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The vacant restaurant that was the family-run rice bowl place has now been fenced off. The fence also includes the sideways single-story office strip mall next door; the corner unit was a chiropractor's where there was always a light in the back window when I walked past after work, before 7 am, so I suspect someone was living in the back room. In any event, they have posted signs on the fence giving a new address. I imagine Santa Clara will build a huge apartment block on the combined site. Their stretch of El Camino used to be overwhelmingly commercial, but in recent years they've been building cliffs of apartments/condos there, too. The local cities agreed on a joint planning policy making it a "boulevard", but interpretations of that vary greatly, from "all the buildings are tall, kind of like New York" to "commercial avenue but with flower baskets and shrubs in the median to distract the eye from the auto dealerships".