Foro comunitario de Menlo Park

Dear City Council Members: Please reconsider having the Quiet Zone project on the 5-year budget plan. MP residents have been advocating for a Quiet Zone for years, and the engineering designs are nearly complete. The last step is funding.  Thank you, Karen Kitterman

Dear Honorable Council Members, Please leave a portion of the outdoor Left Bank and Bistro Vida areas in place but open up a car-width section on a permanent basis for cars. Also, while you are reviewing this area, please create a more pleasing “park-like-space” in that portion in front of Wal...

Dear Mayor and City Council Members: We would like to express our support to maintain the existing street closure on a portion of Santa Cruz Avenue. We don’t live in Menlo Park but we visit it frequently, including for grocery and other shopping, and to eat at our favorite restaurant, Bistro Vi...

I am a resident of Menlo Park and strongly support more affordable housing development in downtown. This is important to me because I want to live in a neighborhood that is accessible to people of all income levels, with my 3 kids in schools with families from mixed income levels, and with a vibr...

I also copied Anne-Marie Despain of the San Mateo County library system, whos membership includes all the communities in the county save one: Menlo Park. On Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:48 AM David Boyce > wrote: Just FYI, a librarian in Palo Al...

Dear Honorable Mayor Combs, Maybe Menlo Park should consider something like this to honor the first female City Council Mayor, much like your Sister City in Galway, Ireland has done. If so, between 1927 and 2025 (nearly 100 years) the first female mayor in Menlo Park was Peg Gunn (per the Summary...

Dear Menlo Park Council, I am a long time downtown property owner, and a former downtown retailer, As well as a seasoned builder of many Bay Area homes. In addition, I am the proud mother of a Menlo Park fire/medic. (2025 Menlo Park Fireman of the Year!) I am very knowledgeable of what a pote...

Thanks Mary. I am the corporate secretary for a board and was unable to get tonights meeting rescheduled. ....so, cannot attend tonight. Would someone please text me about the Councils action tonight. Thanks all! Carol On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM Mary Gilles <m.gilles@ggsir.com<ma...

Dear Honorable Council Members: There is substantial opposition to your plan to declare the downtown parking lots as surplus land. This valuable land which has been utilized for decades to foundationally support the local businesses is hardly surplus by any stretch of the imagination. Along wit...

Elimination of three parking lots in Downtown Menlo Park will kill downtown business in my opinion. Apparently there are no plans for an alternative parking facility; having such plans in place should be a prerequisite to eliminating current spaces. Not every Menlo Park resident or visitor can be...