Dear Mayor Nash and Council Members:
Please SHARE This email information with the 3 developers and ask for their WRITTEN answer to this question, for the June 2nd meeting :
How does your proposed 5(+/-) level parking ramp actually provide adequate (usable) parking for customers, employees, delivery persons, visitors, guests AND renters; using levels 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 ( all levels) including the below street parking levels, if real time evidence exists, locally, that the public does NOT use levels 3, 4, 5 and below street levels?
Please have the developers provide written answers (in advance) for the June 2 meeting, so that we can discuss this issue responsibly.
Thank you,
Michael C. DeMoss
Resident of Menlo Park
Commercial Real Estate Attorney
Please forward this email, along with my previous emails with photos of the lack of use of Palo Altos parking ramps on levels 3, 4, 5 and the 2 below street levels of their ramp parking.
Attached is a current photo of the 3rd (rooftop) level at Stanford Mall ( next to Macys)
I have sent you multiple similar photos of the 5 story ramps in Downtown Palo Alto.
The truth:
Any level above "level 2" and below street level:
Is NOT actually used by the public.
It is either Too far to walk, and/or too dangerous to use elevators, (lack of personal security)
To expect that the store customers, employees, and the renters and their guests in Menlo Park will be using all of the 5 story parking ramp cannot be reasonably assumed or correct.
My conclusion: Parking will be a serious problem for the Customers, the Businesses, and the Renters. Downtown Menlo Park will suffer.
Note to developers: My experience, as a "hands on" apartment building owner and property manager, is that a question that every prospective tenant asks is:
"Where will be my ASSIGNED PARKING SPACES?"
Do Not let Common Sense be overridden by flawed decision making.
This project has SO MANY FLAWS, that it is important to abandon it and start planning to bid alternate locations.
Mike DeMoss
Attorney
3rd (rooftop) level at Stanford Mall ( next to Macys) Is essentially empty. Levels 1&2 are full.
Palo Alto empty ramp typical upper levels
Palo Alto, below street levels, typically empty ramp.
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