Imagine Austin Working Group: Meeting 2

Imagine Austin Working GroupsSecond Meeting

Planning and Development Review Department

What We Will CoverResults from the Kick-Off MeetingsProcess for Prioritized ActionsProcess for Growth Concept MapTonight’s Exercises• Action Review• Growth Concept Map• Criteria for Prioritizing• Create an Engaging Plan• Complete Communities

Where to get caught upwww.ImagineAustin.net/working-groups.htm

Kick-Off Meeting

Process for Prioritized ActionsBrainstorming

Consolidating

Assessing

— break —

Winnowing & refining

— break —

Prioritizing

Started at Kick-Off. Continuing tonight with review and search for missing ideas.

Process for Prioritized ActionsBrainstorming

Consolidating

Assessing

— break —

Winnowing & refining

— break —

Prioritizing

Between tonight and our next meeting: group similar actions together and apply an overall statement.

Process for Prioritized ActionsBrainstorming

Consolidating

Assessing

— break —

Winnowing & refining

— break —

Prioritizing

At the next meeting:Review consolidated actions & identify their strengths and challenges.

Process for Prioritized ActionsBrainstorming

Consolidating

Assessing

— break —

Winnowing & refining

— break —

Prioritizing

Begin winnowing the recommendations, looking for ways to strengthen them, and begin heading towards priorities.

Process for Prioritized ActionsBrainstorming

Consolidating

Assessing

— break —

Winnowing & refining

— break —

Prioritizing

All of the Working Groups will reconvene together, in a joint meeting, to identify draft priorities from among all actions.

Process for Prioritized ActionsBrainstorming

Consolidating

Assessing

— break —

Winnowing & refining

— break —

Prioritizing

Process for Growth Concept MapBuilding understanding

Identify major issues

— break: sub-groups meet

Review first draft of GrowthConcept Map

Started at Kick-Off by working through the Development Types. Continue tonight by reviewing examples of Growth Concept Maps.

Process for Growth Concept MapBuilding understanding

Identify major issues

— break: sub-groups meet

Review first draft of GrowthConcept Map

Reviewing the Preferred Scenario and issues identified by the Task Force, Planning Commission, & City Council.

Process for Growth Concept MapBuilding understanding

Identify major issues

— break: sub-groups meet

Review first draft of GrowthConcept Map

Sub-groups are composed of the interests identified for each issue. Each sub-group looks at one issue only.

Process for Growth Concept MapBuilding understanding

Identify major issues

— break: sub-groups meet

Review first draft of GrowthConcept Map

Process for Growth Concept MapBuilding understanding

Identify major issues

-- break: sub-groups meet

Review first draft of GrowthConcept Map

Community Forum Series #4After the Working Groups

Broad public engagement to review the first draft of the Comprehensive Plan.

Also an opportunity to take unresolved issues back to the public to set direction.

Process Questions

Tonight’s ExercisesCreate an Engaging PlanComplete CommunitiesAction ReviewGrowth Concept MapCriteria for Prioritizing

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How it worksFour 20-minute blocks of time

Pick a table & work its activity

After 20 minutes, change tables or keep working your activity

Tonight’s ExercisesCreate an Engaging PlanComplete CommunitiesAction ReviewGrowth Concept MapCriteria for Prioritizing

Getting beyond policy language to a plan that engages people with different ways of understanding the city.

Tonight’s ExercisesCreate an Engaging PlanComplete CommunitiesAction ReviewGrowth Concept MapCriteria for Prioritizing

1. Identify key concepts you’ve been dealing with that the general public may have trouble understanding

3. Brainstorm words, stories and images that would help make it simple and clear to everyone.

Tonight’s ExercisesCreate an Engaging PlanComplete CommunitiesAction ReviewGrowth Concept MapCriteria for Prioritizing

Complete Communities is a mix of ideas about how to ensure that Austin works well for everyone

Tonight’s ExercisesCreate an Engaging PlanComplete CommunitiesAction ReviewGrowth Concept MapCriteria for Prioritizing

1. Review material at your table

3. Brainstorm ideas for how Complete Communities can make a better Austin

Tonight’s ExercisesCreate an Engaging PlanComplete CommunitiesAction ReviewGrowth Concept MapCriteria for Prioritizing

Broken out by Working Group & by topics within each Working Group

Tonight’s ExercisesCreate an Engaging PlanComplete CommunitiesAction ReviewGrowth Concept MapCriteria for Prioritizing

1. Review the results

3. Are there any gaps?

5. Are any actions unclear?

Tonight’s ExercisesCreate an Engaging PlanComplete CommunitiesAction ReviewGrowth Concept MapCriteria for Prioritizing

Think of the kinds of things the City can do:

• Regulations & incentives• Coordination• Analyses• Policy• Programs

Tonight’s ExercisesCreate an Engaging PlanComplete CommunitiesAction ReviewGrowth Concept MapCriteria for Prioritizing

A visual concept for growth and preservation

Tonight’s ExercisesCreate an Engaging PlanComplete CommunitiesAction ReviewGrowth Concept MapCriteria for Prioritizing

1. Review the examples

3. Identify elements you like

5. Identify elements you don’t like

Focus on the representation, not the content.

Tonight’s ExercisesCreate an Engaging PlanComplete CommunitiesAction ReviewGrowth Concept MapCriteria for Prioritizing

Develop criteria for setting priorities later in the process

Tonight’s ExercisesCreate an Engaging PlanComplete CommunitiesAction ReviewGrowth Concept MapCriteria for Prioritizing

1. Review the material at your table.

3. Brainstorm ideas for criteria.

Think in terms of “yes/no” questions.

Tonight’s ExercisesCreate an Engaging PlanComplete CommunitiesAction ReviewGrowth Concept MapCriteria for Prioritizing

1 2

4

3

How it worksFour 20-minute blocks of time

Pick a table & work its activity

After 20 minutes, change tables or keep working your activity