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Osma Thompson in Greenmeadow March 29, 2026, 11:36 PM
Below are strategies for the North Fabian neighborhood described above. Share your support level for each strategy.
Is there any other feedback you’d like to provide on the North Fabian neighborhood? Recommend making the area walkable, keeping amenities close by
Land Use
Outdoor Space
Building Height
Is there any other feedback you’d like to provide on the CTI sub area? There’s a great museum there that is an amenity to the public, and a tourist attraction - it is a boon for the area
Share your input on Alternative 1 Strongly Support
Share your input for Alternative 2 Support
Feedback for Alternative 2 San Antonio Avenue, the frontage road along green meadow and Greendell, is an important road that keeps kids safe from the bustling truck traffic of San Antonio. The buffer is important and should be maintained in some way.
Share your input on Alternative 3 Neutral / Don't know
Feedback for Alternative 3 Seems extra to have two sets of two way bike paths. We also just replaced all the trees, it feels like.
Is there any other feedback you’d like to provide on the plan alternatives? I think more information on the pros and cons of each alternative would be helpful, and of course acknowledging that the section isn’t actually going to work across the whole thoroughfare because of the extra avenues. This nuance is important to articulate to the public
Which city do you live in? Palo alto
If in Palo Alto, what is your neighborhood? Greendell
Which of these describe your association with the Plan Area (choose all that apply) I live here (renter)
How old are you? 36-45
Cecile Limborg in Greenmeadow March 29, 2026, 10:14 PM
Below are strategies for the North Fabian neighborhood described above. Share your support level for each strategy.
Is there any other feedback you’d like to provide on the North Fabian neighborhood? We cannot concentrate the 26% population increase over 1.7 % of the Palo Alto land. We don't want high rise. We should not convert south Palo Alto into a high-rise city.
Land Use
Outdoor Space
Building Height
Is there any other feedback you’d like to provide on the CTI sub area? We don't want high rise buildings. We need to have retail stores so that people can stay in neighborhood to do their shopping.
We also need schools, parks. Construction without a traffic plan to handle 26% additional population is a recipe for failure.
Also we need to insure that new inhabitants have at least one car parking spot per unit.
Share your input on Alternative 1 Support
Feedback for Alternative 1 Separating cars from bikes, and separating bikes from pedestrians is the best option. But as we want to have more bikes, we want to make sure bikes and cars trajectories can never overlap.
Share your input for Alternative 2 Do not support
Feedback for Alternative 2 Bikes are going fast nowadays with electric bikes. We don't want to have any risk of pedestrian to bike collisions.
Share your input on Alternative 3 Do not support
Feedback for Alternative 3 This has some separation of cars to bike and bike to pedestrian. In this scenario, there is the risk of bike to bike collision for bikes driving opposite directions.
Is there any other feedback you’d like to provide on the street cross sections? Alternative 1 with full separation would be the best case. It's not clear why it was not proposed since its footprint would be smaller.
Is there any other feedback you’d like to provide on the plan alternatives? the plan alternatives for bike roads assumes that many more people will use bikes. This is a cultural change. But let's assume that more people want to bike, all intersections need to be made safer. Most bike roads have been improved but intersections remain dangerous (especially because of right turns).
Which city do you live in? Palo Alto
If in Palo Alto, what is your neighborhood? Greenmeadow
Which of these describe your association with the Plan Area (choose all that apply) I live here (homeowner)
How old are you? 46-55
Is there anything else you'd like to add? We DON'T WANT high rises.
We should limit to 5-6 stories to get buildings similar to what was done in San Antonio village. Each unit needs to have at least 1 parking spot. The traffic plan needs to be thought through before the planning of the construction. The traffic modifications need to be completed before construction starts. We need retail stores, school and many parks to expand urbanization. A clear plan for those needs to be presented.
Name not shown in Duveneck/ St Francis March 29, 2026, 10:07 PM
Below are strategies for the North Fabian neighborhood described above. Share your support level for each strategy.
