Stanford Cancer Center community benefits

Founder of Levantar said a prior $15 million community benefits agreement largely bypassed North Fair Oaks and asked for a structured, bilingual partnership before the new benefits package is negotiated.

Welcomed the cancer center but said traffic and mitigation requirements are not community benefits, and asked who decides where benefit dollars go — noting this is a regional facility.

North Fair Oaks resident begged the council to give North Fair Oaks a seat at the table and to visit Bay Road themselves to see neighborhood impacts.

Friendly Acres Neighborhood Association president asked the council to lock three priorities into the agreement: traffic calming, enforced street sweeping, and reopening Taft Elementary fields.

North Fair Oaks advocate cited the Bay Road parking change that displaced mobile-home residents' vehicles and asked for specific, enforceable benefits with community input at the decision table.

Nurse practitioner and North Fair Oaks board member asked that benefits be genuine and additional, not Stanford operational upgrades — and asked for a public park and public plaza for North Fair Oaks.

Redwood City Education Foundation and Casa Círculo volunteer, speaking from Stanford's community advisory group, said Stanford has been transparent and encouraged residents to attend upcoming workshops.

Friendly Acres resident and Stanford employee endorsed the neighborhood's three priorities: traffic slowing, street sweeping, and opening Taft Elementary fields.