Dear Council members, I am thinking about the comment from a Menlo Park voter about what the apartments will actually be like: 1) looking out my new apartment window to the west I see a 5 to 8 story parking ramp. 2) looking South, North and East I see black top roofs with Air Conditioners, 3) I...
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Sunday June 8, I spent the afternoon volunteering at the Save Downtown Parking booth, collecting many more enthusiastic signatures. Each council member should sit quietly at our booth and JUST LISTEN. Here is what you would have heard today: "The whole idea is a Disaster!", "I dont live in Menl...
Dear City Council, I helped collect signatures to get the hostile takeover of our parking lots on the ballot. We got them! I am so pleased. There are much better places to put public housing, we now have a good list. I hope you will use it. Both the merchants and the customers need the...
City Council Members: I hope you read Former Mayor Schmidts Opinion in todays Post, and follow his excellent leadership. Rubye Menlo Park Resident for 30 years and counting
Good morning, I can’t understand why you are still considering this housing when it is so unpopular with the citizens of Menlo Park. My guess is the people supporting this don’t live in the downtown area. We can’t sustain any more traffic. This traffic will affect both Palo Alto and Redwood...
Dear Menlo Park City Council and staff, As a progressive citizen, I am a supporter of bringing more affordable housing into Menlo Park. The lack of housing, and accompanying lack of sustainable infrastructure for transit, is a serious problem here. As a resident of Menlo Park, I am also in s...
Dear Council, I am a 27 year resident of The Willows neighborhood of Menlo Park. I am writing in support of the issuing of a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the development of downtown parking lots into high density affordable housing. I do not understand the vehement opposition to this p...
I am a long-time resident and homeowner in Menlo Park. I have owned a home on Buckthorn Way for four years. Previously, I owned a home in West Menlo Park for 17 years. As a current owner of a home on Buckthorn Way, I am concerned about the crowding, noise and overall negative impact of the planned H...
Dear Council Members, First, thank you for your service in these difficult times. One of those difficulties, making itself apparent every more clearly as the months of this pandemic continue, is there is no returning to the policies of pre-Covid times in many aspects of our city's policies....
