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6 results for "Anne Holmes"

Mayor Combs and City Council, I enthusiastically support the Downtown Parking Plazas Citizens’ Initiative. Menlo Park’s downtown, quite simply, depends on the access provided by the parking plazas. A decision to repurpose those lots should be made by the residents who use them - not by outside...

Mayor Combs and City Council Members, I support more affordable housing in Menlo Park. In the right locations, it will strengthen our community. But our community is built around a shared downtown — and the downtown depends on the public parking plazas. Repurposing those plazas would be a once...

Hello, I am so disappointed to learn more trees will be removed along El Camino in Menlo Park. Please see if there is another solution. It is absolutely criminal that our city has lost literally dozens of heritage trees in the last two years. The stripping of trees for the Willow Road 101 exchan...

Dear Council members, I do not believe that Menlo Park needs a new library! I realize that Arrillaga is offering funds but there are so many greater needs, particularly in Belle Haven, than to upgrade a library that was recently upgraded! Let’s give Belle Haven a new library! Or is Arrillaga’s m...

I seriously hope that the City Council will not be lured by Arrillaga funds to build a new Menlo Park library. We certainly do not need one! Ours is fabulous. Don’t disrupt our existing city plan because of a billionaire’s priority. Let’s invest in a new Belle Haven library where it’s really needed....

Dear members of the city council, I am saddened to learn that the current Menlo Park Library could be changed in any way by the Arrillaga proposal as I feel it is perfect exactly as it is. The Belle Haven Library is a different story. Why not suggest that Mr. Arrillaga deliver more to that community...