[Mick]

On other questions regarding admissions, he mentioned several times that Stanford would like to expand its enrollment, but that certain factors would have to fall in place first.  He did not specifically mention the hammering their proposed GUP for the coming 15 years took from the county and the city of Palo Alto, causing them to withdraw their application rather than negotiate further.  Right now, Stanford is extremely limited in the amount of new building that could take place on campus under the expiring GUP.

Perhaps Stanford could add another campus in another area, one that would be just as good as Palo Alto and carry as much cachet.  Like Merced or Riverside.

Meanwhile, Palo Alto is ramping up its efforts to pressure Stanford to convert part of Stanford Research Park and Stanford Shopping Center to housing.  The regional and state housing authorities have allocated the production of 6K+ housing units to Palo Alto, and the controlling residentialist lobby on the city council does not want additional development in single-family areas of Palo Alto.

Wouldn't Palo Alto want to follow San Jose's trend and expand currently zoned single family homes to duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes and ADUs?
https://sanjosespotlight.com/opportunity...me-zoning/

It's bad enough that we have to deal with monster homes.  Let me outta here...

[Mick]

On other questions regarding admissions, he mentioned several times that Stanford would like to expand its enrollment, but that certain factors would have to fall in place first.  He did not specifically mention the hammering their proposed GUP for the coming 15 years took from the county and the city of Palo Alto, causing them to withdraw their application rather than negotiate further.  Right now, Stanford is extremely limited in the amount of new building that could take place on campus under the expiring GUP.

Perhaps Stanford could add another campus in another area, one that would be just as good as Palo Alto and carry as much cachet.  Like Merced or Riverside.

Meanwhile, Palo Alto is ramping up its efforts to pressure Stanford to convert part of Stanford Research Park and Stanford Shopping Center to housing.  The regional and state housing authorities have allocated the production of 6K+ housing units to Palo Alto, and the controlling residentialist lobby on the city council does not want additional development in single-family areas of Palo Alto.

Wouldn't Palo Alto want to follow San Jose's trend and expand currently zoned single family homes to duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes and ADUs?
https://sanjosespotlight.com/opportunity...me-zoning/

It's bad enough that we have to deal with monster homes.  Let me outta here...