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Dear Mayor Combs and City Council members, In case you haven’t seen the Palo Alto Daily Post today, here’s the text of my letter that was published in the paper today. Downtown Housing Dear Editor, Kudos to Menlo Park Mayor Combs for his valiant attempt during the January 28th meeting, to ...
This is great, Rich! Great to bring this up with them! And every low-income housing unit we get lowers our total burden. Why should they all be in huge high-rises? One more thing, Rich: as an English teacher, I couldn’t help noticing typos and such. I’d suggest you fix those issues and th...
Dear Mayor Combs and Council members, Please turn your attention to the SRI project. The SRI Parkline proposal includes over a million square feet of new office space. Big mistake! Make that housing instead! If we figure 1,000 sq ft per Affordable Housing unit, we could put 1,000 of tho...
Dear Mayor Combs and Council members, Some of you expressed fear over being potentially hit with another “Builder’s Remedy” if you don’t hurry up with affordable housing projects such as the one proposed in the downtown parking lots that the community of residents and our Mom & Pop businesses sou...
Dear Mayor Combs and Council Members, One key reason we’re facing unwieldy numbers of required housing from ABAG is that our prior Council(s) permitted way too much office to be built. For every office construction, ABAG added equal requirements of housing. This was obviously a losing game for u...
Dear Mayor and City Council members, We recently had a special event at Fremont Park called “Shop Local! Light up the Season!” But if the city removes one particular element, we’ll be going elsewhere to shop. And that essential element is: parking lots! The fact is that almost all shoppers drive ...
Dear Mayor Taylor and City Council Members, As a long time downtown resident, I read with shock and dismay that you’re entertaining the possibility of eradicating our much needed downtown parking lots in favor of Section 8 type housing. This would be disastrous on several counts. First: it would b...
Dear Mayor Taylor and Council members, I was very surprised to read that you’re considering cancelling Christmas in our city. I happen to be Jewish, and like so many people of all faiths or no faith at all, love the Christmas lights and festivities during the dark of winter. It brightens thin...
Dear Mayor Taylor and City Council members, We’ve now had two very wet years in a row, clocking in at 132% higher than normal on the Peninsula, so it’s a perfect time for you to restore our grass lawn in Fremont Park. You have the possibility to quickly convert the ugly tanbark that mars the l...
Dear City Council members, I live a stone’s throw from the intersection of Menlo Ave. and University Drive. I frequent this area, sometimes as a pedestrian and sometimes as a driver, and have been intentionally observing cars as they negotiate the turns at this intersection where bollards have b...
