Kicking their housing update process into higher gear, Menlo Park will hold two community workshops to discuss where to include higher density housing zones and affordable units.

The workshops are scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 16, at 6:30 p.m. at the Arrillaga Family Recreation Center (700 Alma St.) and Thursday, Aug. 23, at 6:30 p.m. at the senior center at 100 Terminal Ave.

Go to the city's project website on the housing element update, which includes a list of 25 preliminary sites to be evaluated as potential high density zones. Several locations along Sand Hill Road near the I-280 intersection, parcels owned by Stanford University on El Camino Real, and 3.45 acres on Derry Lane are among those under consideration.

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