April Third Movement

Palo Alto Planning Department summary of Industrial Park Employee share by location.

Palo Alto Times article.

Undated, unsigned requests from representative citizens on matters of land use and planning, including the formation of a citizens’ advisory committee.

“Stanford’s use of its land endowment – long a major source of funds … may become a major campus issue this fall.”

Palo Alto Times column by James McNabb Jr. predicting that Stanford land use will become a major issue.

Statement about the need for planning touching on a number of issues including the “proposed Dumbarton Bridge.” It is undated and unsigned. It seems to have been prompted by the announcement of a meeting on December 16th to discuss the expansion of Stanford Shopping Center.

An essay by Michael Sweeney which argues that it does not.

Lenny Siegel’s draft description of Grass Roots.

Lenny Siegel’s proposal for Grass Roots’ positions on industrial development.

Parody song about Palo Alto Square by the Grass Roots “Hard Corps.”

Stanford Daily column by Lee Herzenberg summarizing Grass Roots’ critique of Stanford land use.

February 1970 article by Mike Sweeney in Free You explaining Grass Roots and focusing on several related issues: Dillingham Corporation and Palo Alto Square, Coyote Hill, low-rent housing, and a proposed hospital.

Lenny Siegel’s draft column, printed in final form in the Stanford Daily, February 25, 1970.

61-page booklet covering the history of mid-peninsula land use and its relation to jobs and population, housing, ecology, Stanford, and Palo Alto.

Flyer which explains that Grass Roots is a “land use group” and invites the public to join in several organizational meetings and demonstrations beginning March 31.

Grass Roots announcement of a gathering to exorcise the demons from the proposed site of Palo Alto Square on March 17.

Complaint in the International People’s Court in and for the Mid-Peninsula Area, Stanford Branch, brought by brought by the People and their Collective Well-Being against the Stanford Trustees and “their several thousand ruling class allies,” regarding land use policies. Hand dated 4/1/70.

Professor Stegner said Stanford should slow its land development activities.

Grass Roots invitation to attend the morning contempt hearing of the five members of the Off-ROTC movement, then take the train to San Francisco for a demonstration at the Dillingham Corporation offices to protest the Palo Alto Square Project.

John Philo’s critique of Stanford land use, published in the Chaparral.