Dear Mayor Taylor, Vice Mayor Combs, Councilmembers, and Staff, Im happy that you will have the opportunity to provide direction to staff on the 2025-2030 Climate Action Plan scope of work tonight. I am very concerned about climate change, and am keen to have Menlo Park continue its leadership...
Dear City Council: I am writing you to urge you to oppose the 80 Willow Road project, require a full Environmental Impact Report, and support laws to prevent similar overdevelopment. This project’s scale is too large and I urge you to demand a full Environmental Impact Report. Thank you Ro...
Councilors, At the May 21 city council meeting, I spoke about my concern that the Parkline development will place residences and public spaces close to laboratories that perform research involving organisms that may cause serious or potentially lethal disease. I appreciate that Mayor Taylor and C...
Honorable Mayor Taylor, Vice Mayor Combs, Councilmembers, and City Staff – my name is John McKenna. I serve as Vice Chair on the Environmental Quality Commission, but I am writing as an individual. I want to thank City Staff for their work on the CAP scope of work for 2025-2030. While I appreciate...
Hello, Please find attached a comment letter from Save The Bay and Nuestra Casa on Agenda Item G1 - "Consider and adopt resolutions amending the General Plan to include an Environmental Justice Element and to update the Safety Element." Thank you, Erin Pang POLICY ASSOCIATE epang@savesfbay....
Hi City Councilmembers, Deanna, Tom, and Calvin, Thank you for considering and adopting many of Save The Bay and Nuestra Casas recommendations in the EJ and Safety Element updates at Tuesdays council meeting. I know we got them in at the last minute, so thank you for your quick turnaround! We appre...
Good afternoon! Im writing to thank you for soliciting community feedback on setting Menlo Parks priorities for the upcoming fiscal year 2024-25. I have a simple request for an addition to one of the top identified priorities: please add "and resilience" to your Climate Action goal, e.g. "Climate A...
Greetings, Ms Danica here. Im a volunteer tutor at an extracurricular science program at my nephews local school. I’m reaching out to you because I wanted to let you know we found your webpage (http://menlopark.gov/Government/Departments/City-Managers-Office/Sustainability/Climate-Action-Plan/Ele...
Dear Clerk, Menlo Spark understands there will likely be an agenda item on August 27 regarding the Climate Action Plan and emissions from stationary sources (buildings). I am not aware of the specific agenda item number being assigned yet. We submit the attached analysis of options for considerat...
I am utterly opposed to approval of this project because:. • It is grotesquely oversized and downright ugly. • It is beside the creek: the only naturally flowing creek in the county that is home to various endangered or protected species. • Increased impermeable surf...
