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"content": "\u003cp>When Justin Lane and his family prepared for the recent PG&E power shutoffs at their home in Sonoma County, they counted on using their cellphones to get emergency notifications and updates about the nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782314/what-you-need-to-know-sonoma-countys-kincade-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kincade Fire\u003c/a> that had erupted in their area days earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='State Sen. Mike McGuire']‘Cellphones aren’t just about checking the latest Facebook status. It’s about life or death. Cellphones are our lifeline during these power outages and during emergencies.’[/pullquote]But then, Lane, his wife and their two little girls found themselves in the dark on Saturday, Oct. 26 — power and communications, too. They’d relied on the emergency Nixle and SoCo alerts during the 2017 North Bay fires that devastated communities near their own, but now had no idea if they needed to evacuate or what was happening with the shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This time, they were basically unusable,” Lane, 40, a home inspector from Cotati, said of the alerts — some that came in sporadically, though they couldn’t open links to read them. “You can’t rely on that when you don’t have internet … . It’s really not a reliable means of keeping people informed anymore as much as we thought it was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Lane and his family experienced was a problem that officials have been worrying about for years: the lack of backup power for cell towers — and no federal or state requirement that telecom companies provide it. In the wake of the power cuts, 23 members of the state’s congressional delegation have \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/GP5fCrkYKnfArXNVsza79w?domain=eshoo.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called\u003c/a> for a hearing into the broader communications failures, and the California Public Utilities Commission said it’s investigating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cell Coverage Problems Peak Locally\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]Major telecom providers said they deployed backup power sources and maintained service for most of their customers.[/pullquote]In the Bay Area, the cell problems peaked on Monday Oct. 28, with 57% of towers \u003ca href=\"https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-360482A1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">out\u003c/a> in Marin County, 27% in Sonoma and 19% in Napa County — mostly due to power issues, according to voluntary information \u003ca href=\"https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-19-1073A1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">submitted\u003c/a> by telecom providers to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That happened as PG&E prepared for widespread back-to-back shutoffs — meaning that some of its customers who were already in the dark, like Lane, wouldn’t get power restored until after the second outage (his family got it back after five days).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cell problems continued throughout the week. What this translated into for some people on the ground in places like Marin, Sonoma and Alameda counties: No coverage — unless they traveled to find power, no emergency notifications (including from schools about closures), or sporadic text messages coming through, though it was unclear if they were timely or dated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, about 3% of towers went out during the height of the power cuts last Monday as fires raged in Northern and Southern California. FCC said the number of cell site outages didn’t necessarily correspond to the availability of wire service since providers can lean on other tools, like roaming agreements and mobile towers on wheels, to provide coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785275\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785275\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-800x606.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of the cell site outages on Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, in California according to data voluntary provided by telecoms companies to the Federal Communications Commission.\" width=\"800\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-800x606.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-1020x773.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-1200x909.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut.jpg 1254w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the cell site outages on Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, in California, according to data voluntarily provided by telecom companies to the Federal Communications Commission. \u003ccite>(FCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California’s congressional representatives and the CPUC said the problems were nothing new, citing \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/uploadedFiles/CPUC_Public_Website/Content/Utilities_and_Industries/Communications_-_Telecommunications_and_Broadband/Consumer_Programs/Service_Quality/StormsReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failures\u003c/a> during the historic 2017 storms and the North Bay Fires later that year, plus last year’s Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC \u003ca href=\"https://www.publicadvocates.cpuc.ca.gov/uploadedFiles/Content/Hot_Topics/R1803011%20Motion%20of%20Public%20Advocates%20Office%20for%20an%20Immediate%20Order%20Requiring%20Communications%20Providers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">doesn’t require\u003c/a> wireless providers to have emergency backup power sources, nor does the CPUC, said Ana Maria Johnson, program manager at the Public Advocates Office, an independent group within the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The duration of the several PG&E power shutoffs in October — some lasting many days — highlighted “how unprepared the utilities (telecom companies) are to ensure continuous services during these long durations of no power,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='U.S. Cellular']‘Had the power outages gone on for much longer, getting access to fuel to keep our generators running would have been a significant issue we believe.’[/pullquote] State Sen. McGuire, whose district covers the North Coast from Marin County to the Oregon border, \u003ca href=\"https://sd02.senate.ca.gov/news/2019-10-30-senator-mcguire%E2%80%99s-legislation-force-telecoms-have-backup-power-cell-sites-proves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introduced\u003c/a> a bill earlier this year to require a minimum of 48 hours of backup power at cellphone towers in high-fire-threat areas. The Legislature will take that bill up again in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGuire said telecom executives in June assured him that what happened with the cell towers last week wouldn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cellphones aren’t just about checking the latest Facebook status. It’s about life or death. Cellphones are our lifeline during these power outages and during emergencies,” McGuire said last week. “For too many years, the state and federal governments have relied on the industry to do the right thing voluntarily. And it’s become crystal clear that simply asking them to voluntarily commit to backup power doesn’t work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785298\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-800x440.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshots of emergency notifications during the PG&E power shutoffs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-800x440.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-160x88.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-1020x560.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-1200x659.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshots of emergency notifications during the PG&E power shutoffs. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CPUC spokesman Christopher Chow said the commission was investigating the problems and developing requirements for providers, but that the communications industry is arguing that the CPUC does not have the \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M309/K755/309755387.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">authority\u003c/a> to regulate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JRosenworcel/status/119028369966280704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted\u003c/a> that the federal agency also needed to investigate the cell tower failures in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it does it needs to reckon with how rolling back regulations and not requiring backup power have made it harder to reach out in disaster,” she said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC didn’t respond to a KQED request for comment about whether it was considering requiring such a backup in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Telecoms Scramble for Backup Power\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Telecom providers told KQED they deployed backup power sources like fixed and permanent generators that ran off fuel, plus batteries, in some areas during the shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Justin Lane, 40, of Cotati']‘I don’t see how they can fix it. The cellphone companies rely on the same power for the most part that we do. And if they’re out for an extended amount of time, then I’m expecting this to happen again.’[/pullquote] AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular and Verizon said they maintained service for most of their customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>T-Mobile said some of its customers in Sonoma, Contra Costa, Alameda and Marin counties may have had issues with its service. Sprint said a number of sites may have experienced disruptions, but that “our teams refueled generators that were in use as quickly as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Cellular, which had nine cell towers impacted at the peak of the shutoff, said its customers in Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino and Plumas counties were most impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The utility shutdown was so unexpectedly widespread that most of our network had to rely on backup power at some point in time and we did not have enough power sources to cover all of our cell sites,” the company said Tuesday in a statement. “Had the power outages gone on for much longer, getting access to fuel to keep our generators running would have been a significant issue we believe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='power-shutoffs' label='Related Coverage']AT&T said it dispatched hundreds of additional generators and technicians from across the country before the power cuts and did have some equipment get damaged in the Kincade Fire. During the shutoffs, T-Mobile said it deployed (and refueled) generators to more than 260 sites, and Verizon said it had generators and backup batteries at the majority of its cell towers — though “discrete areas” of its network would “experience service disruption or degradation” due to topographical and other technological constraints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though most cell towers have some type of backup, McGuire said, “Here’s what we know: It’s not sufficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For cell customers, the telecom providers plans’ and backups don’t provide much comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lane, a Verizon customer, said that, moving forward, he was going to “brace for the worst.