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The Menlo Park 2023-2031 Housing Element includes a list of potential future sites for affordable housing. The list includes city-owned land, e.g., eight Downtown parking lots, and private land the City would lease. The City could also require that below market rentals (BMR) housing is included in new residential developments.

Sites With The Potential For At Least 100 Affordable Housing Units

Large City-Owned Sites The City Excluded From Its “Opportunity Site” List.

• Parks and open spaces (e.g., Burgess Park, Nealon Park, Sharon Park),
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• Active civic facilities (e.g., Fire Station 77, Civic Center),
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• Infrastructure facilities (e.g., Sharon Heights Pump Station, Corporation Yard),
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• Buildings with long-term leases beyond the eight-year planning period (e.g., city-owned land at 1000 El Camino Real),
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• Sites in City Council District 1 (e.g., Belle Haven Child Development Center, 1283 Willow Rd. lot), because of AFFH considerations and the scale and volume of multi-family residential development in the district. In 2016, the City Council adopted ConnectMenlo, which focused on increased residential development in the Bayfront area,
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• Parcels too small or irregularly shaped for development (e.g., narrow rights-of-way, lots less than 0.5 acres in size),
  
• Parcels with environmental constraints (e.g., sloping creekside lots).

Large Privately-Owned Sites The City Excluded From Its “Opportunity Site” List.

• Three sites in Bohannon Park on Marsh Road. (District 2)

Big Challenges

• Other than the Downtown parking lots, the City has not identified any additional feasible sites that could provide at least 100 units of affordable housing.
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• The City has refused to study sites at the Civic Center, the Corporate Public Works Yard, and sites at Bohannon Park.