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Santa Clara County may require Stanford University to nearly quadruple its planned number of employee housing units to secure permission for a campus expansion, The Almanac reported. Stanford wants to build up to 2.3 million square feet of new academic space, 2,600 student beds and 550 units of housing for faculty and staff members. But the county’s proposal, which is still subject to approval by its Board of Supervisors, would require Stanford to build at least an additional 1,622 units of employee housing. A majority of the employee units would have to be built on campus. According to one analysis, Stanford’s expansion plan would bring an estimated 9,610 new people to the campus.
E. J. Miranda, university spokesperson, said via email that Stanford is studying the county’s draft conditions of approval. But building “that level of housing would create more environmental and community impacts than the university’s proposal,” he said. Many colleges in and around the San Francisco Bay face challenges with respect to both student and employee housing that is affordable.
