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The city also moving ahead with a more detailed risk analysis and a community survey designed to gauge local interest in municipal fiber. The council s timeline calls for having Fiber to the Home in place within five years.
Andy Poggio, a longtime proponent of the citywide system, was among those who urged the council on Monday to advance the effort. We all know the advantages of the municipal fiber system for Palo Alto, attracting startups and new businesses, improving age-in-place, enabling better work from home, keeping Palo Alto a uniquely desirable place to live, Poggio said. Let s take this opportunity to build a 100% Palo Alto Fiber to the Home now.
Several contractors, including Cinnamon, speculate that the city has a financial incentive not to approve solar installations. Palo Alto, after all, owns its own municipal utility, which sells electricity to customers. More solar panels and energy storage systems, the thinking goes, means less reliance by local homeowners on the city s utilities. I have to hand it to the city. It s commendable that electric rates in Palo Alto are cheaper than electric rates in PG&E. That s great. But the city makes money by selling electricity, and that money goes to support everything going on in the city, Cinnamon said.
David Coale, a solar installer and board member in the advocacy group Carbon Free Palo Alto, thinks the issues have more do with City Hall culture. Coale has been advocating for reforms to Palo Alto s permitting process for nearly two decades. He suggested at the April 7 meeting of the utilities panel that it s time for the city to simply outsource permitting. The city, he said,