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Prior to joining KQED, Rachael worked in Los Angeles at KPCC and Marketplace. 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The trees are leafy. The lawns are manicured. School-age children glide by on push scooters and bounce basketballs on sun-dappled sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s here, amid the nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.redfin.com/neighborhood/9706/CA/Menlo-Park/Suburban-Park-Lorelei-Manr-Flood-Park-Triangle/housing-market\">$2 million single-family homes\u003c/a> in this Menlo Park neighborhood, that a new battleground has emerged in the fight to preserve what some still consider an American ideal: one home for every lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside every fifth house or so are green lawn signs proclaiming “Yes on V,” in support of a \u003ca href=\"https://beta.menlopark.org/Government/Departments/City-Managers-Office/City-Clerk/Elections/November-8-2022-General-Election/Measure-V\">ballot measure\u003c/a> that would make it harder to build apartments throughout the city. The measure would require a vote for any changes to what can be built — but only in single-family neighborhoods.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chris Elmendorf, law professor, UC Davis\"]'The state housing agency is no longer treating housing element approvals as a one-and-done proposition.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no choice,” said Nicole Chessari, a Suburban Park homeowner who is co-leading the Yes on Measure V campaign. “No one was listening to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians opposed to new development in their neighborhoods have long had local elected leaders on their side. But their power to say no is waning. Faced with a massive housing shortage, state leaders over the past half-dozen years have approved a bevy of new laws to override opposition to new housing and have become more willing to take recalcitrant cities to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are new laws to permit backyard apartments, allow duplexes on single-family lots, convert offices and big-box stores to housing and prohibit parking requirements near transit. Central to these changes are new mandates for cities to not only plan for more housing but to do so in a way that reverses racial segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, residents in some California cities are firing back. From Menlo Park to \u003ca href=\"https://www.votescount.us/Home/Elections/November2022CaliforniaGeneralElection/LocalMeasuresNovember2022/S-WATFuture.aspx\">Watsonville\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.lagunabeachindy.com/laguna-residents-form-new-pac-against-measure-q/\">Laguna Beach\u003c/a>, they’re hoping to rely on another time-tested tradition: using the ballot box to restrict growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A case study\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park’s Measure V arose to contest one specific project: ninety units of affordable housing with priority for teachers and staff of the Ravenswood City School District in Suburban Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concrete lot is now overrun with weeds. But it was once home to the James Flood Elementary School, which closed in 2011 due to dwindling enrollment. Ravenswood district staff have been searching for a way to reuse the parcel — and generate income for the district — ever since, said William Eger, chief business officer for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I arrived a couple years ago, the district was in the process of analyzing our overall district footprint, thinking about, ‘How do we address some of these funding inequities?’” Eger said. “How can we use some of the assets we have, including our physical assets, the land that we own, in order to provide for our staff to afford to live in the area?”[aside postID=\"news_11927941,news_11927063,news_11924697\" label=\"Related Posts\"]In January, the district’s board took a step toward building teacher housing on the former school site, when it voted unanimously to enter into \u003ca href=\"https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2022/01/24/developers-propose-affordable-housing-lab-offices-on-ravenswood-land\">an exclusive negotiating agreement\u003c/a> with a developer. And it was around that time that Chessari and her neighbors caught wind of the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we heard that they wanted to build new housing on [the site], we were actually very excited about that,” she said. “But then we heard the volume, and were like, ‘Whoa, that’s going to transform the neighborhood into a thoroughfare and totally change it and make it unsafe for our kids.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59454_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_07-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11929535 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59454_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_07-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An outside view stowing a road, trees and house in the distance.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59454_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_07-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59454_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_07-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59454_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_07-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59454_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_07-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59454_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_07-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The site of the former James Flood Elementary School in Menlo Park on Thursday, Sept., 29, 2022. which the Ravenswood City School District has proposed to repurpose as affordable teacher housing, but a proposed ballot initiative, called Measure V, may delay or even potentially block the project. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The former school property is flanked on two sides by Suburban Park and rows of single-family homes. To the east is Highway 101, and to the west is Flood Park, a green space with a baseball diamond and picnic tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the school was open, traffic flowed through the park. But in early discussions about housing on the site, the district contemplated routing traffic through the neighborhood instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What followed was several months of negotiations among some Suburban Park residents, district staff and city council members. Chessari said neighbors opposed to the district’s plans ultimately had three demands: reduce the number of housing units from 90 to 60; guarantee — as opposed to prioritize — 50% of the units would be used for Ravenswood staff; and provide a second egress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and some residents met with four of the city’s five council members but failed to reach an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the council didn’t have her and her supporters’ interests in mind, then Chessari thought residents should be able to voice their concerns directly. So, she started gathering signatures for a ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That way, she said, anytime developers propose projects in single-family neighborhoods across Menlo Park, residents would be able to weigh in. Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K57fbpE9qWxsTM-gcXktsQLtK5disgx-/view\">80% of the city’s residential land\u003c/a> is zoned for single-family housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After seeing what happened in our [neighborhood], it was kind of a case study,” Chessari said. “This can and will happen citywide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will it work?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since the 1970s, citizen-initiated ballot measures have been a favorite tool to thwart development in California. According to a 2004 doctoral dissertation by Mai Thi Nguyen at UC Irvine, there were more than \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/2004-Mai-Thi-Nguyen-dissertation.pdf\">140 such measures to control growth approved between 1986 and 1999 (PDF)\u003c/a>, though not all of them were aimed specifically at housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those measures, however, have become increasingly at odds with changes to state law, said Chris Elmendorf, law professor at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ten years ago, this strategy … would have seemed pretty clever,” he said. “But I don’t think it’s necessarily so clever or effective now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every eight years, cities produce housing element reports showing how they will rezone areas to meet state-mandated housing goals and — new for this cycle — reduce residential segregation. Local leaders have long written these reports only later to ignore them without consequence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s changed as state leaders have become more willing to hold cities accountable, Elmendorf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state housing agency is no longer treating housing element approvals as a one-and-done proposition,” he said. “It is instead treating the housing elements as an eight-year contract between the state and the city over things the city will do, including rezoning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59450_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_03-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11929534 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59450_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_03-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a light tank top shirt and blue jeans sits in a chair outside.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59450_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_03-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59450_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_03-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59450_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_03-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59450_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_03-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59450_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_03-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suburban Park homeowner Nicole Chessari poses for a portrait at her home on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. Chessari is co-leading the Yes on Measure V campaign, a ballot initiative that would require a citywide vote to add apartments in single-family neighborhoods throughout Menlo Park. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Menlo Park, city leaders included plans to rezone the Flood school to allow for 90 affordable housing units in its \u003ca href=\"https://beta.menlopark.org/files/sharedassets/public/community-development/documents/projects/housing-element-update/menlo-park-2023-2031-housing-element-primary-hcd-review-draft.pdf\">draft housing element\u003c/a>. Once a property is rezoned, new state laws prohibit the city from reducing the number of allowed housing units or requiring onerous conditions, like a second road, that might make the project financially infeasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Chessari said, “It’s out of everybody's hands. The city has very, very limited ability to control the project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also real consequences now for cities that fail to present housing plans that meet the state’s requirements. When that happens, they may lose control over what gets built there altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such is the case in Redondo Beach, where a developer in August proposed a \u003ca href=\"https://reason.com/2022/09/09/this-renegade-california-developer-wants-to-build-a-2300-unit-megaproject-in-a-nimby-stronghold/\">massive, 2,300-unit housing project\u003c/a> at the site of a defunct power plant, while the city was out of compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as that housing element is not compliant, people can come in and build some pretty dense housing,” said Michael Manville, associate professor of urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, some cities have been ignoring their own voters’ ballot measures if they limit the amount of housing needed to satisfy the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda, for instance, residents voted in 1973 to prohibit apartment buildings across the island town. A second measure in 1991 capped densities to one home for every 2,000-square-foot lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing a mandate for 5,353 new housing units, city officials are \u003ca href=\"https://alamedapost.com/news/general-plan-and-draft-housing-element-update-debated/\">overriding those initiatives\u003c/a>, which state officials have called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/community-development/housing-element/docs/alaalamedacity-ta-112921.pdf\">preempted and unenforceable\u003c/a>,” in their draft housing element.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59455_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_08-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11929536 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59455_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_08-scaled.jpg\" alt='An outdoor view with a green lawn sign and a large brown sign that reads \"Suburban Park.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59455_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_08-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59455_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59455_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_08-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59455_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59455_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59455_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_08-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59455_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_08-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lawn sign supporting Measure V stands in front of the entrance to Suburban Park on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. The ballot initiative would require a citywide vote to add apartments in single-family neighborhoods throughout Menlo Park. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Southern California city of Encinitas, voters need to approve any major changes to what can be built there. City leaders have twice put the entire housing element to a vote only to have residents reject it. So, a judge allowed local leaders to ignore the voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elmendorf said the lesson there is that while voter initiatives can clog up — or at least delay — the process for cities to rezone for more housing, they can’t override state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no authority of the voters of Encinitas or Menlo Park or any other city to do through direct democracy something that the city council cannot do,” Elmendorf said. “Voters can’t exempt themselves from that law by passing a ballot measure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question in Menlo Park is whether Measure V will prevent the city from meeting new obligations under the housing element to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/community-development/affh/docs/affh_document_final_4-27-2021.pdf\">undo racial segregation\u003c/a> by requiring cities to site affordable housing in more affluent neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Who are we really?'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For many of the opponents of Menlo Park’s Measure V, the ballot initiative is not simply about limiting apartments in single-family neighborhoods: It’s also about whether the city will continue policies that have disproportionately harmed residents of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929520\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Palo-Alto-Daily-Times-Aug-10-1955-Belle-Haven-is-gone.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11929520 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Palo-Alto-Daily-Times-Aug-10-1955-Belle-Haven-is-gone-160x349.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white image of an old news article.\" width=\"160\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Palo-Alto-Daily-Times-Aug-10-1955-Belle-Haven-is-gone-160x349.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Palo-Alto-Daily-Times-Aug-10-1955-Belle-Haven-is-gone.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excerpt from the Daily Palo Alto Times describing 'blockbusting' in Belle Haven, a real estate practice to scare white homeowners into selling their properties to encourage segregation, on Aug. 10, 1955. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Pam Jones)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suburban Park was first established in the 1920s and grew during the post-WWII housing boom. In 1949, Menlo Park annexed it, along with the Belle Haven neighborhood directly to its east. At the time, both were mostly white neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Margarita-Mendez-Deed.jpg\">Suburban Park was subject to racial covenants that barred Black residents\u003c/a> and other people of color from living there, Belle Haven became a predominantly Black neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate agents \u003ca href=\"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015018404650&view=1up&seq=510&q1=%22Menlo%20Park%22\">actively recruited\u003c/a> Black homeowners to Belle Haven in a process known as racial steering, and then tried to \u003ca href=\"https://www.menlotogether.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MPCSD-Slides-Color-of-Law.pdf\">scare white homeowners\u003c/a> into selling their properties, a practice called blockbusting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belle Haven is separated from Suburban Park and the rest of the city by the Bayshore Highway, which was widened in 1956 to \u003ca href=\"http://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGTL/Californiahighways/chpw_1959_marapr.pdf#page=8\">become Highway 101\u003c/a>. Pam Jones, a longtime Belle Haven resident who grew up in the area, remembers how the highway widening disconnected Belle Haven from the rest of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It changes everything, and it isolates you,” she said. “There was just this sense of being unwelcomed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59439_DSC03495-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11929538 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59439_DSC03495-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a green turtleneck sweater stands outside.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59439_DSC03495-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59439_DSC03495-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59439_DSC03495-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59439_DSC03495-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59439_DSC03495-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59439_DSC03495-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59439_DSC03495-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Menlo Park resident Pam Jones opposes a ballot measure that would rewrite zoning laws to limit housing developments in the city. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both neighborhoods were originally part of the Ravenswood district, but Suburban Park seceded in 1975, joining the Menlo Park City School District instead. A 1976 lawsuit challenged the racial isolation of students of color at Ravenswood, ultimately resulting in a settlement agreement 10 years later. But Ravenswood continues to serve \u003ca href=\"http://www.ravenswoodschools.org/Choose-Ravenswood/index.html\">almost exclusively students of color\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the four elementary school districts in Menlo Park, Ravenswood is one of the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K57fbpE9qWxsTM-gcXktsQLtK5disgx-/view\">least well-resourced\u003c/a> with the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r9lNoWauD6f341SPcJIHM3Q-Lupw9UU7/view\">lowest average teacher salaries\u003c/a>. Eger said the proposed housing project would generate roughly $500,000 for the district annually — money that would go to staff salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s big money for us,” he said. “We know this is a huge need for our staff, and it’s a huge need for our families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 416px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Ravenswood-Attendance-Area-1955.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11929521 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Ravenswood-Attendance-Area-1955.jpg\" alt='A black and white maps that reads \"Ravenswood Attendance Areas Set.\"' width=\"416\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Ravenswood-Attendance-Area-1955.jpg 416w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Ravenswood-Attendance-Area-1955-160x130.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original Ravenswood City School District included Suburban Park and many other Menlo Park neighborhoods that ultimately seceded from the district, with the exception of Belle Haven. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Pam Jones)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The disparities between the two neighborhoods transcend educational outcomes, though, and also manifest in the city’s development patterns. Suburban Park has remained relatively unchanged in the past 20 years, but Belle Haven and the adjacent, formerly industrial area now known as the Bayfront, have seen rapid growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/technology-blog/story/2011-02-08/facebook-moving-headquarters-from-palo-alto-to-former-sun-microsystems-campus-in-menlo-park#:~:text=Facebook%20is%20moving%20its%20headquarters,Sun%20Microsystems%20in%20Menlo%20Park.&text=David%20Ebersman%2C%20Facebook's%20chief%20financial,57%2Dacre%20Menlo%20Park%20property.\">Meta, Facebook’s parent company, moved its headquarters there\u003c/a> in 2011. Since then, the city has seen a staggering \u003ca href=\"https://beta.menlopark.org/files/sharedassets/public/community-development/documents/projects/housing-element-update/menlo-park-2023-2031-housing-element-primary-hcd-review-draft.pdf\">2,000% increase in tech jobs\u003c/a>, much of it centered in the Bayfront. And in 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K57fbpE9qWxsTM-gcXktsQLtK5disgx-/view\">the city placed nearly all new development there\u003c/a>, including 4.1 million square feet of commercial development and 5,500 new housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a recent tour, construction cranes loomed in the sky as steel clanked and drills buzzed. Jones said the constant din has made it hard to live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pollution and the traffic are the other big things, and then a sense of, well, ‘You don't have anyplace else to put it, so you're dumping it on us,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Jones said, Measure V could mean more of the same. By requiring a popular vote to add denser housing in single-family neighborhoods, city staff concluded \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K57fbpE9qWxsTM-gcXktsQLtK5disgx-/view\">the measure would effectively redirect any new development into areas that are already zoned for denser housing\u003c/a>, which — with the exception of the city’s downtown area — are Belle Haven and Bayfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ballot measure can then be seen to continue the same cycle of putting the highest densities and most affordable units in the area of the community that is predominantly lower income, marginalized, and communities of color,” the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K57fbpE9qWxsTM-gcXktsQLtK5disgx-/view\">report\u003c/a> reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59432_DSC03459-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11929539 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59432_DSC03459-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup view of a woman wearing a green turtleneck sweater stands outside.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59432_DSC03459-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59432_DSC03459-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59432_DSC03459-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59432_DSC03459-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59432_DSC03459-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59432_DSC03459-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59432_DSC03459-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Menlo Park resident Pam Jones opposes a ballot measure that would rewrite zoning laws to limit housing developments in the city. