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Will tow report be released? BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
Two Palo Alto councilmen are pushing their colleagues to release a report on a planning commissioner who was accused of trying to get special treatment after his daughter’s car was towed from a city parking garage. “When allegations of significant misconduct arise among our public
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Councilmen say transparency outweighs official’s privacy representatives, the public’s interest in understanding what occurred, and how the city responded, outweighs generalized privacy concerns,” Councilmen Pat Burt and Keith Reckdahl said in a
memo. Burt and Reckdahl want to release a report on Commissioner Forest Olaf Peterson’s actions after his daughter’s 1994 Ford Mustang was impounded by police because of a DMV regis-
Tension mounts over Sunset Developer: City has 90 days to OK towers
STRAIT DEAL: Iran and Oman are close to finalizing a deal to reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Under the proposal, transit channels would split control and impose new service fees.
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Managing Editor
STATE PRIMARIES: Crucial primary elections in Michigan and Wisconsin are going down to the wire and testing the future direction of the Democratic Party. High-profile establishment candidates are battling upstarts from the Democratic Socialists of America in races that could impact control of the U.S. Senate. PARASITE OUTBREAK: Michigan health officials confirmed the first U.S. deaths related to an ongoing cyclospora outbreak. Total cases in the state have climbed past 11,000 as investigations continue.
TOWERS — This rendering from developer N17 is what the former Sunset Magazine Headquarters in Menlo Park will look like if developed into a complex including a 39-story tower.
DATA CENTERS: Valley Water reports in its newsletter that Santa Clara County is home to about 91 data centers, most of which are in Santa Clara and San Jose. Additional facilities are being considered in Santa Clara, San Jose and Gilroy. The agency says it doesn’t know how much water the data centers use [See THE UPDATE, page 23] 153 Stone Pine,
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The developer proposing a skyscraper at the former Sunset Magazine headquarters in Menlo Park says the city is required to approve his project by the end of October and give him a refund of $300,000. Council is set to meet in closed session tonight at 6:30 p.m. to discuss a letter Oisin Heneghan sent the city on Monday. In it, Heneghan declares that a warning from Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office about the city’s handling of his proposal at 80 Willow Road means under a newly enacted state law, [See SUNSET, page 18]
Stanford dumps Flock cameras
the Genetec Cloudrunner system for its plate-reading cameras, the university Stanford has terminated its contract announced on Monday. “Unlike the Flock system, the new with Flock, a startup that’s faced growing criticism for sharing data from its system is designed for use within a sinlicense plate-reading cameras with fed- gle institution,” said Patrick Dunkley, vice provost for institutional equity, aceral and out-of-state agencies. Stanford will instead contract with cess and community. BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
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tration issue on Jan. 6. At the tow yard, Peterson allegedly tried to get a discount, suggested that he could “change the rules” and said he had police friends who would agree with him. “His repeated invocation of his role appeared intended to influence the outcome of a private commercial matter in his favor,” the tow yard owner said in a [See TOW, page 18]
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