Dear Menlo Park City Council,
As a longtime homeowner in The Willows neighborhood of Menlo Park, I strongly oppose the massive N17 project.
It will have a profoundly injurious effect on The Willows and on the neighboring Linfield Oaks and Palo Alto neighborhoods;
on the rest of the City through massive traffic flow increases; likely adverse effect on San Francisquito Creek wetlands,
emergency- and fire-services access, and on nearby home values.
Primary advocates for N17 are outside developer interests and YIMBY groups, motivated not by the good of Menlo Park
and its residents, but by raw profit and unflinching idealogy.
Please continue opposition to N17 on all fronts.
An even more expansive strategy would be to mount, in concert with other cities facing out-of-scale projects imposed by
the Builders’ Remedy law, an attack in the courts on the legality of the law itself.
I note that Sen. Josh Becker (D-Menlo Park) has attempted unsuccessfully to curb Builders’ Remedy excesses through the
legislative process; a judicial approach might be more successful.
Sincerely
Ross Wilson
