Support Sustainable Development at Stanford

The impact of this amount of development on quality of life, traffic, air pollution,etc, is unconscionable.

Poli Sci 1973

Common sense, the premise of this petition, is about long-term health. And yes, that can get in the way of the flow of money.

Stanford should be deeply committed to the sustainability issues that some of its leading scholars study. All buildings should be net zero energy, net zero carbon, net zero water, and completely toxic-free. Many cities have begun dramatically reducing parking requirements because of an expected autonomous vehicle fleet paired with growth of public transit. Much of this innovation was born at Stanford. Did the planners not notice? The university should be designed to accommodate the needs of the coming century, not the last one.

AGREE!

Please commit to keeping the foothills free of development in perpetuity.

8 years ago Featured

As a resident in nearby Ladera, I am very concerned about the impact of a large development at Stanford on congestion, housing, air quality and quality of life. The limitations proposed in this petition seem to me imminently reasonable and fair

Yes, we have definitely reached limits to growth thus measuring our success by how much we can grow is counter productive!

I don't think the Stanford GUP plan is at all sustainable. I have lived next to Stanford for nearly 50 years and have seen the growth there just mushroom and take over so much land and bring in so much traffic. Stanford's requests are beyond what the area can support. One of my concerns is that the school population will increase substantially without Stanford's paying its fair share to PAUSD for adding a full new school's worth of students.

Stanford had enough money to build a football stadium in 9 months. They have resources to make sure that students, faculty and staff have housing and transit options.

I am against more growth until they can provide us with how they are going to handle the increase of more traffic.

Urgent

We also need greater mitigation of traffic impacts.

Stanford needs to contribute to the development of additional infrastructure (schools, sewer, water, etc.) needed to service this increase in population.

Stanford also needs to consider and mitigate impacts on water supplies.

Stanford Graduate School of Engineering Alumnus

I couldn't agree more with all the points expressed in this petition.

We need housing for your current employees and current students. You need to help reduce the housing and environmental impacts of your current use. The maccademization of Stanford is not the right choice.

I am seriously concerned that we have reached our max in terms of traffic and other environmental and human impacts.

I support this request and think it is in keeping with the current discussion in Palo Alto about mitigating congestion and housing imbalances.