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Palo Vol. XXXIX, Number 5 Q November 3, 2017 Alto City to study a pedestrian zone on University Avenue Page 5 www.PaloAltoOnline.comw ww.PaloAltoO nli ne.com Lawn bowling finds modern appeal Page 17 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Spectrum 14 Eating Out 26 Shop Talk 27 Movies 29 Puzzles 43 QArts Stanford Art Gallery celebrates the prince of prints Page 22 Q Home A three-in-one neighborhood in the heart of Palo Alto Page 30 QSports CCS water polo tournaments open Saturday Page 45 Exciting Advances in Lung Cancer A COMMUNITY TALK Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women, but there is reason to have hope. Several important advances in both detection and treatment have come about in recent years. Join Stanford Medicine doctors as they discuss the latest screening, diagnostic and treatment advancements. 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While all three had allud- When it comes to parking, the though it does not explain how the ed to the memo in recent weeks, memo suggests the city could al- city would go about doing so. parking requirements for ‘car light’ projects the actual document wasn’t re- low residential projects to consoli- The three council members by Gennady Sheyner leased until the end of last week. date their parking and alternate- also recommend the city explore The proposals in the memo tar- transportation offerings with those so-called “car-light” housing for n the latest effort to ease Palo centives to their tenants. get a wide range of disparate regu- of the Palo Alto Transportation tenants who do not own cars, and Alto’s housing crisis, three That recommendation is one lations — including ones relating Management Association, a new thus the housing would not be re- ICity Council members are pro- of more than a dozen in a memo to floor area ratio (FAR), building nonprofit charged with getting quired to have any, or only few, posing significant revisions to the from Councilman Adrian Fine, heights and expanded “pedestri- downtown employees to not drive parking spaces. That’s a strategy city’s parking regulations, includ- Vice Mayor Liz Kniss and Coun- an transit-oriented development” to work alone. The memo also the city is already considering for ing eliminating parking altogether cilman Cory Wolbach, the coun- zones, which allow developments recommends that the city explore a proposed development at the for “car-light” developments that cil’s most vehement advocates near mass-transit hubs to be more bringing “underutilized park- offer public transit services or in- for increasing the city’s housing dense and provide less parking. ing spaces into a public market,” (continued on page 11) PLANNING City mulls ‘pedestrian only’ University Avenue City Council agrees to study plan to restrict cars on downtown strip by Gennady Sheyner he idea of turning a section road after we finalize the Com- of University Avenue in prehensive Plan.” T downtown Palo Alto into Vice Mayor Liz Kniss likewise a pedestrian-only zone picked up favored a downtown plan, point- some steam Monday night, when ing to the city’s 2003 South of Veronica Weber the City Council unanimously Forest Avenue (SOFA) area plan, agreed to explore it. which served as the blueprint for The unexpected consensus that area’s redevelopment after the came during the council’s wide- relocation of the Palo Alto Medi- ranging discussion of the city’s cal Foundation. The X factor new Comprehensive Plan, which “I don’t know how we can get Lining up at the downtown Palo Alto Apple Store for Friday’s release of the iPhone X, from left, provides a long-term vision that to a point to where we can look at David Casarez — who arrived late Tuesday evening to be first in line — David Eaton and Andrew guides the council’s land-use de- dramatically changing downtown Park (standing), who described himself as the “ultimate Apple fan.” cisions. The decade long update in some way without some type of of the Comprehensive Plan is now area plan,” Kniss said. in its final phase, with the council Others on the council showed scheduled to approve the docu- less enthusiasm for launching DISASTER ment later this month. into another complex and time- The idea for a pedestrian zone consuming planning effort. arose out of the Planning and Mayor Greg Scharff said he was Transportation Commission, surprised to learn that the policy HP historical archives destroyed which discussed the Comp Plan for creating a downtown plan was over the course of six meetings this already in the current Compre- in wine country fires year and identified for the council hensive Plan and suggested that more than a dozen “priority” areas the council remove it. The council Letters, speeches and other irreplaceable documents burned in modular buildings that it felt warrant revisions. will consider this issue at its next by Sue Dremann The commission had generally meeting. agreed that the city should pursue He was far more receptive, how- eysight Technologies has University archivist prior to being 1937 to 1995, documented the evo- a concept plan for downtown — a ever, to the idea of a University confirmed thousands of hired for the HP archive, called lution of technology globally and vision document put together with Avenue for strolling on — a con- K important papers related the documents the record of Cali- provided a road map to how Pack- extensive community participa- cept that he said should be consid- to Silicon Valley’s early history fornia’s “second gold rush.” ard and Hewlett conceived build- tion that would propose new land ered apart from the broader plan. and stored in Santa Rosa were “It was a very exciting and won- ing Silicon Valley. They discussed uses and amenities in the area. “I think a lot of people have said destroyed in the North Bay fires. derful collection. It’s a huge, huge how little California companies Some commissioners, par- they’d like to see parts of down- The archives, which contained loss,” she said. would be able to crack into sales ticularly Eric Rosenblum, also town be pedestrian only,” Scharff about 100 banker’s boxes of the The papers burned on Oct. 9 to the federal government and how favored a study of designating a said. “I don’t know if it’s the right writings, speeches and other when modular buildings at Key- they themselves developed their portion of University Avenue as thing to do ... but we should look materials by Silicon Valley pio- sight’s Santa Rosa headquarters business model, which has be- pedestrian-only.