Why does Stanford dictate what will happen? They seem overly in control - whereas their lack of housing - and opposition to contributing appropriately to public schools - and head-in-sand attitude about their increased auto traffic are all insults to the local communities here.

I'm a proud Stanford alumnus, and I say, if Stanford doesn't have room for the students, the workers, and the schoolkids, then it doesn't have room for the new academic space. Stanford is just as much a part of the Bay Area 's devastating jobs-housing imbalance as any other city.