Santa Clara County’s homeless hope for hotel rooms after shelter closes
Even with its enormous wealth per capita, Santa Clara County had the largest percentage of unsheltered homeless in the country this year.
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Shootings vanish as Menlo Park’s Belle Haven neighborhood transforms
A new community garden. Facebook’s second campus. The drop in violent crime points to a public safety shift that’s characterizing a vast transformation of Menlo Park’s historically most-dangerous neighborhood.
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Identity in infrastructure: North Fair Oaks banks on road project to revitalize area
San Mateo County is hoping to make a stretch of Middlefield Road in North Fair Oaks a vibrant destination — not just a way station between Atherton and Redwood City.
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SPECIAL REPORT – Living in Silicon Valley: Profiles of communities in transition
Profiles of Silicon Valley communities in transition, from transformations in Menlo Park’s Belle Haven neighborhood to the unsheltered homeless in Santa Clara County to North Fair Oaks’ revitalization efforts.
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Mountain View may increase development fees to fund affordable housing
Mountain View is considering raising fees on new construction to fund affordable housing, a move developers say would shift projects to other towns and council members say is necessary because of a decrease in government funding for the projects.
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California Avenue businesses in Palo Alto lament lost revenues amid construction
The Streetscape Project construction has driven street traffic to a trickle and caused businesses to lose up to 40 percent of their revenue, feeding frustrations among owners who aren’t being compensated for the losses.
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Menlo Park voters defeat measure that would have limited construction
Voters in Menlo Park decidedly rejected a controversial initiative that would have cut in half the amount of future office space allowed in the city’s downtown and El Camino Real areas.
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Election battle divides Menlo Park over how much to grow
Measure M is being portrayed as a vote on the future identity of Menlo Park — all happening in one of the hottest real estate markets in the country.
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Redwood City seeks to save historic homes endangered by development boom
Alarmed that several Victorian-era houses have been destroyed or are slated to be demolished to make room for new development, Redwood City officials are exploring ways to protect historic homes in the city.
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