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About V! 510 N St. Louis Park Community improvement does not come about by executive edict: it grows out of grassroots involvement. Involvement is what Vision St. Louis Park is all about. Our visioning process began with a 37-member steering committee composed of individual residents and people representing government, schools, businesses, community organizations and religious institutions. Aided by strategic planning professionals, this group began the process by first learning what St. Louis Park is concerned about. This was accomplished by resident surveys and focus group interviews. This and other information became the basis for community-wide goal setting which resulted in the vision statement that appears in this report. With this vision in hand, citizen task forces were formed to address each element of the vision statement. The task forces were asked to formulate specific suggestions that will help us achieve the goals outlined in our vision statement. In other words, turn our vision into reality. Ail of this has been preliminary to the main event: the action phase. We have now reached the action phase. That's why these recommendations are being submitted to you: the residents of St. Louis Park. Although these recommendations are also being submitted to the St. Louis Park City Council, St. Louis Park School Board and the TwinWest Chamber of Commerce, our vision will not be achieved by government or community institutions. Ultimately, all 44,000 St. Louis Park residents must share responsibility for making this a healthy and thriving community in the years to come. The test of our community will lie in our capacity to act on these themes and implement the task forces' recommendations. We have the opportunity to design our community of choice for the future or resign ourselves to live with whatever happens. You are invited to participate in living the vision: please call us at 924-2519. We are the community and the vision is ours.t