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It already existed on the web for a long time as <font size=7>, and it was weird that it wasn't in CSS.
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I noticed that too, when visiting. See 2 tweets starting from
On the negative side, the city center is pretty car-centric, and pedestrian hostile. Intersections in the core have beg buttons for pedestrians. Sometimes the person at the front of the crowd of 20 waiting to cross doesn't press it... and then it's a crowd of 50.
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Like the time I was trying to catch a bus in Taipei, and I saw one whose sign said 景美, and I knew it was going to Jingmei even though I wasn't (at the time) familiar with the first character. (I wasn't going to Jingmei.)
Probably another few km of side trips and then maybe 8km of GPS error? Calculating distances from a sequence of points is hard because you have to decide what is error to smooth away and what's real.
Anyway, probably still longer than the 60km Yosemite hike (but different GPS).
Maybe flickr.com/photos/dbaron/alb… is also a good answer for the "why". (Day 2, with all the photos of the mountain peaks poking above the clouds, was the highlight.)
(I was actually expecting my 5-day Yosemite hike to be longer, but it wasn't.)
Here's what this triangle of RE zoning looks like on Zillow. The lot with the SB9 development proposal is the one labeled 4.54M on the west side. It's a 1-acre lot.
The upper-right is "regular" Palo Alto R-1 for comparison.
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I bet the RE zone within Barron Park is even higher:
It's both amazing and appropriate that this has happened in the RE zoning district.
For those unfamiliar with Palo Alto zoning, RE is its most Atherton-like zone. 1 acre minimum lot size, etc.
It's mostly used in the hills, except this small triangle west of Bol Park.
Palo Alto zoning maps: cityofpaloalto.org/files/ass…
Zoning code for RE: codelibrary.amlegal.com/code…
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That little triangle of RE is among the excesses of exclusive zoning in Palo Alto. It's adjacent to Palo Alto's largest area zoned for office, which houses prominent tech companies like HP.
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It's both amazing and appropriate that this has happened in the RE zoning district.
For those unfamiliar with Palo Alto zoning, RE is its most Atherton-like zone. 1 acre minimum lot size, etc.
It's mostly used in the hills, except this small triangle west of Bol Park.
It's official: Palo Alto will be one of (if not *the*) first cities in California to see new housing built under #SB9.
Where a single home stood on a 1 acre lot, 4 new homes will rise. Progress!
paloaltoonline.com/news/2022…
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Palo Alto has counted all ADUs as above-moderate since 2018, presumably so that they don't miss their above-moderate RHNA target (otherwise I think they would have) and end up subject to SB35 streamlining for units with 10% affordable housing.
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Accurately forecasted might be a bit of a stretch. Fredericksburg area got about 14 inches of snow. 9pm Sunday forecast called for 5-8 in, 3am Monday forecast increased to 5-10 in. Most of the snow had fallen by noon Monday.
But the mess happened as/after the snow ended.
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Some of the snowplow drivers here appeared to understand that their goal was to get snow from being on the road to being off the road. Others just appeared to be creating two ridges of snow separated by the width of a snowplow.
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