Glenn Martin · Mayor of Arroyo Grande 2026
Rooted in Arroyo Grande.
Working for Our Future.
A practical, hometown leader with 25 years of service to the Central Coast — ready to keep Arroyo Grande the special place we all call home.
Priorities for Arroyo Grande
A Clear, Practical Plan
Grounded in the issues facing our city right now — from the budget to the General Plan — with the steady, local experience to get them right.
Fiscal Responsibility
Arroyo Grande faces a real budget shortfall. I'll bring a business owner's discipline to city spending — funding core services first and protecting taxpayers.
Responsible Growth & the General Plan
Let's finish the General Plan update the right way — with real community input — so we decide our future on purpose, not one project at a time.
Roads, Water & Infrastructure
Reliable streets, a secure long-term water supply, and well-maintained infrastructure are the basics. I'll treat them as the priorities they are.
Village Character & Local Business
The historic Village and our small businesses are the heart of Arroyo Grande. I'll protect that character while helping our local economy thrive.
Glenn Martin · Arroyo Grande
About Glenn
A Lifetime of Service to Our Community
For more than 25 years, Glenn Martin has helped Arroyo Grande's property owners, small businesses, and tenants solve real problems — while serving on the Planning Commission and in our local chambers. Now he's ready to bring that same practical approach to City Hall.
Glenn is the owner and principal of Glenn Martin Company, a commercial real estate brokerage and property management firm based right here on Traffic Way. For over two decades he has worked alongside the local property owners, small businesses, and tenants who make up the backbone of Arroyo Grande's economy — earning a reputation for integrity, straight talk, and getting things done.
Born in Long Beach and a graduate of UC Santa Barbara, where he studied philosophy and political science before earning his degree in history, Glenn first came to the Central Coast in 1986. He and his wife, Colleen, whom he met at a YMCA summer camp and married in 1984, settled in Arroyo Grande in 1990 and raised their two children here — both graduates of Arroyo Grande High School. After three and a half decades in the same neighborhood, the Martins still proudly consider themselves a “Harloe family.”
Glenn's path into real estate began in the finance department of Williams Bros. Markets, where he helped formalize the company's property management operations and learned, firsthand, how small businesses keep their doors open and how budgets and infrastructure hold a community together. He earned his broker's license in 2005 and opened his own independent firm. That hands-on, problem-solving experience is exactly what Arroyo Grande needs in its next mayor.
For years, Glenn has given his time back to the community — serving as President of the Grover Beach Chamber of Commerce in 2008, helping bring the area's separate chambers together into today's South County Chambers of Commerce, and officiating hundreds of youth softball games and water polo matches as a certified umpire and official. He was first appointed to the Arroyo Grande Planning Commission in 2014, served several years as its chair, and — after a term on the Architectural Review Committee — returned to the Commission in 2024, where he chairs it once again.
Glenn is running to succeed Mayor Caren Ray Russom, who is stepping down after more than 21 years of dedicated service. He shares her commitment to a community that builds consensus, acts civilly, and gets the work done — and he's ready to carry that forward.
A Record of Service
Chamber President
Led the Grover Beach Chamber of Commerce and helped bring the area's separate chambers together into today's South County Chambers of Commerce.
Planning Commission
First appointed to the Arroyo Grande Planning Commission, where he served several years as chair and later sat on the Architectural Review Committee.
Commission Chair Again
Returned to the Planning Commission and currently serves once more as its chair — guiding responsible growth and the General Plan update.
Leadership. Integrity. Community.
Our Hometown
The Arroyo Grande We're Working For
From the historic Village and the 1875 swinging bridge to our open hills and family farms — this is the place worth protecting.
Endorsed by Our Community
Trusted by Arroyo Grande
Local leaders and neighbors who believe in a practical, hometown approach for our city.
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