Honorable mayor and members of the City Council. Members of the Menlo Park Planning Commission. Appropriate staff members of the Menlo Park Planning and Public Works Departments.

If you have not already read the email from our neighbor, Susan Basso, please do so.

Ms. Basso is absolutely correct regarding the excessive number of meetings held to obtain the wishes, feelings and thoughts of those living in proximity to the intended project at 1706 El Camino Real.

As a member of the Park Forest Community, I wish to make the following absolutely clear to both the City Council and the Planning Commission, as well as city staff.

The Park Forest Community consists of high density townhouses and cannot accept development projects that do not incorporate the maximum number of parking spaces that the C-4 zoning code requires. That number for the property at 1706 El Camino Real is 66 spaces, not the requested 52.

And, for that matter, we want all the other requirements of the C-4 zoning code fulfilled as well.

You will find no one in the Park Forest Community who wishes fewer parking spaces rather than more
(unless of course they may have a personal investment interest in this development).

Why this point needs to be made so frequently is remarkable since it is intuitive, logical and common sense.

This redundant, third, repetitive chain of duplicate meetings, no matter how well intentioned, reflects very poorly on city staff. Did you not hear the voices of the neighborhood the first or second time? Is the developer unable to hear that which he doesn't want to hear?

Once more -- 66 parking spaces, not 52.

Respectfully,

Martin Engel
1621 Stone Pine Lane
Menlo Park

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Martin Engel
1621 Stone Pine Lane
Menlo Park, CA 94025
650:323-1670
martinengel@earthlink.net


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