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My preference isOption 2: Open road, using the parking spaces for parking.Lynne Phillips 1226 Sharon Park Drive Menlo Park,  CA. 94025

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 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...

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1255 Sherman Avenue Menlo Park CA 94025 June 9, 2025 Dear Menlo Park City Council: We are writing in support of maintaining the partial closure of the 600 block of Santa Cruz Avenue. We are aware of the loss of parking and the inconvenience to vehicular traffic of the current configuration....

You wrote a very good article on bike safety citing a lot of good common sense from Sgt. Metzer of Atherton PD.  It would be nice if Chief Norris of Menlo Park did something about the crazy cyclists and numerous violations in Menlo Park: specifically along Santa Cruz Ave and within the citys jurisdi...

I support Option #2 . Open the street for parking. Thank you. Lorri McCarthy  Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

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...

Good Afyernoon, I just wanted to pass along my feelings about Santa Cruz Avenue. I support reopening Santa Cruz to vehicular traffic down the entire length to El Camino and moving the parklet to one of the side streets and maybe giving some other restaurants or businesses the opportunity to e...

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 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...