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News To ward off commuters, Old Palo Alto seeks parking limits Page 5Arts Hershey Felder’s one-man shows break box-office records Page 24Home Going Native Garden Tour showcases year-round blooms Page 51

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To ward off commuters, Old Palo Alto seeks parking limitsNeighbors win planning commission’s support to launch

city’s next Residential Preferential Parking districtby Gennady Sheyner

designated the Old Palo Alto pro-posal as the top priority. Even so, the program could face significant delays due to a staffing shortage in the city’s recently created Of-fice of Transportation, which is hindering the City Council’s abil-ity to launch new initiatives.

If approved, the new parking-permit district would be located across the Caltrain tracks from the California Avenue business district, an area bounded by

Washington Avenue to the north and Oregon Avenue to the south, between the train tracks and Ra-mona Street.

If the new program follows the contours of those in downtown and the Evergreen Park-Mayfield neighborhood, two-hour parking limits would apply to all drivers unless they have permits. The city allows every household in those two neighborhoods to obtain multiple permits and designates a

limited number for area employ-ees. (By contrast, an older permit program, for the College Terrace neighborhood, offers no employee permits.)

Chris Robell, who is one of the leaders organizing the Old Palo Alto effort, told the planning commission that the parking situ-ation in the neighborhood has got-ten so dire that there are virtually

F ed up with Caltrain com-muters and California Avenue employees who use their streets for free, all-day parking, residents in a section of Old Palo Alto have launched an effort to establish a Residential Preferential Parking program in

their neighborhood.The effort gained some traction

on March 27, when the city’s Plan-ning and Transportation Com-mission evaluated three different proposals it had received from various parts of Palo Alto for new residential parking programs and

Bill would aid homeless

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Berman passes through committee on Tuesday

by Christian Trujano

H omeless community-col-lege students will be per-mitted to park and sleep in their cars overnight at any com-munity college in California if state Assembly Bill 302 proposed by a former Palo Alto city coun-cilman passes.

AB 302 would require commu-nity colleges with parking facili-ties to allow overnight parking by homeless students. The schools would apply to the state to get their expenses reimbursed for creating these safe parking lots.

To qualify for the program, stu-dents must be enrolled in courses, have paid for those courses and be in good standing with their college.

Assemblyman Marc Berman, D-Palo Alto, who authored the bill, said he was moved dur-ing five informational hearings throughout the state during the 2017-2018 legislative session, when students shared their stories of homelessness and housing inse-curities that prevented them from completing their degrees.

The bill passed by a 10-0 vote out of the Assembly Higher Edu-cation Committee on Tuesday and it will next go to the Assem-bly Appropriations Committee in mid-May, according to Berman.

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A man wearing a Make America Great Again cap was confronted over his presumed political views by a liberal activist at the California Avenue Starbucks in Palo Alto on April 1, prompting death threats and outrage on social media.

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Cellphone video captures heated MAGA confrontation that went viral

In backlash against woman who tried to ‘dox’ man wearing Trump hat, she becomes target of ‘doxing’ herself

by Sue Dremann

A 28-second cellphone video has surfaced of an explosive April 1 confrontation in Palo Alto over a Make America Great Again hat, an incident that went viral on social media and triggered

a politically fueled maelstrom online this week.

The video, recorded by a cafe customer and provided to the Weekly on the condition that it not be published, shows Palo Alto resident Rebecca Parker

Mankey screaming at an el-derly white man wearing a red MAGA cap as he walks down the alley outside of the Star-bucks on California Avenue.

“Go! Leave! Nobody wants you here,” Mankey, clad in all

black, yells at the top of her lungs as she stalks after him. “Get your f------, Trump-loving MAGA hat out of my g--damn town, you a------!”

She continues the tirade against him as he enters the parking lot at the end of the al-leyway: “It is NOT OK to be a racist!” she shouts angrily. “It’s NOT OK to be a Nazi!”

The person who filmed the video, who asked not to be identified, wrote in an email to the Weekly, “I (am) not a fan of people being harassed in public



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Around TownNOTE-ABLE MUSICIANS ... In a world where many young people are aspiring to be the next electronic music DJ or pop superstar, two teens from Palo Alto are deviating from the trend by harnessing their talent in playing classical music that has taken them to the national stage. Davis You, 17, and James Poe, 18, will show off their melodic flair on NPR’s “From The Top.” You, a cellist in his third year at Palo Alto High School, will be tackling II. Scherzo from the Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op. 65 by Frédéric Chopin. Poe, a violinist working toward a certificate in violin performance at Yale University, will take the stage with “Tzigane” for violin and piano by Maurice Ravel. When the teens aren’t delving into music from past centuries, they have other interests that bring them back to modern times. You enjoys computer programming and fueling up on fast food from In-N-Out with friends. Poe has taken up an interest in photography and producing and performing covers of popular music published on his YouTube channel “Jupiter Poe.” The show is scheduled to air on KDFC at 7 p.m. on April 14, though the podcast version of the show will be available online on April 8.

