Disgustingly, embarrassingly dirty sidewalks downtown & trash receptacles that don’t really work & leak black garbage juice onto sidewalks (Location: downtown – B Street)
Children and families would like to play without the stench and mosquito breeding grounds interfering. Disgusting garbage collecting area. (Location: Joinville Park near the water treatment plant)
I dislike huge potholes and terrible patches streets. (Location: North Central)
It is heartbreaking to see so many people living on the streets or on the brink of homelessness in our community. Affordable housing is the most critical issue of our time. (Location: Downtown San Mateo Caltrain Station)
Vacant building downtown, under utilized precious land downtown that could be transit oriented development. (Location:Downtown on 1st)
Obstacles in sidewalks indicate pedestrians are second-class citizens and cars are king. (Location: Sidewalk near El Camino)
Empty undeveloped lots downtown in prime locations. Why not build, lease to city for community garden, art gallery, pop up shop, pocket playground. (Location: Downtown on 1st ave)
Litter and Dumping! Our beautiful creek (just one example) here has a mattress and tons of other junk that has been there for months. Bonilla if litter is such a high priority why can’t you even tackle this simple situation? (Location: 3rd Ave Overpass at San Mateo Creek)
The chain link fence and trash make this house look abandoned. It is disgusting to walk by. (Location: North Central)
I dislike the broken sidewalk and litter. (Location: North Central)
The city staff asks for input on all sorts of things, does not really listen, and does what they want, regardless. The city staff go in circles because it all pays the same. Next year, they will take the same survey all over again. (Location: Anyplace San Mateo)
Instead of cars parked over the curb, there should be trees and larger sidewalks for comfortable pedestrianism. (Location: North Central Neighborhood)
The bike lanes get dropped as you approach the Caltrain station. This is a situation where the parking needs to go so we can have safe connections for people doing bike-transit trips. Cars can be stored in garages, driveways and side streets but I don’t have another option to ride to the station safely. (Location: Pacific south of Hillsdale Caltrain)
Millennials shouldn’t have to give up. It is becoming a joke even at the local Target & Wallmarts. (Location: Local Big Box Store)
New construction at Hillsdale. Massive and imposing structure right up to walk way. (Location: Hillsdale Mall)
Consumers Liquor, next to an old building with a dry cleaning place, and an old gas station awning. Underutilized real estate. These lots should be merged into a single lot, and it should have a two-story building on it that covers the entire lot, with no above-ground parking. A grocery store would be especially welcome, like Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods. (Location: At the corner of E Poplar Ave and San Mateo Drive)
Cars that are not parked in the street or on paved driveways. Trash everywhere. (North Central)
Wasted retail opportunity. Dead space in pedestrian experience. Vitality killer. (Location: 4th Ave., downtown San Mateo, mid-block.)
TRAFFIC CONGESTION!!! Highway 92 Eastbound at 3:30 pm (Location: Exiting Hillsdale from 92 to avoid traffic)
I dislike this because the city allows for unsightly overhead cables throughout our city. The city should consider regulating the aesthetics,which it has the legal authority to do, of overhead cables installed on our public streets and in residents’ backyards. (Location: Donner Street, 50 feet south of the Donner and 37th Ave intersection)
Needs a new playground. This playground is very well used during little league and doesn’t support the variety of ages of kid well.
(Location: Trinta Park)
The lack of grass, tons of dirt that kicks up and makes a mess for both pups and owners. (Location: Laurie Meadows Dog Park)
These buildings are monotonous and do not relate to their surrounding context. (Location: Looking from B Street and Baldwin Ave.)
Trying to get to Trader Joes. CONSTANT Traffic congestion and construction traffic. (Location: 25th Ave at RR tracks)
I use the bridge path to cross the freeway but the connection to destinations beyond is non-existent. 3rd and 4th were virtual used car lots so parking regulations were changed to 2 hour time limits. Take the next step and replace the parking with protected bike lanes to downtown and Caltrain. (Location: 3rd and Humboldt)
Telecom equipment (aka ‘small cell’) on already overloaded power pole. It is the harbinger of things to come. Due to our lax wireless ordinance, every pole in town will look like this one and worse. Yuck ! Fix the wireless ordinance or get ready for Ugly San Mateo. (Location: Directly in front of the home at 45 Madison Ave. 1506 Nadina St. is also awful and approved by the city.)
These make the neighborhood feel unsafe
(Location: Near Hayward park train station)
Disgusting trash receptacles. Collect garbage, feces, etc. and then drain on to the sidewalk. (Location: 25th Avenue)
This wall should be removed so people can walk between these 2 neighborhoods. The alternatives are walking more than a mile round trip or, more likely, driving. Show consistency with city policies and tear down that wall so people can walk and bike! (Location: Where 28th and Bermuda should meet)
The chain link fence is ugly and screams “keep out.” It collects trash, and the house looks abandoned. (Location: Delaware Street in North Central)
Deferred building maintenance, peeling paint, giving the street a shabby appearance. Neglect of one of the city’s most notable landmark buildings. (Location: Third Ave., downtown San Mateo)
A disinvested single family home in a neighborhood that had been segregated intentionally by land use and government policy. This home is lived in because we have skyrocketing rents and have incentivized disinvestment in some neighborhoods while concentrating wealth in exclusive ones. By zoning away the ability to reinvest in this property or respond to demand with more development, it is left to crumble. The wrongs of past policy are largely perpetuated and the city is prevented from growing, renewing, and adapting like traditional cities of the past, which were not segregated like they are today. (Location: North Central)
A disinvested home rotting from the ground up, doesn’t even have a roof, steps away from downtown San Mateo. Affordable housing should not be segregated and decrepit. If we as a city think this is acceptable “affordable” housing, then it is we who are depraved. Let’s regain our collective dignity. (North Central Neighborhood)
Residential Parking Permit Program is growing at an alarming pace due to the City not requiring parking generators, such as, businesses, developments, CalTrain to provide adequate onsite parking spaces. Permits are an inconvenience to live with and residents should never bare the cost of the program…. (Location: 15 Zones throughout the entire city of San Mateo)
Trash in the streets. Concentrated poverty = lack of community pride. (Location: Tilton Avenue at N Railroad Avenue)
It shows the unwelcoming attitude of too many of my neighbors. I like that it’s blunt. I dislike NIMBYs. (Location: Much more up in the hills, but all over.)
This is the joke of a ‘Bike Route’ along Delaware. It is emblematic of San Mateo’s failure to provide safety in places where it is needed the most. There are bike lanes north and south of this location but this is a terrifying section to ride through. City staff suggests not taking this route and says I should cross 5 lanes of uncontrolled, busy traffic to access Pacific but that is incredibly dangerous, too. Any bike ‘improvements’ should be ridden by staff proposing and approving them. (Location: Northbound Delaware approaching 92)
Overgrown shrubs and obstacles make walking on sidewalks uncomfortable. This makes me feel pedestrians are second class and prioritized lower than cars. (Location: Aragon neighborhood)
