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Dear City of Menlo Park Councilmembers and Staff, I hope this message finds you well. My name is Eduardo L. Hernandez. I have lived in Menlo Park for over twenty-five years and am a proud resident of East Menlo Park. I am reminded of the message in John Lennon’s song “Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” wh...
Dear City Council Members, Menlo Park, and every city in California, desperately needs more housing to advance our economic, environmental, and social justice goals - as well as to meet our obligations under CA law. Please support new homes and modern parking solutions on Menlo Parks city-o...
Mayor Combs and City Council, I enthusiastically 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...
Dear Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Council Members, and honorable staff, Thank you for continuing to support the housing program to foster new homes and modern parking solutions on Menlo Parks city-owned parking lots. I urge you to place the proposed measure on the November 2026 general election b...
Mayor Combs and City Council Members: I support more affordable housing in Menlo Park. In the CORRECT locations, it will strengthen our community at every level. HOWEVER, our community is built around a shared downtown — and the downtown depends on the public parking plazas. Re-purposing thise...
Mayor Combs, Jennifer Wise 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 plaza...
Dear 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...
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...
Please know that my wife Jennifer and I support the expanded housing options at Parkline (old SRI). Some of the affordable housing there should be earmarked for public service employees at nearby high school, fire district and city hall. Ideally this ex-SRI project should be co-developed with...
Dear MP City Council - In your August 26 direction for the Downtown RFP, CC member Jennifer Wise, toward the end of the discussion, asked that concepts related to Downtown business revenue impacts due to the project be mentioned in paragraph ‘E’ of the RFP. The revised RFP references ‘mi...
