Instead of building a new, bigger fire station in Menlo Park's Belle Haven neighborhood -- a plan that has drawn the ire of local residents -- Menlo Park Fire Protection District Chief Harold Schapelhouman has suggested the district work to build a new station in the industrial area around Belle Haven where most of the growth is taking place.
A new station elsewhere was one of the alternatives Chief Schapelhouman gave to the several dozen residents who came to a community meeting in the fire district's Chilco Street fire station on Saturday, April 29.
The neighbors let the chief and the three fire board members in attendance know that they don't like the original proposal to rebuild their 22-year-old neighborhood fire station so it can handle the neighboring industrial district's new and planned development.