We need the parking, and we need downtown businesses which will not come or survive if you take away the parking. Do not approve these housing projects. Our downtown needs help, its had way too many vacancies for a very long time. Kristin
Dear Honorable Mayor Combs and Members of the City Council: Attached please find a group statement made by 112 businesses adjacent to the 8 downtown parking plazas, all of whom oppose the use of the parking lots for high-density housing. Sincerely, Alex Beltramo
Dear City Council, Please explore alternative locations to avoid further straining the already crowded parking lots in downtown Menlo Park. Parking is already a significant challenge, particularly for customers with disabilities. These lots were intended to support the downtown office, retail, an...
Dear Council: I am a resident of Portola Valley and have done virtually all of my shopping in Menlo Park for the past 41 years. I recently learned of the plans (now put on temporary hold) to build a large apartment building in what is now a large parking area bounded by Chestnut and Crane Streets....
Hello, I am a business owner of a therapy practice in downtown Menlo Park and a mother of a child at school off Santa Cruz. I recently became aware of this housing parking lot proposal. I ask that you strongly reconsider this option. Parking is already tight and unpleasant in the area. I usual...
To Menlo Park City Council : I am a lifelong Menlo Park resident and have spent a career in Commercial Real Estate, both in Commercial Leasing & Commercial Development. The development proposal Staff and City Council has proposed for a Downtown Development is an ill conceived idea / plan fo...
Dear Menlo Park City Council, I am asking for a delay on plans to move forward with housing on plazas 1-3 until MP residents can properly weigh in on this proposal. This initiative has been kept secret from residents until recently, and I only found out about it a few days ago. This proposal w...
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...
Hi City Council, I am writing as a Menlo Park resident, attorney, parent, and tax payer in response to the meeting tonight on the vote to turn three parking lots downtown into housing structures. While understand and respect the need to expand affordable housing, I strongly feel that downtown Me...
Dear City Council Members- I have been a Menlo Park resident for 20 years and oppose the development of the downtown parking lots as proposed in Agenda Item H-1. I am not opposed to multi-unit affordable housing in our community in general. However, I am opposed to a plan to construct multi-...
