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Program director Rupa Chaturvedi said she thought driving six hours a day in those conditions would be too dangerous for the kids. “We’re super happy that we were able to produce a roadworthy car, but pushing the limits, based on the weather conditions didn’t make any sense,” she said.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Sunday, Palo Alto High School and 19 other student-led teams have embarked on an eight-day, 1,400-mile trip for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.solarcarchallenge.org/challenge/teams2023.shtml\">30th annual Solar Car Challenge\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/students\">Students\u003c/a> from across the country built roadworthy solar cars and are driving them on freeways from the starting point in Fort Worth, Texas, to Palmdale, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Palo Alto team, made up of 13 sophomores and juniors, spent six months building their car, which they’ve named “The Beast.” At the end of each school day, students would meet at an off-campus workshop to design, weld and tinker. The work typically involved late nights to problem-solve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought we’d actually make a whole car,” said Alice Jambon, 16, the project’s build lead. “And when we saw it finally run perfectly, it was mind-blowing, honestly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Beast has three wheels on an ATV suspension system that the students welded to an open metal frame. Its flat roof is completely covered with solar panels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The car’s electric motor can go up to 50 mph, but the team is driving it at about 20 to 30 mph. The Solar Car Challenge is not a race. 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With help from \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/02/15/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-standards-and-major-progress-for-a-made-in-america-national-network-of-electric-vehicle-chargers/\">government green energy initiatives\u003c/a>, electric vehicles are even projected to outsell gasoline-powered cars \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/10/climate/electric-vehicle-fleet-turnover.html\">by 2050\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marks’ program has grown as well. The Solar Car Challenge now includes 261 teams in 39 states, in addition to Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Spain and Singapore. “We’re spinning dreams for these kids,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, he expects 200,000 people will come out to watch the high schoolers drive their solar vehicles across the southwestern U.S. — despite projected triple-digit temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11955259 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SOLAR-CAR-MHN-05-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"An East Indian high school student sits in the middle of a metallic frame as other students work around him.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SOLAR-CAR-MHN-05-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SOLAR-CAR-MHN-05-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SOLAR-CAR-MHN-05-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SOLAR-CAR-MHN-05-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SOLAR-CAR-MHN-05-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SOLAR-CAR-MHN-05-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raghav Ranga (center), a member of the Palo Alto High School team competing in the 30th Solar Car Challenge, tests out the placement of the steering wheel in the solar car in Palo Alto on July 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very serious project,” said Rupa Chaturvedi, the Palo Alto team’s program director. “It’s putting a human being in the car and, most likely, a 16-year-old on the freeway, right?”[aside label='More Stories on Electric Cars' tag='electric-cars']Each car is flanked by a three-vehicle convoy, which maintains radio communication with the driver and shields the solar car from passing traffic. EMT teams and a registered nurse accompany the competitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaap Nair, a 17-year-old driver for the Palo Alto team, just got his driver’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the adrenaline that will go through my body is definitely going to keep me, like, completely focused,” he said. “Completely focused and really immersed in what I’m really driving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California teams have been part of the Solar Car Challenge since it began, but this is the first time a Bay Area team is competing. While there are no cash prizes, awards are given for elements like distance and engineering. 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The paint job is a white that Benjamin Moore might describe as “sand dollar” or “dune,” with French blue accents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whimsy or cheese? I’m going with whimsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building was designed for the \u003ca href=\"https://seascout.org\">Sea Scouts\u003c/a>, a maritime program of the Boy Scouts of America, by architect \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloaltohistory.org/birge-clark.php\">Birge Clark.\u003c/a> He’s the one behind the Palo Alto Post Office, the President Hotel and several Stanford buildings. Clark reportedly took his inspiration for the Sea Scout building from the pilot house of an old paddle wheel steamer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that’s the story of what hits your eyeballs as you’re walking in the Baylands. The history of the building is just as compelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2139px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940610\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts.jpg\" alt=\"A sepia toned photograph shows rows of young men in maritime uniforms in front of an Art Deco building that looks like a boat. What looks like a military band plays in foreground.\" width=\"2139\" height=\"1714\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts.jpg 2139w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-800x641.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-1020x817.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-1536x1231.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-2048x1641.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-1920x1539.