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How should Menlo Park define 'public benefit'?

Original post made on May 26, 2015

In the city's ongoing effort to wrangle the meaning of "public benefit" into measurable, comparable terms, the Menlo Park Planning Commission and the planning staff, as well as two developers with projects coming to the table, took a few hours on Monday, May 19, to consider what the right questions to ask would be.

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Posted by taxpayer
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on May 26, 2015 at 12:48 pm

A starting point to figure this out for the Alma project would be to look at the current sales tax the city is getting from the current uses. That's a minimum, as is retail at ground level. With all the office space and residences planned, more retail and personal services will be needed. The proposed project removes both!
It is not a benefit to our community to have more offices downtown, especially when they displace retail and personal services.

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