Menlo Park: Environmental report released on Facebook's expansion plans

The addition of a million square feet comes on top of the million square feet just now under construction a half mile away, also along Bayfront Expressway. There is already heavy traffic on the Expressway, the Dumbarton Bridge, 101 and all the arteries connecting same.
We cannot keep building if the cities, counties and state refuse to provide the infrastructure for people to get to and from work. In the past "traffic mitigation" was left to the building developer, usually meaning traffic light timing and TDM promises. What is needed now is regional infrastructure - possibly light electric trains running to the east bay where housing is still available. (The morning and evening 101 jams are directly related to the Dumbarton Bridge.)
We need to accommodate some growth to keep our leading employers in town. But until our state and local leaders address the need, we are building gridlock. Jerry Hill and Rich Gordon, this includes you.

There is something very wrong with this draft EIR that finds the plan "consistent" with Menlo Park's Housing goals. Any significant expansion in employee population without a plan to build sufficient housing means by definition displacement, hardship and negative impacts on our community. Displacement is most likely to hurt our elderly, our disabled, our low-wage and increasingly our middle class workers. Already there are too many heart-wrenching stories about evictions and displacement. I have set up this page to start collecting these stories in one place: Web Link My hope is that Menlo Park's elected officials will hear these voices and better understand the human cost of their prior decisions to approve commercial growth.

Building housing MUST be our first priority before expanding the community's commercial space. To prioritize commercial expansion over housing means a vote for even greater displacement of our friends, family, and neighbors.

Christin,

FB expansion will have a miniscule impact on traffic compared to Greenheart downtown on an already gridlocked El Camino,

FB provides large busses to various housing points throughout the Bay Area and they are located w/easy access to a major freeway and a bridge to the East Bay, Add on when Stanford builds out El Camino along with Greenheart if you want to see gridlock.

Willow Rd. will get even worse if that's possible.

This is why a starter home is now selling for $750k in East Palo Alto. You can walk to FB,
To walk to Greenheart a starter home is $2m and up.

I can't afford $2M but I would rather live in EPA or Bellehaven and walk to FB than spend an hour to get out of Downtown Menlo Park and it is going to get worse.

Thank you FB for being a good neighbor.

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