HOME SHOPPING ... When Palo Alto City Manager James Keene retired last December after a decade of service, he left behind a Webster Street home downtown with two bedrooms and two-and-a-half bathrooms purchased in 2010 with plenty of help from the city. Now, the City Council is trying to figure out what to do with the home, which Keene and the city bought for $1,875,000. The city had contributed $1.4 million, with Keene paying the rest through a city loan. Since then, Keene made about $250,000 in capital improvements to the home, about half of which came through a city loan. These changes increased his equity share in the property from 25% to 33.8%, while the city’s ownership stake dropped from 75% to 66.2%. Keene, who retired to move to Bainbridge Island, Washington, recently informed the city that he plans to sell the property, as his employment contract allows. The

contract also gives the city the right to buy the city manager’s interest in the home rather than have it sold, according to a report from the Administrative Services Department. The home sale is expected to bring in a tidy profit. Based on public sites such as Zillow.com and Redfin.com, staff estimates that the property will be sold between $3.2 million and $4.4 million. If sold, the proceeds will be split between Keene and the city, based on their ownership interests. That was the option the council chose in 2015, when the council authorized sale of former City Manager Frank Benest’s home for $2.7 million. If the city chooses to buy the home, the property will be appraised by an independent party acceptable to both sides.

IT’S NOT EASY BEING GREEN ... When the Palo Alto City Council adopted “climate change” as one of its top priorities for 2019, the decision drew plenty of cheers from environmentalists, as well as a few skeptical eyebrows from residents unsure what exactly the city plans to do. On Wednesday, the council’s Policy and Services Committee received some clarity when city staff presented its “sustainability work plan” for 2019 and 2020. The proposal includes launching a “mobility on demand” app to help reduce solo commuting; retiring the sewage-burning incinerators in the Baylands; moving ahead with a plan for addressing sea-level rise; and developing a “tree planting project” for carbon sequestration. The plan aims to support the city’s goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2030 (with 1990 as the baseline year). The committee unanimously approved the proposed work plan, though Councilman Greg Tanaka, who regularly skateboards to council meetings, urged staff to add rebate programs and other incentives for commuters who use electric scooters, skateboards and other portable modes of transportation — so that the term “electric vehicles” is not just limited to cars. “We should make it so Liz rides a skateboard to City Council meetings,” Tanaka said, referring to his committee colleague, Councilwoman Liz Kniss.

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Passionate volunteers among Tall Tree honoreesPalo Alto residents, nonprofit La Comida and KEEN Garage to be awarded for service to the community

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COMMUNITY

T he Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce has announced this year’s Tall Tree award-ees — four individuals and orga-nizations that have exemplified outstanding service to the Palo Alto community and beyond. Their contributions include pro-viding medical relief to victims of natural disasters, supporting pro-grams to benefit the local home-less population, serving meals to senior citizens and mentor-ing underprivileged high school students.

Paula Collins, Enoch Choi, La Comida and KEEN Garage will be honored for their work during the 40th annual event, co-spon-sored by the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce and the Palo Alto Weekly. The ceremony is set for May 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

Choi, a Palo Alto Medical Foundation Urgent Care doc-tor and medical director of local nonprofit Jordan International Aid, is receiving the Outstanding Professional award. In addition to being a physician, Choi has be-come a medical missionary over the years, delivering aid to victims of global national disasters.

Just days following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Choi led a team of volunteer doctors and nurses into the country to provide life-saving treatment and care. The following year, after the Japan earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster hit, Choi was on-site within one week with volunteers

and emergency relief supplies in tow. His international work led to the formation of his own nonprofit organization, the Enoch Choi Foundation, which raises funds for medical supplies for these devastated areas.

“Enoch’s generous spirit in sharing his medical expertise is unequalled,” said Carroll Har-rington, who worked closely with him on his missionary projects for Haiti and Japan. “He also inspires others to contribute in many ways.”

On a local level, Choi has been involved in a number of organi-zations, including the Peninsula Healthcare Connection (PHC) — the nonprofit, state-licensed medical clinic that operates at the Opportunity Center in Palo Alto. The organization provides medical and mental health care to homeless and formerly homeless people and coordinates outreach and support to high-risk home-less individuals. Choi previously served as the clinic’s medical di-rector and has remained an active volunteer, providing advice and support to PHC clients on nights and weekends.

“I sat on the PHC board with (Dr. Choi) for a few years and I found him to be an outstanding individual,” said Jeff Jarvela, who nominated Choi for the Tall Tree award. “He works really hard, and every time he opened his mouth, what he said made sense.”

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Paula Collins will receive the Outstanding Citizen award.

Dr. Enoch Choi assists a young patient in Cambodia. KEEN Garage, Palo Alto, donates footwear to the homeless.

dedicated more than three de-cades of service to Palo Alto youth who come from low-income backgrounds. She has volunteered countless hours of her time with the YMCA, Pursuit of Excellence Scholarship Foundation, Parent Advocates for Student Success (formerly Parent Network for Stu-dents of Color) and Friends of the Palo Alto Children’s Theatre.

Raised and educated in Mexico City, Collins learned English and Spanish as a child. Her fluency in both languages has been valuable to the organizations she’s served with. She uses her bilingual skills to translate for parents during meetings and events as well as to help her young mentees feel more comfortable.

One of Collins’ mentees said in 2015 that speaking with Collins in her native language made her feel at ease. “I am able to express

myself more freely and I feel there’s a connection between us,” she said.

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“She steps up to the table with a singular focus; she’s so highly committed, knows no bounds, she just wants to know what’s the next step, what has to be done,” Garcia said of Collins.

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places regardless of their politi-cal views, and I think everyone inside Starbucks felt the same way.

“What really surprised me was that the Starbucks staff didn’t do anything,” the person added.

The video recorded the tail end of the encounter, which began when Mankey, who is involved in local progressive politics, ap-proached the man as he sat in the coffeehouse — an encounter she then wrote about on social media. Calling him a “hater of brown people,” Mankey said she yelled at him and addressed Starbucks customers and employees to join her in her effort. She said she left the store but soon returned and continued to try to shame him.

