Mark Dinan

Perhaps the most significant news is that we're working to get a new track field, soccer field, library, and City Hall built on the Bloomhouse site on Pulgas Avenue. We'll have more updates on this major project as it moves forward.

• Emergency Preparedness: We're getting the city ready for the eventual earthquake that we can expect to happen in our lifetime by funding new emergency response measures.

• YMCA Access: With our funding, the YMCA will be free on weekends for residents and will offer swim classes, basketball leagues, and enhanced senior activities

• Community and Cultural Events: We've funded movies, music, and other cultural events at the EPACENTER. Look forward to live music of every type, including jazz, blues, salsa, banda, reggae, samba, bossa nova, and mariachi.

• Park Improvements: New scoreboards at MLK and Jack Farrell parks are being installed, which addresses a longstanding request from the Little League.

• New Park and Street Lighting: We've funded new field lighting for both Jack Farrell and Martin Luther King parks, which will allow kids to practice past 5 p.m. during the winter. We're also funding new street lighting to make our streets safer and better lit.

• Parking Enforcement: New funding for parking enforcement will help remove unregistered and broken-down vehicles and increase enforcement of the 72-hour parking rule.

• Code Enforcement: We've directed and funded staff to enforce our code on "Tier III" violations, which include things like broken-down vehicles, trash and old furniture in front yards, and overgrown vegetation blocking sidewalks.

I serve on East Palo Alto City Council, and here are some of the things we have done this year:
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If artificial constraints on growth were removed, Palo Alto would look a lot like Manhattan in <5 years

Are we sending our best and brightest to Sacramento? Evidence points to "no"

By the latest statistics, EPA has a lower violent crime rate than Truckee, South Lake Tahoe, Berkeley, and Santa Barbara.

pretty exciting opportunity for EPA. Glad it is finally public.

We will call you “AP” moving forward.

Charlie Moore! He played on a friend’s softball team after he retired.

Prop 33 was terrible policy.

I did see Liccardo at a charity event in EPA a couple of months ago! Our congressman is Kevin Mullin, who pops into EPA once in a while.

If you can't parachute off of it, it isn't a skyscraper.

I am specifically referring to the SMC Dems, EPA is too small of a city to have any reason why Newsom or any of the other national figures would pay attention. I will give kudos to Josh Becker, who has invested lots of time and energy in EPA and has served our district very well.

My overall impression is that the SMC Dems pay little attention to EPA, don't understand the dynamics of the community, and have an idea of what they think EPA should be which clashes with what the community wants & needs.

DEMs have done a terrible job of doing outreach in East Palo Alto, and generally have no idea about the people, the issues, and the culture of EPA. The Democratic Party has a tough time communicating with Latino Communities like EPA.

My son is at the age where he will soon start to learn how to drive and my message is, "drive like the people around you are drunk, stoned, and fiddling with their phone."

We really need to do environmental review in the obstetrics wards of american hospitals.

So we need to make up 16% in the polls. Maybe run it back 5 times like the original measure

Fun housing event last night in East Palo Alto with Jerusalem Demsas and Ben Metcalf of the Turner Center at Berkeley.

Benny says hi

Go Scott Go!

Grandma is in Palo Alto, grandson is in Texas

IZ is impossible in an era of higher interest rates. Financing eats up a much larger percentage of the cost in 2025 compared to 2018.