Attend this Tuesday’s Special City Council Meeting

6pm, March 4th
751 Laurel St., Menlo Park

A digital graphic promoting a city council meeting about parking lot expansions, with a satellite image showing buildings and parking areas, overlaid with red 3D blocks representing parking lots, and question marks at the top indicating questions about the parking lots.

Please attend Tuesday’s 6pm, March 4th Special City Council Meeting: Learn how downtown parking lots were selected!

Here is the agenda and staff report.

Do not miss this opportunity to stay engaged! This is the most important meeting about the parking lot housing issue since January 14th.

If you'd like to speak, fill out a speaker card when you arrive. Most importantly, we want to fill the Council Chambers to demonstrate that we’re staying involved and won't back down.

At the meeting, we will hear why city-owned sites such as these were not included in the Housing Element:

Civic Center parking lots – learn more here

1283 Willow Rd. and  2400 Branner Dr.  – learn more here

If you believe that the above sites, or any others, would be better than the downtown parking lots, then let Council know by emailing city.council@menlopark.gov and/or attending the March 4th meeting. 

Based on this meeting, City Council may provide direction to staff to analyze additional City-owned sites for consideration as Housing Element opportunity sites.

See you at 6pm on Tuesday, March 4th.  Mark your calendar!

Side-by-side comparison of two parking lots in Menlo Park, California. The left shows a proposed parking lot that is full every day, with many cars parked and some trees with no leaves. The right shows a larger, city-owned vacant lot with sparse paving, a blue sky with clouds, and some buildings and trees in the background.