Just as the university’s founder, Leland Stanford, connected the nation for the first time with the locomotive, a then-cutting-edge technology, Stanford today connects the globe through ground-breaking research and technological breakthroughs.

Stanford announced a new offer to Santa Clara County detailing a proposed $4.7 billion package of community benefits the university would provide through a development agreement related to its proposed General Use Permit application. This new offer provides greater community benefits than the County can achieve through its standard land use approval process.
 
In order to provide these additional benefits to our community, Stanford needs your help.

Stanford is a treasure that should be embraced, celebrated and nurtured as a core part of the region’s identity. Not only for Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties but for the entire Bay Area and beyond. Stanford is woven into the fabric of our communities. It has birthed companies and world leaders. It has built schools, childcare facilities, and hospitals. It has created and supported a culture of innovation and philanthropy. It has contributed again and again to local needs, including the vexing twin issues of our time, transportation and housing. Stanford has and continues to set an example for other major employers to following in supporting solutions to our regional challenges.
 

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Stanford General Use Permit - Community Benefits.
(Image credit: ZGF Architects LLP; Robert Canfield)

"As we work to build a more helpful Google, we know our responsibility to help starts at home. For us, that means being a good neighbor in the place where it all began over 20 years ago: the San Francisco Bay Area.

Today, Google is one of the Bay Area’s largest employers. Across the region, one issue stands out as particularly urgent and complex: housing. The lack of new supply, combined with the rising cost of living, has resulted in a severe shortage of affordable housing options for long-time middle and low-income residents. As Google grows throughout the Bay Area—whether it’s in our home town of Mountain View, in San Francisco, or in our future developments in San Jose and Sunnyvale—we’ve invested in developing housing that meets the needs of these communities. But there’s more to do.

Today we’re announcing an additional $1 billion investment in housing across the Bay Area," Google CEO, Sundar Pichai declares in a company announcement article on Monday, June 18th, 2019.