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Mayor Combs and City Council, I enthusiastically support the Downtown Parking Plazas Citizens’ Initiative. Menlo Park’s downtown, quite simply, depends on the access provided by the parking plazas. A decision to repurpose those lots should be made by the residents who use them - not by outs...
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 Menlo Park City Council Members: I am a Senior Citizen who must use a disability placard. I do my banking, drugstore, grocery shopping in downtown Menlo Park. It has been my experience that there is a low number of designated handicap spaces. However, at this time, there is usually e...
The closure of the 600 block of Santa Cruz Avenue has caused frustration for many who wish to drive through to El Camino instead of turning right on Curtis, left on Menlo Avenue, which is always busy, and continuing on to El Camino. The same frustration in wanting to go to the Bank of America…. E...
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Robert Menifee > Date: Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 4:15 PM Subject: Proposed Affordable Housing Project To: > Our names are Robert Menifee an...
I heard about replacing the parking lots North of Santa Cruz with high rise high density housing. As a 28 year resident of Menlo Park, I strongly oppose this. You have already ruined the town with the ugly El Camino Real developments. That should be enough or double down there. I will not patron...
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...
Dear Menlo Park City Council members, I am writing this as a business owner on Santa Cruz Avenue since 1991. The proposed long-term street closure of the eastbound direction of Santa Cruz Avenue from Curtis Street to Doyle Street to vehicles is on your agenda. I want to voice my strong objectio...
ATTN: Menlo Park City Managers office Wednesday March 8, 2023 Im John McMurtry, a Menlo Park resident since 1985 writing on behalf of myself and my wife Janet Moody to urge the City Council to move to continue existing Santa Cruz Avenue outdoor dining including the existing street closures. In...
Dear City Council and Staff, I urge you to re-open Santa Cuz Ave. between Curtis and Doyle. As a merchant with a business on Santa Cruz Avenue for over thirty years, I can attest to how detrimental the road closure has been for the majority of businesses downtown. When you close the main artery...
