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Menlo Park adopts 2025 General Plan APR, including housing and environmental justice elements
Summary
The City Council unanimously adopted the 2025 General Plan Annual Progress Report, advancing housing projects and beginning implementation of an environmental justice fund; staff highlighted loan and pipeline activity and said work on an anti-displacement strategy will continue this year.
The Menlo Park City Council voted unanimously March 24 to accept the 2025 General Plan Annual Progress Report, which includes the housing element, an environmental justice (EJ) element and the Annual Housing Successor Report.
Principal Planner Tom Smith told the council the APR summarizes 2025 implementation and statutory reporting. "In 2025 the City provided Habitat for Humanity of Greater San Francisco a $3.6 million loan to purchase the site at 335 Pierce Road for an eight-unit low-income ownership project," Smith said, and he detailed other pipeline projects and permit activity.
The nut graf: the APR documents both completed steps and work still to do on housing and equity — staff reported 102 new dwelling units received building permits in 2025 and described ongoing anti-displacement work and early EJ investments. The EJ implementation approach includes a proposed $1 million transfer from the Bayfront Mitigation…
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