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From: sanders@menlo70.UUCP (Rex Sanders)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Palo Alto businesses must supply showers
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Date: Thu, 25-Aug-83 02:02:58 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 25 02:02:58 1983
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  Small correction:  the Palo Alto ordinance applies to 
*newly constructed* commercial buildings, not existing ones.

  The rational for the requirement goes something like this:

	Getting people out of their cars is a Good Thing.  Palo Alto
	is (mostly) flat enough that many people could ride bicycles
	to work, and many do.  By putting showers in at your destination,
	you can be fresh as a daisy for your prospective sales contacts
	and/or co-workers [note:  this excludes most hackers].
	Also, many of the high-tech companies in this area already
	supply a lot more than showers.

  I like the idea, but working for the US Government, I have
no hope of seeing such amenities.  It took us several years
to get el-cheapo, wheel-mangling bike racks put in, and
now they won't let us take our bikes into our offices.

  Oh yes, I live and work in Palo Alto.

-- Rex