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City offers compromise in controversy over Castilleja expansion

November 1, 2020 5:15 am

BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Two top Palo Alto city planners are offering a compromise regarding the controversy over Castilleja School’s expansion proposal that would limit enrollment, traffic […]

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Most of council leans in favor of Peter Pau’s 187-home development on El Camino

June 22, 2020 11:51 pm

BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer A dozen Palo Alto residents spoke Monday night in support of a two-story office building and five-story residential building at 3300 El Camino […]

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City reverses itself on President Hotel — City manager now says it can become a hotel

June 12, 2020 7:30 am

This story originally appeared in Friday morning’s print edition of the Post. Most of the Post’s news stories don’t appear on this website. For exclusive local coverage, pick up the […]

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102 homes proposed on San Antonio Road

August 12, 2019 6:00 am

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The developers behind the embattled Maybell housing project are proposing 102 apartments at 788 San Antonio Road, near Palo Alto’s border with Mountain […]

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New car dealership on the way to Palo Alto

June 26, 2019 6:00 am

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto City Council voted Monday (June 24) to usher ahead a 106,000-square-foot Audi and Mercedes-Benz dealership at 1700-1730 Embarcadero Road, where Ming’s Chinese Restaurant […]

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Housing proposal draws criticism, skepticism from City Council

May 21, 2019 7:00 am

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A 64-unit condominium development proposed at 788 San Antonio Road would include 10 below-market-rate homes, but still attracted criticism last night about traffic, […]

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New car dealership proposal moves ahead despite criticism over its size

March 31, 2019 12:45 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A 50-foot-tall car dealership proposed to replace what used to be Ming’s Restaurant on Embarcadero Road barely scraped past the Palo Alto Planning […]

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Cloaking the wireless invasion — city, telecoms try to hide small cell antenna systems

February 19, 2019 4:32 pm

BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Small cell nodes, attachments to utility poles or light poles aimed at improving wireless service, are going to be popping up in more places […]

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Typo in city code is stopping the elimination of apartments at Hotel President

December 2, 2018 12:37 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A city employee made a copy-and-paste typographical error in Palo Alto’s zoning code in 2016 that is now blocking the Hotel President apartments […]

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Controversial project at 429 University Ave. faces more hurdles

September 1, 2018 3:11 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Palo Alto is barring developer Elizabeth Wong from tearing down the University Avenue building that once housed the Shady Lane […]

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JJ&F owner to reopen market in College Terrace Center

August 28, 2018 5:58 am

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The popular grocery store JJ&F Market is set to reopen in Palo Alto’s College Terrace neighborhood, five years after it closed to make […]

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Hotel President tenants could get some help from the city

August 14, 2018 6:25 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer With three months left until the residents of the 75-unit Hotel President apartments are evicted to make way for a boutique hotel, Palo […]

The Hotel President at 488 University Ave. in Palo Alto. Post photo.
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City blocks conversion of Hotel President, tenants catch a break

July 19, 2018 10:00 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Palo Alto has told the new owners of the Hotel President that they won’t be allowed to turn the historic […]

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City planning director resigns to join consulting firm

April 22, 2018 2:57 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto Planning Director Hillary Gitelman is leaving the city after four years for a San Francisco consulting firm, joining the ranks of […]

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