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see how they can fix it,” he added. “The cellphone companies rely on the same power for the most part that we do. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But then, Lane, his wife and their two little girls found themselves in the dark on Saturday, Oct. 26 — power and communications, too. They’d relied on the emergency Nixle and SoCo alerts during the 2017 North Bay fires that devastated communities near their own, but now had no idea if they needed to evacuate or what was happening with the shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This time, they were basically unusable,” Lane, 40, a home inspector from Cotati, said of the alerts — some that came in sporadically, though they couldn’t open links to read them. “You can’t rely on that when you don’t have internet … . It’s really not a reliable means of keeping people informed anymore as much as we thought it was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Lane and his family experienced was a problem that officials have been worrying about for years: the lack of backup power for cell towers — and no federal or state requirement that telecom companies provide it. In the wake of the power cuts, 23 members of the state’s congressional delegation have \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/GP5fCrkYKnfArXNVsza79w?domain=eshoo.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called\u003c/a> for a hearing into the broader communications failures, and the California Public Utilities Commission said it’s investigating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the cell problems peaked on Monday Oct. 28, with 57% of towers \u003ca href=\"https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-360482A1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">out\u003c/a> in Marin County, 27% in Sonoma and 19% in Napa County — mostly due to power issues, according to voluntary information \u003ca href=\"https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-19-1073A1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">submitted\u003c/a> by telecom providers to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That happened as PG&E prepared for widespread back-to-back shutoffs — meaning that some of its customers who were already in the dark, like Lane, wouldn’t get power restored until after the second outage (his family got it back after five days).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cell problems continued throughout the week. What this translated into for some people on the ground in places like Marin, Sonoma and Alameda counties: No coverage — unless they traveled to find power, no emergency notifications (including from schools about closures), or sporadic text messages coming through, though it was unclear if they were timely or dated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, about 3% of towers went out during the height of the power cuts last Monday as fires raged in Northern and Southern California. FCC said the number of cell site outages didn’t necessarily correspond to the availability of wire service since providers can lean on other tools, like roaming agreements and mobile towers on wheels, to provide coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785275\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785275\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-800x606.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of the cell site outages on Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, in California according to data voluntary provided by telecoms companies to the Federal Communications Commission.\" width=\"800\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-800x606.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-1020x773.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-1200x909.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut.jpg 1254w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the cell site outages on Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, in California, according to data voluntarily provided by telecom companies to the Federal Communications Commission. \u003ccite>(FCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California’s congressional representatives and the CPUC said the problems were nothing new, citing \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/uploadedFiles/CPUC_Public_Website/Content/Utilities_and_Industries/Communications_-_Telecommunications_and_Broadband/Consumer_Programs/Service_Quality/StormsReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failures\u003c/a> during the historic 2017 storms and the North Bay Fires later that year, plus last year’s Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC \u003ca href=\"https://www.publicadvocates.cpuc.ca.gov/uploadedFiles/Content/Hot_Topics/R1803011%20Motion%20of%20Public%20Advocates%20Office%20for%20an%20Immediate%20Order%20Requiring%20Communications%20Providers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">doesn’t require\u003c/a> wireless providers to have emergency backup power sources, nor does the CPUC, said Ana Maria Johnson, program manager at the Public Advocates Office, an independent group within the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The duration of the several PG&E power shutoffs in October — some lasting many days — highlighted “how unprepared the utilities (telecom companies) are to ensure continuous services during these long durations of no power,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> State Sen. McGuire, whose district covers the North Coast from Marin County to the Oregon border, \u003ca href=\"https://sd02.senate.ca.gov/news/2019-10-30-senator-mcguire%E2%80%99s-legislation-force-telecoms-have-backup-power-cell-sites-proves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introduced\u003c/a> a bill earlier this year to require a minimum of 48 hours of backup power at cellphone towers in high-fire-threat areas. The Legislature will take that bill up again in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGuire said telecom executives in June assured him that what happened with the cell towers last week wouldn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cellphones aren’t just about checking the latest Facebook status. It’s about life or death. Cellphones are our lifeline during these power outages and during emergencies,” McGuire said last week. “For too many years, the state and federal governments have relied on the industry to do the right thing voluntarily. And it’s become crystal clear that simply asking them to voluntarily commit to backup power doesn’t work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785298\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-800x440.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshots of emergency notifications during the PG&E power shutoffs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-800x440.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-160x88.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-1020x560.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-1200x659.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshots of emergency notifications during the PG&E power shutoffs. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CPUC spokesman Christopher Chow said the commission was investigating the problems and developing requirements for providers, but that the communications industry is arguing that the CPUC does not have the \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M309/K755/309755387.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">authority\u003c/a> to regulate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JRosenworcel/status/119028369966280704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted\u003c/a> that the federal agency also needed to investigate the cell tower failures in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it does it needs to reckon with how rolling back regulations and not requiring backup power have made it harder to reach out in disaster,” she said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC didn’t respond to a KQED request for comment about whether it was considering requiring such a backup in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Telecoms Scramble for Backup Power\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Telecom providers told KQED they deployed backup power sources like fixed and permanent generators that ran off fuel, plus batteries, in some areas during the shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>AT&T said it dispatched hundreds of additional generators and technicians from across the country before the power cuts and did have some equipment get damaged in the Kincade Fire. During the shutoffs, T-Mobile said it deployed (and refueled) generators to more than 260 sites, and Verizon said it had generators and backup batteries at the majority of its cell towers — though “discrete areas” of its network would “experience service disruption or degradation” due to topographical and other technological constraints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though most cell towers have some type of backup, McGuire said, “Here’s what we know: It’s not sufficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For cell customers, the telecom providers plans’ and backups don’t provide much comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lane, a Verizon customer, said that, moving forward, he was going to “brace for the worst.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see how they can fix it,” he added. “The cellphone companies rely on the same power for the most part that we do. And if they’re out for an extended amount of time, then I’m expecting this to happen again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News’ Peter Jon Shuler contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Did you have trouble with your cellphone service? Share your story with the reporter: mleitsinger@kqed.org\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After three years of back-and-forth with Santa Clara County, Stanford University pulled a shocker last week by dropping its bid to build another 3.5 million square feet of academic facilities and student housing over the next 15 years. What happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2019/11/01/stanford-withdraws-general-use-permit-application/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement\u003c/a> explaining their decision to pull out of applying for what’s called a general use permit, Stanford officials wrote that “feasibility” was a big issue and obliquely referenced a tug of war with county supervisors over how to mitigate the consequences of future growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we are stepping back from this permit process, we will be launching a new phase of engagement with our local communities,” the statement said. “We hope to gain deeper mutual understanding of the challenges facing our region, how Stanford can best enhance its contribution to addressing those challenges, and what the implications are for our longer-term campus development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of this conflict is the impact Stanford’s size has on the region. Increasingly, surrounding communities are asking whether the university should do more to address its role in Silicon Valley’s housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Amulya Yerrapotu, Stanford student\"]“The question here today is not whether Stanford is a good school. It’s about who gets to reap the benefit of development and who has to bear the costs.