Dear Menlo Park council members, Thank you for considering the amendments to the 2022 California Building Standards Code that will include heat pump space heating instead of air conditioners, air conditioners with energy efficiency measures, and expanded energy efficiencies for single family a...
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...
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...
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 Menlo Park Council Members: Previously, I told you that RUBY Design decided to Move out of Downtown Menlo Park BECAUSE of YOUR plan to Build Apartments on their Parking Lots. You are not ethically permitted to pay a Public Relations firm to overcome visible, predictable, proof of the future...
City Council Members- You seem determined to waste the taxpayers money and make yourselves look like the *worst* representatives in the history of Menlo Park. Wasting our money on a PR firm is *NOT* going to help. Finding an alternative location for the housing will help. Not ruining our downt...
Hi, I live in Menlo Park and am writing to ask you to please re-open Santa Cruz Avenue. It was useful to have expanded outdoor dining during COVID, both for the safety of residence and the solvency of restaurants. During that time, people were not commuting, going to school in-person or driving a...
Dear Mayor Combs and City Council members, Although I currently serve on the MP Library Commission and as a board member of the Menlo Park Library Foundation, my comments are made as an individual who is a 30+ year resident of Menlo Park and are not as a representative of either the Library Commi...
Dear Mayor Combs, Vice Mayor Nash, Councilmember Schmidt, Councilmember Taylor, Councilmember Wise, and City Manager Murphy, *I’m writing to you on behalf of the members of the First Church of Christ, Scientist at 201 Ravenswood to advocate for moving ahead toward a timely approval of the Park...
Hi, we live on encinal in Menlo Park, right next to the crossing. We are highly invested in having the city continue the quiet zone project. It would make a world of a difference. Please do not cut it from the budget Phil P and Joy R June 10, 2025
