San Marcos Downtown Area Plan

CHAPTER 2: ENGAGEMENT SUMMARY

Main Street Advisory Board Presentation #2

Oversight Committee Meeting #2

Community Open House #2 & Online Commenting

Stakeholder Meeting #5

2023

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

Stakeholder Meeting #4 Pop-up Event #2

Community Open House #3

Public Review of Draft Plan

Throughout the planning process, different public engagement tools and methods were employed to help break down complex concepts and enable people to understand the content and provide feedback. A variety of meeting tools were used to engage with the public. In a virtual or hybrid setting, software tools included Zoom, Mural, Mentimeter, and Konveio. Customized creative activities such as sticky note exercises, comment cards, map and dot exercises, and drawing activities were developed for use in each stakeholder and public meeting depending on the format, subject matter, and desired types of feedback.

Comments from a Downtown public engagement event

City staff talking to community members at a Downtown Area Plan community workshop event.

The project team touring downtown

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