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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...

Mayor Combs and City Council, I enthusiastically support utilizing the parking plazas for housing, so I welcome the opportunity to vote to make my voice heard. Thank you, Rich Shane 191 Seminary Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025

HI, Council Please don’t waste time and money on a special election about building on the city’s parking lots. The vote can wait until November. Meanwhile go ahead with planning! PS - Rock on, city attorney! - for getting the oligarch’s ridiculous monster-towers idea off the table. We n...

Dear Council Members, At the Burgess pool, the extractors for wet bathing suits have been out of order for almost a year. I was told by the management last summer that they were too expensive and would not be replaced, as would cost 40k. Members will have to continue to carry sopping wet ...

Dear Menlo Park City Council, I live just over the border in Palo Alto and am following with interest the debate about enabling additional housing in Menlo Parks downtown area. This is a transit-rich area with the Caltrain station and SamTrans buses nearby as well as bike-friendly streets. ...

Greetings to our Mayor and City Council members, In reference to yesterdays decision to formulate a list of concerns and opportunities to be included, among other criteria and factors, in the upcoming 9212 report I heard one or more of you, perhaps along with the City Manager, suggest that the pr...

Dear Mayor Combs and City Council Members, I support more affordable housing in Menlo Park. In the right locations it will strengthen our community. But our community is built around a shared downtown — and the downtown depends on the public parking plazas. Repurposing those plazas would be a ...

Mayor Combs and City Council Members, I support more affordable housing in Menlo Park. In the right locations, it will strengthen our community. But our community is built around a shared downtown — and the downtown depends on the public parking plazas. Repurposing those plazas would be a once...

This ordinance would create unnecessary barriers and added costs that make building new homes, especially affordable homes, much more difficult. We need new families and diversity in Menlo Park by having people be able to afford housing. This wont happen if the housing market stays so restricted and...