Mankey wrote that she was “heartbroken” that other white people didn’t stand up against the man sporting a slogan that was popularized by Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign.

She threatened to post pic-tures of him on social media, which she then did, along with her version of the incident on her Facebook page and on Twit-ter. She asked the public for help finding him — “I want him to have nowhere to hide,” she wrote — a practice called “dox-ing,” or posting personal contact

information to encourage threats and harassment.

She exhorted people online to confront him if they see him wearing the red cap.

“You do not want to be the per-son who didn’t speak up as we slipped into fascism,” she posted.

On Twitter, she said: “I am going to publicly shame him in town and try to get him fired and kicked out of every club he is in. I am going to go to his house, march up and down carrying a sign that says he hates black people. I am going to organize protests where he works to make him feel as unsafe as he made ev-ery brown person he met today.”

The incident has had repercus-sions not only for Mankey, who said on Tuesday she’s received death threats and was fired from her job as an accountant, but also for her former employer, Gry-phon Stringed Instruments. Staff at the store said they were inun-dated with angry phone calls and emails Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the 74-year-old Palo Alto man in the MAGA hat, who is Jewish, told the Palo Alto Weekly that he is not afraid of the woman. Rather, he said, her actions are an example of the lack of discourse in the country over differing viewpoints. He said he has seen her description of the incident and that it was ac-curate. (The man’s full name is being withheld as he did not ha-rass anyone, but he consented to

the publication of his first name, Victor.)

The postings immediately drew criticism on right-wing and other websites against Mankey, who is an appointed member of Palo Alto’s North Ventura Co-ordinated Area Plan Working Group and until Wednesday co-chaired the Bayshore Progressive Democrats, a relatively new pro-gressive club addressing social-justice issues.

A woman from the Midwest with the Twitter handle @Right-HookUSA responded by con-tacting Mankey’s husband’s em-ployer and the Palo Alto Police Department.

“I was extremely disturbed when I learned that an elderly man was being humiliated and harassed in public by a vicious bully,” the woman, named Amy, said in an email to the Weekly. “I hope and pray that this incident leads to greater tolerance and re-spect among all Americans, in-stead of greater hatred and rage.”

She declined to provide her last name because she said she received hateful messages for supporting the man.

Matt Lynch, retail manager at Gryphon Stringed Instruments on Lambert Street, said on Tues-day that the store also has been caught up in the politically fu-eled maelstrom. The business received many emails and phone calls about Mankey’s comments. People from all over the world

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“It’s been a tough day,” he said, wearily. “What she said in no way reflects Gryphon or how the

company feels.” He added that “100 percent” of the calls have been against what Mankey said.

“It’s a big shock to us,” he said.Mankey had worked for the

Professor weighs in: Political incivility is ‘abnormal’

Morris Fiorina says partisanship has become some people’s identity


POLITICS

E xtreme political confron-tations such as the one that took place at a Palo Alto Starbucks on April 1 are increasing, but they are not the norm, according to Morris Fio-rina, a Stanford University pro-fessor of political science and Hoover Institution senior fellow.

“This incivil behavior is un-usual. It is not a trend,” Fiorina said by phone on Thursday.

Most ordinary people don’t engage in this type of behavior, whether it’s undertaken on be-half of the political right or the left.

“The population as a whole is just going about their business and raising their kids. They only get into politics when they have to,” he said.

But those who exhibit these

extreme behaviors have let “partisanship become a politi-cal identity,” he said.

To them, politics is no longer just about different points of view on policy. Opposing views become a personal threat and insult, he said.

“It’s extremely abnormal,” he said. “It’s so counterproductive. It just alienates the kind of peo-ple you want to persuade.”

The misconception that these extreme behaviors are wide-spread has been fanned by so-cial media and television, and that’s unfortunate, he said.

Fiorina added that 40 percent of the population won’t even dis-close their political affiliation because of the current charged environment.

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In a statement posted on the Gryphon Facebook page, the company said: “Gryphon does not believe anyone should be ha-rassed or subject to hate speech no matter their beliefs. Music has

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Manager: East Palo Alto can be ‘regional leader’East Palo Alto has a new city

manager who comes with expe-rience in negotiating complex multimillion-dollar projects related to real estate and waste-water treatment; improving the financial ratings of cities where he has worked; and developing a cannabis industry in an agri-cultural community.

The City Council voted 4-0, with Councilman Ruben Abrica absent, on Tuesday to approve a contract with Jaime Fontes, the former city man-ager of Greenfield, a city in Monterey County. His first day will be May 1.

“I believe that East Palo Alto can become a regional leader in terms of economic development and sustainable finance, but the kind that supports a multicultural and multilingual community in terms of public safety, public health, education, housing and infrastructure,” Fontes said.

In his positions managing other cities, he has supported de-veloping a cannabis industry in an agricultural municipality and shepherded complex multimillion-dollar projects related to real estate and wastewater treatment.

Fontes graduated from Nogales High School in Nogales, Arizo-na, a city just north of the U.S.-Mexico border. He has a bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University and doctorate of law from Western State University College of Law. Prior to his city manager positions, he was employed by San Diego County’s Department of Public Works as a real estate program coordinator, supervising real property agent and senior real property agent; was CEO for the Economic Development Authority on the Tohono O’Odham Nation in Arizona; and was the real estate manager and assistant planning chief for Maricopa County in Arizona, according to No-gales International news.

