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Avenidas to Lease Cubberley, Temporarily Page 5 Ww.Pa L O Alt O O N Line Palo Vol. XXXVII, Number 52 Q September 30, 2016 Alto Avenidas to lease Cubberley, temporarily Page 5 www.PaloAltoOnline.comw ww.Pa l o Alt o O n line. com Showing their mettle Local athletes reflect on Paralympics Page 67 Transitions 17 Spectrum 18 Arts 20 Worth a Look 22 Eating Out 23 Movies 25 Puzzles 64 Q Shop Talk Peninsula Hardware is closing after 63 years Page 24 Q Title Pages Author weaves fantasy from modern events Page 27 Q Home Gamble Garden gussies up for Community Day Page 29 Page 2 • September 30, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com 151 Seale Avenue, Palo Alto Luxury Craftsman in Old Palo Alto Style, grace, and function harmonize in this contemporary Craftsman 6 bedroom, 4.5 bathroom home of over 4,600 sq. ft. 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For video tour & more photos, please visit: www.151SealeAve.com Offered at $5,688,000 Saturday & Sunday Lunch, Lattes, OPEN HOUSE 1:00-5:00 & Jazz 650.488.7325 | [email protected] | www.deleonrealty.com | CalBRE #01903224 www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • September 30, 2016 • Page 3 OPEN SATURDAYS, 2-5PM FREE PARKING 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park Parking lot 15 Facebook Farmers Market Fresh Produce Food trucks Family Games Flowers Specialty Foods Cooking demos KIDs ZONE Local Artisans Free Parking Craft Beers &Wine Farm-to-Cup cocktails come celebrate “Oktoberfest” Saturday, October 1 Live Music from “Deutscher Musikverein” & “The Gentlemen EXPANDED Soldiers” Beer Garden with local micro brews & wine German specialties including traditional music, Beer stein sales to benefit sausages, sauerkraut local charities Page 4 • September 30,and 2016 • Palobeer Alto Weekly! • www.PaloAltoOnline.com UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis Avenidas heads list of new Cubberley tenants Nonprofit, other groups to take over Street in downtown and plans to oc- Therapy, which provides cardiac To accommodate these tenants, space vacated by Foothill College cupy 10,000 square feet at Cubber- rehabilitation services; and Art of the Palo Alto City Council on ley during the construction period. Living Foundation, which offers Monday night agreed to amend the by Gennady Sheyner The other 16 tenants will oc- yoga and meditation programs. 1991 “master plan” governing Cub- cupy roughly 29,000 square feet Ranger Taekwondo is a new ten- berley, which is jointly owned by ith Foothill College now ing former high school campus. of space at the Middlefield Road ant; so is Silicon Valley Karate. the city and the Palo Alto Unified completing its departure The most prominent new tenant campus. They include the REACH Other tenants will be Acme Ed- School District. With the changes, Wfrom Cubberley Com- will be Avenidas, the city’s main Program, a nonprofit that serves ucation, Brainvyne, Chinese for buildings that were designated ex- munity Center in south Palo Alto, provider of senior services. The stroke survivors; Genius Kids, an Christ Church, Dance Connection, clusively for education (and, in one the city is preparing to welcome a nonprofit is undertaking a major educational company that provides Imagination School, Ivy Goal Ed- case, for administration) will now fresh class of nonprofit groups, stu- renovation and expansion of its preschool, kindergarten and after ucation, Living Wisdom, Melody accommodate nonprofits, commu- dios, faith-based groups and edu- present headquarters in the Birge school programs; California Pops, Music, Palo Alto Humane Society cational programs into the sprawl- Clark-designed building on Bryant a nonprofit orchestra; Cardiac and Palo Alto Soccer Club. (continued on page 10) NEIGHBORHOODS Faircourt feud over two-story homes heads to council City officials to weigh property rights against privacy concerns in the city’s latest request for ‘single-story overlay’ by Gennady Sheyner or some residents of Fair- required (but had not, in fact, been court, an Eichler tract in collecting) may have contributed F the Palo Verde neighbor- to the resurgence. hood, a ban on two-story homes The argument for the single-sto- Veronica Weber is the best way to promote archi- ry overlay is, by now, very familiar tectural harmony. for council members and land-use For others, it’s the surest way to watchdogs and neighborhood ac- stoke neighborhood discord. tivists. Because Eichlers are built On Tuesday night, the City to “bring the outside in” through Is this how Cinderella’s fairy godmother did it? Council will be the judge. That’s design features like sliding glass Glass artist Michael Dickinson demonstrates how to create a glass pumpkin at the Palo Alto Art