Petitions were circulated to attempt to put the City Council's resolution adopting the plan to a public vote, but there were not enough signatures collected before the deadline. Thank you to everyone who cares enough about Downtown Brookings to circulate or sign petitions.

The authors of the plan said at the City Council meeting when it was adopted and in their online FAQs page that they would not implement concepts from the plan without community support. To assist them in finding out which concepts do have community support, many downtown businesses have short one-page surveys available now and through at least December 1 for anyone who shops, lives, or works downtown to indicate whether or not you support each of several major projects in the plan. You do not need to be a resident or registered voter in Brookings to participate in the survey. The results will be shared with the City of Brookings government and the authors of the plan, and they will also be published in local papers and online.

For any projects that are opposed by most of the community members that answer the survey, the authors of the plan should not bring them to the City Council for approval. If they do, the City Council should vote those projects down. If the Council passes any of them, petitions can be circulated to put each of those to a vote of citizens of Brookings. Now that many more people know about the Downtown Master Plan than knew about it when it was first adopted, we should be able to collect enough signatures to put them to a vote.

You can also download and print the survey from www.brosts.com/DMPSurvey.pdf and drop it off at any store in downtown Brookings with a Downtown Master Plan Survey Available Here sign or mail it to DMP Survey, PO Box 683, Brookings, SD 57006.