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I am enclosing a letter I sent to the City of San Mateo about 7 years ago about Accessibility for Shoreview residents to downtown San Mateo.
I am very happy to read this document and that focus will finally be made to connect communities separated by 101.
What efforts is the city of San Mateo making to minimize the discrepancy in access to city facilities like libraries, parks, city government and other government offices for the inhabitants of Shoreview?
The Bayshore Freeway has since 1962 become a major architectural hinder for the residents of Shoreview to access the facilities located on West San Mateo.
The San Mateo Municipal Dump was long known as the Shoreview Dump creating a terrible stigma for the Shoreview neighborhoods.
The combination of being cut off from the center of San Mateo and our neighborhood humiliated for years as the location of a dumping facility has a negative effect on the residents of Shoreview. Children growing up in our neighborhoods soon comprehend that they live on the wrong side of town.
Shoreview has always been a blue collar neighborhood. We are an evolving community today. Many of us take care of gardens in the city, care for the eldly in San Mateo, work in restaurants in downtown San Mateo. We would like to have easier access to the lovely features of the center of San Mateo on the westside of the city.
There are only a few bridges (4) /walkways/bicycle paths between Peninsula Avenue in the north and 19th Avenue in the south, a distance of more than 5 miles.
The residents of Shoreview, the handicapped, people of low income who can’t afford bus tickets, others without cars, children and other people on bikes have difficulties to cross the Highway 101 to come to San Mateo Central Park, the Central Library on 3rd Avenue, City Hall, the Social Security offices etc.
Other communities in the United States are creating bridges over highways so that animals can cross without being hurt.
What efforts is the City of San Mateo taking or planning to deal with this discrepancy—Isolation—discrimination—negative effect of quality of life—risk for segregation with all the consequences that follow when a part of the city, Shoreview is blocked in and cut off by a freeway?
I am very happy to read this document and that focus will finally be made to connect communities separated by 101.
What efforts is the city of San Mateo making to minimize the discrepancy in access to city facilities like libraries, parks, city government and other government offices for the inhabitants of Shoreview?
The Bayshore Freeway has since 1962 become a major architectural hinder for the residents of Shoreview to access the facilities located on West San Mateo.
The San Mateo Municipal Dump was long known as the Shoreview Dump creating a terrible stigma for the Shoreview neighborhoods.
The combination of being cut off from the center of San Mateo and our neighborhood humiliated for years as the location of a dumping facility has a negative effect on the residents of Shoreview. Children growing up in our neighborhoods soon comprehend that they live on the wrong side of town.
Shoreview has always been a blue collar neighborhood. We are an evolving community today. Many of us take care of gardens in the city, care for the eldly in San Mateo, work in restaurants in downtown San Mateo. We would like to have easier access to the lovely features of the center of San Mateo on the westside of the city.
There are only a few bridges (4) /walkways/bicycle paths between Peninsula Avenue in the north and 19th Avenue in the south, a distance of more than 5 miles.
The residents of Shoreview, the handicapped, people of low income who can’t afford bus tickets, others without cars, children and other people on bikes have difficulties to cross the Highway 101 to come to San Mateo Central Park, the Central Library on 3rd Avenue, City Hall, the Social Security offices etc.
Other communities in the United States are creating bridges over highways so that animals can cross without being hurt.
What efforts is the City of San Mateo taking or planning to deal with this discrepancy—Isolation—discrimination—negative effect of quality of life—risk for segregation with all the consequences that follow when a part of the city, Shoreview is blocked in and cut off by a freeway?
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