Dear Mayor and City Council,
Re: June 10, 2024 Agenda Item 12
I protest undedicating a portion of El Camino Park because it fails to identify Stanford-owned land within City limits that could be dedicated instead.
In consideration of the request to undedicate a portion of El Camino Park as parkland, where a bus route that greatly benefits Stanford University for the reduction in time for the Marguerite Shuttle to enter the station, I request that Stanford University instead dedicate a portion of the Mayfield Playing Fields (El Camino Real and Page Mill Road) as parkland. In addition, there would remain a small piece of El Camino Park that remains parkland. Rather, this portion should be undedicated as well so that the parkland is one contiguous piece of land and is all usable as parkland. There is sufficient land at the Mayfield Playing Fields site to dedicate as usable parkland.
Best regards,
Arthur Keller
3881 Corina Way
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Protest Against the Proposed Discontinuation of the
Park Dedication of a Portion of El Camino Park
Date: June 10, 2024
To: City Clerk, City of Palo Alto
From: Herb Borock
Address: 433 Kingsley Avenue, Palo Alto
T protest the proposed discontinuance of the Park Dedication of a portion of El Camino Park, because the legal description of E1 Camino Park in the discontinuance notice as codified in Exhibit A-19 to Title 22 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code is not an accurate description of El Camino Park due to the fact that the most recent amendment to that legal description eliminated reference to the most recent non-codified time-limited voter approved discontinuance of a portion of that park that expired on June 30, 2013 for a 120' x 200' leasehold for the American National Red Cross, Palo Alto Area Chapter (Ordinance No. 2934), while Stanford University has been illegally leasing that portion of El Camino Park to the Red Cross for over ten years, and Stanford University is the primary beneficiary of the current proposed discontinuance of park dedication for another portion of El Camino Park.
Prior to requesting the voters to discontinue a portion of the park dedication of El Camino Park for the proposed Quarry Road extension, the Council needs to take appropriate action regarding the illegal use of another portion of the same park, including obtaining any illegal rental payments received by Stanford from the Red Cross leasehold, encouraging Stanford to find another location for the Red Cross building on Stanford's vast acreage that is not dedicated parkind, and restoring that leasehold site in both fact and law as part of El Camino Park.
T have included my residence address as required for a valid protest, however Tam aware that it is the habit and custom of the City Clerk's office to redact personally identifiable information such as individual residence addresses from any correspondence included on the City's website.
Signature
OFFICE OF CITY CLERK
3:50
1 JUN 1 0 2024
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