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be a rush to build (high rises) because it’s very expensive to do,” Cain said. Several south Palo Alto residents The south end of Palo Alto could see Council on Monday will consider new homes over the next 25 years wrote to council asking for the 60-foot buildings as tall as 20 stories if council limit and complaining that housing will goes with the most developer-friendly a 60-foot, 90-foot or up to 250-foot around San Antonio Road. height limit around San Antonio Road. The 90-foot option makes the most be concentrated by them. plan for the area. Palo Alto’s tallest building is a financial sense for developers be“The proposed density of up to 7,400 “We’re providing it as an option because it does give the developers more 15-story, 237-foot office center at 525 cause they can use wood to construct units will overwhelm infrastructure, eight-story buildings, and high rises worsen traffic on an already crowded flexibility,” Senior Planner Robert Cain University Ave. City Hall is 122 feet. Depending on the new height limit, use steel, Cain said. and dangerous corridor and permanenttold the city’s Planning and Transportathe city is planning for 3,800 to 7,400 “We don’t necessarily think there will tion Commission on March 25. [See HEIGHT, page 18] BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
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THE UPDATE Markets closed for Good Friday. MORE HIRING: Employers added a surprisingly strong 178,000 jobs last month, rebounding from a weak February. The unemployment rate dipped to 4.3%. HOSPICE FRAUD: Federal officials have arrested eight people they say were involved in various fraud schemes involving grants for hospice care totaling $50 million in Los Angeles. BIG PHARMA PRESSURED: President Trump has signed an executive order that could slap longthreatened pharmaceutical tariffs of up to 100% on some patented drugs from companies that don’t reach deals with his administration in the coming months. IRAN FIRES BACK: Israel says it faced incoming fire from Iran yesterday. Kuwait and Bahrain also reported being under attack. In Iran, eight people were killed while celebrating the close of Persian new year near a major bridge hit by a U.S. strike. SOCAL WILDFIRE: A fast-growing wildfire broke out yesterday east of Moreno Valley in Riverside [See THE UPDATE, page 4]
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sor for the proposal of the increased sales tax, said Tuesday’s agenda was San Mateo County Supervisor Jack- already busy and it was best to remove ie Speier has decided to postpone her the item. Gauthier said she spoke with proposal to raise the county’s sales tax Speier yesterday morning. There is no by a half-cent after the Post reported date set for when the board will discuss two supervisors are opposed to the idea. the tax increase. “We talked about the effectiveness Supervisor Lisa Gauthier, a co-sponBY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
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Iran shot down two U.S. military planes in separate attacks yesterday, with one service member rescued and at least one missing, in a dramatic escalation since the war began nearly five weeks ago. It was the first time U.S. aircraft have been downed in the conflict and came just two days after President Donald Trump said in a national address that the U.S. has “beaten and completely decimated Iran” and was “going to finish the job, and we’re going to finish it very fast.” One fighter jet was shot down in Iran, officials said. A U.S. crew member from that plane was rescued, but a second was missing, and a [See JETS, page 18]
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and the support and what was needed and the fact that this was a busy Tuesday,” Gauthier said. “We need to have time to have a bigger conversation.” The proposal was removed after the Post reported that Supervisors Noelia Corzo and Ray Mueller did not support [See TAX, page 18]
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