Support Sustainable Development at Stanford

Limiting automobile trips beyond the current (minimal) peak period window is very important. Traffic both onto and off campus should be counted 24/7.

Our City cannot contain this much growth over the next two decades. We are bursting at the seams now. Please help contain this unwise expansion.

Stamford cannot continue to grow

SUPERVISORS PLEASE BE AWARE STANFORD IS A BULLY AND IT HAS RESULTED IN RESTRICTING AN OPEN SPACE AGREEMENT THEY NEVER KEPT ON A COMMUNITY TRAIL (THE DISH ) -THEN SUPERVISOR KNISS DEALTIN GOOD FAITH AND WAS STONE WALLED . A TOKEN BIKE PATH WAS PUT ON PAGE MILL AND HARDLY USED . THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF STANFORD BREAKING PROMISES AND NOT ACTING IN GOOD FAITH . PLEASE DON'T GO FOR THEIR SLICK PRESENTATIONS AND PHONEY EXPERT POSTITIONS . THEY ARE BUILDING THEIR PORTFOLIOS AT THE EXPENSE OF QUALITY SURROUNDING LIVING . THANK YOU JOHN MALLOY !

Stanford can NOT continue to grown indefinitely... please support sustainability and don't make the housing shortage worse.

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this GUP is too large and will overwhelm Palo Alto and Menlo Park. Please ask Stanford to scale their plans back to a reasonable amount of growth. The area can not support continued expansion; our natural resources, including water, are limited.

I support the proposals put forth regarding the sustainable growth rules for Stanford. We need to restrict and moniter/ and direct Stanford who has not always been a good neighbor in history ( to Palo Alto).

Traffic-related measures must consider all hours of the day, not just limited “commute” hours. Stanford generates traffic 24/7.

Stanford University consistently shows commitment to sustainability in its practices. Please enhance these efforts and remain a strong leader by example. Thank you.

We need to attack traffic and housing and nothing should happen until you have supportable lowing come housing for all the people who work there on campus not somewhere else

There is not enough parking on campus for the current status. Changing lots to parking buildings or other maneuvers should precede any new development

Development is both local and regional. Please consider long term impacts of peninsula development as you review the Stanford University General Use Permit.

Stanford University and the Medical Center provide many wonderful resources to the community. Affordable housing that would allow students, faculty, and staff to live on campus and near the medical facilities would benefit everyone. However, the continued expansion of office space on previously open space and horse pastures negatively impacts the quality of life for the surrounding community and the environment. Given that the expansion is about Stanford's real estate empire and not the core mission of education and medical services, it is reasonable to ask the County Supervisors to limit growth.

Careful consideration needs to be made before Stanford gets an okay to do such massive growth you need a plan a maximum build out and studies as to the effect that it's going to have on the surrounding areas traffic is already a dead standstill when Stanford has events

Stanford needs to accept firm limits, clear and realistic impact measurements and significant penalties if conditions are not met.

STANFORD grows and grows and grows, adding buildings, people, cars and diminishing the quality of life for its neighbors. Only the County can impose enforceable, reasonable growth limitations that will protect Open Space and freeze the traffic, densification and spral at current levels. Jack Morton

Control this overdevelopment!

These are rational precepts. Stanford has the opportunity and the reponsibility to do the right thing.

Anything that increases population, traffic density, energy use, and waste output needs to be considered in an already dense community.

Please remember that Stanford is really a massive real-estate corporation and one of the largest research and development entities in Bay Area and on the side they run a small university and use the tax free endowment provided from this to further their growth agenda with no regard for the surrounding environment. Stanford has not even completed all of the development that was green-lighted with the 2000 GUP. That 5 million square feet of academic and housing growth has already dramatically added to the congestion and pollution of Stanford and surrounding cities. Plus they are still in the middle of a massive expansion of the children's and main hospital that will add another 3 million square feet. Stanford was 4 million square feet in 1960 and is now over 15 million. There should be a complete moratorium on any development for 10 years so that we can see the affects of the last round of development. Hopefully that will then be the end of their development since I hope by then that we will be electing government representatives who will prioritize quality of life, who will work for limits to population growth and who will make limiting pollution and destruction of the environment their number one mission to save this area from greedy Stanford (and other)developers.