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Dear Mayor Combs and Council Members, I urge you to approve the Coleman Avenue bike lane pilot. This is simply a temporary pilot to evaluate safety improvements, not necessarily a permanent change if it turns out to not work. Please understand that failing to act effectively endorses the curre...
Dear Menlo Park City Council, I am writing to express my appreciation for your consideration for reappointment to the Menlo Park Planning Commission. Please note that I am currently out of town so wont be able to attend the City Council meeting in person. Thank you again for your consideration. Sincerely, Ross Silverstein
I wanted to bring up some past public comments that have been written about Coleman Avenue and our towns biking infrastructure. These are all from the 2020 Transportation Master Plan: * “My children are beginning bicyclists and we have congestion on Coleman Avenue getting to Laurel Element...
Mayor Taylor and Menlo Park City Council, I want to send an email with more information than a 3-minute public comment would contain. For context, I bike with my 6 year old kid every day to school from The Willows to Lower Laurel along Coleman Avenue, and Id like to cover the following topics: ...
City Council of Menlo Park, I plan to speak later today at the City Council meeting during the public comment section regarding our minimum lot sizes in Menlo Park. For more context and information, I put together a document proposal for you to review. Please take a look and I look forward to seeing you tonight. Thank you. -Ross
Hello City Council, I would like to bring up a discussion that occurred back in August when the City Council approved to make the (then) temporary closure of part of Santa Cruz Ave, permanent. I recall a really poignant point from Councilmember Combs about how that closure was simply a remnant...
Hello City Council Members, Thank you all for the excellent discussion and feedback around the Santa Cruz street closure. There was also some interesting discussion regarding encouraging and ensuring safe biking in that area. While I 100% agree that bike safety is important, I fear that some ...
As a quick follow up with one thing I forgot to mention: At the City Council meeting in October of last year, the decision was made to bifurcate different elements of the Middle Avenue complete street project and postpone any decision about the "removing of parking" from the resolution. I noti...
City Council of Menlo Park, My name is Ross Silverstein. I live in District 2 but frequently bike along Middle Avenue. I have 3 young kids whom I frequently transport around town on our cargo bike - to school, the library, the farmers market, grocery shopping, their friends’ houses, and often ...
