Community Outreach

The City is undertaking this Master Plan effort to strategize the best way to allocate stormwater resources to better the community.  The projects outlined in this plan will have lasting impacts for everyone within the community.  Projects often affect parks, streets, and other high use public spaces.  They include hidden utilities that help prevent flooding, clean our water, and replenish our aquifers.  Most people rarely think of these important under-gound features.  We only tend to notice them when they’re lacking or while they’re being installed.

A good plan created by talented people could be generated without feedback, but is it good enough for YOUR City?  It’s no surprise that the best parks and projects receive input from the people they serve.  Since the El Monte community uses the space, the El Monte community knows better than anyone what is wanted and needed from the space as it’s repurposed.

Unfortunately, the City doesn’t have endless budgets and space to add every amenity.  They must come up with realistic plans where they can provide the best solution in the most cost-effective manner.  Figuring out the best way to do this is through outreach feedback.  Without outreach, planners give their best educated guesses on how to proceed.

These are talented people doing the planning and a good plan could be generated without feedback. It might not be the best plan for El Monte though. It is the community that will use the space. The community knows best what it wants and needs. So it should be no surprise that the best parks and projects are those that receive large amounts of feedback from the community.