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Anton Menlo gets ready for construction of 394 apartmentsDeveloper St. Anton Partners has cleared 10 acres of land at 3639 Haven Ave., off Marsh Road, in Menlo Park in preparation...
Original post made on Sep. 11, 2014Last comment by Richard Vaughan, on Sep 15, 2014 at 3:29 pm | 15 comments | 8265 Views
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Downtown - Aggressive Parking CitationsThe topic of downtown - aggressive parking citations is an old topic that deserves a fresh review. The City Council had...
Original post made by Concerned Citizen on Sep. 18, 2014Last comment by Peter Carpenter, on Sep 27, 2014 at 10:56 am | 15 comments | 13593 Views
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New Hotel Rooms Won’t Reduce Taxpayer Subsidies; Only Measure M Reduces LossesTwo major questions have been raised regarding the taxpayer subsidies required to support the Downtown Specific Plan (“DSP”)...
Original post made by Chuck Bernstein on Nov. 2, 2014Last comment by Menlo Voter, on Nov 3, 2014 at 7:12 am | 15 comments | 2163 Views
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Menlo Park: Security camera helps capture alleged package thiefA few days after a security camera captured the theft of a package from the doorstep of a home in the Willows neighborhood,...
Original post made on Dec. 19, 2014Last comment by Hmmm, on Dec 22, 2014 at 7:51 pm | 15 comments | 8111 Views
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Menlo Park: New fire station downtown wins council's OKThis may be the only fire that Menlo Park Fire Protection District Chief Harold Schapelhouman wishes had not been extinguished...
Original post made on Jan. 14, 2015Last comment by Peter Carpenter, on Jan 19, 2015 at 7:58 am | 15 comments | 7998 Views
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Facebook buys 56 acres near its Menlo Park headquartersFacebook has acquired another huge property near its main campus at Willow Road and Bayfront Expressway in Menlo Park. Read...
Original post made on Feb. 8, 2015Last comment by Stats, on Feb 12, 2015 at 7:57 pm | 15 comments | 9461 Views
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Menlo Park extends timeline for M2 zoning changesAfter a lengthy discussion on March 31, the Menlo Park City Council opted to take a 60-day timeout before pressing forward...
Original post made on Apr. 3, 2015Last comment by Apropos, on Apr 10, 2015 at 2:09 pm | 15 comments | 6232 Views
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Workshop: Stanford's Middle Avenue plaza designStanford University will host community workshops on May 28 and May 30 to talk about design options for a public plaza off...
Original post made on May. 28, 2015Last comment by Mike Keenly, on May 29, 2015 at 2:36 pm | 15 comments | 5536 Views
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Stanford plans to add housing, reduce offices in Menlo Park complexIn addition to revamping the design for a public plaza at Middle Avenue, Stanford University is looking at adding housing...
Original post made on Jun. 19, 2015Last comment by Peter Carpenter, on Jun 22, 2015 at 6:24 pm | 15 comments | 5462 Views
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Menlo Park Planning Commission approves Alma Street developmentWhat should the city of Menlo Park require the developers of a proposed three-story office building on Alma Street to provide...
Original post made on Nov. 5, 2015Last comment by really?, on Nov 11, 2015 at 8:36 am | 15 comments | 8944 Views
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Downtown remodel ideaThis is a random idea that probably won't fly for all kinds of reasons, but I thought I'd throw it out for feedback regardless. I'd...
Original post made by Menlo Park Promenade on Jan. 4, 2016Last comment by change the plan?, on Jan 6, 2016 at 5:11 pm | 15 comments | 3425 Views
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Menlo Park, school district reach consensus on Oak Court gateTensions between residents of Oak Court and parents of the soon-to-open Laurel School, Upper Campus, located at 275 Elliott...
Original post made on Sep. 6, 2016Last comment by OConnor Resident, on Sep 8, 2016 at 11:27 pm | 15 comments | 5777 Views
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Menlo Park Planning Commission endorses Greenheart's El Camino complexA 420,000-square-foot development at 1300 El Camino Real offering offices, 183 rental apartments and retail space was unanimously...
Original post made on Dec. 13, 2016Last comment by Beth, on Dec 14, 2016 at 1:11 pm | 15 comments | 7633 Views
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Menlo Park: Huge apartment complexes nearing finishThe 3600 block of Haven Avenue in eastern Menlo Park may look like a daunting mass of building frames, but it will soon become...
Original post made on Jan. 12, 2017Last comment by Why Affordable Housing Doesn't Get Built, on Jan 17, 2017 at 4:03 pm | 15 comments | 10147 Views
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Menlo Park: Fire district offers $175K for special stoplightsWhile the governing board of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District on June 20 agreed to pay half the cost of two pedestrian-activated...
Original post made on Jun. 22, 2017Last comment by Tricia Barr, on Jun 24, 2017 at 4:43 pm | 15 comments | 6265 Views
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Menlo Park: City could name park after WWII hero Carl ClarkTwo residents in Belle Haven have asked the city of Menlo Park to consider renaming their neighborhood's Market Place Park...
Original post made on Jun. 23, 2017Last comment by Favorite Will D. , on Jun 26, 2017 at 8:04 pm | 15 comments | 5280 Views
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New ladder truck serves bayside of Menlo fire districtThe Menlo Park Fire Protection District now has ladder trucks on both sides of Highway 101, with the addition of a new $1...
Original post made on Jun. 30, 2017Last comment by JBCHAM, on Jul 3, 2017 at 1:02 pm | 15 comments | 6623 Views
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Menlo Park firefighter injured battling house fireA firefighter with the Menlo Park Fire Protection District was injured late Friday night working to extinguish a fire in...
Original post made on Aug. 20, 2017Last comment by Citizen, on Aug 22, 2017 at 8:15 am | 15 comments | 5546 Views
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Menlo Park: City already reaching downtown development limitsIt took five years for Menlo Park to come up with the plan to rezone downtown -- about as long as it has taken a stream of...
Original post made on Dec. 29, 2017Last comment by James, on Jan 5, 2018 at 12:28 pm | 15 comments | 6544 Views
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Priorities shift in Menlo Park: Library out, parking structure, Guild inProgressing through a series of votes during a goal-setting meeting yesterday (Jan. 29), the Menlo Park City Council slowly...
Original post made on Jan. 30, 2018Last comment by dana hendrickson, on Feb 6, 2018 at 11:06 am | 15 comments | 8561 Views
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