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a multi-newsroom investigative project involving \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/local/labs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Mercury News\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> NBC Bay Area\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://renjournalism.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Renaissance Journalism\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.telemundoareadelabahia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Telemundo 48 Área de la BahíaTelemundo\u003c/a>, KQED analyzed county assessor office records from 2018\u003cem> \u003c/em>to identify the largest landowners in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford was far and away at the top of the list in terms of property value. More than that, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11781771/how-stanford-became-the-largest-landowner-in-silicon-valley\">value of the university’s holdings\u003c/a> was greater than those of Google, Apple and Intel combined last year. The data reflects not only Stanford’s standing as one of the world’s top universities, but also as a \u003ca href=\"https://42floors.com/for-lease/us/ca/roseville/stanford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commercial\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://scrl.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">residential\u003c/a> landlord and employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11784686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1648px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11784686 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40074_Survey-top-10-final-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A multi-newsroom investigation called "Who Owns Silicon Valley?" dug into Santa Clara County assessor's office records for 2018 and found Stanford University dominates the region. It's one of the top land holders in the county, and top in terms of property value.\" width=\"1648\" height=\"1382\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40074_Survey-top-10-final-qut.jpg 1648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40074_Survey-top-10-final-qut-160x134.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40074_Survey-top-10-final-qut-800x671.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40074_Survey-top-10-final-qut-1020x855.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40074_Survey-top-10-final-qut-1200x1006.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1648px) 100vw, 1648px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A multi-newsroom investigation called “Who Owns Silicon Valley?” dug into Santa Clara County assessor’s office records for 2018 and found Stanford University dominates the region. It’s one of the top land holders in the county, and top in terms of property value. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The general use permit is a special case. It’s unique, in fact, in Santa Clara County planning,” said Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, who led the county’s negotiations with Stanford. “It’s an opportunity for the university to plan longer term, over a 15-20 year horizon. But the challenge is always going to be the same with any developer out there. The applicant always wants what they want, and they want to give up as little as possible to get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps 20 years ago, when the last general use permit was approved, 3.5 million square feet and 9,610 more faculty, staff and students would not have caused much of a stir in Santa Clara County offices. But times have changed, and the 9,610 comes on top of a Stanford community numbering near 34,000 people, including undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Who Owns Silicon Valley?\" tag=\"who-owns-silicon-valley\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That makes Stanford as big as some of the tech titans of Silicon Valley, and like those major employers, Stanford finds itself engaged now in a new public conversation about its physical footprint in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, the county’s planning commission unanimously voted to recommend that the supervisors approve Stanford’s application, but if and only if Stanford agreed to certain changes. One of their top demands would have been a requirement that Stanford \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/countyofsantaclara/pages/16/attachments/original/1558655720/Attachment_F_General_Use_Permit_Conditions_of_Approval.pdf?1558655720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quadruple the amount of housing\u003c/a> it was originally proposing to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one example of the “full mitigation” county officials were demanding, insisting the university offset all of its expected impacts to local housing, traffic and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for instance, at a recent public meeting in Palo Alto, Stanford senior Amulya Yerrapotu spoke on behalf of \u003ca href=\"https://scope2035.weebly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SCOPE 2035,\u003c/a> a student group lobbying Stanford to house more of its own service workers and other staff. “The question here today is not whether Stanford is a good school,” Yerrapotu said. “It’s about who gets to reap the benefit of development and who has to bear the costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its press release last week — Stanford declined to comment beyond that — officials said they’d come around to delivering all of the housing the county asked for. But that followed months of back- and-forth, including a well-publicized \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757024/stanford-wants-to-expand-and-hopes-4-7-billion-in-mitigations-will-help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">counterproposal\u003c/a> and at least two lawsuits brought by Stanford, \u003ca href=\"https://padailypost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/stanford-dismiss-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one\u003c/a> of which was thrown out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for traffic mitigations stipulated by the county, Stanford concluded in its press release they were simply unfeasible.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb class=\"\">Stanford’s Footprint in Silicon Valley\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I’m writing a book about the 1960s,” said Lenny Siegel, former Mountain View mayor turned housing advocate. “I dug out a flyer about how Palo Alto had more than twice as many jobs as employed residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today is a different story. Off campus, the region around Stanford has grown crowded in the last half-century. Nobody blames Stanford entirely for today’s housing crisis, but Stanford does get a lot of the credit for launching Silicon Valley back in the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boom after Silicon Valley boom has packed the Peninsula with people, creating traffic jams and a housing crisis the likes of which California has never seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s tech boom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/map/sf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">displaced\u003c/a> many of those making less money, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve stopped working in the region. They just have to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10467044/long-commute-to-silicon-valley-increasingly-the-norm-for-many\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commute\u003c/a> from farther and farther away. That includes Stanford workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11784718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11784718 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut.jpg\" alt=\"El Camino Real, on the border of the Stanford University campus, has been home for years to an ever shifting collection of RVs where construction workers and local homeless people live — a reflection of the local housing crisis.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Camino Real, on the border of the Stanford University campus, has been home for years to an ever-shifting collection of RVs where construction workers and local homeless people live — a reflection of the local housing crisis. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Visit the Stanford campus on any given day, and there are several construction sites going. Stanford maintains a\u003ca href=\"http://maps.stanford.edu/construction/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> website\u003c/a> with a map of what’s happening where. The last general use permit, approved in 2000 and effective until 2020, allows the university to build about 200,000 square feet per year on land within Santa Clara County’s borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university has also been expanding in San Mateo County in recent years, especially in \u003ca href=\"https://redwoodcity.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redwood City\u003c/a>. San Mateo County officials have watched with \u003ca href=\"https://cmo.smcgov.org/stanford-expansion-only-benefits-stanford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interest\u003c/a> over the last three years, as their counterparts in Santa Clara County bargained hard with the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s worth noting that in the 128-year history of Stanford University, the university has never had an application denied by Santa Clara County,” Simitian said. “If you’re batting 1,000 over the course of more than a century, you ought to feel pretty good about how well you’re being treated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of weeks ago, Simitian suggested it would be up to Stanford officials to decide if they want to accept the county’s terms or walk away. It looks like they’ve decided to walk away, at least for the time being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11782840 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-800x450.jpg\" alt='\"Who Owns Silicon Valley?\" is a multi-newsroom investigative project involving Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, The Mercury News, NBC Bay Area, Renaissance Journalism and Telemundo 48 Área de la BahíaTelemundo.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">“Who Owns Silicon Valley?” is a multi-newsroom investigative project involving \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/local/labs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Mercury News\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> NBC Bay Area\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://renjournalism.