Chris Clark

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Mountain View City Council · City Council on 2026-03-10 5:30 PM - REGULAR MEETING - Mar 10, 2026 · 10 Mar 2026 meeting

I know that's very tricky, but a good endeavor for a future council.

I'm thinking about Councilmember Hicks' suggestion and I'm not sure I actually agree.

Maybe you could persuade me to support it, but recently I went to a restaurant in a part of the city far outside of downtown.

a restaurant i like and i was meeting a couple of friends from out of town and it took them a while to find it because they don't have a sign they have like if you go up to i knew where it was right so i walked up to it and you could see they have a very tiny like like this sort of size sign um but my my friends were sort of giving me a hard time like we thought this place was closed because they didn't have or like there was a vacant storefront since they didn't have um

something that you could see like when you're navigating the shopping center.

So I think I appreciate the intent, but I want to make sure we don't leave businesses outside of the downtown out of, or we don't give them the same opportunity since it could be for some of them the difference between viability and non-viability if people don't know.

If you drive past it, it looks like it's a vacant space.

So I'd love to find a way to make sure we're not, you know, you know, disadvantaging other businesses.

Because I want to respect the suggestion and maybe find a way to yes, but I'm a little concerned that if we narrow the outreach too much, then I'm not sure that that business owner, for instance, would think, oh, I should go to the city and see if there's a grant program for the facade.

That's not intuitive, I think, for most.

So I'm thinking about is there a way where

we can achieve the spirit of the request, but not leave some businesses that would benefit immensely from participation in the program, not denying them that opportunity.

Do you want to respond?

Yeah, so funny you should say that because in discussion both with Mr. Katz and now with the community development director, they said similar things.

I think that the highest impact if we had multiple facade grants would be on the walkable, would be on the pedestrian mall.

Frankly, I think the

I think many things about our downtown and pedestrian mall are really great and thriving, but I think the facades could use some upgrades and it could make a big difference.

I do think, though, that you're exactly right, that there are other places that could benefit, too, and I really liked

what mr murdoch said about um about uh not confining the so i could have said the facade grant should only go to the first three blocks of castro street but i think that the program should be available citywide but just most of the the door knocking and promotion could be on the the downtown and that's not to say i also believe that this there should be continual improvement you know if

If the downtown has upgraded a tremendous amount over the next, give me any timeframe you want, year, two years, we could continue and promote other pockets citywide.

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