be fair, transparent and open. The
County is seeking input from the community on this General
Use Permit Application.
The County Administration is committed to ensuring that
this development, if approved, does not negatively impact
the surrounding community by substantially worsening local
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Upfront
Employment Parking
(continued from page 5)
News Digest
recommended paid parking as
“more efficient and convenient for AJ Capital renews push to convert hotel
Associate - GIB drivers.” The new system would Adventurous Journeys Capital Partners, the Chicago-based de-
also reduce greenhouse gas emis- veloper that last year purchased the President Hotel building in Palo
sions by reducing the amount of
Associate - GIB sought by BofA Securities Inc. to provide
strategic & financial advice to the clients on a range of issues Alto, is renewing its effort to convert the apartment building into a
including M&A & capital raising alts. Reqs: Bach degree or time drivers have to cruise to look hotel with an offer to contribute $2.4 million to local nonprofits, ac-
equiv. & 2 yrs exp. in: Leading cross-functional teams in for parking spots. The parking cording to a new promotional booklet released by company.
technical projects; Analyzing industry trends & dynamics revenues would support the Palo AJ Capital, which earlier this year completed the eviction of resi-
in the automotive, industrials, & simulation software space. Alto Transportation Management dents from the building’s 75 apartments, still faces significant zoning
10% domestic travel, as necessary. Job Site: Palo Alto, CA. Association, the nonprofit charged hurdles before it can move ahead with its plan to turn the University
Ref#4076916 & submit resume to BofA Securities Inc. NY1-050- with getting people to stop driv- Avenue building into a boutique hotel with 100 rooms. This includes
03-01, 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020. No phone calls ing solo. a law that the City Council passed in April that specified that con-
or emails. EOE. This wouldn’t be downtown version of “grandfathered” downtown buildings like President Hotel
Palo Alto’s first experience with (those that don’t comply with current development standards) must
parking meters. Downtown had not result in the loss of housing units. The law does, however, in-
parking meters for about 30 years clude a waiver process that developers can use to circumvent this
Full Stack Engineer before abandoning them in the restriction.
Full Stack Engineer needed at Activehours, Inc. (dba 1970s out of concern about com- AJ Capital will also need to get the city’s approval for its parking
Earnin) in Palo Alto, CA. Must have Master’s in Comp. Sci., petition from Stanford Shopping and transportation-management plans and permits for its proposed
Electrical Engineering, or related & 2 yrs of development Center and other shopping areas roof garden and for alcohol sales. It will also need to undergo an
where parking is free. architectural review for the restoration of the building, which the
The 2016 study acknowledged
exp, including: Programming using Java, JavaScript, &
company estimates will cost about $50 million and will include a
concerns that installing parking seismic retrofit, a refurbished lobby and restoration of storefront de-
Python; Utilizing SQL & NoSQL databases; Using build
tools & source code repository tools including GIT, meters would discourage people tails at the prominent building at 488 University Ave.
GitHub, Pull Request review, & Gitflow branch strategies; from visiting downtown but ar- To sweeten the deal for the city and make the project more palat-
Developing & executing functional & integration tests. gued that a segment of the popu- able politically, AJ Capital has also agreed to contribute $1 mil-
Interested applicants fax resumes to HR at 650-618-1925 lation will be more likely to visit lion to Palo Alto Housing, the nonprofit that develops and manages
(ref FSE on cover sheet). M/ F/ D/ V. because parking will be easier and affordable-housing developments, and $1.4 million to other local
quicker to find. organizations. Q
Dixon’s earlier report recom- —Gennady Sheyner
VP, Investment Banker I mended a tiered structure with
higher rates at the more centrally Old Palo Alto gets new parking restrictions
VP, Investment Banker I sought by BofA Securities Inc. to support located garages. Rates would vary In a bid to drive Caltrain commuters out of Old Palo Alto’s resi-
the origination & execution of investment banking transaction from $1.50 to $2.50 per hour un- dential streets, the City Council approved on Monday a new permit
mandates for large-cap corp clients in the Tech sector such as: der the proposed scheme. program that will limit all-day parking to those who live in the
Under the new contract, Dixon neighborhood.
