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Palo Vol. XXVIII, Number 45 • Wednesday, March 14, 2007 ■ 50¢ Alto Stanford Hospital escapes housing development fee Page 3 www.PaloAltoOnline.com Palo Alto residents debate themeritsoftheleashlawthe merits of the leash law Section 2 Norbert von der Groeben Talk about the news at Town Square, www.PaloAltoOnline.com ■ Upfront Addison school parents, staff study up on homework Page 3 ■ Health & Fitness Breast-cancer survivors to model fashions Page 23 ■ Sports Stanford men’s, women’s basketball teams get NCAA seeds Page 39 COUPONCOUPON SAVINGSSAVINGS 20% OFF 2 For 1 Coupon FREE KEYS any one item for Lunch or Dinner • Swimsuits M-F. up to • Sandals DELI SPECIALS FROM Choose any entree on the menu $7.50 off Lunch, MADE • Shoes $12.95 and get a second entree of same up to $11.00 Limited to • Toys to or lesser value. $16.95 single sided key Much More! off Dinner Expires 4/30/07 2 Not valid with any other offers or discounts, one per customer, expires 5/30/064/30/07 Happy Hour 4pm to 7pm Not valid on XOOTR Scooters or trampolines. 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Councilwoman Dena Mossar were “About a year ago I became aware To figure out just how much af- by Becky Trout in Washington, D.C., at a National that hospitals were exempt from fordable housing that medical facili- n a vote favored by just two Palo Alto City Council members, the city League of Cities conference and the (fee),” Benest said. “I was very ties would have to build or pay for, decided Monday that Stanford Medical Center should remain exempt Councilwoman LaDoris Cordell concerned because hospitals create the city — at the urging of Stan- I from a development fee to pay for affordable housing. had to recuse herself because she substantial demand for affordable ford, which asked for fresh figures Hospitals are currently excluded members voting Monday agreed works at Stanford. housing.” — hired consultant Kate Funk of from the fee, instituted in 1984, that with the current policy — Council City Manager Frank Benest in- His concern was amplified be- Keyser Marston Associates to do developers must pay to provide af- members Bern Beecham and Judy sisted repeatedly the question was cause Palo Alto’s only two hospi- the calculations. fordable housing for the jobs their Kleinberg — the exemption will pure public policy — should hos- tals, Stanford Hospital and Lucile Funk found the need for 28 lower projects generate. stand because it required five votes pitals, despite their sizable staffs, Packard Children’s Hospital, are cost residences per 100,000 square And though only two council to change. be excluded from the development planning major expansions, pro- fee? posed to add 1.3 million square feet (continued on page 9) EAST PALO ALTO Again, East Palo Altans gather for youth peace Turnout, spirits high, organizers say by Becky Trout everal hundred young people from East Palo Alto, and the S elders who care about them, packed the balloon-festooned Costaño Elementary School for “Goin’ Smart” Saturday as part of the city’s first ex- tensive youth summit. In early January, the school was the site of yet another youth shooting, which left Melevea Fifita, 19, dead and Seu Tuimavave, 21, injured. But Saturday, the scene was quite different. There were rap and poetry per- Norbert von der Groeben formances, police encounter work- shops, a guide to getting out of gang life, a “listening” panel of top community leaders, booths offering everything from job opportunities to cultural connections, and youth of every color wearing the event’s “Goin’ Smart” t-shirts. A.J. Spaizman, 11, joined fellow sixth-graders from Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School Tuesday in planting 500 native wetland seedlings Leaders tried to include all aspects at the mouth of San Francisquito Creek in the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve. The students were taking part in Save The Bay's Water- of life in East Palo Alto, said Khab- shed Education Program, which has taught 40,000 students about the history and ecology of San Francisco Bay since 1997. ral Muhammad with One East Palo Alto, who helped organize the event. Muhammad, 27, is a life-long East work practices at the school and they live, he added. “Instead of Palo Alto resident. SCHOOLS what’s required by the district. 15 math problems, we want you The summit’s slogan, “Goin’ According to Addison Principal to play a mathematics game with Smart,” is a take-off on the hip-hop John Lents, about 75 percent of the your parents.” phrase “go dumb,” he explained. Much ado about homework parents saw usefulness in home- The effort to re-examine home- Originally, “going dumb” referred work but struggled with how to fit work practices started when a few to a dance that involved moving Addison Elementary leads homework everything a child needs to do in parents brought a newsletter article loosely, without control. discussions for elementary schools one day. written by David Ackerman, the “The dance was taken to a mental- ity (where) everything goes dumb,” by Susan Hong Lents’ new goal is to reduce the principal of Oak Knoll Elementary amount of busy work and improve School in Menlo Park, to the atten- Muhammad said. he mere mention of homework whether they were content with the quality of homework. tion of the Addison community, “Going dumb gets us 70 percent conjures up stress in Palo the quality of homework and the “Instead of maybe writing new Lents said. high school dropouts, a shooting ev- T Alto, but Addison Elementary amount of time it took to do it. Staff words out or looking up the defini- Oak Knoll recently reduced the ery week... This is what going dumb School is trying to take the anxiety also posted more than 100 articles tion in the dictionary, it could be homework load for their students. gets us.” down a notch. in favor of, against and neutral on looking at a word in a newspaper ar- “I was blindsided about the anxi- The purpose of the summit was to Addison is in the midst of review- the issue at www.addison.pausd. ticle and trying to find out the defi- ety that seems to be around home- combat the recent surge in violence ing and discussing its policies on the org/homework. nition from the context,” he said. work,” Lents said. “We took a very by showing the youth that others care nightly routine. Earlier this year, Addison held The school wants to connect the deliberate non-reactive approach to about them and they have options. The school surveyed parents on parent meetings to discuss home- children with the world in which (continued on page 10) (continued on page 9) Palo Alto Weekly • Wednesday, March 14, 2007 • Page 3 )&)43./4).4()36!5,4 )43./43!&% 703 HIGH STREET, PALO ALTO, CA 94302 (650) 326-8210 PUBLISHER Our William S.