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Council Members: You paid a consultant$165,000 to tell you what will happen if affordable housing is built ondowntown parking lots. You could have saved money and got better informationby reading local newspapers. Consultant claims housingprojects would include replacement parking. Wishful thinkin...
Dear Mayor and City Council, City facilities are not meant to generate profit—they exist to serve people. Belle Haven has faced systemic inequality since its founding, and that continues today. Underfunding the Belle Haven Pool or limiting its hours only reinforces this legacy. We have a $40 milli...
Although not a resident, I have worked in Menlo Park for almost 20 years and consider it my town. Over the years I have sadly seen many storefronts shuttered, be it due to the pandemic, or now more common than not the greed of landlords who do not support their tenants. I am certain that the const...
To the City Council: I have lived in Menlo Park for over 25 years. I shop locally several times a week. Recently, I have visited several local communities to see how Menlo Park stacks up against what I perceive as similar small-town values to our City (San Carlos, Burlingame, and Los Altos). One...
Dear Mayor Combs, Vice-Mayor Nash and Council Members, Im writing to urge the council to proceed with an RFP for affordable housing downtown, implementing the fixes recommended by Housing Leadership Council to ensure that infeasible requirements are not included in the RFP. I live on Willow ...
Dear City Council, Despite years of City neglect, our downtown is starting to thrive. This year alone, Santa Cruz Ave. is welcoming four new restaurants and bars — prompting a May San Francisco Chronicle article titled: “Forget San Francisco. Restaurants see ‘huge opportunity’ in this quiet subur...
On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM Aram James wrote: > Here’s a comprehensive, well-sourced overview of Aram James’s role and the > broader timeline surrounding the vehicle‑dwelling (RV/living-in-car) ban in > Palo Alto: > > ------------------------------ > > 1. Aram James’s...
Dear Members of the Menlo Park City Council: As an employee & office director of AJ Tutoring (1155 Crane St.), Id like to bring a couple driver/traffic safety items to the attention of City Council: 1) The left turn from El Camino Real onto Oak Grove Ave. is *extremely* dangerous due to th...
1255 Sherman Avenue Menlo Park CA 94025 June 9, 2025 Dear Menlo Park City Council: We are writing in support of maintaining the partial closure of the 600 block of Santa Cruz Avenue. We are aware of the loss of parking and the inconvenience to vehicular traffic of the current configuration....
Dear City Council members: I’m writing to urge you to expand your consideration of our downtown and treat Santa Cruz Avenue (SCA) as a whole, rather than block by block. The Menlo Park downtown is truly a regional embarrassment. When we moved to the area in 1994, San Carlos, Los Altos, and Menlo...
