Section 2: Public Participation (PDF, 1.21 MB)
Our Region’s Plan achieved unprecedented community participation through our multi-year Project Region outreach and consensus-building process. SPC believes that a regional plan must involve active participation by all of the region’s communities—both geographic and functional (public, private, civic, philanthropic, etc.) Beyond ensuring fairness, such participation creates a broader sense of ownership in, and ongoing adherence to, the plan itself.
Project Region activities, including meetings, open houses, workshops, conferences, online and traditional surveys, interactive planning kiosks and the region’s first-ever live webcast Regional Town Meeting made it possible for over 3,000 participants from across our region to provide input into developing our Region’s Plan.
“We helped fund the public engagement piece of Project Region that helped SPC reach out and get diverse input into the plan. By using computer modeling technology, SPC was able to show the consequences of different decisions about growth, and that was helpful in getting people to make informed choices in the scenarios. We think it is important that SPC is engaging this kind of discussion about the alternatives to sprawl.”
--Caren Glotfelty, Environmental Program Director The Heinz Endowments |
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