II strongly urge you not to drive a death knell into retail businesses on Santa Cruz Ave. by putting low income housing downtown. I have asked in the past, but I don’t think anyone responded that you look at what San Luis Obispo did downtown. They brought in Chicos, a bookstore, coffee shop,restaurants, pottery, barn, and other shops and made a two level shopping district with both wide elegant stairs, and an elevator. They also in one of the blocks put in a movie theater, the kind that can show six different movies at once in different rooms. And then parking either underneath or close by. I would suggest two levels of parking underneath and two levels of shopping above ground. This would revitalize Menlo Park.
I do hope you will consider this and I thank you for serving our city.
Louise DeDera
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