Linking Community Visioning and Highway Capacity Planning (2012) / Chapter Skim
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However, there are process steps, activities, components, and key decisions common to any visioning process. This highlevel, critical information is presented in the Vision Guide.
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The process depicted in the Vision Guide was developed based on extensive research, literature reviews, and discussions with experts in community visioning. Currently, there is no common definition of a visioning process, although those in use all exhibit common elements.
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These steps are typically undertaken in planning exercises but may hold additional significance in an interdisciplinary, inclusive, and innovative visioning process. This phase includes organizational, managerial, and foundational activities that are the responsibility of the convening organization.
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What is important? Within this activity, the practitioner's responsibility is to develop a set of shared community concerns or issues, to facilitate a common understanding of the community, and to reach agreement on the desired outcomes of the visioning process.
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Chapter 2 provides guidance and decision factors for agencies to evaluate their role in a process. • Secure partner commitments.
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Building consensus around long-term goals, objectives, or guiding principles may be challenging, but it will provide significant direction for the visioning process. Community goals are often formed through interactive public input opportunities such as workshops and meetings.
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Chapter 9 includes additional details on linking vision outcome to transportation planning and development processes. • Secure partner commitments.
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Developing a transparent, adaptable commitment tracking process within the sponsoring organization or within participating public agencies helps ensure that the vision is acted on and any benefits to an agency, such as improved public perception, are maintained. Model commitment tracking processes are discussed in greater detail in Chapter 8.
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This decision point marks the transition from the preparation phase to the activities involved in creating the vision. Approve Goals Reaching consensus on community goals is a key milestone in a visioning process and substantially informs many future activities.
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Approved commitments may be readily transferred to tracking processes or related transportation planning processes. For example, a vision may result in an alternative roadway improvement design that a DOT agrees to evaluate and act on as part of an approved commitment.
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Reaching stakeholders is an important aspect of a visioning process and is significant in early steps to establish relationships, critical when creating the vision, and important to implementation efforts. Accessing this component through the project website provides access to a variety of outreach tools and techniques, including web links to real-world examples from visioning processes.
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34 Figure 4.6. Reaching stakeholders component area.
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Within the online Vision Guide, practitioners have access to summary guidance related to developing a model commitment tracking process, including linkages between a tracking program and the steps in the visioning process. This information is drawn from research discussed in Chapter 8, which includes a full description of the model tracking process.
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