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Dear City Council Members, Please keep the Quiet Zone project in the five-year budget plan. Establishing a Quiet Zone in Menlo Park would be the single biggest improvement in our Quality of Life in my 40+ years as a resident. It would benefit not only the thousands of residents who live or wor...
Dear Mayor and City Council Members: We would like to express our support to maintain the existing street closure on a portion of Santa Cruz Avenue. We don’t live in Menlo Park but we visit it frequently, including for grocery and other shopping, and to eat at our favorite restaurant, Bistro Vi...
Dear Honorable Mayor Combs, Maybe Menlo Park should consider something like this to honor the first female City Council Mayor, much like your Sister City in Galway, Ireland has done. If so, between 1927 and 2025 (nearly 100 years) the first female mayor in Menlo Park was Peg Gunn (per the Summary...
The Vast Gaza Death Undercount– Undermines Civic, Diplomatic and Political Pressures By Ralph Nader March 28, 2025 The vast undercount of Israeli-caused deaths in Gaza is regularly reported as 50,000. The actual toll from violent military action and the indirect deaths (stemming f...
Hi Mayor Drew and City Council! As a resident of Suburban Park, I am hoping you will uphold the appeal of the development at 320 Sheridan Dr. Furthermore, I urge you to do whatever is in your power to require a second entrance/exit on the Van Buren Rd side. You have an opportunity to help kee...
The idea of sacrificing the three surface lots for 10 story low and lower income housing is something you will be remembered for. It is a fully preposterous approach to CBD housing which will quickly become a failed dark wind tunnel of crime and unhappiness. For me, a handicapped person, it simply...
Dear City Council As a Menlo Park resident for more than 40 years , finding parking downtown today can be challenging as it is...I cannot imagine doing it if you eliminate like half of the spaces as contemplated and add high density housing....more people and even more cars!! Between Springline an...
What a terrible idea to build on the parking lots behind and around Santa Cruz Avenue businesses. Without parking we will not have access, without access we will look elsewhere to do business. I suppose we can do all our shopping at big box stores in Redwood City. Is that your intention? Instead...
Please be advised that I don’t live in Menlo Park but shop,frequent restaurants and use attorney and other professional services in Menlo Park. I am writing to express my deep concern regarding the idea of converting surface parking into low income housing. I spend many thousands of dollars with yo...
Honorable Mayor Taylor and Council Members: During the year we may not always agree on the topics of the day, but for this week it certainly is appropriate to pause and take a moment to THANK YOU for your service to the community. Long hours, meetings after meetings, endless Staff Reports to rea...
