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You can sound off about RVs BY STEPHANIE LAM Daily Post Correspondent
Palo Alto residents will get to talk about safety concerns about the surge in RVs parked on city streets at an open house tomorrow. The meeting comes weeks after the City Council green-lit controversial new laws banning detached trailers and renting out RVs
City is taking public comment parked along city streets, something known as “vanlording.” Instead of a public meeting, where people go to the microphone to speak, an open house allows people to wander from booth to booth to discuss different
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• Cleaning and sweeping program • Housing • Parking and storage aspects of a proposal with a city emCity Council voted Dec. 8 to supployee. port laws that make it illegal to leave a At the open house, topics will include: trailer unattached to a vehicle on a city • Enforcement street. Under the vanlording ordinance, • Parking management: curb painting, people can’t rent out an RV as a living time restrictions, signs etc. [See RVs, page 22]
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PEPPER SPRAYED — A protester is pepper sprayed at close range while being detained near the site of the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. AP photo.
Cubberley funding a council goal its annual retreat at Mitchell Park Community Center on Saturday. The In contrast to previous years, the other three are: government efficienPalo Alto City Council has set at least cy; achieve near-term housing priority one very specific priority for 2026: find milestones; and enhance business vifunding to acquire and renovate Cub- brancy. Council members said they wanted berley Community Center. Cubberley was one of four priori- this year’s priorities to be relatively ties council approved for 2026 during immediate items that would receive BY ELAINE GOODMAN
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In dueling news conferences, federal and state officials offered starkly different messages yesterday about the immigration crackdown that has swept across Minneapolis and surrounding cities, with both claiming the moral high ground after another shooting death by federal agents. “Which side do you want to be on?” Gov. Tim Walz asked the public. “The side of an all-powerful federal government that could kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets, or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such gov[See SHOOTING, page 22]
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