Tomorrow's vote on Measure M and the City Council is one of the most important Menlo Park has faced in years. To protect Menlo Park's Quality of Life, we urge you to Vote YES on M and for City Council Candidates Drew Combs, Kristin Duriseti, and Kelly Fergusson.
Yes on M
- Menlo Park's Quality of Life Threatened by Massive Office Development
Big developers are planning to build massive office buildings - the equivalent of over eight football fields - in Downtown Menlo Park. - Rush Hour Traffic Will Become Much Worse
Thousands of new commuters who work in these office buildings will clog Menlo Park's already overburdened roads at rush-hour, pushing cut-through traffic onto residential streets. Every Menlo Park neighborhood will be affected. - Yes on M Cuts Office Development in Half
Yes on M limits massive office complexes, like the ones currently proposed by Stanford and Greenheart, to half their size.
- Yes on M Provides REAL open space
Yes on M closes the loophole that allows developers to count private balconies, terraces, and rooftops as "open space".
- Yes on M Puts teeth into the City's Downtown development rules
Voters have a say if the City Council wants to change the definition of open space or exceed the office or overall non-residential development limits. City Council controls everything else.
For more local shops and restaurants, more senior housing, more public open space, safer streets for pedestrians and cyclists, and more money for the City's budget, please vote YES on M.
Don't Be Fooled by Developers and Their Big Money Deception Campaign
- Greenheart Land Company is spending over $200,000 to defeat Measure M
- Council incumbents Kirsten Keith, Rich Cline, and Peter Ohtaki have accepted campaign contributions from Greenheart
- Keith, Cline and Ohtaki more than doubled Downtown Development without ANY required public benefit - a $743 million giveaway
- Greenheart and Stanford stand to make huge profits from their proposed developments
- Over $20,000 of Keith, Cline, and Ohtaki's campaign contributionscome from developer and/or real estate interests - nearly half their total donations.
Elect Council Members you can Trust
- Drew Combs - Journalist, Attorney, Planning Commissioner; Harvard Law School, Columbia University, BA in Urban Studies; former Bicycle Commissioner;After School Tutor, Boys & Girls Club
- Kristin Duriseti - Stanford Woods Institute, Editor of the Journal "Climate Change", six year Environmental Quality Commissioner, University of Michigan, Ph.D., Political Science; Stanford University BA Political Science; School and youth sports volunteer; Mother
- Kelly Fergusson - Clean Tech Professional, Stanford University Ph.D Civil Engineering and BS in Applied Earth Sciences; Former Menlo Park City Council Member and Mayor; Former Menlo Park Planning Commissioner; school and youth sports volunteer; Mother
They Listen. They Care.
Don't let Big Developer money buy this election. Please vote YES on M and for Drew Combs, Kristin Duriseti, and Kelly Fergusson
Signed,
Perla Ni, Mike Lanza, Lynore Banchoff, Patti Fry, and Heyward Robinson
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Endorsed by 9 Formers mayors and the Sierra Club:
Gerry Andeen, Jack Morris, Gail Slocum, Steve Schmidt, Mary Jo Borak,Paul Collacchi, Heyward Robinson, Kelly Fergusson, and Andy Cohen
Community leaders:
Vincent Bressler, Menlo Park Planning Commissioner
Lucy Calder, Housing Commission
Chirstina Smolke, Environmental Quality Commission
Bruce Ives, Former President, Menlo Park City School District Board
