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New library talks on hold for next few months

Original post made on May 25, 2018

Citing inadequate community meeting room facilities and other deficiencies with the current Menlo Park Library, Menlo Park staff has recommended the City Council approve a number of steps to make good on an offer by John Arrillaga to rebuild the city's library if the city will invest a hefty $30 million for the estimated $58 million proposal. But residents and attendees of a council meeting May 22 pointed to flaws in the public process that made it feel as though they had not been heard, and urged the council to include affordable housing as part of the proposed project.

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Posted by put housing elsewhere
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on May 25, 2018 at 9:46 am

As much as we need more housing in Menlo Park, the use of land on the city campus is absolutely the wrong thing to do. The enormous growth authorized by this City Council will require more parks, recreational facilities, and community services. No new land for such facilities is in the recently approved General Plan. So the city center/Burgess complex is necessary to support our growing community, and should not be used for other purposes.

There are plenty of places for more housing. There is high demand for it. The city can make it even more attractive to put housing on land throughout the city, if it would only choose to do so (the council declined to do that in its recent review of the DSP). That is the solution to the housing problem, not converting land we desperately need to use for its currently assigned purposes.

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Posted by Jaffo Nerr
a resident of Menlo Park: Menlo Oaks
on May 25, 2018 at 9:01 pm

For god's sake, the city has one duty and one duty only and that is to increase the value of properties in Menlo Park so our kids can sell these insipid shacks for what in most countries is dynastic wealth and retire to Caligulan splendor, exactly as our Founding Fathers intended.

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Posted by put housing elsewhere
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on May 26, 2018 at 10:37 am

The city's duty is to preserve and enhance the quality of life of residents. We already have a severe shortage of playing fields and recreational facilities, with greatly increased demand in the near future due to approved growth.

Housing does not belong on the city campus. If the city wants to address the housing shortage, there are better ways to address the shortage than to eliminate space on city campus that will be needed to serve residents.

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