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29 results for "Kristen L"

Hello, Mayor and City Council Members! I love the idea of welcoming the West Menlo Triangle to incorporate to the City of Menlo Park! However, I don’t love the idea of waiving the fees, especially since it doesn’t seem like the fees will be recuperated by taxes after they are incorporated. It ...

Hello Mayor and City Council Members, My name is Kristen Leep and I have lived in Menlo Park for more than 35 years and I have been a member of the Junior League of Palo Alto • Mid Peninsula for 7 years. The Junior League provides valuable services to residents of the city of Menlo Park. We...

Dear City Council Members, Thank you so much for supporting new homes and new parking garages on Menlo Parks city-owned parking lots! The homes are essential to Menlo Park’s success as a city and would make our downtown more vibrant and fun. Adding parking garages would make businesses happy, ...

I’d like to add to my previous message. The housing provided by this project would be life-changing for low income, essential workers like me. I am a preschool teacher in Menlo Park. I live in a below market rate rental a few blocks from Santa Cruz Ave. It’s great because I can walk to work an...

Dear Mayor and City Council Members, The City should order an Elections Code section 9212 report of the Downtown Parking Plazas Ordinance. The Ordinance reduces the city’s ability to meet the goals of its specific plan to build the number of below market rate housing units required by state la...

Dear City Council Members, I want to express my continued support for developing the proposed downtown parking lots into below market rate apartment buildings with parking on the bottom. The parking lots should MORE THAN replace the street level spots they take up so that the only long term im...

Dear City Council Members, I want to express my continued support for developing the proposed downtown parking lots into apartment buildings with parking on the bottom. The parking lots should MORE THAN replace the street level spots they take up so that the only long term impact on city busin...

Hello, City Council!! I love that this project has below market rate (BMR) units mixed in with the market rate units as required by law. It’s even better that the owner is including even more BMR units than required! However, I am concerned that the up to 154 even more BMR units are in a separ...

Dear Honorable Mayor Wolosin, Esteemed Council Members and Staff Members who will confer on this property, I need your help. I grew up in Menlo Park and have lived here for 36 years. It has always been my dream to own a home in Menlo Park and to be a teacher. These dreams are incompatible, exc...

I love a good streetary!! But they are a problem for some downtown visitors/clients and other businesses. The restaurants who have them should pay closer to market rate for the privilege of using the city’s valuable real estate. -- Sent from iPhone. Please excuse auto “corrections”.