It is incredible really incredible that this specific plan is still being discussed 3YEARS after being and 8Years after first being discussed and NOTHING has been done to make downtown nicer. The sidewalks are still in disrepair, no improvements have been made, no new building have been built. All the while cities all over the peninsula are moving forward and improving their downtowns.

I honestly think that the citizens of menlo park really don't want anything to change. They just want their houses to keep appreciating and do nothing. They'd rather have the infrastructure rot.

Good work all!

Yes, the incredible DSP is something that must be revisited every few years, by design.

Outlaw cars and trucks and buses and trains and motorcycles. Bikes can be dangerous. Bikers are rude. Go back to walking - including walkers for older folks. Maybe allow some wheelchairs. What ever happen to those machines you can ride standing up? Those are out. Make the world safer for pedestrians. That is the ticket. Of course, everything will need to be within WALKING DISTANCE.

The responsibility for improving sidewalks and parking lots sits squarely in the Council's lap. They have not established a funding mechanism for making those improvements. They have not established a plan for when those will occur (even Santa Cruz sidewalks west of downtown seem to be lost in space). Rather than blame citizens, blame the council and push them to fix the situation. It's their job.

@needs improvement

Yes, the council is responsible for putting these mechanisms in place. The citizens of MP elect the council, so yes we are to blame as well.

@incredible

I do understand that plans need to be reviewed. However, the council has continuously reviewed the plan over the past 3 years and have nothing to show for it. When do we actually implement the plan?

@MPer - there a multiple projects in City Planning. Don't forget Measure M caused a year of uncertainty for potential investors in Downtown. Stanford has spent months circulating their new proposal. In the mean time, just to name a few of the projects that have the Council has approved: street dining on Santa Cruz Ave which is being expanded to many more restaurants, multiple hotel renovations along El Camino, a remodeling of the BBC and a sidewalk and bike installation for Santa Cruz Ave. There are plenty of mechanisms in place and they are working.