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*Alliant Communities, Presidio Bay Ventures, and Related Companies / Alta Housing - * Your proposals for housing on Parking Plazas 1, 2, and 3 would reshape downtown Menlo Park and affect residents, businesses, and visitors for decades. With the open house this Thursday, residents will be look...
Please read their petition at : Save Downtown Menlo savedowntownmenlo.org This is community INPUT that must not be ignored. Find alternative locations for State Mandated Housing! Michael DeMoss, Menlo Park resident Sent from my iPhone
Dear Mayor Nash and City Council members, At the special Council meeting on December 2nd last year regarding Save Downtown Menlo’s initiative, some of you, particularly Council members Nash and Schmidt, trumpeted support for democracy, declaring how committed you are to discover the will of the v...
Dear Mayor Nash and City Council members, At last you’ve heard back from the developers from whom you requested RFPs. And at least three of them showed great foresight and wisdom. I’m referring to the three that declined to submit proposals—likely due to the upcoming election on Save Downtown ...
Mayor Combs and Members Taylor, Schmidt, Nash & Wise: As the Council must know by now, the Downtown Parking Plazas Citizens’ Initiative has received overwhelming support from your constituents. In my own polling, about 80% of the people Ive spoken with are disgusted with this Councils single-...
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 c...
Dear City Council Members, While it is not an ideal solution, building affordable homes in downtown parking lots seems to be a necessary action to meet the states housing element. I urge you to place the proposed measure on the November 2026 general election ballot rather than calling for a M...
Im Austin Quarles, a resident of Menlo Park who works in Menlo Park. I send my two kids to public school in Menlo Park and am leaving Menlo Park because there are no affordable housing options in Menlo Park. Ill tell you the parking lot and the ability to park behind a rug store had NO BEARING o...
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 am highly skeptical of the Downtown Parking Plazas Citizens’ Initiative. Menlo Park’s downtown, depends on the access provided by the parking plazas because prior developement has forced people to live where they must travel by car rather than on foot or by us...
