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Hello City Council, I just want to continue to express my support and urge the Council to explore and evaluate other options that exist in Menlo Park including the Civic Center parking lots and Civic Center Area. It is so surprising that many other areas were not considered in the Housing Element ...
Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers, Save Downtown Menlo is a grassroots organization that organically emerged from Menlo Park residents, property owners, and visitors who were frustrated and disillusioned by the City Council’s poor communication and execution of its focus on the three do...
I believe in subsidized housing, but I love our downtown. Parking is already difficult. Twice in the last 2 weeks, I could not find parking, and left. Our restaurants and businesses need adequate parking So please do not take away our parking lots. I am sure there are concerned citizens like me, ...
To Menlo Park City Council: I am recommending that the City Council makes a decision to study alternative development sites to downtown proposed sites for future housing. Having been in Commercial Real Estate business for over 40 + years, in my opinion and expertise the most suitable site to s...
Dear, Wonderful, Balanced, Strategic, Practical and Thoughtful City Council, My family and I are so very grateful you voted - unanimously even - to move to the RFQ phase. We are excited to have new neighbors and to enjoy the more vibrant downtown they will engender ~ Two thoughts for you are: ...
Dear Menlo Park City Council, I am very concerned about Menlo Park loosing its Downtown Parking Plazas. This is happening In Los Altos and Los Gatos too. The Downtown Parking Plazas are for people shopping or dining Or pursuing activities with their families and friends in Menlo Park to use. Th...
Mayor Combs and Members of the Menlo Park City Council, We are attaching a petition by people opposing the use of downtown parking lots for high-density housing, relating to Agenda Item H1. At the time of submission on Jan. 14, 2025, this petition was signed by ~2,900 people, with ~1,450 of th...
Dear City Council: Menlo Park is undeniably one of the priciest places to live. My family and I have been lucky enough to own a home in the Lorelei Manor neighborhood since 2004. Over the past two decades, we’ve watched as home and rental prices have skyrocketed, all while the housing stock west ...
Dear City Council: Menlo Park is one of the most expensive areas to live in. My family and I are fortunate to own a home in the Lorelei Manor neighborhood since 2004. During our 20 years as residents of this community we have seen home prices and rent prices go up with minimal expansion of the ...
Dear Council members, My husband and I are opposed to the plan to declare our downtown parking lots "surplus land". It is not surplus, but fully occupied nearly all the time with employees and customers for the businesses in town. We are not at all opposed to new housing, but losing this parking in...