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1. I was against Measure V in Menlo Park until I learned that the neighbors offered the RCSD to build a very dense 60 units but reserve them all for teachers and faculty. The RCSD rejected that becaue they wanted 90 units and a mix of market rate units because the affordable rents they promised teachers didin’t generate enough revenue. I think 60 brand new units reserved for teachers is pretty darn PRO TEACHER! This isn’t about teachers for the RCSD it’s about good old fashioned greed. No wonder the major backers are developers!

   • I’d love to know who was @Menlo Voter’s source since that’s inconsistent with everything both sides have said. It’s sad to see the Measure V people, who realize they’re going to lose, making up stuff. Get out there and argue the merits of your position with real facts, not lies like this.

     • Nice try. Will Eger, RCSD chief business officer, is on the roecord over and over saying that anything less than 90 units is not financially viable as it would not generate the desired revenue for the district. Write him yourself, he will tell you. His contact info is on the RCSD website. Council members Combs and Mueller tried to broker a compromise, as did the residents of Suburban Park. Will shot them all down. Again, ask him yourself if you don’t want to go through the council meeting records. Suburban Park wanted teachers in space, it was the RCSD that said they only wanted some teachers.

       • If he’s on record, can you cite at least one document or moment on video when he says this?

         I’m waiting. I’m sure I’ll be waiting for a long time.

         Let’s be honest about this, Measure V was an attempt to keep teachers in a Latino school district from having housing in a neighborhood with single-family homes. The proponents saw it as a “plus” that killing the housing project would deprive the RCSD of funds from the rents paid for that housing. Segregation lives on, at least in Suburban Park.

         • Thois is typical of the “No” side. Throw out racist lies. If these folks want to keep latino teachers why did they propose 60 units with 30 dedicated thos those teachers? Why did they propose RCSD sell units to latino teachers instead of rent to them?

           I’m not going to comb the city council agenda minutes because you’re too lazy. Like the MAGA folks you would simply say it was somehow planted. I’m sure you’re not going to ask Mr Eger because you don’t want the truth. You’re happier in your alternative facts.

   • 90 units would allow the Ravenswood district, which has been underfunded forever, to generate more money from the rents than 60 units. That money would go into the classroom. I guess the Suburban Park residents don’t want the Ravenswood schools to improve. If the money were going to the Menlo Park City School District, they’d be singing a different tune.

2. Measure V is going to pass and every candidate in Menlo knows it.
   It’s the most polarizing ballot measure we’ve seen in a decade, and if a candidate says they don’t have an opinionm, they haven’t been paying attention.
   Don’t vote for any candidate who sits on the fence.

3. Now it’s a “moral disgrace.” Enough of the shaming. If you’re a homeowner in Menlo Park and you vote “NO” on Measure V, you have zero business complaining when the city council votes to screw up your neighborhood and property values. You won’t have a voice – you will have given it away.

   Or you can “trust us” as so many are saying. Sure. Go ahead, trust the council and the developers opposing your voice. See how that works out. On the plus side, maybe the council will grant you a property tax reduction after they get done making Menlo “affordable.”

4. I bought a home in Menlo Park specifically because of the neighborhoods. I came from a more affordable city in the Bay Area, and could have purchased a home there for half the price of Menlo Park. But I was so tired of the loud weekend nights where music went on until the wee hours, and fireworks all Summer long. If you make the mistake of confronting your neighbors you and your family are going to be threatened. And I love the fact that I don’t have to budget for at least one car break-in every year. If Menlo Park becomes “affordable” I’ll be preserving my investment before it drops and moving to a quiet, family city.

5. Pay close attention to the “NO on V” signs in your hood. When it starts looking like EPA and crime rises you’ll want to know who to thank.

   • So, not actually about traffic, then. Carry on.

   • Lol crime has risen everywhere. EPA values vulnerable residents, renters aren’t treated like third class citizens and they build affordable housing. They also are entertained by comments like yours.

     • Actually in 2021 violent crime in Menlo Park dropped, while it rose in EPA. Although it is dropping overall as the city gentrifies. Maybe someday it will be safe, if it completely turns over.

       • Lol pro-gentrifying outsiders like you are always good for a laugh.

       • EPA is still a dangerous hellscape after dark! Gentrification lowers crime, that’s a fact. But if you want to improve anything, you have to go through people like Melissa, who would rather live in a trash heap.

         • It’s funny that you think you know what you’re talking about. Your racist dog whistles are quite the take, as if it was 1922. How edgy!

6. Melissa, why would you even bring up race? I never mentioned it (or thought about it). That’s your hangup. It’d be nice if you were to drop all of your hostility and allow for improvements to take place to EPA for the sake of your neighbors and friends. But I doubt you’ll have anything constructive to say in response, just another snipe stemming from your race issue. Sad!

7. Last chance homeowners of Menlo Park to protect your investment. The “No” side knows that only Measure V can stop their agenda to build thousands of cheaply built dense apartments. Oh, did you think this was just about the Flood School site? Just how do you think they’re going to “make Menlo Park affordable?” ALL property values have to come way down for Menlo to become affordable, by any definition. It’s simple economics. And if you and I get hurt along the way that’s just fine with them.

   • So who’s going to pass and oversee this supposed agenda of building thousands of cheaply built dense apartments in single-family neighborhoods? Not this city council – they already had their say. No single-family homes got upzoned in their 8-year plan. And I didn’t see developers pushing council to upzone or develop single-family neighborhoods either. It’s simple economics – as you said. Doesn’t pencil out.

     Measure V was designed to stop one thing: a dense, affordable educator housing development proposed for the site of a former school. Everything else is just noise. Most No on V people I know are aware of this. Also, they’d like to see that one site (which was never a single-family home) turned into affordable housing without requiring heavy-handed state intervention.

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