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Mayor Combs and City Council, I enthusiastically support the Downtown Parking Plazas Citizens’ Initiative. As a Menlo Park homeowner and property taxpayer, I strongly oppose the development of low-income housing on our parking lot land. While some cities, such as Portland and New York, may purs...
Mayor Combs and City Council, I support the Downtown Parking Plazas Citizens’ Initiative. Menlo Park’s downtown, quite simply, depends on the access provided by the parking plazas. A decision to repurpose those lots should be made by the residents who use them - not by outside consultants. ...
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 once-i...
Hi Nikki, I hope you are doing well. We are writing to follow up on the Belle Haven Seniors’ Petition, as we have yet to receive any updates from your office. While we appreciate that seniors have finally received their old chairs, we remain deeply concerned about the prolonged delay. Why did it ta...
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...
A few weeks ago, my emailed comment regarding the streetery/street closure City Council agenda item included a question about Downtown’s cleanliness. While it may have been interpreted as rhetorical, it was, in fact, posed to seek an answer. I will ask again and include a few more. Was there a cl...
Members of City Council and Staff, I have hesitated to provide comment because I have heard the previous commentary from downtown business owners and citizens not in favor of street closures and streeteries not be taken with much consideration. The same words come up time and time again regard...
Hello city council and staff I am a resident of Allied Arts, I live 2 blocks from Middle and travel on the street pretty much every day by car, bike, or walk. I have 2 little kids so were often walking with a stroller or biking with a trailer. Staff and council has done a great job gathering i...
Hello City Council, I am a concerned Menlo Park resident--before you march ahead with plans to make conversions from gas to electricity as a mandate for Menlo Park, I would urge you to slow down and evaluate this carefully. Our electric power grid is not sustainable and it's not a good idea to man...
Hello City Menlo Park Council members, My name is Kristin Hansen and I live at 535 St. Francis Place in Menlo Park. We recently completed a home remodel, during which we converted our home to being nearly 100% electricity-powered, vs gas-powered. We do retain a gas line for our clothes dryer, wh...
