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R3V Collective Impact Meeting Week 8 2022 – Community Visioning Projects
February 23, 2022 @ 15:30 - 17:00
Please join us for our collective impact meeting in which we will discuss how we might make the best of a variety of community visioning opportunities unfolding now.
We meet in this Zoom room: https://sou.zoom.us/j/3739850879
Invited panelists include (bolded are confirmed)
- Steve Lambert, Jackson County Parks
- Bethanie Martin, Urban Design Associate – Paradise Recovery Plan
- Bob Hackett, Travel Southern Oregon
- Caryn Wheeler-Clay, JCC LTRG
- Laura Buhl, DLCD, TGM study project manager
Questions addressed
How do we prepare ourselves as a community to meet these opportunities to re-envision parts of our valley? Full agenda is here
- Opportunities
- Projects
- Bear Creek/99 Traffic Growth Management (TGM) study
- Greenway operations and maintenance plan
- Disaster recovery planning effort – Paradise example
- How will public comment be incorporated into the project’s work?
- Of these ongoing projects, are there multi-year processes that unfold from them?
- Local and regional responses to large issues like housing, tourism shifts, and climate change
- Projects
- Who leads the projects?
- Project leadership
- Consultants
- Government representatives
- Public advisory committees
- Technical advisory committees
- Others?
- Project leadership
- Community involvement – How can various sectors and citizens support the project?
- Public comment
- In meetings
- In writing
- Workshops and charrettes
- Other opportunities
- Public comment
- Challenges
- How do community members miss these opportunities?
- Ways to overcome language, logistical, and cultural barriers?
- How can we prepare ourselves to make the best contribution possible in these processes?
- Next steps towards community visioning?
- How might the community educate itself as to process and possibilities to envion?
- Should community groups identify their key visions and concerns beforehand?
- Should spokespeople be chosen, trained, and empowered by community groups?
- How can the community help create the political will to implement the recommendations of these projects?