Palo Alto owns 15% of East Palo Alto’s land—despite being in a different county. It’s time for East Palo Alto to reclaim this underused space and transform it into parks, trails, and public assets.

This is a runback to share how to organize a tree planting in your HOA, how to overcome potential challenges, and how to get the approval of multiple stakeholders.

This morning I added around 150 trees in my neighborhood into Canopy's TreePlotter software in only 1.5 hours. Here is how I was able to leverage AI technology to make the process very efficient.

I think the City of East Palo Alto should acquire the ~0.66 acre land at the end of Verbena Dr for a new park. In this blog post, I aim to outline why I think residents would benefit from this and I outline a "design doc" for how the city can acquire the land for a new park.

My wife and I bought a house in 2009 on Runnymede Street. When we moved here, I was unfamiliar with East Palo Alto.  As our dumb luck would have it, we were less than a block off the Bay Trail.  I have walked, biked, or run on the trail nearly