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Dear City Council Members and Staff, Thank you for your commitment to new homes and modern parking solutions on Menlo Parks city-owned parking lots. The Election Code 9212 impact study reveals the significant and far-reaching impact of the proposed parking lots ballot measure on our citys f...

Dear Council, Regarding item J3, I urge you to follow staff recommendation C and order a report pursuant to Elections Code section 9212. The city and the voters deserve to have an assessment of the impact of this ordinance *before* the matter is put on the ballot, including but not limited ...

Dear Councilmembers, I urge you to approve the Parkline Master Plan Project before you this evening. I have been following this project for the last four years. Weve arrived at this point thanks to the efforts of all stakeholders, including Council, staff, members of the public, and the pro...

Dear Menlo Park City Council members, I cannot attend the board meeting this Tuesday so write again (prior emails below) to encourage you to invest in Menlo Park’s aquatic facilities at Burgess and Belle Haven as you do for all recreation facilities in the city. As others have written, I too...

Hi City Council - Thank you for all of your good work and dedication to Menlo Park. We are reaching out to express the concerns our family has around the new housing project proposed for downtown Menlo Park. Please note we understand and appreciate the need for more housing. The location for this h...

Dear City Council Members, My name is Katherine Walters Rundell, and I am a fourth-generation resident of the Menlo Park / Atherton area. I am deeply concerned about the proposal to build housing on our downtown parking lots. This plan threatens the survival of many local businesses, which rel...

Dear Menlo Park City Council Members and Mayor, Thank you again for all of your hard-work and time on the Menlo Park pool issues. I am writing to reiterate my satisfaction with the services at the Burgess pool. The cross section of activities and ages and people at the pool at all hours of the...

Dear Councilmembers and Staff, In reviewing staff options for reopening Santa Cruz Ave to vehicle traffic, I strongly favor Option 1, which preserves--and enhances--the use of this space as a small urban oasis. It is a solution that is consistent with the spirit of the El Camino Real/Downtown ...

Hello, I understand you will be discussing the closure / reopening of Santa Cruz in front of Left Bank this evening. My priority would be to reopen the road. While it made since during Covid, it no longer best serves the community to create this traffic sore still exist. It unfairly favors one...

I am absolutely and unequivably FOR implementing the Quiet Zone in Menlo Park. I am a resident of Menlo Park (for the last 22 years) and have followed this project all along. So much of the planning,etc has already been done and it should be funded to make it happen. Loud train horns in our resi...