Approximate Woodland Park — Affordable Housing Neighborhood
East Palo Alto’s City Council voted 4-0 to postpone a decision on Sand Hill Property Company’s sprawling West Bayshore-Newell redevelopment proposal, telling the developer to come back with a more complete plan for how much affordable housing it will actually deliver. The vote means hundreds of families in the Woodland Park neighborhood will keep waiting to learn the fate of the buildings many of them call home.
The council’s Tuesday decision, reported Thursday by Palo Alto Online, centers on what city staff call an alternative compliance request — a developer proposal to build different levels of affordable housing than East Palo Alto law normally requires. Council member Ruben Abrica was absent from the vote, according to the outlet’s reporting…