hi all, hope you are staying healthy and safe during this public health crisis. I want to express my enthusiasm about transforming the downtown blocks of Santa Cruz Ave. into a pedestrian walkway, and inviting restaurants, cafés, and other businesses to move out into that common community space throughout the day and into the evening. I have lived and worked in Mexico, where public squares/zócalos draw the community together with music, dance, and outdoors eating. Even outside of the current COVID imperative for more physical spacing, we desperately need this for Menlo Park to survive and thrive as a community. Fortunately it can be done in a fairly straightforward way by sacrificing a small number of parking spaces between Doyle and University. This is a wonderful moment to do the right thing and make it happen. Ann Banchoff 705 Hobart Street Received on Wed May 06 2020 - 22:25:46 PDT
