Express: Mountain View looks for ways to buy up, preserve rent-controlled housing | After a big public showing, council declines to consider cease-fire resolution

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Mountain View resists calls to issue a cease-fire resolution in Gaza

Mountain View City Council members again resisted calls to issue a cease-fire resolution in Gaza, opting against taking a formal stance on the issue as community members lined up at Tuesday’s council meeting to either express support for or opposition to a request that has divided the community.

To protect tenants from housing displacement, Mountain View lays out plan to preserve rent-controlled apartments

There was a time not so long ago when Mountain View tenants faced displacement from rent-stabilized housing because of redevelopment. These same tenants also had little recourse to get back into the refurbished units, which typically went for market-rate prices.

Palo Alto eager to replace confusing signs and spruce up Cal Ave.

Plastic orange barriers and “ROAD CLOSED” signs are typically associated with construction and maintenance projects, but in Palo Alto these streetscape features serve another function: as a gateway to the city’s second downtown, California Avenue.

California is clearing criminal records — including violent crimes — to offer second chances

California has allowed expungements of misdemeanors and some lower-level felonies, but not crimes that would be serious enough to send the offender to prison. That’s no longer the case under Senate Bill 731.

Give it your best shot: The 2024 Peninsula Photo Contest is open for submissions

The annual Peninsula Photo Contest is accepting submissions through April 14. Peninsula photographers of all ages and skill levels who live, work or attend school within the 650 area code are invited to submit entries for six different visual categories.

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Music: 3rd Thursdays
The March edition of the monthly live music event celebrates World Poetry Day and features three bands playing on Palo Alto’s California Avenue, plus visitors can read their own poems during an open mic. Some area restaurants and merchants offer extended hours and specials. Go to 3rdthursday.fun.

Author talk: Madeline Miller
The Mountain View Library hosts a conversation with Madeline Miller, bestselling author of “The Song of Achilles and Circe,” as she chats about her body of work and her process in retelling Greek classics into modern epics in fiction. Go to libraryc.org/mountainviewlibrary/41383

TOMORROW

Kids: Chalk art with Silicon Valley Reads
Students ages 9 and up will create a piece of art (chalk art) in the library courtyard based on the Silicon Valley Reads book “The Forest Man.” siliconvalleyreads.org.

Workshop: The Art of Flower Arrangements
Feldman’s Books hosts a workshop with Aimee O’Donnell Saunders, founder of Two Birds Artistry Floral Art & Design in creating handmade spring wreaths, crafting with herbs, grasses, flowering shrubs and succulents. Go to feldmansbooks.net/events.

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