Palo Alto hopes to protect El Camino retail amid housing boom - San José Spotlight

Palo Alto hopes to protect El Camino retail amid housing boom - San José Spotlight

When city leaders from all over the Peninsula pitched a plan more than a decade ago to transform El Camino Real into a “grand boulevard,” they ran into a gauntlet of skepticism in Palo Alto. The Grand Boulevard Initiative, a collaboration of 19 cities in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, was largely panned by local land-use watchdogs and planning commissioners at the time as too idealistic to merit serious consideration. Bob Moss, a long-time …