General Information

• City Notifications
• Go here to sign up for City emails: 
• https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/CAPALO/subscriber/new?preferences=true#tab1
• After entering your email, click on "Add Subscriptions", and check the various checkboxes.
• Example:  
  

• Emergency Preparation -- Here is a good article on getting prepared.
• You can also volunteer to be a BPC (Block Preparedness Coordinator) for your street.
• After a disaster, the BPCs check in on their neighbors, and report up to an NPC (Neighborhood Preparedness Coordinator).  The NPCs communicate with the city emergency employees.
• Training tip from Anna R:
• For folks interested in CERT (community emergency response training) or PEP (Personal Emergency Preparedness) or SARES (Sunnyvale Amateur Radio Emergency Service), go to https://sunnyvalecacert.samariteam.com/ or to https://sunnyvale.ca.gov/government/safety/community/emergency.htm for more info. Training is free in Sunnyvale.
• Helping the folks in Santa Rosa: https://sites.google.com/srcs.k12.ca.us/hiddenvalleyschoolsdisaster/home
  
• Santa Clara County Alerts
• Go here to sign up for County alerts:
• https://www.sccgov.org/sites/alertscc/Pages/home.aspx
• You will need to make an account.  You can receive alerts via email, text message, or phone.  They are infrequent.
• Evacuation Safety Tips:
• https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/.../evacuation-safety.pdf? (PDF)
• City Organizations
• PAN: Palo Alto Neighborhoods:  http://paneighborhoods.org/
• Jet Noise: http://www.skypossepaloalto.org/
  
• City Streets, Paving
• Paving Plans, Street Projects: https://cityofpaloalto.org/streets
• Alma to be paved in 2018, along with part of University and Embarcadero
  
• City Planning
• Get a parcel report PDF: https://opengis.cityofpaloalto.org/parcelreports/
• Property Tax Map: https://www.officialdata.org/ca-property-tax/#37.42,-122.10,14
• Tree Map: https://pg-cloud.com/Canopy/#x=-122.12550366726185&y=37.41993816970252&z=14
• Planning requests:  https://paloalto.buildingeye.com/planning
• Building permits:  https://paloalto.buildingeye.com/building
• You can sign up for email alerts, by neighborhood name, or around a push-pin on the map.
• Recycling
• What goes in each bin:  http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/.../zerowaste/whatgoeswhere/toolkit.asp 
  
• If you have too much cardboard, cut it into 2x3ft pieces, and tape/tie it together.  Place next to your blue cart.
  
• Safety
• Air Quality - Smoke/Fires
• AirNow:  https://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_city&cityid=317
• Spare the air:  http://www.baaqmd.gov/about-air-quality/current-air-quality

• Flooding
• Alerts/Hotline: http://paneighborhoods.org/emergency-contact-information/
• Sandbag tips:  http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/49604

• What is that siren?
• If you hear a fire engine, this app shows where it's going:  http://www.pulsepoint.org/download/