Are you a YIYBY?

Letters

Dear Editor:   The Daily Post needed to ask the five candidates for Jerry Hill’s state senate seat a third question.  Not whether you are a NIMBY or a YIMBY (Daily Post, August 21st), but a YIYBY (“Yes In Your Back Yard”) because that is what Scott...

ABAG and BMR Housing

Letters

Every move California ABAG and related unelected and not-responsible Committees have made seems to be based on making it easy for developers to increase their profit. They claim it is based on planning, but it is not. As is borne out by the results. Unfortunately,...

The “real” impediment to affordable housing

Letters

Dear Editor:  The July issue of POLITICO Magazine has an article that states: “The middle-class dream of a single-family home is the biggest impediment to affordable housing, according to some housing activists—it keeps prices up by preventing new and...
Wiener’s Gut & Amend Tactics

Wiener’s Gut & Amend Tactics

Featured, Government Issues, Letters

” I have come to the conclusion that the making of laws is like the making of sausages—the less you know about the process the more you respect the result.'” Just today (Thursday 6/13), Senator Scott Wiener did what we had heard and predicted that he would...
Speak Out NOW

Speak Out NOW

Comp Plan, Government Issues, Letters

UPDATED November 9, 2015 Dear Neighbor, Palo Alto City Council is reviewing the Planning & Transportation Commission’s recommendations regarding the Comprehensive Plan Update and resolutions certifying the Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the...