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Old action alerts (through
December, 2001)
We can win this.
Santa
Clara County Board of Supervisors will consider the trail plan on
December 4, 2001
"Stanford's
idea of a pastoral hike: sucking exhaust" -- Mercury News editorial
Endorsement
by Open Space District.
Stanford
makes their formal trail route proposal. It's not good.
Proposed plan from Stanford and County Parks and Recreation gives
up 3.6 miles of legally required trails over Stanford land.
Come
to the Town Hall meeting on Stanford's compliance with its General
Use Permit.
Santa Clara County Supervisor
Liz Kniss has scheduled a town hall meeting to update the community
on the Stanford GUP and Community Plan. Now is the time to let her
know that the community wants to see progress on all of the environmental
protections called for in the GUP/CP. Please plan to attend.
Where: Palo
Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto.
When: Thursday, August 23, 7pm.
PATHS position statement
This is the message we'd like your help in getting across.
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5th District residents pay 26% of the tax dollars received
by the Parks Charter Fund, but receive only 16% of the park
acreage. Over many years this 5th District shortfall amount
is estimated to be about $32 million dollars.
PATHS has submitted a proposal to both Stanford University
and the Santa Clara County Supervisors outlining how the county
could support and facilitate trail maintenance and resource
management in the Foothills, relieving Stanford of expense
and liability in providing trail access.
There is no 5th District county park north of Rancho San
Antonio. Trails and paths in the Dish area have proven (by
their usage) to be needed and used. Sensitive ecosystems and
public access do co-exist in many parks and open spaces where
resource management practices are used. Contrary to Stanford's
accusations, the public has done little to despoil the Foothills
area. We don't need another Jasper Ridge, a lovely but inaccessible
open space.
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Sign the P.A.T.H.S. petition. You can sign on-line
or at the S.O.S.A. table at Junipero Serra and Stanford Avenue (by
the entrance to the Dish) on weekends. Download
a printable petition and collect signatures, return to PATHS,
788 Stern Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94303 by October 10th. We will be
presenting these to Joe Simitian at the Planning Commision's and Supervisors'
hearings.
They're working the open-space issue, and need your help.
Contact the Santa Clara County Supervisors.
Click
here to write all the supervisors.
Contact Santa Clara County Supervisor Liz Kniss
Contact Stanford University President John Hennessy
Especially important if you're a Stanford graduate.
Hennessy@Stanford.edu
President@Stanford.edu
phone 650-725-3723,
fax: 650-725-6847
Provost John Etchemendy
phone 650-724-4075
fax: 650-724-1347 |
Board of Trustees
phone: 650-725-9217
fax: 650-725-3340,
Bldg. 10, Stanford U., 94025 |
Write letters to the editor
Palo Alto Weekly, PO Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302
fax: 650-326-3928;
letters@paweekly.com
Palo Alto Daily News, 329 Alma St., Palo Alto, CA 94301
fax: 650-327-0676,
editorial@paloaltodailynews.com
San Jose Mercury News, 750 Ridder Park Dr., San Jose, CA 95190
fax: 408-271-3792
letters@sjmercury.com
Stanford Daily, Storke Publications Building, Stanford, CA, 94305
fax: 650-725-1329;
letters@daily.stanford.edu
Menlo Park Almanac, 3525 Alameda de las Pulgas, Menlo Park, CA
94025
fax: 650-854-0677;
editor@calmanac.com
San Francisco Chronicle, 901 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94103;
fax: 415-543-7708;
chronletters@sfgate.com
Show public support by attending meetings
If you come 15 minutes early and sign up, you may have an opportunity
to speak.
[PAST] October 30th (Monday), 7 pm: Special
Board Hearing on Community Plan, GUP and final EIR, County Government
Center, 70 W. Hedding St., San Jose.
- [PAST] October 18th (Wednesday), 6:30 pm:
Planning Commission Hearing on Community Plan, GUP and Final EIR,
Palo Alto City Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto.
- [PAST] October 24th (Tuesday), 7 pm:
Supervisor Joe Simitian announces his thoughts on the Stanford
Community Plan and GUP and invites community feedback, Palo Alto
Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto.
- [PAST] October 30th (Monday), 7 pm: Special
Board Hearing on Community Plan, GUP and final EIR, County Government
Center, 70 W. Hedding St., San Jose.
Student Protest
Stanford students
protested the night closure of the Dish area on Wednesday, October
4, 2000 at 11:30 PM. Read their manifesto.
Silent solidarity
Notice what seem to be the silent statements of solidarity and
community that are appearing on the loop trail at the Dish: Cairns
(heaps of rocks in a pile or spire) are arising along the side of
the asphalt road. We at PATHS appreciate these gestures of support
and commitment. (Update: the cairns referred to have been destroyed
by Stanford as of Spring 2001).
Be true to your heart. Follow wherever this trail of events leads,
bringing your commitment and goodwill, no matter how insurmountable
the situation may appear. Leave room for the unexpected.
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