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        • 2025 February 3: Economic Development | MARC ACTION TEAM
        • 2025 January 28: Beautification & Livability | MARC ACTION TEAM
        • 2025 January 25 | Discussion: Conversion to LED Streetlights
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        • 2024 December 2nd | Help Reboot Monroe Avenue
        • 2024 November 30th: Small Business Saturday
        • 2024 November 13: UMNA General Meeting
        • 2024 November 10th: Monroe Branch Library 110th Anniversary Celebration
        • 2024 October 29: Results of the Monroe Avenue Revitalization Community Input Survey
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        • 2024 October 14: Sunrise Ceremony | Indigenous Peoples Day
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        • 2024 September 7th: Discussion of Public Safety in the Pinnacle Rd Area
        • 2024 September 5th: Exploring The Architectural Heritage of Upper Monroe
        • 2024 August 31st: Vacant Properties on Crosman Terrace
        • 2024 August 29: Guided Walk Through Washington Grove
        • 2024 August 21: A discussion about bringing "Garden Walk" to Upper Monroe
        • 2024 August 20: Informal UMNA leaders conversation at TRATA
        • 2024 August 14: Help tidy up Monroe Avenue with Walking For Rochester
        • 2024 June 27: Ladybug Day
        • 2024 June 24: Informal UMNA leaders conversation at Bar Bad Ending
        • 2024 June 19 & 22: Invasive Plant Removal on Pinnacle Hill
        • 2024 June 20: Monroe Avenue Community Input Launch Party
        • 2024 June 12: UMNA General Meeting
        • 2024 May 23: Plant Exchange + Lemonade Social
        • 2024 May 21: Informal UMNA leaders conversation at Bar Bad Ending
        • 2024 May 11: Restore The Children's Garden
        • 2024 May 4: Clean & Preen | City of Rochester Clean Sweep Program
        • 2024 April 25: Walking Tour of Washington Grove
        • 2024 April 23: Informal UMNA leaders conversation at TRATA
        • 2024 April 16: 2025 Preventative Maintenance Project Public Meeting #1
        • 2024 March 30: Tidy Up Monroe Ave For Eclipse Visitors
        • 2024 March 23: UMNA Annual Meeting
        • 2024 February 13: Alternatives to a downtown Business Improvement District
        • 2024 January 13: Special Meeting regarding the Zoning Alignment Project
      • 2023
        • 2023 November 14th: General Meeting
        • 2023 October, 27th: "Thousands Of Bodies Buried In Upper Monroe! Where Are They?"
        • 2023 September 10th: Monroe Avenue Clean-up with Walking For Rochester
        • 2023 September 7th: Guided Walk Through Washington Grove
        • 2023 August 31st: "Architecture In The Wild: Exploring Upper Monroe"
        • 2023 August 19th: #UMNAsocial at Cobbs Hill Park
        • 2023 August 3rd: #UMNAsocial at TRATA
        • 2023 July 30th: Monroe Avenue Clean-up with Walking For Rochester
        • 2023 June 15th: Guided Walk Through Washington Grove
        • 2023 June 6th: General Meeting
        • 2023 April 29th: Clean & Preen | Clean Sweep
        • 2023 13th & 15th April: #UMNAsocial
        • 2023 April 4th: General Meeting
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Monroe Avenue Community Mobilization

The Monroe Avenue Revitalization Coalition will develop plans to revitalize Monroe Avenue by using input from the general public.

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Overview

The recently formed launched its first major effort to engage residents, visitors, businesses and the community at large to understand the needs and hoped-for future of Monroe Avenue.

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2025 January 28: Beautification & Livability | MARC ACTION TEAM

2025 February 3: Economic Development | MARC ACTION TEAM

2025 February 5: Security & Public Safety | MARC ACTION TEAM

Report: Community Meeting on December 2, 2024

Another sizable contingent of neighbors from the Monroe Avenue corridor and many other areas of Rochester gathered at The Lutheran Church Of The Incarnate Word on December 2nd.

This time each participant was asked to join one of three groups: Beautification and Neighborhood Quality of Life; Crime and Public Safety; and Economic Development. Each sub-group was asked to generate more ideas and discuss them. As a result of this concerted effort more than 100 ideas were efficiently reviewed.

There are two overarching principles at work that drive this effort: grassroots participation & positive efforts to move the community forward.


Report: Community Meeting on October 29, 2024

It was standing-room-only on October 29th in the big meeting room of the Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word at the community meeting to review a recent survey on the future of Monroe Avenue. Over 1,000 respondents participated in the survey over the summer. Neighbors and business owners spoke passionately on a range of topics citing current concerns and hopes for the future.

A number of elected officials and their staff members were in the room. Representatives from the Mayor’s office and the Rochester Police Department were also present. The meeting was widely covered in local media.

All interested individuals are invited to a follow-up work group-style meeting scheduled for Monday, December 2nd at 7:00 pm at the Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word on the southwest corner of East Avenue and South Goodman Street. Small groupings of volunteers will review and digest all the information gathered to date and begin to develop an action plan.


Timeline

  • Launch survey and generate community awareness and excitement about the effort at the 2024 June 20: Monroe Avenue Community Input Launch Party.

  • The survey remained open from June 20, 2024 until August 31, 2024.

  • FINAL COUNT: 1,038 responses

  • Tabulate and analyze the survey results early in the Fall of 2024.

  • Host a community meeting late in October, 2024 to report on the results of the survey and engage the community in a discussion about the future of Monroe Avenue.

  • Use the information to develop plans for Monroe Avenue as well as apply for grants to support those plans.

This effort aligns with UMNA's Multi-year Monroe Avenue Revitalization Plan.

Contact

In the weeks to come the steering committee will sift through the results and prepare for more work to be done by the community. anticipates each of the three groups will meet separately by the end of January, 2025 to flesh out the next steps.

The Upper Monroe Neighborhood Association is a founding member of . work aligns with the

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Following the presentation representatives of the transitioned into facilitation mode and invited comments as well as written submissions from attendees. Members of took extensive notes and collected all the written input.

To communicate directly with MARC please write to .

Monroe Avenue Revitalization Coalition (MARC)
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MARC’s
UMNA’s Multi-year Monroe Avenue Revitalization Plan
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD AND READ A SUMMARY OF THE SURVEY RESULTS
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