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Dear Menlo Park City Council, We, as downtown businesses, oppose the use of parking lots for high-density housing because it would impede our ability to serve the community. We hope you will consider alternative locations for affordable housing. Our businesses depend on it. Respectfully, 36...
Honorable Mayor and Council Members, It would be most appropriate to express a big THANK YOU for preparing a September 11th - City Council Proclamation, as shown on next weeks meeting, as Agenda Item # H-1, attached is a copy. For those that have not seen it, it states: IN MEMORY AND WITH HOPES O...
25th Memorial Anniversary Of 9/11 Please join us as we come together as a community to remember and honor the lives lost Sept. 11, 2001, and recognize the courage, service and resilience that followed. We invite our community to pause, reflect and remember together on this solemn 25th anniversary. ...
Honorable Mayor and Council Members, Many years ago, the City of Menlo Park paid respect to the lives lost during one of the most devastating and consequential days in modern history known as 9/11. A bronze plaque was placed under a tree near City Hall, which remains there to this day. The year 2...
Honorable Mayor Nash and Council Members, Effective June 3, 2016, a full sister city agreement between the two world class cities of Menlo Park, CA and Galway, Ireland was signed by Menlo Park Mayor Rich Cline and Galway Mayor Frank Fahy. With so much going on in the world, it’s wonderful to have...
Honorable Mayor Nash and Council Members. As GALWAY, IRELAND 🇮🇪 is MENLO PARK’S SISTER CITY, it’s appropriate to pause for a moment to wish you a very happy and healthy St. Patrick’s Day. As it turns out Galway’s mayor is currently nearby while visiting Seattle, Washington, another one of...
Hi Mayor Combs and Council Members: An article caught my eye yesterday appearing on the front page of the DAILY JOURNAL newspaper. It was entitled "Celebrating 100", a copy of which is attached. As Menlo Parks 100 year anniversary is quickly coming up in 2027, it may be well to begin the PLANNING ...
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 consult...
Mayor Combs and Members Taylor, Schmidt, Nash & Wise: As the Council must know by now, the Downtown Parking Plazas Citizens’ Initiative has received overwhelming support from your constituents. In my own polling, about 80% of the people Ive spoken with are disgusted with this Councils single-...
Honorable Mayor & Council Members: Nearly every city and county in the nation has an ART COMMISSION, but for some unknown reason, the City of Menlo Park does not. Why is that? Over 300 cities in California has an Art Commission as well as most of the 58 Counties in California. Can you explain to ...
