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Dear Menlo Park City Council, How can the City eliminate the Quiet Zone from its budget planning. As a 30-year Menlo Park homeowner, this is unacceptable! I have been one of MANY residents advocating for a Quiet Zone for years, and the engineering designs are nearly complete. Why disrupt reach...

Dear Menlo Park City Council, If Atherton residents have already established a Quiet Zone, that’s the model to copy for Menlo Park. We have a larger population, compared to Atherton, that would benefit from a city-wide QUIET ZONE. After Menlo Park supported new rail-adjacent developments li...

Dear Menlo Park City Council Members, First, thank you for your service. Second, I live in the Park Forest neighborhood of Menlo Park which is a little community on the train corridor and adjacent to the border with Atherton. In the past, the City Council has voted to preserve the quality of l...

Dear Commissioners, I live at 174 Buckthorn Way which is part of the Park Forest development in Menlo Park. I am writing again about the proposed expansion of the Hampton Inn project that is adjacent to our Park Forest community. I think the plans of the developer, Mr. Patel, do not support the goal...

Dear City of Menlo Park Leadership, After two years of constructive communication, planning and collaboration with the hotel developer Sagar Patel, we of the Park Forest home community are now opposed to the revised plan (unveiled in May 2018) for redevelopment of the existing Red Cottage Inn. I’m w...

To the City Planning Commissioners I attended the Planning Commission’s study session on October 8 on the Red Cottage Inn expansion. I have lived in Menlo Park since 1995. My first home was in West Menlo Park. I have been a resident and homeowner in the Park Forest community since 2014. With all of ...

I am a long-time resident and homeowner in Menlo Park. I have owned a home on Buckthorn Way for four years. Previously, I owned a home in West Menlo Park for 17 years. As a current owner of a home on Buckthorn Way, I am concerned about the crowding, noise and overall negative impact of the planned H...