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Dear Menlo Park City Council, I just heard that the Council might eliminate the Quiet Zone from its budget planning. As a resident of Felton Gables, we have been pushing for many years to establish a Quiet Zone to improve our quality of life through reduced train horn noise. The city has alrea...

Dear Meta Oversight Board, We are writing to express our outrage and deep condemnation of your decision to allow the phrase “From the river to the sea” to remain on Meta’s platforms. This is not a matter of free speech; it is a call for genocide—a rallying cry for the destruction of Israel and th...

To whom it may concern, Please see that the attached support letter makes it to the City Councilmembers and City Clerk. Thank you, Doug Chesshire Senior Field Representative Nor Cal Carpenters Union Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Benito, Santa Cruz & Monterey Counties Cell: (510) 421-...

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I encourage the landscape architectural firm choosing the plants for the freeway interchange to use Douglas fir trees. The tree is native to Northern California, uses little to no water, will grow in all soils, and is resistant to oak root fungus. If also choosing native oak trees the the trees can...

Honorable Mayor and Esteemed Council Members: Attached is recent e-newsletter from the SISTER CITIES program in Palo Alto, known as Neighbors Abroad. As you can see, they are very active, despite the effects of Covid. Similar to Menlo Park, they serve multiple cities. One of them they call a SIBL...

Please preserve our parks in Menlo Park. We need them for our mental health and well being for adults just as much as for our children. We all need park spaces to enjoy being outdoors and to breath fresh air now more than ever as COVID pandemic continue to persist and is most infectious inside en...

Hello, The street closure has made a major impact on affecting our business. We now have rarely any walk-ins coming into our showroom. We can go for days without someone coming in which is very devastating to our business. We would like to see the streets open again for all cars and walking custome...

The company you are using for residential water use billings is one of the worst I have seen. I have been in contact more than once regarding the accuracy of my water bill. My last conversation with them was on May 27th with a representative whose name was Roo. She could not resolve the issue and a...

I am opposed to changing the current procedures. 1. Any City Council member already has the authority ro review and appeal any Planning Commission decision. 2. Our city is already way overstuffed compared to comparable cities and this change will only add to staff workload. 3. How will the council ...

Dear City Council, Art Ventures Gallery organized the March for our Lives last year which Ray Mueller attended. I would like to see another walk this year, and I would like to organize it together with you. Last night I spoke to David Hogg from the Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Flo...