“This month, the city issued a request for proposals to transform three downtown city-owned parking lots into at least 345 units of affordable housing near public transit and local businesses.”
The counter argument and lawsuit claims that the Mayor and thus the City are removing much needed parking spaces that would force anyone in the area to either sell their vehicles or pay exorbitant fees for paid parking:
“Hoping to squeeze large apartment buildings into narrow, heavily used downtown parking lots … is not a path to success,” Save Downtown Menlo organizer Alex Beltramo told me in an email.
Menlo Park doesn’t have hardly any parking to begin with and there’s no such thing as 'affordable ’ in the entire SF bay area.
“This month, the city issued a request for proposals to transform three downtown city-owned parking lots into at least 345 units of affordable housing near public transit and local businesses.”
The counter argument and lawsuit claims that the Mayor and thus the City are removing much needed parking spaces that would force anyone in the area to either sell their vehicles or pay exorbitant fees for paid parking:
“Hoping to squeeze large apartment buildings into narrow, heavily used downtown parking lots … is not a path to success,” Save Downtown Menlo organizer Alex Beltramo told me in an email.
Menlo Park doesn’t have hardly any parking to begin with and there’s no such thing as 'affordable ’ in the entire SF bay area.
More housing benefits everyone, though.