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Hello, If this could get forwarded onto Danny Daniels, IT manager for Menlo Park City that would be greatly appreciated. Or if Danny is no longer with the city, the individual in charge of software procurement. Thanks, Chase Sutherland ________________________________ From: Sutherland, Ch...

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Dear Council Members: 1/12/2026 At the next Council meeting, please explain to the voters why you are ignoring these warning signs, and why you are not seeking proposals at other locations. Please read these warning signs published in The Almanac on 1/9/2026, pages 1 and 14 Re: "Housing Proposa...

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Council Members: Re affordable housing on parking lots.     Pat Marriott https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/29/klein-heres-how-bad-the-u-s-housing-crisis-is-and-what-can-be-done-about-it/ Klein: Here’s how bad the U.S.housing crisis is — and what can be done about it Between 1950 and 2020, p...

Mayor Combs and City Council Members, I absolutely support more affordable housing in Menlo Park and I know that in the right locations, it will strengthen our community and bring some much needed vitality to the our amazing town. But our community is built around a shared downtown — and the...

Dear City Council Members, I am reaching out to you from my perspective as disabled senior citizen. I have depended on parking lot 1 for my access to downtown Menlo Park. l can park there, transverse the breezeway by Chase Bank and shop downtown. Also the Post Office is available from there. I...

Dear City Council Members I am a former downtown business owner (RE/MAX Distinctive Properties) who occupied the space at 648 Santa Cruz Avenue (opposite Chase Bank) for 10 years. I am also a former transportation commissioner of 10 years, and was chair of this commission for several of those ...

Dear Menlo Park City Council, I just learned from my neighbors that the Menlo Park Council plans to eliminate the Quiet Zone from its budget planning. Why on earth would the Council do this? Menlo Park residents and businesses have been advocating for a Quiet Zone for years. The engineering de...

Hi, I am a frequent customer of Walgreens, Menlo Hardware, Wells Fargo and Chase bank etc. I am writing this email to ask you to consider opening up the street. I am not opposing Left Bank but the closure seems to only benefit the restaurant and penalize everyone else. I always had to take the r...

Dear Menlo Park City Council Members, Please do not designate the parking plazas near Santa Cruz Avenue as exempt surplus land. This land is not surplus land. The parking lots are heavily used to patronize the businesses located on Santa Cruz Avenue Future Parking Problems and Harmful to D...

Please do not designate the downtown parking lots as "surplus land" as they are not. They are heavily used. Please construct adequate parking as part of, not separate from, satisfying the demands of state programs for housing. I am concerned that the city council is planning to declare downt...