On "Behind the Headlines," Palo Alto Councilman Tom DuBois joins journalists Jocelyn Dong and Gennady Sheyner to discuss the City Council's divisive debate over the Comprehensive Plan.
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Webcasts are posted every Friday afternoon on PaloAltoOnline.com, as well as on Palo Alto Online's YouTube channel, youtube.com/paweekly.
Check out previous weeks' episodes:
• Behind the Headlines: Palo Alto Mayor Greg Scharff
• Behind the Headlines: Seeking sanctuary from domestic violence
• Behind the Headlines: Public Immigration Forum
• Behind the Headlines: Office for Civil Rights agreement
• Behind the Headlines: Best and worst films of 2016
• Behind the Headlines: Year in review
• Behind the Headlines: Carmageddon
• Behind the Headlines: Harvard report on special education
• Behind the Headlines: Palo Alto trees -- dead or alive?
• Behind the Headlines: Board of Education election analysis
• Behind the Headlines: City Council election analysis
• Behind the Headlines: Bullying case tests district's policies
• Behind the Headlines: the debate over weighted grade-point averages
• Behind the Headlines: Palo Alto politics, East Palo Alto evictions
• Behind The Headlines: Campaign finance, Airbnb conflicts
• Behind the Headlines: The Donkeys of Barron Park
• Behind the Headlines: Election special
• Behind The Headlines: Retail news, housing controversies
• Behind the Headlines: Remembering 9/11
• Behind The Headlines: Palo Alto's master plan for public art
• Behind the Headline: The Evolving El Camino Real
• Behind The Headlines: Housing Crisis, November Election
• Behind The Headlines: Stemming the Flow -- Flood Protection
• Behind The Headlines: Muslim in America -- Reaction to rhetoric
• Behind The Headlines: Locals to Impact Olympics
• Behind The Headlines: Race, Policing and Reconciliation
• Behind the Headlines: Reporters' Roundtable
• Behind The Headlines: Innovator in Education
• Behind The Headlines: Spectacular fireworks
• Behind The Headlines: Elementary math, Castilleja expansion
• Behind the Headlines: Saving Buena Vista
• Behind The Headlines: Brock Turner uproar and election recap
• Behind The Headlines: Palo Alto students speak out
• Behind The Headlines: DA's fatal police shooting report & Cash flows into the Assembly race
• Behind the Headlines: Teacher Compensation in Palo Alto
• Behind The Headlines: To the rescue -- Disaster volunteers prepare
• Behind The Headlines: Size Matters -- Student-to-teacher ratios in Palo Alto
• Behind the Headlines: Transportation: problems and solutions
• Behind the Headlines: Taxi struggles and Eichler disputes
• Behind The Headlines: Palo Alto considers full-day kindergarten
• Behind The Headlines: State Assembly District 24 -- A look at the candidates
• Behind The Headlines: College Terrace challenge Stanford toxic study
• Behind the Headlines: Inside the Brock Turner case
• Behind the Headlines: Tackling Palo Alto's housing and traffic problems
• Behind the Headlines: Dr. Steven Adelsheim on youth mental health
• Behind the Headlines: Renaming movement, Addison Donation, Office Cap
• Behind the Headlines: "State of the City" with Mayor Pat Burt
• Behind the Headlines: Bridging the gap - Understanding Palo Alto's Chinese community
• Behind the Headlines: Growing up Undocumented
• Behind the Headlines: Talking Sustainability with Gil Friend
• Behind the Headlines: Secondary dwelling units, New school proposal
• Behind the Headlines: Stanford University and Sexual Assault, Prepping for the Super Bowl
• Behind the Headlines: Development at Stanford Research Park; police and the mentally ill
• Behind the Headlines: Divisive mayoral election; fatal police shooting
• Behind the Headlines: The year's best and worst movies
• Behind the Headlines: 2015 Year in Review
• Behind the Headlines: Inside Palo Alto's Emergency Center
• Behind the Headlines: Undisclosed new-school proposal; groundwater pumping
• Behind the Headlines: Buena Vista owner sues City; New plans for public-safety center
• Behind the Headlines: Palo Alto Fire Department changes
• Behind the Headlines: Midtown bicycle paths; Transgender youth
• Behind the Headlines: New school proposed for Palo Alto
• Behind the Headlines: Tension within governing boards
• Behind the Headlines: Affordable housing; Transportation initiatives
• Behind the Headlines: Paly teacher investigation
• Behind the Headlines: Stanford students' activism against sexual assault
• Behind the Headlines: Preserving retail; capping office development
• Behind the Headlines: Transportation tax; Fiber to the Premise
• Behind the Headlines: Fall Arts Preview
• Behind the Headlines: Police conduct on campuses; new parkland
Comments
Crescent Park
on Feb 4, 2017 at 11:34 am
on Feb 4, 2017 at 11:34 am
I'm not in favor of sky scrapers, so don't label me. But I think this outrage PASZ and the Weekly are trying to foment is phony. We have ordinances that enforce the height limit and FARs for new development. However, the losers in the November election, led by the Weekly, feel we need to have double regulations -- with all of those restrictions stated in both city law and the comp plan. I got news for your guys, council can with a 5-0 vote change the comp plan just as easily as it can change an ordinance. Quit trying to trick people into thinking the new majority did something drastic. That's just not the case. (Is the Weekly promoting this just to draw page views?)
Adobe-Meadow
on Feb 4, 2017 at 11:49 am
on Feb 4, 2017 at 11:49 am
If it is not such a big deal, why do it as a pre-planned series of amendments without public notice, comment, or discussion? This seems to have been jammed through, to the surprise of dissenting council members and the public. Is that how we want to do things as important as the comp plan?