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2139px) 100vw, 2139px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Palo Alto Sea Scout Base was commissioned in May of 1941. That’s the Stanford Band in the foreground. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hyde Forbes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Palo Alto philanthropist Lucie Stern commissioned it as a home base for the \u003ca href=\"https://seascout.org\">Sea Scouts\u003c/a>. The building opened in 1941 to great fanfare, especially given the ongoing hostilities of World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a pivotal moment for the local chapter, which taught teenagers from as far north as Redwood City and as far south as San José. Their counterparts in the Girl Scouts were called the Mariners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Murray was a Sea Scout. He joined in 1974, at the age of 14, and rose up through the ranks from apprentice to vice commodore for the western region. Over the years, he also became an amateur historian of the Sea Scouts on the Peninsula. He’s talked to old-timers before they died about \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloaltohistory.org/the-palo-alto-yacht-harbor.php\">the start of the harbor in 1928\u003c/a>, and the decades of fun and education that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That harbor was alive and well. It was teeming with families, with teenagers, a bunch of sailboats. Aww, man, it was a whole other world,” Murray said. “Imagine right in front of that building, an 85-foot PT boat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A PT boat, by the way, was a motorized torpedo boat used by the Navy in World War II: small, fast and cheap to build. They were cheap to give away, too, to programs like the Sea Scouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940611\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6.jpg\" alt=\"A class photo taken outdoors of young, teenage boys looking jaunty in sailor outfits.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1367\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palo Alto Sea Scouts after a coastal summer cruise from PA to San Diego and return, circa 1969. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Skipper George Moore)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Here I was, a 14-year-old kid, and they put me on a WWII, 64-foot tugboat. I started as a deckhand and then I graduated to become an engineer, working on an engine the size of a train. So the first thing I noticed was we were being treated as men, not little boys anymore,” Murray said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were adventurous trips to San Francisco and even Alaska. There were regattas and dances and lifelong friendships formed. Murray credits his time in the Sea Scouts for turning him into an educator. He was a political science professor for 30 years before he retired. Most of his brothers went into education, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But times change and so do social attitudes toward the environment. The dredging that made Palo Alto’s harbor operational stopped after a contentious citywide vote in 1986, to allow for the area to return to its original state as wetlands. Then in 1994, the Palo Alto and San Mateo County Sea Scout councils merged, and in 2002, they gave up the lease on the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, while sitting empty, the foundation sank three feet into the mud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you come inside and you look at the floorboards, you can actually see the original floorboards and see some of the blackening as a result of some of that constant tide flow and flooding,” said Toby Goldberg, director of programs and partnerships at Environmental Volunteers. The local nonprofit where Goldberg works, and where Agnes Veith (our Bay Curious question-asker) volunteers, hosts field trips for some 50 schools in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11940613 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/AF5A903D-EFC1-4C58-9728-9352E8236814_1_201_a.jpeg\" alt=\"A gray goose, with a long black neck, white and black head, and wings outstretched, lifts off from a rippling, brown lake, three splashes from its feet behind it.\" width=\"640\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/AF5A903D-EFC1-4C58-9728-9352E8236814_1_201_a.jpeg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/AF5A903D-EFC1-4C58-9728-9352E8236814_1_201_a-160x83.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Canada goose takes flight in the Palo Alto Baylands. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Agnes Veith)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The organization got hold of the building in the 2000s and lined up grant money to renovate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refurbished Sea Scout building sits 4 feet higher than its forebear, to prevent future flooding due to tidal influx as well as sea level rise. But 4 feet may not be enough. “During particular times of the year, especially king tides, if there’s a storm, the water actually does come up sometimes over the deck. So we have had instances where there was a question of, ‘Did we need our kayaks for getting into work today?'” Goldberg said.[emailsignup newslettername=\"baycurious\" align=\"right\"]You might think that a building that looks like a boat circa World War II would be an odd choice for an outfit that teaches about wetlands. But somehow, it just feels right when you’re out there. Especially standing on the deck in the back and looking out over a calm expanse of mud and pickleweed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940614\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11940614 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6014-scaled.jpeg\" alt='A big sign by a building that looks like a boat says \"Environmental Volunteers EcoCenter.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6014-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6014-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6014-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6014-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6014-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6014-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6014-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Environmental Volunteers EcoCenter in the Palo Alto Baylands. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hazel Watson, a former science educator now with Environmental Volunteers, can wax more poetic: “A whole vista of cordgrasses and the pickleweeds, with the channels that still remain here. Today, we’ve got lots of Northern shoveler ducks and Ridgeway’s rails. Sunset is beautiful here. It’s certainly the best part of the day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldberg added that the wetlands act like a nursery for a lot of organisms. “So we see things like bat rays, and we’ll see harbor seals occasionally coming through. Birds galore, [depending on] the season. So every time you come out here, you’re going to be seeing different things, different birds, different insects. You can see that all from the deck of this building that looks like a boat,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t wait for the Sea Scout building to sink into the mud again. Make tracks and come see it, across from the duck pond, and bring your camera and a pair of binoculars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whimsy or cheese? I’m going with whimsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building was designed for the \u003ca href=\"https://seascout.org\">Sea Scouts\u003c/a>, a maritime program of the Boy Scouts of America, by architect \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloaltohistory.org/birge-clark.php\">Birge Clark.\u003c/a> He’s the one behind the Palo Alto Post Office, the President Hotel and several Stanford buildings. Clark reportedly took his inspiration for the Sea Scout building from the pilot house of an old paddle wheel steamer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that’s the story of what hits your eyeballs as you’re walking in the Baylands. The history of the building is just as compelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2139px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940610\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts.jpg\" alt=\"A sepia toned photograph shows rows of young men in maritime uniforms in front of an Art Deco building that looks like a boat. What looks like a military band plays in foreground.\" width=\"2139\" height=\"1714\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts.jpg 2139w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-800x641.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-1020x817.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-1536x1231.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-2048x1641.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-1920x1539.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2139px) 100vw, 2139px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Palo Alto Sea Scout Base was commissioned in May of 1941. That’s the Stanford Band in the foreground. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hyde Forbes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Palo Alto philanthropist Lucie Stern commissioned it as a home base for the \u003ca href=\"https://seascout.org\">Sea Scouts\u003c/a>. The building opened in 1941 to great fanfare, especially given the ongoing hostilities of World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a pivotal moment for the local chapter, which taught teenagers from as far north as Redwood City and as far south as San José. Their counterparts in the Girl Scouts were called the Mariners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Murray was a Sea Scout. He joined in 1974, at the age of 14, and rose up through the ranks from apprentice to vice commodore for the western region. Over the years, he also became an amateur historian of the Sea Scouts on the Peninsula. He’s talked to old-timers before they died about \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloaltohistory.org/the-palo-alto-yacht-harbor.php\">the start of the harbor in 1928\u003c/a>, and the decades of fun and education that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That harbor was alive and well. It was teeming with families, with teenagers, a bunch of sailboats. Aww, man, it was a whole other world,” Murray said. “Imagine right in front of that building, an 85-foot PT boat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A PT boat, by the way, was a motorized torpedo boat used by the Navy in World War II: small, fast and cheap to build. They were cheap to give away, too, to programs like the Sea Scouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940611\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6.jpg\" alt=\"A class photo taken outdoors of young, teenage boys looking jaunty in sailor outfits.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1367\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palo Alto Sea Scouts after a coastal summer cruise from PA to San Diego and return, circa 1969. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Skipper George Moore)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Here I was, a 14-year-old kid, and they put me on a WWII, 64-foot tugboat. I started as a deckhand and then I graduated to become an engineer, working on an engine the size of a train. So the first thing I noticed was we were being treated as men, not little boys anymore,” Murray said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were adventurous trips to San Francisco and even Alaska. There were regattas and dances and lifelong friendships formed. Murray credits his time in the Sea Scouts for turning him into an educator. He was a political science professor for 30 years before he retired. Most of his brothers went into education, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But times change and so do social attitudes toward the environment. The dredging that made Palo Alto’s harbor operational stopped after a contentious citywide vote in 1986, to allow for the area to return to its original state as wetlands. Then in 1994, the Palo Alto and San Mateo County Sea Scout councils merged, and in 2002, they gave up the lease on the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, while sitting empty, the foundation sank three feet into the mud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you come inside and you look at the floorboards, you can actually see the original floorboards and see some of the blackening as a result of some of that constant tide flow and flooding,” said Toby Goldberg, director of programs and partnerships at Environmental Volunteers. The local nonprofit where Goldberg works, and where Agnes Veith (our Bay Curious question-asker) volunteers, hosts field trips for some 50 schools in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11940613 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/AF5A903D-EFC1-4C58-9728-9352E8236814_1_201_a.jpeg\" alt=\"A gray goose, with a long black neck, white and black head, and wings outstretched, lifts off from a rippling, brown lake, three splashes from its feet behind it.