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Jones, the intent of Measure V is clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really about racism. It’s about classism,” she said. “Whenever you say, ‘You're going to change my neighborhood, you’re going to blight my neighborhood,’ you are talking about people of color that don't look like you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chessari recoiled at that suggestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, that argument is very offensive to me,” she said. The city could choose to site increased development downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones and Chessari do agree on one point, though: Measure V is about the future of Menlo Park and who gets the last word on what can be built, and where.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who are we really?” Jones wondered. “How do we really want to live? How do we want to treat our neighbors?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “We'll know when all of the ballots are counted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Local ballot measures to block housing are nothing new in California. It just might not work anymore.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1667239606,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":60,"wordCount":2589},"headData":{"title":"From Menlo Park to Laguna Beach, Residents Turn to Ballot Box to Fight New California Housing Mandates | KQED","description":"Local ballot measures to block housing are nothing new in California. It just might not work anymore.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11929505 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11929505","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/10/20/from-menlo-park-to-laguna-beach-residents-turn-to-ballot-box-to-fight-new-california-housing-mandates/","disqusTitle":"From Menlo Park to Laguna Beach, Residents Turn to Ballot Box to Fight New California Housing Mandates","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11929505/from-menlo-park-to-laguna-beach-residents-turn-to-ballot-box-to-fight-new-california-housing-mandates","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Suburban Park lives up to its bucolic name. The trees are leafy. The lawns are manicured. School-age children glide by on push scooters and bounce basketballs on sun-dappled sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s here, amid the nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.redfin.com/neighborhood/9706/CA/Menlo-Park/Suburban-Park-Lorelei-Manr-Flood-Park-Triangle/housing-market\">$2 million single-family homes\u003c/a> in this Menlo Park neighborhood, that a new battleground has emerged in the fight to preserve what some still consider an American ideal: one home for every lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside every fifth house or so are green lawn signs proclaiming “Yes on V,” in support of a \u003ca href=\"https://beta.menlopark.org/Government/Departments/City-Managers-Office/City-Clerk/Elections/November-8-2022-General-Election/Measure-V\">ballot measure\u003c/a> that would make it harder to build apartments throughout the city. The measure would require a vote for any changes to what can be built — but only in single-family neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'The state housing agency is no longer treating housing element approvals as a one-and-done proposition.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Chris Elmendorf, law professor, UC Davis","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no choice,” said Nicole Chessari, a Suburban Park homeowner who is co-leading the Yes on Measure V campaign. “No one was listening to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians opposed to new development in their neighborhoods have long had local elected leaders on their side. But their power to say no is waning. Faced with a massive housing shortage, state leaders over the past half-dozen years have approved a bevy of new laws to override opposition to new housing and have become more willing to take recalcitrant cities to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are new laws to permit backyard apartments, allow duplexes on single-family lots, convert offices and big-box stores to housing and prohibit parking requirements near transit. Central to these changes are new mandates for cities to not only plan for more housing but to do so in a way that reverses racial segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, residents in some California cities are firing back. From Menlo Park to \u003ca href=\"https://www.votescount.us/Home/Elections/November2022CaliforniaGeneralElection/LocalMeasuresNovember2022/S-WATFuture.aspx\">Watsonville\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.lagunabeachindy.com/laguna-residents-form-new-pac-against-measure-q/\">Laguna Beach\u003c/a>, they’re hoping to rely on another time-tested tradition: using the ballot box to restrict growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A case study\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park’s Measure V arose to contest one specific project: ninety units of affordable housing with priority for teachers and staff of the Ravenswood City School District in Suburban Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concrete lot is now overrun with weeds. But it was once home to the James Flood Elementary School, which closed in 2011 due to dwindling enrollment. Ravenswood district staff have been searching for a way to reuse the parcel — and generate income for the district — ever since, said William Eger, chief business officer for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I arrived a couple years ago, the district was in the process of analyzing our overall district footprint, thinking about, ‘How do we address some of these funding inequities?’” Eger said. “How can we use some of the assets we have, including our physical assets, the land that we own, in order to provide for our staff to afford to live in the area?”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11927941,news_11927063,news_11924697","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In January, the district’s board took a step toward building teacher housing on the former school site, when it voted unanimously to enter into \u003ca href=\"https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2022/01/24/developers-propose-affordable-housing-lab-offices-on-ravenswood-land\">an exclusive negotiating agreement\u003c/a> with a developer. And it was around that time that Chessari and her neighbors caught wind of the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we heard that they wanted to build new housing on [the site], we were actually very excited about that,” she said. “But then we heard the volume, and were like, ‘Whoa, that’s going to transform the neighborhood into a thoroughfare and totally change it and make it unsafe for our kids.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59454_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_07-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11929535 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59454_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_07-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An outside view stowing a road, trees and house in the distance.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59454_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_07-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59454_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_07-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59454_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_07-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59454_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_07-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59454_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_07-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The site of the former James Flood Elementary School in Menlo Park on Thursday, Sept., 29, 2022. which the Ravenswood City School District has proposed to repurpose as affordable teacher housing, but a proposed ballot initiative, called Measure V, may delay or even potentially block the project. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The former school property is flanked on two sides by Suburban Park and rows of single-family homes. To the east is Highway 101, and to the west is Flood Park, a green space with a baseball diamond and picnic tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the school was open, traffic flowed through the park. But in early discussions about housing on the site, the district contemplated routing traffic through the neighborhood instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What followed was several months of negotiations among some Suburban Park residents, district staff and city council members. Chessari said neighbors opposed to the district’s plans ultimately had three demands: reduce the number of housing units from 90 to 60; guarantee — as opposed to prioritize — 50% of the units would be used for Ravenswood staff; and provide a second egress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and some residents met with four of the city’s five council members but failed to reach an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the council didn’t have her and her supporters’ interests in mind, then Chessari thought residents should be able to voice their concerns directly. So, she started gathering signatures for a ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That way, she said, anytime developers propose projects in single-family neighborhoods across Menlo Park, residents would be able to weigh in. Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K57fbpE9qWxsTM-gcXktsQLtK5disgx-/view\">80% of the city’s residential land\u003c/a> is zoned for single-family housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After seeing what happened in our [neighborhood], it was kind of a case study,” Chessari said. “This can and will happen citywide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will it work?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since the 1970s, citizen-initiated ballot measures have been a favorite tool to thwart development in California. According to a 2004 doctoral dissertation by Mai Thi Nguyen at UC Irvine, there were more than \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/2004-Mai-Thi-Nguyen-dissertation.pdf\">140 such measures to control growth approved between 1986 and 1999 (PDF)\u003c/a>, though not all of them were aimed specifically at housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those measures, however, have become increasingly at odds with changes to state law, said Chris Elmendorf, law professor at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ten years ago, this strategy … would have seemed pretty clever,” he said. “But I don’t think it’s necessarily so clever or effective now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every eight years, cities produce housing element reports showing how they will rezone areas to meet state-mandated housing goals and — new for this cycle — reduce residential segregation. Local leaders have long written these reports only later to ignore them without consequence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s changed as state leaders have become more willing to hold cities accountable, Elmendorf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state housing agency is no longer treating housing element approvals as a one-and-done proposition,” he said. “It is instead treating the housing elements as an eight-year contract between the state and the city over things the city will do, including rezoning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59450_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_03-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11929534 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59450_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_03-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a light tank top shirt and blue jeans sits in a chair outside.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59450_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_03-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59450_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_03-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59450_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_03-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59450_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_03-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59450_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_03-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suburban Park homeowner Nicole Chessari poses for a portrait at her home on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. Chessari is co-leading the Yes on Measure V campaign, a ballot initiative that would require a citywide vote to add apartments in single-family neighborhoods throughout Menlo Park. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Menlo Park, city leaders included plans to rezone the Flood school to allow for 90 affordable housing units in its \u003ca href=\"https://beta.menlopark.org/files/sharedassets/public/community-development/documents/projects/housing-element-update/menlo-park-2023-2031-housing-element-primary-hcd-review-draft.pdf\">draft housing element\u003c/a>. Once a property is rezoned, new state laws prohibit the city from reducing the number of allowed housing units or requiring onerous conditions, like a second road, that might make the project financially infeasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Chessari said, “It’s out of everybody's hands. The city has very, very limited ability to control the project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also real consequences now for cities that fail to present housing plans that meet the state’s requirements. When that happens, they may lose control over what gets built there altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such is the case in Redondo Beach, where a developer in August proposed a \u003ca href=\"https://reason.com/2022/09/09/this-renegade-california-developer-wants-to-build-a-2300-unit-megaproject-in-a-nimby-stronghold/\">massive, 2,300-unit housing project\u003c/a> at the site of a defunct power plant, while the city was out of compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as that housing element is not compliant, people can come in and build some pretty dense housing,” said Michael Manville, associate professor of urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, some cities have been ignoring their own voters’ ballot measures if they limit the amount of housing needed to satisfy the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda, for instance, residents voted in 1973 to prohibit apartment buildings across the island town. A second measure in 1991 capped densities to one home for every 2,000-square-foot lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing a mandate for 5,353 new housing units, city officials are \u003ca href=\"https://alamedapost.com/news/general-plan-and-draft-housing-element-update-debated/\">overriding those initiatives\u003c/a>, which state officials have called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/community-development/housing-element/docs/alaalamedacity-ta-112921.pdf\">preempted and unenforceable\u003c/a>,” in their draft housing element.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59455_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_08-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11929536 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59455_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_08-scaled.jpg\" alt='An outdoor view with a green lawn sign and a large brown sign that reads \"Suburban Park.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59455_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_08-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59455_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59455_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_08-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59455_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59455_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59455_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_08-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59455_Menlo-Park-Measure-V_08-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lawn sign supporting Measure V stands in front of the entrance to Suburban Park on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. The ballot initiative would require a citywide vote to add apartments in single-family neighborhoods throughout Menlo Park. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Southern California city of Encinitas, voters need to approve any major changes to what can be built there. City leaders have twice put the entire housing element to a vote only to have residents reject it. So, a judge allowed local leaders to ignore the voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elmendorf said the lesson there is that while voter initiatives can clog up — or at least delay — the process for cities to rezone for more housing, they can’t override state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no authority of the voters of Encinitas or Menlo Park or any other city to do through direct democracy something that the city council cannot do,” Elmendorf said. “Voters can’t exempt themselves from that law by passing a ballot measure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question in Menlo Park is whether Measure V will prevent the city from meeting new obligations under the housing element to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/community-development/affh/docs/affh_document_final_4-27-2021.pdf\">undo racial segregation\u003c/a> by requiring cities to site affordable housing in more affluent neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Who are we really?'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For many of the opponents of Menlo Park’s Measure V, the ballot initiative is not simply about limiting apartments in single-family neighborhoods: It’s also about whether the city will continue policies that have disproportionately harmed residents of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929520\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Palo-Alto-Daily-Times-Aug-10-1955-Belle-Haven-is-gone.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11929520 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Palo-Alto-Daily-Times-Aug-10-1955-Belle-Haven-is-gone-160x349.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white image of an old news article.\" width=\"160\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Palo-Alto-Daily-Times-Aug-10-1955-Belle-Haven-is-gone-160x349.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Palo-Alto-Daily-Times-Aug-10-1955-Belle-Haven-is-gone.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excerpt from the Daily Palo Alto Times describing 'blockbusting' in Belle Haven, a real estate practice to scare white homeowners into selling their properties to encourage segregation, on Aug. 10, 1955. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Pam Jones)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suburban Park was first established in the 1920s and grew during the post-WWII housing boom. In 1949, Menlo Park annexed it, along with the Belle Haven neighborhood directly to its east. At the time, both were mostly white neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Margarita-Mendez-Deed.jpg\">Suburban Park was subject to racial covenants that barred Black residents\u003c/a> and other people of color from living there, Belle Haven became a predominantly Black neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate agents \u003ca href=\"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015018404650&view=1up&seq=510&q1=%22Menlo%20Park%22\">actively recruited\u003c/a> Black homeowners to Belle Haven in a process known as racial steering, and then tried to \u003ca href=\"https://www.menlotogether.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MPCSD-Slides-Color-of-Law.pdf\">scare white homeowners\u003c/a> into selling their properties, a practice called blockbusting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belle Haven is separated from Suburban Park and the rest of the city by the Bayshore Highway, which was widened in 1956 to \u003ca href=\"http://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGTL/Californiahighways/chpw_1959_marapr.pdf#page=8\">become Highway 101\u003c/a>. Pam Jones, a longtime Belle Haven resident who grew up in the area, remembers how the highway widening disconnected Belle Haven from the rest of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It changes everything, and it isolates you,” she said. “There was just this sense of being unwelcomed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59439_DSC03495-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11929538 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59439_DSC03495-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a green turtleneck sweater stands outside.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59439_DSC03495-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59439_DSC03495-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59439_DSC03495-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59439_DSC03495-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59439_DSC03495-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59439_DSC03495-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59439_DSC03495-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Menlo Park resident Pam Jones opposes a ballot measure that would rewrite zoning laws to limit housing developments in the city. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both neighborhoods were originally part of the Ravenswood district, but Suburban Park seceded in 1975, joining the Menlo Park City School District instead. A 1976 lawsuit challenged the racial isolation of students of color at Ravenswood, ultimately resulting in a settlement agreement 10 years later. But Ravenswood continues to serve \u003ca href=\"http://www.ravenswoodschools.org/Choose-Ravenswood/index.html\">almost exclusively students of color\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the four elementary school districts in Menlo Park, Ravenswood is one of the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K57fbpE9qWxsTM-gcXktsQLtK5disgx-/view\">least well-resourced\u003c/a> with the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r9lNoWauD6f341SPcJIHM3Q-Lupw9UU7/view\">lowest average teacher salaries\u003c/a>. Eger said the proposed housing project would generate roughly $500,000 for the district annually — money that would go to staff salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s big money for us,” he said. “We know this is a huge need for our staff, and it’s a huge need for our families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 416px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Ravenswood-Attendance-Area-1955.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11929521 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Ravenswood-Attendance-Area-1955.jpg\" alt='A black and white maps that reads \"Ravenswood Attendance Areas Set.\"' width=\"416\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Ravenswood-Attendance-Area-1955.jpg 416w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Ravenswood-Attendance-Area-1955-160x130.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original Ravenswood City School District included Suburban Park and many other Menlo Park neighborhoods that ultimately seceded from the district, with the exception of Belle Haven. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Pam Jones)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The disparities between the two neighborhoods transcend educational outcomes, though, and also manifest in the city’s development patterns. Suburban Park has remained relatively unchanged in the past 20 years, but Belle Haven and the adjacent, formerly industrial area now known as the Bayfront, have seen rapid growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/technology-blog/story/2011-02-08/facebook-moving-headquarters-from-palo-alto-to-former-sun-microsystems-campus-in-menlo-park#:~:text=Facebook%20is%20moving%20its%20headquarters,Sun%20Microsystems%20in%20Menlo%20Park.&text=David%20Ebersman%2C%20Facebook's%20chief%20financial,57%2Dacre%20Menlo%20Park%20property.\">Meta, Facebook’s parent company, moved its headquarters there\u003c/a> in 2011. Since then, the city has seen a staggering \u003ca href=\"https://beta.menlopark.org/files/sharedassets/public/community-development/documents/projects/housing-element-update/menlo-park-2023-2031-housing-element-primary-hcd-review-draft.pdf\">2,000% increase in tech jobs\u003c/a>, much of it centered in the Bayfront. And in 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K57fbpE9qWxsTM-gcXktsQLtK5disgx-/view\">the city placed nearly all new development there\u003c/a>, including 4.1 million square feet of commercial development and 5,500 new housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a recent tour, construction cranes loomed in the sky as steel clanked and drills buzzed. Jones said the constant din has made it hard to live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pollution and the traffic are the other big things, and then a sense of, well, ‘You don't have anyplace else to put it, so you're dumping it on us,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Jones said, Measure V could mean more of the same. By requiring a popular vote to add denser housing in single-family neighborhoods, city staff concluded \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K57fbpE9qWxsTM-gcXktsQLtK5disgx-/view\">the measure would effectively redirect any new development into areas that are already zoned for denser housing\u003c/a>, which — with the exception of the city’s downtown area — are Belle Haven and Bayfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ballot measure can then be seen to continue the same cycle of putting the highest densities and most affordable units in the area of the community that is predominantly lower income, marginalized, and communities of color,” the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K57fbpE9qWxsTM-gcXktsQLtK5disgx-/view\">report\u003c/a> reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59432_DSC03459-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11929539 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59432_DSC03459-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup view of a woman wearing a green turtleneck sweater stands outside.