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As Castilleja proceeds with its heavily scrutinized plan to rebuild its campus, a planning commissioner criticized the city on Wednesday for unfairly burdening the school with shifting demands.

As Castilleja proceeds with its heavily scrutinized plan to rebuild its campus, a planning commissioner criticized the city on Wednesday for unfairly burdening the school with shifting demands.

Seeking to provide relief to local renters at a time of astronomical housing costs, Palo Alto is considering adopting new laws that further restrict evictions and cap rent increases.

Seeking to provide relief to local renters at a time of astronomical housing costs, Palo Alto is considering adopting new laws that further restrict evictions and cap rent increases.

City planners are crafting an "urgency ordinance" to comply with laws that streamline approval processes for residential projects, relax density regulations and effectively abolish single-family zoning.

City planners are crafting an "urgency ordinance" to comply with laws that streamline approval processes for residential projects, relax density regulations and effectively abolish single-family zoning.

"How can a parking garage not be a parking garage?" Becky Sanders, co-chair of the umbrella group Palo Alto Neighborhoods, asked at a Nov. 4 hearing of the planning commission. "How can it not be included in the floor area when the zoning code clearly states that its included?" The thorny question has already stymied the commission, which split 3-3 over the issue when it was reviewing the project in October and November. While three commissioners — Bart Hechtman, Michael Alcheck and Giselle R...

On Wednesday, the Planning and Transportation Commission struggled to reconcile the need to help the shopping destination and the need to ensure that the mall remains primarily a retail center.