\" width=\"640\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/AF5A903D-EFC1-4C58-9728-9352E8236814_1_201_a.jpeg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/AF5A903D-EFC1-4C58-9728-9352E8236814_1_201_a-160x83.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Canada goose takes flight in the Palo Alto Baylands. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Agnes Veith)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The organization got hold of the building in the 2000s and lined up grant money to renovate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refurbished Sea Scout building sits 4 feet higher than its forebear, to prevent future flooding due to tidal influx as well as sea level rise. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap] beloved member of our KQED family died yesterday. Penny Nelson was 57. The number is stark and startling, as is the cause of her death: brain cancer. But it would be a mistake to measure Penny's life solely or primarily by its brevity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Penny was a frequent guest host for the station, a book agent, a mom, a daughter, a nature lover, a light traveler, a martial arts devotee and great company, in a multitude of settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She put a lot of love out into the world, and a lot of love came back to her. The richness of her relationships, and the breadth of her personal and professional curiosity demonstrate what it is to make the most of our measured time here.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Polly Stryker, KQED editor\"]'No matter where you were, she met you there.'[/pullquote]\"As a teenager she wrote to Jane Goodall, asking how to follow in her footsteps and Jane wrote back, encouraging Penny to work with chimps, which she did at the Portland Zoo,\" Holly Kernan, KQED’s chief content officer wrote in an an email to the company on Thursday announcing her death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This love for animals launched Penny's all-too-brief adventure, crossing the country and the globe. She studied bats and rodents, too, but primates were her favorite, including the human variety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to Charlie, the chimp pictured above, Penny wrote on Facebook in recent weeks, \"I was a teenager then and these were some of the best afternoons of my life — berry picking with the chimps — behind the zoo in the woods. Set the trajectory for my whole life (so I don’t know how I got sidelined into the radio business!).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11865588 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_1430-e1616122864475.jpg\" alt=\"Penny Nelson at Victoria Falls in Zambia on March 17, 2015. She studied chimps in Uganda, and maintained a lifelong love of Africa: it’s people, as well as its wildlife.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_1430-e1616122864475.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_1430-e1616122864475-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Penny Nelson at Victoria Falls in Zambia on March 17, 2015. She studied chimps in Uganda, and maintained a lifelong love of Africa: its people, as well as its wildlife. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Nelson family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n retrospect, of course, it's easy to make the connection. Penny was a social animal. She met many people over the course of her life, and folded them into her community, just like any self-respecting chimpanzee would. Nobody in Penny's orbit stayed a stranger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public radio hooked Penny at WHYY in Philadelphia, and when she moved to the Bay Area, she got involved with KQED as a guest host for \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/t-tHCSuk5A/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum\u003c/a>, and later, the California Report. Insiders know public radio is a competitive and capricious business, but Penny quickly became a go-to choice for KQED producers, and she stayed one for a quarter century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11700696,news_11350519,news_11751183\" label=\"Stories From KQED's Penny Nelson\"]Her manner was confident and affable, on and off the mic. Other media organizations, like the Commonwealth Club of California, tapped Penny to conduct interviews on stage. Here again, she proved a natural scientist, deftly drawing out the strange and curious stories her subjects had to tell. If you have the time and inclination, listen to this exploration of \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/G20jNCdeErw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vampires in literature\u003c/a>, a lesser known obsession of the late NPR correspondent Margot Adler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Penny reported as well, tackling subjects as varied as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700696/lawsuit-aims-to-protect-modoc-countys-wild-horses-from-slaughter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wild horses\u003c/a> in Modoc County, what \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11350519/how-does-rain-create-more-potholes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">causes potholes\u003c/a> and why so many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11751183/what-its-like-to-live-in-an-rv-and-work-in-silicon-valley-but-call-fresno-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">people are living in RVs\u003c/a> on the streets of Palo Alto during weekdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No matter where you were, she met you there,\" says Polly Stryker, who was Penny's editor on the California Report for a number of years. \"She had such empathy and grace, and she felt for everybody she spoke with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1375px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11865590\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/image0.jpeg\" alt=\"Penny Nelson demonstrates proper form at her dojo, Aikido West.\" width=\"1375\" height=\"1188\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/image0.jpeg 1375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/image0-800x691.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/image0-1020x881.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/image0-160x138.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1375px) 100vw, 1375px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Penny Nelson demonstrates proper form at her dojo, Aikido West. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ursula Doran)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That was true as well for the people she worked with behind the scenes. During his time as a KQED radio producer, Guy Marzorati has seen numerous on-air talents warm up. Penny, he says, took it to a new level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most hosts, maybe they count to 10. Maybe they say what they had for breakfast that day,\" he says. \"Penny would sit down in front of the mic and just start singing. She brought so much love and energy into the studio.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As KQED reporter and editor Dan Brekke put it, \"She was someone I was always delighted to see; and part of her gift was that she reflected that right back at you — she always seemed delighted to see me, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guest hosting at a public radio station, however, does not cover a person's rent in the Bay Area. For about a decade, Penny was also a literary agent who successfully ushered dozens of books to print. Aware that many new authors approach this business with delusions of grandeur, Penny would have new clients email her a list of pledges:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>I will not be interviewed by Oprah\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>I will not make the New York Times bestseller list\u003c/li>\n\u003cli id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471801348137_2674\">I will not make a million dollars\u003c/li>\n\u003cli id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471801348137_2666\">I will not be able to quit my job\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>She later acknowledged it was an ineffective method. There really is no way to inoculate writers from the inevitable conclusion they will have, she explained, that they would have enjoyed wild success, were it not for the failings of their publishing company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1694px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11865589\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/11850628_10206000501864621_2055432365061751855_o.jpeg\" alt=\"Penny Nelson with her sons James (L) and Misha (r).\" width=\"1694\" height=\"1480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/11850628_10206000501864621_2055432365061751855_o.jpeg 1694w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/11850628_10206000501864621_2055432365061751855_o-800x699.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/11850628_10206000501864621_2055432365061751855_o-1020x891.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/11850628_10206000501864621_2055432365061751855_o-160x140.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/11850628_10206000501864621_2055432365061751855_o-1536x1342.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1694px) 100vw, 1694px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Penny Nelson with her sons James (L) and Misha (R). \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Nelson family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]P[/dropcap]enny did have two favorites on this earth: her boys, James and Misha. She raised them in Palo Alto, where she established enduring friendships with other mothers, like Cami Wisowaty, who met Penny in 2009. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Her manner was confident and affable, on and off the mic. Other media organizations, like the Commonwealth Club of California, tapped Penny to conduct interviews on stage. Here again, she proved a natural scientist, deftly drawing out the strange and curious stories her subjects had to tell. If you have the time and inclination, listen to this exploration of \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/G20jNCdeErw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vampires in literature\u003c/a>, a lesser known obsession of the late NPR correspondent Margot Adler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Penny reported as well, tackling subjects as varied as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700696/lawsuit-aims-to-protect-modoc-countys-wild-horses-from-slaughter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wild horses\u003c/a> in Modoc County, what \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11350519/how-does-rain-create-more-potholes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">causes potholes\u003c/a> and why so many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11751183/what-its-like-to-live-in-an-rv-and-work-in-silicon-valley-but-call-fresno-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">people are living in RVs\u003c/a> on the streets of Palo Alto during weekdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No matter where you were, she met you there,\" says Polly Stryker, who was Penny's editor on the California Report for a number of years. \"She had such empathy and grace, and she felt for everybody she spoke with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1375px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11865590\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/image0.jpeg\" alt=\"Penny Nelson demonstrates proper form at her dojo, Aikido West.\" width=\"1375\" height=\"1188\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/image0.jpeg 1375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/image0-800x691.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/image0-1020x881.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/image0-160x138.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1375px) 100vw, 1375px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Penny Nelson demonstrates proper form at her dojo, Aikido West. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ursula Doran)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That was true as well for the people she worked with behind the scenes. During his time as a KQED radio producer, Guy Marzorati has seen numerous on-air talents warm up. Penny, he says, took it to a new level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most hosts, maybe they count to 10. Maybe they say what they had for breakfast that day,\" he says. \"Penny would sit down in front of the mic and just start singing. She brought so much love and energy into the studio.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As KQED reporter and editor Dan Brekke put it, \"She was someone I was always delighted to see; and part of her gift was that she reflected that right back at you — she always seemed delighted to see me, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guest hosting at a public radio station, however, does not cover a person's rent in the Bay Area. For about a decade, Penny was also a literary agent who successfully ushered dozens of books to print. 