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59432_DSC03459-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59432_DSC03459-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59432_DSC03459-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59432_DSC03459-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59432_DSC03459-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59432_DSC03459-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59432_DSC03459-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Menlo Park resident Pam Jones opposes a ballot measure that would rewrite zoning laws to limit housing developments in the city. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Jones, the intent of Measure V is clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really about racism. It’s about classism,” she said. “Whenever you say, ‘You're going to change my neighborhood, you’re going to blight my neighborhood,’ you are talking about people of color that don't look like you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chessari recoiled at that suggestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, that argument is very offensive to me,” she said. The city could choose to site increased development downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones and Chessari do agree on one point, though: Measure V is about the future of Menlo Park and who gets the last word on what can be built, and where.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who are we really?” Jones wondered. “How do we really want to live? How do we want to treat our neighbors?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “We'll know when all of the ballots are counted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11929505/from-menlo-park-to-laguna-beach-residents-turn-to-ballot-box-to-fight-new-california-housing-mandates","authors":["11652"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_3921","news_30879","news_1775","news_31592","news_31857","news_480","news_31859","news_31858"],"featImg":"news_11929532","label":"news"},"news_11889712":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11889712","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11889712","score":null,"sort":[1632996036000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"can-redwood-city-really-boast-climate-best-by-government-test-yes-and-no","title":"Can Redwood City Really Boast \"Climate Best by Government Test\"? Yes and No","publishDate":1632996036,"format":"image","headTitle":"Can Redwood City Really Boast “Climate Best by Government Test”? Yes and No | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>If you’ve spent any time at all in Redwood City, you know what we’re talking about: The sign! (Or signs, plural.) They say “Redwood City” across the top, and, in smaller font, is the city’s slogan: “Climate Best by Government Test.” Been there forever. Sounds kinda official. But is it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does Redwood City actually have the best weather?” asks Lauren Tankeh of San Carlos, which lies just north of Redwood City. “I think it’s a little nicer in San Carlos. I think we actually have nicer weather.” There seems to be a somewhat competitive quality to Tankeh’s query. Time for a climate throw-down here in the Bay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Michael Svanevik, historian and retired professor at the College of San Mateo, the sign’s origin dates back to 1925. At the time, Peninsula farmland had long given way to the suburbs of San Francisco, thanks to two things: the railroad that runs from San Francisco to San José (where Caltrain runs today), and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11621122/el-camino-not-so-real-the-true-story-of-the-ancient-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Camino Real\u003c/a>, then called the County Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mood of the day was growth. Many of the city founders owned a lot of real estate they bought on the cheap, and they were keen to sell it for profit. Also, there was lots of competition among the cities on the Peninsula, all vying for new residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right after [World War I], they started a number of advertising campaigns to attract people into their different communities,” Svanevik said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11890232 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A black-and-white photo of an office, with high windows along one wall, file cabinets, and a few desks. A man sits at one desk, a woman at another, and a second man leans against a cabinet.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1689\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-1536x1013.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-2048x1351.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-1920x1266.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The younger man, standing in this photo, is likely to be Wilbur Doxsee, the man who coined the phrase Redwood City is known for today. His father, Clarence, was president of the George H. Rice Abstract Company, which is pictured here. \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Redwood City Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Mateo built an amusement park, the ill-fated Pacific City, which may have been the most ambitious concept. Many cities just came up with slogans. Our question-asker Tankeh knows the one for her hometown, San Carlos: “The City of Good Living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11705654,news_11621122,news_11747125\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]In 1925, the Redwood City Chamber of Commerce and the Real Estate Board sponsored a contest for a slogan that would sum up the charms of Redwood City. Conveniently, the guy who won the contest was heavily involved in organizing the contest, in thick with the city founders because he was one himself: Wilbur Doxsee, the president of the Redwood City Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doxsee’s winning slogan? The one that beat out 78 other entries? “By Government Test, Our Climate Is Best” — later shortened to the somewhat catchier “Climate Best by Government Test.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Svanevik said, “Immediately, somebody came forth and said, ‘Wilbur Doxsee, how do you know that’s true?’ And he said, ‘I don’t. I made it up.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doxsee made the slogan up, but Svanevik suspects he was thinking of his friend, amateur meteorologist Henry C. Finkler. “He owned all the property that is today [Edgewood Park],” said Svanevik. That’s more than 450 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11890238\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Earliest-photo-of-Climate-Sign-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"This is believed to be the earliest known photo of Redwood City's "Climate Best by Government Test" slogan.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1687\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Earliest-photo-of-Climate-Sign-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Earliest-photo-of-Climate-Sign-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Earliest-photo-of-Climate-Sign-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Earliest-photo-of-Climate-Sign-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Earliest-photo-of-Climate-Sign-1536x1012.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Earliest-photo-of-Climate-Sign-2048x1350.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Earliest-photo-of-Climate-Sign-1920x1265.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is believed to be the earliest known photo of Redwood City’s “Climate Best by Government Test” slogan. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Redwood City Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Henry C. Finkler was a bicyclist. And he became, I have to say, fanatically interested in weather. And he recorded, every day he rode down the hill, what the air temperature was, what the winds were, the number of days of rain,” Svanevik said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s Finkler who first claimed there were only three parts of the world that had perfect weather: the Canary Islands off the coast of northwestern Africa, North Africa’s Mediterranean Coast, and anything within a 20-mile radius of Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finkler was buddies with a fellow cyclist, Franklin Lane, who was secretary of the interior under Woodrow Wilson when the U.S. got involved in World War I. Lane remembered his buddy Finkler with the weather research and, on the basis of that, convinced President Wilson to establish one of the first military bases on the West Coast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705654/wwi-and-the-peninsulas-forgotten-contribution-to-the-war-effort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Camp Fremont\u003c/a>, in Menlo Park. (This put Menlo Park on the map, so to speak.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another way Doxsee may have been inspired comes from a nonmilitary, German weather survey conducted before World War I by the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, a government research outfit in Berlin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 1912, the German government asked counselor agents all over the world to send in statistics about weather in their area. Need I tell you not many people keep weather statistics. Well, Henry Finkler has it all,” Svanevik said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theory goes: Doxsee read an article in The San Francisco Chronicle about the climate survey, and this was how Finkler’s assessment of Redwood City got national, and even international, attention. Doxsee’s slogan sealed the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel almost cheated,” said our listener upon learning how bogus the science behind the sign was. She was thinking this story would go in an entirely different direction: “You know, is this test outdated? Has climate change shifted the best weather a little bit north to San Carlos?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is, of course, a good argument to be made that “best” weather is a purely subjective title. Lots of people love rain and fog. Some people like it hot. Speaking for myself, I think the weather on the Peninsula sits in the Goldilocks Zone: not too hot, not too cold, most of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is to say, I think Finkler and Doxsee got it right. But then, I don’t live in San Carlos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The slogan has been used since the 1920s, when cities on the Peninsula were trying to lure new residents from San Francisco.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700534678,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":972},"headData":{"title":"Can Redwood City Really Boast \"Climate Best by Government Test\"? Yes and No | KQED","description":"The slogan has been used since the 1920s, when cities on the Peninsula were trying to lure new residents from San Francisco.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Bay Curious","sourceUrl":"http://baycurious.org/","audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC4725240068.mp3?updated=1632937390","path":"/news/11889712/can-redwood-city-really-boast-climate-best-by-government-test-yes-and-no","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’ve spent any time at all in Redwood City, you know what we’re talking about: The sign! (Or signs, plural.) They say “Redwood City” across the top, and, in smaller font, is the city’s slogan: “Climate Best by Government Test.” Been there forever. Sounds kinda official. But is it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does Redwood City actually have the best weather?” asks Lauren Tankeh of San Carlos, which lies just north of Redwood City. “I think it’s a little nicer in San Carlos. I think we actually have nicer weather.” There seems to be a somewhat competitive quality to Tankeh’s query. Time for a climate throw-down here in the Bay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Michael Svanevik, historian and retired professor at the College of San Mateo, the sign’s origin dates back to 1925. At the time, Peninsula farmland had long given way to the suburbs of San Francisco, thanks to two things: the railroad that runs from San Francisco to San José (where Caltrain runs today), and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11621122/el-camino-not-so-real-the-true-story-of-the-ancient-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Camino Real\u003c/a>, then called the County Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mood of the day was growth. Many of the city founders owned a lot of real estate they bought on the cheap, and they were keen to sell it for profit. Also, there was lots of competition among the cities on the Peninsula, all vying for new residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right after [World War I], they started a number of advertising campaigns to attract people into their different communities,” Svanevik said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11890232 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A black-and-white photo of an office, with high windows along one wall, file cabinets, and a few desks. A man sits at one desk, a woman at another, and a second man leans against a cabinet.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1689\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-1536x1013.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-2048x1351.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-1920x1266.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The younger man, standing in this photo, is likely to be Wilbur Doxsee, the man who coined the phrase Redwood City is known for today. His father, Clarence, was president of the George H. Rice Abstract Company, which is pictured here. \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Redwood City Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Mateo built an amusement park, the ill-fated Pacific City, which may have been the most ambitious concept. Many cities just came up with slogans. Our question-asker Tankeh knows the one for her hometown, San Carlos: “The City of Good Living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11705654,news_11621122,news_11747125","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 1925, the Redwood City Chamber of Commerce and the Real Estate Board sponsored a contest for a slogan that would sum up the charms of Redwood City. Conveniently, the guy who won the contest was heavily involved in organizing the contest, in thick with the city founders because he was one himself: Wilbur Doxsee, the president of the Redwood City Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doxsee’s winning slogan? The one that beat out 78 other entries? “By Government Test, Our Climate Is Best” — later shortened to the somewhat catchier “Climate Best by Government Test.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Svanevik said, “Immediately, somebody came forth and said, ‘Wilbur Doxsee, how do you know that’s true?’ And he said, ‘I don’t. I made it up.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doxsee made the slogan up, but Svanevik suspects he was thinking of his friend, amateur meteorologist Henry C. Finkler. “He owned all the property that is today [Edgewood Park],” said Svanevik. That’s more than 450 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11890238\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Earliest-photo-of-Climate-Sign-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"This is believed to be the earliest known photo of Redwood City's "Climate Best by Government Test" slogan.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1687\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Earliest-photo-of-Climate-Sign-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Earliest-photo-of-Climate-Sign-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Earliest-photo-of-Climate-Sign-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Earliest-photo-of-Climate-Sign-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Earliest-photo-of-Climate-Sign-1536x1012.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Earliest-photo-of-Climate-Sign-2048x1350.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Earliest-photo-of-Climate-Sign-1920x1265.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is believed to be the earliest known photo of Redwood City’s “Climate Best by Government Test” slogan. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Redwood City Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Henry C. Finkler was a bicyclist. And he became, I have to say, fanatically interested in weather. And he recorded, every day he rode down the hill, what the air temperature was, what the winds were, the number of days of rain,” Svanevik said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s Finkler who first claimed there were only three parts of the world that had perfect weather: the Canary Islands off the coast of northwestern Africa, North Africa’s Mediterranean Coast, and anything within a 20-mile radius of Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finkler was buddies with a fellow cyclist, Franklin Lane, who was secretary of the interior under Woodrow Wilson when the U.S. got involved in World War I. Lane remembered his buddy Finkler with the weather research and, on the basis of that, convinced President Wilson to establish one of the first military bases on the West Coast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705654/wwi-and-the-peninsulas-forgotten-contribution-to-the-war-effort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Camp Fremont\u003c/a>, in Menlo Park. (This put Menlo Park on the map, so to speak.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another way Doxsee may have been inspired comes from a nonmilitary, German weather survey conducted before World War I by the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, a government research outfit in Berlin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 1912, the German government asked counselor agents all over the world to send in statistics about weather in their area. Need I tell you not many people keep weather statistics. Well, Henry Finkler has it all,” Svanevik said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theory goes: Doxsee read an article in The San Francisco Chronicle about the climate survey, and this was how Finkler’s assessment of Redwood City got national, and even international, attention. Doxsee’s slogan sealed the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel almost cheated,” said our listener upon learning how bogus the science behind the sign was. She was thinking this story would go in an entirely different direction: “You know, is this test outdated? Has climate change shifted the best weather a little bit north to San Carlos?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is, of course, a good argument to be made that “best” weather is a purely subjective title. Lots of people love rain and fog. Some people like it hot. Speaking for myself, I think the weather on the Peninsula sits in the Goldilocks Zone: not too hot, not too cold, most of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is to say, I think Finkler and Doxsee got it right. But then, I don’t live in San Carlos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11889712/can-redwood-city-really-boast-climate-best-by-government-test-yes-and-no","authors":["251"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_223","news_1758","news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_3631","news_19204","news_480","news_2011","news_17867","news_1269","news_353"],"featImg":"news_11890412","label":"source_news_11889712"},"news_11857573":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11857573","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11857573","score":null,"sort":[1611878047000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-gamestop-saga-explained-how-reddit-investors-tripped-up-wall-street","title":"The GameStop Saga Explained: How Reddit Investors Tripped Up Wall Street","publishDate":1611878047,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>What is the deal with GameStop?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a good chance you've heard that question many times in the past few days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than 5,000 stores, GameStop is a video game chain where customers can buy, sell and trade their games, consoles and gaming accessories. It's a mall staple, but shopping centers have been struggling for years, and the coronavirus pandemic has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/23/894598832/another-bankruptcy-at-the-mall-parent-company-of-ann-taylor-loft-is-latest-to-fa\">devastating for retailers\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then a most unexpected and weird thing happened. GameStop's stock has soared to unbelievable heights lately. Topping $400 per share earlier Thursday, it was up more than 2,000% so far in this young year, including a 134% jump on Wednesday alone. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it continues to be a bumpy ride for investors. By late Thursday morning, GameStop shares had fallen 63% to $126 after some brokers imposed trading limits on the stock. The stock later recovered but closed at $193.60 — a 44% loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sen. Elizabeth Warren\"]'For years, the same hedge funds, private equity firms, and wealthy investors dismayed by the GameStop trades have treated the stock market like their own personal casino while everyone else pays the price.'[/pullquote]Most of GameStop stock gyrations have to do with a tug of war between \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/28/961470054/hottest-stock-on-wall-street-struggling-video-game-store-gamestop\">amateur day traders on Reddit\u003c/a>, one of the world's largest online communities — who are betting on the stock to keep rising — and the professional managers of Wall Street hedge funds, who have bet that GameStop's stock will crater. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's easy to see the downside for GameStop, a company that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-12-08-gamestop-has-closed-462-stores-so-far-this-year-783-since-last-year\">closed 783 stores\u003c/a> in two years and faces stiff headwinds. More and more game and console sales are happening online and through its competitors — Walmart, Target, Best Buy and Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how has GameStop suddenly become the darling investment of online traders from Reddit's wallstreetbets forum?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Wired \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/gamestop-stock-wall-street-bets-short-squeeze/\">reported\u003c/a>: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\" 'It was a meme stock that really blew up,' said WallStreetBets moderator Bawse1. 'The massive short contributed more toward the meme stock.' GameStop seemed so utterly doomed that the current situation was actually sort of funny to the subreddit's denizens. Banded together, WallStreetBets members bought in big enough to move the stock.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a hedge fund called Melvin Capital closed out its short position in GameStop after taking \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/hedge-fund-targeted-by-reddit-board-melvin-capital-closed-out-of-gamestop-short-position-tuesday.html\">a big loss\u003c/a>, CNBC reported. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/28/961619848/so-what-is-short-selling-an-explainer\">Short sellers\u003c/a> profit when a stock goes down. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4o40Zv2rzc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another short seller, Andrew Left of Citron Research, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS4yPsmaDDQ\">in a video\u003c/a> on Wednesday that he had covered most of his short position in GameStop at a loss. Last week, Left had predicted the stock would drop to $20 a share, from $40 at the time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had no idea what that would set off,\" Left said. \"This has captured the attention of ... America and every trader and non-trader alike.