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From: chuck jagoda
Date: Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 5:11 AM
Subject: Cubberley plans incomplete
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Dear Dave Price,
(Re: your fine story on the Cubberley plan Feb. 12). The Cubberley plan is NOT complete.
The plans have different roofs, lots of styles of architecture, all kinds of colors.
But what about the homeless for whom Cubberley was once and for many years, in the immortal words of Jim Keene, "a defacto
homeless shelter"? He didn't say it like it was a good thing.
Palo Alto needs to take pride in helping those most squeezed by the housing crisis, the most unequal victims of the "deepening
income inequality" (Daily POST Feb 16-17), not apologize for its social consciousness.
Wise, successful, thinking humanitarians give half their profits to those in need. Small minded, insecure soon-to-be victims of
our economic woes worry about a few hours of bus time in the middle of the night.
VTA and the City of Palo Alto and all of us should be looking to increase the few scraps for those at the bottom of the valley,
not eliminate them.
The fact that managers and shareholders of the VTA fortunate enough to have a safe, warm, dry place to sleep should take the Hotel
22 away from those too poor to pay for shelter for four hours in the middle of the night qualifies those shareholders for extra
points on their applications for the Donald J. Trump Award for Shamelessness.
And where are the plans for accommodations at Cubberley that were taken away in the Great Cubberley Expulsion of 2013?
Why not a grilling area for all people who like (or need) to eat outdoors?
The plans are not complete. All segments of the community have not been considered.
Chuck Jagoda
