https://n2v.almanacnews.com/square/print/2007/11/08/stanford-wants-to-dump-300000-cubic-yards-of-fill-on-former-christmas-tree-farm-in-sm-county
Original post made on Nov 8, 2007
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And, when there are so many other wonderful places to dump it so much closer in town!
What a waste! For a few provocative suggestions, just call me.
You MP people can spend time hurling insults at one another over nothing while you can't even see that Stanford is asking the county for a permit to dump their development spoils in your back yard and use your streets to haul it there.
Wake up and stop your fighting with one another over housing for human beings, affordable housing for people like your adult children who want to live in their home town and a run down movie theater that the owner has intentionally left to ruin.
Grow up and be a city. Get your mayor off her cloud and stop your whining.
Housing for "human beings"? We should build it where? My backyard?
I guarantee that you could build housing for "human beings" in your backyard, and you would not even notice, since you are from West Atherton. Lets see, I think we should build all new housing units in Atherton. Lots of space there.
Peace.
NG, Atherton and some of the other high-rent suburbs managed to have themselves exempted from the ABAG requirements. ABAG was sympathetic to their professed need to maintain their community culture. However, given that Athertonian gardeners and housekeepers need a place to live, we Menlo Parkers need to step up to the plate and built more affordable housing!
Is this news? Stanford dumps its traffic on Menlo because it can get away with it. They've been handling Palo Alto with kid gloves. Alma blocked off, etc. . Menlo's so embroiled in internal power struggles it has no fight left for Stanford. "They're too powerful to stop".
But, ever since Schmidt opened the floodgates for Stanford overdevelopment at Menlo's expense (read Sand Hill widening in Menlo Park, not Palo Alto, just go look at Sand Hill) , it's no wonder Stanford thinks it's AOK to haul their trash, medical waste, excavates over Menlo streets to the front yard of Portola Valley/Woodside. Hey, Schmitty, nice piece in the op/ed Almanac today. Kind of late now that you rolled over for your alma mater. How about they haul it past your house every nite on the way to the baylands like LEnnie suggests?
Not that this has anything to do with the topic, but in response to "helping our neighbors," Atherton isn't exempt from the A/BAG housing requirements, but the town did managed to get its quota lowered.
So how many units do the elite in Atherton need to build to house their gardeners and maids? Hey they have a train station too (I know it is no longer in use), but if they build all the units in Atherton I am sure it would be a good area with easy access to the train.