when council members will con- doors, floor-to-ceiling windows Center to visiting Peninsula School elementary students on Sept. 29. His demo is in conjunction sider the neighborhood’s proposal and sprawling backyards, second with the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch sale happening this week. Other live demonstrations will to create a “single-story overlay floors are seen by many as anti- take place every half hour on Saturday and Sunday during sale hours. district,” a zoning designation thetical that indoor/outdoor life- that prohibits new two-story style. As Faircourt resident and homes and second floors and that overlay supporter Harold Poskan- BUSINESS has become increasingly popular zer told the Planning and Trans- in the past year. The application portation Commission in April, the from Faircourt follows similar issue is primarily one of privacy. requests from the Eichler neigh- “When we bought our house Palantir charged with discrimination borhoods of Los Arboles and 16 years ago the outside space Greer Park North, both of which was just as important to us as the succeeded last year in securing inside space, and a major factor against Asian applicants the overlay districts, and from in the outside space was its pri- U.S. Department of Labor suit could threaten the nearby community of Royal vacy,” Poskanzer said. “We spend Palo Alto company’s federal contracts Manor, whose quest faltered af- a lot of time back there. We put a ter the level of homeowners’ sup- hot tub back there. And frankly, by Gennady Sheyner port dipped just below the needed the thought of a two-story house threshold of 60 percent. looming over us as we try to soak alantir Technology, the company has been using since at 2010. This includes software and The idea of residents seeking to is rather upsetting for people who data-mining giant that has least January 2010 a hiring pro- data-analysis services for the FBI, restrict their own property rights love Eichlers like us and people Pgradually become down- cess and selection procedures that the U.S. Special Operations Com- to protect their privacy is far who love the Eichler style.” town Palo Alto’s dominant ten- discriminate against Asian appli- mand and the U.S. Department of from new in the Eichler enclaves But while some see two-story ant, was charged Monday with cants for positions of quality as- the Army. of Palo Alto. Between 1992 and homes and second-story addi- systematically discriminating surance (QA) engineer, software The lawsuit, which was filed 2004, the city approved nine sin- tions as blights on the Eichler against Asian job applicants for engineer and QA engineer intern. with the department’s Office gle-story overlay districts. Then, aesthetic, others note that these three positions, according to a The federal office reached its of Administrative Law Judges, after a decade without approving enlarged homes are often needed lawsuit filed by the U.S. Depart- conclusion after a compliance re- seeks to nullify Palantir’s exist- any new applications (Fairmead- to accommodate growing and ment of Labor. view that it launched in July 2011 ing federal contracts and bar it ow tried but failed to get enough multi-generational families. Many In a suit that could jeopardize at the company’s downtown of- from signing new ones. It would support), the council has recently opponents of the single-story Palantir’s lucrative federal con- fice, at 100 Hamilton Ave. The “debar” the company’s officers, been confronted with a slew of overlay see it as a blunt tool that tracts, the department’s Office Department of Labor estimates agents, servants, successors, divi- requests. The council’s decision severely, and unnecessarily, takes of Federal Contracts Compli- that Palantir received about $340 last year to formally waive the ance Programs alleged that the million in federal contracts since (continued on page 12) application fee that the city had (continued on page 9) www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • September 30, 2016 • Page 5 Palo Alto Historical Association Upfront PRESENTS A FREE PUBLIC PROGRAM: 450 Cambridge Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306 QUOTE OF THE WEEK (650) 326-8210 Palo Alto Art Center PUBLISHER William S. Johnson (223-6505) EDITORIAL Celebrating 45 Years Editor Jocelyn Dong (223-6514) Associate Editor Linda Taaffe (223-6511) Sports Editor Rick Eymer (223-6516) Presenter: Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane (223-6517) We have not yet met the Home & Real Estate Editor Karen Kienzle, Director Elizabeth Lorenz (223-6534) situation with the appropriate Express & Digital Editor My Nguyen (223-6524) Assistant Sports Editor Glenn Reeves (223-6521) level of urgency.
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