University Ave Streetscape Survey Closes Nov. 24

In 2021, the City launched the University Avenue Streetscape Project, a new effort to build upon and reimagine infrastructure changes enhancing this important commercial district and re-shaping the future of University Avenue and Downtown Palo Alto alike. The community survey closes Sunday, November 24; share your input before the deadline: communityfeedback.opengov.com/14065.

NEW: Downtown Housing Plan Survey Now Open

NEW: Help the City gain community perspectives on housing in the downtown area. Input will help inform the Downtown Housing Area Plan process, focused on housing production in Palo Alto’s downtown, and implementing policies and programs of the City’s Comprehensive Plan and the 2023–2031 Housing Element. The survey is one outreach tool of many used to engage the community, businesses, and regional and local stakeholders. Take the survey here: communityfeedback.opengov.com/14139.

Share your feedback on the University Avenue Streetscape Project goals, design elements and ideas about special events on University Avenue. Thank you in advance for your thoughts and perspectives with us. Initial survey feedback will help inform the current planning effort underway. The City is committed to engaging stakeholders over the course of the project and will continue to share future opportunities for community input.

Deadline to submit your input is Sunday, November 24.

Take the survey here: https://communityfeedback.opengov.com/14065

To learn more about this effort, find the project page at: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/UniversityAveStreetscape

The 2024 Palo Alto Community Survey is open citywide online now and the deadline was extended to Monday, October 21. This is one way of many that we gain insights from residents that helps the City Council and City staff understand community perspectives on current services and programs, as well as unmet needs and priorities.

Please take the survey and learn more at www.cityofpaloalto.org/CommunitySurvey2024

The 2024 Palo Alto Community Survey is open citywide online now! This is one way of many that we gain insights from residents that helps the City Council and City staff understand community perspectives on current services and programs, as well as unmet needs and priorities. Survey closes Monday, October 7. 

Please take the survey and learn more at www.cityofpaloalto.org/CommunitySurvey2024

There are three surveys on key topics of interest to share your input. Help inform City policy creation and decision making by sharing your input and feedback on these open surveys.

Downtown Parking Experience Online Survey

Share input on your experiences parking in Downtown Palo Alto in a new online survey! The City offers thousands of Downtown parking spaces for visitors to work, shop, and dine in one of Palo Alto's largest business districts. Results will be used to evaluate additional parking permit types and explore customer enhancements such as validation, mobile payment, and potential parking time limit extensions. Survey closes on August 4.

Take the survey

Cal Ave. Car Free Street Design Concepts Online Survey

Participate in this survey to help inform the design of signage and streetscape concepts for Cal Ave! By City Council’s direction, Cal Ave. will remain a permanent car-free street. Would you prefer a street that’s more kid-friendly or upscale? How about a Cal Ave. outdoor movie screening or night market? Your response will help advance Cal Ave.’s future design concept planning underway. Survey closes on August 11.

Fill out the survey

Airport Long Range Planning Online Survey – Deadline Extended

Inform the Palo Alto Airport’s plans to implement long-term improvements in accordance with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) guidelines. The Palo Alto Airport’s Long Range Facilities and Sustainability Plan (LRFSP) will result in a blueprint to improve the Airport’s sustainability and address local environmental concerns. Share your thoughts on several alternatives for the Airport’s blueprint, designed according to both FAA regulations and community input. Survey closes on August 10.

Take the survey

The Palo Alto Airport’s Long Range Facilities and Sustainability Plan (LRFSP) is a planning process using guidance from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The LRFSP will result in a blueprint, based on the goals listed below, for long term improvements at the Palo Alto Airport in alignment with City initiatives such as the Sustainability and Climate Action Plan, the 2030 Comprehensive Plan, and annual City Council Priorities.

A new survey is available to gain the communities’ feedback to help identify a preferred alternative to be documented in the LRFSP. The preferred alternative could be one of the alternatives presented, a combination of elements from different alternatives, or something completely different. No decisions on the preferred alternative have been made at this point.

The survey is open now through July 15. Take the survey here.

In addition, the City is hosting an open house style community meeting on June 20, 6 p.m. at the Baylands Golf Links Cafe.

Other Helpful Resources

• Palo Alto Airport
• Long-Range Facilities and Sustainability Plan

The 2024 City Council Priorities Survey closes on Tuesday, January 2, 2024. 

