At least 13 homes in Palo Alto were damaged as a result of the recent storms, prompting some residents to rely on local hotels for emergency shelter, City Manager Ed Shikada said Monday.
Resident Patti J. Walters reported that during a recent visit to the park, she saw children riding bikes on the grass at Boronda Lake and adults cutting across the embankments to the right side of the lake. Approaching the picnic area, we found an opportunity to turn around and leave the chaotic situation. We could not wait to leave the park, Walters wrote.
Jill O Nan, a former member of the city s Human Relations Commission, told the council that since the expanded access, people with disabilities, like herself, now have a hard time visiting the park, which has no parking spots designated for handicapped visitors. She called the opening of the park disastrous and asserted that Palo Alto residents with lower incomes who were once able to visit the park are no longer able to do so.
Resident Patti J. Walters reported that during a recent visit to the park, she saw children riding bikes on the grass at Boronda Lake and adults cutting across the embankments to the right side of the lake. Approaching the picnic area, we found an opportunity to turn around and leave the chaotic situation. We could not wait to leave the park, Walters wrote.
Jill O Nan, a former member of the city s Human Relations Commission, told the council that since the expanded access, people with disabilities, like herself, now have a hard time visiting the park, which she said has insufficient parking for disabled individuals. She called the opening of the park disastrous and asserted that Palo Alto residents with lower incomes who were once able to visit the park are no longer able to do so.
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After 51 years, you can finally hike this Bay Area park. I did, and it made me furious.
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Palo Alto’s Foothills Park opened to non-Palo Alto residents for the first time in 51 years on Thursday, December 17th, 2020. I, Grant Marek, hiked the entire park on Sunday.Christopher Partin/ Special to SFGATE
I’m blinded by seething rage as I pass by the entrance kiosk of Palo Alto’s Foothills Park.
“Look at this f king lake. It’s beautiful,” I mutter under my breath. “Jesus, are those docks? And of course there’s a god damn meadow, is that a deer? Oh my god, are those baby deer? And this is the bathroom? Did the Ahwahnee design this s t? COME ON.”