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...
Sunday June 8, I spent the afternoon volunteering at the Save Downtown Parking booth, collecting many more enthusiastic signatures. Each council member should sit quietly at our booth and JUST LISTEN. Here is what you would have heard today: "The whole idea is a Disaster!", "I dont live in Menl...
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...
hi city council, i have emailed in comments many times in the past on this topic. i just want to re-emphasize for the 8/26 meeting that re-developing our parking lots into housing and mixed use commercial is essential to re-vitalizing downtown and i fully support it, for the future of our communit...
You wrote a very good article on bike safety citing a lot of good common sense from Sgt. Metzer of Atherton PD. It would be nice if Chief Norris of Menlo Park did something about the crazy cyclists and numerous violations in Menlo Park: specifically along Santa Cruz Ave and within the citys jurisdi...
There was a news release concerning a male "victim" on Pine Street who was knifed and robbed in his home by a 17 y.o. girl that he had hired as an "escort" via the internet. She was arrested. Why the heck wasn't he arrested for soliciting ▒▒▒ from an underage girl?
. The Zack Perron Coming out Party Hi Mark, And don’t forget Zack Perron has apparently been coached to find his voice after what seems like a two years silence. He was interviewed in the Daily Post yesterday, Friday (Feb 5) in a front page story titled : RV campers on police ra...
Hello, I am writing in favor of the proposal to install Flock fixed Automated License Plate Readers citywide in Menlo Park. I believe we need evidence-based approaches to the rise of crime in our city. According to this paper I will link, "Intuitively, both Flock Devices per Sworn and Shared Flock...
Mr. Porter, You reside within the North Fair Oaks neighborhood of unincorporated Menlo Park which is in the jurisdiction of the County of San Mateo. Fortunately, San Mateo County has published the North Fair Oaks Enforcement Guide https://planning.smcgov.org/documents/north-fair-oaks-code-enforcemen...
In light of the current police chief stepping down, Menlo Park has an opportunity to influence future police and community relations. I hope you will give it some thought (I know you will) and consider a step back to the past (1968, for example) when the police chief headed a very community-minded...
