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...
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
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...
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...
Dear City Council Members, I am writing to you to express my enthusiastic support for the proposal to build affordable housing on downtown surplus land that is currently critically under utilized as parking. I was born and raised in Menlo Park. I went to college in Portland OR, graduated...
Dear Menlo Park City Council, I am pleased to send you this support letter for the development at 320 Sheridan on behalf of the Bay Area Council. If theres anything youd like to ask about our support, please just let me know. Louis [Logo Description automatically generated with mediu...
Menlo Park City Council, I know you share our community’s interest in understanding how developers responded to the City’s RFQ for the Downtown Affordable Housing Project and would like to know when you intend to share at least a preliminary analysis and what this will likely include. Thank you. Dana Hendrickson 650-521-7908
This is great, Rich! Great to bring this up with them! And every low-income housing unit we get lowers our total burden. Why should they all be in huge high-rises? One more thing, Rich: as an English teacher, I couldn’t help noticing typos and such. I’d suggest you fix those issues and th...
Dear Menlo Park City Council, As a member of our school community and a past President of the MPAEF I am writing to encourage the City Council to consider the proposed housings impact on our school district. These are a few points of consideration: The proposed development does not include hou...
Dear City Council Members, I am writing to express my concern about the process by which the City Council is assessing new housing developments and increased density. While I strongly support the creation of new housing and understand the importance of increased density to address our community’s...