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Dear Council Members, As chairperson of The Main Gallery, located on Santa Cruz Avenue and a member of the Menlo Park Design District, I strongly urge you to reopen Santa Cruz Avenue. The closure makes it more difficult for customers to shop downtown and that hurts all of the retail businesses...
Dear MP City Council, I am a homeowner and resident in Menlo Park . I have three children ages 14, 11, and 9. I am writing to advocate for a full-size playing field to be included as part of the SRI development, as well as other dedicated city amenities. My children play soccer, lacrosse,...
Dear Representatives, I have lived in Menlo Park for more than 60 years and Ive never been so disappointed with our downtown. We have had so many vacancies for years and now the idea of putting in low-income housing in the middle of our downtown is outlandish. Shouldnt you focus on attracting mor...
Council Members: I own and live in a home on Coleman Ave. I urge you not to make Coleman one way; I agree with Valerie Fredrickson and most of my neighbors… that it will create a ‘freeway’ one way, Create havoc on our side streets and IMPROVE nothing …Parking will be a nightmare, and, if anything…it...
Council, thank you for considering child bike safety. We live on Santa Monica Avenue and our 15-year old twins went to both Lower and Upper Laurel. We are against making Coleman Avenue one way because it will push more commuter traffic onto Santa Monica Avenue which is not set up to handle the vo...
As a 28-year resident of Menlo Park I am disturbed to find that all of the efforts to improve the downtown have fallen by the wayside and all the focus is about building, building and building housing that does not fit within our great city. While we all need affordable housing - which needs to rea...
18 April 2003 To the Menlo Park City Council Good evening, My name is Ken Bayne. My wife Valerie and I are long-time residents of the Willows at 637 Central Ave. We are unable to speak at the Council Meeting tonight but wanted the Council to know about our regular experiences with "Bear" the do...
Council Members, Thank you for your voluntary leadership. As a 30-year Menlo Park resident, downtown business owner, home owner, commercial downtown landlord, and mother of two seventh graders, I’d like to request that you keep the area in front of Starbucks, etc. as-is. It is hugely benefici...
Hello, My name is Valerie Bartlett. I am a resident in Sharon Heights and I am writing in support of Maria Doerr to replace Ray Mueller through Nov. 2024. Maria is bright, energetic and seems to fully grasp our city’s priorities. She rents her home, as do I, so has an understanding of some of th...
Dear Council Members: I am writing to express my enthusiastic support for the Willow Village project. I am a lifelong resident of the Bay Area, and more specifically was raised in San Mateo County. During this time, I have seen how communities in certain areas of the County, especially on the E...
