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Heres an article on the KQED website that discusses Scott Weiners Bill 951 to tie the Commissions hands when protecting the coast from development. Lets hope Josh Becker will rethink his ties to the Palo Alto Forward group and intercede. We have also added a petition that you may have already si...
Council, 22 years ago Council Member Steve Schmidt landed a grant for a study of the grade separations in the City. Here we are again. Keep Ms Koos death in mind tonight as you debate the benefits of one design of a grade separation over another. You should be looking at a way to safely mo...
Council Here are images of how other cities have accommodated the conflicts between motor vehicles and trains. Safety and traffic flow are the major issues addressed by an elevated Caltrain Aesthetics and noise are also considerations important to neighbors of Caltrain. Elevating the tracks also s...
Re: Willow Village The housing treadmill created by office approvals on both the east and west sides of the city has to stop. The residents do not want to subsidize these office developers or the companies that fill the buildings. Nor do Menlo Park residents want their neighborhoods to absorb ...
Please reduce the two-block-long 30 mph speed limit on Santa Cruz Avenue from Avy to Alameda. This is such a bad segment with cars flying onto it from Sand Hill Road, made worse by: NO sidewalks NO lights Narrow shoulder, alway filled with parked cars associated with the never-ending construct...
Respected Neighbors -- Thank you for your continued leadership on our climate crisis. Our biggest challenge is migrating existing buildings off fossil fuels. The scale of the effort is daunting, and we have no time to lose. There are no magic bullets, but the BlocPower proposal addresses se...
The comments to the Almanac story seem to indicate that he has not revealed his accounting for the pool. If that is true, why is that? The comments are glowing from the Masters and Team Sheeper adherents, not so much from others, including Steve Schmidt, who as past mayor knows what he is talking about.
To: City Council From: Brielle Johnck and Steve Schmidt Re: Daylight Plane The Climate Action Plan Doesn’t Go Far Enough Menlo Park has found itself in a full court press on climate action efforts. Switching from natural gas involves changes as to how we heat our homes, heat our water, and co...
Dear City Council, I understand you will be developing new residential design standards that are intended to mitigate negative.effects of SB9 and the influx of speculative house developers in Menlo Park relating to solar access. I have two broad suggestions from which to develop details of such an...
Hi Nikki, In June I wrote to you about growing potholes on Woodland Avenue between Laurel Ave and Baywood. Now there is an even more pressing safety problem. Now that the Army Corps of Engineers has joined the SF Creek JPA Flood Control Project, a new project timeline has been proposed for the rep...