— Sue DremannCity approves contract for downtown valets

With plans for a new downtown garage now in limbo, Palo Alto officials are looking to boost capacity at existing parking struc-tures by hiring valets to park people’s cars during busy lunchtime hours.

That’s the direction the City Council took on Monday, when it voted 6-1, with Councilman Greg Tanaka dissenting, to approve a $900,000 contract with SP Plus, the company that has been provid-ing valet services at the Alma/High Street garage (also known as Lot R) since early 2015. City officials say the valet program has al-lowed an additional 50 vehicles to be parked per day at the garage.

The new three-year contract will allow SP Plus to continue its valet work at the prominent downtown garage while also potential-ly expand it to the Bryant/Lytton garage and the Cowper/Webster garage. The expansion to the two garages would be based on need and occupancy, according to a report from the Office of Trans-portation. Staff estimate that stationing parking valets at the three garages between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. would boost each garage’s capacity by about 75 cars, or 150 cars total.

The program can also be spread to other garages and surface lots in the future, if needed, the report states.

Because the valets will increase the capacity of the three ga-rages, the city will be able to sell more parking permits. Releasing up to 150 additional permits would result in a revenue increase of up to $112,500, the staff report states.

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Posted April 3 by Jonathan Brown, a resident of Ventura:

It is wrong to scream at, insult, humiliate, intimidate, slander, make unfounded as-sumptions about and otherwise harrass someone who is doing no harm to you. In our country, thankfully, we are free to speak our minds, express our political and religious views, and wear what we want. Anybody that suggests otherwise is attacking core values of our society and is themselves guilty of facist logic.

If you think someone’s politi-cal beliefs are wrong and you would like to tell them so, it is incumbent upon you to try to convince that person in civil discourse in the marketplace of ideas, not to simply shout them down and overwhelm them with force and fear for their safety and livelihood. ...

We should take time to get proximate with each other and understand that ... we share a common humanity that tran-scends superficial differences. Only then can we begin to build a truly just society.

Posted April 3 by Becky Sanders, a resident of Ventura:

Knowing Parker well, Parker must have been having a super bad day to exercise such disas-trous judgment. She’s a neigh-bor and a colleague here in the Ventura Neighborhood Associ-ation. ... I have never witnessed her, even under stress, insult anyone or be cruel. ...

Hers was a very poor choice, but what is really chilling here is the extremist backlash that

Parker is subjected too. She exercises her free speech — al-beit in a not constructive way — and then gets the four horses of the right wing apocalypse threatening her very life. She loses her job and her family is harassed.

Would it be possible for Parker and Maga-man ... to get together and hash this out? Maybe they could engage in civil discourse with the desired outcome being that each person seekito understand the point of view of the other person and not engage in trying to change any minds. A listening party. No screaming allowed.

Posted April 3 by Patrick Boone, a resident of Down-town North: I think this is a teaching moment and we all need to take a breathe and real-ize no matter our differences, we’re all people that matter. I believe we should form bonds with people of opposite opin-ions versus push them away. Even though I would not wear that hat, if we can learn from each other, we just might find our values are the same. Let’s not hate, when respecting each other is so much easier.

I welcome a coffee with the MAGA hat man, we all need our voices heard on both sides. As a black man, I never assume anyone’s point of view until I know what type of heart they have for a fellow person and what’s their history.

Posted April 3 by Margaret Heath, a resident of Evergreen Park: It is interesting to think about what might have hap-pened if the roles had been reversed. If what appeared to be a “white” person verbally assaulted a non-white person in the same circumstances. How tolerant would the other cus-tomers and onlookers outside have been in that circumstance?

in the movies, they’ll give me a slow clap.”

Triggered by TrumpMankey, for her part, said in

an email to the Weekly that she and her family are receiving death threats and other threats of harm. She declined to com-ment further.

Margaret Okuzumi, who co-chairs the Bayshore Progres-sive Democrats with Mankey, expressed concern for Mankey and her family, saying they were doxed Tuesday on right-wing so-cial media and internet channels. (Doxing is illegal, and various message boards have taken down threads about the incident and warned that posters who dox will be banned.)

In a statement from the orga-nization, Okuzumi said: “Parker felt strongly that she wanted

to use her privilege as a white woman to stand up for those who are living in fear because of the hateful atmosphere fostered by Trump. Unfortunately the man-ner in which she chose to stand up against a slogan that stands for racism led to an even stronger hateful response that has endan-gered her and her family.”

She added that the organiza-tion encourages nonviolent en-gagement to change the minds of racists.

“Parker’s actions did not fol-low these principles and do not reflect our organization’s political philosophy and approach. We re-gret how her actions have further reverberated and sundered human connection in the community at-large. And we condemn those who have threatened her and her


as we have done for nearly 50 years.”

He’ll keep exercising free speech

Victor told the Weekly that he goes to Starbucks every day. When Mankey, whom he did not know, approached and began questioning him about his hat, he thought she was going to talk to him about politics, a common oc-currence, but instead, she lit into him right away.

He said he was not really cog-nizant that she had called him a “hater of brown people” or that she likened him to a Nazi. She was “raving,” he said, and he wasn’t focused on her words.

She told him she wanted him to call the police because then she would learn his name and where he lived, his wife’s name and where his children had attended school, her Facebook post states.

He was surprised that no one said anything to stop the woman or come to his aid.

“It would’ve been touching,” he said.

