Guess the square footage of this house getting built a 20 minute walk away from Palo Alto Station. No cheating!
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I cheated. (Easy since I'd walked past that a number of times and all I had to do was figure out if it was Waverley or Bryant Street.) And oh, goodness. I hadn't looked at the plans for that one before. First time I've seen 2 stories of basement in Palo Alto R-1.
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Hints: The Play Room on the lower basement level (34% of that basement level's area) is larger than my 2BR apartment. I think I'm counting 6 bedrooms (3 upstairs, 3 upper basement), 7 full baths (3 upstairs, 3 UB, 1 LB), and 4 half baths (2 ground, 1 UB, 1LB). 15,000 sqft lot.
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Oops, got the upper and lower basements backwards for the bedroom/bathroom counts.
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Also, seems like a shame to have torn down what used to be there, this house built in 1925, and sold for $7.05M in 2016. I'm pretty sure I prefer this style of architecture to whatever could get approved by the ARB to replace it today... (photo from Zillow)

Sep 27, 2020 · 1:32 AM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron
That's gorgeous. Would be a lovely style for a courtyard apartment 😢
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It even had three exterior doors already (more easily visible in this photo from the Zillow listing).
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