5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (639+ words) The East Palo Alto City Council offered a boost to a 430-unit housing project for school staff and residents at 2120-2160 Euclid Ave. when it approved last week the affordability levels for units in the new development. Under the plans, which…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (565+ words) Residents in the Ventura neighborhood are by now well accustomed to being on the cusp of transformation. The Palo Alto City Council has recently approved a new area plan for a large chunk of northern Ventura, raising height and density…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (565+ words) Palo Alto’s Barron Park neighborhood could see 18 new townhomes rise on a vacant lot near Maybell Avenue. In this case, two of the proposed 18 townhomes would be designated affordable. According to the project plans, the townhomes would be configured in…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (398+ words) A Palo Alto condo sold for $270,000 on the site of an adobe that dates to the 1840s and once served as a social hub for the area. Find out what else recently changed hands across the Midpeninsula. Each week, Embarcadero Media…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (901+ words) A thriving terrarium or aquarium can add a touch of natural beauty to a home or workplace. But the aquariums and terrariums Evan Johnson and his nonprofit team help build and teach about aren’t just decorative – they’re self-contained ecosystems that,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1609+ words) Roland Guidry moved to East Palo Alto as a child in 1962, two decades before it officially became a city. He attended the now shuttered Ravenswood High School. He met his wife in the city. People were friendly, left their doors…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (296+ words) Palo Alto’s effort to build affordable housing on downtown parking lots received a big boost this week, when a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge rejected a challenge from area property owners. Zaynor cited a decision by the California attorney…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (112+ words) Palo Alto Online María Martínez is packing up her life into boxes — well, most of it. Not all of her plants will fit, and by her conservative count, she has more than 65 of them. She, her partner and her two…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (735+ words) Converting retail to housing is one of the pillars of Palo Alto’s plan to create a new residential neighborhood on San Antonio Road, a historically commercial corridor that borders the city of Mountain View. The speedier approval process was due…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (434+ words) If you have a tree in your yard, you probably aren’t spending much time looking for a beetle that’s smaller than a grain of rice. But when it comes to invasive shothole borers, it’s worth knowing what to look for....