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Lytton Gardens wins 'excellence' award
Retrofits lead to 50 percent savings on water bills for senior housing complex

by Chris Kenrick
Palo Alto Online Staff

Posted by Say-It-A'nt-So!, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood, on Nov 24, 2009 at 11:19 am

Well .. Lytton Gardens was always "excellent":

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Midpenninsula Citizens for Fair Housing vs. Lytton Gardens, Inc., Community Housing Inc., and Carrasco & Associates

A settlement was reached in a fair housing lawsuit filed in 2000 involving violations of architectural design and construction requirements for people with disabilities at the Lytton Courtyard apartment complex in Palo Alto, California, a 51-unit building open to low-income, senior tenants. The lawsuit included intensive multi-year negotiations on detailed retrofit plans to correct illegal access problems. The suit involved both federal and California fair housing laws. In addition to undertaking the retrofit, the building's owner and architect have also agreed to implement policies to ensure disability nondiscrimination in the future, and to pay damages. (2002)

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Guess a little boot in the back side by the Courts can't hurt to make things better.

Posted by DeLois Y. Turner, a resident of the Downtown North neighborhood, on Jan 21, 2010 at 9:21 pm

If you are looking for a Senior apartment NONE-SMOKING please DO NOT apply to Lytton Gardens even though this apartment is suppose to be a NONE-SMOKING complex and the staff will tell you it is NONE-SMOKING even though they are fully aware there are people who smoke in their apartments there was and still is residents who SMOKE in their apartments.

I am ALLERGIC to cigarette smoke and was told It was NONE-SMOKING I have been imposed upon every day, hour,minute and second that I have lived here with these smokers smoking in their apartments which comes into my apartment and all the other NONE-SMOKING residents who live here. This is a small complex so with three people smoking in their apartments and not smoking outside as they have been told my apartment is always imposed upon by their cigarette smoke.

Please DO NOT even believe the advertisement about them being concern about the well being of Seniors that's just talk. Lytton headquarters have declared it none-smoking but if their rule is not inforced by present manager Gery Yearout it does not matter what they declare it to be!

Gery Yearout could very well move these smoking to a complex Lytton has on Lytton Ave where residents are allowed to smoke in their apartments but not outside. I am sure she is well aware of the DANGER of these Seniors being exposed to TOXIN CONTAMINATES because she does not allow smoking in her office at 437 Webster St. here in Palo Alto, Ca.

I was told these residents who smoke in their apartments have signed documents stating they do not smoke in their apartments anyone who believe that I will sell you 5 miles of beach front property in Arizona!!!

A person who has an ADDICTION to TOBACCO his or her word is no more good than the ADDICT on the street.

Its a SAD day when a complex is not being HONEST about the smoking that is going on here and giving a person the TRUTH so that person can make the decision about what they DO or DO NOT WANT THEIR BODIES

EXPOSED TO!