Adalberto "Aldo" Toledo

City Hall Reporter

United States

Hi! My name is Aldo, and I'm currently the Peninsula reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, working every day to better inform my community about the essential issues it must tackle while putting a human face on them. I am a native Spanish speaker, and a history lover always trying to insert the next piece of context. I also really love cats and maps! Ask me anything about urban planning and issues facing modern cities and I'll talk your ear off.

Portfolio
The Mercury News
05/25/2021
Though 'saved' from dismantling, Palo Alto's last mobile home park still a work in progress

PALO ALTO - Four years after dozens of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park residents gleefully applauded the news that a deal had been approved to save their haven from being closed and redeveloped, 94-year-old Clara Maupin has long stopped celebrating. Maupin still lives in the same run down, rat-infested trailer she's owned in the mobile home park for 15 years.

The Mercury News
05/26/2021
Victims, shooter identified in Bay Area's deadliest mass shooting

In what is now the Bay Area's deadliest mass shooting, a Valley Transportation Authority employee known for nursing grievances and a hot temper opened fire early Wednesday morning at a VTA light rail yard building, fatally wounding nine people before taking his own life, authorities said.

The Mercury News
04/03/2022
Lot-split law hasn't made a ripple in Bay Area's single-family neighborhoods

Three months after California's lot-splitting bill went into effect, striking fear among those who cherish the tradition of single-family zoning, homeowners in the Bay Area's major cities aren't rushing to build duplexes or additional houses on their properties. Senate Bill 9, which was signed into law by Gov.

The Mercury News
03/19/2022
Palo Alto council could use historic preservation to skirt SB9 lot-splitting law

PALO ALTO - As California's new single-family zoning law continues to test planners in affluent slow-growth suburbs across the Bay Area, Palo Alto could embark to speed up its process to register historic homes, buildings or even designate new preservation districts to keep lot-splitting at bay, according to a new city report the council will consider Monday.