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...
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...
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
To city council, staff, and California HCD As a local resident and volunteer for the Campaign for Fair Housing Elements, and on behalf of YIMBY Law, I am attaching a letter that intends to highlight some major shortcomings with our draft document that are out of compliance with state law. Respectfully, Mikhail Silin - District 4 resident
Ms. Taylor, Ms. Carlton, Ms. Nash, Mr. Combs, and Mr. Mueller, To avoid this letter being perceived as some sort of form letter that I am sending to all of individually and now collectively, I have already sent the same letter below to Ms. Taylor. Ms. Taylor is the Council member who represents the...
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....
Hi, I'm a resident at 1731 Stone Pine Lane in Menlo Park and am writing in regards to the proposed hampton inn construction 1704 ECR (developer Sagar Patel) which is less than 1 block from my home. As with others in my community (>100 residents), I have significant concerns with these plans: - it's...
> > Begin forwarded message: From: Peter Carpenter Subject: An OUTRAGE Date: October 12, 2018 at 6:24:41 PM PDT Lest any body think that either the staff or the majority of the Planning Commission are sympathetic to our concerns read this:" COMMI...
“We pick our communities not only for the property taxes and the school system they offer us, but for the identity that the neighborhood gives us,” said Richard Florida, the author of “The New Urban Crisis.” “And when someone changes the identity, you viscerally react.” https://www.nytimes.com/2018...
