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Dear Council Members In 2015 at 4:45 pm a young mother, Jennifer Jayun Koo was killed by a Caltrain express train at Ravenswood in Menlo Park. She had left her job and was on her way to pick up her daughter at daycare. She was trapped on the tracks by stopped by El Camino Real red light traf...
Thank you for writing us about this, Steve! On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM Steve Schmidt wrote: > Dear Complete Streets Commission > > The SRI/Parkline is quickly heading to the Planning Commission on August > 25 for its approval. (See below). The roles and re...
Dear Complete Streets Commission The SRI/Parkline is quickly heading to the Planning Commission on August 25 for its approval. (See below). The roles and responsibilities of the Complete Streets Commission includes “. . . provide input on major land use and development projects as it relates...
Published in the Palo Alto Daily Post June 9, 2025 Pitting housing vs. parking (Post article June 4, 2025) misses the mark. Menlo Park can have both housing and downtown parking but not in the same location. The issue is polarizing. The arguments on both sides are compelling. The City needs a...
Heres an article on the KQED website that discusses Scott Weiners Bill 951 to tie the Commissions hands when protecting the coast from development. Lets hope Josh Becker will rethink his ties to the Palo Alto Forward group and intercede. We have also added a petition that you may have already si...
Council, 22 years ago Council Member Steve Schmidt landed a grant for a study of the grade separations in the City. Here we are again. Keep Ms Koos death in mind tonight as you debate the benefits of one design of a grade separation over another. You should be looking at a way to safely mo...
Council Here are images of how other cities have accommodated the conflicts between motor vehicles and trains. Safety and traffic flow are the major issues addressed by an elevated Caltrain Aesthetics and noise are also considerations important to neighbors of Caltrain. Elevating the tracks also s...
Re: Willow Village The housing treadmill created by office approvals on both the east and west sides of the city has to stop. The residents do not want to subsidize these office developers or the companies that fill the buildings. Nor do Menlo Park residents want their neighborhoods to absorb ...
Please reduce the two-block-long 30 mph speed limit on Santa Cruz Avenue from Avy to Alameda. This is such a bad segment with cars flying onto it from Sand Hill Road, made worse by: NO sidewalks NO lights Narrow shoulder, alway filled with parked cars associated with the never-ending construct...
Respected Neighbors -- Thank you for your continued leadership on our climate crisis. Our biggest challenge is migrating existing buildings off fossil fuels. The scale of the effort is daunting, and we have no time to lose. There are no magic bullets, but the BlocPower proposal addresses se...