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Renaissance Journalism\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.telemundoareadelabahia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Telemundo 48 Área de la BahíaTelemundo\u003c/a> and KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That makes Stanford as big as some of the tech titans of Silicon Valley, and like those major employers, Stanford finds itself engaged now in a new public conversation about its physical footprint in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, the county’s planning commission unanimously voted to recommend that the supervisors approve Stanford’s application, but if and only if Stanford agreed to certain changes. One of their top demands would have been a requirement that Stanford \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/countyofsantaclara/pages/16/attachments/original/1558655720/Attachment_F_General_Use_Permit_Conditions_of_Approval.pdf?1558655720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quadruple the amount of housing\u003c/a> it was originally proposing to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one example of the “full mitigation” county officials were demanding, insisting the university offset all of its expected impacts to local housing, traffic and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for instance, at a recent public meeting in Palo Alto, Stanford senior Amulya Yerrapotu spoke on behalf of \u003ca href=\"https://scope2035.weebly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SCOPE 2035,\u003c/a> a student group lobbying Stanford to house more of its own service workers and other staff. “The question here today is not whether Stanford is a good school,” Yerrapotu said. “It’s about who gets to reap the benefit of development and who has to bear the costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its press release last week — Stanford declined to comment beyond that — officials said they’d come around to delivering all of the housing the county asked for. But that followed months of back- and-forth, including a well-publicized \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757024/stanford-wants-to-expand-and-hopes-4-7-billion-in-mitigations-will-help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">counterproposal\u003c/a> and at least two lawsuits brought by Stanford, \u003ca href=\"https://padailypost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/stanford-dismiss-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one\u003c/a> of which was thrown out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for traffic mitigations stipulated by the county, Stanford concluded in its press release they were simply unfeasible.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb class=\"\">Stanford’s Footprint in Silicon Valley\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I’m writing a book about the 1960s,” said Lenny Siegel, former Mountain View mayor turned housing advocate. “I dug out a flyer about how Palo Alto had more than twice as many jobs as employed residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today is a different story. Off campus, the region around Stanford has grown crowded in the last half-century. Nobody blames Stanford entirely for today’s housing crisis, but Stanford does get a lot of the credit for launching Silicon Valley back in the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boom after Silicon Valley boom has packed the Peninsula with people, creating traffic jams and a housing crisis the likes of which California has never seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s tech boom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/map/sf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">displaced\u003c/a> many of those making less money, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve stopped working in the region. They just have to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10467044/long-commute-to-silicon-valley-increasingly-the-norm-for-many\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commute\u003c/a> from farther and farther away. That includes Stanford workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11784718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11784718 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut.jpg\" alt=\"El Camino Real, on the border of the Stanford University campus, has been home for years to an ever shifting collection of RVs where construction workers and local homeless people live — a reflection of the local housing crisis.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Camino Real, on the border of the Stanford University campus, has been home for years to an ever-shifting collection of RVs where construction workers and local homeless people live — a reflection of the local housing crisis. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Visit the Stanford campus on any given day, and there are several construction sites going. Stanford maintains a\u003ca href=\"http://maps.stanford.edu/construction/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> website\u003c/a> with a map of what’s happening where. The last general use permit, approved in 2000 and effective until 2020, allows the university to build about 200,000 square feet per year on land within Santa Clara County’s borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university has also been expanding in San Mateo County in recent years, especially in \u003ca href=\"https://redwoodcity.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redwood City\u003c/a>. San Mateo County officials have watched with \u003ca href=\"https://cmo.smcgov.org/stanford-expansion-only-benefits-stanford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interest\u003c/a> over the last three years, as their counterparts in Santa Clara County bargained hard with the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s worth noting that in the 128-year history of Stanford University, the university has never had an application denied by Santa Clara County,” Simitian said. “If you’re batting 1,000 over the course of more than a century, you ought to feel pretty good about how well you’re being treated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of weeks ago, Simitian suggested it would be up to Stanford officials to decide if they want to accept the county’s terms or walk away. 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The range of initiatives include aid for prospective homebuyers and the new affordable developments in and around San Jose.[aside label=related coverage\" tag=\"affordable-housing\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple’s housing offer eclipses recent large commitments from other tech giants to address the state’s housing crisis. Both \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/10/facebook-commits-1-billion-to-address-housing-affordability/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/18/733728082/google-will-devote-1-billion-trying-to-tame-housing-costs-in-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google\u003c/a> have pledged $1 billion in recent months. In January, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/686413267/microsoft-pledges-500-million-investment-to-tackle-affordable-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft\u003c/a> made a $500 million investment to ease similar pressures near its headquarters in the Seattle area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes as California grapples with how to keep pace with growing housing demand — by one estimate, the state must build more than 3 million homes by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sky-high cost of housing — both for homeowners and renters — is the defining quality-of-life concern for millions of families across this state, one that can only be fixed by building more housing,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/11/apple-commits-two-point-five-billion-to-combat-housing-crisis-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple press release\u003c/a>. “This partnership with Apple will allow the state of California to do just that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who want to own or rent a home in California increasingly face tight supply in high-demand areas. While the crisis has a wide reach, the struggle to find new housing at an affordable price is even more daunting for the millions of people who haven’t benefited from the tech boom that has made some into billionaires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple’s plan includes $1 billion to create a mortgage assistance fund for first-time homebuyers, and another $1 billion that will be an open line of credit to support building “very low- to moderate-income housing,” the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s Apple’s projected breakdown of the $2.5 billion in aid:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$1 billion affordable housing investment fund\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$1 billion first-time homebuyer mortgage assistance fund\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$300 million worth of land Apple owns in San Jose, which will be available for affordable housing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$150 million Bay Area housing fund, consisting of long-term forgivable loans and grants\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$50 million to support vulnerable people: Apple is donating $50 million to support Destination: Home’s efforts to address homelessness in Silicon Valley, and will look for similar philanthropies throughout the state\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“Before the world knew the name Silicon Valley, and long before we carried technology in our pockets, Apple called this region home, and we feel a profound civic responsibility to ensure it remains a vibrant place where people can live, have a family and contribute to the community,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook in the company’s release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move, however, marks a \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/google-v-apple-while-one-takes-on-the-housing-crisis-the-other-stands-back/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major shift\u003c/a> in tactics for the iconic company, which unlike Google and Facebook has traditionally distanced itself from high-profile civic engagement projects. That general lack of involvement has been a source of criticism among some local advocacy groups, which argue that Apple has largely abdicated its responsibility to address community issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have walled themselves inside their mini-Pentagon as if they don’t participate in community life here,” Amie Fishman, executive director of the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California, told Reveal last month. “And that’s really insulting and wrong. So I welcome Apple to come to the table and be part of the community that they benefit from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, was quick to criticize the company’s announcement, accusing the company of “throwing pennies” at the housing crisis he said Apple helped create.