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Palo Vol. XL, Number 32 Q May 10, 2019 Alto Neighboring cities don’t see eye-to-eye on housing bill Page 9 www.PaloAltoOnline.comwww.Pa l o Alt o O nline. c o m 2QHLQƓYHFRPPXQLW\FROOHJHVWXGHQWVGRQōWKDYHVWDEOHKRXVLQJ | 3DJH Summer Class Guide 29 Transitions 15 Spectrum 17 Eating Out 27 Movies 28 Puzzles 51 QArts At the Pace: hippies, Hells Angels, the Grateful Dead Page 23 QHome Listed price for vacant Palo Alto lot? Try $9 million Page 33 QSports Menlo School to defend its CCS tennis title Page 49 Paid for by Stanford Health Care “At Stanford, the whole team was great at making sure the right things happened for me to have the amazingly good recovery I’ve had so far.” — Brett Bicyclist Finds New “Roads” to Conquer strengthen his recovery and brain function,” said Dr. Le. He also stays active socially, meeting After Traumatic Brain Injury friends and colleagues for coffee or lunch nearly every day, and sharing his recovery experience Brett’s cross-country bicycling trip from Santa Barbara to South with other TBI patients and Stanford neurology and neurosurgery residents. “His story is so Carolina ended abruptly, 1,000 miles short of its final destination. inspiring and gives so much hope to me as a While crossing through Oklahoma, Brett fell, ending his dreams of doctor and to other patients who need intense neurologic recovery.” completing a coast-to-coast charity ride, and nearly ending his life. “The Stanford environment allows someone like He was transported by helicopter to the nearest There, he put on weight, began walking and Brett to truly recover in a way that’s tailored trauma center in Joplin, Missouri, where he talking and regained his short-term memory. to what he needs,” said Dr. Harris. “We’re spent nine days in a coma. Brett had suffered With his body strong enough for surgery, integrating not only brain injury specialists, but a subdural hematoma from landing on his Brett returned to Stanford. In the first of four we’re integrating trauma specialists, specialists head. Blood was pooling on the outside of his surgeries, Dr. Harris used a bone implant to in orthopedics, specialists in ENT, and plastic brain, causing his brain to swell. To create space replace the section of his skull that was removed surgery. Because of the integrated care we have, and to remove the blood, the trauma team in after the accident. Subsequent surgeries were Brett has just excelled.” Joplin removed a part of Brett’s skull. Once done to manage his surgical wound healing, and he was stabilized, his family requested he be to create a skin flap to cover his skull. Six years later, Brett remains active. “I really feel like I’ve pulled through it the best I possibly transported to Stanford Hospital, where he could Project Recovery continue to be treated closer to home. could,” said Brett, who walks between 40 and An avid cyclist before his accident, Brett made 70 miles every week. “At Stanford, the whole “Any patient who suffers a traumatic brain injury exercise an integral part of his ongoing recovery. team was great at making sure the right things who comes into the Stanford system will have He clocked his steps, the miles he rode on his happened for me to have the amazingly good some interaction with myself or my colleague stationary bicycle, his sleep, and shared his daily recovery I’ve had so far.” in trauma,” said Odette Harris, MD, MPH, progress with Dr. Harris, who encouraged his neurosurgeon at Stanford Health Care. Brett holistic approach to recovery. U.S. News & World spent eight days in the ICU, where a team of Report “I wanted her to know I was committed to doing recognizes, trauma and brain injury specialists managed the physical things necessary to keep my body in again, Stanford Health his inter-cranial pressure, blood pressure, shape to recover,” he said. temperature and seizures to minimize the Care in the top 10 best cascade of secondary injuries that can occur The accident’s impact to the right side of his brain hospitals in the nation. after a traumatic brain injury. affected his ability to control the left side of his body. He was also experiencing minor seizures. “Once we get patients through that period of Discover our patient stories on Scheherazade Le, MD, a Stanford Health Care survival, then we start looking at the period of StanfordHealthNow.org neurologist specializing in epilepsy and seizure recovery and rehabilitation,” said Dr. Harris. She disorders, supported him through the neurologic wanted him to regain the weight and strength recovery from the traumatic brain injury. he’d lost after the accident before surgery to repair his skull. He spent six weeks in a “Brett was determined to make exercise a part rehabilitation unit at Santa Clara Valley Medical. of his daily routine, and I think that helped Page 2 • May 10, 2019 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com THINKING OF TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OUR SPRING MARKET? If so, it’s not too soon to start the process of preparing your home for sale. Our expertise ranges from minor touch-up to a complete makeover, with concierge service that includes: Repairs and Upgrades Landscape and Design Interior Design Staging Professional Photography & Video Full Page Newspaper & Magazine Ads Robust Online Marketing Whether your home is market ready or in need of some TLC, we offer strategic options designed to generate the highest possible sales price for your home. 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Tebo Food Trucks The Fell Swoop Beignets for Charity Van Goat Wee Willie Walker & Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra @FacebookFestivals www.FBCommunityEvents.com 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park [email protected] Page 4 • May 10, 2019 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis Email: Stanford, school district skirted county ground rules Uncertainty surrounds proposed school district- “important constraints.” and have now been indefinitely interviews with elected officials Stanford agreement on payments for new students Those included that the district suspended by the county due to and the school district’s attorney, and Stanford were not allowed, Stanford’s and the school district’s show that Stanford and the school by Elena Kadvany under rules to which Santa Clara actions.) district worked together to cir- County and Stanford had agreed, The same ground rules caused cumvent county ground rules in n March 29, two weeks be- Education to tell members that a to reach such an agreement un- Austin to advise the board mem- crafting a mitigation agreement. fore the Palo Alto school two-day negotiating session with til April 15, a date set in Janu- bers not to discuss the agreement In addition, the events leading up O district and Stanford Uni- Stanford had been “very produc- ary on the assumption that the with anyone, including public to the April 15 announcement of versity would announce they had tive” and “put us back on track county and Stanford would have officials. the deal raise questions about the agreed on a “conditional” fund- as partners.” completed negotiations on a de- “We DO NOT have any agree- legality of the two institutions’ ing deal for new district students In the email, released to the velopment agreement that would ments at this point. They aren’t discussions and the transparency as part of the university’s expan- Weekly in response to a Public regulate Stanford for the next 25 even allowed,” Austin wrote to of meetings held to hammer out sion plan, Superintendent Don Records Act request, he reminded years. (Those negotiations hadn’t the board in March. Austin emailed the Board of the five board members of several even started due to other delays Austin’s and others’ emails, plus (continued on page 10) TRANSPORTATION City eyes overhaul of parking districts New report offers recommendations to make programs simpler, more consistent by Gennady Sheyner ver since Palo Alto rolled out its first residential park- E ing program in College Terrace a decade ago, limiting all-day street parking exclusively to residents, programs that restrict parking by non-residents have be- come a hot commodity — and an Courtesy Sylvi Herrick Sylvi Courtesy object of exasperation — in one neighborhood after another. Despite the heavy demand, the programs have frustrated city workers, local employees and neighborhood residents, who gen- Artist Sylvi Herrick’s three 7-foot-tall crow sculptures are currently installed in the front yard and on the roof of a home on University erally agree that the permit sys- Avenue in Palo Alto. tems are unnecessarily complex to set up and operate. Residents of neighborhoods with the parking ART programs, which apply to 28 per- cent of the city’s households, find them necessary but still, along You’re not imagining things: some streets, ineffective.