Would be great if they can replace car trips with bicycle trips. But they really need to work with the Menlo Park, and also East Palo Alto, to improve the bike routes out to that campus. Current road conditions are poor and the safe bike routes over Hwy 101 are leave a lot to be desired.

It would be great if they build a freeway through menlo park for traffic mitigation purposes.

For this many new employees, Menlo Park will be tasked to address the aggravated jobs/housing imbalance that already exists. Facebook should be required to provide additional housing commensurate with the additional need. Ideally, it is located near the new campus to minimize traffic. Facebook should not be left off the hook to provide this (unlike what happened with the Bohannon project).

I keep hearing about the "jobs and housing imbalance" in Menlo Park -- but I don't see it. Where are all these jobs? We have a very small proportion of commercial property to residential.

Oh, are we expected to take responsibility for Stanford's jobs, too?

We always get the last crumbs of mitigation for any Stanford project, so, frankly, I don't think we should take any responsibility for their shortfalls. Whenever they want to do something, they take full advantage of being a different jurisdiction in a different county. I refuse to see why Menlo Park has to approve a canyon of high-density housing along El Camino to address someone else's problem.

And now Facebook is demanding a waiver -- well, OK ... but if the Council grants it, don't give us more of this "jobs/housing imbalance" nonsense to justify additional high-density MP housing -- cramming more traffic onto our roads, more kids into our schools, and more users in our libraries, parks, and other infrastructure.

Have the usual gadflies and saboteurs gone on record opposing this yet? Or have they actually learned something from the Menlo Gateway experience?

What we learned from menlo gateway is that rich people can flout the rules. It just took me 20 minutes to drive a mile on Willow. Can someone explain what benefit there is for menlo park in letting facebook ignore zoning requirements? Why dont they just acquire more o office space?