Unlike neighboring Peninsula cities, the City of Menlo Park lacks a current vision for its downtown, makes minimal investments in maintaining and improving basic civic infrastructure, and does not know how to effectively engage our community in planning new projects.

Key Advocacy Strategies

Develop effective ways…

• For our community to collectively figure out (a) what we want Downtown to become, (b) identify specific opportunities and projects; (c) set priorities; (d) evaluate potential solutions and issues; (e) estimate budgets, and (f) develop practical proposals.
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• To engage city councils and help them make decisions that truly represent our interests.
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• Keep our community well-informed about all potential, approved and active civic projects that impact Downtown.