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Despite numerous revisions to its proposal to rebuild its campus, Castilleja continues to polarize the community, with some calling the new plan an ambitious overreach and others urging the city to approve it without further delay.

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.

When Palo Alto considers on Monday a new vision for a section of the Ventura neighborhood, it will find itself choosing between alternatives that range from economically infeasible to politically unpopular.

"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.