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Apple’s announcement that it is entering the real estate lending business is an effort to distract from the fact that it has helped create California’s housing crisis — all while raking in \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/T07iC829m0ujXkPyT1glMC?domain=u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net\">$800 million \u003c/a>of taxpayer subsidies, and keeping a quarter trillion dollars of profit offshore, in order to avoid paying \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/g14lC9r2nPTmzONwf3Ldy6?domain=u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net\">billions of dollars in taxes\u003c/a>,” Sanders said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Apple is committed to being a good neighbor and helping to write the next chapter of the region that has been a great home of innovation and creativity for generations,” said Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson said Apple crafted its approach to match the broad reach of the housing crisis, from helping first-time homebuyers to backing philanthropies that support people who are at the greatest risk of experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple said its funding commitment will be rolled out over two years, depending on the availability of projects, and that it plans reinvest unused funds in future projects over the next five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also said it is working to identify private developers who, with the right financing and investment, are ready to immediately begin construction on affordable housing projects in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Additional reporting from NPR’s Bill Chappell.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11782840\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2.jpg\" alt='\"Who Owns Silicon Valley?\" is a multi-newsroom investigative project involving Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, The Mercury News, NBC Bay Area, Renaissance Journalism, and Telemundo 48 Área de la BahíaTelemundo.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Who Owns Silicon Valley?” is a multi-newsroom investigative project involving Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, The Mercury News, NBC Bay Area, Renaissance Journalism and Telemundo 48 Área de la BahíaTelemundo.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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But in the midst of a housing crisis some say Stanford helped create, locals are asking if the university is doing enough to house those it employs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a multi-newsroom investigative project involving \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/local/labs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Mercury News\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> NBC Bay Area\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://renjournalism.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Renaissance Journalism\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.telemundoareadelabahia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Telemundo 48 Área de la BahíaTelemundo\u003c/a>, we analyzed county assessor office records from 2018\u003cem> \u003c/em>to identify the largest landowners in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the top of the list in terms of property value: Stanford. The value of the university’s holdings is greater than those of Google, Apple and Intel combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Who Owns Silicon Valley?\" tag=\"who-owns-silicon-valley\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On campus and off, the value of Stanford’s real estate empire tops $19.7 billion, as of 2018. That’s probably an undercount because Proposition 13, California’s landmark property tax law from the 1970s, has held down the reported value of a lot of Stanford’s properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can drive for miles and still be on Stanford land. I mean, it’s got a golf course. It’s got a nature preserve. The Stanford Linear Accelerator is operated by the federal government, but it’s on Stanford land,” said Steve Staiger, a historian with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pahistory.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palo Alto Historical Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, as the region’s housing crisis has metastasized, a growing number of community voices are asking whether Stanford’s size comes attached to a greater responsibility to house its faculty and staff. “Stanford certainly has, in many people’s eyes, a responsibility to do their fair share,” Staiger said. “Now, what they think is their fair share and how that’s being handled? It’s different than others because they have space on their lands for housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3081px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11782709 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002.jpeg\" alt=\"Leland, Jane and Leland Jr. Stanford in Paris c. 1881-1883.\" width=\"3081\" height=\"3838\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002.jpeg 3081w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-160x199.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-800x997.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-1020x1271.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-963x1200.jpeg 963w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-1920x2392.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3081px) 100vw, 3081px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leland, Jane and Leland Stanford Jr. in Paris c. 1881-1883. \u003ccite>((Courtesy of Stanford University Archives))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How Stanford Came to Be So Big\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stanford has one of the largest campuses in the country and sits on roughly 8,180 acres straddling the border of two counties. UC Davis, for comparison’s sake, is just 5,300 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As every visitor who takes a campus tour learns, the university was founded by a grieving father who dedicated the school to his son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amasa Leland Stanford was one of the “Big Four,” a group of California merchants who banded together to build the western portion of America’s first transcontinental railroad, the Central Pacific, with generous support from state and federal governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford lived lavishly off the profits of his railroad. He joined an exclusive coterie of ultra-wealthy people and owned both a mansion on Nob Hill in San Francisco and a country estate south of the city. He grew grapes and raised horses on a stretch of land that grew to rival the rancheras of the Spanish colonial era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He might have faded into history if not for a tragedy that struck the family in 1884 when his 15-year-old son, Leland Jr., died of typhoid fever while touring Italy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no heir to pass on all their wealth to, the grief-stricken parents decided to launch a university. In 1885, they donated their land to a new school — with the unusual stipulation that it could never be sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11781793 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Hoover Tower on Stanford University campus houses the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, which were founded by Herbert Hoover before he became President of the United States.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1439\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hoover Tower on Stanford University campus houses the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, which were founded by Herbert Hoover before he became president of the United States.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Land Rich, Cash Poor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades following, this edict guaranteed Stanford would be land rich in an area many considered the boonies. To this day, one of Stanford’s nicknames is “The Farm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until the 1950s that Stanford officials devised a plan to lease out land they couldn’t sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.simon.com/mall/stanford-shopping-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Stanford] Shopping Center\u003c/a> is on leased land,” said Staiger. “The \u003ca href=\"https://stanfordresearchpark.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Stanford] Research Park\u003c/a> is on leased land.” The leasing deals allow Stanford to generate income without selling the land, which they’re prohibited from doing by the 1885 founding grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then a man named Fred Terman helped launch what we now call Silicon Valley, first as an electrical engineering professor and then as provost at Stanford. Terman was one of the first to encourage tech talent and businesses to stay close to campus rather than seek fame and fortune elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say the university made a major contribution to the companies here,” Terman said in a 1969 interview. “But then, the companies made a major contribution to those parts of the university that contributed to these companies. So we all grew up together, really.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Stanford boasts an \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2019/10/02/stanford-releasereturn-endowment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">endowment of $27.7 billion\u003c/a>, which puts it near the top in the U.S., behind Harvard and Yale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwk2Y4mi87w]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Steve Staiger, a historian with the Palo Alto Historical Association']‘Stanford certainly has, in many people’s eyes, a responsibility to do their fair share. Now: what they think is their fair share and how that’s being handled? It’s different than others because they have space on their lands for housing.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, PayPal, Google, Yahoo, Netflix and others, the center of gravity for tech companies gradually shifted from the East Coast to the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Year after year, Silicon Valley companies draw in tens of thousands of software engineers, lawyers and other professionals. Not all of them make huge salaries, but in recent years, the economic influx has displaced thousands of people who do not work in tech, forcing them to leave the Bay Area. A quick search on the real estate platform Zillow reveals the median home price in Palo Alto is $2,833,400.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Housing Crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“You can see people living in vehicles on the streets,” said Lenny Siegel, former mayor of Mountain View. “School districts are losing teachers. It’s gotten worse because we’ve had this unprecedented employment growth and very little housing development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://stanfordresearchpark.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford Research Park\u003c/a> is home to more than 150 different companies and their 23,000 employees. The university itself directly employs about 13,028 staff members, plus another 2,240 faculty members as of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had faculty housing on campus from the very beginning, to provide an opportunity for faculty to be close to the education and research mission of the institution,” said Martin Shell, Stanford’s vice president and chief external relations officer. “And we think that we’ve been following in that tradition for the last 125 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782708\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782708\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39801_StandfordEdit006-qut-800x527.jpg\" alt=\"Stanford's campus spans 8,180 acres in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties and is one of the largest in the country\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39801_StandfordEdit006-qut-800x527.