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... Within visioning and transportation planning processes, this challenge is typically overcome by enabling stakeholders to identify common community values, which can be organized within categories of quality of life considerations. Defining community values is often an early product of public involvement opportunities such as workshops, town hall meetings, or online discussions.
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From page 37...
... Both practices are considered specific to transportation and represent relatively focused efforts, when compared with visioning processes. For the transportation practitioner, previous agency experience with CIA and CSS may help inform the agency's involvement in a visioning process.
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From page 38...
... Indirect and Cumulative Effects Perception of Project Effects Community Goals Performance Indicators Project Effects Measured by Practitioner More traffic congestion • Improve safety • Improve commute time • Vehicle miles traveled (VMT) growth as a ratio of population growth • Commute costs • Direct: Increased traffic • Indirect: Decrease in pedestrian safety • Cumulative: Auto-oriented development Decrease in property values • Provide a mix of housing choices • Enhance community character • Change in location and balance of available jobs and housing • Change in property values • Direct: Acquisition of property • Indirect: Noise or aesthetic impacts • Cumulative: Redevelopment of properties to undesirable land uses
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From page 39...
... As described above, and as illustrated in the following chapter on applying quality of life considerations within the Vision Guide, the use of performance indicators is relevant through much of a vision process. The actual indicators and utilization of measures may change but should remain rooted in the community values and goals established early in a process.
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... 40 Table 5.3. Community Quality of Life Indicators Quality of Life Category Potential Community Goal or Value Sample Measure Economic competitiveness Local businesses are competitive, with opportunities for growth.
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... A measurement process should reach agreement among stakeholders on the indicators to be reported, responsibilities for data collection, and a period of consistent measurement. It is important for the practitioner to select from indicators previously identified that can best capture the effects and anticipated changes resulting from implementing the vision.
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