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Palo Alto's Foothills Park Opening To All For 1st Time In Decades After Referendum Campaign FailsFoothills Park in Palo Alto is set to open to people who live outside the city for the first time in decades, after a referendum campaign challenging the City Council’s decision to open up access failed.

Palo Alto Residents Launch Referendum Campaign Challenging Plan To Open Foothills Park To Non-ResidentsA group of Palo Alto residents have launched a referendum campaign challenging the City Council's recent decision to end the decades-long ban on non-resident access to Foothills Park, which could revive a lawsuit against the city.

Lawmakers Vote To Open Palo Alto Foothills Park To Public Ending Decades-Old Restrictive PolicyEnding a decades-old restrictive policy, the Palo Alto City Council voted to open Foothills Park to all people.

Palo Alto Considers Opening Up Access To Residents-Only Foothills Park Amid ACLU LawsuitOfficials in Palo Alto are expected to consider a proposal that would open access to Foothills Park to the general public, as the city faces a lawsuit over the park's residents-only requirement.

ACLU Sues Palo Alto Over Residents-Only Access To Foothills ParkThe American Civil Liberties Union has sued the city of Palo Alto over its decades-long policy restricting Foothills Park to residents only, calling the policy unconstitutional and racist.

Battle Over Non-Resident Access To Palo Alto's Foothills Nature PreservePalo Alto city councilmembers voted against a year-long pilot program that would have opened Foothills Park to non-residents for the first time since the sixties.

New Push To Open Palo Alto's Picturesque Foothills Park To Non-ResidentsIt is a discussion that has come and gone many times over the years, but the current social justice movement might be the final push needed to make a Bay Area park open to the entire public.

Palo Alto's Foothills Park Enforces 'Residents Only' Rule Dating Back To '60sFoothills Park seems inviting until you take a gander at the sign on the front gate, which reads, “Palo Alto residents and their accompanied guests only."

85-Year-Old Hiker Survives 50-Foot Fall Down Palo Alto Trail EmbankmentCrews rescued an 85-year-old hiker she slipped off a steep trail filled with poison oak and trees at Foothills Park in Palo Alto.

Residents On Edge As Peninsula Fire Station Closes During Peak Fire SeasonFire Station 8 in Foothills Park is closing for the next 4 months. It will save money, but it's peak fire season and residents are nervous.