Dear Council, With this topic on the agenda for Tuesday, I’d like to reiterate my support for keeping the 600 block downtown as it is—closed on one side with a bike lane, and one-way on the other. Pedestrian-friendly spaces have played a key role in revitalizing downtowns across the country. T...
Dear Menlo Park City Council, I am writing to express my support in keeping the 600 block of Santa Cruz avenue as-is. That is, with a bike lane and closed on one side, and one-way traffic on the other. Best, Madeline Jhawar 440 Gilbert Ave, Menlo Park
Dear Mayor Combs and City Council members, I urge you to vote to keep the 600 block on Santa Cruz Avenue as it is: closed to through traffic heading east. Ali Elsafy, owner of Bistro Vida, has done more to enhance Santa Cruz Avenue than anyone else, and has exciting plans to do even more for th...
Council Members: Todays Daily Post article about Santa Cruz Avenue quotes a gentleman urging you to keep the street closed because, "... it has become a gathering spot on weekday afternoons and weekends for teenagers and younger to gather." I understand that kids like to hang out downtown. They pa...
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, 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...
Greetings to our Councilmembers, We are pleased that the time has come for a review of making Santa Cruz Ave. a 2-way street again. We spent some time reading Staff Report 25-090-CC this week. As in earlier notes to the council we remain firmly in favor of reopening the 600 block to 2-way vehi...
My preference isOption 2: Open road, using the parking spaces for parking.Lynne Phillips 1226 Sharon Park Drive Menlo Park, CA. 94025
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 and City Council Members: We would like to express our support to maintain the existing street closure on a portion of Santa Cruz Avenue. We don’t live in Menlo Park but we visit it frequently, including for grocery and other shopping, and to eat at our favorite restaurant, Bistro Vi...
