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Menlo Park businesses raise $130,000 to fight redevelopment of downtown parking lots
(www.almanacnews.com)
Save the cars! Park the unsheltered elsewhere! /s
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I wouldn't be surprised if they also complain alot about homeless people.
When our city pedestrianized its shopping districts, downtown businesses complained loudly, but subsequently thrived.
And yes, delivery vehicles, public transit, taxis, mobility vehicles and those with handicapped stickers still have access, so nobody's the worse off.
I wonder how much Save Downtown Menlo is a front for the parking-lot operators.
Its probably not a front, many business owners just don't realize the value of pedestrian traffic. They assume if their customers can't park their cadilac escalade steps from the front door they won't get any business at all.
Paying taxes for something doesn't mean you own it. Even if it did, I doubt the businesses fighting housing today are the same ones that paid the taxes 45-70 years ago.
Their brains might be cars, but their hearts are parking lots.
Well Menlo Park is the city where a lot of streets don't even have sidewalks, so I'm really not surprised.
Gross