STOP Menlo Park City Council’s Public Parking Lot TAKE OVER

In the name of providing affordable housing, Menlo Park’s City Council wants to takeover the city of Menlo Park’s parking lot. The Council is calling the parking lot take over a “Development on downtown parking”.

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The Menlo Park City Council, elected by the people of Menlo Park, and who are supposed to represent the people are trying to push through this unwanted take over of public property, namely our Menlo Park downtown parking lots.

• It is indefensible to declare that those 3 parking lots are “surplus land.” They are heavily and purposefully used daily by the public.

• The proposed plan would be lucrative for a developer but ludicrous for the community (negatively impacting both residents and local businesses).

• The voters entrust the City Counsel to develop balanced solutions that respect the entire community.

• There are a number of alternative real estate choices to fulfill the State’s requirements for affordable housing without a taking over of our downtown parking lots; such as USGS, Willow Road, Ravenswood.


I would like to see actual city improvements including keeping the sidewalks clean. The stench on Santa Cruz in front of the old Le Boulangerie and Ruby’s is back.

Do things to attract businesses. There are empty store fronts along Santa Cruz and along El Camino. Some along El Camino look like dumps.

The City of Mountain View has made blocks along Castro Street pedestrian blocks and made these areas very appealing. Mountain View is bringing in business the support community interaction and activities.


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