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Dear City Council, College Avenue is a City-designated bicycle boulevard used by roughly 200 people on foot and bike every day. Lacking continuous sidewalks, our street is shared by pedestrians, children heading to Nealon Park or school, students and commuters traveling to Stanford from Middle...

Dear City Council, College Avenue is a City-designated bicycle boulevard used by roughly 200 people on foot and bike every day. Lacking continuous sidewalks, our street is shared by pedestrians, children heading to Nealon Park or school, students and commuters traveling to Stanford from Middle Pl...

Dear Council Members, I regret that due to prior travel commitments, I won’t be able to attend your meeting tonight (April 28) when the Master Fee Schedule is discussed. I’m writing to object to the new fees a consultant has proposed for newspaper racks. We provide a free newspaper to the com...

I am appealing to you to vote no to the proposal to charge a fee on newspaper racks. At a time when there has been an attack on free press and journalists, running newspapers out of business by assessing fees seems egregious. I would expect more from my local government. It appears the council is av...

Dear Council Members In 2015 at 4:45 pm a young mother, Jennifer Jayun Koo was killed by a Caltrain express train at Ravenswood in Menlo Park. She had left her job and was on her way to pick up her daughter at daycare. She was trapped on the tracks by stopped by El Camino Real red light traf...

Dear Councilmembers and City Staff Three questions to test whether the current criteria capture the highest risk: 1) When sidewalks are missing, and people must walk in the roadway, where is that risk scored? On segments like College Ave, pedestrians, seniors, and cyclists are routinely in...

[image: GreenbeltAlliance-hidden-heroes-logo.png] Dear Mayor Drew Combs and Councilmembers, As I mentioned in an earlier email, the nominations for Greenbelt Alliance <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fgreenbelt-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com%2f2ut3dJm8bFNhaQORcwGlR5BmqA_uSbuKQV...

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We want to preserve free speech and local news. Don’t punish newspapers for your overspending bruce adornato sand hill circle Sent from my phone

Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, I rarely, if ever, have agreed with Dave Price on an issue, but when it comes to instituting fees for news racks, we are completely aligned. I understand the city is looking for ways to close a budget gap, particularly with the loss of VLF revenue from the s...

We need *more local news* at a time when business for newspapers is difficult. I like these newspapers and think charging 1000s of dollars is a *bad idea *as it only hastens the death of local news. Hope you can find an alternative. Don’t vote to charge for the boxes!!!! Thanks, Hugh and Jean Macdonald 300 Yale Road Menlo Park