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Civic life in the towns that surround the Farm: Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, Mountain View and Woodside, reported with an eye to the long view.
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Woodside’s Rural Ideal Meets the Housing Mandate
A 16-story builder's remedy proposal, a hard-fought family housing project and a dispute over two horses on half an acre reveal a town working to honor its equestrian…
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Mountain View Chooses a New Council, With No Incumbents on the Ballot
Eight candidates are competing for three open seats in a city that has become the Peninsula's laboratory for housing, street design and resistance to federal immigration enforcement. Whoever…
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Atherton’s Old Depot Becomes a Museum as the State Redraws the Town’s Future
On Sunday the town opened its restored train station as a museum, six years after the last trains stopped. The ceremony comes as Atherton, appointed rather than elected…
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Menlo Park’s Downtown Dilemma: Parking, Plazas and the Stakes of Measure P
A plan to build affordable homes on city parking lots faces multimillion-dollar gaps and a ballot measure that would put the lots under voters' control. Meanwhile, a beloved…
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Palo Alto Weighs a Cubberley Tax, a Billion-Dollar Rail Plan and the Price of Its Ambitions
Measure J asks voters to fund the purchase and renewal of Cubberley. The rail crossings could cost more than $1 billion. Together they pose an old Palo Alto…
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Five Towns, One University: The Civic Ecosystem Around the Farm
Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, Mountain View and Woodside govern themselves separately. On housing, transit and the November ballot, they are increasingly living one shared story, and Stanford…