Patti Fry, Former Menlo Park Planning Commission Chair
Clark Kepler, President, Hometown Peninsula Independent Business Alliance
J. Michael Gullard - Member, Downtown Specific Plan Oversight & Outreach Committee (2008-2012)
John Hickson - Secretary, Menlo Park Live Oak Lions Club
Chuck Bernstein - Director, Menlo Park Fire Protection District Board
Margaret Carney - Co-founder, Menlo Park Farmers Market
Carrie Du Bois, Sequoia Union High School District BoardMenlo Park Farmers Market
Lennie Roberts, Environmetal Advocate
Stuart Soffer, Former Planning Commissioner
Rhoda Alexander, Former Transportation Commissioner
Charles Bourne, Former Transportation Commissioner
John D. Fox, Former Bicycle Commission
Megan Gutelius, Former Environmental Quality Commissioner
Brielle Johnck, Former Environmental Quality Commissioner
Mary Kenney, Former Environmental Quality Commissioner
Joanne Goldberg, Former Parks and Recreation Commission
Don Brawner, Former Housing Commissioner
SUPPORTERS
Marcy Abramowitz, Bruce Adornato, Carol Aebi, Verle Aebi,
Kate Ague, Donald Albers, Gerardine Albers, David Alfano, Anna Alioto,
Katharine Allison, Beverly Altschuler, Elizabeth Ambuhl, Christopher
Anderson, Todd Atkins, Erika Bailey, Carolo Bain, Christopher Baldwin,
Corazon Baliton, Lynore Banchoff, Lawrence Barasch, Nancy Barnby, Don
Barnby, Linda Barnes, Lauri Battista, Andrew Becker, Michelle Becker,
Jenny Beeler, Sarina Beges, Edith Besze, David Bingham,
Corissa Binns, Beverley Bird, Elias Blawie, Dave & Cherrie Bogart,
Pamela Bonino, Richard Bonino, Nancy Borgeson, Bo Boudart, Sharon Bozzo, Mike Brady, Julianne Brawner, Patricia Bredehoft, Valerie Brooke- Wilke, Chris Brosnan, Dennis Brown, Kay Brown, Morris Brown, Michael Buchanan, Neilson Buchanan, Stephen Calder, Paul Caletti, Lynne Calvarese, Bobbie & Joe Carcione, Sandra Carter, Nicol Chaput, Michael Christy, Christine Clarke, Michael Closson, Marian Coffey, Peter Coffey, Susan Connelly, Ed Connolly, Kathryn Connolly, Peter Cook, Natalie Coupe, Nancy Couperus, Nancy Cox, Mayra Cramer, Tom Cramer, Kelly Crawford, Roger Crawley, Jack Cronin, Sharyn Crosat, Gordon Cruikshank, Carol Cunningham, Cecile Currier, Susan Danzig, Jean Davidson Lindman, Dianne De Laet, Steven De Laet, Russell Dember, Ann Diederich, Morgan Diolaiti, Anita Dippery, Dan Dippery, Kathleen Djordjevich, Mark Drury, Jeanne Du Prau,Tom Dubois, Cynthia Dusel-Bacon, Jim Eakin, Mali Einen, Philip Ekedahl,Robert Ekedahl, Donald Ellis, Jacquelynne Ellis, Anna Enerio, Bob English, Gregory/Greg Evans, Eric Fain, Sonali Fain, Alicia Falsetto, James Fehrle, Sally Finkle, Daniel Finlay, George Fisher, Christina Fogel, Arthur Folker, Christine Franco, Thomas Franklin, Valerie Frederickson, Ruben Fuentez, Honor Fullerton Stone, Nancy Fulton, Kenneth Fuson, Nino Gaetano, Mary Gage, Elisabetta Gaiani, Laura Gallagher, Scott Gamble, Marisa Garcia, Gregory Garlock, Jane Garratt, Jeanne Gary, Jeannine Gauthier, David Geraghty, Debra Gerow, Mark Gerow, Brian Gilmer, Triona Gogarty, Laurie Goldman, Paul Goldman, Timothy Goode, Yonatan Goraly, Barbara Gray, Bill Gray, Simonne Greene, Andrew Guevara, Pamela Gullard, Tamara Gurbis, Michael Haberecht, Roxanne Hage, Elizabeth Hagman, Jonathan Hahn, Robert Hamilton, Julie Harris, Kevin Harris, Diane Hart, Peter Hart, Candace Hathaway, James Healy, Kathryn Henkens- Mayall, Debra Heredia, Robert Heredia, Scott Herscher, Kristy Holch, Donald Holmquest, Hilary Holmquest, Neil Holtzman, Janel Hopper, Elizabeth Houck, Sandra Huang, Jarrod Huffman, Helen