Victor said he wears the MAGA hat regularly, but he nev-er sees anyone else wearing one. Almost everyone who approaches him tells him they want to wear the hats but are worried about repercussions.

“There’s a fear in the air,” he said of people who support Trump. “I hope this doesn’t start a trend of people getting in your face.”

Victor denied that the hat, which for some people has come to symbolize hatred, racism and division, represents those ideas.

“Let me ask you: The phrase Make America Great — is there anything negative in it? In the 1952 election, people wore ‘I Like Ike’ buttons, but no one saw it as a threat,” he said.

“Saying that a hat is pro-Trump or pro-American is absurd. There has always been a picture of the president and the postmaster in the post office. Are we say-ing now that putting a picture of this president up is considered a provocation?

“What’s happened around here is that people get the idea that if you’re for Trump, you are an evil person,” he said.

He bemoaned the loss of civil discourse over politics and says no one has approached him to have a reasonable debate.

“There is no intelligent dia-logue. People watch right-wing websites and left-wing websites,” he said of people gravitating to extremes. “There’s no intelligent discussion at all. There used to be some sense of two political parties.”

He said he would continue to wear his MAGA hat in public as an exercise of his freedom of speech — “until North Korea (or another totalitarian regime) takes over our government.”

And he will continue to go out for his coffee.

“I’m joking, but I hope the next time at Starbucks there will be 30 people wearing red hats and like

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STORM WATER MANAGEMENT OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to discuss the public meeting held on March 26 on the Green Stormwater Infrastructure Plan and consider a draft letter to the City Council. The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

UTILITIES ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission plans to consider a resolution to allow neighborhood funding of certain subsurface equipment; discuss the Electric Supply Portfolio Carbon Accounting Analysis; review the Fiscal Year 2020 Electric Financial Plan and Water Utility Financial Plan; and hear an update on planning for fiber and advanced-metering-infrastructure projects. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hold a study session on parking strategies and to consider the planning director’s tentative decision to deny a variance pertaining to fence-height regulations at 1210 Newell Road. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION ... The commission plans to meet at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 11, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. The agenda wasn’t available by press time.

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recipient La Comida de Califor-nia has operated the only subsi-dized lunch program in Palo Alto dedicated to fulfilling the social and nutritional needs of seniors over 60, many of whom are low-income. The organization func-tions almost entirely on volunteer labor, with the exception of three kitchen staff members and a site manager. Over the past four years, La Comida has distributed more than 41,000 meals annually, ac-cording to the nonprofit.

In 2017, La Comida faced ad-versity after having to leave its site downtown at Avenidas senior cen-ter due to a multiyear renovation project. But La Comida moved to Stevenson House in south Palo Alto, which has become the non-profit’s permanent home, and it has expanded back into down-town, now serving meals in the Palo Alto Masonic Center. Even with its recent growth, La Comida has managed to keep costs low, asking diners to contribute as little as $3 per meal.

KEEN Garage shoe store, lo-cated at 278 University Ave., has earned the Outstanding Business award for its work with the non-profit organization Downtown Streets Team, which provides support and resources to the homeless.

KEEN donates roughly 200 pairs of new and gently used pairs of shoes per year to homeless men and women through Down-town Streets Team, according to Assistant Store Manager Sonja Jurgensen.

KEEN has also donated more than 9,000 pairs of socks to the organization to date.

“KEEN’s generosity has made a huge impact at Downtown Streets Team in our outreach and recruitment efforts,” said Logan McDonnell, director of develop-ment for Downtown Streets Team. “A fresh pair of socks is one of the most appreciated gifts when the person receiving them doesn’t have access to a washer or dryer or the funds needed to purchase a new pair,” he added.

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Assemblyman Marc Berman, D-Palo Alto, speaks at a press conference alongside fellow supporters of Assembly Bill 302 on April 2. The bill would allow homeless students to park at community-college parking lots overnight.

Homeless Youth Project, said during a press conference at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Tuesday.

The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office and The Hope Center’s #RealCollege initiative surveyed nearly 40,000 students at 57 community col-leges statewide.

Of those respondents, 19% said they had experienced homeless-ness in the last 12 months and 20% said they had experienced having to sleep in their cars.

Extrapolating that to Califor-nia’s community-college popula-tion of 2.1 million students, al-most 400,000 students statewide have experienced homelessness in the last year.

“Four hundred thousand home-less community-college students in California is totally unaccept-able,” Berman said.

The assemblyman said he wants to tackle this issue head-on with feasible short-term solutions that have never been done before, such as AB 302.

“It’s not like these kids don’t exist, and we need to stop pre-tending like they don’t exist,” Berman said.

“These students are sleeping in their cars, in our communities, to-night. It’s happening,” he added.

Students also addressed how these basic-need insecurities are not just getting in the way of their education but creating concerns for their overall safety.

“I was working full time and I was going to school in the eve-nings, and after I left class each night, the biggest challenge for me was where am I going to go?” said Anthony White, a second-year Palomar College student and veteran of the U.S. Marines.

White said he lived in his truck for eight months while being a full-time dad but decided to send his son to live with his mom out

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of state because his housing situ-ation was not stable enough.

Matthew Bodo, a third-year student at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, also experi-enced homelessness off and on for about two years. He primar-ily slept in his car while couch surfing and trying to find a sta-ble place to live.

Bodo said he was a full-time student at the time he was home-less and worked a full-time job but was still unable to afford rent. He then tried to sleep at the parking facilities on Foothill College’s campus but was met with resistance from police, who asked him to leave.

