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Mayor Combs and City Council, I support the Downtown Parking Plazas Citizens’ Initiative. Menlo Park’s downtown businesses depend on the access provided by the parking plazas. A decision to repurpose those lots should be made by the businesses and residents who use them - not by outside cons...
Mayor Combs and City Council Members, I support more affordable housing in Menlo Park. In the right locations, it will strengthen our community. But our community is built around a shared downtown — and the downtown depends on the public parking plazas. Repurposing those plazas would be a o...
Dear Mayor Combs and the City Council Members, Why the City Council, and the Menlo Together group, are so eager to develop substandard housing on the downtown parking lots is beyond me. The residents of anything built on parking lots #1 and #3 will be living on narrow, hazardous, alley w...
City Council Members, We are learning at the last minute that the Quiet Zone funding is going to be cut from the city budget. Please do not allow that to happen. So much work has gone into it already and all it needs to be completed now is the funding. The city can afford to finish this pro...
Greetings, I trust the city council and the city planners will disregard any input or results from the Dec. 11th meeting about the housing on the parking lots, even though the city saw it as a successful outreach effort. Many, if not most of us, had serious doubts about the validity of the mee...
City Council Members, If the public parking lots, which are heavily used, can be declared surplus land available for housing to correct the massive housing imbalance caused by the huge developments of office space approved by the city council over the years (Meta and Bohannan complexes, for examp...
Dear City Council Members, It is 11:31 pm and I am listening to the train horn blast as the train goes through Menlo Park. I can hear it clearly, inside my house, with all my windows closed, and in a room that is facing away from the train. I am more than two blocks from the railroad tracks. The ...
