Divisadero Street Neighborhood Marketplace Initiative - Office of ...

Next StepsImplementing the Action Plan: The City’s Role and theCommunity’s ParticipationThe action plan is intended as a tool for community members from which towork and drive positive change. MOEWD encourages collaboration amongthe Divisadero merchants, residents, property owners, and other communitymembers interested in volunteering to work on projects identified as prioritiesin the planning process.The City’s Neighborhood Marketplace Initiative program will also contributeto the improvement of Divisadero Street. While City departments will takethe lead on some of the action plan items, the action plan is intended tobe the launching pad and blueprint for the community to empower itself,with assistance from the City. MOEWD staff is available to provide technicalassistance in moving forward those volunteer-led projects, and convenequarterly meetings for stakeholders.Ideally, a corridor collaborative would organize into separate sub-committees,each focused on one or more of the action plan topic areas such as Safety andcleanliness, Small business support, Marketing and neighborhood promotion,Land use and development, or Streetscape improvements and greening.ConclusionThe Divisadero Street Commercial Corridor project has the potential to bringpositive change in the economic and physical health of the neighborhood.We hope that with neighbors and the City working together that theneighborhood will become a more vibrant, diverse, inclusive, clean, andeconomically healthy.Divisadero Street Neighborhood Marketplace Initiative35