Each year the City Council reviews and selects annual priorities at their Council Retreat for the calendar year ahead. A Council priority is defined as a topic that will receive significant attention during the year.

In 2023, the City Council prioritized Economic Recovery & Transition, Climate Change & Natural Environment – Protection & Adaptation, Housing for Social & Economic Balance, and Community Health & Safety.

Share your feedback on what priorities you would like to see the City Council adopt for 2024. Input received will be shared with the City Council in preparation for their annual discussion scheduled on Monday, January 29, 2024.

Thank you in advance for your feedback!

Each year the City Council reviews and selects annual priorities at their Council Retreat, which usually occurs in early January or February for the calendar year ahead. A Council priority is defined as a topic that will receive significant attention during the year. In 2023, the City Council prioritized Economic Recovery & Transition, Climate Change & Natural Environment – Protection & Adaptation, Housing for Social & Economic Balance, and Community Health & Safety. Share your feedback on what priorities you would like to see the City Council adopt for 2024. Input received will be shared with the City Council in preparation for their annual discussion.

The deadline for the 2023 Earth Day Photo Contest is coming soon. Be sure to take a photo of how you take climate action and submit it to Open Town Hall by April 30!

The City of Palo Alto's Office of Sustainability is also partnering with students from the Sustainable Cities course at Stanford University to conduct a survey to determine Palo Altan’s awareness of and ability to act on our sustainability goals. This survey will help inform City staff on how best to work with our community to achieve the goals of the Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (S/CAP) by understanding Palo Altan’s sustainability priorities and motivations for climate action.

Find more ways to take climate action by visiting www.cityofpaloalto.org/TakeClimateAction.

The City encourages and appreciates the community’s input and feedback. Two new surveys are available. Share your thoughts today!

• 2023 City Council Priorities: Each year, the City Council reviews its priorities for the year at its annual Council Retreat which will be scheduled for early 2023. A Council priority is defined as a topic that will receive significant attention during the year. Community input will be provided to the City Council in preparation for their retreat. Share your input here.
• Car Free Streets at California Avenue and Ramona Street: Share your input on the future visioning of California Avenue and Ramona Street! This survey is part of the first phase of outreach with more engagement planned in early 2023, and is split into two sections, a focus on California Avenue and then a focus on Ramona Street.

Thank you in advance for your response and participation!

Thank you to the community members that shared their feedback on 2022 Council priorities by emailing the Council, sharing thoughts at the retreat, and/or filling out the online survey.

On Saturday, February 5, 2022 the City Council selected the following priorities:

1. Economic Recovery and Transition
   • Cohesive vision for our commercial cores
2. Climate Change – Protection and Adaptation
3. Housing for Social and Economic Balance
4. Community Health and Safety
   • Crime, mental health, air quality, noise, sense of belonging

From the online survey, some of the frequently commented on priorities include: 

• Community and Economic Recovery 
• Public Safety 
• Climate Change 
• Housing 
• Community Services, Libraries, Teen Services
• City Infrastructure, fiscal sustainability 
• Airplane noise, leaf blower noise, and train noise
• Race and Equity 
• Campaign Finance 
• Healthy Community

For more details, including the survey results and other community input received, go to www.cityofpaloalto.org/councilpriorities

What are the priorities you would like to see the City Council adopt for 2022?

Each year, the City Council reviews its priorities for the year at its annual Council Retreat which is scheduled on Saturday, February 5, 2022. A Council priority is defined as a topic that will receive significant attention during the year. Typically, priorities have a three-year time limit, although some may continue beyond that time period.

The City Council priorities for 2021 are:

• Economic Recovery: focus on COVID-19 impacts and public health, internal improvement and fiscal sustainability, and external recovery
• Housing for Social and Economic Balance: focus on affordable and workforce housing, funding and achievable plans
• Social Justice: commitment to the implementation of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
• Climate Change - Protection and Adaptation: adherence to a strong action plan to fulfill the 2030 agenda for sustainable development

The City values your engagement. Input received through this platform will be provided to the City Council in preparation for their retreat. Please share "Your Priorities" on this topic by Tuesday, January 18, 2022, at noon.

If you have questions, please send them to [email protected].

What are the priorities you would like to see the City Council adopt for 2022?

Each year, the City Council reviews its priorities for the year at its annual Council Retreat which will be scheduled in early February 2022. A Council priority is defined as a topic that will receive significant attention during the year. Typically, priorities have a three-year time limit, although some may continue beyond that time period.