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"content": "\u003cp>In a bid to get Santa Clara County to green light the largest \u003ca href=\"https://gup.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">development application\u003c/a> in county history, Stanford University on Monday unveiled a rejiggered package of community housing, transportation and education benefits worth $4.7 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford is offering $3.4 billion to build at least 1,115 new housing units — including 575 below-market rate — and $1.17 billion to finance transportation improvements and $138 million to boost Palo Alto Unified School District’s coffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would constitute most of what the county has asked for, but not all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, Stanford is proposing to deliver over the next two decades:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Three quarters of the 2,172 housing units the county demanded, including 575 below-market rate, in the first few years of the expansion, some portion thereof on university land.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$15.25 million in pedestrian, bicycle and transit improvements in San Mateo County and $15.05 million in Palo Alto.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$1.13 billion for the expansion of sustainable commute programs and transit infrastructure projects.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$1.13 billion in fees in lieu of a cap on commute trips affecting campus residents.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$138.5 million to the Palo Alto Unified School District.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“It’s a different moment — not only for us — which is reflected in this proposal that we’ve brought forward, but for all of the communities around us,” said Jean McCown, Stanford’s associate vice president for government and community relations, noting Stanford has 8,180 acres of property in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have always had long-term, land use plans for our academic teaching and research facilities, and for housing our faculty and students,” McCown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11757029\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Clara County officials are concerned Stanford's plans for expansion could worsen traffic in the region, among other concerns.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County officials are concerned Stanford’s plans for expansion could worsen traffic in the region, among other concerns. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that’s not to say the negotiation process every quarter century or so goes smoothly, and that’s proving especially true in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if Stanford is only planning to grow at the rate of roughly 1% a year, it’s a big entity — in a region already strained by the impacts of explosive economic development paired with inadequate housing and transit development.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘One of the differences today is the extent to which we all clearly understand the significances of our current housing and transportation challenges, not only for our campus and communities, but for the region.’\u003ccite>Jean McCown, Stanford University’s associate vice president for government and community relations\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“One of the differences today is the extent to which we all clearly understand the significances of our current housing and transportation challenges, not only for our campus and communities, but for the region,” McCown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the core of the friction between Stanford and neighboring counties is the extent to which they want the university to respond to the region’s housing crisis. While offering to build the larger portion of the housing Santa Clara County planning officials asked for, Stanford wants to repeal two ordinances that require it to pay affordable housing fees and designate 16% of new housing units as affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford also wants credit for half of 1,300 units of graduate student housing that’s already in the pipeline and a 215-unit faculty and staff housing project in Menlo Park. Both were planned independent of the campus expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Supervisor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/d5/Pages/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Simitian\u003c/a> represents the district home to all of the proposed growth and he helped negotiate the last general use plan in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11757058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Once the Santa Clara County Planning Commission decides on a recommendation, yes or no, the Board of Supervisors will vote on whether to approve Stanford's general use plan.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Once the Santa Clara County Planning Commission decides on a recommendation, yes or no, the Board of Supervisors will vote on whether to approve Stanford’s general use plan. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Simitian, who hasn’t had the chance to review all 52 pages of Stanford’s latest proposal yet, said “even a cursory reading suggests it’s pretty much more of the same. I can understand why the university would want a bilateral agreement negotiated behind closed doors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university is taking about bringing 9,610 new folks to the campus: students, staff, faculty, day workers. And yet has proposed 2,600 beds and 550 housing units. Well, that means there are more than 7,000 people — after you get rid of the student beds — more than 7,000 people fighting for 550 housing units. Pretty clear that’s not going to work,” Simitian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘It’s important to make sure that it is a thoroughly reviewed project, and that any of the impacts of the projects are fully mitigated. It’s the largest development proposal in the history of Santa Clara County.’