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About Glenn

A Lifetime of Service to Our Community

For more than 35 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.

A Southern California native 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 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 over two decades of dedicated service. He shares her commitment to a community that builds consensus, acts civilly, and gets the work done. Registered No Party Preference, Glenn is committed to serving the entire community, not one political group — and he's ready to carry that forward.

A Record of Service