The City Council priorities for 2021 are:

• Economic Recovery: focus on COVID-19 impacts and public health, internal improvement and fiscal sustainability, and external recovery
• Housing for Social and Economic Balance: focus on affordable and workforce housing, funding and achievable plans
• Social Justice: commitment to the implementation of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
• Climate Change - Protection and Adaptation: adherence to a strong action plan to fulfill the 2030 agenda for sustainable development

The City values your engagement. Input received through this platform will be provided to the City Council in preparation for their retreat. Please share "Your Priorities" on this topic by Tuesday, January 18, 2022, at noon.

If you have questions, please send them to [email protected].

The City recently released the City of Palo Alto's Fiscal Year 2022 Proposed Operating Budget and Fiscal Year 2022 Proposed Capital Budget along with the 2022-2026 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). The Proposed Budget reflects our current fiscal reality as a result of the ongoing, extended pandemic, related economic challenges and continued resource limitations. The proposed balancing strategy addresses the community’s immediate core service needs, while positioning Palo Alto to restore services and evolve as recovery takes shape.

The budget process proposed provides an opportunity to advance public discussions on how to most effectively resource services that have the greatest impact on the community. To that end, this survey is intended to help inform upcoming budget conversations taking place with the Finance Committee and City Council.

Share your letter of support for select Palo Alto projects to potentially gain Community Project Funding during this year's Congressional federal fiscal year 2022-23 budget process.

Part of this year’s federal appropriations, Congressmembers can request Community Project Funding (earmarks) for non-profits and public agencies for local initiatives in the federal fiscal year 2022-2023. The deadline for submission to Congresswoman Eshoo’s Office is April 12. Congresswoman Eshoo’s office is requesting community support letters along with the City's project requests. The City has developed three (3) project requests for possible submittal, each having prior City Council supportive action. In addition, the Palo Alto Museum, in partnership with the City of Palo Alto, will be submitting a non-profit project to support the renovation of the Roth Building at 300 Homer Avenue. There is also an opportunity to summit a letter of support for this community project. The City invites the community to submit letters of support for these projects that we will include with our application to Congresswoman Eshoo's office. Thank you for your support. 

We'll be accepting letters through the morning of Monday, April 12!

We are excited to launch our new, streamlined, and mobile-responsive beta website to the public. Community members are encouraged to explore the new site still under construction and share their feedback on the current design, navigation, search, and other web elements before we launch the new website in Spring 2021. The beta period will close on Wednesday, February 24.

Get started at beta.cityofpaloalto.org and then take the survey.

Please spread the word and encourage others to visit the beta website and take the survey as well.

Thank you,

City of Palo Alto

Each year, Palo Alto City Council reviews its priorities for the year ahead at its annual Council Retreat. A Council priority is defined as a topic that will receive significant attention during the year. Typically, priorities have a three-year time limit, although some may continue beyond that time period.

• Housing: with an emphasis on affordable housing
• Sustainability: in the context of the changing climate
• Mobility: improving mobility for all.

For more detailed information on the 2020 City Council Priorities, check this website and CMR 11034 - Discussion and Selection of 2020 Council Priorities.

The 2020 three Council priorities were chosen from a list of eleven submitted by Council Members and discussed at their annual retreat on February 1, 2020. Priorities are meant to give overarching themes to the year's actions and focus by the City Council. While the priorities selected are bigger picture, the topics that fall under can be very detailed. Topics discussed last year included pursuing a business tax, reconstructing Cubberley Community Center, and addressing transportation and traffic issues by expanding the City's shuttle program and promoting alternatives to solo driving.

Carryover priorities from previous years include:

• 2018: Grade Separation, Transportation
• 2019: Climate Change, Fiscal Sustainability

This Policy and Services Committee staff report from their December 2020 meeting provides background on Council priority setting and other related items. The Policy and Services Committee is tasked at the end of each year with collecting City staff suggestions and coming up with some of their suggestions based on their work over the past year. The list you'll find below comes from the aforementioned December meeting of the Policy and Services Committee.

The National Citizen Survey, not conducted in 2019, was launched in 2020 and is currently collecting similar information on community priorities for Palo Alto. The survey was open to a random sampling of residents last month and will open to the public for general responses later this month. With this additional layer of feedback, the Council will have even more community input on their upcoming decisions on priorities and could help inform the budget process and other annual City processes and decision-making. Community feedback is an important aspect of City Council decision-making processes and there are many opportunities to express your input and ideas on upcoming community issues.

