Advancing Prosperity through Regional Development

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Advancing Prosperity through Regional Development

• Fairness Democracy
• Shared benefits

ActionMedia
December/08
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• Facts Are
• Meaningless

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• Meaning always
• comes from the story
• Facts illustrate the story

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What story do people understand about the
region?
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• There is no story
• The Region is an abstraction

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In the Twin cities
I live in a northwest suburb of Minneapolis
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In Baltimore
I would call it the four by four. Four blocks
by four blocks. From Belair Road to Irvin
Avenue.
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• The Region is not part of their actual
  experience

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• People respond from their own experiences
• with place

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• Engage people based on what they already know
  and care about.
• Use that to lead them to regional solutions.

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First thoughts

• Schools and safety making this a better place

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Experience that connects to region

• Transportation and roads

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Experience that connect to region

• Water

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Culture
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Destinations/ public investments
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Shared Resources
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Core values

• Shared benefits
• Public return on public investment
• Shared use of shared resources
• Access and connectivity
• Opportunity and prosperity

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Core Values

• Fairness

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Fairness

• Community Benefit Agreements
• public return on public investment mutual gain
• for private developer and the effected community

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Core Values

• Democracy
• Public participation

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Input is not participation.
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Public participation

• Whos included Whos left out?
• Who Benefits Who Doesnt?

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Making this a better place

• Shared Benefits
• Fairness
• Democracy
• Whos included Whos left out?
• Who Benefits Who Doesnt?

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Putting it in play

• Focus on shared resources
• Regional Assets
• Transportation
• Water

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Putting it in play

• Define every issue in terms of public
  participation
• Who benefits, who doesnt
• Whos in, whos out?

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Putting it in play

• Support efforts to
• mobilize public participation

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Echo Effect

• Try it
• Revise it
• Share it

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