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Good Afyernoon, I just wanted to pass along my feelings about Santa Cruz Avenue. I support reopening Santa Cruz to vehicular traffic down the entire length to El Camino and moving the parklet to one of the side streets and maybe giving some other restaurants or businesses the opportunity to e...
Dear City Council, I just drove down Middlefield from Willow Road to Ravenswood today and I would love to know if the new lane striping is a joke or if someone actually thinks narrowing the road to one lane for a short distance is a good idea? From what I can tell Middlefield will now go from one ...
Dear City Council Members, I am writing to you today in regards to the vacancy left by the departure of Ray Mueller. Ray was an asset to the Menlo Park City Council and I am sad to see him go. I know there are several applicants for the open position and I would like to recommend Catherine Carl...
Hello City Council, I received another notice that the owners of the 76 gas station at the corner of Willow Road and O'Keefe Street is appealing the denial of a permit to remain open 24 hours a day and sell beer and wine. I am not sure why they are appealing since it was denied in March of 2020,...
Dear City Council Members, I recently received a notification that the 76 Gas Station located at 710 Willow Road has appealed the City Council denial last year to have their convenience store remain open 24 hours a day and to sell beer and wine. I have to express my deepest opposition to both th...
Dear Council members, I am writing today in support of continuing the turn restrictions in the Willows. These four turn restrictions located at O'Keefe at Willow, Durham at Willow, Chester at Willow and Woodland at Baywood have had a very positive impact on the traffic in the neighborhood. Living o...
Ray, Betsy, Drew, Cat, Cecilia, I understand the City Council will be discussing the closing of Santa Cruz Avenue this evening to allow restaurants to open outdoor seating on the roadway. While I support the needs of our local restaurants to reopen and be able to do enough business to survive this ...
Dear City Council Members, I am writing to you today about a topic that is very important to myself and my neighbors, traffic in the Willows neighborhood. As many of you are aware, due to congestion on Willow Road and University Avenue, many commuters use the neighborhood streets in the Willows to ...
Dear City Council, I am writing to encourage you, strongly encourage you, to include Traffic congestion management to the Transportation goals for the city. I have been involved with the Willows Traffic issues such as cut through traffic, speeding and stop sign running, for many years. The change...
Dear City Council, I am writing to encourage you, strongly encourage you, to include Traffic congestion management to the Transportation goals for the city. I have been involved with the Willows Traffic issues such as cut through traffic, speeding and stop sign running, for many years. The changes t...