Land Use
Outdoor Space
Building Height
Is there any other feedback you’d like to provide on the CTI sub area? No high rise building
Share your input on Alternative 1 Strongly Support
Share your input for Alternative 2 Strongly do not support
Share your input on Alternative 3 Strongly Support
Which city do you live in? Palo u
If in Palo Alto, what is your neighborhood? Duveneck
Which of these describe your association with the Plan Area (choose all that apply) I live here (homeowner)
How old are you? 46-55
Name not shown in Greenmeadow March 29, 2026, 9:59 PM
Below are strategies for the North Fabian neighborhood described above. Share your support level for each strategy.
Land Use
Outdoor Space
Building Height
Share your input on Alternative 1 Do not support
Share your input for Alternative 2 Support
Share your input on Alternative 3 Support
Which of these describe your association with the Plan Area (choose all that apply) I live here (homeowner)
How old are you? 46-55
Name not shown in Greenmeadow March 29, 2026, 9:50 PM
Below are strategies for the North Fabian neighborhood described above. Share your support level for each strategy.
Land Use
Outdoor Space
Building Height
Share your input on Alternative 1 Support
Share your input for Alternative 2 Do not support
Feedback for Alternative 2 San Antonio will be extremely busy with so much housing being added. (Mt View also adding). Do not use this valuable space for parking
Share your input on Alternative 3 Support
Feedback for Alternative 3 sure, if it will fit
Which city do you live in? Palo Alto
If in Palo Alto, what is your neighborhood? Greenmeadow
Which of these describe your association with the Plan Area (choose all that apply) I live here (homeowner)
How old are you? 66-75
Name not shown in Greenmeadow March 29, 2026, 9:18 PM
Below are strategies for the North Fabian neighborhood described above. Share your support level for each strategy.
Land Use
Outdoor Space
Building Height
Share your input on Alternative 1 Neutral / Don't know
Share your input for Alternative 2 Neutral / Don't know
Share your input on Alternative 3 Neutral / Don't know
Which city do you live in? Palo Alto
If in Palo Alto, what is your neighborhood? Greenmeadow
Which of these describe your association with the Plan Area (choose all that apply) I live here (homeowner)
How old are you? 76-85
Is there anything else you'd like to add? Give more consideration to retail for the proposed new housing such as supermarkets and drugstore. Figure out the traffic nightmare that’s only going to get worse.
Name not shown in Greenmeadow March 29, 2026, 8:39 PM
Below are strategies for the North Fabian neighborhood described above. Share your support level for each strategy.
Is there any other feedback you’d like to provide on the North Fabian neighborhood? The height of buildings is a big concern. Both in terms of disrupting the vibe of our community and the density of population impacting a strain on resources and on our roads.
Land Use
Outdoor Space
Building Height
Is there any other feedback you’d like to provide on the CTI sub area? I'm not happy about 8 stories. I think it should be limited to 5-6 stories.
Share your input on Alternative 1 Support
Share your input for Alternative 2 Do not support
Share your input on Alternative 3 Strongly Support
Feedback for Alternative 3 by far the safest for bikers and those walking.
Which city do you live in? Palo Alto
If in Palo Alto, what is your neighborhood? Greenmeadow
Which of these describe your association with the Plan Area (choose all that apply) I live here (homeowner)
How old are you? 46-55
Name not shown in Midtown/ Midtown West March 29, 2026, 7:57 PM
Below are strategies for the North Fabian neighborhood described above. Share your support level for each strategy.
Land Use
Outdoor Space
Building Height
Share your input on Alternative 1 Do not support
Share your input for Alternative 2 Neutral / Don't know
Share your input on Alternative 3 Neutral / Don't know
Which city do you live in? Palo Alto
If in Palo Alto, what is your neighborhood? Midtown
Which of these describe your association with the Plan Area (choose all that apply) I live here (homeowner)
How old are you? 66-75
Name not shown in Charleston Terrace March 29, 2026, 6:57 PM
Below are strategies for the North Fabian neighborhood described above. Share your support level for each strategy.
Land Use
Outdoor Space
Building Height
Is there any other feedback you’d like to provide on the CTI sub area? There shouldn't be any office space being built in these areas. Build protected bike lanes and safe, protected access to the bay lands.
