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...
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...
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...
Dear City Council, For decades, the City has underserved the Belle Haven community. Now we are facing a 36.36% jump in class fees at the Belle Haven Community Campus — from $33 to $45 — despite no increase in the variety of classes, no changes in instructors, and no visible program improvements...
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
Council People, Sanctuary city, again! Lawsuit? You are using taxpayers money to pick a fight with the Feds. How smart is that? A few years back mayor R.M. Told me in no uncertain terms that Menlo was NOT going to become a sanctuary city. A month later it was a "safe city". City funds pissed awa...
Hello, I am a PhD student at Stanford, and I live in district 5. I want to voice my support for Maria Doerr to represent us in city council! Having someone my age on the city council is important to me and my neighbors, many of whom are young researchers and students at Stanford. I am particul...
Honorable Councilmembers, I am so glad to see that Nicole Chessari has applied for the Planning Commission. Working with her over several months, I have come to admire her steady, rational and collaborative manor in a situation that is full of potential stress and tension. While I see that so...
I write the City Council deeply concerned that a combative stance towards the arrangement with Menlo Swim and Sport (MSS) threatens to destroy an incredibly valuable community asset. My wife and I are Menlo Park residents (Willows neighborhood) since 1986. For four decades, we have considered th...