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39801_StandfordEdit006-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39801_StandfordEdit006-qut-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39801_StandfordEdit006-qut-1200x791.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39801_StandfordEdit006-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanford’s campus spans 8,180 acres in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties and is one of the largest in the country. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They [Stanford University] are the major employer on the Mid-Peninsula both for the university faculty and staff, but more importantly perhaps, numerically, is the \u003ca href=\"https://stanfordhealthcare.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Medical Center\u003c/a>. It’s a huge employer, so big that now they have a separate plant out in Redwood City that thousands of people are working at,” historian Staiger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford officials told our investigative reporting team they plan to build about 1,300 housing units and more than 2,400 beds for graduate students, at an estimated cost of more than $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did that for many reasons, not the least of which was our graduate students were increasingly having a challenge to find a place to live in close proximity where they could afford to live here,” said Shell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an apartment complex in the works, the expanded \u003ca href=\"https://newgradhousing.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Escondido Village Graduate Residences,\u003c/a> opens in about a year, Stanford will house more than 75 percent of its graduate students on its campus. The university already houses all of its undergraduates on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some may ask why building more housing is Stanford’s problem when Mountain View, Palo Alto and other nearby cities also haven’t kept pace with growing demand over the last half-century. Or, for that matter, whether it’s a problem for tech companies in the region to solve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, tech titans like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755545/google-pledges-1-billion-to-help-fight-bay-area-housing-crisis-it-helped-create\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google\u003c/a> and Facebook have announced major initiatives to help build housing for their employees and others, providing a combination of cash and land as incentives and asking local municipalities to help shape their housing plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That shift in the public conversation is putting Stanford in the spotlight for a growing number of local politicians and housing advocates. “Stanford has more land than the city of Mountain View,” said Siegel. “Yeah, they’re a big institution and they do a lot, but they need to do more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Expanding Real Estate Empire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stanford leases homes to faculty at prices well below market rates — it’s one of the ways Stanford attracts top academic talent from around the world that might not otherwise move to the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Pria Graves, College Terrace Residents Association']‘Probably most of Silicon Valley wouldn’t exist without Stanford. On the other hand, there are definite downsides.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the university’s concerns about housing affordability have focused largely on faculty, as opposed to staff — or the communities that neighbor Stanford. A university-led \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2019/05/20/affordability-task-force-digging-needs-various-communities/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Affordability Task Force\u003c/a> is expected to deliver recommendations later this year that expand Stanford’s definition of constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the meantime, Stanford has been busy expanding its residential real estate portfolio off-campus. For example, in just the last five years, the university has bought more than 30 properties in a neighborhood near the campus called College Terrace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pria Graves, a retired software engineer from Palo Alto, has lived in College Terrace for 34 years. She’s the \u003ca href=\"https://www.collegeterrace.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">College Terrace Residents Association’s\u003c/a> “Stanford observer.” She argues that Stanford’s choice to absorb properties off-campus to secure housing for its employees is drying up the pool of available housing for others in the community. That, she says, drives local housing prices past already stratospheric levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does Graves say to those who argue her neighborhood wouldn’t be as nice as it is without Stanford, or might not even exist without Stanford? “Oh it probably wouldn’t. Probably most of Silicon Valley wouldn’t exist without Stanford,” Graves admits. “On the other hand, there are definite downsides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those downsides are at the center of a contentious battle with Santa Clara County supervisors. After three years of back and forth over Stanford’s proposed plans to build another 3.5 million square feet in the coming years, the university abruptly withdrew its application last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2019/11/01/stanford-withdraws-general-use-permit-application/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a>, the university acknowledged “obstacles on the path to a successful permit” and committed to “a new phase of engagement and dialogue with its neighbors and surrounding communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11782840 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-800x450.jpg\" alt='\"Who Owns Silicon Valley?\" is a multi-newsroom investigative project involving Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, The Mercury News, NBC Bay Area, Renaissance Journalism and Telemundo 48 Área de la BahíaTelemundo.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Who Owns Silicon Valley?” is a multi-newsroom investigative project involving \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/local/labs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Mercury News\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> NBC Bay Area\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://renjournalism.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Renaissance Journalism\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.telemundoareadelabahia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Telemundo 48 Área de la BahíaTelemundo\u003c/a> and KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On campus and off, the value of Stanford’s real estate empire tops $19.7 billion, as of 2018. That’s probably an undercount because Proposition 13, California’s landmark property tax law from the 1970s, has held down the reported value of a lot of Stanford’s properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can drive for miles and still be on Stanford land. I mean, it’s got a golf course. It’s got a nature preserve. The Stanford Linear Accelerator is operated by the federal government, but it’s on Stanford land,” said Steve Staiger, a historian with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pahistory.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palo Alto Historical Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, as the region’s housing crisis has metastasized, a growing number of community voices are asking whether Stanford’s size comes attached to a greater responsibility to house its faculty and staff. “Stanford certainly has, in many people’s eyes, a responsibility to do their fair share,” Staiger said. “Now, what they think is their fair share and how that’s being handled? It’s different than others because they have space on their lands for housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3081px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11782709 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002.jpeg\" alt=\"Leland, Jane and Leland Jr. Stanford in Paris c. 1881-1883.\" width=\"3081\" height=\"3838\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002.jpeg 3081w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-160x199.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-800x997.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-1020x1271.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-963x1200.jpeg 963w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-1920x2392.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3081px) 100vw, 3081px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leland, Jane and Leland Stanford Jr. in Paris c. 1881-1883. \u003ccite>((Courtesy of Stanford University Archives))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How Stanford Came to Be So Big\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stanford has one of the largest campuses in the country and sits on roughly 8,180 acres straddling the border of two counties. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, PayPal, Google, Yahoo, Netflix and others, the center of gravity for tech companies gradually shifted from the East Coast to the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Year after year, Silicon Valley companies draw in tens of thousands of software engineers, lawyers and other professionals. Not all of them make huge salaries, but in recent years, the economic influx has displaced thousands of people who do not work in tech, forcing them to leave the Bay Area. A quick search on the real estate platform Zillow reveals the median home price in Palo Alto is $2,833,400.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Housing Crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“You can see people living in vehicles on the streets,” said Lenny Siegel, former mayor of Mountain View. “School districts are losing teachers. It’s gotten worse because we’ve had this unprecedented employment growth and very little housing development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://stanfordresearchpark.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford Research Park\u003c/a> is home to more than 150 different companies and their 23,000 employees. The university itself directly employs about 13,028 staff members, plus another 2,240 faculty members as of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had faculty housing on campus from the very beginning, to provide an opportunity for faculty to be close to the education and research mission of the institution,” said Martin Shell, Stanford’s vice president and chief external relations officer. “And we think that we’ve been following in that tradition for the last 125 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782708\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782708\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39801_StandfordEdit006-qut-800x527.jpg\" alt=\"Stanford's campus spans 8,180 acres in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties and is one of the largest in the country\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39801_StandfordEdit006-qut-800x527.