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Require voter approval before Menlo Park changes city-owned downtown parking-lot properties in ways that reduce parking availability, access or convenience. Covered changes include selling or leasing the properties, allowing new uses such as housing, and construction or alterations. Approval would have to come through another ballot measure.
Official source: https://smcacre.gov/elections/november-3-2026-statewide-general-election
Approval requirement: Majority (county listing).
Should the measure, which prohibits the City of Menlo Park from making changes to City-owned downtown parking lot properties, including selling, leasing, or conveying any of the properties, authorizing a new use such as housing development on any of the properties, or modifying, altering, or constructing improvements on any of the properties, if such change would diminish parking availability, access or convenience, unless the voters pass another ballot measure to approve the change, be adopted?
Official ballot wording and filing (PDF page 2). Wording transcribed from the official filing; line breaks and spacing normalized.
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Official ballot wording and filing (PDF page 2)
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