Hi Dear City Council Members and Staff, I attended one of your meetings about a month ago and fully laud the downtown affordable housing plan, but urge you to build a parking structure that will increase the number of parking places, not in any way decrease. We already need more downtown parki...
Honorable City Council, I am a resident of Palo Alto but live right on the border with Menlo Park. I split my time and spending dollars equally between the two cities. I support affordable housing on city parking lots consistent with commitments made in the Housing Element. The city needs to s...
Dear Council, The city is in a tough situation with respect to plan for housing on downtown parking lots Business organizations are saying downtown businesses have a legal claim to the downtown parking remaining parking, because they paid into the parking assessment district. Meanwhile, you...
CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Unless you recognize the senders email address and know the content is safe, DO NOT click links, open attachments or reply. Honorable Menlo Park City Council, I support building new affordable homes downtown...
Good morning, I am disappointed in the towns latest recommendation to pursue a feasibility study. We already know the following: 1) There is high demand for pickleball AND concern about the noise. 2) Nealon Park has been a successful central location for pickleball. So, why wouldnt that $85,000...
Following up on the public comments at the last city council meeting on the significant increase in home break-ins, we spoke with the Palo Alto Police Department about their deployment of ALPRs. Below is a summary of that discussion. 1. PAPD chose to lease rather than buy their cameras for a...
THANK YOU! . . . to each and every one of you who read all the fine print and worked doggedly to come up with a solution for the city’s housing plan that would pass the state’s new, more rigid requirements. Just reading about your work has felt exhausting. I can’t imagine how tedious and frustr...
Dear Mayor and Council, I am writing to you this afternoon as a manager of a Class A office building located at 4040 Campbell Ave. in Menlo Park. For the past three years, our property has had to deal with consistent mobile home parking/living up and down Campbell Ave. Its become a safety is...
Honorable Mayor and Council Members: I suggest a couple priorities for the Council: and regret that I will be unable to speak at your meeting due to a conflict. 1. Modify the city mission statement so it includes support of a high "residential quality of life". That concept used to be in our c...
Hi City Council My family and I have lived at 1004 Windermere Ave for 27 years. Our property borders on 2 sides onto the parking lot and property at 687 Bay Rd. We are STRONGLY OPPOSED to rezoning this plot and prefer to keep it zoned as R1U. Those who have bought property in this neighborhood b...