Ingwersen, Kempton Izuno, Virginia Jacobsen, Ann James, Beth Jimison, Brian Johnson, Debbi Jones-Thomas, Marion Joseph, Veneta Kanelakos, Theo Keet, Elza Keet, Anthony Kelly, Anne Kirkbride, Amy Klein, Dail Koehler, Melissa Kong, Kevin Kraemer, Brian Kruzic, Alexander Kugushev, Merry Kuo, Ken Lajoie, Michelle Lamarre, Mike Lanza, Lloyd Leanse, Kristen Leep, Eileen Lehmann, Stephne Lencioni, Roger Levin, Annette Lewis, Peter Li, Adele Lieberman, Robert Lindemann, Amy Linnert, Eleni Linos, Brenda Lo, Susan Lockwood, Osnat Loewewenthal, Linda Lorenzetti, Esther Louth, Gregory Lucas, Anne Lumsdaine, Kristi Lutge, Robert Lutge, Lorraine Macchello, Hugh Macdonald, Paul Machado, James Madison, Caterina Maestrini, James Magats, Shalini Magats, Shaun Maguire, Manige Maleksalehi, Lisa Maloney, Sally Mancini, Jennifer Marsh, Beth Martin, Joanna Martin, James
Masterson, Renee Masterson, Cathy Mathews, Paula Maurano, Nathan
Mazonson, Jennifer Mazzon, Mark McBirney, Mark Mcbrast, Heidi McCusker, Martin McDonough, Stephen Mehl, Joseph Mell, Richard Meredith, Erna Metzger, Lynn Mickleburgh, Anne Midler, Frederick Miller, Kathleen Miller, Kayleen Miller, Farhad Mirkhani, Barrett Moore, Karen Moore, Mike Moore, Harry Morey, Martha Morey, Katrina Morris, Laurel Morris Wessler, Roger Morrison, David Morton, Kevyn Allard, Michael Moskowitz, Robert Moss, Joanna Mountain, Gwyn Murray, Charlotte Muse, Elizabeth Nash, Holly Nash, Horace Nash, Regine Nelson, Barbara Newton, James Newton, Mary Ngai, Manthi Nguyen, Perla Ni, Catherine Norton, Jeffrey Norton, Patrick Norton, Timothy Norton, Annabelle Nye, Blaine Nye, Zachary Nye, Frank O'Neill, Joan O'Neill, Allen Odian, Martha Onasch, Margaret Osborn, Paul Osborn, Adam Ottley, Jeffrey Pallin, Neel Patel, Carmen Pekelsma, Nicholas Pekelsma, Paul Perret, Elizabeth Peters, Stefan Petry, Cynthia Podesta, Paul Podesta, Janet Poses, William
Prainito, Janwillem Prak, Sandra Pursell, Stephen Pursell, Priyanka
Rajagopalan, Steve Rasmussen, Rene Revueltas, Rich Reynoso, Jean Rice, David Roise, Janet Ronstadt, Karen Salty, Pam & Oscar Salviatierra, Rhea Sampson, Nicole Scarborough, Patricia Schank, Cindy Schlaefer, Brian Schmitz, Susan Schneider, Kathy Schoendorf, Susan Schoenung, Marjorie Schulz, Lauren Schwartz, Edna Scott, Stanley Scott, Lynn Segal, Joe Seidel, Lalit Shahani, Kevin Sheehan, Dana Shields, Wendy Shindler,
Bonnie Sickinger, Michael Sickinger, Sangheeta Singh, Ann Sison, Court
Skinner, Joan Skurnick, Joan Smithline, Peg Spak, Gail Sredanovic, Tina
Stanford, Adam Stern, John Stimson, David Stone, Herbert Stone, Marjorie
Stone, Timothy Straight, Douglas Strauss, Peggy Stretch, Paul
Studemeister, Jennifer Sullivan, Brian Sutphin, Janice Sutphin, Kristin
Swanson, Janice Sweeney, Rob Swigart, William Tandler, Maria Tapia,
Mahra Teikmanis, Nancy Terry, Sara Tevis, Vera Teyravsky Goupille,
Charles Thomas, Ana Thompson, John Todd, Thomas Tranfaglia, Paula
Travers, Carl Treadwell, Victoria Tregoning, Klara Turner, Jana
Tuschman, Mark Tuschman, Terri Vaccaro, Alex Vaewsorn, Paul Vais, Victor Valdez Jr., Edward Wagner, Nancy Wagner, Ashley Wagstaff, Rebecca Wallace, Tim & Clare Warner, Joanne Wells, Christine Wendin, Robert Wendin, James Wiley, Janet Willbanks, Michael Williams, Catherine
Wilson, Ross Wilson, Teddy Wilson, Tyler Wilson, Georgia Windhorst, Bill
Wohler, Jackie Wood, Jennifer Yonemitsu, Elizabeth Youngblood, Anna Zara, Cheryl Zaslawsky, Marjorie Zimmerman, Ronald Zolezzi, and many more.
Paid for by Kelly Fergusson for City Council 2014, FPPC # 1265917
