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Mayor Combs and City Council Members, I support more affordable housing in Menlo Park. In the right locations, it will strengthen our community. But our community is built around a shared downtown — and the downtown depends on the public parking plazas. Repurposing those plazas would be a once...
Dear City Manager Murphy, I am writing as a Belle Haven resident and member of the Belle Haven Pool Task Force to express my support for Meredith Rohr’s recent email and to share additional concerns regarding the Task Force and Belle Haven pool operations. For clarity, the key concerns are summariz...
Please keep the QZ in the five-year Capital Improvement Plan. Thanks! Tricia -Linfield Oaks Resident for 16 years
Dear Council, I’ve learned that the City already has funding allocated for new trees to be planted by the 101/Willow interchange, and I hope you will move on starting that project as soon as possible. With all the rain we received this year, it seems like a good time to get roots established Let’...
Good morning. I am urging City Council to designate funds for final design work on the city-wide Quiet Zone initiative in the FY2024 budget. As a 14-year resident of Linfield Oaks, I can attest to the impact of the train noise on daily living--whether out walking, spending time in your backyard, vis...
Good morning! We have lived in the Linfield Oaks neighborhood for nearly 15 years and are completely satisfied with the current management of Burgess Pool. During this time, our family has used the pool extensively. Both our kids learned to swim at Burgess and participated in summer camps and swi...
Regarding Agenda Item H-2: H2. Consider land use strategy options to meet the City’s Housing Element Regional Housing Needs Allocation for the planning period 2023-2031, and identify a preferred land use scenario for further evaluation as part of the environmental review process (Staff Report #21...
Obese woman with 10 “carts” at Pharmaca has been ignored and allowed to squat there for many months with a crumpled cardboard sign saying “please help”. I actually asked her once if I could help her to find treatment and a shelter and she blew me off. Sometime she’s not even there and her carts just...
Dear Menlo Park City Council members, Please read the comment chain below from today’s NextDoor to get some views on parking in downtown Menlo Park. Thank you, Anita Ochieano Parking midday in downtown Menlo Park has become a huge headache. Last week I drove to Palo Alto rather than shop at the Ace ...
Dear City Council, Have all options been explored for the seven redwood trees that are due to be removed shortly? Can the City and the property owner come up with an alternative solution that might save some or all of those trees? We already lost all the redwood groves at 101@Willow Road; it would b...
