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Honorable Menlo Park City Council,
Menlo Park should stick to its plan for affordable housing to meet state requirements and avert another "builders remedy" period. I support building new affordable homes downtown and I urge you to do the same on January 14th.
The SRI project adds to the citys over-supply of offices because it increases the office capacity over the existing campus that has lots of large labs. And project plans dont specify how many workers will be accommodated. We are going backwards in the
required housing/office ratio in the states Housing Element law.
Which brings us to the triplet towers submitted for the Sunset campus. This too sends our state-mandated office/housing ratio into reverse . The proposal wouldnt exist if City Council and city residents had overcome the difficulties of meeting Housing Element
rules. And next time around the challenge will be steeper if we dont bear down and do whats necessary now.
No one likes changes to downtown, and business have a completely understandable concern about deliveries and parking. We will have to work together to manage everything successfully.
If we dont do what is in our Housing Element the city will enter another Builders Remedy period and the oversized projects that get built will live with us forever. Far worse than downtown housing.
met the states requirements on time, and makes it far more difficult to succeed in the next Housing Element round.
If the city slips on the timeline in the Housing Element our problems will be compounded.
Please vote "yes" to new affordable homes downtown on January 14th.
Sincerely,
Susannah Hill
Susannah
California
