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The new Barney video and our Parks
The fixes below can also guide our city council in fixing, maintaining, and preserving our city parks. When a government entity views parks as wasted opportunities for revenue... |
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on Dec 13, 2007 at 8:34 am by Resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Large developments and scarce resources
Climate change will make scarce resources, clean water, viable agricultural land even scarcer. Do we want our agricultural land to shrink because we in the Bay Area are ins... |
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on Nov 21, 2007 at 2:28 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Traffic - the "in the know", "tongue in cheek" P.A. excuse or joke?
It seems that anytime anything is mentioned here in Town Square, or in the real world out there, that every idea is given the put down of traffic.
Traffic is a reality of l... |
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on Nov 15, 2007 at 7:19 am by Joe Kott, a resident of another community |
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Dense housing vs healthy bees and healthy people
The people who advocate more and denser housing are wrong. We need to work with the housing stock we have, growing slowly and carefully. We know our air quality is bad, ou... |
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on Oct 30, 2007 at 6:50 pm by Terry, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Electrical outages in South Palo Alto
When our neighborhood lost electricity, I called the City. A recorded voice asked me my telephone number. When I gave my number, the voice said my number doesn't exist in th... |
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on Sep 26, 2007 at 7:25 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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How can we stop thread-muck?
Well, another useful and interesting thread has been shut down because of a rapid devolution into the muck. It was the "Why has my thread been deleted?" one
Web Link... |
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on Jul 12, 2007 at 1:16 pm by Resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Nov. elections and this Forum
The elections in the coming November are going to be different in one important (I think) way. We now have a new medium, namely this Forum. This Forum is fast becoming a way f... |
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on Jun 23, 2007 at 7:00 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Public Transport Think Tank needed
Due to the possible demise of route 88 and the accident on the overcrowded cross town shuttle, it seems reasonable that a Think Tank should be set up to deal with local public... |
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on Jun 9, 2007 at 2:27 pm by Grandma, a resident of the Charleston Gardens neighborhood |
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Louis Road Bus Service
Louis Road is going to have no bus service which is going to prove a problem to those using public transport to get to Gunn High School. There is no way that students at Gunn ... |
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on May 22, 2007 at 8:56 am by Resident, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood |
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Keep Town Square user Friendly rather than divisive
On chatting with an acquantaince who I knew used this forum daily sometime ago, I discovered that they were not looking at it anymore as it was "full of divisive issues and no... |
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on May 20, 2007 at 11:06 am by OhlonePar, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
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City Council Job Performance Poll
Lately, there have been several threads on this forum regarding the performance of the Palo Alto City Council. I thought it would be interesting to conduct an informal poll to... |
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on May 17, 2007 at 6:14 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Bowling Alley and Motel Sold
Now that these have officially been sold to a developer what are we going to see? Senior housing, does not on the surface provide more students to our schools, if these are so... |
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on May 15, 2007 at 12:37 pm by eric, a resident of Mountain View |
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Living in a multi-culture community
It is only recently that I have begun to understand what living in a multi-culture community really means. I have always been pleased to see the different ethnic cultures in P... |
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on Apr 25, 2007 at 2:55 pm by Resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Palo Alto - we are screaming for HELP!!!
What is happening to our City. We have divided ourselves in regard to MI and Charter Schools. We cannot get our library situation sorted out, along with other infrastructure. ... |
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on Mar 10, 2007 at 8:26 am by Equal Justice, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood |
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Do we want to increase taxes on Palo Alto residents?
Taxes will increase as we grow and need to replace infrastructure. If we decide to slow our growth, we can slow tax increases. Please read article below.
Statement on t... |
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on Jul 21, 2011 at 3:23 pm by Resident 0.1, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Yet More Traffic?
Published: July 17, 2011
To the Editor:
“Warning: Freeway Closed” (letter, July 12) put me in mind of the remark made to me years ago by a highway planner: “Widening y... |
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on Jul 18, 2011 at 5:13 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Earth Day at the UN
There’s been the debate this week at the United Nations on a resolution on Harmony with Nature that was introduced by the Bolivian ambassador to the U.N. but was adopted by th... |
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on Apr 22, 2011 at 11:48 am by Resident 0.1, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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. . . a new law that could lead to citizens challenging environmental destruction in court.
Bolivia is preparing to pass a new law that could lead to citizens challenging environmental destruction in court.
A Ley de Derechos de la Madre Tierra (The Law of Mother E... |
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on Apr 12, 2011 at 12:40 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Why Palo Alto needs to slow development
The article below explains why California's water problems aren't being solved by our elected officials. We have outgrown our water supply.
January 12, 2011
Two-third... |
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on Jan 20, 2011 at 6:02 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Can we improve our Farmer's Markets?
Los Angeles Times food writer Russ Parsons observes that the incredible growth in farmers markets has come ...
... despite what has to be one of the most inefficient busin... |
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on Aug 23, 2011 at 4:00 pm by Resident 1.0, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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What does new home construction cost these days?
Folks, I live in a 1950 Eichler and am planning a remodel that
will touch most of the house except for the existing foundation
and a couple of walls. I've been told its much... |
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on Mar 18, 2013 at 11:42 pm by Lionel, a resident of the Adobe-Meadows neighborhood |
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Charter School at All Costs?
I have been following the whole discussion about the potential for a Mandarin Immersion Charter School . I had some sympathy for the proponents of this Charter School, and was... |
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on Oct 22, 2009 at 1:22 pm by OhlonePar, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
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How to avoid another Alma Plaza
I pass by Alma Plaza every day and wonder how the builder got this passed. I remember 10 years of back and forth and this is the result? The tall structure on Alma is right at... |
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on May 5, 2013 at 10:57 pm by resident Ramona Street, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Reporting incidents on the PAPD website
Has anyone tried to report a property vandalism incedent using the PAPD website? Were you successful at the first try ?
Someone vandalized certain things in our front yard ... |
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on Nov 18, 2007 at 9:05 pm by Bad interface?, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Mayor Pat Burt Doesn't Deserve His California Avenue "Tree-Planting" Photo-Op
Mayor Pat Burt failed to meet his responsibilities as a liaison to CAADA, by missing almost all but one of his appearances as a liaison during the range of time that he was a ... |
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on Feb 1, 2010 at 12:12 pm by cooper, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood |
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