This development is too big for Menlo Park. 8 stories is too dense and 94 units too many for this development. Stop this madness and Manhattanizing the city. It's all for the profit of the greedy developer.

The Bay Area has a critical housing supply problem and every city needs to be building more units to help. Enough with the "oh but we are just a small quiet suburb!" excuses to keep people saddled with crushing housing costs just because you don't want to see anything change. Facebook HQ is in your city for crying out loud!

Build it taller and build it denser.

We need housing and this should be encouraged, but it would be helped if it didn't look like some crappy resort hotel in Cabo.

That needs double the number of "affordable" units. 15% is laughable.

So, let's just review the traffic capacity of 84, Willow Rd, Marsh Rd and Woodside Rd when coupled with the insanity of 101 at rush hour. Right now, there are already at least 2 days a week when traffic is just stopped right in front of where this building is proposed. And this is before the haven Street apartments are all rented or sold and before the new Stanford Medical center is completed on Bay Rd in redwood City. Let's just add in, for fun, the developments being proposed for Broadway Plaza by the Sobrato Group
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And the development that was proposed for the Mailbu Golf/Raceway land next to the new jail -
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Looks like we've got a development party!

Seems to me that before any more development is approved in this region there needs to be a very serious discussion about transportation. This should be a San Mateo County and Chamber of Commerce concern because 101 is fast becoming a parking lot from 3-7 PM and 280 ins't much better. Why would a new company move here when so much productivity time is lost due to traffic. Housing costs are soaring but the traffic drives my family batty! Get some Swiss boring machines and connect BART to San Jose. Call Elon Musk and his hyper loop! Consider light rail starting with anything that is a new development. We need to get people lessening their dependence upon cars as the primary mode of transportation.

We are diminishing the quality of life that has made the peninsula so special for so many. YES, we need more housing - but we need to be much smarter about it.

Overdevelopment - you idiot. We need more housing.

yimby2 - please learn to do math. Doubling affordable housing would mean the developers make negative profit. Guess how many units of affordable you get when NO units are built?

Richard Vaughan - it's clear we need transportation solutions. And we need leadership that will push for better public infrastructure.

Just curious. All these large buildings (some quite tall) developed and being developed between 101 and the bay, what impact has it had and will it have on the cooling effects of the bay on our ever increasing "inland" temps.

Folks keep saying we need more and more housing. Well maybe some better solutions would be birth control, immigration control and not saying yes to every corporation that wants to build here.