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Fifty-seven fiberglass donkeys will be displayed at various sites and attractions starting July 1. The symbol of the Democratic Party will represent each U.S. state, territory, Washington, D.C., and Democrats abroad. They will be painted with iconic images from each location. |
“Donkeys Around Town” is an effort to get residents in the convention spirit and encourage delegates and other visitors to explore the city. |
The convention is held July 25-28 at the city’s sports complex, away from the city’s center. |
Delegates can take their home state donkeys home or allow them to be auctioned, with proceeds going to the artists. |
The City Council is set to approve a new parcel map for Buena Visa Mobile Home Park, a decision that will help complete the sale of the residential property on El Camino Real. Weekly file photo. |
Having succeeded in preventing the closure of Palo Alto's sole mobile-home park, the City Council is preparing to take the next step on Monday to ensure its continued operations. |
The council is scheduled to approve on Monday night a new parcel map for Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, a key step in the effort by the Santa Clara County Housing Authority to purchase the park from the Jisser family. The county agency is in the process of buying the mobile-home park, with escrow set to close on Sept. 1... |
For the roughly 400 residents who live at Buena Vista, the county's purchase of the mobile home park at 3980 El Camino Real is a long-awaited victory after nearly five years of anxiety. The Jisser family has been trying to close the park since at least November 2012, with the idea of redeveloping the 6-acre site in the... |
The conversation changed last year, when the Housing Authority entered the fray, bringing with it its power of eminent domain. After both the council and the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors each agreed to contribute $14.5 million in affordable-housing funds to buy the mobile-home park, the Housing Authority neg... |
The Housing Authority plans to use funds from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to complete the purchase to renovate the park. |
The new parcel map is a key step in the process. It would reduce the number of parcels on the 6.19-acre site from five to three, with the Housing Authority controlling the largest parcel: 4.5 acres that includes most of the mobile homes. The Jisser family will still own the 1-acre parcel that includes two commercial bu... |
Under the terms of the deal, the Jissers will lease back to the county the residential portion of the 0.75 acre site for three years, giving the agency time to relocate the residents to the main parcel. |
The Planning and Transportation Commission reviewed and swiftly approved the new parcel map on July 12. The council is expected to do the same on Aug. 14, the first meeting after its summer recess. |
Once escrow closes, the county will proceed with the next step: bringing the park up to code. Flaherty Ward, assistant director of housing at the Housing Authority, told the commission last month that she expects there to be some "upfront investment on the infrastructure that needs to happen." After that, the agency ho... |
During the July 12 meeting, Planning Director Hillary Gitelman called the decision to change the parcel map a "simple one." It would result in preserving an existing condition that "we all treasure in Palo Alto." |
"The city and the County have put a great deal of money into preserving the mobile home park and this is one of the prerequisites to closing escrow and letting the Authority actually follow through with the purchase," Gitelman said. |
Wonder what the total pubic cost per unit will be in end? |
Will the trailer park have its own neighborhood designation? To include them as part of Barron Park is a bit of a stretch. |
Hey Crackdown Now, the park has TWO entrances, fyi! The city is not responsible for code enforcement in the trailer park, except for actual buildings in the park with foundations. Mobile home code enforcement is the purview of the State of California. |
The trailer park has recently been inspected by the State and has passed. Is that the pass you meant? |
New management is conducting health and safety inspections now. After 9/1/2017 there will be many upgrades made to the park, including eventually modifying the entrances including the possibility of adding gates. That's happy news for you, right? |
The trailer park is an integral part of the Barron Park community, and there is no stretching involved, sorry Driscoll! |
Does anyone know whom we can contact to see if it would be possible to move the entrance to the Buena Vista to El Camino and away from Los Robles? |
Let me clarify some misunderstandings about Buena Vista - there are not one but two entrances/exits to the BV. |
inspections of Buena Vista have never been under the jurisdiction of Palo Alto's Code Enforcement but instead, along with all mobile home parks in California, are under the jurisdiction of California State Housing and Community Development. BV was inspected by the State last year. With Housing Authority, federal standa... |
Let me also anticipate some comments and do some preventative clarification. Neither City nor County used any taxpayer money toward the purchase price of BV. Each appropriately drew from its respective Affordable Housing Fund the amount from each entity was capped at that given. |
Buena Vista Mobile Home Park is 91 years old this year - nearly a century. Any map of the Barron Park neighborhood shows Buena Vista to be in the middle of our neighborhood, near but not on its eastern border. It is indivisible from us. To think that the City would now cut off Buena Vista, thereby excluding its residen... |
