From: Chaisith Tantavirojn
To: Council, City
Subject: Agenda Item #1
Date: Monday, September 15, 2025 11:04:13 AM
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Hi,
I am sending this email to you to support the plan to build the residential property across the street from us (Lotus Thai Bistro).
From: Adam Schwartz
To: Council, City
Cc: Planning Commission
Subject: Please Support 414 California Ave
Date: Friday, September 12, 2025 11:51:51 AM
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My name is Adam Schwartz and I live in University South. Please support the proposal for 37 homes at 414 California Avenue. We need more housing near retail and transportation. This project will promote sustainable lifestyles, support local businesses, and bring much needed housing options to our community.
My #1 issue in local policy is building more homes at all income levels.
This is personal for me, because my adult children and ailing mother want to live near me, and the housing shortage and very high cost are making it difficult to do this.
Thank you for your leadership to support homes for all in our community,
Adam Schwartz
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From: Lois Fowkes
To: Council, City
Cc: Planning Commission
Subject: Please Support 414 California Ave
Date: Friday, September 12, 2025 10:47:50 AM
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I'm Lois Fowkes and I live in the downtown area.
Please support the proposal for 37 homes at 414 California Avenue. We need more housing near retail and transportation. This project will promote sustainable lifestyles, support local businesses, and bring much needed housing options to our community.
But the Council knows this. Please don't dawdle supporting the zoning change necessary I think this design is great, and look forward to visiting the public areas. We need this building, as soon as possible!
Sincerely,
Lois Fowkes
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From: Randy Mont-Reynaud
To: Council, City
Subject: Please Support 414 California Ave
Date: Monday, September 8, 2025 5:14:42 PM
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My name is Randy Mont-Reynaud and I live in Cal Ave., across from the courthouse.
Please support the proposal for 37 homes at 414 California Avenue. We need more housing near retail and transportation. This project will promote sustainable lifestyles, support local businesses, and bring much needed housing options to our community.
Dear City Council, Please do act quickly and responsibly - reading about RV dwellers and the ire of our Palo Alto community are...frankly, so..what's the word? Depressing? Scary? tRumpian? Many Folks here are willing to donate, tax deductible $$, to people all over the world -- many worthy causes -- and yet, people are sleeping in the alleyways in back of Cal Ave./, and in the Parking structure This message needs your attention
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...It reminds me of Port -au-Prince Haiti, before and after the earthquake and since.
Surely with your leadership, we can do better? Thank you for supporting new home construction Projects for all in our community,
Randy Mont-Reynaud, PhD
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To: Council, City
Subject: 414 Cal Ave
Date: Sunday, September 7, 2025 12:17:08 PM
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Dear Mayor Lauing and council members,
I believe the site is a great place for housing and is consistent with the city's goals for housing on or near Cal Ave.
I have read the staff report and realize there are a number of issues to work out with the applicant so we can move forward with housing on this great site--with the added benefit of dining and market that they plan.
I hope as you did with the 332 Forest site, right across from where I live, that you will encourage the applicant and staff to work through issues so we can add needed housing in this great area.
Stephen Levy
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From: Rachel Miller
To: Council, City
Subject: Please Support 414 California Ave
Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 12:02:53 PM
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My name is Rachel Miller and I live in the Miranda Green neighborhood of Palo Alto.
Please support the proposal for 37 homes at 414 California Avenue. We need more housing near retail and transportation. This project will promote sustainable lifestyles, support local businesses, and bring much needed housing options to our community.
My husband and I just became empty nesters as we dropped our youngest off at college a couple weeks ago. We no longer need a big house within walking/biking distance of schools, but in a few years, after retirement, would like to downsize into a condo within walking distance of amenities like grocery stores, restaurants, a train station, etc. We would like to be able to stay in our community, especially since my mother lives nearby and needs my help.
Through my parents, I’ve seen firsthand how dangerous and isolating it can be for aging people to stay too long alone in homes with staircases, that require driving in order to go anywhere, that require maintenance that becomes too difficult to manage. We need to allow more housing for people at all stages of life, whether young singles, families, or retirees. If there are suitable places for people like my husband and I to downsize into, that frees up our large home for a growing young family, which will help sustain our excellent schools which are experiencing plummeting enrollment, as well as generate more property taxes that keep all city services funded.
Thank you for your leadership to support homes for all in our community, Rachel Miller
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