> 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,cbF8lRfgPMOhO9cfH3qoM8Z4VyP0mzvdyTwZBKw9GFEedsnc7ujCo5NpFBoKXkkmrl-88hCaib-21yuDKvrq4C3dffAkqMJdoBuNTabZ-g,,&typo=1
>> Reason they REMOVED parking lots from state mandated housing plan:
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> "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
> AND
> Menlo Park Should Too!
> Read it yourselves:
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>> 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,AsV60mjmiB0mdyHebXrS4QO8mfnVr-8mpUyRN4QVs8_CnnL62k3S3I5Shv7jnyg9ZVRmHn5ZZIWYYm8NqDekFqzX6GnfyT2-_eM-9ET8A33F&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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>> Sent from my iPhone