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melvin Capital and Citron were caught in what's known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961291455/gamestop-and-the-short-squeeze\">a short squeeze\u003c/a>, forcing the funds to buy more GameStop stock to cover their losses, which ended up driving the stock price even higher. This has happened before, most famously with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/16/796328145/electric-burn-those-who-bet-against-elon-musk-and-tesla-are-paying-a-big-price\">Tesla stock\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GameStop rally came after investors saw glimmers of hope for the company this month when the chain changed the makeup of its board of directors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 11, GameStop announced that its sales overall fell 3.1% during the holidays, due in part to the \"significant impacts\" of the pandemic, but its e-commerce sales soared \u003ca href=\"https://news.gamestop.com/news-releases/news-release-details/gamestop-reports-2020-holiday-sales-results\">more than 300%\u003c/a>. It said those online sales represented about a third of the company's total sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also said it had entered an agreement with RC Ventures, one of its largest stockholders, to add \u003ca href=\"https://news.gamestop.com/news-releases/news-release-details/gamestop-announces-additional-board-refreshment-accelerate\">three members\u003c/a> to GameStop's board of directors. The new members include Ryan Cohen, a founder of Chewy, an online pet products company worth $42 billion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then on Jan. 13, two days after the announcement about Cohen joining the board, GameStop stock jumped 57% — from $19.95 per share to $31.40. The stock got its big kick when Reddit's r/wallstreetbets community — now with more than 4 million members — fawned over a Nov. 16 \u003ca href=\"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326380/000101359420000821/rc13da3-111620.pdf\">letter from Cohen\u003c/a> to the GameStop board he would later join. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GameStop continued to soar as the Reddit investors stayed bullish on their favorite stock. By Jan. 22, it closed at $65. On Monday, it finished at nearly $77. On Tuesday, it nearly doubled to close at around $148. And Wednesday, it more than doubled, ending at $347.51.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/planetmoney/status/1354918048721903616?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those Reddit members, it's not just about making money. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's also kind of a populist thing happening here with a lot of these traders, judging by the Reddit threads. You know, they just want to poke a middle finger at Wall Street,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961291455/gamestop-and-the-short-squeeze\">says Paddy Hirsch\u003c/a> of NPR's \u003cem>The Indicator From Planet Money\u003c/em> podcast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GameStop's stock symbol is GME. On Reddit, one member of wallstreetbets, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6s5er/gme_is_about_more_than_just_money_gme_is_about/\">wrote\u003c/a> early Thursday: \"GME is about sending a message. ... For all the recessions they caused. For all the jobs and homes people have lost. For all the people that can't pay for college because minimum wage has stagnated while wall street gets rich. For all the retail traders they left holding the bag. For all the times they got bailed out with our tax money while we got nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another member suggested that the Reddit traders were part of a resistance movement of sorts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6u96y/gme_price_has_nothing_to_do_with_fundamentals_and/\">writing\u003c/a>, \"[T]his is not a war on billionaires, the wealthy yada yada, but it may well be described as a resistance against injustice, inequality, rigged rules, uneven playing field etc which has been rampant on Wall Street forever.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wallstreetbets member, who vowed not to sell GameStop, wrote late Wednesday: \"I am proud to be a part of this piece of history with you. ... Call it an opportunity, call it revenge, or justice, I know we are on the right side of this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., a member of the House Financial Services Committee, weighed in on the GameStop phenomenon. \"Gotta admit it's really something to see Wall Streeters with a long history of treating our economy as a casino complain about a message board of posters also treating the market as a casino,\" the lawmaker \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1354536220110577664?s=20\">tweeted\u003c/a> Thursday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1354536220110577664?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it hasn't stopped with GameStop. Other companies that are suffering heavily during the pandemic are seeing their shares soar as people on Reddit's wallstreetbets talk them up. The companies include \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/27/22251964/amc-stock-price-reddit-wallstreetbets-trading-gamestop\">AMC Entertainment\u003c/a>, the beleaguered theater chain, which shot up more than 300% on Wednesday (before dropping 56% Thursday), and \u003ca href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/american-air-surges-most-two-192239009.html\">American Airlines\u003c/a>, which soared more than 30% Thursday morning (it closed up 9%). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinhood, a popular trading platform for young traders based in Menlo Park, announced Thursday that \"in light of recent volatility\" it was \u003ca href=\"https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/keeping-customers-informed-through-market-volatility\">restricting transactions\u003c/a> for certain securities, including GameStop and AMC, and raising margin requirements. It later said it planned to allow \"\u003ca href=\"https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/an-update-on-market-volatility\">limited buys\u003c/a>\" of these securities, starting Friday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"South Bay Rep. Ro Khanna\"]'[The GameStop saga] has demonstrated the power of technology to democratize access to American financial institutions, ultimately giving far more people a say in our economic structures.'[/pullquote]Robinhood’s stated goal is to “democratize” investing and to bring more regular people into investing. The company has forced huge, ground-shaking changes for the brokerage industry, such as its decision to charge zero commissions for customers trading stocks and exchange-traded funds. That's why some users took Thursday's actions as an affront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one lawsuit was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in New York claiming Robinhood manipulated the market by restricting investors' access to trading GameStop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinhood investor Carlos Amaya said the app’s action Thursday was a disappointment to users like him who prided themselves on being a “different breed of investors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 28-year-old school operations manager in Washington, D.C., said his parents immigrated from El Salvador and he was the first person in his family to buy stocks when he started using the app in 2017. He’s since made several thousand dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We pride ourselves in the name Robinhood because we’re trying to make more money and be the next people at the top,” he said. “You would expect Robinhood to let us do our thing instead of blocking us and saying it’s for our protection.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1354835649250078722?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Bay Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the GameStop episode “has demonstrated the power of technology to democratize access to American financial institutions, ultimately giving far more people a say in our economic structures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Thursday, Khanna called for “more regulation and equality in the markets,\" and accused Wall Street of spending billions to “crush” GameStop and “put workers out of business” instead of investing in future technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mania has gone global, \"whipsawing stocks from Amsterdam to Sydney,\" Bloomberg \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-28/gamestop-mania-prompts-surge-in-australia-s-most-shorted-stocks\">reported\u003c/a>. \"In Europe, short-seller favorites including Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield jumped 20% or more. E-commerce giant Rakuten Inc. and baby-care goods maker Pigeon Corp. climbed at least 6.9% in Tokyo on Thursday.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the stock market near all-time highs, there had already been worries that a bubble was coming. \"The danger, as the dot-com bubble showed, is that Mr. Market can rationalize just about anything and build it into a narrative,\" \u003cem>The Wall Street Journal\u003c/em>'s Jon Sindreu \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jonsindreu/status/1354441066511015938?s=20\">wrote\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The frenzy over GameStop has gotten the attention of other lawmakers and regulators. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, the incoming chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said Thursday that he planned to call \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenSherrodBrown/status/1354881250922819585?s=20\">a hearing\u003c/a> on the \"current state of the stock market.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Wednesday called on market regulators to clamp down. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For years, the same hedge funds, private equity firms, and wealthy investors dismayed by the GameStop trades have treated the stock market like their own personal casino while everyone else pays the price,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-warren-releases-statement-on-gamestop-trades\">she said\u003c/a> in a statement. \"It's long past time for the SEC and other financial regulators to wake up and do their jobs — and with a new administration and Democrats running Congress, I intend to make sure they do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin, the state's top securities regulator, also sounded a warning about the situation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The marketplace should be a place where risk is taken, but not reckless risk and not a situation that undermines the system, and that's what we're looking at here,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/gamestop-speculation-is-danger-to-whole-market-massachusetts-regulator.html\">Galvin said\u003c/a> on CNBC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, late Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission said \u003ca href=\"https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/joint-statement-ongoing-market-volatility-2021-01-27\">in a statement\u003c/a> that it was \"aware of and actively monitoring the on-going market volatility\" and that the agency was working with other regulators to \"assess the situation and review the activities of regulated entities, financial intermediaries, and other market participants.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting by The Associated Press's Alex Veiga.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=GameStop+Stock+Mania%3A+Why+Everyone+Is+Talking+About+It+And+Many+Are+Worried&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"GameStop has seen its stock soar, driven higher by a group of amateur day traders who are taking on Wall Street hedge funds. 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It's a mall staple, but shopping centers have been struggling for years, and the coronavirus pandemic has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/23/894598832/another-bankruptcy-at-the-mall-parent-company-of-ann-taylor-loft-is-latest-to-fa\">devastating for retailers\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then a most unexpected and weird thing happened. GameStop's stock has soared to unbelievable heights lately. Topping $400 per share earlier Thursday, it was up more than 2,000% so far in this young year, including a 134% jump on Wednesday alone. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it continues to be a bumpy ride for investors. By late Thursday morning, GameStop shares had fallen 63% to $126 after some brokers imposed trading limits on the stock. The stock later recovered but closed at $193.60 — a 44% loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'For years, the same hedge funds, private equity firms, and wealthy investors dismayed by the GameStop trades have treated the stock market like their own personal casino while everyone else pays the price.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Sen. Elizabeth Warren","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Most of GameStop stock gyrations have to do with a tug of war between \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/28/961470054/hottest-stock-on-wall-street-struggling-video-game-store-gamestop\">amateur day traders on Reddit\u003c/a>, one of the world's largest online communities — who are betting on the stock to keep rising — and the professional managers of Wall Street hedge funds, who have bet that GameStop's stock will crater. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's easy to see the downside for GameStop, a company that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-12-08-gamestop-has-closed-462-stores-so-far-this-year-783-since-last-year\">closed 783 stores\u003c/a> in two years and faces stiff headwinds. More and more game and console sales are happening online and through its competitors — Walmart, Target, Best Buy and Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how has GameStop suddenly become the darling investment of online traders from Reddit's wallstreetbets forum?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Wired \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/gamestop-stock-wall-street-bets-short-squeeze/\">reported\u003c/a>: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\" 'It was a meme stock that really blew up,' said WallStreetBets moderator Bawse1. 'The massive short contributed more toward the meme stock.' GameStop seemed so utterly doomed that the current situation was actually sort of funny to the subreddit's denizens. Banded together, WallStreetBets members bought in big enough to move the stock.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a hedge fund called Melvin Capital closed out its short position in GameStop after taking \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/hedge-fund-targeted-by-reddit-board-melvin-capital-closed-out-of-gamestop-short-position-tuesday.html\">a big loss\u003c/a>, CNBC reported. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/28/961619848/so-what-is-short-selling-an-explainer\">Short sellers\u003c/a> profit when a stock goes down. \u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/n4o40Zv2rzc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/n4o40Zv2rzc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Another short seller, Andrew Left of Citron Research, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS4yPsmaDDQ\">in a video\u003c/a> on Wednesday that he had covered most of his short position in GameStop at a loss. Last week, Left had predicted the stock would drop to $20 a share, from $40 at the time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had no idea what that would set off,\" Left said. \"This has captured the attention of ... America and every trader and non-trader alike.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melvin Capital and Citron were caught in what's known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961291455/gamestop-and-the-short-squeeze\">a short squeeze\u003c/a>, forcing the funds to buy more GameStop stock to cover their losses, which ended up driving the stock price even higher. This has happened before, most famously with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/16/796328145/electric-burn-those-who-bet-against-elon-musk-and-tesla-are-paying-a-big-price\">Tesla stock\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GameStop rally came after investors saw glimmers of hope for the company this month when the chain changed the makeup of its board of directors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 11, GameStop announced that its sales overall fell 3.1% during the holidays, due in part to the \"significant impacts\" of the pandemic, but its e-commerce sales soared \u003ca href=\"https://news.gamestop.com/news-releases/news-release-details/gamestop-reports-2020-holiday-sales-results\">more than 300%\u003c/a>. It said those online sales represented about a third of the company's total sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also said it had entered an agreement with RC Ventures, one of its largest stockholders, to add \u003ca href=\"https://news.gamestop.com/news-releases/news-release-details/gamestop-announces-additional-board-refreshment-accelerate\">three members\u003c/a> to GameStop's board of directors. The new members include Ryan Cohen, a founder of Chewy, an online pet products company worth $42 billion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then on Jan. 13, two days after the announcement about Cohen joining the board, GameStop stock jumped 57% — from $19.95 per share to $31.40. The stock got its big kick when Reddit's r/wallstreetbets community — now with more than 4 million members — fawned over a Nov. 16 \u003ca href=\"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326380/000101359420000821/rc13da3-111620.pdf\">letter from Cohen\u003c/a> to the GameStop board he would later join. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GameStop continued to soar as the Reddit investors stayed bullish on their favorite stock. By Jan. 22, it closed at $65. On Monday, it finished at nearly $77. On Tuesday, it nearly doubled to close at around $148. And Wednesday, it more than doubled, ending at $347.51.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1354918048721903616"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>For those Reddit members, it's not just about making money. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's also kind of a populist thing happening here with a lot of these traders, judging by the Reddit threads. You know, they just want to poke a middle finger at Wall Street,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961291455/gamestop-and-the-short-squeeze\">says Paddy Hirsch\u003c/a> of NPR's \u003cem>The Indicator From Planet Money\u003c/em> podcast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GameStop's stock symbol is GME. On Reddit, one member of wallstreetbets, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6s5er/gme_is_about_more_than_just_money_gme_is_about/\">wrote\u003c/a> early Thursday: \"GME is about sending a message. ... For all the recessions they caused. For all the jobs and homes people have lost. For all the people that can't pay for college because minimum wage has stagnated while wall street gets rich. For all the retail traders they left holding the bag. For all the times they got bailed out with our tax money while we got nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another member suggested that the Reddit traders were part of a resistance movement of sorts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6u96y/gme_price_has_nothing_to_do_with_fundamentals_and/\">writing\u003c/a>, \"[T]his is not a war on billionaires, the wealthy yada yada, but it may well be described as a resistance against injustice, inequality, rigged rules, uneven playing field etc which has been rampant on Wall Street forever.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wallstreetbets member, who vowed not to sell GameStop, wrote late Wednesday: \"I am proud to be a part of this piece of history with you. ... Call it an opportunity, call it revenge, or justice, I know we are on the right side of this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., a member of the House Financial Services Committee, weighed in on the GameStop phenomenon. \"Gotta admit it's really something to see Wall Streeters with a long history of treating our economy as a casino complain about a message board of posters also treating the market as a casino,\" the lawmaker \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1354536220110577664?s=20\">tweeted\u003c/a> Thursday. \u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1354536220110577664"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>And it hasn't stopped with GameStop. Other companies that are suffering heavily during the pandemic are seeing their shares soar as people on Reddit's wallstreetbets talk them up. The companies include \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/27/22251964/amc-stock-price-reddit-wallstreetbets-trading-gamestop\">AMC Entertainment\u003c/a>, the beleaguered theater chain, which shot up more than 300% on Wednesday (before dropping 56% Thursday), and \u003ca href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/american-air-surges-most-two-192239009.html\">American Airlines\u003c/a>, which soared more than 30% Thursday morning (it closed up 9%). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinhood, a popular trading platform for young traders based in Menlo Park, announced Thursday that \"in light of recent volatility\" it was \u003ca href=\"https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/keeping-customers-informed-through-market-volatility\">restricting transactions\u003c/a> for certain securities, including GameStop and AMC, and raising margin requirements. It later said it planned to allow \"\u003ca href=\"https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/an-update-on-market-volatility\">limited buys\u003c/a>\" of these securities, starting Friday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'[The GameStop saga] has demonstrated the power of technology to democratize access to American financial institutions, ultimately giving far more people a say in our economic structures.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"South Bay Rep. Ro Khanna","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Robinhood’s stated goal is to “democratize” investing and to bring more regular people into investing. The company has forced huge, ground-shaking changes for the brokerage industry, such as its decision to charge zero commissions for customers trading stocks and exchange-traded funds. That's why some users took Thursday's actions as an affront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one lawsuit was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in New York claiming Robinhood manipulated the market by restricting investors' access to trading GameStop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinhood investor Carlos Amaya said the app’s action Thursday was a disappointment to users like him who prided themselves on being a “different breed of investors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 28-year-old school operations manager in Washington, D.C., said his parents immigrated from El Salvador and he was the first person in his family to buy stocks when he started using the app in 2017. He’s since made several thousand dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We pride ourselves in the name Robinhood because we’re trying to make more money and be the next people at the top,” he said. “You would expect Robinhood to let us do our thing instead of blocking us and saying it’s for our protection.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1354835649250078722"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>South Bay Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the GameStop episode “has demonstrated the power of technology to democratize access to American financial institutions, ultimately giving far more people a say in our economic structures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Thursday, Khanna called for “more regulation and equality in the markets,\" and accused Wall Street of spending billions to “crush” GameStop and “put workers out of business” instead of investing in future technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mania has gone global, \"whipsawing stocks from Amsterdam to Sydney,\" Bloomberg \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-28/gamestop-mania-prompts-surge-in-australia-s-most-shorted-stocks\">reported\u003c/a>. \"In Europe, short-seller favorites including Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield jumped 20% or more. E-commerce giant Rakuten Inc. and baby-care goods maker Pigeon Corp. climbed at least 6.9% in Tokyo on Thursday.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the stock market near all-time highs, there had already been worries that a bubble was coming. \"The danger, as the dot-com bubble showed, is that Mr. Market can rationalize just about anything and build it into a narrative,\" \u003cem>The Wall Street Journal\u003c/em>'s Jon Sindreu \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jonsindreu/status/1354441066511015938?s=20\">wrote\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The frenzy over GameStop has gotten the attention of other lawmakers and regulators. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, the incoming chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said Thursday that he planned to call \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenSherrodBrown/status/1354881250922819585?s=20\">a hearing\u003c/a> on the \"current state of the stock market.