Please see my comments included. I am asking the City of Menlo Park to work with the County of San Mateo to address the continued
massive increase in cut through traffic at the intersection of Avy and Alschul. I cannot support continued enrollment and summer
school with the current disregard of the neighborhood.
Dear Menlo Park Mayor, Board of Supervisors and Planning Departments,
I regret that I cannot continue to support the Phillips Brooks School with their continued expansion. The reason is that there is
too much traffic at the intersection of Avy and Altschul every day.
The original school was built for neighborhood children to walk to the campus. When student population declined the campus was
rented. If it hadn’t, La Entrada would not have had to construct a new building when enrollment increased! The Phillips Brooks
students are being driven from elsewhere. In that sense, it is operating as a business and this is not a business zone.
Many University Heights residents have been expressing traffic concerns for years. We have battled against a large commercial
office building proposed on the Alameda de las Pulgas in the late 1990’s. Altschul, a single laneroad (running one block to the
west) used to be a “safe route” for pedestrians , bikes, and senior pedestrians. Now it is an overflow for the Sand Hill 280
on-ramp. Cars back up on this one-way street every morning.
I have witnessed a car driving south on Altschul hit a little boy walking with his mother in the crosswalk, my car was broadsided
at the same location, many cars have driven down Monte Rosa too fast and hit the fire hydrant (this is where older kids wait for
the school bus every morning), and cars routinely run the stop sign and speed up the hill.
PLEASE coordinated with the County and share traffic counts that will demonstrate the traffic impacting the neighborhood in all
directions.
I have saved information on University Heights and included it in a large envelope that demonstrates the challenges of this
neighborhood. I have left it with Mathew Pruter, associate planner 6505-330-6703, mapruter@menlopark.org [mapruter@menlopark.org]
Please review these numerous items, traffic counts, letter verifying the boy being hit, continued requests for traffic calming,
etc.
Respectfully,
Risë Krag
2198 Avy Ave. Menlo Park, CA 94025
