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Menlo Park apparently owns the parking lots between Santa Cruz Ave. and Oak Grove downtown. Instead of wiping the parking and building multi-story housing, consider the needs of the shops and businesses. Consider the needs of the people in Menlo Park to have a shopping district where its easy to par...
II strongly urge you not to drive a death knell into retail businesses on Santa Cruz Ave. by putting low income housing downtown. I have asked in the past, but I don’t think anyone responded that you look at what San Luis Obispo did downtown. They brought in Chicos, a bookstore, coffee shop,restaura...
Dear Council Members: Please do not go ahead with your plan to mandate electric heating, water heaters and appliances for commercial and new residential construction. Electric heat and electric water heaters are extremely expensive to operate. I can’t imagine having to cook with electricity again as...
Before establishing a fund to help renters who would become destitute without help, please do a study to determine the numbers of those in this category and all the causes of these cases moving toward homelessness. Thank you, Louise Louise Sturges DeDera cell 650-642-1422 Alain Pinel Realtors 1550 E...
I don't care for either A or B, but if we must pick one, choose A which exempts single family homes (and I hope the final adoption will exempt all properties of 1-4 units. The way to make housing more affordable is to allow more units on R-3 lots that are now overly-restricted by lot size. Has this ...
Dear Menlo Park City Council: Rent control of any kind adversely affects those it hopes to help, whether it mandates relocation fees, caps rental increases, or extends notice requirements. It results in fewer rental properties, causes landlords to charge the highest prices they can for vacant proper...
The proposed tenant relocation changes will result in an increase in rent in Menlo Park and this will negatively impact the population of workers that have a hard enough time living in this area. If you apply tenant relocation changes to single family homes, owners of those properties will raise r...
Please consider the advantages of making Menlo Park a charter city as Palo Alto and Redwood City have done. It's important to do this soon in light of the push to change city-wide representation to district representation. Thank you, Louise DeDera Menlo Park Sent from my iPhone
