March 5, 2018 - This week's stories

• Planning Commission Holds Study Session on Facebook’s Willow Village Project
• Arbor Day Foundation names Menlo Park Tree City USA, Growth Award Winner
• Suburban Park street lighting outage
• Science Night Returns to the Library
• Railroad Trenching and Tunneling roundtable in Palo Alto

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Planning Commission Holds Study Session on Facebook’s Willow Village Project

To kick off the City’s formal review of Facebook’s Willow Village project, the Planning Commission held a study session on the proposed mixed-use office, retail, and residential development located at the intersection of Willow Road and Hamilton Avenue at its meeting Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. The study session provided the Planning Commission an opportunity to learn more about the proposed project, which includes 1,500 multi-family housing units, approximately...Click to continue

Arbor Day Foundation names Menlo Park Tree City USA, Growth Award Winner

The Arbor Day Foundation has recognized The City of Menlo Park as a 2017 Tree City USA. This is the City’s 19th consecutive year as a Tree City, an indication of Menlo Park’s commitment to effective urban forest management. In addition, the Arbor Day Foundation recognized the City of Menlo Park with a Growth Award for the fifth year in row. The Growth Award demonstrates an environmental improvement and higher level of...Click to continue

Suburban Park street lighting outage

The street lights in the Suburban Park neighborhood have been out since the evening of Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018. PG&E turned off its power source Thursday as part of a project in the Town of Atherton. These street lights share the same power source as the Town of Atherton’s street lights in the Greenoaks neighborhood. In conjunction with Atherton’s street light conversion project in the Greenoaks neighborhood, PG&E needed to turn off this power source to perform their work. PG&E has told the City...Click to continue

Science Night Returns to the Library

The Menlo Park Main Library marks its 6th Science Night March 8 from 6:30-8:30 p.m., with hands-on fun for all ages. Lawrence Hall of Science will be a part of the event for the first time, filling up much of the library’s Great Hall with its “Build, Engineer, Invent” festival, offering design challenges to bring out the engineer and architect in everyone. Other first-time presenters include the Menlo Park City School District, which will offer the opportunity to explore circuits and the conductivity of...Click to continue

Railroad Trenching and Tunneling roundtable in Palo Alto

Trenching and tunneling options of the Palo Alto portion of the Caltrain railroad corridor is the main topic at an upcoming Community Roundtable Tuesday, March 6, 2018, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium at 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto. The City of Palo Alto is hosting this roundtable as part of their Connecting Palo Alto efforts. Join them to hear a presentation and participate in a discussion about rail trenching and tunneling...Click to continue

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