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Community Visioning

Help Build the Vision

The planning process is designed around a simple principle:

Listen before drawing the final lines.

The Process

The 60-day public comment period includes public meetings, online participation, stakeholder conversations and publication of community feedback. It's the first step in a roughly 900-day effort that carries the plan through design and regulatory review.

Day 1Day 900

60-day public comment period

Roughly 900 days: design and regulatory review

The first 60 days

  1. Public Meeting 1

    Imagine

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  2. Public Meeting 2

    Choices & Tradeoffs

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  3. Public Meeting 3

    Refine

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Public Meetings

Public Meeting 1:Imagine

What Should 1,800 Acres Do?

Participants will help identify:

  • What should we PROTECT?
  • What should we BUFFER?
  • What should we CONNECT?
  • What should we CREATE?
  • What should we AVOID?

Following the meeting, a What We Heard summary will be published.

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Public Meeting 2:Choices & Tradeoffs

CONCEPTUAL: FOR COMMUNITY DISCUSSION

Community input from Meeting 1 will be translated into alternative concepts.

Potential frameworks may include:

  • Conservation Forward
  • Jobs & Innovation
  • Balanced Working Landscape

Participants will compare alternatives and allocate planning priorities.

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Public Meeting 3:Refine

You Said. We Changed.

The third meeting will show how community input affected the emerging vision.

The project team will present a response matrix identifying:

  • What we heard
  • What changed
  • What could not change
  • Why

The resulting framework will then be prepared for publication.

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