\u003ccite>Joe Simitian, Santa Clara County supervisor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Simitian is not alone in his concerns. A group of Palo Alto and Santa Clara County officials wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/70025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a> detailing their objections, particularly around transit concerns, in February to the county’s director of planning and development. San Mateo County has \u003ca href=\"https://cmo.smcgov.org/blog/2019-05-06/county-san-mateo-cities-urge-santa-clara-county-help-hold-stanford-accountable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also sent a letter \u003c/a>to Santa Clara County Supervisors, urging them “to help hold Stanford University accountable for the anticipated impacts to housing, traffic, the environment and residents if it is allowed to expand its campus by more than 20 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to make sure that it is a thoroughly reviewed project, and that any of the impacts of the projects are fully mitigated,” he said. “It’s the largest development proposal in the history of Santa Clara County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately though, Simitian says he expects to “get to ‘yes’,” despite what he sees as “pushback” from the largest landowner in the county as the parties enter what most consider the final stage of the approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re going to develop three and a million square feet, then you’ve got to mitigate the impacts,” said Simitian. “It’s that simple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are those who feel Stanford is promising enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s always baffling to me when the neighbors vilify Stanford.’\u003ccite>Russell Hancock, CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Russell Hancock, a Stanford \u003ca href=\"https://publicpolicy.stanford.edu/people/russell-hancock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lecturer\u003c/a> and also president and CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://jointventure.org/russell-hancock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, said, “It’s always baffling to me when the neighbors vilify Stanford. This is a world class institution. There would be no Silicon Valley without Stanford.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that many Stanford neighbors enjoy free use of amenities like hiking trails, gardens and museums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get to cheer for Stanford in the Rose Bowl, this is just an amazing community asset,” Hancock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why does he think there’s resistance to Stanford’s plan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s growth related,” said Hancock. “There might be other things at play as well. There might be egos and personalities involved that go back generations. But these communities, Palo Alto and Menlo Park [in particular], are deeply concerned about growth, and their citizens are electing representatives who want to curtail all of the growth, and Stanford is a growing institution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The County of Santa Clara Planning and Development Department has been holding a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/newsroom/Pages/stanforduniversitylandusepermithearings.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series of planning commission hearings\u003c/a> to review Stanford University’s General Use Permit application. The last such meeting will be held Thursday, June 27 at 1:30 p.m. in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In a bid to get Santa Clara County to green light the largest \u003ca href=\"https://gup.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">development application\u003c/a> in county history, Stanford University on Monday unveiled a rejiggered package of community housing, transportation and education benefits worth $4.7 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford is offering $3.4 billion to build at least 1,115 new housing units — including 575 below-market rate — and $1.17 billion to finance transportation improvements and $138 million to boost Palo Alto Unified School District’s coffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would constitute most of what the county has asked for, but not all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, Stanford is proposing to deliver over the next two decades:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Three quarters of the 2,172 housing units the county demanded, including 575 below-market rate, in the first few years of the expansion, some portion thereof on university land.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$15.25 million in pedestrian, bicycle and transit improvements in San Mateo County and $15.05 million in Palo Alto.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$1.13 billion for the expansion of sustainable commute programs and transit infrastructure projects.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$1.13 billion in fees in lieu of a cap on commute trips affecting campus residents.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$138.5 million to the Palo Alto Unified School District.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“It’s a different moment — not only for us — which is reflected in this proposal that we’ve brought forward, but for all of the communities around us,” said Jean McCown, Stanford’s associate vice president for government and community relations, noting Stanford has 8,180 acres of property in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have always had long-term, land use plans for our academic teaching and research facilities, and for housing our faculty and students,” McCown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11757029\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Clara County officials are concerned Stanford's plans for expansion could worsen traffic in the region, among other concerns.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County officials are concerned Stanford’s plans for expansion could worsen traffic in the region, among other concerns. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that’s not to say the negotiation process every quarter century or so goes smoothly, and that’s proving especially true in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if Stanford is only planning to grow at the rate of roughly 1% a year, it’s a big entity — in a region already strained by the impacts of explosive economic development paired with inadequate housing and transit development.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘One of the differences today is the extent to which we all clearly understand the significances of our current housing and transportation challenges, not only for our campus and communities, but for the region.’