To the Menlo Park City Attorney: Please contact me to discuss my recommendation/ motion to the City Council. (see below) Respectfully Michael C. DeMoss Attorney Menlo Park Resident 952-913-7048 Councilperson Nash: Dear Betsy, Thank you for your response I believe the state of Californ...
Dear City Council Members, I want to address the hypocrisy in how equity is handled in our city. At today’s meeting, I witnessed people opposing the plan for affordable housing in downtown Menlo Park, using parking concerns as a pretext. It was disheartening to hear White residents use this argumen...
City Council Members I strongly agree with the majority of Menlo Park residents who believe that the building of hundreds of units on the parking lots on the north side of Santa Cruz Ave is a very poor idea - for ANY specific group of people. - Santa Cruz avenue (already with many empty stores...
Councilperson Nash: Dear Betsy, Thank you for your response I believe the state of California has improperly (illegally?) forced a mandate on cities; requiring them (us) to build housing that does not meet the needs of OUR citizens. For example Teachers (because of their salary levels) may not q...
City of Menlo Park Dear Mayor and Members of the City Council, I am co-owner of property in the Menlo Park downtown. Please include this email in the public record regarding Downtown parking lots Surplus Land Act Hearing January 14, 2025 The Council will be hearing from many residents, attorn...
Greetings, I trust the city council and the city planners will disregard any input or results from the Dec. 11th meeting about the housing on the parking lots, even though the city saw it as a successful outreach effort. Many, if not most of us, had serious doubts about the validity of the mee...
Council, you need to show some Backbone when it comes to your "low-income" housing ideas for downtown! The homeowners on the Westside arent going to like it when their property values drop by 15-25%. The landlords down town dont want their investment to drop by 15-20%, either! If I were Mayor, I wo...
Dear Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Council Members, and honorable staff, I’m Jenny Michel, a native living in D3, a recovering homeless teacher, public transit enthusiast, commercial property manager by trade, and mom of a current 5th grader. Personal comments: I support the exempt public l...
Hi there, I have lived in Menlo Park for 14 years and have raised three children here. I live near downtown and frequent Coffee Bar, Draegers and many other local establishments near Santa Cruz. I have watched the businesses on Santa Cruz and in downtown suffer through the pandemic. I have also...
Dear members of Menlo Park City Council, I would like to request that you add to the goals for the year this one: Implement the Master Plan for Bedwell Bayfront Park. The Council approved this plan in November 2019. Since then, very little has been done -- bike racks, benches, nicer trash cans...
