For both Updates and Status Reports, the City is reaching a broad cross-section of neighborhood stakeholders, using both innovative and time tested tools, from hands-on workshops to smaller scale interactive meetings with community-based organizations, as well as on line updates and surveys. So far in 2009, city staff have sponsored or contributed to more than 300 meetings and events, reaching both long-time veterans of neighborhood planning, stewards of the important work begun in the 1990s, and a new generation of neighborhood planners, building a broader base for civic engagement. This includes the work of Planning Outreach Liaisons (POLs), engaging historically underrepresented communities and multiple language groups. Download the Neighborhood Planning Outreach Liaison Community Workshop Themes for more information about the POL effort.
The Department of Neighborhoods is responsible for the City's neighborhood plan outreach efforts. DON has developed strategies for identifying and involving groups that may be hard-to-reach, or not typically involved in planning activities, to ensure that the plan update processes are broadly representative of all the members of each neighborhood. Please visit DON's public involvement website for more information, including information about the Neighborhood Advisory Committee.
December 6, 2011
