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CPA review meeting needs improvements
Editor:
A group of residents and I attended a CPA review meeting to make our concerns known about a project and I want to summarize our experience.
- Seating in the first two rows was roped off for council and others so our group couldn’t sit close. No one ever sat in those seats.
- Sound from microphones was close to impossible to hear. Even when asked to turn up speakers, no great improvement occurred and committee seemed to talk softer as the meeting progressed.
- Details of slides displayed on the screens could not be distinguished from where we sat.
- Time allotted to resident speakers totaled 30 minutes. No allotment for parties requesting the passage of their proposal. They responded to everything.
- Parking at City Hall was limited to 3 hours. Today’s meeting lasted from 8:30 AM until 12:06 p.m. If I had been ticketed, that would have been the last straw.
Clearly, there should be some improvements made on this process.
Carol Gilbert
Byron Street, Palo Alto
Parks for people, not dogs
Editor:
Are there any parks in our area that are for people? I am used to sharing sidewalks along the way with dog walkers and most are very considerate.
While in a park I enjoy sitting and watching people: kids playing and everyone relaxing or chatting.
Seeing dogs messing up the grass for kids is no fun. Everywhere pets and no park for only people? Why?
Pet friendly has become over extended, excluding people friendly areas. Too many dogs running free and not on leashes. We people are not on leashes but are dominated by dogs. We need a park to enjoy without pets.
Please consider one or maybe even two parks for people only, pet free please.
Martha Barkley
University Drive, Menlo Park
Heartfelt thanks, Coach VanDerveer
Editor:
We started going to women’s basketball games in what have must have been the second or third year of Tara’s career at Stanford. We could sit in the fourth row of Maples Pavilion and let our kids run around the place because no one else had discovered the game. By the time we left Palo Alto six or so years later, the place was packed to the rafters and Stanford had won two national championships.
As it happens, I also saw Coach VanDerveer’s final Stanford game in Portland a few weeks ago. It wasn’t the outcome she (or I) had hoped for, but watching the team play from the vantage point of a seat high in the Moda Center provided me with a wonderful opportunity for reflection on the game, the coach, and her incredible legacy.
Congrats and heartfelt thanks, Coach VanDerVeer. Retiring in the year where the women’s final game had a larger audience than the men’s is a great bookend for a career spent guiding great young female players and showing the world what they can do.
Pam Marsh
Ashland, Oregon
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