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Aug 5, 2024 Honorable City Council Members RE: Parkline DEIR comments Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Parkline DEIR. The attached document pastes copied text from the DEIR and embeds comments inline. I generally try to follow the convention of using "[DEIR]" to indicate r...
Hi Corinna, Will the Parkline/SRI Housing Needs Analysis ("HNA") be prepared and available soon? If so, when? Please recall that Planning Commission Staff Report #: 22-073-PC Page 2 states: "In addition, a Fiscal Impact Analysis (FIA), Water Supply Assessment (WSA), and Housing Needs Asse...
The staff report for Tuesdays meeting about the Housing Element does not appear to include correspondence such as my letter below nor does it mention the Planning Commissions recommendations regarding the SRI/Parkline site to include greatly more housing in numbers akin to that of the recently appro...
Planning Commissioners and Staff: Thank you for accepting comments on this important project. First, I want to endorse the information and analysis that former council member Paul Collacchi sent the Council and Planning Commission two weeks ago, asking for a big picture EIR analysis of the e...
Planning Commissioners -- Please be sure that the project is modified so it improves rather than worsens the jobs/housing imbalance in Menlo Park. There are decades of precedent with SRI to manage the number of allowed workers on site, well-documented by a submission in the public record by form...
Commissioners, Below are some observations and recommendations related to the Housing Element Update. 1. Exclusion of viable housing sites may raise red flags, unnecessarily It makes little sense to exclude properties where there is developer interest, such as near Marsh Road (i.e., Haven an...
January 7, 2023 Council members, Planning Commissioners, and Staff, Thank you for receiving these comments regarding the EIR for the Parkline masterplan ("SRI") project. The comments append and incorporate historical city documents. For historical perspective, these comments append and inc...
Council Members, Here are my recommendations for Willow Village v Deny unmitigated project configurations v Move to cap ConnectMenlo (Bayfront) development as part of the Housing Element SEIR process. 1.) DENY UNMITIGATED PROJECT CONFIGURATIONS As configured, the Willow Village projec...
Council Members, Thank you for considering these comments for the proposed Willow Village project. Recommendations: 1. Require full housing mitigation or deny the project. Achieve full mitigation by approving a "reduced office" footprint that reduces housing demand to housing suppl...
I speak as a resident and former Planning Commissioner, and Finance Committee member. When we moved into our Linfield Oaks home, the statement of CC&R’s (Conditions, Covenants and Restrictions) provided to us at closing included interesting details, such as ‘“Asians may not stay overnight.” While...
