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…

Palo Alto's first SB 9 project would bring four homes to Barron Park lot

​​Two days after California's new split-lot law took effect, Palo Alto received its first application: a proposal to build four homes on a single-family lot on Matadero Avenue.

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Barron Park is one of Palo Alto's wealthiest neighborhoods. It has a median household income of $240,000+, an average home value of $2,000,000, and is 61% white. This is exactly the kind of place we need to be densifying.
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Yeah, I misspoke: those stats are actually just for the census tract the house is in. Barron Park itself has a higher median home value.
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Replying to @cafedujord @jrfinkel
I bet the RE zone within Barron Park is even higher:
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social @davidbaron
6 Jan 2022
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.

Jan 6, 2022 · 2:01 PM UTC