“So I resorted to sleeping near-by off campus, which was not well received by the residents of the area,” Bodo said.

Residents vandalized his car, which also served as his home, and the damage made more of an impact because of that, he said.

“I ended up parking farther and farther away from campus to try and find somewhere legal and safe, which was problematic because every day before start-ing my day at work or school, I would travel to campus to use the showers that were available to all

students,” he said.The showers and other facili-

ties Bodo accessed were recent-ly made available to students through another bill already passed, AB 1995.

The wording of AB 302 is still vague because Berman said he wants as much flexibility for individual colleges’ governing boards to come up with their own plans, including figuring out how to identify these stu-dents, setting quiet hours and working with local police to en-sure security.

Berman said he knows he is asking a lot already from com-munity colleges but assured he is asking the same from everyone.

“We as a society have failed miserably; we have failed to build the amount of housing necessary to house our students, to house our retirees, to house our work-ers,” Berman said.

“And because we as a society have failed miserably over the last few decades, we now have to look for creative solutions to address the repercussions of our failures.”

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no spaces left on the streets for residents.

Many Caltrain commuters have apparently realized they can park their cars in the residential neighborhood for free rather than paying $5.50 a day to park in the Caltrain lots, Robell said.

“The cost savings and conve-nience afforded to Caltrain com-muters, coupled with the lack of ability to park in Evergreen-May-field residential streets, means we have become the de facto Cal-train parking lot,” Robell told the commission.

Many neighbors appear to share his frustrations. Kurk Buecheler, an Emerson Street resident, told the commission that Caltrain parkers have become “a pain, to put it bluntly.”

“It’s also simply transferring maximum convenience and mini-mum cost for the Caltrain person to other people,” Buecheler said. “We’re the ones who have to bear that inconvenience.”

Robell said 44 residents signed the petition for an RPP district that was submitted to the city last August. Since then, 13 more people have signed in support. Another six people indicated they are not interested in an RPP dis-trict and 24 could not be reached, Robell added.

The commission indicated that it also supports creating a new RPP program in Old Palo Alto, voting 5-0, with Asher Waldfogel and Giselle Roohparvar recused, to prioritize it over two other pro-posed RPPs (one was for a portion of the Green Acres neighborhood, near Gunn High School; the other for the 800 block of San Antonio Road, down the street from the Oshman Family Jewish Commu-nity Center in the Charleston Gar-dens neighborhood). The council is expected to follow suit and likewise approve the creation of the new program, much as it did after similar petition drives for downtown and Evergreen Park-Mayfield, which lies on the other side of the railroad tracks from the proposed Old Palo Alto district.

Commissioners Ed Lauing and Doria Summa both said at the hearing that Old Palo Alto’s proposal merits support. Lau-ing called the parking situation a protracted and “serious prob-lem, justifying the study to do the RPP.”

While the commission’s en-dorsement makes it likely that Old Palo Alto will eventually get its parking program, timing re-mains a major wild card. A report from Planning Director Jonathan Lait notes that the demands for parking services “have continued

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A Residential Preferential Parking program has been proposed for a section of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood that lies across Alma Street from the California Avenue train station. Neighbors say that commuters taking Caltrain as well as California Avenue employees park cars on their streets during the day, leaving almost no spaces for residents.

to grow and now far exceed the staff resources available for these services.”

“The expansion of Residential Permit Parking districts adds to this demand,” Lait wrote. “In ad-dition, the complexity of develop-ing and operating customized and unique Residential Permit Park-ing districts places a significant strain on city resources, including city staff and its contractors.”

The Old Palo Alto petition is just the latest instance of residents seeking relief from commuter parking. Wayne Tanda, the city’s transportation consultant, said almost 30 percent of the city is now covered with RPPs, some of which have a really high “degree of difficulty” because of the need to balance competing interests. Conducting outreach alone takes significant staff time, he said, and the city really doesn’t have the workers in place to make that happen for new programs.

It also doesn’t help that each RPP program is tailored to the particular district, which makes the process of setting up a new program labor intensive.

“As practiced in Palo Alto since 2009, there is no uniform RPP program,” said Sylvia Star-Lackey, the city’s transportation planning manager. “Each of the five RPP zones is unique and that adds an administrative burden for staff.”

Robell said he and his neighbors are cognizant of the fact that set-ting up an RPP takes significant

resources and are happy to defer to staff’s best judgment about the most expedient way to solve the neighborhood’s parking problems. This could mean simply annexing the neighborhood to the existing program in Evergreen Park and Mayfield, he said.

“We just want relief as soon as possible. ... We just don’t want it to be a commercial parking lot like it is now,” Robell said.

Lauing agreed that staff should explore “efficient, creative ways” to solve the problem without the need to create a full-fledged RPP program. He also, however, rec-ognized that City Hall’s staffing shortage remains a formidable barrier to doing so.

“I think the biggest problem in the city of Palo Alto is lack of staff in the city of Palo Alto,” Lauing said.

Under the best-case scenario, staff estimates that the program could be implemented in Novem-ber. That, however, will likely require the council to budget for more staffing in the Office of Transportation, which today has one employee devoted to parking programs and which continues to operate without a director.

Despite the prospect of delay, Robell expressed some optimism this week after speaking to City Manager Ed Shikada and after reaching out to members of the City Council, who he said support the Old Palo Alto proposal.

Robell asked the City Coun-cil on Monday to ensure the city stays on track with the Nov. 1 implementation date.