Carry on in the highest tradition. I'm anxious to see the end game results. So much confusion on the state, county, and PA's involvement and responsibilities in this. Wishing for a good outcome! |
Not gonna happen, sorry! Think about it, you want 400 people to use one entrance and exit, gee that's great planning, there prob. won't be any congestion, ever, right? |
This money came from various sources, all involving county and city citizens, directly or indirectly. Winter is falsely portraying this issue. There are no free pots of money. She also avoids the issues of the lost property taxes that result from this cause she espouses. |
I would like to see an analysis of where the Affordable Housing funds come from. Someone is suggesting this is not from taxpayers. Please explain. |
An estimate of costs to meet code requirements would also be appreciated. |
Locals did not get to vote on this, although school bond issues, which have far more universal benefit, do get put to a vote (and the possibility of a veto by taxpayers despite the fact that no one questions the need for schools). So I think the Council could fill in some of these blanks for the voters/taxpayers in Pal... |
Resident, the park already meets all of its code requirements! Read prior comments, the park just passed a State inspection. |
$40.4 million to sell the park (4.5 acres) without the park closure cost or repairs for many years and keep almost 2 acres of prime commercial real estate! The jisser family should write a book, The Real Art of the Deal. Even trump could not pull that off. |
The article mentions that improvements to the park will be paid from the rents. |
This brings on a question. The City of Palo Alto imposed rent control on the Jissers some years ago. Rent control always means that owners will not be able to make improvements since they will not be able to pay for them. |
The non-profit will of course have the same problem that the Jissers had: finding the money. |
1. The city will repeal the rent control ordinance to allow the non-profit to increase rents? How will this go down with the residents? Isn't it rather unfair to the Jissers (not that anyone cares)? |
2. The city and county will increase their subsidies, over time, to allow for the rents to remain within the strict confines of the ordinance? |
Hey, Robert Smith, the Jissers didn't have the prob. of "finding the money", their neglect of the park was the deliberate plan, not a bug. |
From the day they took over they began to maximize their income by renting any space bigger than a postage stamp and by maintaining a philosophy I call slum-lord, i.e. all $ flow IN, NO $ flows OUT. |
Their income JUST from their cell tower near ECR on Los Robles is approx. 10k per MONTH or possibly higher. The copies of their billing that I saw support that figure. |
PACC and the New Owners of BV are in the Honeymoon phase. Just like the new Trump Admin. they will blame all the problems on the old Obama admin (in this case, the Jissers). Vilify them all you want while you can. Once the honeymoon is over, the residents and citizens of PA will see the folly for what it is. The PACC a... |
You own it now. You can't keep blaming your mess on the old administration (..I mean previous owners). |
PAHC Neighbor. - to y point exactly. The jisser family are slumlords who neglected the place for years then sold it for millions while keeping the commercial portion. |
Great negotiations on their part. And the article reads as if the jisser family was forced to sell! They wanted out and by all standards took the profits and left the mess to the tax payers. |
The art of the deal in a while new light! |
"They wanted out and by all standards took the profits and left the mess to the tax payers." |
You make it sound as if you were forced to buy. |
Hey,Goodness, thanks for the cheery outlook, who knows, maybe Green Acres will become uninhabitable due to unforseen conditions in the future or you could lose all your savings and have to declare bankruptcy and lose your home, then you'don't probably feel like all the residents of Buenaventura Vista have felt for the ... |
PAHC Neighbor is the only one who 'gets it'. |
The Jisser family made their money after years of operating a run down shanty-town and are home free. The only ones to have any real empathy for are the remaining renters of this decrepit trailer park. |
On the question of the source of funding to for the purchase, here is the press release from Santa Clara Housing Authority regarding the source of funding. |
$29M comes from the city and the county. And according to 2016 measure A, the fund comes from a bond which will be paid with interest by an increase in property tax rate. |
This is how our tax money is at work. |
It is my understanding that trailer parks run by non-profits often have the same issues that existed under the former landlords. Given that economic issues are involved, this makes sense. |
I am just wondering who is going to pay for the improvements, maintenance, and increases in operating costs. |
PAHC: One of the interesting things about the city hearings and process was that we heard nothing at all good about the Jissers, they were totally vilified; on the other hand, we heard wonderful things about the park and what a great place it was. People I have known who lived there were also very supportive of the pla... |
We will see how the new owners measure up. |
One of country’s senior dentists reveals some nursing homes neglecting duty of care to elderly. |
The Irish Dental Association has described the figures as a “national disgrace”. |
