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Please pull the proposal to impose news rack fees that are geared to raise revenues from newspapers and periodicals. This is a pernicious prior restraint of the press and a shameful recommrenaton by the city staff to raise money through a knowledge tax that is untied to administrative costs and without demonstrable safety needs.
You should dismiss the M-Group’s ballot initiative analysis for what it is—a result driven hit piece against voter democracy authored by city cronies. One need look at only two things to confirm this. First is the millions paid by Menlo Park to M-Group for housing element drafting. More damning—the ...
Mayor Combs and City Council Members, Petitions and ballots lend loud and needed voices to the people of a democracy. Add to that how consultants aren’t elected and, instead, bring only unwarranted delay and expense. So, please listen to the will of your voters and adopt the ballot measure...
It’s a fallacy to say that issuing the RFP to six big time developers that want feee downtown land doesn’t commit the city to anything. It commits the city to keeping alive a project that should go elsewhere. It commits the city to defer looking at better alternate sources. It commits de...
Dear City Council Members, Please make sure that, if you proceed with housing on Plazas 1,2,3, you formally advise all developers that before they spend their time and money preparing a proposal to build housing on parking plazas 1,2,3, that they might NOT be able to proceed without a 51% majority ...
Members of the City Council, To declare city property surplus, not only must the council make supportive findings, it must vote that the subject land is surplus "and is not necessary for the agencys use.” Given the 100 percent usage of Lots 1, 2, and 3 on most any weekday and the need for the ...
