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Appendix D - Tools, Techniques, and Examples of Their Use
Appendix D - Tools, Techniques, and Examples of Their Use
Pages 91-97
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Business owners and operators were identified using Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Business Partnership lists, as well as canvassing individual office building lobbies. Phone calls and letters were sent to the businesses and they were asked if they would embed a hyperlink on their home page so that their employees could click on it, fill it out, and submit it to the consultant.
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A citizens' advisory committee was formed with representatives of community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, major property owners, advocacy groups, local elected officials, and others. Two of the major property owners, Plaza Fiesta Shopping Center, and Mercado del Pueblo, and a communitybased organization, Center for Pan Asian Community Services, volunteered to provide space at their locations for meetings, suggested appropriate times for meetings, and agreed to provide interpreters.
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Therefore, Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese interpreters were hired to build a telephone tree. They were asked to spend eight hours telephoning friends, family, businesses, local associations, civic clubs, and other similar groups and personally invite individuals and members to the public information open house at the Center for Pan Asian Community Services.
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Playing Interactive Games Several fiscally constrained interactive games have been developed as public involvement tools. These are often used as part of the public involvement process for prioritizing elements of the following: • Long range transportation plan, • Short term transportation plans, • Statewide transportation improvement programs, • Transportation improvement programs, and • Project specific plans.
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The list of groups that played the game included, but was not limited to, the following: • High school and college students, • Hispanic associations, • Housing authority residents, • Emergency response personnel, • Bicycle and walking clubs, • Senior groups, • Faith-based organizations, • Visually impaired groups, • Municipal employees, • Friends of the library, • School board transportation department employees, and • Members of the general public. As a result, interest in the MPO process increased, participation at the MPO meetings increased, the game educated the public to the costs of transportation improvements, and the MPO was so pleased with the results that it plans to use strings and ribbons for their next Long Range Transportation Plan update process.
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, the adopted Year 2025 Regional Airport Systems Plan, and the Regional Job Access and Reverse Commute Transportation Plan from 1999. Other planning documents reviewed included the Southeastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey Bicycle and Pedestrian Mobility Plans, a study of regional elderly mobility needs, the regional multimodal TIP, and the annual Unified Planning
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Where possible, one way to enhance the transportation accessibility of such areas was to focus on introducing new or additional paratransit service and expanding job access services that connected outlying areas to nearby employment centers or the region's core transit network. DVRPC has adopted its 2030 Long Range Plan called Destination 2030: A Vision for the Future, and is working on their 2035 Long Range Plan called Connections -- The Regional Plan for a Sustainable Future.
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