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Dear Mayor Combs and City Council members, Let’s face facts: the parking lot housing issue is going to the ballot. And, rather than persisting in your apparent denial of this reality, I suggest you do as follows: 1. Instead of playing footsie with these developers who are only too hungry fo...
Dear Mayor Combs and City Council members, Given our city’s need for affordable housing and the hazards posed by an excess of office space, it would be utterly irresponsible of you to approve SRI’s Parkline project in its current form. Lane Partners can’t be blamed for seeking a deal that bene...
Dear Mayor Combs and City Council members, I urge you to vote to keep the 600 block on Santa Cruz Avenue as it is: closed to through traffic heading east. Ali Elsafy, owner of Bistro Vida, has done more to enhance Santa Cruz Avenue than anyone else, and has exciting plans to do even more for th...
Dear Mayor Combs and Council members, Good news! Presidio Bay Ventures just purchased the USGS campus! So now, instead of trying to cram affordable housing into our downtown parking lots where it makes no sense, let’s approach Presidio Bay regarding putting this housing on the USGS campus! That will be a win-win! Thanks so much, Cherie
Dear Mayor Combs and City Council members, In the interest of transparency, now that the city has received seven responses to the city’s RFQs, please post the basic information on the city’s website, including the names of each respondent’s company, the number of housing units proposed, the number ...
Dear Mayor Combs and City Council members, In case you haven’t seen the Palo Alto Daily Post today, here’s the text of my letter that was published in the paper today. Downtown Housing Dear Editor, Kudos to Menlo Park Mayor Combs for his valiant attempt during the January 28th meeting, to ...
This is great, Rich! Great to bring this up with them! And every low-income housing unit we get lowers our total burden. Why should they all be in huge high-rises? One more thing, Rich: as an English teacher, I couldn’t help noticing typos and such. I’d suggest you fix those issues and th...
Dear Mayor Combs and Council members, Please turn your attention to the SRI project. The SRI Parkline proposal includes over a million square feet of new office space. Big mistake! Make that housing instead! If we figure 1,000 sq ft per Affordable Housing unit, we could put 1,000 of tho...
Dear Mayor Combs and Council members, Some of you expressed fear over being potentially hit with another “Builder’s Remedy” if you don’t hurry up with affordable housing projects such as the one proposed in the downtown parking lots that the community of residents and our Mom & Pop businesses sou...
Dear Mayor Combs and Council Members, One key reason we’re facing unwieldy numbers of required housing from ABAG is that our prior Council(s) permitted way too much office to be built. For every office construction, ABAG added equal requirements of housing. This was obviously a losing game for u...
