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Stanford trails litigation update San Mateo County Supervisors were set to vote on March 27th to reject Stanford University’s offer of $8.4 million to widen the Alpine Road sidewalk. At the last minute, Stanford came in with another offer that would potentially allow the money to stay in San Mateo County but to be put to better purposes than creating a 12-foot wide trail, moving Alpine Road, and armoring the creek banks. The Supervisors are now expected to vote in April, if a deal can be worked out with Stanford and Santa Clara County. CGF filed suit in June 2006 to stop this damaging decision to allow Stanford to pay for the Alpine Road sidewalk expansion in lieu of a trail on its own lands that had been done without environmental review. Unfortunately, a lower-court judge ruled against CGF last fall on a technical issue related to whether the lawsuit was filed on time. We tried last fall to see if there was a potential for a negotiated solution between Stanford, Santa Clara County, and San Mateo County, but found there was no apparent evidence of willingness on Stanford’s part to find a compromise that would avoid a lengthy appeal. Based on this, we went ahead and filed our appeal in December. We believe this latest offer from Stanford has the potential to create a workable solution, but “the devil is in the details.” Can a legally enforceable agreement be crafted giving the flexibility to use the funds to create some real recreational opportunities that mitigate the impacts of Stanford’s development? That is the $8.4 million dollar question. Published Spring 2007 in Green Footnotes. Page last updated July 2, 2007. |
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