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39801_StandfordEdit006-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39801_StandfordEdit006-qut-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39801_StandfordEdit006-qut-1200x791.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39801_StandfordEdit006-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanford’s campus spans 8,180 acres in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties and is one of the largest in the country. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They [Stanford University] are the major employer on the Mid-Peninsula both for the university faculty and staff, but more importantly perhaps, numerically, is the \u003ca href=\"https://stanfordhealthcare.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Medical Center\u003c/a>. It’s a huge employer, so big that now they have a separate plant out in Redwood City that thousands of people are working at,” historian Staiger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford officials told our investigative reporting team they plan to build about 1,300 housing units and more than 2,400 beds for graduate students, at an estimated cost of more than $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did that for many reasons, not the least of which was our graduate students were increasingly having a challenge to find a place to live in close proximity where they could afford to live here,” said Shell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an apartment complex in the works, the expanded \u003ca href=\"https://newgradhousing.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Escondido Village Graduate Residences,\u003c/a> opens in about a year, Stanford will house more than 75 percent of its graduate students on its campus. The university already houses all of its undergraduates on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some may ask why building more housing is Stanford’s problem when Mountain View, Palo Alto and other nearby cities also haven’t kept pace with growing demand over the last half-century. Or, for that matter, whether it’s a problem for tech companies in the region to solve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, tech titans like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755545/google-pledges-1-billion-to-help-fight-bay-area-housing-crisis-it-helped-create\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google\u003c/a> and Facebook have announced major initiatives to help build housing for their employees and others, providing a combination of cash and land as incentives and asking local municipalities to help shape their housing plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That shift in the public conversation is putting Stanford in the spotlight for a growing number of local politicians and housing advocates. “Stanford has more land than the city of Mountain View,” said Siegel. “Yeah, they’re a big institution and they do a lot, but they need to do more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Expanding Real Estate Empire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stanford leases homes to faculty at prices well below market rates — it’s one of the ways Stanford attracts top academic talent from around the world that might not otherwise move to the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the university’s concerns about housing affordability have focused largely on faculty, as opposed to staff — or the communities that neighbor Stanford. A university-led \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2019/05/20/affordability-task-force-digging-needs-various-communities/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Affordability Task Force\u003c/a> is expected to deliver recommendations later this year that expand Stanford’s definition of constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the meantime, Stanford has been busy expanding its residential real estate portfolio off-campus. For example, in just the last five years, the university has bought more than 30 properties in a neighborhood near the campus called College Terrace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pria Graves, a retired software engineer from Palo Alto, has lived in College Terrace for 34 years. She’s the \u003ca href=\"https://www.collegeterrace.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">College Terrace Residents Association’s\u003c/a> “Stanford observer.” She argues that Stanford’s choice to absorb properties off-campus to secure housing for its employees is drying up the pool of available housing for others in the community. That, she says, drives local housing prices past already stratospheric levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does Graves say to those who argue her neighborhood wouldn’t be as nice as it is without Stanford, or might not even exist without Stanford? “Oh it probably wouldn’t. Probably most of Silicon Valley wouldn’t exist without Stanford,” Graves admits. “On the other hand, there are definite downsides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those downsides are at the center of a contentious battle with Santa Clara County supervisors. After three years of back and forth over Stanford’s proposed plans to build another 3.5 million square feet in the coming years, the university abruptly withdrew its application last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2019/11/01/stanford-withdraws-general-use-permit-application/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a>, the university acknowledged “obstacles on the path to a successful permit” and committed to “a new phase of engagement and dialogue with its neighbors and surrounding communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11782840 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-800x450.jpg\" alt='\"Who Owns Silicon Valley?\" is a multi-newsroom investigative project involving Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, The Mercury News, NBC Bay Area, Renaissance Journalism and Telemundo 48 Área de la BahíaTelemundo.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Who Owns Silicon Valley?” is a multi-newsroom investigative project involving \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/local/labs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Mercury News\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> NBC Bay Area\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://renjournalism.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Renaissance Journalism\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.telemundoareadelabahia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Telemundo 48 Área de la BahíaTelemundo\u003c/a> and KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>Updated on Monday, Nov. 4, at 2:15 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up in California’s Gold Country, PG&E’s power shutoffs in October \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11784017/we-could-not-bathe-or-keep-warm-tales-from-the-pge-power-shutoffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hit residents hard\u003c/a>: Schools closed, businesses shuttered, cellphone communications faltered, medical services were impacted and food rotted in powerless refrigerators — all while freezing temperatures set in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Beemer, a massage therapist from Camino in El Dorado County, said the power blackouts were interrupting — or rather coming to dominate — people’s lives, and he wanted to give them a humor-filled way to vent: haiku.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of people expressing themselves in negative ways — like they’re shaking their fists at the air, sometimes,” he said. “So I thought, why not just express ourselves and have some fun with it. I’ve always liked haiku. … I just pictured it more like people blowing off steam with a smile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And boy, people did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11784309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11784309\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11012019_Haikus_Beemer_Screen-Shot-2019-11-01-at-9.26.02-AM-qut-800x394.jpg\" alt='Gold Country resident Jeffrey Beemer wanted his neighbors to have a way to \"blow off steam with a smile\" by asking for haiku about the PG&E power shutoffs in October. And boy did they deliver.' width=\"800\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11012019_Haikus_Beemer_Screen-Shot-2019-11-01-at-9.26.02-AM-qut-800x394.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11012019_Haikus_Beemer_Screen-Shot-2019-11-01-at-9.26.02-AM-qut-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11012019_Haikus_Beemer_Screen-Shot-2019-11-01-at-9.26.02-AM-qut.jpg 1004w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gold Country resident Jeffrey Beemer wanted his neighbors to have a way to “blow off steam with a smile” by asking for haiku about the PG&E power shutoffs in October. And boy did they deliver. \u003ccite>(Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After Beemer posted his haiku idea to the EDCW Chat page, a group on Facebook, he got dozens of replies, many capturing a slice of life without power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the ones who said their haiku could be shared:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where is my husband?\u003cbr>\nSitting in car in driveway.\u003cbr>\nChecking his Facebook.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>— \u003cstrong>Alison Smith Loeprich\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cold and dark no light\u003cbr>\nChildren don’t open the fridge\u003cbr>\nBeans and Franks again\u003cbr>\n— \u003cstrong>\u003cem>Laura Waugh\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='power-shutoffs' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broken-heartedly\u003cbr>\nI check my phone battery\u003cbr>\nDamn, 12% charge…\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>— \u003cstrong>Tony Guglielmone\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generator’s making too much noise\u003cbr>\nI am tired of getting up cold\u003cbr>\nWhen will this be over\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>— \u003cstrong>Lori Lumactod\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baking and laundry\u003cbr>\nAnd watching TV at night\u003cbr>\nGone when the lights died\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>— \u003cstrong>Liz Hamilton Graff\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I freeze in the night\u003cbr>\nFood rots in the warmth of day\u003cbr>\nPlight of the watt-less\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>— \u003cstrong>Kirstine Bowers\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charging tent visit\u003cbr>\nWe all bring dead devices\u003cbr>\nPlug in and make friends.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>— \u003cstrong>Patti Farrington\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walking through the house\u003cbr>\nDarkness. My flashlight is dim.\u003cbr>\nWhat did I step in?