Planning members,
We need lower cost of irrigation water if we are to have healthy trees and flowers in beautiful Palo Alto.
We need to find better ways to provide separate low cost water for irrigation.
Your email address does not work.

Thanks,

Larry Alton

Undergrounding power lines taking best part of 30 years should be questioned.

How about providing cost-effective service?

How about giving us refunds for the extra 4 months you charged us $25 for a drought surcharge that ended back in February and which you then reduced to $9 after people complained before you finally cancelled it?

How about not spending all that money preaching conservation and then raising our rates because we conserved too much?

How about telling Zero Waste to leave zero waste behind when they empty our 3 cans instead of leaving their usual mess?

PS: Belatedly noticed Larry Alton's comment above about PA Utilities' email for this not working.

It would be funny if it weren't so sadly typical of so much of PA's costly "outreach" pr.

Doesn't Santa Clara also own and operate its own utilities?

I'd like to see a Time-of-Use rate plan to encourage electric vehicles in Palo Alto. The city put chargers in the public garages, but most EV drivers charge at home. A Time-of-Use rate option would make charging at home more economical, thereby encouraging EV ownership. It would also reduce the peak load by encouraging EV owners to charge at night. I know Palo Alto had a pilot program a few years ago. That was a great start - it's time for the next step. Note that PG&E has a Time-of-Use rate option, so residents of other Bay Area cities can charge their EVs more affordably than we can.

"The city put chargers in the public garages, but most EV drivers charge at home."

We have to. Those garage units are always occupied. If the city is EV serious it will install chargers at all the parking stalls on the ground floors.

"A Time-of-Use rate option would make charging at home more economical, thereby encouraging EV ownership. It would also reduce the peak load by encouraging EV owners to charge at night."

Bad idea. The city's solar power suppliers shut down at night, so the electricity is dirtier then. It clogs the batteries.

As a long time Palo Alto resident, I can still remember how good Hetch Hetchy water tasted before chlorine/chloramine.

What is preventing at-the-center-of-HiTech Palo Alto from treating this blessed elixir with Ultraviolet like the Dutch?

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Me again.
The web link to how the Dutch use UV to sterilize their water should have been...
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Numerous studies show animal power to be the greenest form of energy.

How a workshop should work, is actually taking it's residents comments and implementing those needs into policy that actually benefits the tax payers of the comunity. Unfortunately, this is usually not the case, it is more of a data mining session on how the the city and the private corporate advisors can potentenally fleece the local community out of it's hard earned dollars.

Just another dog and pony show.