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Vol. XXXVII, Number 24 Q March 18, 2016 Advocates petition city for more housing Page 5 www.PaloAltoOnline.com As city’s Asian population grows, residents work to help new arrivals adapt Page 20 Transitions 17 Spectrum 18 Eating Out 29 Shop Talk 30 Movies 31 Home 33 Puzzles 66 QNeighborhoods Barron Park brings Indian festival home Page 11 QArts Vellamo imports folk-pop from Finland Page 23 QSports A shot at repeating hoop history Page 68 COMMUNITY TALK What You Need to Know About Colon Cancer SPEAKERS Stanford Health Care invites you to a community talk about Sigurdis Haraldsdottir, MD colon cancer. One of the most common cancers in the U.S., Medical Oncology colorectal cancer most often occurs in men and women Uri Ladabaum, MD over age 50 or in those with a family history. Thanks to new Gastroenterology screening methods and treatment advances, the ways to Courtney Rowe-Teeter, MS, LCGC fight colorectal cancer are better than ever. 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Page 4 • March 18, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis As housing crisis worsens, city scrambles for solutions Palo Alto City Council to consider new policies and mind-numbing commutes. corinti said she commutes up to of annual priorities (as part of a Rafael Solari wrote that he three hours per day to Palo Alto. broader “built environment” pri- aimed at encouraging more studios, senior units grew up in Palo Alto in the Marcello Golfieri’s offered a brief, ority). On March 21 the council by Gennady Sheyner 1990s and 2000s and has since and far from atypical, narrative. will have a chance to act on this been priced out. The Bay Area, “Had to move out because issue when it considers new poli- rom young professionals cluding former mayors, planning he wrote, “isn’t building enough ALL my friends in PA had to re- cies to encourage housing and looking for homes near commissioners, housing advo- housing for my generation to stay locate. ... Saddest feeling,” Golf- new sites that could accommo- F their jobs to native sons cates, seniors and Stanford post- here.” Alex Lee said most of his ieri wrote. date these units. and daughters who have discov- doctoral students, have signed colleagues at Stanford University Robert Blount said he moved The conversation will take ered they can no longer afford to a petition by the citizens group — postdocs, scientists and re- from Palo Alto to a place where place in the context of the coun- live in their hometown, calls for Palo Alto Forward asking the search associates — who would rents are cheaper: New York City. cil’s on-going update of the city’s Palo Alto officials to address the council to “fix Palo Alto’s hous- otherwise appreciate the con- The City Council recognized Comprehensive Plan, a broad city’s affordable-housing crisis ing crisis.” In many cases, signa- venience of biking to work are that insufficient housing is a ma- policy document that lays out the continue to getting louder. tures were accompanied by sto- “being pushed out further into jor problem last month, when it More than 1,030 residents, in- ries of displacement, frustration different cities.” Stephanie Ac- agreed to add housing to its list (continued on page 8) TRANSPORTATION Companies join forces to fight traffic Coalition of high-tech giants to launch new shuttle routes, trip-planning services by Gennady Sheyner or Lockheed Martin, our people come from all over Hewlett-Packard and other the Bay Area and commuting has F titans based at Stanford become more complex,” Santiago Research Park in Palo Alto, in- told the City Council on March novation has long been a way of 14, during a presentation of the Veronica Weber life and the key to surviving and fledgling effort. thriving in the competitive caul- To be sure, some companies’ dron of the global market. individual efforts haven’t gone as Now, these companies and oth- planned. VMWare’s recent launch er tech giants in the 700-acre cor- of three new shuttle routes (two Rocking out porate campus are merging their to San Francisco and one to the Xiaofan Jin, a graduate student at Stanford University, lead climbs at the rock climbing gym at creative energies take on a com- Tri-Valley region in the East Bay) the Stanford Arrillaga Outdoor Education and Recreation Center on March 16. The gym offers mon scourge: traffic congestion floundered when the operator un- students and staff many routes for bouldering and rock climbing. that is threatening their abilities expectedly suspended the service, to recruit talent and thus compete Santiago told the council. in the global economy. “We are very interested in EDUCATION Earlier this year, a dozen Re- pooling employers and sharing search Park employers joined long-distance shuttles with other their landlord, Stanford Univer- Stanford Research Park employ- Families with twins face sity, in forming a Transportation ers,” she said. Management Association, a group The effort at Stanford Research they hope will help them innovate Park is rolling out at the same time commencement conundrum their way out of the traffic mess. as the City of Palo Alto is jump- In the months to come, the as- starting its own Transportation District offers to tweak Paly, Gunn grad ceremonies so parents can attend both sociation will be rolling out new Management Association, focus- by Elena Kadvany shuttles, carpool routes and a ing on the downtown area. Ac- trip-planning app to give employ- cording to Tiffany Griego, manag- hen one of Ann Crich- or recording games so the other people in the school office to see ees new alternatives to commut- ing director of Stanford Research ton’s twin daughters one wouldn’t miss a moment. what could be done. Her plea, she ing alone in a car. The goal is to Park, recent interviews with some W transferred from Palo Until recently, they were plan- said, “fell on deaf ears,” with staff shrink traffic congestion, making of the Research Park’s largest ten- Alto High School to Gunn High ning on doing the same thing at telling her either to contact some- life easier for employees who of- ants indicated that they are already School, with the other one still their daughters’ graduation cer- one else or that there was nothing to ten have to spend hours every day deeply invested in transportation- attending Paly, the family cut emonies this June.