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Dear Menlo Park City Council - Following are questions or issues for Downtown parking redevelopment. Please think about them along with the RFQ and the current project process. Overall the RFQ is worded broadly enough for a range of creative and even candid responses. Some exceptions are note...
Dear City Council - My recommendation for proceeding with the Middle Ave bike lane project is: Option 2 + Time-of-Day No Parking signage for commute hours. My focus here is only on Middle Ave from around Fremont to Olive. First, Why not Options 1 or 3? Option 3 leaves considerable par...
Dear Planning Commissioners: Following are comments on the land use policies implied by the Parkline/SRI redevelopment proposal, followed by recommendations. – This project presents as a large office park with some housing included. The parking including three multi-story parking garages is...
Dear City Council - Watching the Tuesday October 18 presentation on the Middle Avenue bike lanes plan, I was pleased to see city staff had on a recent Sunday visited the New Community Church parking on Middle and nearby side streets. Staff reported to you 51 parked cars on Middle near the NC...
Dear City Council - I strongly suggest that the CC take no votes on the new Middle Avenue design proposal tonight. The reasons are: OBJECTIVES ARE IN CONFLICT Its unclear where/why cars are to be sped up (University) or slowed down (San Mateo), or a little of both. Pedestrian safety is a ...
Dear City Council members - Regarding the draft proposal for Middle Avenue modifications: MINI-ROUNDABOUT -- The pilot for the mini-roundabout at Middle and University has, as far as I can tell, no analysis of potential pedestrian, bicycle and traffic safety issues. The roundabout may b...
Dear City Council - In March, following a city-organized Middle Ave area residents meeting , I wrote to Esther Jung at the Transportation Dept.: ".... please call out detailed parking changes, especially Sunday [New Community] church parking at Arbor, often involving 2-3 dozen cars now utilizi...
Dear City Council - Having attended the recent Middle Avenue Complete Street project meeting, I received a bike lanes survey by email. There is no explanation of the purpose of this survey and how it will be used. The survey asks me to make a choice between two street designs but provides ...
Dear Council - As I understand it, the data below (from the research journals cited) suggests residential methane emissions are a small part of total anthropogenic methane emissions (bovine gassing, tundra release, pipelines). Residential methane emissions are also a smaller part of CO2 equival...
Dear City Council Members - Having viewed the Climate Action Plan 1 CC meeting tape, I realized the challenge of a Zoom CC meeting, with Council Members having to think about a complex issue while listening to another perspective at once, but not seeing the speaker directly, not making eye contac...
