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The City Council has demonstrated a lack of transparency and accountability in its dealings with the pool operator, Tim Sheeper. The citizens of Menlo Park deserve an explanation for the Councils lack of response to Sheepers request for City subsidy of cost overruns at Belle Haven pool. Thus ...
Do not confiscate the downtown parking lots and destroy the small business community that exists in the downtown. Put it to a vote of the people of Menlo Park.
Dear City Council You are clearly following your own agenda in trying to transform down town Menlo Park from a business district into a high rise housing concern. Your antipathy to cars in the down town is very clear. Please note that the overwhelming majority of residents oppose your plan. You ...
Council, As a long time resident of Menlo Park and someone who is disheartened by the state of downtown Menlo Park, I would urge you to slow down and rethink turning parking lots that serve Laurel Street retailers into housing. Many residents do not even know of this proposal and the last thing ...
Dear Meta Oversight Board, We are writing to express our outrage and deep condemnation of your decision to allow the phrase “From the river to the sea” to remain on Meta’s platforms. This is not a matter of free speech; it is a call for genocide—a rallying cry for the destruction of Israel and th...
Dear City Council. The citizens have not asked you to eliminate single family zoning homes or to alter it in any way. That is an issue we the voters should be able to vote on. City council members are supposed to reflect the values of their constituents. No one has suggested that the will of the...
Please keep the outdoor dining on Santa Cruz and other downtown sites. It makes for a much more person-friendly environment....not to let cars rule the day. Thanks, Paula Hillard 1115 Santa Cruz Ave Menlo Park Sent from my iPad
What a breath of fresh air to walk down this street with the bustling sound of chatter, smells of good food and laughter now that the street is partially closed to accommodate the survival of our local restaurants. With so many stores closing down this is much needed and urge you to keep open as is...
Dear City Council, I have to ask myself whose interests you are representing in allowing a developer to close down two out of three lanes in the main artery through our town? I am referring to the former Guild theater. The residents of Menlo Park were not given the opportunity to even weigh in on t...
Dear Council Member, My immigrant grandparents realized their dream and bought a property in Menlo Park in 1947. My grandfather remodeled the existing two structures and made a beautiful home. Their goal was to provide economic security for themselves, and for their only daughter, my mother, by cre...
