Guide to the Land use and planning documents, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties, 1958-1995
Processed by Special Collections staff; machine-readable finding aid created by
Steven Mandeville-Gamble
Department of Special Collections
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Stanford, CA 94305-6004
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Guide to the Land use and planning documents, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties, 1958-1995
Collection number: M0912
Department of Special Collections
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, California
Contact Information
- Department of Special Collections
- Green Library
- Stanford University Libraries
- Stanford, CA 94305-6004
- Phone: (650) 725-1022
- Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
- URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff
- Date Completed:
- 1997
- Encoded by:
- Steven Mandeville-Gamble
© 2001 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Land use and planning documents, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties,
Date (inclusive): 1958-1995
Collection number: Special Collections M0912
Creator:
Crowder, Elizabeth S. (Betsy), collector.
Extent:
4 linear ft.
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Abstract: Crowder served as Palo Alto City Planner from 1972-1982 and was on the Portola Valley Planning Commission from 1974-1982.
From 1987 to 1997 she was a member of the San Mateo County Trails Advisory Committee. She was an elected member of the Board
of Directors for the Mid-Peninsula Open Space District from 1989 to 2000, the date of her accidental death. The collection
consists primarily of reports and other publications regarding land use in California, particularly in San Mateo and Santa
Clara Counties, 1958-1980.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights
reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To
obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the
Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Provenance
Gift of Betsy Crowder, 1997.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item] Land use and planning documents, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties, M0912, Dept. of Special
Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Access Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Mid-Peninsula Regional Open Space District.
Palo Alto Planning Commission.
Stanford University--Planning.
Land use--Planning--San Mateo County (Calif.)
Land use--Planning--Santa Clara County (Calif.)
Palo Alto (Calif.)--Planning.
Portola Valley (Calif.)--Planning.
San Francisco Bay Region--Conservation of natural resources.
Biography
Betsy Crowder, a native of Massachusetts, received and MA from Radcliffe College in English literature in 1947, and move to
California in 1948. She has lived in Portola Valley since 1960. Crowder returned to school and received an MA in Engineering
and Urban Design from Stanford in 1972. She served as Palo Alto City Planner from 1972-1982 and was on the Portola Valley
Planning Commission from 1974-1982. From 1987 to the present (1997) she has been a member of the San Mateo County Trails Advisory
Committee. She has been the Elected Director of the Mid-Peninsular Open Space District since 1989.
Scope and Content
The Betsy Crowder Collection consists mainly of reports and other publications regarding land use in California, especially
in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties. These materials are filed by the name of the city or county they most specifically
pertain to, and are alphabetized by title within these categories. The collection also includes various pamphlets and other
items regarding the British New Towns; these are filed together by town name. Two "notebooks" comprise the last major part
of the collection. These notebooks are groups of reports, notes, and newspaper clippings pertaining to Crowder's city planning
activities and other land use issues. The contents of these notebooks are roughly organized as arranged by Crowder.
Series 1. United States Reports and Publications
Box 1
California Division of Mines and Geology Centennial 1980
Box 1
Erosion and Sediment Handbook 1978
Box 1
Filling in the Blanks: Using Unused Urban Land1981
Box 1
Historic Ground Failures in Northern California Associated with Earthquakes 1978
Box 1
Land Use, Open Space, and the Government Process: The San Francisco Bay Experience 1974
Box 1
Local Government Planning Survey 1979
Box 1
An Urban Strategy for California 1978
Box 1
Water Conservation in California 1976
Box 1
Palo Alto Baylands Master Plant List 1973
Box 1
Palo Alto Baylands Master Plan and E.I.R. 1978
Box 1
Comprehensive Plan Background Reports 1975
Box 1
Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan for 1977-1990 1976
Box 1
Foothills Fire Hazard 1968
Box 1
Hewlett Packard Environmental Impact Report 1979
Box 1
Palo Alto Noise Control Program 1974
Box 2
Parks and Recreation Policy Study 1969
Box 2
Sand Hill Road Supplemental Revised Environmental Impact Report 1978
Box 2
Willow Road Improvement Project Environmental Impact Report 1975
Box 2
Master Plan Proposal 1958
Box 2
Proposed Corridor Plan for a State Scenic Highway: Skyline Boulevard1967
Box 3
Land Use Permit Modification Draft Environmental Report 1986
Box 3
Pearce Mitchell Houses 1975
Box 3
Report on Urban Planning Curricula for Division of Architecture and Urban Design in the Department of Civil Engineering 1972
Federal and Miscellaneous
Box 3
Maintaining Subsurface Drains 1972
Box 3
Performance Controls for Sensitive Lands 1975
Box 3
Planning for Wildlife in Cities and Suburbs 1978
Box 3
Subdividing Rural America1976
Box 3
Wildlife Planning Glossary 1978
Series 2. Items regarding British New Towns
Box 4
Town Planning in Britain since 1945 1971
Box 4
British New Towns: 1 (album)
Box 4
British New Towns: 2 (album)
British New Towns, pamphlets, general
Box 4
Garden Cities of To-morrow 1965
Box 4
The National Trust for Scotland in the Seventies 1971
Box 4
The New Towns of Britain 1969
Box 4
Third International Tour of British New Towns 1971
Box 4
Town and Country Planning 1971
British New Towns, pamphlets, by town
Box 4
Hemel Hempstead (1 of 2) 1969
Box 4
Hemel Hempstead (2 of 2) 1970
Box 4
Greater London Services 1971
Box 4
Welwyn Garden City (1 of 3)1959
Box 4
Welwyn Garden City (2 of 3)1970
Box 4
Welwyn Garden City (3 of 3) 1970
Series 3. Oversized publications
Box 5
The Urban Design Plan for the Comprehensive Plan of San Francisco 1971
Box 5
Preliminary Regional Plan for San Francisco Bay Region 1966
Series 4. Crowder Notebooks
Box 5
Notebook #1 (in a Stanford folder), items regarding Stanford University Land Use, in particular the 1988 proceedings with
the Palo Alto Planning Commission: the review of the general use permit, and the drafting of an Environmental Impact Report
(EIR):1975 - 1995
Scope and Content Note
* Whole issues of Stanford Community Report, 1984-1988 -- * Whole issue of The Stanford Earth Scientist, 1987 -- * Clippings
from The Progressive, Palo Alto Weekly, Stanford Campus Report, The Country Almanac, Stanford Community Report and unidentified
papers, 1975-1995 -- * Notes, memos, minutes and reports (Palo Alto Planning Commission, 1988)
Box 6
Notebook #2 (originally in a "Carlyle" binder), publications, clippings, notes and reports regarding Stanford land use issues.
ca. 1984-1988
Scope and Content Note
Items are loosely organized under the following headings: S.U. General [permit] and Processes -- Stanford West -- On Campus
building -- S[anta] C[lara] County Lands -- Sand Hill Road