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Regarding: "Downtown Menlo Parks VITALITY, as a PRIORITY". Please consider my opinion, which is based on 40+ years as a commercial real estate attorney, and owner and manager of countless apartment buildings (350+ units), office buildings and retail properties (100,000+sq ft). I am not persona...
Council members: If you disrupt parking, downtown Menlo Parks vacancies will become a much bigger problem. Please find better locations for state mandated low cost apartments. That is your "Priority". If you are afraid of the "Builders Remedy"; you should be more concerned about the "Ballot Me...
To: The Menlo Park City Council. Re: Election Issue. This is important because it unfairly influences the outcome of the ballot initiative voting. Please be advised that, in my opinion, your website makes a statement that misrepresents the status of the downtown parking lots, and will affec...
Please read their petition at : Save Downtown Menlo savedowntownmenlo.org This is community INPUT that must not be ignored. Find alternative locations for State Mandated Housing! Michael DeMoss, Menlo Park resident Sent from my iPhone
Council members: Palo Alto is making a mistake: Learn from their mistake. Alta Housing, in Palo Alto, wants to build housing on a downtown parking lot AND is ONLY providing 34 parking spaces for 72 "Large Apartments". Good luck selling that to prospective tenants. Big Mistake. My real estate ex...
Dear Council members: Read the Almanac article that will help you find better locations for state mandated low cost housing: This is the link: Developer Proposals for Downtown Affordable Housing Confirm This Project Is Doomed. almanacnews.com Summary of important paragraphs: Sent from my iPhone
City Council of Menlo Park, and staff: Take notice! Actual local ( San Jose) facts about the NEED for Enough PARKING. Lack of parking = Foreclosure. Inform yourselves. See attached Mercury news article QUOTED: . “It’s unfortunate that the Fay’s lack of dedicated parking hurt their leasing up...
City Council Members: In case you are not aware of this: Article 34: No low rent housing project shall hereafter be developed, constructed, or acquired in any manner by any state public body until, a majority of the qualified electors of the city, town or county, as the case may be, in which ...
City Council, I understand you have received a 6 page letter from YIMBY. No disrespect to the San Francisco Research Attorney who sent it. His letter might be wise advice for some California cities, but, in my opinion, NOT for Menlo Park. I would caution you to get a second and third op...
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...
