Linking Community Visioning and Highway Capacity Planning (2012) / Chapter Skim
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In comparison to a public comment period or publicly noticed open hearing, required by most planning processes, visioning processes tend to employ proactive outreach and interactive techniques to gather input. It is this active engagement in contributing ideas, assessing alternative futures, and registering opinions on outcomes that provides the basis for developing a shared vision for the future.
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They help garner initial public interest in involvement, support ongoing involvement opportunities, enable information to be disseminated readily, and increase the visibility and public awareness of an effort. • Feedback tools and techniques provide opportunities for active input into a visioning process, including outreach through traditional and nontraditional means, as well as innovative interactive scenario-planning support tools.
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Online Resources Project website $$$ V Webinars and video $$ V Blogs and networks $$ v E-mail lists and e-newsletters $ V Printed Materials Printings and mailings $$ v Visualizations and Maps Visualizations $$ V (Y) Media Media strategies $ v Design and Public Relations Representation and branding $$ v Traditional Feedback Techniques Opinion surveys $$ V (Y)
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Interactive Techniques Public workshops $$ V (Y) Charrettes $$$ V Scenario planning games $$ V Visual preferences $ v (Y)
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Example products include online surveys, opinion polling, comment collection, and other direct qualitative methods such as community interviews, listening campaigns, or focus groups. Opinion surveys provide opportunities for broad or targeted outreach to stakeholders concerning community values, importance of issues, preferred future direction, or the selection of alternative futures.
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INDEX is an integrated suite of geographic information system (GIS) tools used to assess existing community conditions, design future scenarios in real time, assess scenarios with performance indicators, and monitor implementation of adopted plans.
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Collaborative Techniques Interactive Interactive techniques encourage collaboration, consensus, and ownership among participants. Facilitated techniques commonly include small group discussions, workshops, or scenario-planning activities intended to provide participants hands-on experience in creating alternative futures, establishing community values, developing goals, or other tangible outcomes.
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Committees may be formed to address different aspects within a visioning process, such as a public involvement campaign, scenario planning technical support, or issue-specific groups, such as bicycle and pedestrian or environmental interests. Programs and Partnerships Often formed during visioning processes, programs and partnerships facilitate vision development and may then continue as lasting outcomes of the process.
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Collaboration with community leaders will support the development of a visioning process that is widely supported. Practitioners may consider these questions when assessing outreach tools: • Is there a common regional or community identity?
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Collaborative techniques such as community working groups, breakout groups at public meetings, and other decision-making partnerships organized for the visioning process can be encouraged to lead the development of the final vision. The vision can be tested for acceptance through outreach to a broad range of stakeholders, through online resources, public media, or large-scale meetings.
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Collaborative techniques such as meetings with stakeholders are useful to review roles and responsibilities and to continue ongoing interagency and partner coordination established within the visioning process. Practitioners may consider these questions when assessing outreach tools: • Which stakeholders must be involved in implementation efforts, and which stakeholders hold responsibility for future actions?
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