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Dear Friends and Neighbors, This past Sunday over breakfast, I asked my daughters: "Who is Pretti and Good?" Both said, almost immediately in unison, "Oh, thats me." So I had to explain, Pretti and Good were not adjectives -- they were people. Extraordinary names we should never forget. Alex Prett...
Dear City Council- Im sharing a small amount of feedback for the small amount of time Ive actually been able to make the task force meetings. I would like to first echo Meredith Rohrs comments about the process. It is interesting that only the Belle Haven pool is being put under the hybrid u...
Dear members of the council, I am an entrepreneur and an adjunct professor at Stanford and this year I will be a 30 year resident of the Sharon Triangle (at 2041 Sharon Road), and I love our neighborhood dearly. We are two blocks from a nationally recognized school, a cozy little busines...
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 ...
Mayor Combs and City Council, I enthusiastically oppose the Downtown Parking Plazas Citizens’ Initiative. Menlo Park depends on increasing housing supply. The infamous housing crisis is mostly a simple, basic matter of economics 101. Menlo Park is a beautiful place with amazing weather and p...
Mayor Combs and City Council,I enthusiastically support the Downtown Parking Plazas Citizens’ Initiative.Menlo Park’s downtown, quite simply, depends on the access provided by the parking plazas. A decision to repurpose those lots should be made by the residents who use them - not by outside consult...
Mayor Combs and City Council, I doubt anyone will read this, (being that it’s largely a “form letter”) but in the off chance that you do - I would like to add my voice to this request that these proposed changes get input by the citizens of this lovely city. As such, I enthusiastically suppor...
Council Members: Re affordable housing on parking lots. Pat Marriott https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/29/klein-heres-how-bad-the-u-s-housing-crisis-is-and-what-can-be-done-about-it/ Klein: Here’s how bad the U.S.housing crisis is — and what can be done about it Between 1950 and 2020, p...
Dear City Council, There were over 3,000 residents who voted against the downtown new building in our parking lots. Why are you even thinking of passing this when it will replace our valuable parking which is totally utilized during the day and will kill our small businesses downtown. Do you memb...
Dear members of the Menlo Park City Council, We hope this email finds you well. My name is Eugene Kelley, and my partner Laurel Fullerton and I are longtime residents of downtown Menlo Park. We are writing to ask you to correct the dangerous crosswalk and traffic conditions at the intersection...
