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Support Sustainable Development at Stanford

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Rebecca Padnos Altamirano
8 years ago Featured

I've lived along Alpine for 10 years and traffic is unbearable. The only relief is when Stanford is on winter break for 2 weeks. It is so unsafe and we need to think about the long term impact on this unique community.

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Mary M Peterson
8 years ago

We cannot sustain more of Stanford's out of control growth. Our quality of life is important and it's being severely diminished by Stanford growth.

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Ginger Holt
8 years ago

The Academic Growth Boundary should be defined and permanent. Real mitigation for today's traffic problems attributable to current and ongoing Stanford development is a logical starting point. Rail and more shuttles are not going to solve this.

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Dr Xylem Gill
8 years ago

Stanford must respect its neighbors.

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rita vrhel
8 years ago

the impacts of continued Stanford growth are felt by all Palo Alto residents.. traffic, congestion, poor air quality and housing shortages to name a few. Please cap their growth.

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Neva Yarkin
8 years ago

I am against any kind of expansion of Stanford unless they add infrastructure: i.e. roads, grocery stores, fire fighters, health clinics, gas stations, etc. to their development.

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Beth Rosenthal
8 years ago

The proposed project should not become a burden on school enrollment.

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Lynd Bacon
8 years ago

Concerned property owner. Too much development, too fast.

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Gary Patton
8 years ago

As someone who grew up in Palo Alto and graduated from both Stanford and Stanford Law School, it would be hard for me to overstate how seriously I urge the Board to follow the requests in this petition.

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David Grewal
8 years ago

It is crucial that the Stanford Hills be permanently preserved as open space in return for any denser core campus. Thank you.

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Janette Herceg
8 years ago

Stanford's continued building is negatively impacting Palo Alto's quality of life. More buildings equals more cars, more congestion, more pollution...

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Digonnet
8 years ago

We must protect our quality of life against indefinite growth. Stanford agreed t o a finite long-term plan some years ago, Stanford should be good to its word, and if it is not want to, we should push back.

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Michael Kutilek
8 years ago

Stanford need to have concrete solutions for the many serious problems that will result from GUP. Promises are not sufficient!

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Lenore Cymes
8 years ago

(1) open space - manditory to remain open. (2) traffic is already a nightmare and with the #' in the GUP, it is not getting less congested - just the opposite

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Howard J Cohen, Ph.D.
8 years ago

I am a Palo Alto neighbor and a Stanford alum

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Glenn Fisher
8 years ago

Stanford must make measurable commitments to reducing traffic, rather than vague promises. And a maximum build-out commitment should be a requirement.

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Ron Wolf
8 years ago

Stanford, a wonderful & appreciated institution benefits from openly engaging the local community in its plans for growth.

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Richard W Evans
8 years ago

Stanford is a wonderful institution, but must grow responsibly and sustainably.

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David Schrom
8 years ago

If the policies proposed in this petition are adopted, Stanford affiliates may increasingly appreciatively view them as key factors in the university's transition to sustainability.

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Nancy Reyering
8 years ago

"The Farm" is turning into something quite unlike what Jane Stanford envisioned. The least the University can do is to preserve pockets of undeveloped land and lend a human scale to this never-ending construction site. Please permanently protect the Dish area and other foothill properties. Please set - ASAP - a max buildout blueprint for your lands.