Hi, I live in Menlo Park and am writing to ask you to please re-open Santa Cruz Avenue. It was useful to have expanded outdoor dining during COVID, both for the safety of residence and the solvency of restaurants. During that time, people were not commuting, going to school in-person or driving a...
Dear Council Members: Today, in 45 minutes, I collected 25 signatures on the Ballot Measure from the people who ACTUALLY live and shop in Downtown Menlo Park. At one point there were 3 people lined up waiting to sign the "ballot measure". Everyone had a negative comment about the city councils...
Dear City Council, I helped collect signatures to get the hostile takeover of our parking lots on the ballot. We got them! I am so pleased. There are much better places to put public housing, we now have a good list. I hope you will use it. Both the merchants and the customers need the...
Dear Menlo Park council members, Thank you for considering the amendments to the 2022 California Building Standards Code that will include heat pump space heating instead of air conditioners, air conditioners with energy efficiency measures, and expanded energy efficiencies for single family a...
*RE: One Viable Solution to Affordable Housing without Destroying our Downtown* *Dear Menlo Park City Council Members:* *See attached article from this week’s Palo Alto Weekly where 174 units with 203 parking spots will be built at 800 San Antonio Road.* *Per an AI Google search o...
Hello City Council, I cross El Camino by bicycle going to work every day. About once a month I see near collisions on pedestrians by cars making a right turn on red. Most drivers don’t to look for pedestrians and cyclists at all, they only look at the oncoming El Camino traffic trying to spot a ga...
Mayor Combs and City Council Members, I support more affordable housing in Menlo Park. In the right locations, it will strengthen our community. But our community is built around a shared downtown — and the downtown depends on the public parking plazas. Repurposing those plazas would be a once...
Hello- You responded to a prior request and did not use this request #P003115-122025 regarding: "Kindly provide : Fiscal impact of Dec. 15, 2025 responses from 1) Alliant Communities, 2) Presidio Bay, and 3) Related California to the Request for Proposals (RFP) for development on Parking Plaz...
Dear Menlo Park Council Members: Previously, I told you that RUBY Design decided to Move out of Downtown Menlo Park BECAUSE of YOUR plan to Build Apartments on their Parking Lots. You are not ethically permitted to pay a Public Relations firm to overcome visible, predictable, proof of the future...
Greetings to our Councilmembers, We are pleased that the time has come for a review of making Santa Cruz Ave. a 2-way street again. We spent some time reading Staff Report 25-090-CC this week. As in earlier notes to the council we remain firmly in favor of reopening the 600 block to 2-way vehi...