“It does create safety issues for our neighborhood, as well as qual-ity-of-life issues,” Robell said.

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Board of Education (April 1)Hotel Parmani: The council approved the proposed elimination of a 50-foot setback requirement at 3200 El Camino Real to enable the demolition of existing 36-room Hotel Parmani and construction of a new 99-room Hotel Parmani. Yes: Unanimous Zoning: The council approved an ordinance that revises the zoning code to allow grandfathered downtown buildings to convert to other uses permitted in the district, with the exception of conversion of residential to non-residential use. The council also agreed to include a “waiver” process for developers seeking to convert from residential to non-residential. Yes: Cormack, DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Kniss, Tanaka No: Kou

Council Finance Committee (April 2)CDBG: The committee supported staff’s recommendation for the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Community Development Block Grant funding allocation. Yes: UnanimousRates: The committee heard a presentation about preliminary rate changes for the electric and gas utilities. Utility bills are projected to increase by about 5 percent, or about $15 per month, in the next fiscal year. Action: None

Council Policy and Services (April 3)Sustainability: The committee accepted staff’s proposed work plan for the 2018-2020 Sustainability Implementation Plan. Yes: Unanimous

Architectural Review Board (April 4)1700 Embarcadero Road: The board reviewed a proposed Mercedes and Audi dealership proposed for the site of the former Ming’s Restaurant and voted to continue the review to a later date. Yes: Unanimous

CityViewA round-up of Palo Alto government action this week

family with bodily harm.“We call upon community

members to learn from this in-cident, to study the principles of nonviolent resistance and to teach ways to call attention to injustice while also encouraging reconciliation. It is the only way that we will ultimately succeed in creating a world that works for everyone.”

According to the organi-zation’s Facebook page, on Wednesday, Mankey resigned as co-chair, officer, and mem-ber of the Bayshore Progressive Democrats.

Steven Lee, who serves on the Palo Alto Human Relations Commission, knows Mankey, calling her “beloved by many in our community for her progres-sive activism, myself included.”

However, he said, he does not condone Mankey’s behavior to-ward the man and believes it was completely unacceptable.

“We can and must do better,” he said.

In an email expressing his own opinion and not that of the com-mission, he recalled former First Lady Michelle Obama’s warning not to be dragged down into the mud of bad behavior. “We’ve got to go high,” Obama said.

“This week in Palo Alto,” Lee said, “one of our neighbors ... allowed herself to be pulled down into that muck when she encountered a man wearing a MAGA hat at a Palo Alto Star-bucks and chased him out of the store.

“Let me be clear. The MAGA hat at its best represents a dis-torted and inaccurate view of America, its history and its place in the world, and, at its worst, is a symbol of hate and everything that is wrong with America today.”

But, he added, “We must resist sinking down to their level. We must hold out our hand and help pull them out of the muck.”

He added that people must be both vigilant and civil.

“That is the hardest, most courageous form of resistance — the resistance of Ghandi, of Dr. King — a resistance based in empathy and committed not to a duel between our lesser demons but rather a meeting of our bet-ter angels. That is the resistance we must strive for and the one I know we have within us.”

When asked for comment Tuesday, the manager of the Starbucks refused to speak with a reporter. The Weekly asked city of Palo Alto spokeswom-an Claudia Keith on Tuesday whether Mankey would remain on the North Ventura Coordinat-ed Area Plan Working Group. Keith stated in an email, “We are aware (of the situation), but don’t have any comment at this point.”

Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at [email protected].



POLICE CALLSPalo AltoMarch 21-April 2Violence relatedArson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Elder abuse/self neglect . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Sexual assault. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Strong arm robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Theft relatedChecks forgeryCommercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Credit card forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Prowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Vehicle relatedAuto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Burglary attempt from auto. . . . . . . . . . 3Driving w/ suspended license . . . . . . . 7Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 5Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . . 6Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Auto Burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Alcohol or drug relatedDrinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

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Angela M. OwenJuly 12, 1928 – January 4, 2019

Angela M. Owen passed away peacefully in Palo Alto on January 4th. A Celebration of Her Life will be held on Saturday, April 13th, at 1:00 pm, at the First Congregational Church of Palo Alto, 1985 Louis Road, Palo Alto. We invite all who knew her to attend. Donations may be made to https://openspace.org/what-to-do/get-involved/donate.

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Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 6Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 5

MiscellaneousAnimal call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Disturbing the peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 6Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Public nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 6Suspicious person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

VIOLENT CRIMESPalo Alto634 San Antonio Road, 3/13, 10:06 p.m.; battery/simple.Waverley St., 3/14, 4:03 p.m.; elder abuse/self neglect.Hamilton Ave., 3/14, noon; sexual assault/misc.300 block Lytton Ave., 3/20, 10:48 a.m.; battery/peace officer.534 Emerson St., 3/22, 10:50 a.m.; robbery/strong arm.219 University Ave., 3/31, 2:05 a.m.; arsonMenlo Park1200 block Carlton Ave., 3/24, 12:12 a.m.; robbery.Durham St./Menalto Ave., 3/30, 4:25 p.m.; battery1200 Madera Ave., 3/30, 7:31 p.m.; spousal abuse1100 Hobart St., 3/30, 11:53 a.m.; assault


Edwin M. BridgesEdwin Bridges, 85, died March

7 in his home on the Stanford University campus as a result of heart failure. He was born in 1934 in Hannibal, Missouri, to E. Otto Bridges and Radha Maxwell Bridges.

