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Castilleja School will be able to reconstruct its Bryant Street campus and increase enrollment after the Palo Alto City Council voted Monday to approve the schools contentious plan after six years of bitter debate.
"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 it's 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 Roohparvar — deferred to the city's planning and legal staff, three of their colleagues — Ed Lau...