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Dear Mayor and City Council Members Representing people of all ages across the County, I respectfully request that the City of Menlo Park prepare its residents for the upcoming Zero NOx rules from the Bay Area Quality Management District. Your adoption of a Resolution tonight, supporting the n...
Please do the right thing. One of the reasons that Menlo Park faces such as severe shortage of affordable housing is because developers have been allowed to build new commercial space but not required to provide adequate housing for the people who will work in that space as well as other housing-ne...
Please know that my wife Jennifer and I support the expanded housing options at Parkline (old SRI). Some of the affordable housing there should be earmarked for public service employees at nearby high school, fire district and city hall. Ideally this ex-SRI project should be co-developed with...
The declaration of the downtown parking lots as "surplus land" has too large a potential impact to be done without a vote by Menlo Park residents. Please seriously rethink this and at least make it a ballot item so that residents can make their voices heard. Respectfully, Karen Roberts --...
Dear Mayor Combs, Vice Mayor Nash and Council Members Schmidt, Taylor and Wise, Menlo Park has seen considerable development of commercial and office space in recent years without a corresponding increase in our housing stock. This likely played a role in establishing the ambitious State manda...
Thank you for sharing the draft RFP. I have some feedback and suggestions that I would like to share with you regarding the RFP. At an absolute minimum, the RFP should include questions to answer, or City Council and Staff to determine separately, the following: Can affordable housing fun...
Dear City Council- My wife Jennifer and I continue to support housing over the downtown parking lots. Housing is simply far too expensive for our kids. After decades of restrictive zoning on the West side of El Camino, it is Menlo Park’s “generational challenge” to increase our housing suppl...
The SRI Development never should have been approved without providing for low income housing. There still is an opportunity to correct that by requiring it now. The best way to accomplish that it is to require that the developer donate enough land at the southern end of the property to the cit...
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