would shepherd the installation of The City Council swiftly and unanimously approved a proposal
buy & sell-side M&A, inclusive of cross-border transactions, as
well as capital mkts processes, including debt & equity offerings. garage equipment that would en- to add the neighborhood just east of the California Avenue under-
Reqs: Master’s degree or equiv. & 4 yrs exp. executing investment able the city to collect revenues pass to the city’s expanding list of Residential Preferential Parking
banking transactions & processes in a global firm envmt, including and track occupancy rates. Dixon (RPP) districts. Once the program takes effect, only cars displaying
both M&A & capital mkts products; Preparing fin analysis, including would then evaluate the perfor- RPP permits will be able to park on residential streets for more
mance of the new downtown sys- than two hours. And unlike in similar programs in downtown and
tem and potentially expand it to
detailed valuation analysis, such as: LBO analysis, discounted cash
Evergreen Park, permits in Old Palo Alto will only be sold to resi-
flow, accretion & dilution, IPO pro forma analysis, comparative
other parts of the city. dents. The new district would be roughly bounded by Alma Street
comp analysis, & sum of parts analysis. In alt, mplyr will accept Dixon will also put together a on the west and Bryant Street on the east, between Washington
a Bach degree & 6 yrs of prog resp exp. 25% domestic travel, as “Parking Action Plan” that incor- Avenue and Oregon Avenue. Several blocks just north of the pro-
nec. Job Site: Palo Alto, CA. Ref#4287035 & submit resume to BofA porates the 35 suggestions from posed district, along Santa Rita Avenue and between Santa Rita
Securities Inc. NY1-050-03-01, 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY the Tanda report and make rec- and Washington, would become eligible to quickly enter the RPP
ommendations on enforcement, district once traffic spills over to their blocks.
parking-district boundaries and a The program will require residents in the district to pay $50 for
10020. No phone calls or emails. EOE.
new “wayfinding program” aimed residential permits and allow them to buy up to five permits. And
at directing drivers toward vacant even though some aren’t thrilled about having to pay to park in
COMPUTER/IT parking spaces. front of their homes, the vast majority strongly support creating
The action plan will also consid- the new restrictions. Of the 55 households that responded to city
Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Sunnyvale, CA, General
er strategies to encourage people surveys, 49 said they support the new RPP — an approval rate of
Motors. Define &implement embedded S/W reqmts &specs in
to use alternate modes of trans- 89%. Q
RTOS for psgr vehicle Driver Notification &Chime syss in Center
portation, including walking, bik- —Gennady Sheyner
Stack Module incldg notification (alerts, warnings, &indicators,
ing, public transit and ride-sharing
&driver info. /vehicle status) &chime events for driver assistance services, according to the contract. District reaches agreements on raises
(adaptive cruise control, park assist, lane departure warning/ It will also entail the creation of The Palo Alto school district has reached tentative agreements on
chime), safety assistance (object detection, bicycle &pedestrian an advisory body to help improve raises for its teachers and classified employee unions, far earlier in
detection), &driver &psgr safety (active &passive restraint syss). long-term management of parking the year than has historically happened in the city.
Test, debug &perform root cause anlys of sys &platform issues strategies and support the trans- Under the tentative agreements, teachers and classified staff
reported during testing &implement S/W fixes. Work w/ feature portation-demand-management would receive a 1% retroactive salary increase for this year, a one-
owners &sys architects to create vehicle notifications &chime programs. time 1.5% bonus and contingency language that provides for ad-
system. Master, Computer Science, Computer Engrg, Electrical “The success of a parking pro- ditional ongoing raises if the district’s final annual property tax
Engrg, or related. 12 mos exp as Engineer, testing, debugging gram is often dependent on the revenues exceed current growth projections of 5.93%. The district
&performing root cause anlys of sys &platform issues reported supporting alternative modes of has also tentatively agreed to contribute slightly more to health care
during testing &implement S/W fixes where applicable. Mail transportation being available, ac- benefits for full-time employees, from $13,570 to $14,099 per year.
resume to Ref#444-35-I, GM Global Mobility, 300 Renaissance cessible and affordable,” the con- The district and its unions are typically negotiating compensation
Center, MC:482-C32-D44, Detroit, MI 48265. tract states. and benefits through the spring. Teri Baldwin, president of the Palo
The proposed switch is part Alto Educators Association, said that in the decade she’s been in-
of Palo Alto’s broader push to volved in negotiations, this is the earliest they’ve ever come to an
streamline parking strategies. Palo agreement (except when there were no raises).
The Palo Alto Weekly offers Alto’s newly established Office of Superintendent Don Austin called the timing of the agreements
Transportation is also planning to “historic.”
advertising for Employment, as well standardize and simplify the city’s “The shift in negotiations timing puts PAUSD on a more tradition-
as Home and Business Services. five neighborhood parking-permit al schedule, allowing for substantive contract language discussions
programs, making it easier for resi- to occur throughout the remainder of the year void of distractions,”
If you wish to learn more about these dents and, in some cases, employ- he said. Q
ees, to buy permits. Q —Elena Kadvany
advertising options, please call 650.223.6582 Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner
or email digitalads@paweekly.com. can be emailed at gsheyner@ LET’S DISCUSS: Read the latest local news headlines and talk
paweekly.com. about the issues at Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com/square
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by complaints from neighborhood the wall,” he said.
Church residents concerned about the With the church’s operation
(continued from page 5)
noise and traffic created by church winding down, leaders of other
activities. One prior tenant, the congregations and parishioners
potential merger. That plan failed New Mozart School of Music, left expressed their sadness and grati-
to advance. the church after the city’s code- tude in letters to the First Baptist.