\u003ccite>Jean McCown, Stanford University’s associate vice president for government and community relations\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“One of the differences today is the extent to which we all clearly understand the significances of our current housing and transportation challenges, not only for our campus and communities, but for the region,” McCown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the core of the friction between Stanford and neighboring counties is the extent to which they want the university to respond to the region’s housing crisis. While offering to build the larger portion of the housing Santa Clara County planning officials asked for, Stanford wants to repeal two ordinances that require it to pay affordable housing fees and designate 16% of new housing units as affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford also wants credit for half of 1,300 units of graduate student housing that’s already in the pipeline and a 215-unit faculty and staff housing project in Menlo Park. Both were planned independent of the campus expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Supervisor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/d5/Pages/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Simitian\u003c/a> represents the district home to all of the proposed growth and he helped negotiate the last general use plan in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11757058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Once the Santa Clara County Planning Commission decides on a recommendation, yes or no, the Board of Supervisors will vote on whether to approve Stanford's general use plan.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Once the Santa Clara County Planning Commission decides on a recommendation, yes or no, the Board of Supervisors will vote on whether to approve Stanford’s general use plan. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Simitian, who hasn’t had the chance to review all 52 pages of Stanford’s latest proposal yet, said “even a cursory reading suggests it’s pretty much more of the same. I can understand why the university would want a bilateral agreement negotiated behind closed doors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university is taking about bringing 9,610 new folks to the campus: students, staff, faculty, day workers. And yet has proposed 2,600 beds and 550 housing units. Well, that means there are more than 7,000 people — after you get rid of the student beds — more than 7,000 people fighting for 550 housing units. Pretty clear that’s not going to work,” Simitian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘It’s important to make sure that it is a thoroughly reviewed project, and that any of the impacts of the projects are fully mitigated. It’s the largest development proposal in the history of Santa Clara County.’\u003ccite>Joe Simitian, Santa Clara County supervisor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Simitian is not alone in his concerns. A group of Palo Alto and Santa Clara County officials wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/70025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a> detailing their objections, particularly around transit concerns, in February to the county’s director of planning and development. San Mateo County has \u003ca href=\"https://cmo.smcgov.org/blog/2019-05-06/county-san-mateo-cities-urge-santa-clara-county-help-hold-stanford-accountable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also sent a letter \u003c/a>to Santa Clara County Supervisors, urging them “to help hold Stanford University accountable for the anticipated impacts to housing, traffic, the environment and residents if it is allowed to expand its campus by more than 20 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to make sure that it is a thoroughly reviewed project, and that any of the impacts of the projects are fully mitigated,” he said. “It’s the largest development proposal in the history of Santa Clara County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately though, Simitian says he expects to “get to ‘yes’,” despite what he sees as “pushback” from the largest landowner in the county as the parties enter what most consider the final stage of the approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re going to develop three and a million square feet, then you’ve got to mitigate the impacts,” said Simitian. “It’s that simple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are those who feel Stanford is promising enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s always baffling to me when the neighbors vilify Stanford.’\u003ccite>Russell Hancock, CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Russell Hancock, a Stanford \u003ca href=\"https://publicpolicy.stanford.edu/people/russell-hancock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lecturer\u003c/a> and also president and CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://jointventure.org/russell-hancock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, said, “It’s always baffling to me when the neighbors vilify Stanford. This is a world class institution. There would be no Silicon Valley without Stanford.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that many Stanford neighbors enjoy free use of amenities like hiking trails, gardens and museums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get to cheer for Stanford in the Rose Bowl, this is just an amazing community asset,” Hancock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why does he think there’s resistance to Stanford’s plan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s growth related,” said Hancock. “There might be other things at play as well. There might be egos and personalities involved that go back generations. But these communities, Palo Alto and Menlo Park [in particular], are deeply concerned about growth, and their citizens are electing representatives who want to curtail all of the growth, and Stanford is a growing institution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The County of Santa Clara Planning and Development Department has been holding a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/newsroom/Pages/stanforduniversitylandusepermithearings.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series of planning commission hearings\u003c/a> to review Stanford University’s General Use Permit application. The last such meeting will be held Thursday, June 27 at 1:30 p.m. in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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