After graduating from the Uni-versity of Missouri and marrying his college sweetheart, Marjorie

Pollock of Baytown, Texas, 20-year-old Bridges worked as a high school teacher, and by age 26, he had become principal of a high school in Griffith, Indiana.

He earned master’s and doctor-ate degrees from the University of Chicago before beginning an academic career that included professorships at Washington University, University of Chicago,

University of California Santa Barbara and Stanford University.

As a Stanford professor of education, he designed a prob-lem-based learning program for training educational leaders and led the Prospective Principals Program from 1988 until he re-tired at the end of 1999.

A highlight of his retirement was being asked to be the Stan-

ford School of Education 2012 commencement speaker. There, he described the priorities in his life, developed after talking to a Chicago cab driver: his family, his students — including teaching and advising — and his research and writing on practical problems, “no matter how controversial they were or whether they were valued by the members of the academy.”

In 2010, the University Council for Educational Administration honored his lifetime accomplish-ments by instituting its Edwin M. Bridges Award given to recog-nize contributions to pre-service preparation and continuing pro-fessional development of school leaders.

He is survived by his wife, Mar-jorie; sons, Brian of Stanford and Bruce Bridges (Cynthia) of Los Altos; daughter, Rebecca Bridges Altman (Rick) of Pleasanton; four grandchildren; and dozens of former students who were an important part of his life. He was preceded in death by his oldest son, Richard Bridges, in 2016.

A Celebration of Life will be held Friday, May 10, at 2 p.m. at Menlo Church, 950 Santa Cruz

Ave., Menlo Park. In lieu of flow-ers, memorial donations may be made to Bay Area Funeral Con-sumers Association, NAMI Santa Clara County or the American Heart Association.

Everardo ‘Lalo’ PerezLalo Perez,

who retired last July as Palo Alto’s chief fi-nancial officer after 33 years of public ser-vice, died on March 27 after a four-year bat-tle with cancer.

Perez, a soft-spoken and popu-lar executive, began his career in 1985 in Revenue Collections and managed the city’s invest-ment portfolio. He later served as budget analyst, budget manager, budget director and assistant di-rector before getting tapped to the top job in the Administrative Services Department.

Under his leadership, the city maintained its AAA credit rating and received 10 Excellent Finan-cial Reporting awards from the Government Finance Officers Association and the California Society of Municipal Finance Of-ficers, according to a resolution that the City Council passed in his honor last year.

The resolution credits him for being “a team player with a posi-tive attitude and exceptional work ethic.” It also recognized him for being “professional, hardworking, dependable, innovative, enthusi-astic, ethical, caring and for being a great coach and leader.”

A day after his retirement, Perez, 55, told the Weekly that stepping down for him was a “bit-tersweet emotion.” He was diag-nosed with stage 4 kidney cancer in 2015, an experience that he said gave him “a new perspective on life.”

“A part of me feels glad that I’ve had this opportunity, but a part of me feels sad because there’s just so many things that we can still continue to work on,” Perez said.

City Manager Ed Shikada led the City Council on Monday night in a moment of silence for Perez, who Shikada said touched many lives both inside and out-side City Hall.

“Lalo spent almost his entire career with the city of Palo Alto and will be deeply missed,” Shikada said.

He is survived by his wife, Erin; daughter, Megan; mother, Marcelina Perez; grandmother, Maria Ponce; mother-in-law, Nancy Callaghan; two sisters, Irma Mora (Fermin) and Noemi Lazetera (Ernie); six brothers, Fernando, Oscar, Cesar, Ma-rio, Rene and Jesse Perez; two sisters-in-law, Joyce and Ruth Perez; and several nieces, neph-ews, cousins, aunts and uncles.

Private services for Perez are planned for next week. Shikada said the city plans to have a pub-lic commemoration of Perez’s life on April 12 at 10 a.m. in the Mitchell Park Community Center.

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Is SB 50 a threat to peace and parking? Editor,

There is no doubt that SB 50 threatens nearly everything that we have come to love and appre-ciate about Palo Alto. Allowing it to stand, SB 50 would require that most of Palo Alto be open to high-density housing in all of its residential single-family neigh-borhoods with little or no parking requirements. The reality is, you could have a three- or four-story apartment building right next door on your quiet, neighborhood street with no parking require-ments. How does that sound?

Stop this madness by your state legislators and learn how SB 50 can affect you and your neighborhood.

Terry HolzemerPark Boulevard, Palo Alto

Yes on the Voter’s Choice ActEditor,

On April 9, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote on adopting the state-approved Voter’s Choice Act for the 2020 election cycle. The League of Women Voters of Palo Alto, of which I am presi-dent, wholeheartedly supports the adoption of the act for our county.

The Voter’s Choice Act does exactly what its title suggests: It gives voters more voting options. First, all voters will have the op-tion to vote by mail because the county Registrar will send (post-age-paid) vote-by-mail ballots to all registered voters. Second, voters will be able to drop their vote-by-mail ballots at any mail-box or post office as well as any of about 70 ballot drop boxes strate-gically located around the county. Third, rather than opening 800+ local polling places for Election Day only, the registrar will set up 25 vote centers that will be open for 11 days leading up to and on Election Day and 100 to 125 vote centers that will be open for four days prior to and on Election Day. Any voter in the county can visit any of these vote centers during that time period to either drop off a mail-in ballot, ask to have their personal ballot printed (in any of nine languages) in order to vote in person or make use of California’s same-day regis

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