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Dear City Council Members, I am writing to you to express my enthusiastic support for the proposal to build affordable housing on downtown surplus land that is currently critically under utilized as parking. I was born and raised in Menlo Park. I went to college in Portland OR, graduated ...

Honorable Council, 30 plus years ago we were forced to put 2 - hour parking on our streets at Rose and Johnson. The neighborhood was ruined by downtown tenant staff parking all day in front of our homes. PLEASE DO NOT ELIMINATE PARKING DOWNTOWN. Before, during or after construction of the housing...

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Dear City Council, I am shocked to see this proposal to build housing on the few small parking lots off of Oak Grove Ave that support our still struggling downtown businesses. Those parking lots are always full and the excess parking needs overflow into the nearby neighborhood. This is not a NIMBY...

Good Morning, It was brought to my attention that the City of Menlo Park intends to designate 3 public parking lots near Oak Grove to 450 +/- low income housing units. I live within blocks of downtown Menlo Park and was not aware of this proposed development. It appears these meetings have bee...

Dear Meta Oversight Board, We are writing to express our outrage and deep condemnation of your decision to allow the phrase “From the river to the sea” to remain on Meta’s platforms. This is not a matter of free speech; it is a call for genocide—a rallying cry for the destruction of Israel and th...

City of Menlo Park City Council See Attachment! This is regarding an Item on the Agenda tonight Tuesday May 7, 2024. The Item is: AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE READER. Hopefully this can be read for the record sorry Im unable to attend. Rose Bickerstaff Resident

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Greeting to our kind Councilmembers, Ive been lucky to live in the City of Menlo Park continuously since 1978. I’m a homeowner residing on the east side of Valparaiso Ave. near Downtown. I thank you all for your guidance to staff and your due consideration thus far on the City’s ALPR proposal....

Dear Mayor Cecilia Taylor and council members, I am a Palo Alto native with ties to Sunset as Dave Clark the long term editor lived in the Los Arboles Eichler tract and was our neighbor. I am still in contact with his son Tom Clark. My late father was friends with the Lanes. I know Dan Gregory...

To the Menlo Park City Council: On behalf of the over 800 public commentators who overwhelmingly supported naming the new multi-generational community complex “Onetta Harris Community Campus,” we are writing this letter to express our deep disappointment and hurt related to the 4-1 vote to adop...

` Dear Council Members, (This is not meant for a formal letter just sharing knowledge of experiences.) We, Your constituents and residents of Menlo Park, who believed in you then and believes in you now! Naming this beautiful campus should be without any obstacles unless we claim them. We all...