‘Dilapidated but beloved’ Palo Alto community center at core of fight over taxation

At Palo Alto’s Cubberley Community Center, an average weekday afternoon can be hectic. “There’s dance schools down there, these rooms are typically Chinese schools, and these are actual schools over here,” said Bella Urizar, a behavioral technician with Play ABA, a behavioral therapy center located at Cubberley. On election day, Palo Alto residents will vote on Measure J, which would place a half-cent sales tax within city limits to fund the purchase of Cubberley Community Center’s land and renovate the facility. The Cubberley facility first opened in 1956 as a Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) high school and reopened as a community center in 1990. Twenty-four businesses currently have long-term leases at the community center, ranging from a used bookstore to a Taekwondo school to a local historical society. Today, the building has begun to show its age.

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