Share your input on Alternative 1 Strongly Support
Share your input for Alternative 2 Support
Share your input on Alternative 3 Strongly Support
Which city do you live in? Palo Alto
If in Palo Alto, what is your neighborhood? Greenhouse
Which of these describe your association with the Plan Area (choose all that apply) I live here (homeowner)
How old are you? 36-45
Is there anything else you'd like to add? The housing developments for the city should be evenly spread out all over town, not relegated to a tiny strip of town. The plans put forward by our city council is atrocious and unfair to those that live in South Palo Alto and I'll make sure to never vote for whoever cobbled together this boondoggle.
Alan Wachtel in Palo Verde March 29, 2026, 6:50 PM
Below are strategies for the North Fabian neighborhood described above. Share your support level for each strategy.
Is there any other feedback you’d like to provide on the North Fabian neighborhood? Office space does not contribute to the housing goal. Residential density, on the other hand, will be limited in practice by traffic volume and circulation, which is so far unplanned for. That's why I've chosen lower density.
If higher-density or high-rise housing were shown to be compatible with the resulting traffic patterns, then I would revise these preferences. In that case, sufficient housing might be feasible to also permit non-residential uses.
Land Use
Outdoor Space
Building Height
Is there any other feedback you’d like to provide on the CTI sub area? My comments on the Fabian area also apply here. The acceptable residential density depends on accommodating the resulting traffic.
Locating an outdoor space along or visible from E. Charleston Road means that E. Charleston Road would also be visible from the outdoor space, which seems like a less than optimal atmosphere.
The second and third statements under Land Use appear to be virtually identical.
Share your input on Alternative 1 Do not support
Feedback for Alternative 1 The barrier-separated bikeways may help bicyclists feel more comfortable next to two lanes of same-direction traffic, but they pose potential geometric conflicts at intersections (major or minor) and driveways if the barriers prevent normal destination positioning for either bicyclists or motorists. This problem can be mitigated by dropping the barriers well in advance of the intersection (200 feet or so--not 30 feet) to permit merging. Alternatively, separate bicycle signal phasing could be provided, though this would impose delay on all modes, and there might be particular concern about compliance with no-right-on-red restrictions. I cannot support this alternative without some such accommodation.
In any case, the number of such conflicts should be strictly minimized. Vehicular access to new development should be provided at only a very limited number of locations, and further circulation should take place in the rear. (Pedestrian and bicycle access points, on the other hand, could be more numerous, and a nonmotorized internal circulation network could provide the benefits of shorter blocks.)
All such conflict points along San Antonio Road should be signalized. Signals will also be necessary for pedestrian crossing.
Widely spaced intersections along San Antonio may make it somewhat less convenient for pedestrians to cross, but it may still be no more difficult than it is now.
Share your input for Alternative 2 Strongly do not support
Feedback for Alternative 2 Two-way bicycle traffic on the westbound side complicates car-bike interactions at intersections beyond easy repair, since geometric design, traffic control devices, and driver behavior are not compatible with wrong-way riding, a dangerous practice that places bicyclists out of motorists' normal scanning patterns. In addition, the intervening parked cars and greenery block sight lines for both parties. This alternative can only work with separate bicycle signal phasing (and the associated issues of delay and noncompliance). As before, it is important to minimize the number of conflict areas.
Share your input on Alternative 3 Strongly do not supprt
Feedback for Alternative 3 This alternative duplicates the deficiencies of Alternative 2's westbound bicycle facility on the eastbound side. It drops the parked cars, but that's far from enough to redeem it. The City must figure out how to get bicycle traffic in this corridor through intersections (major or minor, signalized or unsignalized) and driveways safely before any of this will work. Currently trendy designs do not do the job.
Is there any other feedback you’d like to provide on the street cross sections? Buffered bike lanes without physical barriers (except east of Charleston) would work better operationally than any of these proposals.
Is there any other feedback you’d like to provide on the plan alternatives? This plan attempts to incorporate a variety of elements that may not ultimately all be compatible: high-density housing, efficient circulation, provision for multimodal transportation, and a neighborhood feel. Priorities will need to be set.
Which city do you live in? Palo Alto
If in Palo Alto, what is your neighborhood? Palo Verde
Which of these describe your association with the Plan Area (choose all that apply) I travel through this area by driving
How old are you? 76-85
Is there anything else you'd like to add? The association question asks you to choose all that apply, but radio buttons allow only a single selection.

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