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The rest would units required as part of Stanford’s expansion a general-use permit, Stanford had ing units (not including student have to go up within 6 miles of the by Gennady Sheyner requested the county’s permission beds) than the 550 it had proposed. campus, unless the county Plan- to build 2.275 million square feet In addition to the 2,600 student ning Commission deems this re- tanford University would released Wednesday afternoon of academic space, 3,150 housing beds, the university would also quirement “infeasible” and agrees have to build more than and that Stanford is vigorously units (which includes 2,600 beds have to construct at least 2,172 to grant Stanford an exception. S2,000 housing units for staff challenging. for students), and 40,000 square housing units, of which 1,239 could These housing units would and faculty, and offer nearly half of The conditions, which will be feet of support space, including be offered at market rates with the have to be constructed concur- them at below-market rate, to se- reviewed by the county’s Plan- child care facilities and trip-reduc- remaining 933 units at below-mar- rently with new classrooms, labs cure permission for its ambitious ning Commission over the next ing facilities, by 2035. ket rate, with a set amount for each and other academic facilities. The campus-expansion plan under month, are a critical component of If the county Board of Super- income category. conditions that Santa Clara County the county’s environmental-review visors approves the conditions, Furthermore, at least 70% of the (continued on page 8) QUALITY OF LIFE Spurned by the FAA, city may sue over noise Council voices frustrations about agency’s failure to respond to city’s concerns by Gennady Sheyner rustrated by the Federal Aviation Administration’s F persistent failure to address local concerns about airplane noise, and confronted by a plan that would send more air traffic over Palo Alto, the City Council agreed on Monday to consider fil- ing a lawsuit against the agency. Veronica Weber By a unanimous vote, the coun- cil directed staff to schedule a closed session in the coming weeks to discuss the move. Since 2014, when the FAA be- Making a feline friend gan consolidating flight paths over Costaño Elementary School student Mohammed Abdel Halim gives Marlowe, a 14-year-old tabby cat, a head scratch this week, while Palo Alto as part of its NextGen Marlowe’s owner, Jaye Bergen, a longtime volunteer with the Palo Alto Humane Society, teaches students about raising and caring for program, the city has been submit- cats as part of the organization’s Critter Club. ting letters, commissioning lobby- ists and joining regional groups in an effort to get the FAA’s attention — only to see its concerns about At Nathan’s last birthday party, airplane noise fall upon deaf ears. COMMUNITY one friend came with so many Now Palo Alto is protesting the balloons that they filled the living FAA’s new Star Pirat Two route, room ceiling. When Halloween which applies to planes coming With bake sales, family and friends of boy rolled around, the neighbors had in from the west over the Pacific the whole yard decorated. In De- Ocean and concludes at what’s who died of cancer seek to fund a cure cember, there was Secret Santa. known as the ARGGG waypoint “Every morning there was a gift near Woodside. From there, some Fundraisers have been a positive way to heal, says Nathan Carlsen’s mother for both kids at the front door,” re- planes bound for San Francisco by Sue Dremann called Raes, referring to Nathan’s International Airport would be di- twin sister, Isabelle. rected to a newly created waypoint hristina Raes and John rare and terminal form of pediat- sentence, I made a decision,” Raes Nathan died on March 19, 2018, called SIDBY, which is directly Carlsen received the kind ric brain cancer. said. “If we only get one year to 13 months after he was diagnosed. over Palo Alto. C of news in early 2017 that But the family, with Nathan and live, then it better be a good one.” Now, a year later, his friends are “You can see Palo Alto is basi- no parents ever want to hear. his persistent smile in the lead, Raes started a blog about their still fighting Nathan’s fight by cally a direct bullseye (for planes) Their son, Nathan, an Addison El- didn’t give in to hopelessness. journey, which prompted an out- raising donations for research to coming in from where ARGGG ementary School fifth-grader, had “When Nathan became ill and pouring of support from neigh-