Menlo City City Council: Please seek alternative locations for low cost state mandated housing ASAP.
Thank you
Michael DeMoss
Attorney and Resident
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> Subject: Settlement reached between San Mateo, housing nonprofit | Local News | https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fsmdailyjournal.com&c=E,1,aJMVxwFB5GnfyCfgdZyQC21TEuNspsm7Ib6rwiMiyFYvsMmBagCRqgJDEIBAwYMQzGFN186m86-WlrCfFz3Fwl6xYEfgSPnzyA70Mn_dnzJeN7Bi1ic,&typo=1
> Reason they REMOVED parking lots from state mandated housing plan:
"The complaint says that many of the retail and restaurant uses that depend on the parking lot are new, and have long-term leases that run for most or all of the planning period, adding that the businesses have not shown any intention of relocating."
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The city of San Mateo REMOVED the PARKING LOTS from the housing element
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Menlo Park Should Too!
Read it yourselves:
> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.smdailyjournal.com%2fnews%2flocal%2fsettlement-reached-between-san-mateo-housing-nonprofit%2farticle_55e94546-9d9d-49e4-b979-17a7fdb96030.html&c=E,1,GnEvztiLBzvtxRTeTh2A6FekuW53GVV5lV_q8iLRjzX2xEbcATlDjXcduwOf9lPwet5-K29lV9KHp7ALvcqmuOZrkynSE_Eu9VGHyepBVWzrN00-EV8vpLGxsAIe&typo=1
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> In Housing Action Coalition filing their complaint notes on Par 35 that , in summary, “those parking plazas are critical to the viability of the restaurants and retailers “
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Menlo Park will Lose either the lawsuit against them or the Ballot Measure against them , OR both.
Menlo Park must win BOTH.
The mathematical probability of the city winning BOTH is 25%.
That will be the end of the "building apartments on our parking lots" AND the end of Time and taxpayers Money WASTED.
Abandon the Parking Lot plans!
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