Members of the City Council,
According to the staff report (20-179-CC), as well as press coverage, the "majority" of respondents to the Chamber of Commerce survey were business operators.
But the actual survey results shown in the report say the opposite:
Do you operate a business in downtown Menlo Park?
(219 responses)
Yes: 26.5%
No: 73.5%
Someone apparently got it backwards, and no one else noticed.
Furthermore, of the 26.5% who claimed to be business owners, it is not clear how many are on Santa Cruz Ave., nor how many of those are on the part of the street still closed.
So please do not consider this survey to represent the truly affected businesses.
Thank you,
Alex Beltramo
