Neighborhood Compatibility, Historic Preservation, Inappropriately large (aka "monster") houses
Zoning and Land Use (ZALU) Committee, Barron Park (Neighborhood) Association

• 1996 October 15 Letter to City Council: Historic preservation too narrow; need for design guidelines to preserve character of all neighborhoods
• 1996 November Survey of BPA members: Introduction and Questions and results (from Winter 1996 BPA Newsletter).
• 1996 December 4 Letter to Palo Alto City Council resulting from this survey (note: conversion to HTML had some rough edges, and the original format has been lightly edited for Web readability)
• 1998 May 27 Letter to Palo Alto City Council on separating Neighborhood Compatibility from Historical Preservation
  Article: Barron Park: Neighborhood proposes design review plan: Proposal aims to give residents power to preserve neighborhoods from the 1998 June 10 issue of the Palo Alto Weekly
• Proposed Ordinance (City of Palo Alto web site).
• Articles, Links, and Comments from the Palo Alto Weekly