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Mayo Nash and Council members Combs, Taylor, Wise and Schmidt: Must read: The Builders Remedy and the State Mandate DO NOT require taking our Downtown Parking Lots for Apartments; AND YOU KNOW IT. ! The Builders Remedy is NOT at risk; The "Builders Remedy" is a scare tactic, unsupported ...
This is a quote from the city of Menlo Park staff report, July 2026: "Capacity continues to exceed both the required RHNA and the RHNA plus 30% buffer in every income category." Apparently, the council cannot understand the word " EXCEED " ! The 345 apartments downtown are NOT needed, they ...
SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS A Regional Anomaly: Unlike open wind corridors (such as San Carlos), the Councils proposed multi-year project operates at zero-lot-line proximity (under 20–50 feet) to residential bedroom windows across three separate 75-year-old toxic soil sites. The Air Trap Micro-Basin:...
Dear Mayor and City Council Members, I have watched ambulances traveling down Santa Cruz Avenue with sirens and lights flashing, only to have to stop to decide what to do when they see the barrier. I have watched them decide to go left at Chestnut and get trapped in the backed up lines of c...
Dear Mayor Nash, Vice Mayor Wise, and Councilmembers, Thank you for making the Coleman Avenue bike lane pilot permanent on September 15; Im encouraged that more people are biking on Coleman, and that residents report it feels safer to ride there. Im writing in support of agendizing a discuss...
Dear Council members, In January 2025, I spoke at a "standing room only" city council meeting to discuss "Declaring Our downtown parking lots as Surplus Land"; AND, Leasing ( $1/ year for 55 years, is actually a GIFT ) the parking lots to a PRIVATE developer. I asked for a show of hands: Most...
To City Council members: The Public Plaza should be removed for the following reasons. 1. The blocked off street area is contributing to additional traffic congestion on Menlo Ave and Oak Grove streets. 2. It is a further inconvenience for shoppers to access downtown business and hurts bu...
Hi I am writing to express support for opening the 600 block to traffic and allowing for businesses to have parking accessible in front of their properties. The closure has certainly lost its appeal and seems to have be having a negative impact on the community. Thank you, Mitchell Bearg Bow Wow Meow 415-440-2845
I strongly encourage the approval of option 3. Santa Cruz has been closed long enough. The current gathering space is embarrassing and uninviting.
To the City Council of Menlo Park, I understand that you are discussing the downtown public plaza at 600 Santa Cruz Ave tonight. If I am understanding correctly, that is the area on Santa Cruz Ave. between Curtis St & Doyle St. My husband and I would like to see Option 1, the existing conf...
