What a terrible idea to build on the parking lots behind and around Santa Cruz Avenue businesses. Without parking we will not have access, without access we will look elsewhere to do business. I suppose we can do all our shopping at big box stores in Redwood City. Is that your intention? Instead...
Dear Council Members, As chairperson of The Main Gallery, located on Santa Cruz Avenue and a member of the Menlo Park Design District, I strongly urge you to reopen Santa Cruz Avenue. The closure makes it more difficult for customers to shop downtown and that hurts all of the retail businesses...
II strongly urge you not to drive a death knell into retail businesses on Santa Cruz Ave. by putting low income housing downtown. I have asked in the past, but I don’t think anyone responded that you look at what San Luis Obispo did downtown. They brought in Chicos, a bookstore, coffee shop,restaura...
Hello MP City Council, I am writing to advocate for a full playing field to be included as part of the SRI development. As President of the Menlo Atherton Adult Soccer League (MAASL), I struggled to find fields when Kelly Field was slated to be closed for maintenance. I called Palo Alto, Redwo...
Menlo Park apparently owns the parking lots between Santa Cruz Ave. and Oak Grove downtown. Instead of wiping the parking and building multi-story housing, consider the needs of the shops and businesses. Consider the needs of the people in Menlo Park to have a shopping district where its easy to par...
Dear Menlo Park City Council, My name is Karsten Iwers, and my family owns Harvest Furniture. We were located at 639 Santa Cruz Avenue (the closed block). We closed our store after 24 years on Santa Cruz Avenue in March of 2023. Although I no longer have a stake in this decision, I would like...
Regarding the informational item N2. The county and complete streets is proposing a pilot option to close Coleman Ave where the county and city lines meet. The proposal says the traffic will go to Bay Road or Willow to reach Ringwood Ave. Bay Road is overwhelmed with morning traffic now. There is a...
Dear City Council members In case I am not able to attend tonight’s meeting, as a resident of Sharon Heights, I would just like to say that I would enthusiastically endorse the adoption of ALPRs in the Sharon Heights area of Menlo Park! Respectfully Elizabeth Blandford
are you CRAZY !! .. downtown is already a blight !!
Council Members: Although I do not see the continued discussion of the aquatic fees on the January 23, 2024 agenda, I believe that at the January 9, 2024 meeting there was the proposal to continue the discussion of the aquatic fees. A prominent idea is that since Menlo Park City residents contribu...