\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>— \u003cstrong>Teresa Hawkins Haselmann\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generator fumes\u003cbr>\nPower loss consumes the brain\u003cbr>\nCoffee would be good\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>— \u003cstrong>Nancy Maggitti Leonti\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dark is the night sky\u003cbr>\nA million stars I now see\u003cbr>\nOh, how I love thee\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>— \u003cstrong>Stacie Derencin\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s missing the mark\u003cbr>\nWhile trying to do its part\u003cbr>\nI’m still in the dark\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>— Bree Lawrence\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E bites.\u003cbr>\nPropane water heater though.\u003cbr>\nAt least I won’t stink.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>— \u003cstrong>Gary Navratil\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Short bursts of power\u003cbr>\nGenerator on four hours —\u003cbr>\nThen darkness again.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>— \u003cstrong>Carol Sikes\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are a few more, from Gold Country authors who will remain anonymous, for now:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids no school today\u003cbr>\nLost my marbles yesterday\u003cbr>\nShower pretty please\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuck PG&E,\u003cbr>\nReally fuck PG&E\u003cbr>\nFuck PG&E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally, there was a message of gratitude — in haiku, naturally — to Beemer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting in the dark…\u003cbr>\nNow lights shining ON at home.\u003cbr>\nThank you for haiku\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>— \u003cstrong>Christine Gaul\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Have a haiku of your own? 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"content": "\u003cp>PG&E says that in the aftermath of its vast preemptive power outage in early October that it found dozens of locations on its electrical network where trees or equipment failures likely would have caused lines to arc — a condition that could lead to sparking wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s analysis, delivered in response to a directive from U.S. District Judge William Alsup, disclosed 13 instances of likely arc-producing damage in the fire-prone Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Pacific Gas and Electric Power Shutoffs\" tag=\"power-shutoffs\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company had reported finding more than 100 instances of damage to the 25,000 miles of electrical lines taken out of service during the blackout, which affected about 729,000 customers in 35 counties during a period of extreme fire weather between Oct. 9 and Oct. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is possible that any one of these instances could have been a potential source of ignition had a PSPS (public safety power shutoff) not been initiated,” the company said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20191014_15_things_you_need_to_know_about_pges_oct_9-12_public_safety_power_shutoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an Oct. 14 press release\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The release was issued the same day Alsup, who is overseeing the company’s criminal probation for violating federal pipeline safety laws, directed the company to tell him how many of those reported episodes involved damage that would have caused lines to arc and thus pose a dramatically heightened risk of sparking a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a brief report filed with the court Wednesday, PG&E said it found a total of 115 sites where damage had occurred — 74 involving wind-whipped trees or branches that had come into contact with power lines and 41 involving wind damage to equipment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility said 44 cases of vegetation-related damage and a dozen cases of infrastructure damage could have led its lines to arc. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing acknowledged that the company has no way of determining with any degree of certainty whether arcing would actually have occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E has said that inspections following its most widespread preemptive blackouts, which began last Saturday night, have uncovered at least 127 instances of damage to its lines and other equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E elected to turn off power to 970,000 customers — an estimated 2.5 million people — to avoid sparking fires during a prolonged episode of high winds and very dry weather. One station in the Mayacamas Mountains northeast of Geyserville recorded a gust of 102 mph Sunday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The role of the company’s equipment in touching off wildfires has been revived by the disclosure that a problem on one of its transmission lines occurred about the same time and place that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782314/what-you-need-to-know-sonoma-countys-kincade-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Kincade Fire\u003c/a> began in The Geysers area of northeastern Sonoma County the night of Oct. 23. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11782609 hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Screen-Shot-2019-10-24-at-5.18.58-PM-1038x576.png\"]Cal Fire is investigating the cause of the blaze, which has burned nearly 77,000 acres and destroyed about 90 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last November’s Camp Fire ignited when a piece of hardware on a PG&E transmission tower along the Feather River \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747485/cal-fires-official-finding-pge-equipment-touched-off-camp-fire\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">broke\u003c/a>, allowing energized equipment to swing free and arc — sparking the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That incident rapidly became the deadliest and most destructive fire in California history, killing 85 people and destroying nearly 14,000 homes in and around the town of Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other PG&E and PG&E blackout news:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>If PG&E Turned Off Your Lights Oct. 9-12, You’ll Get a Break on Your Bill\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Tuesday — and PG&E CEO Bill Johnson confirmed — that the utility will grant credits to the 728,980 customers who were cut off from electricity during the wide-reaching public safety power shutoff from Oct. 9 through Oct. 12. Newsom had suggested earlier this month that PG&E grant a $100 rebate to every residential customer whose lights were turned out and $250 to every business blacked out. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said at a media briefing Tuesday evening that PG&E was going along with Newsom’s request after considering some of the hardships it imposed on customers — specifically, the collapse of the company’s website and the woeful understaffing of its call centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11783884 label='Share Your Experience']“Some of the things we did in that didn’t go very well — our website and all those issues — and we thought this was probably a pretty good idea to show a little recognition to our customers of some of those things that didn’t go right, ” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E says the credits will show up on customers’ next bill. Our back-of-the-envelope estimate of how much the credits will cost the company: about $90 million, based on a guess that 85% of customers affected Oct. 9-12 were residential and 15% were businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next fight over the shutoffs and their impact on customers: Whether PG&E and the other big utilities should be allowed to charge people for periods when their power has been turned off. Newsom and some state legislators have called for a change in state law to prohibit such charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Credit details:\u003c/em> Those who lost power in the later PG&E power shutoffs will not be eligible for credits related to those events, the company says, because: 1) it says it’s cured its communications difficulties and 2) regulators have approved the shutoffs as a means to head off wildfires. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the details on the credits: \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/2019/10/29/pge-statement-on-oct-9-public-safety-power-shutoff-customer-bill-credit/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PG&E Statement on Oct. 9 Public Safety Power Shutoff Customer Bill Credit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=“medium” align=\"right\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]‘Utilities must be held accountable and be aggressively penalized for their overreliance on [power shutoffs].’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Daily Plea From PG&E: Be Kind to Line Workers; They’re There to Help\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A regular feature of PG&E’s nightly media briefings is a plea from the company’s most senior executives for the public not to take out their frustrations on utility workers who are out in the field inspecting lines or restoring power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company leaders have said workers, including some who have come to California from other utilities across the nation to provide mutual aid, have been the targets of verbal abuse, threats and in some cases actual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday evening, PG&E Corp. CEO Bill Johnson said a PG&E worker driving a PG&E vehicle had been intentionally run off the road “by an angry motorist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company officials have warned that some out-of-state workers might refuse to come to California with the level of PG&E-directed anger running so high. Johnson, who himself is a recent transplant from Tennessee, doubled down on that message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have hundreds of visitors here helping us from other parts of the country, from the South, the East, the Midwest and here in the West” he said. “What impression do we want to give these visiting workers of California? So let’s make those workers, and all the workers, feel safe and welcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Catching Up: Utility Regulators Will Investigate Public Safety Power Shutoffs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With much of California under siege from a rapid-fire series of windstorms and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11783228/with-massive-blackout-still-in-place-pge-considers-yet-another-preemptive-outage\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vast preemptive power outages\u003c/a> meant to prevent electrical equipment from sparking wildfires, state utility regulators announced earlier they’re launching a formal investigation into the blackouts and taking steps to try to minimize them in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Public Utilities Commission said the investigation will center on the increasingly broad public safety power shutoffs — or PSPS events — conducted by PG&E and the state’s other major power providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11782798 hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-1175134929-1020x676.jpg\"]The agency will also re-examine how the utilities are using the shutoffs with an eye to reducing their scope. 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