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Non-profits: Grant application & guidelines at A contribution to this fund allows your donation www.PaloAltoOnline.com/holiday_fund to be tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Application deadline: January 6, 2017 Page 4 • November 25, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis Stanford prepares for major campus expansion University looks to add more than General Use Permit (GUP), the County by 2 million square feet The expected growth is based 2 million square feet of academic facilities university is looking to secure the — the new one would not pertain in large part on recent growth county’s permission for an expan- to any particular academic build- trends. Catherine Palter, Stan- and 3,150 units of housing by 2035 sion that would roughly mirror the ing or housing facility. Rather, the ford’s associate vice president for by Gennady Sheyner pace of growth that the university 2018 GUP would give Stanford land use and environmental plan- has experienced since 2000, when the license to expand its campus ning, said 2.28 million square feet aced with a heavy demand its campus by more than 2 mil- it last went through the rigorous facilities by up to 2.28 million represents growth of about 1.2 for housing, evolving aca- lion square feet over the next 17 permitting process.