[82lsju]

Great insights in this thread.
A few points:

1) Undergrad Population:  The university has wanted to increase the undergraduate population for some time.  The challenges with the GUP, Joe Simitian, Santa Clara AND San Mateo counties have been the problem. Simitian is retiring and Levin and team are doing things thoughtfully to take another swing at getting a new GUP passed.  It's going to take time and I don't see a path to +2500 in the near term.   Hennessy stated the dealing with the GUP was the most challenging/painful issue of his tenure.

Is Santa Clara subject to growth restrictions driven by Santa Clara County? When I was there, they had 3,300 undergrads on 80 acres. Today, it's 6,400 undergrads on 106 acres. Stanford has over 8,000 acres. Why such a battle to increase Stanford's student population?

- Stanford has ~7.400 undergrad and ~10,000 grad students, I don't know how many grad students are at SCU.
- the ~8,000 acres includes a lot of land that is not developable (e.g., the land west of Junipero Serra Blvd) at least not under current agreements (and I can imagine the resistance to developing the Dish as student housing) or has other uses (e.g., Stanford Industrial Park, Stanford Shopping Center, Jasper Ridge biological preserve) 
- walking around campus at both LSJU and SCU the Stanford campus seems to have a lot more development and a lot of taller building
- way back when (1979-82) undergrads had three years of guaranteed on-campus housing, now it appears to be all four years, this change has increased the number of undergrad housing units by ~40% (mostly due to going from 3 to 4 years but the undergrad population is also larger now than it was in 1982).  Are all SCU undergrads housed on campus?
- I would guess SCU would be under the jurisdiction of only the City of Santa Clara, for Stanford it is "more complicated"

• 4,017 acres in unincorporated Santa Clara County
  
• 2,700 acres in unincorporated San Mateo County
  
• 1,161 acres in Palo Alto
  
• 114 acres in Woodside
  
• 111 acres in Menlo Park
  
• 76 acres in Portola Valley
  
• 1 acre in Los Altos Hills
  
• 8,180 total acres
  

https://facts.stanford.edu/about/stanford-campus

ADD: Stanford says ~60 of the ~8,180 acres are open space

https://oga.stanford.edu/stanford-lands

see map here

[82lsju]

Great insights in this thread.
A few points:

1) Undergrad Population:  The university has wanted to increase the undergraduate population for some time.  The challenges with the GUP, Joe Simitian, Santa Clara AND San Mateo counties have been the problem. Simitian is retiring and Levin and team are doing things thoughtfully to take another swing at getting a new GUP passed.  It's going to take time and I don't see a path to +2500 in the near term.   Hennessy stated the dealing with the GUP was the most challenging/painful issue of his tenure.

Is Santa Clara subject to growth restrictions driven by Santa Clara County? When I was there, they had 3,300 undergrads on 80 acres. Today, it's 6,400 undergrads on 106 acres. Stanford has over 8,000 acres. Why such a battle to increase Stanford's student population?

- Stanford has ~7.400 undergrad and ~10,000 grad students, I don't know how many grad students are at SCU.
- the ~8,000 acres includes a lot of land that is not developable (e.g., the land west of Junipero Serra Blvd) at least not under current agreements (and I can imagine the resistance to developing the Dish as student housing) or has other uses (e.g., Stanford Industrial Park, Stanford Shopping Center, Jasper Ridge biological preserve) 
- walking around campus at both LSJU and SCU the Stanford campus seems to have a lot more development and a lot of taller building
- way back when (1979-82) undergrads had three years of guaranteed on-campus housing, now it appears to be all four years, this change has increased the number of undergrad housing units by ~40% (mostly due to going from 3 to 4 years but the undergrad population is also larger now than it was in 1982).  Are all SCU undergrads housed on campus?
- I would guess SCU would be under the jurisdiction of only the City of Santa Clara, for Stanford it is "more complicated"

• 4,017 acres in unincorporated Santa Clara County
  
• 2,700 acres in unincorporated San Mateo County
  
• 1,161 acres in Palo Alto
  
• 114 acres in Woodside
  
• 111 acres in Menlo Park
  
• 76 acres in Portola Valley
  
• 1 acre in Los Altos Hills
  
• 8,180 total acres
  

https://facts.stanford.edu/about/stanford-campus

ADD: Stanford says ~60 of the ~8,180 acres are open space

https://oga.stanford.edu/stanford-lands

see map here