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Neighbor comments related to "Downtown parking litigation"

Dear City Council, The proposed new apartment buildings destined for the parking lots between Santa Cruz Ave. and Oak Grove Ave. are poorly conceived and will be a disaster for our downtown. The loss of parking in these lots will result in our retail businesses closing down. With the exceptio...

Dear Council Members, The planned reassignment of the parking plazas to "unassigned lands" to allow hyper development for housing is an extraordinarily bad idea with poorly thought out consequences for the business district and surrounding neighborhoods. Those nearby neighborhoods already bear t...

Hello Menlo Park City Council, We have been residents of downtown Menlo Park for 18 years and it has been the highlight of anywhere we have lived. It’s an incredible community of neighbors, schools, small businesses and medical offices that know us and our children as family. It’s a walking and b...

Coffee Bar is one of the best-loved and most successful businesses introduced to Menlo Park in recent years. Even now, parking is tough to find for Coffee Bar customers. With the proposed removal of the Chestnut/OakGrove parking lot, Coffee Bar would lose lots of loyal customers. Lets find a pl...

January 14, 2025 Dear City Council Members of Menlo Park Our Parking lots have not been improved for decades. Re-striping, and maintenance have been done. Restaurants “took away” some customer parking, yet no acreage has been added since the 50’s! My siblings and I do recall the din...

Dear Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Council Members, and honorable staff, I’m Jenny Michel, a native living in D3 on Willow at Coleman, a recovering homeless teacher, public transit enthusiast, and mom of a current 5th grader. Personal comments: As previously mentioned, I support our pilot p...

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Dear Members of the Menlo Park City Council, It has come to my attention that the City is considering a proposed ordinance that will ban overnight parking of oversized vehicles (OSVs) in the City of Menlo Park. We ask that the City Council consider the following points before adopting such an ord...

One additional comment on Parkline.. Do we need that much parking space? The train station is next door to the development, and the nice electric trains will be deployed this year. Eduardo

Honorable City Council and staff Id like to voice my support for the general direction in the proposed SRI/Parkline development. We need the additional housing, and some of the changes are in the right direction. Id like to injects some comments to be considered while continuing to refine th...

(This is probably a duplicate but my previous email is not showing in the log) Honorable City Council and staff Id like to voice my support for the general direction in the proposed SRI/Parkline development. We need the additional housing, and some of the changes are in the right direction....