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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 2h

Give them a break, it was raining.

Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 4h

Cars.

Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 16h

It's also not about immigrants, undocumented or otherwise. It's about force, and imposing their violent will.

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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 16h

Atherton has no Caltrain station anyway.

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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 17h

A funny thing about the SF Peninsula is, several of the Caltrain cities have populations just below 35,000. Hopefully the quarter mile rezoning will up the population to make the half mile rezoning for even more housing.

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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 17h

Losing inhibitions and making vulgar sexual remarks not previously make in public is a symptom of dementia.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 18h

The laws are there. HCD needs to enforce them.

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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 18h

They'd be out of compliance for not doing the promised rezoning, and for zoning this area for less than 20 du/acre, and for imposing standards that make development financially impossible.

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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 18h

Yes, and there is plenty of room on an acre for lots of homes. But Los Altos Hills doesn't want to allow them.

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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 18h

HCD should act, but I don't have any confidence they will.

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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 19h

Yes.

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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 19h

I'd like to see it.

Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 19h

It's not a downzoning (because the sites are each zoned for one house now), but it's a violation of housing element law. At the very least, they are required by CA § 65583.2(c)(3)(B) to zone the sites for at least 20 du/acre and they are not doing that.

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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 19h

I haven’t listed all the constraints, just the worst. The rezoning is Thursday. /end

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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 19h

Los Altos Hills is only rezoning 3 sites in this area, and any development has to use all three of them. 6/7

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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 19h

Los Altos Hills will demand 60 foot setbacks front, side and rear. SIXTY feet. 5/7

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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 19h

Los Altos Hills of course has no existing multifamily to compare. But next door, in also expensive Los Altos, even the all-affordable project being constructed has 1071 sq ft per unit, much bigger than the 750 sq ft LAH will allow. 4/7

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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 19h

To make extra sure nothing gets built, the multifamily homes can only average 750 sq ft each, including corridors and lobbies, which is about 600 sq ft net. No developer would build teeny homes like that in a town of enormous mansions. 3/7

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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 19h

In the one area where there’s a possibility that builders would build, they promised the state to zone for 450 homes. But now they plan to zone for only about 86 homes. 2/7

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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 19h

Los Altos Hills CA is up to their old tricks, to get out of allowing homes for the people who can’t afford the $5.7M houses there. The rich exclusionary town has to zone for multifamily housing, but they don’t want to, so they’re weaseling. 🧵1/7

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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 21h

OK thanks.

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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 21h

Apparently there is a line.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 21h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 21h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 21h

My thought was, if the prosecutor wasn't qualified to submit the indictment, then it's a nullity and never happened, and there would be nothing to refile. But I don't know if it works that way,

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