In the U.S., land owners have to pay property taxes in return for services. Historically, Stanford has been given a huge property tax exemption from Santa Clara county in return for certain requirements: e.g. Stanford pays for its own fire station on campus, has to provide a certain minimum amount of housing, etc. In 2018 when renegotiating with the county, Stanford refused to make these basic concessions in return for huge tax savings and left the negotiating table. As a result, the new development permits that would have been part of the deal did not get approved by the county (again, because Stanford chose to leave the negotiating table). This means that Stanford did not get the permitting to build the new 2 billion dollar EVGR development as residential buildings, so it instead reported these as “commercial buildings” that, under federal law, don’t have residential postal addresses. Again, because of Stanford’s actions, USPS cannot give EVGR residential addresses until the permit gets reclassified. And EVGR residents, as tenants of Stanford, bear the burden (and often receive misinformation from their landlord, who is making a profit off of them). This means that eligible voters do not have a mailing address because of their landlord, which violates federal election law. Residents with legal or governance expertise should consider the relationships between Stanford’s actions and civil/criminal law.

- We can organize some schedules for packages to be delivered to each floor. (For example, 3 times during the day: 11 am, 3 pm, and 6 pm). This way it can be easier for UG2 to use the rest of the day to sort and prepare the packages and then at the scheduled time they can go to distribute the packages.

- This way we can also organize ourselves to pick the packages in these spaces at designated times (and if our package is not there, it should be there at the next scheduled hour or if not, the next day).