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Palo Alto City Council has voted to permit RV dwellers on two edges of the city while stopping short of a controversial proposal affecting businesses and neighborhoods. The city will offer permits for RV dwellers to park on both sides of Coyote Hill Road outside the Stanford Research Park and on Embarcadero Road
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behalf of the Ventura Neighborhood Association. Chamber of Commerce CEO CharOver 50 people spoke at the meet- lie Weidanz said RV dwellers are creating, and hundreds more sent emails to ing blind spots, making deliveries dancouncil. Some people liked the ideas to gerous, taking away customer parking, permit and restrict RVs, but most resi- leaving waste and stealing utilities. dents were upset the city wasn’t doing “Palo Alto’s small businesses cannot enough to clear the streets. continue to operate under these condi“We are shocked, offended and out- tions,” he said. Landlord Christian Horaged,” resident Barry Katz said on [See RVs, page 22]
After proposal roils residents by the sewage treatment plant. But the permits won’t be enough for more than half of the city’s 130 RV dwellers. Responding to intense opposition, council on Monday rejected a proposal to limit RV dwellers to one side of the street on 22 blocks that have been most impacted.
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DOLLY PARTON on stage in 2014. AP photo.
Details emerge in Jed York arrest San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York used an alias when he sent text messages over two days to a woman he believed to be a prostitute before he was arrested in a sting operation in Ohio, according to a police incident report obtained yesterday.
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The report from the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force had more than two pages redacted but provided more details about what led to York’s arrest and ultimately to him pleading no contest Monday to two misdemeanors.
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York, a Los Altos Hills resident, initially responded to an advertisement placed by police on a known prostitution website on Saturday, according to the report, sending two messages that went unanswered and saying his name [See YORK, page 22]
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Dolly Parton, the country music icon whose soaring vibrato vocals, poignant songwriting and sparkling costumes defined her rise from a log cabin in the Tennessee mountains to the height of stardom and acclaim, has died in Nashville. She was 80 years old. “After bravely facing a brief battle with cancer, Dolly departed her Earthly life today at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center surrounded by loved ones,” her publicist, Marcel Pariseau, said in a statement yesterday. Known for her curvy physique, massive blond wigs and skin-tight outfits that served her self-deprecating wit, she was among the most beloved personalities in music and beyond — the rare celebrity whose appeal transcended generations, geography and politics. She wrote hundreds of songs, including classics like “Jolene,” “Coat of Many Colors” [See DOLLY, page 23]
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