The headline is from a fiscal analysis presentation to Palo Alto City Council today by the experts it hired to analyze the fiscal impact of the Stanford Medical Center expansion. The idea is to ensure the risk of insufficient revenues from the expansion is transferred away from taxpayers and to the applicant, Stanford. (Also discussed...
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San Jose Business Journal might want to work on its reporting
Unfortunately, and in our opinion a case of poor journalism, the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal took Stanford’s press release on our lawsuit with Stanford and ran it nearly verbatim, with cursory changes and no attempt to contact us for our side of the story. Below is something we sent to the Business Journal with...
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Sad legal result on Stanford Trails litigation, but the fight continues in San Mateo County
The California Supreme Court has ruled against CGF over a technical issue regarding the right time to file our lawsuit about Stanford’s proposal to expand the Alpine Road sidewalk on top of San Francisquito Creek. Unfortunately, we don’t have a chance to even discuss in court the merits of our argument. Fortunately, though, San Mateo...
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Press Release: Supreme Court To Issue Opinion Tomorrow in Litigation Over Stanford Sidewalk Expansion
(CGF sent out this press release today. -Brian) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 10, 2010 PRESS CONTACTS: Brian Schmidt, Legislative Advocate, 650.968.7243w, 415.994.7403c, [email protected] Supreme Court To Issue Opinion Tomorrow in Litigation Over Stanford Sidewalk Expansion California Supreme Court to announce whether it will dismiss lawsuit on technical issue or allow trial to proceed PALO ALTO,...
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News roundup
Haven’t done one of these in a while: Home Buyers Are Drawn to Nearby Organic Farms – more evidence that urban edge agriculture has a niche: Increasingly, subdivisions, usually master-planned developments at which buyersbuy home sites or raw land, have been treating farms as an amenity. “There arecurrently at least 200 projects that include agriculture...
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Rescuing "sustainability" from the vaccuum of meaninglessness
(Below is a piece I submitted to the KQED Perspectives program about the Stanford Sustainable Development Study. Unfortunately they thought the focus was too narrow for the broader Bay Area, but I still think it’s worth getting the word out. -Brian) Everyone talks about “environmental sustainability,” but do we know what it really means? Claims...
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Stanford Sustainable Development Study: document dump
I normally try to post most of my written communications here on the blog. In the case of the Stanford Study, much of that didn’t happen due to everything going on. Below the fold are a few of the things I wrote during that time: ————–(A short PowerPoint presentation on the failure to define “sustainability”)...
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Stanford Study and thank yous to Santa Clara County Supervisors
(CGF sent the following thank you and suggestion to Supervisors Kniss, Yeager, and Cortese for their resolution that went beyond the staff recommendation of simply approving Stanford’s draft Sustainable Development Study. We hope that some years in the future, Supervisors Yeager and Cortese will have the chance to support our suggestion of making a new...
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Shoulda, coulda, woulda – the Stanford Sustainable Development Study
Well, it may not be surprising, but it’s still disappointing that Santa Clara County didn’t require Stanford to do an adequate job on it’s Sustainable Development Study. The Study was an important requirement of the 2000 General Use Permit that Stanford mostly dismissed with a recitation of ongoing campus programs rather than an analysis over...
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CGF comments at today’s San Mateo County Planning Commission
(Not sure how useful this will be, but Lennie and I testified at today’s San Mateo Planning Commission about Stanford’s inadequate Sustainable Development Study. Attached below are my notes, improved somewhat so others might understand them. I think we had some success persuading the Commission and maybe staff. -Brian) Primary disagreement with staff – 25...