More recently, the church had enforcement staff deemed it to be Cindy Sojourner, a former church
ramped up its outreach to the in violation with local zoning law, member, wrote that she hopes the
broader community, sending peo- which they argued does not allow congregants find “new spiritual
ple out to talk to residents “where music schools in residential neigh- homes to nourish you up and lift
they are,” rather than inviting them borhoods. (The school moved to you up,” according to excerpts
to come to the church, Mixon said.
File photo/Veronica Weber
another location in Palo Alto, the printed in the August edition
While this program introduced the College Terrace Centre.) of “The Spire,” a First Baptist
church to more people, the congre- The conflict was largely re- Church newsletter. Doug Donley, a
gation didn’t grow. (It didn’t help solved in May 2018, when the pastor in Minneapolis, offered his
that the outreach worker, Gregory council approved a conditional- thanks for the “impacts this great
Stevens, was fired last year af- use permit that designates the church has had in Palo Alto and
ter sending out a series of vulgar The congregation of 126-year-old First Baptist Church, located church as a “community cen- across the world.”
tweets, some of which called Palo at 305 N. California Avenue in Palo Alto, is in negotiations to sell ter.” While the permit allows The process of closing has been
Alto “disgusting” and “elitist.”) its property to an as-yet-unnamed buyer. A religious community the church to continue to rent “emotional,” Mixon said.
Facing an existential challenge, from North Carolina is considering renting the space after the sale, out its space for secular uses, it “There’s a whole range of feel-
the church hired a consultant a according to church meeting minutes from this summer. The church also established hours of opera- ings. We’ve had people for whom
year ago to assess its prospects. is trying to ensure that current tenants will be allowed to remain. tion (10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.) and this congregation has been central
After talking to dozens of com- created an occupancy limit of 70 to their lives for 60 years or more.
munity members and leaders of people with exceptions for special To let that go is enormous,” Mixon
other churches, the consultant de- First, however, the church needs Sympara in July so that Sympara events, up to six of which can be said.
termined that while First Baptist to close the sale of the property. can develop its programming for held annually. Even so, people have accepted
could function for several more Mixon declined to discuss the the church, which would be its Mixon called the restrictions “ill- that closing the church is the ra-
years, the church would not be sus- potential selling price or possible first physical location. Parishioners conceived” and “unreasonable.” tional thing to do, particularly in
tainable — both in terms of people buyers, citing the sensitive nature agreed to reassess Sympara’s pro- “It curtails what can happen at light of the report’s conclusion.
power and financial resources — in of pending negotiations. He said posal in December, at which time the church in ways that are just While the transition has inspired
the long term, Mixon said. the church is looking at a “variety they will consider providing an ridiculous,” he said, citing a re- a wide range of feelings, includ-
The problem facing the congre- of proposals,” all of which would additional $410,000 (the minutes quirement that tenants be nonprof- ing sadness and anger, there was
gation, he said, are not unique to preserve the building as a religious did not specify what those funds its (the permit does carve out an also a wide sense of relief after
First Baptist. institution. would be used for). exception for up to five therapists). the parish decided to start wind-
“I believe we’re in an age and While Mixon declined to discuss According to the church min- But while the church’s recent ing down the church’s operations.
a place where fewer and fewer the status of negotiations, minutes utes, negotiations between Pryfo- battle with the neighbors and the “People have been feeling the
people are looking for a tradi- from church meetings obtained by gle and the potential buyer slowed city over permitted uses was a fac- burden of trying to keep it going
tional church,” Mixon said. “And the Weekly indicate that one inter- down in September but were set tor in its decision to close, it was for some time,” Mixon said. Q
while we may be one of the first of ested prospect is Sympara, a North to resume in early October. (Pry- not a determinative factor, Mixon Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner
the mainstream churches in Palo Carolina-based community with a fogle declined to comment for said. can be emailed at gsheyner@
Alto to fold our tent, I’d say other mission of “healing the world.” this article, also citing pending “We had to face the writing on paweekly.com.
churches are wrestling with what Under terms that church leaders negotiations.)
we’re wrestling with.” considered over the summer, Sym- Mixon told the Weekly on
In mid-20th century, the church para would rent the church from a Thursday that the church is seek-
was where the community gath-
ered, people came to network and
children went for activities.
foundation that would be set up by
the buyer of the property. It would
then work with neighbors to estab-
ing to ensure that the various non-
profits, therapists and community
groups that currently rent space
Felipe’s
“We now live in an age and place lish a “sacred/civic space minister- at First Baptist will be able to re-
where there are so many different ing to the neighborhood.” main. The tenants include the girls
things that in a sense we compete In recent months, the church has chorus iSing, as well as therapists,
with — from soccer to music to all
kinds of groups and activities —
that the church generally is no lon-
been evaluating business propos-
als from Daniel Pryfogle, a Baptist
minister and marketer who heads
counselors, dance groups and a
Persian-language instructor.
“We’re trying to figure out a way
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to give away as much funding as office use to remain at 470 Olive Ave., which is in an R-1 zoning district.
possible to organizations it has The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 30, in the Council
supported in the past. The remain- Chamber at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.
der, he said, will be placed into a
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