Menlo Park City Council Gives Thumbs Up To Facebook’s Expansion Plans

The Menlo Park City Council voted unanimously to allow Facebook to expand its headquarters, which will allow the social network to triple its work force there, currently totaling around 2,200.

The Menlo Park City Council voted unanimously to allow Facebook to expand its headquarters, which will allow the social network to triple its work force there, currently totaling around 2,200.

The Palo Alto Daily News reported that Facebook’s plans include constructing additional buildings on the nine-building, 57-acre former Sun Microsystems site, which was limited to a maximum of 3,600 employees prior to Tuesday night’s vote.

According to the Daily News, the social network agreed to limit vehicle trips to and from its campus to 15,000 in exchange for permission to boost that maximum employee figure to 6,600.

The council also, as reported by the Daily News:

  • Approved an environmental impact report that addressed the expansion on Facebook’s campus, as well as its plan to add a second cluster of buildings to the 22-acre “West Campus” across the Bayfront Expressway, which had been the site of Tyco Electronics.
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