Mayor Combs and City Council Members, I support more affordable housing in
Menlo Park. In the right locations, it will strengthen our community. But
our community is built around a shared downtown — and the downtown depends
on the public parking plazas. Repurposing those plazas would be a
once-in-a-generation decision with extreme consequences. On this decision,
I trust the people of Menlo Park to do whats best for the town in which
they live. I therefore urge you to adopt the Downtown Parking Plazas
Ordinance, giving residents the right to vote on the future of their
downtown. Thank you for your service in representing the people of Menlo
Park.
Ronald Egan
Stanford W. Ascherman, M.D. Professor
Tanvir Rahman COLLEGE Faculty Fellow, Autumn Quarter, 2025
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Stanford University
521 Memorial Way, Knight Building
Stanford, CA 94305-2000
USA
email: ronegan@stanford.edu
