Menlo Park’s Measure P Fight Tops $478,000 as Downtown Parking-Lot Housing Plan Heads to Voters

With ballots going out Oct. 5, Menlo Park’s Measure P — a citizen initiative requiring voter approval before the city redevelops any of its eight downtown parking lots — has drawn nearly $478,000 in campaign money and turned the city’s plan for 345 affordable homes, and the three developer teams competing to build them, into a referendum on downtown’s future.