"“Hoping to squeeze large apartment buildings into narrow, heavily used downtown parking lots … is not a path to success,” Save Downtown Menlo organizer Alex Beltramo told me in an email. When I pointed out that the Menlo Park City Council has pledged to replace most, if not all, of the 556 parking spaces that would be impacted, Beltramo argued it wouldn’t be sufficient for residents and shoppers and replacing surface lots with parking garages would be “more difficult to navigate and far less convenient.”"
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emilyhoeven/article/menlo-park-affordable-housing-20390001.php