This online community survey seeks to help the Council rank the list of priorities that the Policy and Services Committee has forwarded for Council consideration at their retreat. Input received through this platform will be provided to the City Council in preparation for their retreat. The Council retreat agenda and meeting details will be posted online several days in advance of the retreat here: www.cityofpaloalto.org/councilagendas.

The City values your engagement. Thank you in advance for your input!

This is an unprecedented time, and together we face a series of tough budget discussions in the weeks ahead. Thank you for joining the conversation.

Due to the current public health emergency, the City is anticipating extreme impacts to our local, regional, and state economies, tax revenue, and more. As a result, on May 4, the City Council adopted a set of budget assumptions to help inform how staff will prepare the revised Fiscal Year 2020-2021 operating and capital budgets for Council consideration and community input. The City Council selected scenario estimates with a preliminary loss of $39 million in major tax revenues during the next fiscal year. The assumptions include a shelter in place period through early summer with prolonged economic impacts lasting throughout the rest of the fiscal year, if not longer. In addition, anticipated impacts of continued social distancing such as limitations on travel and a slow recovery of local economic engines such as the downtown core, California Avenue, and Stanford Shopping Center and other related business activities will persist during this timeframe.

The City has established a dedicated budget webpage at www.cityofpaloalto.org/budget for additional resources to stay informed and share your thoughts.

We are in this together and we are seeking community input on the City’s fiscal situation in two phases. The first phase is your feedback on the City’s six service areas and ways you would prioritize these services.

The six service areas are:

• Public Safety
• Infrastructure and Environment
• Planning and Transportation
• Economic Sustainability and Business Support  
• Neighborhood, Community and Library Services  
• Administration and Government

This initial community engagement will help inform the City Council’s budget deliberations that begin on May 11 through May 13. These public hearings are open to the community to tune in.

Following these discussions, the second phase of community conversations is planned including another online budget survey and a series of informational sessions to learn more about preliminary potential service impacts. These conversations and online input will inform the Council’s discussion on May 26 to review and consider a revised proposed budget. Following this discussion, staff will make any adjustments and return to the City Council for final adoption of a budget in early June.

Thank you in advance for your input and for continuing the conversation with us.

For a list of Council discussions planned and ways to share your input, go here. Other budget resources to inform and details of the first in a two-part series of budget engagement efforts will be available this week on the City’s dedicated budget webpage at www.cityofpaloalto.org/budget.

Thank you to community members who have responded to the current survey seeking input on City Council Priorities for 2020. For those still planning to share your thoughts, the deadline is coming up soon.

With the City Council retreat date now scheduled for February 1, 2020, the deadline for the survey input is January 24, 2020, by 11:59 p.m. If you haven't submitted your priorities just yet, please share them soon.

The City values your engagement. Input received through this platform will be provided to the City Council in preparation for their retreat. Please share "Your Priorities" on this topic by Friday, January 24, 2020, at 11:59 p.m.

If you have questions, please send them to [email protected].

This message is being sent from the City Manager's Office on behalf of the City Council.

What are the priorities you would like to see the City Council adopt for 2020?

Each year, the City Council reviews its priorities for the year at its annual Council Retreat which will be scheduled in early 2020. A Council priority is defined as a topic that will receive significant attention during the year. Typically, priorities have a three-year time limit, although some may continue beyond that time period.

The City values your engagement. Input received through this platform will be provided to the City Council in preparation for their retreat. Please share "Your Priorities" on this topic by Friday, January 31, 2020, at 11:59 p.m.

If you have questions, please send them to [email protected].

What are the priorities you would like to see the City Council adopt for 2019?

Each year, the City Council reviews its priorities for the year at its Annual Council Retreat. A Council priority is defined as a topic that will receive significant attention during the year. Typically, priorities have a three-year time limit, although some may continue beyond that time period.    

The priorities for 2018 included:

• Transportation
• Housing
• Budget & Finance
• Rail Grade Separation

Suggestions and feedback will be provided to the City Council in preparation for their retreat scheduled for February 2, 2019.     Your responses are important to the City Council.  Please submit all comments on this topic by January 28, 2019.  

What are the priorities you would like to see the City Council adopt for 2018?

