Dear Menlo Park City Council and Staff,
My partner, Mallory, and I are residents of Central Menlo Park, right by SRI, and we are supportive of the new proposal for 800 mixed-income homes. We believe our city can and must build more homes at all levels of affordability, especially near transit and downtown services, for a variety of household sizes and for people of all abilities.
We are pleased that the latest Parkline proposal increases the number of new homes from 450 to 800, with 31% at below market rate rents, including 154 deeply affordable homes for people of all abilities. We encourage our City Council to support the new project variant and bring new neighbors of all incomes and abilities to central Menlo Park.
No matter where you begin in life, success starts at home. When we have safe, secure places to live, parents earn more, kids learn better, health and well-being improve, and our community is strengthened because it now has the building blocks needed to thrive. Let’s take action now, to build a strong community of people and families of all incomes and abilities who thrive.
Thank you for your consideration this evening and going forward on this issue of affordable housing.
All the best,
Royce Chang & Mallory Watkins
Royce Simón Chang
royceschang@gmail.com
(818) 516-7716
