Menlo Park Community Forum

Many thanks to the City Council and City Staff for your tireless, thoughtful work on our housing element and housing development plans. As the city continues plans for housing on the downtown parking lots, I hope you will also consider housing on one or more civic center parking lots. Clearly th...

Dear Members of the Menlo Park City Council: As an employee & office director of AJ Tutoring (1155 Crane St.), Id like to bring a couple driver/traffic safety items to the attention of City Council: 1) The left turn from El Camino Real onto Oak Grove Ave. is *extremely* dangerous due to th...

Dear City Council, I’m writing to express my wish that Santa Cruz reopen fully. I think the current traffic flow is negatively affecting some of the businesses towards Santa Cruz and making traffic jams on Menlo Ave and Oak Grove. Having temporary closures for community events is great, and I...

Dear Council, I was so happy to see that 7 RFQ responses were received for homes (and parking) downtown. I’ve reviewed some of the materials and think it’s fantastic to have so many options to compare and contrast. Like other commenters, I support: - Building affordable housing, especially...

I am a 28 year Menlo Park resident who moved from a 5th floor downtown Palo Alto mixed use building. I also lived in a downtown Burlingame apartment building before Palo Alto. Downtown MP remains smaller than both and it is even sleepier now with a growing number of closed / empty storefronts (by ...

I am a long time Menlo Park resident who moved from a 5th floor downtown Palo Alto mixed use building. Downtown MP was much smaller then (over 700 businesses in downtown Palo Alto) and it is even sleepier now with a growing number of closed / empty storefronts. Its sad to see "for lease" signs on ...

Dear Council, I’m writing in support of proceeding with the RFQ process to create affordable homes downtown. The project seems like a clear win to me -- the community would get: * Housing affordable to the downtown workforce -- the Housing Element cites that 96% (!) of our workforce com...

We beg you not to approve using the land and parking areas behind our businesses for Housing. Menlo Park Businesses are ALREADY STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE. Other cities, San Carlos, Burlingame, Palo Alto are thriving while Menlo Park is DYING. OUR GRANDFATHER invested in Menlo Park years ago and I gre...

Thanks Betsy. One quick question: has the City engaged outside consultants to compare downtown MP retail activity (anonymized cell phone tracking plus sales tax revenue) to other Peninsula small towns (Burlingame, San Carlos and Los Altos all have similar populations)? After living in a 5th flo...

City Council, Amazing to me to see how it took years to get sidewalks planned, approved, and built but we are ready to jam down our throats an initiative that will declare much needed parking lots as surplus land and then build housing on them. Where will people park? How will small business ...