Each year, the City Council reviews its priorities for the year at its Annual Council Retreat. A Council priority is defined as a topic that will receive particular, unusual and significant attention during the year.  Typically, priorities have a three-year time limit, although some may continue beyond that time period. 

To learn more and leave your feedback click here.

Please provide your feedback to help select the next Police Chief for Palo Alto.

The City of Palo Alto has initiated a search to hire the next Chief of Police, with the final candidate selection to be made by the City Manager and confirmed by the City Council. The City is seeking community input to the following questions that will be provided to the executive recruitment firm assisting the City in identifying the key qualities and areas of focus for Palo Alto’s next police chief.  

Please let us know what you think by filling out this questionnaire!

Thank you for your participation on Open City Hall. Your comments and engagement in this process are much appreciated. In July 2015, the City launched a new online community engagement tool called the “Digital Commenter” to serve as a way to “crowdsource” comments and ideas for the update to the City’s Comprehensive Plan.  

To learn more about how your feedback is being used please click the outcome statement tab for each topic. You can find all "Digital Commenter" topics here or to click directly through to the outcome statement click here.  

Thank you again for your participation. We hope that you will remain engaged with the City and continue to provide your thoughts and opinions.

What ideas do you have about policies and programs for the draft Safety Element?

Each year, the City Council reviews its priorities for the year at its Annual Council Retreat. You still have time to comment on the priorities you would like to see the City Council adopt for 2017. Have your say, today!

Each year, the City Council reviews its priorities for the year at its Annual Council Retreat. What are the priorities you would like to see the City Council adopt for 2017?

What ideas do you have about policies and programs for the draft Natural Environment Element?

Next up in our Comprehensive Planning process is the draft Natural Environment Element, which contains 8 over arching goals addressing open space, creeks & streams, urban forest, water resources, air quality, noise, energy and climate change & climate adaptation.

We'd like your feedback on these goals and the plans to get there. You can choose to participate in a quick exercise by answering a few general questions, or review the detailed policies and programs. Please take a few minutes and add your voice. 

The deadline for submitting your comments is 9 a.m. on Wednesday, November 9th.

Thank you for providing valuable input on strengthening the link between land use planning and sustainability. In total, 67 community members visited the topic, leaving 25 comments that have been provided to the Sustainability Subcommittee of the Comprehensive Plan Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC).   The Sustainability Subcommittee met once in May and is meeting again between late June and early July to recommend policies and programs to include in the Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan. We welcome you to attend the upcoming meeting; details of meeting location and time will be posted to the project website by mid-June. The recommendations of the Sustainability Subcommittee will be considered by the CAC at their July 19 meeting.   Visit www.paloaltocompplan.org for more information on the Comprehensive Plan Update and the Citizens Advisory Committee.

How can we strengthen the link between land use planning and sustainability?

This week, the focus of the Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan Update (Comp Plan) shifts to land use and community design, as Palo Alto makes important decisions about growth management and the quality of life in our community. 

Visit the Digital Commenter - an  interactive online forum that enables you to comment directly on key issues and participate in an interactive discussion with other Palo Altans.

• Have 10 minutes?  Choose the Quick Version to provide input on a handful of critical questions.
• Have more time?  Choose the Extended Version to dive deeper into specific policies and programs, with notes and questions from staff.

Join the conversation today! The deadline for contributions is April 11 and community input will be forwarded to the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) for consideration as they discuss updates to the policies and programs for the Land Use and Community Design Element of the Comp Plan. Visit www.paloaltocompplan.org for more information for more information on the project and the process.

Thank you for your continued interest in the City of Palo Alto’s Comp Plan Update. We look forward to hearing from you.

The Preliminary Draft Transportation Element is ready for public feedback. Share your thoughts today.

What services, programs or improvements do you think would be most effective at reducing traffic - and Greenhouse Gas emissions - and still enable people to get around the City and the region, faster and more conveniently? Maybe even without a car?

    Do you support the goal of Palo Alto becoming a Carbon Neutral City?

    The Preliminary Draft Community Services and Facilities Draft Element is ready for review! Share your thoughts today.

What are the priorities you would like to see the City Council adopt for 2016?

What ideas do you have about the draft Transportation Element?

Most cities, including Palo Alto, utilize a document called a General Plan to guide preservation and development decisions in their municipalities. We have named our document the Comprehensive Plan, as it is the repository of our collective community values and aspirations, and gives us tools to manage growth and change. The City Council has asked all of us to participate in a process that will update our current Comprehensive Plan, which was last updated in 1998. In order to fully understand the community’s hopes for the document, your ideas and comments are needed.

