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Hello, I am happy city council is looking into other sites for low-income housing vs focusing solely on the downtown parking lots. Id also like to share my opinion in favor of being able to drive Santa Cruz Avenue all the way to El Camino from the University intersection. Thanks for all you do for the city, -Katie
City Council - My name is Katie Hahn. I am a resident of Menlo Park and a parent of 3 young kids, writing to you about the proposed housing in downtown Menlo Park. I will be speaking tomorrow night as well. I represent a segment of the community you haven’t heard much from - parents of young ki...
I just want to reiterate that as a 34 year business owner in downtown Menlo Park I am firmly opposed to building in our parking lots. It would certainly destroy our downtown as we know it Sent from my iPhone
Hi, my name is Katie Keating, I’m a long time MP resident and I’ve lived in 4 districts from east of Bay Rd to Sharon Heights. I am writing to state my opinion that building the needed housing on downtown parking is a suboptimal solution. I believe a more thoughtful and collaborative alternative s...
Dear City Council members, As a Menlo Park resident, I am asking you to please reconsider the plan for additional housing in the downtown Menlo Park parking lots. It is already extremely difficult to find parking in certain locations especially near the post office and hardware store, and behind...
Hi City Council, Happy almost Thanksgiving. I am writing as a West Menlo Park resident and tax payer in response to the meeting tomorrow on the vote to turn three parking lots downtown into housing structures. While I certainly understand and respect the need to expand housing for low income re...
Dear Menlo Park City Council Members, I support as many affordable homes as possible on parking lots downtown. I think this is a great way to utilize our city spaces, and I hope you will move forward with such a great, and much needed, plan. Thank you for your thoughtful consideration of th...
A few weeks ago, my emailed comment regarding the streetery/street closure City Council agenda item included a question about Downtown’s cleanliness. While it may have been interpreted as rhetorical, it was, in fact, posed to seek an answer. I will ask again and include a few more. Was there a cl...
Members of City Council and Staff, I have hesitated to provide comment because I have heard the previous commentary from downtown business owners and citizens not in favor of street closures and streeteries not be taken with much consideration. The same words come up time and time again regard...
Dear council + public works staff, Thanks so much for working with Ali and other community stakeholders to get a safer bike passageway through our downtown street closure, just in time for school to start. It looks great, thanks to Alis eye for design, and most importantly its so much safer! I...
