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Dear Mayor Nash and Council Members, I’ve read the comments that were submitted to you and am offering you a condensed version, to be followed by my own recommendations. It makes no sense to prioritize Climate Change when neighborhoods in West Menlo are literally unsafe. Dozens of residents fr...
Dear Mayor Nash and City Council members, Since you’re planning an open house featuring the three developers that submitted proposals for the parking lot housing plan, I urge you to make it a requirement for them to bring detailed professional scale models of their proposed projects to that meeti...
Dear Mayor Nash and City Council members, At the special Council meeting on December 2nd last year regarding Save Downtown Menlo’s initiative, some of you, particularly Council members Nash and Schmidt, trumpeted support for democracy, declaring how committed you are to discover the will of the v...
Dear Mayor Nash and City Council members, At last you’ve heard back from the developers from whom you requested RFPs. And at least three of them showed great foresight and wisdom. I’m referring to the three that declined to submit proposals—likely due to the upcoming election on Save Downtown ...
Dear Mayor Combs and City Council members, While I addressed the Council in favor of making the street closure permanent, I did this believing we’d continue to have the Bon Marche street market that Ali launched several years ago, where we could buy French delicacies, enjoy freshly made crepes, p...
Dear Mayor Combs and City Council Members, You have a golden opportunity Tuesday night to demonstrate that you’re listening to the community and that you respect the residents and small business owners who gathered far more than the requisite number of signatures to qualify SDM’s initiative for t...
Dear Mayor Combs and City Council members, Please don’t make the same mistake regarding the SRI proposal that the prior Council made regarding allowing far too much office and not enough housing in the last RHNA cycle. Now Lane Partners is playing a cynical game with you, reneging on its plan ...
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...