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Wednesday called on market regulators to clamp down. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For years, the same hedge funds, private equity firms, and wealthy investors dismayed by the GameStop trades have treated the stock market like their own personal casino while everyone else pays the price,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-warren-releases-statement-on-gamestop-trades\">she said\u003c/a> in a statement. \"It's long past time for the SEC and other financial regulators to wake up and do their jobs — and with a new administration and Democrats running Congress, I intend to make sure they do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin, the state's top securities regulator, also sounded a warning about the situation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The marketplace should be a place where risk is taken, but not reckless risk and not a situation that undermines the system, and that's what we're looking at here,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/gamestop-speculation-is-danger-to-whole-market-massachusetts-regulator.html\">Galvin said\u003c/a> on CNBC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, late Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission said \u003ca href=\"https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/joint-statement-ongoing-market-volatility-2021-01-27\">in a statement\u003c/a> that it was \"aware of and actively monitoring the on-going market volatility\" and that the agency was working with other regulators to \"assess the situation and review the activities of regulated entities, financial intermediaries, and other market participants.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting by The Associated Press's Alex Veiga.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=GameStop+Stock+Mania%3A+Why+Everyone+Is+Talking+About+It+And+Many+Are+Worried&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11857573/the-gamestop-saga-explained-how-reddit-investors-tripped-up-wall-street","authors":["byline_news_11857573"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8"],"tags":["news_18545","news_29095","news_29096","news_480","news_1762","news_2376"],"featImg":"news_11857574","label":"source_news_11857573"},"news_11769206":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11769206","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11769206","score":null,"sort":[1566518057000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"former-menlo-park-photographer-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-children","title":"Former Menlo Park Photographer Charged With Sexually Assaulting Children","publishDate":1566518057,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Former Menlo Park Photographer Charged With Sexually Assaulting Children | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Friday, Aug. 23, 12:00 p.m.: This story has been updated to add more background on Haldeman.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Silicon Valley executive and former youth swim team photographer arrested in July on suspicion of molesting boys has been charged with sexual assault after San Mateo County authorities say six more alleged victims came forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randolph Haldeman, 59, was arrested Wednesday at his home in unincorporated Menlo Park. He is \u003ca href=\"https://smc-inmatelocator.org/inmates/info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">facing 20 counts\u003c/a> of various sexual assault charges, including forcible lewd act upon a child and sodomy by anesthesia, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Haldeman’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcsheriff.com/sites/default/files/articles/19-0894.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">initial arrest\u003c/a> on July 25, six more victims came forward alleging he sexually assaulted them. Altogether, nine victims — eight males and one female, allege Haldeman assaulted them, said Detective Rosemerry Blankswade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assaults happened between 1987 and 2015, with the victims ranging in age from 6 to 16, Blankswade said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, a mandated reporter provided the sheriff’s office with information about one of the sexual assaults and they investigated, Blankswade said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s office said some of the victims alleged Haldeman assaulted them at his home or the Ladera Recreation District in Portola Valley, where he helped out as a photographer (it wasn’t clear if he worked there or volunteered, Blankswade said). The center didn’t respond to messages seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haldeman was being held on $5 million bail at the Maguire Correctional Facility in downtown Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s office was asking for parents whose kids had contact with Haldeman to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SMCSheriff/status/1164335265332117504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do still believe that there are potentially more victims out there,” Blankswade said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haldeman, CEO of Menlo Park-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.code-n.com/about-us/executives-advisors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Code-N Technology, Inc\u003c/a>, described himself on his \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/innovationexec/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn profile\u003c/a> as: “Strategic game-changer that knows how to build partnerships, deliver innovation, grow teams, craft products, generate buzz & maximize revenue. Innovation Czar. Growth Hacker. Exec Leader.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haldeman also noted that he “convinced a recalcitrant senior management team to create a ‘store”‘ for video apps to bolster their position in the Interactive TV market. Created an early ecosystem for this nascent market — Apple’s first “app store.” He said he has been a strategy and innovation mentor at Stanford University since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Randolph Haldeman, 59, is facing 20 counts of various sexual assault charges, authorities say.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1690402970,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":396},"headData":{"title":"Former Menlo Park Photographer Charged With Sexually Assaulting Children | KQED","description":"Randolph Haldeman, 59, is facing 20 counts of various sexual assault charges, authorities say.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"path":"/news/11769206/former-menlo-park-photographer-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-children","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Friday, Aug. 23, 12:00 p.m.: This story has been updated to add more background on Haldeman.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Silicon Valley executive and former youth swim team photographer arrested in July on suspicion of molesting boys has been charged with sexual assault after San Mateo County authorities say six more alleged victims came forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randolph Haldeman, 59, was arrested Wednesday at his home in unincorporated Menlo Park. He is \u003ca href=\"https://smc-inmatelocator.org/inmates/info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">facing 20 counts\u003c/a> of various sexual assault charges, including forcible lewd act upon a child and sodomy by anesthesia, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Haldeman’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcsheriff.com/sites/default/files/articles/19-0894.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">initial arrest\u003c/a> on July 25, six more victims came forward alleging he sexually assaulted them. Altogether, nine victims — eight males and one female, allege Haldeman assaulted them, said Detective Rosemerry Blankswade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assaults happened between 1987 and 2015, with the victims ranging in age from 6 to 16, Blankswade said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, a mandated reporter provided the sheriff’s office with information about one of the sexual assaults and they investigated, Blankswade said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s office said some of the victims alleged Haldeman assaulted them at his home or the Ladera Recreation District in Portola Valley, where he helped out as a photographer (it wasn’t clear if he worked there or volunteered, Blankswade said). The center didn’t respond to messages seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haldeman was being held on $5 million bail at the Maguire Correctional Facility in downtown Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s office was asking for parents whose kids had contact with Haldeman to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SMCSheriff/status/1164335265332117504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do still believe that there are potentially more victims out there,” Blankswade said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haldeman, CEO of Menlo Park-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.code-n.com/about-us/executives-advisors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Code-N Technology, Inc\u003c/a>, described himself on his \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/innovationexec/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn profile\u003c/a> as: “Strategic game-changer that knows how to build partnerships, deliver innovation, grow teams, craft products, generate buzz & maximize revenue. Innovation Czar. Growth Hacker. Exec Leader.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haldeman also noted that he “convinced a recalcitrant senior management team to create a ‘store”‘ for video apps to bolster their position in the Interactive TV market. Created an early ecosystem for this nascent market — Apple’s first “app store.” He said he has been a strategy and innovation mentor at Stanford University since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11769206/former-menlo-park-photographer-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-children","authors":["237"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_25767","news_5568","news_480","news_1527"],"featImg":"news_11769332","label":"news"},"news_11766803":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11766803","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11766803","score":null,"sort":[1565462216000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"historic-portola-valley-watering-hole-reopens-refurbished-to-survive-next-167-years","title":"Historic Portola Valley Watering Hole Reopens, Refurbished to Survive Next 167 Years","publishDate":1565462216,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>One of the oldest continually operating roadhouses in California reopened Friday under new management. \u003ca href=\"https://www.alpineinnpv.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rossotti's Alpine Inn\u003c/a>, or \"Zot’s,\" as it's called today, faces the 21st century with a fresh coat of paint, new guts and an open view of Los Trancos Creek in the back garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Hunter, leading the latest group of investors to own this joint, has lived in the neighborhood for 26 years. There's no denying Portola Valley is today one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2018/07/31/housing-1998-2018-most-expensive-zip-codes/#6bb0725a1aea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wealthiest \u003c/a>zip codes in the United States, but locals have historically patronized the Alpine Inn because of its appealing modesty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter insists she has no intention of ruining this establishment’s fine reputation by appealing to hipsters. She says she wants Alpine Inn to continue to be what it has been for her. “Just a casual place that you can sit around and talk as long as you want, and not be dressed up!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the new owners did have to bring the kitchen and other things up to code. “We ended up having to redo all the appliances, everything about where the food’s prepared and where the beer lives. What you do see is very similar. What you don’t see is very different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helping her with the retrofit is Greg St. Claire, who runs the San Carlos-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.avenir-rg.com/ARG/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Avenir Restaurant Group\u003c/a>, which owns three Peninsula restaurants: Town in San Carlos, Milagros in Redwood City, and Nola in Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11766808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11766808\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A fence and moldy shack behind the Alpine Inn were cleared to make way for a bucolic view of Los Trancos Creek. The new outdoor dining area, expands the restaurant's capacity to 300 people. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fence and moldy shack behind the Alpine Inn were cleared to make way for a bucolic view of Los Trancos Creek. The new outdoor dining area, expands the restaurant's capacity to 300 people. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>St. Claire grew up in Portola Valley. “I’ve done a lot of restaurants before, but there is definitely something magical about this place. It’s generations and generations of people who’ve been coming here,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter added, “My dad came here. Greg’s dad came here. We have people who brought pictures from their dad’s dad in 1917 that are up on the wall now. It just feels really good to keep it going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they kept the drunken wood carvings and photos from previous owners, as well as photos from neighborhood regulars who’ve been stopping in during the remodel to make sure it doesn’t mess with the spirit of the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A little history with your beer and burger\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Casa De Tableta, as it was first known, has drawn people looking for cheap booze and warm conversation since 1852, when Mexican Californios flocked here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as we know, it started with a gift or a wager,” says Portola Valley historian Nancy Lund. “Somehow (former San Jose Mayor) Felix Buelna got the land, and built the roadhouse, and kept it for awhile.” Buelna picked a good spot, at the intersection of the old Arrastradero leading to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11621122/el-camino-not-so-real-the-true-story-of-the-ancient-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mission Santa Clara\u003c/a> and the Old Spanish Trail (Alpine Road).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11766809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1652px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11766809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38478_CAS-006c1p_TIF_MSTR-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The earliest known photo of Casa de Tableta, c. 1880 - 1890s. By 1868, Felix Buelna had sold the property to William Stanton. Buelna’s grandson believes that his grandfather lost all of his property in a rigged poker game at the Searsville Saloon. Pictured here is barkeeper Rodriguez “Jo” Crovello with Stanton in front of the inn, then called “Black Chapete’s.”\" width=\"1652\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38478_CAS-006c1p_TIF_MSTR-qut.jpg 1652w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38478_CAS-006c1p_TIF_MSTR-qut-160x198.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38478_CAS-006c1p_TIF_MSTR-qut-800x992.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38478_CAS-006c1p_TIF_MSTR-qut-1020x1264.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38478_CAS-006c1p_TIF_MSTR-qut-968x1200.jpg 968w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38478_CAS-006c1p_TIF_MSTR-qut-1920x2380.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1652px) 100vw, 1652px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The earliest known photo of Casa de Tableta, c. 1880 - 1890s. By 1868, Felix Buelna had sold the property to William Stanton. Buelna’s grandson believes that his grandfather lost all of his property in a rigged poker game at the Searsville Saloon. Pictured here is barkeeper Rodriguez “Jo” Crovello with Stanton in front of the inn, then called “Black Chapete’s.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Portola Valley Historic Resources Committee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the years passed, this spot proved advantageous in ways Buelna could never have foreseen. Stanford opened in 1891, and with it, efforts by the administration to shut down purveyors of alcohol in the near vicinity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735298/how-stanfords-desire-for-a-booze-free-town-gave-birth-to-palo-alto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayfield\u003c/a>’s 23 saloons closed in 1905, and in 1909, a new law barred liquor sales within one and a half miles of the campus, closing 14 more saloons in Menlo Park. The Wunder, as the roadhouse was called by then, sat outside the law's jurisdiction, much to the dismay of David Starr Jordan, the university’s first president, who described The Wunder as “unusually vile, even for a roadhouse … and a disgrace to San Mateo County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, the young students at Stanford loved the joint. Later, the young soldiers did, too, especially given a five mile dry zone imposed around Menlo Park’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705654/wwi-and-the-peninsulas-forgotten-contribution-to-the-war-effort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camp Fremont\u003c/a> during World War I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As local real estate agent Virginia Bacon Wrote for \u003ca href=\"http://www.pv.beaucamera.com/alpine-inn-zots-rossottis-casa-de-tableta/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Portola Valley, Past and Present\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, stories of the bar's role in bootleg operations during Prohibition “are as varied as they are impossible to confirm.” However, today's owners can confirm there was a basement under the tavern, accessed by a hatch, where period “product” was stored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were also apparently rooms for rent by the hour at some point in the past. “Somebody told us that was the story,” Hunter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11766814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11766814\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38483_Rossottis-Beer-Garden-qut.jpg\" alt=\"When Prohibition ended in 1933, Enrico Rossotti got the lease, then purchased the property and ran what was then called E. Rossotti's Beer Garden until 1956. With the addition of burgers and similar grill food, it became a local hotspot for Stanford fans year-round, but especially during football season.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1395\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38483_Rossottis-Beer-Garden-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38483_Rossottis-Beer-Garden-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38483_Rossottis-Beer-Garden-qut-800x581.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38483_Rossottis-Beer-Garden-qut-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38483_Rossottis-Beer-Garden-qut-1200x872.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When Prohibition ended in 1933, Enrico Rossotti got the lease, then purchased the property and ran what was then called E. Rossotti's Beer Garden until 1956. With the addition of burgers and similar grill food, it became a local hotspot for Stanford fans year-round, but especially during football season. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Courtesy of Rossotti's Alpine Inn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over 167 years, there have been many names for the little building: Casa De Tableta, Fernando’s, Philpot’s, Stanton’s Saloon, Black Chapete’s, The Wunder, and Schenkel’s Picnic Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter Enrico Rossotti, who took over the lease and then purchased the property in 1940. Although he only owned his beer garden for eight years, the old place is still known by his name, or “Zot’s.” The owners who took it over from Rossotti in 1959 gave the place its current name, Alpine Inn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it was the rude little building that became a local institution, a \u003ca href=\"https://noehill.com/sanmateo/cal0825.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Registered Landmark\u003c/a> also on the \u003ca href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/73000447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Register of Historic Places\u003c/a>. Once a watering hole for thirsty horsemen passing through, the roadhouse has survived by welcoming changing demographics over multiple generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it’s everybody now,” said Lund. “Motorcyclists, kids, equestrians, soccer teams after games, everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"It took the new owners of the Alpine Inn in Portola Valley six months to clean up, retrofit and reopen the historic beer garden.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1565672574,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1061},"headData":{"title":"Historic Portola Valley Watering Hole Reopens, Refurbished to Survive Next 167 Years | KQED","description":"It took the new owners of the Alpine Inn in Portola Valley six months to clean up, retrofit and reopen the historic beer garden.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11766803 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11766803","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/08/10/historic-portola-valley-watering-hole-reopens-refurbished-to-survive-next-167-years/","disqusTitle":"Historic Portola Valley Watering Hole Reopens, Refurbished to Survive Next 167 Years","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/08/MyrowAlpineInn.mp3","audioTrackLength":110,"path":"/news/11766803/historic-portola-valley-watering-hole-reopens-refurbished-to-survive-next-167-years","audioDuration":93000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One of the oldest continually operating roadhouses in California reopened Friday under new management. \u003ca href=\"https://www.alpineinnpv.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rossotti's Alpine Inn\u003c/a>, or \"Zot’s,\" as it's called today, faces the 21st century with a fresh coat of paint, new guts and an open view of Los Trancos Creek in the back garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Hunter, leading the latest group of investors to own this joint, has lived in the neighborhood for 26 years. There's no denying Portola Valley is today one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2018/07/31/housing-1998-2018-most-expensive-zip-codes/#6bb0725a1aea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wealthiest \u003c/a>zip codes in the United States, but locals have historically patronized the Alpine Inn because of its appealing modesty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter insists she has no intention of ruining this establishment’s fine reputation by appealing to hipsters. She says she wants Alpine Inn to continue to be what it has been for her. “Just a casual place that you can sit around and talk as long as you want, and not be dressed up!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the new owners did have to bring the kitchen and other things up to code. “We ended up having to redo all the appliances, everything about where the food’s prepared and where the beer lives. What you do see is very similar. What you don’t see is very different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helping her with the retrofit is Greg St. Claire, who runs the San Carlos-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.avenir-rg.com/ARG/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Avenir Restaurant Group\u003c/a>, which owns three Peninsula restaurants: Town in San Carlos, Milagros in Redwood City, and Nola in Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11766808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11766808\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A fence and moldy shack behind the Alpine Inn were cleared to make way for a bucolic view of Los Trancos Creek. The new outdoor dining area, expands the restaurant's capacity to 300 people. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38481_Photo-Aug-08-11-00-47-AM-3-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fence and moldy shack behind the Alpine Inn were cleared to make way for a bucolic view of Los Trancos Creek. The new outdoor dining area, expands the restaurant's capacity to 300 people. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>St. Claire grew up in Portola Valley. “I’ve done a lot of restaurants before, but there is definitely something magical about this place. It’s generations and generations of people who’ve been coming here,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter added, “My dad came here. Greg’s dad came here. We have people who brought pictures from their dad’s dad in 1917 that are up on the wall now. It just feels really good to keep it going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they kept the drunken wood carvings and photos from previous owners, as well as photos from neighborhood regulars who’ve been stopping in during the remodel to make sure it doesn’t mess with the spirit of the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A little history with your beer and burger\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Casa De Tableta, as it was first known, has drawn people looking for cheap booze and warm conversation since 1852, when Mexican Californios flocked here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as we know, it started with a gift or a wager,” says Portola Valley historian Nancy Lund. “Somehow (former San Jose Mayor) Felix Buelna got the land, and built the roadhouse, and kept it for awhile.” Buelna picked a good spot, at the intersection of the old Arrastradero leading to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11621122/el-camino-not-so-real-the-true-story-of-the-ancient-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mission Santa Clara\u003c/a> and the Old Spanish Trail (Alpine Road).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11766809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1652px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11766809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38478_CAS-006c1p_TIF_MSTR-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The earliest known photo of Casa de Tableta, c. 1880 - 1890s. By 1868, Felix Buelna had sold the property to William Stanton. Buelna’s grandson believes that his grandfather lost all of his property in a rigged poker game at the Searsville Saloon. Pictured here is barkeeper Rodriguez “Jo” Crovello with Stanton in front of the inn, then called “Black Chapete’s.”\" width=\"1652\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38478_CAS-006c1p_TIF_MSTR-qut.jpg 1652w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38478_CAS-006c1p_TIF_MSTR-qut-160x198.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38478_CAS-006c1p_TIF_MSTR-qut-800x992.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38478_CAS-006c1p_TIF_MSTR-qut-1020x1264.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38478_CAS-006c1p_TIF_MSTR-qut-968x1200.jpg 968w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38478_CAS-006c1p_TIF_MSTR-qut-1920x2380.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1652px) 100vw, 1652px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The earliest known photo of Casa de Tableta, c. 1880 - 1890s. By 1868, Felix Buelna had sold the property to William Stanton. Buelna’s grandson believes that his grandfather lost all of his property in a rigged poker game at the Searsville Saloon. Pictured here is barkeeper Rodriguez “Jo” Crovello with Stanton in front of the inn, then called “Black Chapete’s.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Portola Valley Historic Resources Committee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the years passed, this spot proved advantageous in ways Buelna could never have foreseen. Stanford opened in 1891, and with it, efforts by the administration to shut down purveyors of alcohol in the near vicinity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735298/how-stanfords-desire-for-a-booze-free-town-gave-birth-to-palo-alto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayfield\u003c/a>’s 23 saloons closed in 1905, and in 1909, a new law barred liquor sales within one and a half miles of the campus, closing 14 more saloons in Menlo Park. The Wunder, as the roadhouse was called by then, sat outside the law's jurisdiction, much to the dismay of David Starr Jordan, the university’s first president, who described The Wunder as “unusually vile, even for a roadhouse … and a disgrace to San Mateo County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, the young students at Stanford loved the joint. Later, the young soldiers did, too, especially given a five mile dry zone imposed around Menlo Park’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705654/wwi-and-the-peninsulas-forgotten-contribution-to-the-war-effort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camp Fremont\u003c/a> during World War I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As local real estate agent Virginia Bacon Wrote for \u003ca href=\"http://www.pv.beaucamera.com/alpine-inn-zots-rossottis-casa-de-tableta/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Portola Valley, Past and Present\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, stories of the bar's role in bootleg operations during Prohibition “are as varied as they are impossible to confirm.” However, today's owners can confirm there was a basement under the tavern, accessed by a hatch, where period “product” was stored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were also apparently rooms for rent by the hour at some point in the past. “Somebody told us that was the story,” Hunter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11766814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11766814\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38483_Rossottis-Beer-Garden-qut.jpg\" alt=\"When Prohibition ended in 1933, Enrico Rossotti got the lease, then purchased the property and ran what was then called E. Rossotti's Beer Garden until 1956. With the addition of burgers and similar grill food, it became a local hotspot for Stanford fans year-round, but especially during football season.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1395\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38483_Rossottis-Beer-Garden-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38483_Rossottis-Beer-Garden-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38483_Rossottis-Beer-Garden-qut-800x581.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38483_Rossottis-Beer-Garden-qut-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38483_Rossottis-Beer-Garden-qut-1200x872.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When Prohibition ended in 1933, Enrico Rossotti got the lease, then purchased the property and ran what was then called E. Rossotti's Beer Garden until 1956. With the addition of burgers and similar grill food, it became a local hotspot for Stanford fans year-round, but especially during football season. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Courtesy of Rossotti's Alpine Inn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over 167 years, there have been many names for the little building: Casa De Tableta, Fernando’s, Philpot’s, Stanton’s Saloon, Black Chapete’s, The Wunder, and Schenkel’s Picnic Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter Enrico Rossotti, who took over the lease and then purchased the property in 1940. Although he only owned his beer garden for eight years, the old place is still known by his name, or “Zot’s.” The owners who took it over from Rossotti in 1959 gave the place its current name, Alpine Inn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it was the rude little building that became a local institution, a \u003ca href=\"https://noehill.com/sanmateo/cal0825.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Registered Landmark\u003c/a> also on the \u003ca href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/73000447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Register of Historic Places\u003c/a>. Once a watering hole for thirsty horsemen passing through, the roadhouse has survived by welcoming changing demographics over multiple generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it’s everybody now,” said Lund. “Motorcyclists, kids, equestrians, soccer teams after games, everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv 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href=\"https://gup.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">development application\u003c/a> in county history, Stanford University on Monday unveiled a rejiggered package of community housing, transportation and education benefits worth $4.7 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford is offering $3.4 billion to build at least 1,115 new housing units — including 575 below-market rate — and $1.17 billion to finance transportation improvements and $138 million to boost Palo Alto Unified School District’s coffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would constitute most of what the county has asked for, but not all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, Stanford is proposing to deliver over the next two decades:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Three quarters of the 2,172 housing units the county demanded, including 575 below-market rate, in the first few years of the expansion, some portion thereof on university land.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$15.25 million in pedestrian, bicycle and transit improvements in San Mateo County and $15.05 million in Palo Alto.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$1.13 billion for the expansion of sustainable commute programs and transit infrastructure projects.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$1.13 billion in fees in lieu of a cap on commute trips affecting campus residents.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$138.5 million to the Palo Alto Unified School District.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a different moment — not only for us — which is reflected in this proposal that we’ve brought forward, but for all of the communities around us,\" said Jean McCown, Stanford's associate vice president for government and community relations, noting Stanford has 8,180 acres of property in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have always had long-term, land use plans for our academic teaching and research facilities, and for housing our faculty and students,” McCown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11757029\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Clara County officials are concerned Stanford's plans for expansion could worsen traffic in the region, among other concerns.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County officials are concerned Stanford's plans for expansion could worsen traffic in the region, among other concerns. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that's not to say the negotiation process every quarter century or so goes smoothly, and that's proving especially true in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if Stanford is only planning to grow at the rate of roughly 1% a year, it's a big entity — in a region already strained by the impacts of explosive economic development paired with inadequate housing and transit development.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'One of the differences today is the extent to which we all clearly understand the significances of our current housing and transportation challenges, not only for our campus and communities, but for the region.'\u003ccite>Jean McCown, Stanford University's associate vice president for government and community relations\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"One of the differences today is the extent to which we all clearly understand the significances of our current housing and transportation challenges, not only for our campus and communities, but for the region,\" McCown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the core of the friction between Stanford and neighboring counties is the extent to which they want the university to respond to the region's housing crisis. While offering to build the larger portion of the housing Santa Clara County planning officials asked for, Stanford wants to repeal two ordinances that require it to pay affordable housing fees and designate 16% of new housing units as affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford also wants credit for half of 1,300 units of graduate student housing that's already in the pipeline and a 215-unit faculty and staff housing project in Menlo Park. Both were planned independent of the campus expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Supervisor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/d5/Pages/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Simitian\u003c/a> represents the district home to all of the proposed growth and he helped negotiate the last general use plan in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11757058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Once the Santa Clara County Planning Commission decides on a recommendation, yes or no, the Board of Supervisors will vote on whether to approve Stanford's general use plan.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Once the Santa Clara County Planning Commission decides on a recommendation, yes or no, the Board of Supervisors will vote on whether to approve Stanford's general use plan. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Simitian, who hasn't had the chance to review all 52 pages of Stanford's latest proposal yet, said \"even a cursory reading suggests it's pretty much more of the same. I can understand why the university would want a bilateral agreement negotiated behind closed doors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The university is taking about bringing 9,610 new folks to the campus: students, staff, faculty, day workers. And yet has proposed 2,600 beds and 550 housing units. Well, that means there are more than 7,000 people — after you get rid of the student beds — more than 7,000 people fighting for 550 housing units. Pretty clear that's not going to work,\" Simitian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It's important to make sure that it is a thoroughly reviewed project, and that any of the impacts of the projects are fully mitigated. It's the largest development proposal in the history of Santa Clara County.'\u003ccite>Joe Simitian, Santa Clara County supervisor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Simitian is not alone in his concerns. A group of Palo Alto and Santa Clara County officials wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/70025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a> detailing their objections, particularly around transit concerns, in February to the county's director of planning and development. San Mateo County has \u003ca href=\"https://cmo.smcgov.org/blog/2019-05-06/county-san-mateo-cities-urge-santa-clara-county-help-hold-stanford-accountable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also sent a letter \u003c/a>to Santa Clara County Supervisors, urging them \"to help hold Stanford University accountable for the anticipated impacts to housing, traffic, the environment and residents if it is allowed to expand its campus by more than 20 percent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's important to make sure that it is a thoroughly reviewed project, and that any of the impacts of the projects are fully mitigated,\" he said. \"It's the largest development proposal in the history of Santa Clara County.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately though, Simitian says he expects to \"get to ‘yes’,\" despite what he sees as \"pushback\" from the largest landowner in the county as the parties enter what most consider the final stage of the approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're going to develop three and a million square feet, then you've got to mitigate the impacts,\" said Simitian. \"It's that simple.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are those who feel Stanford is promising enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It's always baffling to me when the neighbors vilify Stanford.'\u003ccite>Russell Hancock, CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Russell Hancock, a Stanford \u003ca href=\"https://publicpolicy.stanford.edu/people/russell-hancock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lecturer\u003c/a> and also president and CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://jointventure.org/russell-hancock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, said, \"It's always baffling to me when the neighbors vilify Stanford. This is a world class institution. There would be no Silicon Valley without Stanford.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that many Stanford neighbors enjoy free use of amenities like hiking trails, gardens and museums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We get to cheer for Stanford in the Rose Bowl, this is just an amazing community asset,\" Hancock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why does he think there's resistance to Stanford's plan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's growth related,\" said Hancock. \"There might be other things at play as well. There might be egos and personalities involved that go back generations. But these communities, Palo Alto and Menlo Park [in particular], are deeply concerned about growth, and their citizens are electing representatives who want to curtail all of the growth, and Stanford is a growing institution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The County of Santa Clara Planning and Development Department has been holding a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/newsroom/Pages/stanforduniversitylandusepermithearings.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series of planning commission hearings\u003c/a> to review Stanford University’s General Use Permit application. The last such meeting will be held Thursday, June 27 at 1:30 p.m. in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In a bid to get Santa Clara County to OK the largest development application in county history, Stanford University unveiled a rejiggered package of housing, transportation and education benefits.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1561509133,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1214},"headData":{"title":"Stanford Wants to Expand, and Hopes $4.7 Billion Community Package Will Convince Officials | KQED","description":"In a bid to get Santa Clara County to OK the largest development application in county history, Stanford University unveiled a rejiggered package of housing, transportation and education benefits.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11757024 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11757024","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/06/25/stanford-wants-to-expand-and-hopes-4-7-billion-in-mitigations-will-help/","disqusTitle":"Stanford Wants to Expand, and Hopes $4.7 Billion Community Package Will Convince Officials","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/06/MyrowStanford.mp3","audioTrackLength":72,"path":"/news/11757024/stanford-wants-to-expand-and-hopes-4-7-billion-in-mitigations-will-help","audioDuration":72000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In a bid to get Santa Clara County to green light the largest \u003ca href=\"https://gup.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">development application\u003c/a> in county history, Stanford University on Monday unveiled a rejiggered package of community housing, transportation and education benefits worth $4.7 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford is offering $3.4 billion to build at least 1,115 new housing units — including 575 below-market rate — and $1.17 billion to finance transportation improvements and $138 million to boost Palo Alto Unified School District’s coffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would constitute most of what the county has asked for, but not all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, Stanford is proposing to deliver over the next two decades:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Three quarters of the 2,172 housing units the county demanded, including 575 below-market rate, in the first few years of the expansion, some portion thereof on university land.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$15.25 million in pedestrian, bicycle and transit improvements in San Mateo County and $15.05 million in Palo Alto.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$1.13 billion for the expansion of sustainable commute programs and transit infrastructure projects.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$1.13 billion in fees in lieu of a cap on commute trips affecting campus residents.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$138.5 million to the Palo Alto Unified School District.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a different moment — not only for us — which is reflected in this proposal that we’ve brought forward, but for all of the communities around us,\" said Jean McCown, Stanford's associate vice president for government and community relations, noting Stanford has 8,180 acres of property in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have always had long-term, land use plans for our academic teaching and research facilities, and for housing our faculty and students,” McCown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11757029\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Clara County officials are concerned Stanford's plans for expansion could worsen traffic in the region, among other concerns.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County officials are concerned Stanford's plans for expansion could worsen traffic in the region, among other concerns. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that's not to say the negotiation process every quarter century or so goes smoothly, and that's proving especially true in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if Stanford is only planning to grow at the rate of roughly 1% a year, it's a big entity — in a region already strained by the impacts of explosive economic development paired with inadequate housing and transit development.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'One of the differences today is the extent to which we all clearly understand the significances of our current housing and transportation challenges, not only for our campus and communities, but for the region.'\u003ccite>Jean McCown, Stanford University's associate vice president for government and community relations\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"One of the differences today is the extent to which we all clearly understand the significances of our current housing and transportation challenges, not only for our campus and communities, but for the region,\" McCown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the core of the friction between Stanford and neighboring counties is the extent to which they want the university to respond to the region's housing crisis. While offering to build the larger portion of the housing Santa Clara County planning officials asked for, Stanford wants to repeal two ordinances that require it to pay affordable housing fees and designate 16% of new housing units as affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford also wants credit for half of 1,300 units of graduate student housing that's already in the pipeline and a 215-unit faculty and staff housing project in Menlo Park. Both were planned independent of the campus expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Supervisor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/d5/Pages/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Simitian\u003c/a> represents the district home to all of the proposed growth and he helped negotiate the last general use plan in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11757058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Once the Santa Clara County Planning Commission decides on a recommendation, yes or no, the Board of Supervisors will vote on whether to approve Stanford's general use plan.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Once the Santa Clara County Planning Commission decides on a recommendation, yes or no, the Board of Supervisors will vote on whether to approve Stanford's general use plan. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Simitian, who hasn't had the chance to review all 52 pages of Stanford's latest proposal yet, said \"even a cursory reading suggests it's pretty much more of the same. I can understand why the university would want a bilateral agreement negotiated behind closed doors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The university is taking about bringing 9,610 new folks to the campus: students, staff, faculty, day workers. And yet has proposed 2,600 beds and 550 housing units. Well, that means there are more than 7,000 people — after you get rid of the student beds — more than 7,000 people fighting for 550 housing units. Pretty clear that's not going to work,\" Simitian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It's important to make sure that it is a thoroughly reviewed project, and that any of the impacts of the projects are fully mitigated. It's the largest development proposal in the history of Santa Clara County.'\u003ccite>Joe Simitian, Santa Clara County supervisor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Simitian is not alone in his concerns. A group of Palo Alto and Santa Clara County officials wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/70025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a> detailing their objections, particularly around transit concerns, in February to the county's director of planning and development. San Mateo County has \u003ca href=\"https://cmo.smcgov.org/blog/2019-05-06/county-san-mateo-cities-urge-santa-clara-county-help-hold-stanford-accountable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also sent a letter \u003c/a>to Santa Clara County Supervisors, urging them \"to help hold Stanford University accountable for the anticipated impacts to housing, traffic, the environment and residents if it is allowed to expand its campus by more than 20 percent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's important to make sure that it is a thoroughly reviewed project, and that any of the impacts of the projects are fully mitigated,\" he said. \"It's the largest development proposal in the history of Santa Clara County.