The Town’s Review Process

Stanford’s application to subdivide its 75 acre parcel along Alpine Road and build a high density housing project for its faculty is currently pending before the Town’s Building and Planning Department. The Department has posted a few documents relevant to Stanford’s pending application on the Town’s website here.

Notably, the Town’s website posts none of the citizen letters it has received commenting on the project or requesting Town action regarding it.

In addition to the documents posted by the Town, PVNU will post below additional public records relevant to Stanford’s application and its review.

Wildfire Hazard and Risk

The Fire Marshall and Town have received three comment letters from PVNU regarding the extreme wildfire risk that Stanford’s proposed project poses to surrounding properties and how the modeling performed for Stanford to justify its Vegetation Management Plan fails to address that risk or mitigate it.

Read PVNU’s explanation of the extreme wildfire hazards of Stanford’s site and the severe risks it poses to hundreds of neighboring families and their properties

Learn why Stanford’s modeling understates the wildfire hazards of the site and fails to consider or address the wildfire risks it poses to Stanford’s neighbors.

Stanford’s development plan would exacerbate the wildfire hazards of Stanford’s site and the risks it poses to hundreds of neighboring families and their properties

Stanford’s subdivision plan would dramatically increase the maximum density of human occupation of its land while simultaneously reducing the minimum separation and defensible space between structures our General Plan and ordinances require for safe development, especially in such hazardous wildfire settings as Stanford’s site.

Why does Stanford refuse to examine the risk of wildfire its project poses to neighboring properties and the community at large?

Learn how Stanford’s “modeling” fails to examine the risk of wildfire its project poses to surrounding properties

Indigenous ohlone Heritage

Stanford’s proposed site is situated amidst the highest density of prehistorical archeological remains of indigenous Ohlone habitation anywhere on the San Francisco Peninsula. Before the last remaining traces of indigenous peoples on these native lands are erased, Stanford should at least engage the Muwekma tribal representatives to investigate and document the archeological and ceremonial traces that remain.