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In changes in parking habits,” the The parking-permit program was some cases, the number of cars is permit system goes far enough city’s Transportation Planning prompted by years of complaints greater than the number of parking by Gennady Sheyner Manager Jessica Sullivan told from downtown residents whose spaces, which connotes both con- about 60 people who attended a blocks are routinely used by area gestion and creativity. or downtown residents who Preferential Program. That’s also public meeting at City Hall on employees who prefer to avoid the Even though the new program have watched their streets when officials expect commuters Tuesday. “I know there’s a huge two- and three-hour parking restric- aims to provide relief by making F transform into commuter who for years have been parking fear of, ‘It’s going to be the same tions in the downtown’s commercial workers buy permits, anxieties parking lots over the past decade, their cars on the residential streets thing. People will buy permits and core. The thriving downtown econ- persist. Some residents at Tues- the trial of the century will begin of Downtown North and Professor- park close to downtown and noth- omy has worsened the problem, day’s meeting wondered whether next month. ville to radically shift their behavior ing will change.’ I’d be surprised if with separate surveys conducted by the first six-month phase of the That’s when the city launches — though no one is quite sure ex- nothing changes. When you intro- city planners and citizens showing what is known as the Residential actly what this shift will look like. duce pricing to any parking system, numerous blocks completely filled (continued on page 12) UTILITIES Concern over conflict of interest trips up recycled-water project Palo Alto discussion halted Wednesday because of perceived conflict, lack of quorum by Gennady Sheyner early three decades after Hall were both absent, and recent- Palo Alto began using ly appointed commissioner Lisa N recycled water to irrigate Van Dusen has resigned). Under the golf course and a portion of the Brown Act, which governs Mountain View, the city is con- how meetings are run, a meeting sidering expanding the practice is required to have a “majority of Veronica Weber to the lush corporate campuses the members of a legislative body of Stanford Research Park. at the same time and place.” The new project is a revival of “If you have a conflict of inter- an old one that was shelved in est, you only have three commis- 2008 after an analysis found the sioners here and you don’t have Wild style $33.5 million cost to be prohibi- a quorum and you can’t do busi- Ben Sattler of Menlo Park does a nose manual trick while practicing his freestyle BMX at the tive. Now, with the state mired ness,” Borock told the commission. Greer Park skate park in Palo Alto on Aug. 5. Sattler, 27, has been riding since he was 13 and says in the fourth year of a severe Borock’s comment, and the city it’s his form of meditation and stress relief. drought, the cost of potable wa- attorney’s advice that the meeting ter on a rapid rise and new pools be postponed to a later date, touched of grant funding available for off an testy exchange between the recycled-water projects, the cal- commissioners and city staff. EDUCATION culations have changed. City staff Eglash, a technologist and for- have recently completed an envi- mer venture capitalist with ex- ronmental analysis for the project pertise in renewable energy, cur- RISE UP readies incoming and the Utilities Advisory Com- rently manages several programs mission was preparing to discuss at Stanford, including the Stanford and possibly approve the project Data Science Initiative and the college freshmen on Wednesday night. Artificial Intelligence Lab. After Yet hopes of a swift endorse- Borock made his comment, Eg- First-generation students prepare through new Palo Alto school district program ment ebbed early in the discus- lash immediately agreed to step by Elena Kadvany sion, after a citizen watchdog down, citing Borock’s concern raised the prospect of a conflict and saying that he has no wish to s thousands of local teen- which aims to give Palo Alto stu- ated students who didn’t show up of interest for one commissioner, “contaminate the discussion with agers get ready to start dents the information and tools for their first day of college, she who works at Stanford.