Menlo Park Community Forum

Mayor Combs and City Council Members, I support more affordable housing in Menlo Park. In the right locations, it will strengthen our community. But our community is built around a shared downtown — and the downtown depends on the public parking plazas. Repurposing those plazas would be a once...

We need the parking and the through traffic. Kristin Smith Menlo Park resident

We need the parking, and we need downtown businesses which will not come or survive if you take away the parking. Do not approve these housing projects. Our downtown needs help, its had way too many vacancies for a very long time. Kristin

Please use your time to pursue the possibilities of meeting the mandate of the 3,000 needed housing units. They need to be near necessities like stores, transportation and not be all spread through town on single family housing lots. It is a very large hit to property owners who would be adjacen...

Please consider this option. Thank you. Kristin Smith Menlo Park resident Received on Sun May 24 2020 - 16:49:59 PDT

It's already hard enough to get across town, and when the park was on the side street by Walgreens it made it much more difficult. Please do not close streets even temporarily. Thank you, Kristin Smith resident of Menlo Park Received on Mon May 11 2020 - 18:50:36 PDT

Please try to keep our union contracts and the raises built into them in mind when deciding what cuts to make. If possible, negotiate the increase to not get started. We need to cut back on raises and staff if we are going to make it through this. Kristin Smith Menlo Park resident Received on Mon May 04 2020 - 15:07:09 PDT

I am a resident of Menlo Park, and have been for 34 years. I am not in favor of adding another layer of review to projects that meet the guidelines in Menlo Park. Please do not vote to have additional reviews burden our staff or require adding more staff. Thank you for consideration. Kristin Smith ...

Dear Council Members- First of all let me thank you for your service to our city. It's not an easy job trying to help steer the City in a direction that works for everyone, and you are not only trying to manage financial decisions, but functional and emotional ones too. I am the daughter of a long s...

I am not in support of the election by district system of voting for Menlo Park. I would like the City Council to move forward with becoming a charter city so we can vote for the best candidates. People run for the Council because they have a desire to help make Menlo Park a better place to live, wo...