San Jose's largest employer now must receive approvals from theplanning commission and the city council. Opponents of thedevelopment say it would worsen traffic, threaten ecologicalbalances, and send rents soaring as Cisco employees relocate to becloser to work.

Cisco has refuted the claims and thus far sped through the cityapproval process. The company is hoping to use the campus to unitesome of its workers that are currently scattered throughout SiliconValley.

Cisco is also said to be eyeing land in Dublin for a majoroffice campus, to complement a 2-million sf campus on the oldAgnews State Hospital property in North San Jose. In the meantime,it's lease, lease, lease.

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