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately though, Simitian says he expects to \"get to ‘yes’,\" despite what he sees as \"pushback\" from the largest landowner in the county as the parties enter what most consider the final stage of the approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're going to develop three and a million square feet, then you've got to mitigate the impacts,\" said Simitian. \"It's that simple.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are those who feel Stanford is promising enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It's always baffling to me when the neighbors vilify Stanford.'\u003ccite>Russell Hancock, CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Russell Hancock, a Stanford \u003ca href=\"https://publicpolicy.stanford.edu/people/russell-hancock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lecturer\u003c/a> and also president and CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://jointventure.org/russell-hancock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, said, \"It's always baffling to me when the neighbors vilify Stanford. This is a world class institution. There would be no Silicon Valley without Stanford.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that many Stanford neighbors enjoy free use of amenities like hiking trails, gardens and museums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We get to cheer for Stanford in the Rose Bowl, this is just an amazing community asset,\" Hancock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why does he think there's resistance to Stanford's plan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's growth related,\" said Hancock. \"There might be other things at play as well. There might be egos and personalities involved that go back generations. But these communities, Palo Alto and Menlo Park [in particular], are deeply concerned about growth, and their citizens are electing representatives who want to curtail all of the growth, and Stanford is a growing institution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The County of Santa Clara Planning and Development Department has been holding a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/newsroom/Pages/stanforduniversitylandusepermithearings.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series of planning commission hearings\u003c/a> to review Stanford University’s General Use Permit application. The last such meeting will be held Thursday, June 27 at 1:30 p.m. in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11757024/stanford-wants-to-expand-and-hopes-4-7-billion-in-mitigations-will-help","authors":["251"],"categories":["news_1758","news_18540","news_6266","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_24805","news_21358","news_25057","news_480","news_803","news_26051","news_2011","news_353","news_1928"],"featImg":"news_11757026","label":"news"},"news_11741918":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11741918","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11741918","score":null,"sort":[1556024430000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"mentally-ill-man-charged-menlo-park-police-with-a-knife-but-officers-didnt-shoot-him","title":"Mentally Ill Man Charged Menlo Park Police With a Knife But Officers Didn’t Shoot Him","publishDate":1556024430,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>It went from a tense calm to near-deadly chaos in seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Video and other records from a 2017 arrest released by the Menlo Park Police Department under California’s new transparency law expose a set of factors present in many fatal police shootings: a person in psychiatric crisis with a knife running toward police and an officer yelling, “Shoot him!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this time, the police didn’t shoot, and the suspect survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He lived to face attempted murder charges and eventually a prison sentence of more than seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I Got Him!’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three Menlo Park police officers waited outside the Stanford Park Hotel, on El Camino Real just north of the university, according to records and video. It was a few minutes before 3 a.m. on March 20, 2017. A manager had called to report a member of the overnight cleaning crew was in psychiatric distress, holding a knife and threatening to hurt himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park police Cpl. Dennis Weber and Officers Galen Fliege and Allen Swanson decided to wait for a Spanish-speaking officer to arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man translating for other employees standing in the parking lot told the officers that the man in the kitchen, later identified as Silverio Posada, was suffering from mental illness. The translator said he hoped the officers could help get Posada out of the kitchen and “get him the proper help so something bad doesn’t happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Posada suddenly emerged from the building with a large chef’s knife in his hand. He can be seen striding toward the officers on surveillance video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbOBLdZkPws&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police told him to stop, and Swanson fired a 40 mm “rubber bullet” into Posada’s chest, breaking two ribs. Then Posada charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swanson wrote in a police report that he believed one of the other two officers may have drawn a handgun to cover him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I yelled out, ‘Shoot him! Shoot him! Shoot him!’ as loud as I could,” Swanson wrote. He said he dove to the ground, bracing “to be stabbed in the right side of my body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither of those things happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that instant, Fliege and Weber both fired Tasers. One of their shots stuck two electric-shock probes into Posada’s right forearm. He can be seen on surveillance video slamming face first to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got him, I got him, I got him!” Weber said, apparently in response to Swanson’s call to open fire. All three officers wrestled Posada into handcuffs, shocking him at least one more time in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The poise, courage and professionalism by those three officers was unbelievable, remarkable,\" Police Chief Dave Bertini said in an interview Monday. Shooting a suspect \"is not something any of us want to do. So when we're able to do so little damage to somebody who is trying to kill us, and bring them down and bring them into custody, it is a win for everybody. It's a win for society, actually.\"\u003cbr>\n[aside tag=\"police-records\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Police-Art_1-1.gif\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-records\" target=\"_blank\"]\u003cbr>\nSan Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said in an interview Saturday that if the officers had chosen to shoot Posada, it could very well have been legally justified under California law. He said he knows Tasers were involved in three deaths in the county last year, but in this case the devices may have saved a life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If these officers did not have that intermediary force of a Taser or some other device available for them, no question in these circumstances they would have gone to the firearm and Mr. Posada would have lost his life,” Wagstaffe said. “Instead, Mr. Posada has his life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Attempted Murder Charge\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A witness appearing to be Posada’s brother but whose identity was redacted in the records told another officer that Posada was diagnosed with schizophrenia and had recently been refusing to take medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The witness said that Posada would stand guard outside his bedroom door “believing someone is out to hurt him,” according to a police report. The symptoms had worsened the morning of March 20, 2017, and the witness said family members had planned to seek medical help for Posada after their work shifts ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview recorded on body camera later that morning, Posada told a deputy translating for Fliege that he heard voices that told him people were coming to kill his brother, who also worked at the hotel and was talking with police when they first arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, he saw that we were talking with his brother and he thought we were going to harm his brother?” Fliege asked. “So he decided he was going to protect his brother, and did he want to kill us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes,” Posada answered in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You wanted to kill us? All three of us?” Fliege asked Posada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, everyone,” Posada said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was charged with attempted murder and three felony counts of assaulting a peace officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posada’s defense attorney initially argued he wasn’t competent to stand trial, according to court records. Two doctors who examined him disagreed, and a third judged him able to face charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His defense attorneys did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe said Posada’s illness weighed heavily on the case and ultimately led to dropping the attempted murder charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He believed these officers were the ones that the voices had warned him were there to kill his brother,” Wagstaffe said. “And so in his state of mind, he was acting in a sense in the defense of a third person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said a jury may have found that Posada didn’t understand the consequences of his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was ultimately settled with a plea deal. Posada pleaded no contest to three felony assault charges. He was sentenced to seven years, eight months in prison. He’s currently at the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility at Corcoran State Prison and will be eligible for parole in March 2020, according to state prison records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Menlo Park officers were able to avoid a fatal shooting was “the best possible outcome,” said John Snook, executive director of the national Treatment Advocacy Center. But he added that a lengthy prison sentence wouldn’t likely help Posada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The absolute worst way to provide mental illness care is in a jail cell,” Snook said. “Barring a miracle that I have almost never seen, there is almost no chance that things are not going to be much worse upon his release.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sukey Lewis of KQED News and Thomas Peele of the Bay Area News Group contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced as part of the California Reporting Project, a collaboration of more than 30 newsrooms across the state to obtain and report on police misconduct and serious use-of-force records unsealed in 2019.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The man survived to be charged with attempted murder and was eventually sentenced to seven years in prison.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1556901356,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":1229},"headData":{"title":"Mentally Ill Man Charged Menlo Park Police With a Knife But Officers Didn’t Shoot Him | KQED","description":"The man survived to be charged with attempted murder and was eventually sentenced to seven years in prison.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11741918 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11741918","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/04/23/mentally-ill-man-charged-menlo-park-police-with-a-knife-but-officers-didnt-shoot-him/","disqusTitle":"Mentally Ill Man Charged Menlo Park Police With a Knife But Officers Didn’t Shoot Him","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2019/05/EmslieMenloPD.mp3","audioTrackLength":179,"path":"/news/11741918/mentally-ill-man-charged-menlo-park-police-with-a-knife-but-officers-didnt-shoot-him","audioDuration":179000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It went from a tense calm to near-deadly chaos in seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Video and other records from a 2017 arrest released by the Menlo Park Police Department under California’s new transparency law expose a set of factors present in many fatal police shootings: a person in psychiatric crisis with a knife running toward police and an officer yelling, “Shoot him!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this time, the police didn’t shoot, and the suspect survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He lived to face attempted murder charges and eventually a prison sentence of more than seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I Got Him!’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three Menlo Park police officers waited outside the Stanford Park Hotel, on El Camino Real just north of the university, according to records and video. It was a few minutes before 3 a.m. on March 20, 2017. A manager had called to report a member of the overnight cleaning crew was in psychiatric distress, holding a knife and threatening to hurt himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park police Cpl. Dennis Weber and Officers Galen Fliege and Allen Swanson decided to wait for a Spanish-speaking officer to arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man translating for other employees standing in the parking lot told the officers that the man in the kitchen, later identified as Silverio Posada, was suffering from mental illness. The translator said he hoped the officers could help get Posada out of the kitchen and “get him the proper help so something bad doesn’t happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Posada suddenly emerged from the building with a large chef’s knife in his hand. He can be seen striding toward the officers on surveillance video.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/QbOBLdZkPws'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/QbOBLdZkPws'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The police told him to stop, and Swanson fired a 40 mm “rubber bullet” into Posada’s chest, breaking two ribs. Then Posada charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swanson wrote in a police report that he believed one of the other two officers may have drawn a handgun to cover him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I yelled out, ‘Shoot him! Shoot him! Shoot him!’ as loud as I could,” Swanson wrote. He said he dove to the ground, bracing “to be stabbed in the right side of my body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither of those things happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that instant, Fliege and Weber both fired Tasers. One of their shots stuck two electric-shock probes into Posada’s right forearm. He can be seen on surveillance video slamming face first to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got him, I got him, I got him!” Weber said, apparently in response to Swanson’s call to open fire. All three officers wrestled Posada into handcuffs, shocking him at least one more time in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The poise, courage and professionalism by those three officers was unbelievable, remarkable,\" Police Chief Dave Bertini said in an interview Monday. Shooting a suspect \"is not something any of us want to do. So when we're able to do so little damage to somebody who is trying to kill us, and bring them down and bring them into custody, it is a win for everybody. It's a win for society, actually.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"police-records","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Police-Art_1-1.gif","herolink":"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-records","target":"_blank","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nSan Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said in an interview Saturday that if the officers had chosen to shoot Posada, it could very well have been legally justified under California law. He said he knows Tasers were involved in three deaths in the county last year, but in this case the devices may have saved a life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If these officers did not have that intermediary force of a Taser or some other device available for them, no question in these circumstances they would have gone to the firearm and Mr. Posada would have lost his life,” Wagstaffe said. “Instead, Mr. Posada has his life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Attempted Murder Charge\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A witness appearing to be Posada’s brother but whose identity was redacted in the records told another officer that Posada was diagnosed with schizophrenia and had recently been refusing to take medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The witness said that Posada would stand guard outside his bedroom door “believing someone is out to hurt him,” according to a police report. The symptoms had worsened the morning of March 20, 2017, and the witness said family members had planned to seek medical help for Posada after their work shifts ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview recorded on body camera later that morning, Posada told a deputy translating for Fliege that he heard voices that told him people were coming to kill his brother, who also worked at the hotel and was talking with police when they first arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, he saw that we were talking with his brother and he thought we were going to harm his brother?” Fliege asked. “So he decided he was going to protect his brother, and did he want to kill us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes,” Posada answered in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You wanted to kill us? All three of us?” Fliege asked Posada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, everyone,” Posada said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was charged with attempted murder and three felony counts of assaulting a peace officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posada’s defense attorney initially argued he wasn’t competent to stand trial, according to court records. Two doctors who examined him disagreed, and a third judged him able to face charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His defense attorneys did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe said Posada’s illness weighed heavily on the case and ultimately led to dropping the attempted murder charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He believed these officers were the ones that the voices had warned him were there to kill his brother,” Wagstaffe said. “And so in his state of mind, he was acting in a sense in the defense of a third person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said a jury may have found that Posada didn’t understand the consequences of his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was ultimately settled with a plea deal. Posada pleaded no contest to three felony assault charges. He was sentenced to seven years, eight months in prison. He’s currently at the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility at Corcoran State Prison and will be eligible for parole in March 2020, according to state prison records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Menlo Park officers were able to avoid a fatal shooting was “the best possible outcome,” said John Snook, executive director of the national Treatment Advocacy Center. But he added that a lengthy prison sentence wouldn’t likely help Posada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The absolute worst way to provide mental illness care is in a jail cell,” Snook said. “Barring a miracle that I have almost never seen, there is almost no chance that things are not going to be much worse upon his release.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sukey Lewis of KQED News and Thomas Peele of the Bay Area News Group contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced as part of the California Reporting Project, a collaboration of more than 30 newsrooms across the state to obtain and report on police misconduct and serious use-of-force records unsealed in 2019.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11741918/mentally-ill-man-charged-menlo-park-police-with-a-knife-but-officers-didnt-shoot-him","authors":["3206"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_25303","news_19542","news_480","news_17983","news_24767","news_24770"],"featImg":"news_11741922","label":"news"},"news_11705654":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11705654","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11705654","score":null,"sort":[1541961134000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"wwi-and-the-peninsulas-forgotten-contribution-to-the-war-effort","title":"WWI and the Peninsula's Forgotten Contribution to the War Effort","publishDate":1541961134,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>One hundred years ago today, World War I ended. It was a global war, with profound impacts even for those who didn't participate. But here in California, where we did play a part, the history has faded and there aren't many people left who experienced what happened here during the Great War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It likely comes as a complete surprise for most Bay Area locals to learn Northern California's U.S. Army training camp was based in what we now know as Menlo Park. It certainly did to this Menlo Park resident, even though I live three blocks away from a park established to memorialize what was called \"Camp Fremont.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's curious,\" I thought. \"Why is this park here named after the 19th century California explorer \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fremont-appointed-governor-of-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John C. Fremont\u003c/a>?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It gets in the news every once in a while,\" said Jym Clendenin of the \u003ca href=\"http://inmenlo.com/category/menlo-park-historical-association/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Menlo Park Historical Association\u003c/a>, which is hosting an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/652899825161427/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armistice Celebration\u003c/a> Sunday morning in the park. \"Somebody’ll be digging in the backyard and find some crazy thing that relates to the camp. In fact, over on Stanford grounds, they found an unexploded artillery piece not too long ago.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33835_MISC-011p_TIF_MSTR-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1332\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11705664\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33835_MISC-011p_TIF_MSTR-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33835_MISC-011p_TIF_MSTR-qut-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33835_MISC-011p_TIF_MSTR-qut-800x555.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33835_MISC-011p_TIF_MSTR-qut-1020x708.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33835_MISC-011p_TIF_MSTR-qut-1200x833.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camp Fremont troops engage in mobile artillery practice, near what is now The Dish. The guns are aimed toward Foothills Park and Portola Valley, where 75mm shells were unearthed as recently as November 2010. