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Menlo Park: Planning Commission tackles housing, traffic, parking in downtown plan review

Original post made on Jun 19, 2018

Menlo Park's Planning Commission on June 18 hosted two study sessions that pointed to two very different scales for development in different parts of the city, bound by the shared threads of traffic, parking requirements and affordable housing.

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Comments (6)

Posted by Roca Thompson Welch
a resident of another community
on Jun 19, 2018 at 1:02 pm

Dear Menlo Park,

Just say NO to more business in this town. Enough!

If you want to keep any sense of community, stop business development now. Please consider the impact on the people who live here, not just the business need.

The economy does not need help, it's doing just fine. A city council is elected by the people who live here, not by Facebook. Or is it?


Posted by Enough
a resident of Atherton: West of Alameda
on Jun 20, 2018 at 10:16 am

Nobody wants more office added or to bend over backwards to add more housing inventory. The city is overcrowded. NO NOT ADD TO IT.


Posted by really?
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Jun 20, 2018 at 10:20 am

For those of you concerned that Menlo Park is full up, please help the situation by telling your children to go get jobs in other parts of the country and move out of the Bay Area. And tell them that you don't want grandchildren so that we don't add to the already too full population.

Or build to accommodate this problem.


Posted by SandyB
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Jun 20, 2018 at 12:25 pm

SandyB is a registered user.

As for this statement: Commissioner John Onken offered another approach: "If you don't build it, they won't come."

But THEY will drive through it regardless of any traffic easement on El Camino Real or any modifications to the railroad crossings.


Posted by Willows Resident
a resident of Menlo Park: The Willows
on Jun 20, 2018 at 2:25 pm

"the commission gave feedback to staff without taking votes"

What was the feedback???



Posted by James Madison
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Jun 20, 2018 at 4:24 pm

Rezoning the M-2 are without requiring that space be reserved for parks and recreation, schools or retail required by the thousands of added residents violated urban planning 101. Tower apartments like that proposed for 111 Constitution Drive will only make a bad situation worse.

While we're at it, is the 3-story residential structure now under construction that will tower over and destroy the privacy of its University Avenue neighbors between Santa Cruz and Middle Avenue within zoning or did the zombie Planning Commission approve a use permit?


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