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Hello City Council Members, I also serve on the Environmental Quality Commission and endorse the requests from Angela Evans, Mitch Slomiak, and Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart regarding zoning for electrification. Cheers, Brian ========= Brian Kissel brian.kissel@gmail.com<mailto:brian.kissel@gmail...
A P.S. to my note below: The previous commenter who opposes these new zoning edits is also mistaken about air conditioning increasing climate pollution. That is false. Air conditioning uses electricity, and our electricity is 100% carbon free from our utility (Peninsula Clean Energy). We must ...
Dear City Council, I serve on the Environmental Quality Commission (EQC) but am posting here as a resident. Just a quick note to let Council and staff know that I support staff’s recommendations on K1 (zoning for electrification) as doing so will ease friction with respect to voluntary electri...
City Council, We are writing as the Chair and Vice Chair of the Environmental Quality Commission regarding agenda item I-1 on the agenda for May 23, 2023. Thank you for calling up the Planning Commission denial of a use permit to allow electric pool heating equipment to exceed the nighttime noise...
Dear Planning Commission (and including Planning staff via the CCIN, as it may relate to potential resources shared here on this topic); Thank you very much for denying the waiver on noise with respect to the community pool equipment in Belle Haven. Belle Haven residents should be protected fro...
Dear City Council, Thank you for all of your hard work. Though I’m on the EQC, I’m writing in here as a resident of Menlo Park only. For the March 18th priority session. * Please require electric or zero emissions models to be installed when any gas water heater or gas HVAC system is...
Hello MP Council — I support Option 1 for Middle Ave. Middle Ave. is a high-volume bicycle thoroughfare for Oak Knoll, Hillview, and some private school students who need to get to this side of town for school. I live only a few blocks away on Olive St. so I watch the continual flow of studen...
Dear Council, As you discuss the Housing Element tomorrow, please prioritize increased zoning for high density housing throughout our city and not just in the Belle Haven and Bay Front communities. I support high density housing (including more affordable housing) in all districts of our city s...
Dear Menlo Park City Council, Although I serve as Vice-Chair of the Environmental Quality Commission, I am writing in here as as resident of Menlo Park and private citizen. Please vote to advise staff to develop a Wireless Ordinance that amends the city’s Municipal Code to “include a process ...
Dear Council Members, Though I serve on the Environmental Quality Commission, I am writing in now as a private Menlo Park resident. I volunteer extensively in the Ravenswood District and see first-hand how the pandemic has disproportionally burdened that community in almost every major respect. P...
