Before you consider next steps on the Environmental Quality Commission’s recommendations to electrify 95 percent of existing buildings in Menlo Park , I would suggest you listen to your constituents, most of whom may not be climate activists and many of whom are voters. A good place to start would be the current Nextdoor thread on this issue: Banning Natural Gas in Menlo Park. There are currently 110 public comments from locals on this issue. If you are not aware of the issues suggesting that the recommendations are impractical (e.g. prohibitively expensive or impossible to implement in smaller homes) or quixotic (e.g. not sustainable by current grid infrastructure), then your staff is doing a poor job. Please inform yourselves before deciding on your course of action.