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Portola Valley Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Rolling Hills Like Those in France\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let's dial the clock back to April of 1917, when the U.S. joined World War I nearly three years after hostilities officially began. At the time, only 2,300 or so people lived in this unincorporated area. The community consisted of a couple hotels, a few bars and other businesses, largely clustered around a Southern Pacific train station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University, then as now, was the primary landowner in the area. When the federal government starting casting about for 32 training camp locations nationwide, the campus put itself forward for duty, and also rent money. Camp Fremont leased 68,000 acres – including 7,000 acres at Stanford – between San Carlos to the north and Los Altos to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located conveniently near San Francisco, the rolling hills of the Peninsula seemed an excellent choice for artillery practice. Military officials thought the geography was not too different from what the soldiers might encounter in France. The camp was named after John Fremont, (so I wasn't that far off), and construction began in earnest in the fall of 1917. Numerous Stanford students and faculty enlisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By January of 1918, more than 28,000 men of the Eighth Division were installed on this sprawling base that also included parts of what now know as Portola Valley. Nick Skrabo, a young boy during World War I, wrote of his memories of that time, vignettes later donated to the town archives:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\">\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We had seen great columns of soldiers tramp past our school, four abreast and stretching from Harry Hallett's [846 Portola Road] to W. Jelich's place. There were many horses and mules pulling artillery. They went to the Skyline Road to practice. From there they fired artillery shells to the near top of the Tea Garden Ranch [near Los Trancos Woods] 4 or 5 miles away. Sometimes they had the band with them. As they approached the school, the teacher would dismiss us for a few minutes while they played some army songs.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11705665\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33834_Photo-Nov-10-2-24-45-PM-qut-800x686.jpg\" alt=\"The Menlo Park Historical Association recently installed signage in Fremont Park to explain the history. This map details how the nucleus of the camp was laid out.\" width=\"800\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33834_Photo-Nov-10-2-24-45-PM-qut-800x686.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33834_Photo-Nov-10-2-24-45-PM-qut-160x137.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33834_Photo-Nov-10-2-24-45-PM-qut-1020x874.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33834_Photo-Nov-10-2-24-45-PM-qut-1200x1029.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33834_Photo-Nov-10-2-24-45-PM-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Menlo Park Historical Association recently installed signage in Fremont Park to explain the history. This map details how the nucleus of the camp was laid out. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The preeminent history of this period, by all accounts, belongs to local historian Barbara Wilcox. In her book, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/World-War-Army-Training-Francisco/dp/1467118915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"World War I Army Training by San Francisco Bay: The Story of Camp Fremont,\"\u003c/a> Wilcox writes community elders were worried about the possibility of thousands of \"lusty\" young men corrupting local young ladies: \"Many Stanford women resented the university's harsh — and, as it turned out, futile — new rules, imposed to keep them away from the soldiers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most soldiers, that kind of \"action\" would have been the extent of their wartime engagement. Given how late the U.S. entered the war — and how far away California was from the front lines in Europe — most of the men trained here never saw combat. The real killer in Menlo Park was the infamous \u003ca href=\"http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwi/1918flu/ARSG1919/ARSG1919Extractsflu.htm#K1.%20CAMP%20FREMONT%20DIVISION%20SURGEON%E2%80%99S%20REPORT.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">influenza epidemic\u003c/a> of 1918, the so-called \"Spanish flu,\" that hit the San Francisco Bay Area in late September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of six weeks, 2,418 patients suffering from respiratory diseases were admitted to the base hospital. Hundreds more with relatively mild cases were cared for in camp infirmaries. Of the 408 related cases of pneumonia reported, 147 soldiers died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut.jpg\" alt='From \"The Illustration of The Siberian War.\" This image is titled, \"No. 16. The Japanese Army Occupied Vragaeschensk.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1361\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11705667\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut-800x567.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut-1020x723.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut-1200x851.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut-960x681.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut-375x266.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut-520x369.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From \"The Illustration of The Siberian War.\" This image is titled, \"No. 16. The Japanese Army Occupied Vragaeschensk.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Wikipedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Siberian Sojourn\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Camp Fremont did send soldiers abroad to Russia. Roughly 5,000 soldiers were posted in Siberia, following the Bolshevik Revolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the original reasons to send U.S. troops was to open another front for the Germans, but the troops arrived and stayed well past the end of World War I,\" said Andrew Postovoit, who wrote his master's thesis at Stanford about the American soldiers' experience in Russia from 1918-1920.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The official reason President Woodrow Wilson gave to the troops was to maintain stability by protecting the local railroad,\" Postovoit said. Given the \"Red Scare\" at the time, soldiers would have likely also presumed they were there to bolster the armies of the White movement against the Bolshevik Red Army.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Postovoit gives a hat tip to philatelist named \u003ca href=\"https://edithfaulstich.wordpress.com/page/3/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edith Faulstich\u003c/a>, who took an interest in this chapter of history and wrote a book, now out of print, called \"The Siberian Sojourn.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In truth, the U.S. was more concerned about its ostensible ally Japan than it was about Moscow. Initially, the Imperial Japanese Army planned to send more than 70,000 troops to occupy Siberia, a plan scaled back because of opposition from the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This helps to explain why soldiers were not relieved of their Siberian duties until 1920, long after World War I ended in late 1918.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11705668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33833_Photo-Nov-10-2-32-53-PM-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Little remains besides this pocket park in downtown Menlo Park to remind locals of Camp Fremont, where more than 28,000 U.S. Army soldiers were trained during WWI.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33833_Photo-Nov-10-2-32-53-PM-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33833_Photo-Nov-10-2-32-53-PM-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33833_Photo-Nov-10-2-32-53-PM-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33833_Photo-Nov-10-2-32-53-PM-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33833_Photo-Nov-10-2-32-53-PM-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little remains besides this pocket park in downtown Menlo Park to remind locals of Camp Fremont, where more than 28,000 U.S. Army soldiers were trained during WWI. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for Camp Fremont, the buildings were packed up or auctioned off, and by April 1920, only a handful of landmarks remained to remind locals of what happened here during those war years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Wilcox wrote in an \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldwar1.com/tripwire/pdf/campfremont.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">essay for the Stanford Historical Society\u003c/a>, \"In many ways, Camp Fremont brought the larger world, in all its complexity, to Stanford’s doorstep and augured the university’s growing role in national and global affairs.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"One hundred years ago today, World War I ended. Here in California the history has faded, but there are still remnants of the past. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1541961134,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1176},"headData":{"title":"WWI and the Peninsula's Forgotten Contribution to the War Effort | KQED","description":"One hundred years ago today, World War I ended. Here in California the history has faded, but there are still remnants of the past. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11705654 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11705654","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/11/11/wwi-and-the-peninsulas-forgotten-contribution-to-the-war-effort/","disqusTitle":"WWI and the Peninsula's Forgotten Contribution to the War Effort","path":"/news/11705654/wwi-and-the-peninsulas-forgotten-contribution-to-the-war-effort","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One hundred years ago today, World War I ended. It was a global war, with profound impacts even for those who didn't participate. But here in California, where we did play a part, the history has faded and there aren't many people left who experienced what happened here during the Great War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It likely comes as a complete surprise for most Bay Area locals to learn Northern California's U.S. Army training camp was based in what we now know as Menlo Park. It certainly did to this Menlo Park resident, even though I live three blocks away from a park established to memorialize what was called \"Camp Fremont.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's curious,\" I thought. \"Why is this park here named after the 19th century California explorer \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fremont-appointed-governor-of-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John C. Fremont\u003c/a>?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It gets in the news every once in a while,\" said Jym Clendenin of the \u003ca href=\"http://inmenlo.com/category/menlo-park-historical-association/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Menlo Park Historical Association\u003c/a>, which is hosting an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/652899825161427/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armistice Celebration\u003c/a> Sunday morning in the park. \"Somebody’ll be digging in the backyard and find some crazy thing that relates to the camp. In fact, over on Stanford grounds, they found an unexploded artillery piece not too long ago.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33835_MISC-011p_TIF_MSTR-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1332\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11705664\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33835_MISC-011p_TIF_MSTR-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33835_MISC-011p_TIF_MSTR-qut-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33835_MISC-011p_TIF_MSTR-qut-800x555.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33835_MISC-011p_TIF_MSTR-qut-1020x708.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33835_MISC-011p_TIF_MSTR-qut-1200x833.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camp Fremont troops engage in mobile artillery practice, near what is now The Dish. The guns are aimed toward Foothills Park and Portola Valley, where 75mm shells were unearthed as recently as November 2010. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Portola Valley Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Rolling Hills Like Those in France\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let's dial the clock back to April of 1917, when the U.S. joined World War I nearly three years after hostilities officially began. At the time, only 2,300 or so people lived in this unincorporated area. The community consisted of a couple hotels, a few bars and other businesses, largely clustered around a Southern Pacific train station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University, then as now, was the primary landowner in the area. When the federal government starting casting about for 32 training camp locations nationwide, the campus put itself forward for duty, and also rent money. Camp Fremont leased 68,000 acres – including 7,000 acres at Stanford – between San Carlos to the north and Los Altos to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located conveniently near San Francisco, the rolling hills of the Peninsula seemed an excellent choice for artillery practice. Military officials thought the geography was not too different from what the soldiers might encounter in France. The camp was named after John Fremont, (so I wasn't that far off), and construction began in earnest in the fall of 1917. Numerous Stanford students and faculty enlisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By January of 1918, more than 28,000 men of the Eighth Division were installed on this sprawling base that also included parts of what now know as Portola Valley. Nick Skrabo, a young boy during World War I, wrote of his memories of that time, vignettes later donated to the town archives:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\">\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We had seen great columns of soldiers tramp past our school, four abreast and stretching from Harry Hallett's [846 Portola Road] to W. Jelich's place. There were many horses and mules pulling artillery. They went to the Skyline Road to practice. From there they fired artillery shells to the near top of the Tea Garden Ranch [near Los Trancos Woods] 4 or 5 miles away. Sometimes they had the band with them. As they approached the school, the teacher would dismiss us for a few minutes while they played some army songs.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11705665\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33834_Photo-Nov-10-2-24-45-PM-qut-800x686.jpg\" alt=\"The Menlo Park Historical Association recently installed signage in Fremont Park to explain the history. This map details how the nucleus of the camp was laid out.\" width=\"800\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33834_Photo-Nov-10-2-24-45-PM-qut-800x686.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33834_Photo-Nov-10-2-24-45-PM-qut-160x137.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33834_Photo-Nov-10-2-24-45-PM-qut-1020x874.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33834_Photo-Nov-10-2-24-45-PM-qut-1200x1029.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33834_Photo-Nov-10-2-24-45-PM-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Menlo Park Historical Association recently installed signage in Fremont Park to explain the history. This map details how the nucleus of the camp was laid out. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The preeminent history of this period, by all accounts, belongs to local historian Barbara Wilcox. In her book, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/World-War-Army-Training-Francisco/dp/1467118915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"World War I Army Training by San Francisco Bay: The Story of Camp Fremont,\"\u003c/a> Wilcox writes community elders were worried about the possibility of thousands of \"lusty\" young men corrupting local young ladies: \"Many Stanford women resented the university's harsh — and, as it turned out, futile — new rules, imposed to keep them away from the soldiers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most soldiers, that kind of \"action\" would have been the extent of their wartime engagement. Given how late the U.S. entered the war — and how far away California was from the front lines in Europe — most of the men trained here never saw combat. The real killer in Menlo Park was the infamous \u003ca href=\"http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwi/1918flu/ARSG1919/ARSG1919Extractsflu.htm#K1.%20CAMP%20FREMONT%20DIVISION%20SURGEON%E2%80%99S%20REPORT.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">influenza epidemic\u003c/a> of 1918, the so-called \"Spanish flu,\" that hit the San Francisco Bay Area in late September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of six weeks, 2,418 patients suffering from respiratory diseases were admitted to the base hospital. Hundreds more with relatively mild cases were cared for in camp infirmaries. Of the 408 related cases of pneumonia reported, 147 soldiers died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut.jpg\" alt='From \"The Illustration of The Siberian War.\" This image is titled, \"No. 16. The Japanese Army Occupied Vragaeschensk.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1361\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11705667\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut-800x567.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut-1020x723.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut-1200x851.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut-960x681.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut-375x266.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33836_1920px-The_Illustration_of_The_Siberian_War_No._16._The_Japanese_Army_Occupied_Vragaeschensk-qut-520x369.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From \"The Illustration of The Siberian War.\" This image is titled, \"No. 16. The Japanese Army Occupied Vragaeschensk.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Wikipedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Siberian Sojourn\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Camp Fremont did send soldiers abroad to Russia. Roughly 5,000 soldiers were posted in Siberia, following the Bolshevik Revolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the original reasons to send U.S. troops was to open another front for the Germans, but the troops arrived and stayed well past the end of World War I,\" said Andrew Postovoit, who wrote his master's thesis at Stanford about the American soldiers' experience in Russia from 1918-1920.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The official reason President Woodrow Wilson gave to the troops was to maintain stability by protecting the local railroad,\" Postovoit said. Given the \"Red Scare\" at the time, soldiers would have likely also presumed they were there to bolster the armies of the White movement against the Bolshevik Red Army.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Postovoit gives a hat tip to philatelist named \u003ca href=\"https://edithfaulstich.wordpress.com/page/3/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edith Faulstich\u003c/a>, who took an interest in this chapter of history and wrote a book, now out of print, called \"The Siberian Sojourn.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In truth, the U.S. was more concerned about its ostensible ally Japan than it was about Moscow. Initially, the Imperial Japanese Army planned to send more than 70,000 troops to occupy Siberia, a plan scaled back because of opposition from the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This helps to explain why soldiers were not relieved of their Siberian duties until 1920, long after World War I ended in late 1918.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11705668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33833_Photo-Nov-10-2-32-53-PM-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Little remains besides this pocket park in downtown Menlo Park to remind locals of Camp Fremont, where more than 28,000 U.S. Army soldiers were trained during WWI.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33833_Photo-Nov-10-2-32-53-PM-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33833_Photo-Nov-10-2-32-53-PM-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33833_Photo-Nov-10-2-32-53-PM-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33833_Photo-Nov-10-2-32-53-PM-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33833_Photo-Nov-10-2-32-53-PM-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little remains besides this pocket park in downtown Menlo Park to remind locals of Camp Fremont, where more than 28,000 U.S. Army soldiers were trained during WWI. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for Camp Fremont, the buildings were packed up or auctioned off, and by April 1920, only a handful of landmarks remained to remind locals of what happened here during those war years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Wilcox wrote in an \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldwar1.com/tripwire/pdf/campfremont.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">essay for the Stanford Historical Society\u003c/a>, \"In many ways, Camp Fremont brought the larger world, in all its complexity, to Stanford’s doorstep and augured the university’s growing role in national and global affairs.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11705654/wwi-and-the-peninsulas-forgotten-contribution-to-the-war-effort","authors":["251"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_24015","news_480","news_2011","news_353","news_178","news_23379","news_23395","news_24499"],"featImg":"news_11705663","label":"news"},"news_11686240":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11686240","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11686240","score":null,"sort":[1534029096000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"facebook-celebrates-its-7th-facebook-academy-internship","title":"Facebook Celebrates its 7th Facebook Academy Internship","publishDate":1534029096,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>For the 7th year in a row, Facebook has opened its doors to high schoolers from neighboring communities for a six-week summer internship. The purpose is to expose students to the tech industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the graduation ceremony held at Facebook headquarters earlier this month, 16-year-old Alan Kagiri never thought being a Facebook intern was possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up in Kenya I never thought, first, if I would be able to come to the United States, and then, [if] I would be able to intern at Facebook,\" said Kagiri.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook Academy chose Kagiri out of more than 150 applicants. And it's easy to see why. He’s full of personality, charisma and drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kagiri is a student at Sacred Heart Prep and lives in East Palo Alto with his mother. He is the youngest of 9 brothers and sisters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686256\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11686256\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/FacebookAcademy_Aug2018_jenniferleahyphotography-49-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/FacebookAcademy_Aug2018_jenniferleahyphotography-49-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/FacebookAcademy_Aug2018_jenniferleahyphotography-49-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/FacebookAcademy_Aug2018_jenniferleahyphotography-49-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/FacebookAcademy_Aug2018_jenniferleahyphotography-49-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/FacebookAcademy_Aug2018_jenniferleahyphotography-49-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/FacebookAcademy_Aug2018_jenniferleahyphotography-49-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/FacebookAcademy_Aug2018_jenniferleahyphotography-49-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/FacebookAcademy_Aug2018_jenniferleahyphotography-49-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/FacebookAcademy_Aug2018_jenniferleahyphotography-49-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/FacebookAcademy_Aug2018_jenniferleahyphotography-49-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Kagiri, 16, poses for a photo outside Facebook's courtyard. He will be attending Sacred Heart Prep as a Junior this Fall. \u003ccite>(Jennifer Leahy for Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He wants to be a Software Engineer but he wasn’t always sure it would be a good fit because there aren’t many people in the tech industry who look like him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prior to coming here, I just thought [a Facebook employee] was a stereotypical young male who just codes all the time,\" said Kagiri.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his thoughts changed once he got to Facebook, networked with people from different departments and saw how diverse the company is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he learned a new skill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to advocate for yourself, you have to have that self-advocacy and say this is what I need, this is what I want,\" said Kagiri.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kagiri said he learned that qualities such as friendliness, integrity and having a good work ethic are characteristics everyone will always want to work with. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook Academy's Program Manager Agustin Torres said since the start of the program, some alum have been accepted to Ivy League Universities and three have been hired by Google and Uber, but none have been hired at Facebook yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres said the confidence level has improved in all 19 students since the start of the program. 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