How are the foothills threatened?
Stanfords draft 10-year development plan would redesignate 154 acres of the foothills as “core campus” (this is the area around the Behavioral Sciences Bldg. and the golf course that they have renamed “Lathrop”). The University plans 40,000 square feet of development in this area over the next 10 years (the 1989/1999 map helps demonstrate this), and after that, the area could be developed as densely as the rest of the campus. The rest of the foothills would be protected for only 10 years. The foothills are zoned “academic reserve” which includes housing (the 1953 map shows the foothills covered with a “planned community.”) The University is also planning more than 4 million square feet of development on the core campus over the next ten years. This is a 35% increase, or the equivalent of three new Stanford Shopping Centers. SOSA believes that in exchange for such a massive development plan, Stanford should set aside the lands southwest of Junipero Serra Blvd. as permanent open space. Q