The Irish Dental Association has described the slashing of PRSI and medical card schemes and tax reliefs as a “dental health time bomb”. |
Poll: Do you put off going to the dentist? |
Nearly one third of people are putting off going to the dentist because of the cost. Do you put off going? |
Benedikt Howedes rejected a move to Arsenal. |
The Germany defender and Schalke captain admits the Gunners made a move to bring him to London but he wanted to keep going in the Bundesliga. |
"Milan and Arsenal have really been keen on my services, this is what I am able to confirm," the World Cup winner told kicker-Sportmagazin. |
"Still I have not opted against them, I have decided in favour of Schalke. My job is not done here yet. |
"And, especially after last season, I told myself I do not want to leave this way. I am a key player of this club." |
Manchester United and Real Madrid have pulled out of the race to sign Arturo Vidal from Juventus. |
The Chile midfielder has been in trouble this week after crashing his car during the Copa America. |
He was arrested for drink driving in Santiago. |
And, according to reports in Chile, Louis van Gaal and Rada Benitez are ready to look elsewhere this summer. |
And Santi Cazorla wants to stay put after reports suggesting he could move to Atletico Madrid. |
The Spanish midfielder was sensational for Arsenal last term, he recorded more assists - with 11 - than any other Arsenal player and scored seven goals. |
“I'm very happy at Arsenal and in the Premier League," he told Goal.com. |
"I feel loved and valued by both the team and supporters. |
"Any news stories about me and Atletico Madrid are false. |
"Currently I am just focused on Arsenal, I have two more years on my contract here and I hope to complete them. |
If you've travelled across this fine country of ours, then you already know it's full of epic, unparalleled scenery. |
It's also really, really big. Even those who have crossed the whole thing haven't seen everything. And there are always new perspectives to be discovered. |
Like the perspective of a miniature train, two inches from the ground. |
He took a two-inch-tall model train with him on a journey across the country - it was small enough to fit inside a shopping bag - photographing it in various locations as he went. |
"I started The Canadian project to show the country from an unseen vantage point," he told My Modern Met. "While it is tempting to document such a huge country from a helicopter or a plane (in fact, it has been done several times), I wanted to get closer to the heart of the land." |
As these pics show, he did a great job. |
"It often takes a change of perception to see familiar things in a new way," Friesen says. "I hope those who see The Canadian enjoy an old journey from a new viewpoint." |
You can visit Friesen's website and see more of his work right here. |
Southern Utah University is offering family-friendly movies, live music and food trucks gathering at Cedar City’s Main Street Park, 200 N. Main St. |
The Larry H. Miller Utah Summer Games and SUU Community Education program are partnering to offer Summer Games Party in the Park for the month of June. |
Three movies will play during the month of June in the heart of Cedar City’s downtown at the Main Street Park. Live music will start each night at 7 p.m. and movies will begin at sunset, or approximately 9 p.m. each evening on June 8, 15, and 22. Admission is free for everybody. |
More than 9,000 athletes come to Cedar City annually for the Larry H. Miller Utah Summer Games, and they bring an estimated 30,000 family members with them. |
Melynda Thorpe, director of SUU Community Education, has also partnered with the Larry H. Miller Utah Summer Games to bring a golf tournament back to the annual summer games after a four-year absence. |
For information on Summer Games Party in the Park, follow @SUUcommunityeducation on Facebook, or call 435-865-8259. For information on the Larry H. Miller Utah Summer Games golf tournament and one-day clinic by Byron Casper, son of golf legend Billy Casper, visit suu.edu/wise. |
Christoph Woerlein, MD, recently began practicing at Intermountain Healthcare’s Redrock Digestive Health Clinic. The clinic is located on the third floor of Dixie Regional Medical Center’s Health and Performance Center and appointments for Dr. Woerlein are being accepted at 435-251-3800. |
A practicing gastroenterologist for the past 20 years, Dr. Woerlein received his medical degree at Christian Albrecht University, School of Medicine in Kiel, Germany. He completed an Internal Medicine Internship at the University of Utah School of Medicine, and an Internal Medicine Residency at Intermountain LDS Hospit... |
At the close of the academic year, Dixie State University reported the largest amount of service-learning hours in its history. |
From assisting local teachers to collaborating with nonprofit organizations around the world, Dixie State students and faculty contributed more than 108,000 hours of service-learning. |
Service-learning is an active approach to education that drives students to utilize skills and knowledge gained in courses to satisfy real community needs. Dixie State’s strategic plan, “Dixie 2020: Status to Stature,” has further emphasized the importance of service-learning and outlines a plan to increase student inv... |
More than 1,300 Trailblazers participated in service-learning through their courses within the last year and worked with a number of groups in the community as well as in several countries throughout the world. DSU volunteers also dedicated time to service and community engagement through Dixie Serves, DSU’s global and... |
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