Dear Mr. Rader, My wife Robin and I live on Sharon Oaks Drive with the back of my house on Sand Hill Road. From 1989 to 2003 there was a slow growth in the traffic but it was manageable. In 2003 the Stanford Management Company entered into a contract with the city of Menlo Park to widen the San Fransiquito Creek bridge on Sand Hill Road and upgrade the intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue and Sand Hill Road to allow for additional traffic flow. Since that time the traffic has doubled with a corresponding increase in the traffic noise. In 2003 I spoke before the Menlo Park City Council and said that if Stanford was considering rapid development then it should build its own road connecting the Campus to the Freeway and that this road should be placed between Alpine Road and Page Mill Road. This condition should be added to the 2018 Stanford GUP. The Stanford Management Company has unfairly burdened Menlo Park and this burden is extremely disproportional to the tax benefit Menlo Park receives since the it has engaged in clever schemes to avoid paying property taxes leaving Menlo Park residents to make up the shortfall. My proposed road would be a 4 lane divided road connecting I 280 (between Alpine Road and Page Mill Road) with Governor's Avenue adjacent to the Elliott Program Center. The proposed Road would be built between the Stanford Golf Driving Range and Lake Lagunita. From I 280 the road would be placed south of the Reservoir and south of the Carnegie Foundation and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. It would then go either over or under Junipero Serra without connecting to it. The purpose of the road is not to offer short cuts to Menlo Park or Page Mill Road but to provide a dedicated road into the campus. However, there are also some minor road disconnect issues that need addressing. Governor's Avenue currently has a disconnect between Santa Teresa Street and Santa Teresa Lane. This disconnect would be have to be eliminated to allow for continuous traffic flow. Governor's Avenue then dog ear's to the left into Searsville Road. Searsville Road also has a disconnect between Los Arboles Avenue and Campus Drive. This disconnect would be eliminated as well to allow traffic to proceed to Campus Drive. Once you arrive at Campus Drive you can make a right turn and then make a left turn on to Welsh Road and drive into the main Medical Complex. For people wanting to go to the Stanford Shopping Center instead they can make a right turn on to Campus Drive and then make a left turn to Stock Farm Road and then make a right turn on Sand Hill Road. Sincerely yours, Henry E. Lawrence 2441 Sharon Oaks Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025-6828 Tel: (650) 854-0365 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus Received on Thu Nov 30 2017 - 15:44:42 PST