We want your input regarding options for providing ultra high-speed wireless Internet access broadly to our community.

If you were not able to attend the Our Palo Alto 2030 Summit or participated and have more ideas, the City of Palo Alto has created another opportunity to share your vision on transportation, growth management and housing.  The Virtual Summit will be “live” through the end of June, and your ideas will be shared with Palo Alto’s City Council and the Citizen Advisory Committee as part of the update to Palo Alto’s Comprehensive Plan. 

What is the one aspect that best defines Palo Alto’s community character for you?

    What are the top three things that would motivate you to drive less?

Should the City of Palo Alto adopt an ordinance setting a local minimum wage that is higher than the State minimum wage?

On Nov. 20, 2014, the City posted the question, “What are the three priorities you would like to see the City Council adopt for 2015?”

The Council’s adopted priorities for 2015 include:     

• The Built Environment: Multi-modal transportation, parking and livability 
• Infrastructure Strategy and Implementation 
• Healthy City, Healthy Community 
• Completion of the Comprehensive Plan update with increased focus from Council

For more, please click on Read More.

How do you think Palo Alto should move forward with Planning Community Districts? What constitutes a substantial public benefit?

What are the three priorities you would like to see the City Council adopt for 2015?

What would it take for Palo Alto to be carbon neutral in 10 years or less?

Recently, the City of Palo Alto closed two Open City Hall Topics.  The Critical Issues topic asked “What are the critical issues for Palo Alto's future?”  and asked people to offer feedback to this question in one or more of the categories of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, or Threats. It closed on July 20, 2014. The Focus Areas addressed six geographic areas, identified based on input from community members, where future growth might be focused, and asked “What roles should these Focus Areas play in the life of the City in 2030?”  It closed on August 5, 2014.

The input received in response to both topics was considered by Planning and Transportation Commission members at their meeting on July 9, 2014, and by the City Council at their meeting on August 4, 2014 as they considered the four land use alternatives that had been developed through the community workshops held in May and June.  The City Council has directed staff to come back to Council for further discussion of the Comprehensive Plan Update process, and its interrelationship with other planning initiatives that will address the issues identified through this exercise.  This discussion will begin at the Council’s  September 8 meeting.  We encourage you to remain involved as your input on critical issues will continue to inform the process.  Stay tuned for more opportunities to participate and share your views as the City updates its Comprehensive Plan, the foundational policy document that guides land use and development decisions.

Next week, the City Council will discuss alternative future scenarios for Palo Alto as part of the Comprehensive Plan update currently underway. These scenarios will describe different ways our city might evolve over the next 15 years. We need your input to help shape these scenarios before they are analyzed in detail. Share your vision in our online forum today!

The scenarios that go before Council will be based on input the community provides at public meetings and via Palo Alto's online discussion forum between May 29 and August 5, 2014. There are 5 days left to participate online so don't miss this chance to have your say.

Once the scenarios are approved by Council, the next phase of the project will begin. By the end of 2014, an environmental impact report (EIR) evaluating the potential environmental impacts of the scenarios will be released and in 2015 the community will be invited to help select a preferred alternative future scenario.

For more information about the Comprehensive Plan Update process, visit: http://www.paloaltocompplan.org/

At the Growth Management workshop on June 10, community members identified areas of Palo Alto that should be protected and preserved, as well as areas where change and development could be focused. The City is seeking input on these focus areas and on alternative futures for the City.

Participate in this online activity and let us know your vision for Palo Alto in 2030. Your input will help shape the alternative future scenarios that will be presented to City Council on August 4, 2014 and will be considered as part of the Comprehensive plan process.

To learn more about the Comprehensive Plan Update process, visit: http://www.paloaltocompplan.org/

As we update the Comprehensive Plan, we want to hear from you about the critical issues and opportunities that need to be addressed. Use our online SWOT tool to help identify the key strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to consider as we plan for Palo Alto in 2030.

http://www.paloaltocompplan.org/get-involved/online-forum/

This online activity will remain open from June 6 through July 20, 2014. Your input will help shape three alternative future scenarios for Palo Alto that will be presented to City Council on August 4, 2014. Once approved by Council, these three scenarios will be analyzed in a Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Comprehensive Plan Update.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to help shape Palo Alto's future. Have your say today!