Three New Office Buildings Asked in M.P.--

Big addition for Geological Survey OKed

Plans for three new office buildings with a total valuation of more than a million dollars were considered last night by the Menlo Park Planning Commission.

One of the proposals--for an $800,000 addition to the U.S. Geological Survey building in Linfield Oaks--was approved by the commission.

The two-story addition will adjoin the existing offices of the Geological Survey on Homewood Place. The new building will be erected by Claude T. Lindsay Co., developers of Linfield Oaks, and leased to the government.

Eventually, the Menlo Park officers will become the western regional headquarters of the Geological Survey.

The commission received, for the first time, plans for a two-story $200,000 combination store and recreation hall building to be erected on Chestnut Street and Oak Grove Avenue by Horace Siino of Menlo Park. The plans were taken under study.

Siino said the building will have space for stores on the main floor and a meeting area for organizations on the second floor. The basement may be used for a bowling alley, he said.

Plans for an 18-office, $50,000 office building on Burgess Drive near Alma Street were held over after the applicant, J & M Builders, failed to send a representative to explain the details.

In other action the commission during its regular meeting last night:

1. Recommended approval of a request by Dr. Arno W. Singhoff to use a house at 1054 Chestnut Street for professional offices.

2. Recommended approval of an application by Mrs. Olive Daly of Phoenix, Ariz., to subdivide a lot of Pope and Woodland into two lots. The lots will face on Pope Street.

3. Set a public hearing on Nov. 7 of an application by the Macedonia Baptist Church to erect a new church building on Berkeley near Bayshore.

4. Recommended approval of the request of Grover Moore, 479 El Camino Real, to resubdivide a portion of a lot on Valparaiso and Arbor.

5. Approved plans for a 49 by 26 foot store building at 1251 El Camino Real. The plans were submitted by Roland Midgley, electrical contractor.

6. Approved plans for a quonset-type industrial building on Hamilton Avenue for Paul Long.

Palo Alto Times
October 4, 1955

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