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.
Our forebears invested in the downtown space as a community. And now it is
time that our present community should, as a whole, decide on the future of
that space and of the future of our downtown. Menlo Park is more than a
bedroom community. Its character is shaped by the give and take and the
spirit of everyone who lives here.
Please keep this important space as a part of our downtown in a way that is
useful for everyone who lives here.
Nick Pekelsma
704 College Ave
Menlo Park
