Redevelopment of the GeorgiaPacific Mill Site, Fort Bragg, CA'

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Redevelopment of the Georgia-Pacific Mill Site,
Fort Bragg, CA.

• Options and Alternatives for Public Participation
  in the Planning Process
• Neil Peacock

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Premise 1 Preeminent Public
Interest

• Redevelopment of the mill-site will have immense
  impacts on various quality of life issues for the
  citizens of Fort Bragg.
• Employment Opportunity
• Housing Affordability
• Coastal Access
• Revenue Base
• Civic Assets
• Community Pride

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Premise 2Civic Engagement

• The publics interest in redevelopment requires
  proactive and sustained participation throughout
  the planning process.
• Various participatory mechanisms should be used
  to establish community-based goals that can help
  guide the creation of a specific plan.

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Premise 3 Collaborative Potential

• Cooperative planning processes can help create
  win/win outcomes for all stakeholders involved.
• The City
• Enhanced revenue base, infrastructure
  improvements, national recognition
• The Community
• Coastal access, parks, trails, affordable housing
• The Property Owner
• Project approval fair market value

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A Community-Based Perspectiveon Development

• Create Distributive Benefits
• Avoid privileging any particular interest group
• Serve the diverse segments of the community
• Create civic assets open to all citizens
• Enhance Participatory Democracy
• Involve the community in the decision making
  process.
• Active community outreach
• Guided by Community Established Goals Objectives

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Community-Based DevelopmentExamples -

• Enhancing Social Capital
• Leverage resources through networking and
  partnership building
• Strengthening the communitys capacity to
  initiate manage innovative pilot projects
• Bridging community cleavages through a common
  sense of civic pride

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Community-Based DevelopmentExamples -

• Diversify economic base widen employment
  opportunity structure
• Worker retraining skills development
• Small business complex
• Entrepreneurial incubator
• High tech infrastructure
• Wood workers cooperative
• Artists collective

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Community-Based DevelopmentExamples -

• Create anchored civic assets
• Coastal access a trails system
• Arts center extended educational facilities
• Eco-park community farm
• Affordable housing arraignments

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A Community-Based Approach Requirements

• Use multiple approaches to solve problems and
  satisfy needs
• Build relationships between the various
  stakeholders involved
• Innovative thinking community visioning
• Collaborative decision making processes

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Options and Alternatives for Public Participation
in the Planning Process
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Stake Holder Collaboration

• Stakeholder Anyone who holds a genuine interest
  in the outcome of the process
• The City, The Citizens, The Property Owner, etc.
• Reaction to conflict
• VS
• Proactive dialogue
• Satisfy different stakeholder needs with mutual
  respect cooperative thinking

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Stake Holder Collaboration

• Identify and involve key people, groups,
  agencies, entities, and relevant partners
• Form a stakeholder committee to build
  relationships and operate over time
• Share informative resources and creative ideas
• Draft update reports and agreement accords

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Community Visioning

• Initiate outreach to include a broad
  cross-section of the community
• Establish inclusive dialogue to help build
  consensus around
• Common quality of life values
• The unique identity of Place
• Build on local assets
• Create an inventory of local resources
• Identify the communitys strengths, weaknesses,
  opportunities, threats

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Community Visioning

• Context adaptive
• Highly publicized
• Suitable length
• Goal oriented
• Long range focus
• A 20,50,100 year outlook
• Involve a trained facilitatorcoordinator to
  draft, publish, distribute results

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Planning Charette

• Brief period of intense activity in an informal,
  interactive workshop environment
• Involving experts, stakeholders, citizens
• Generate ideas explore options
• Establish goals define objectives
• Planning issues community design

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Citizen Advisory Groups

• Ad hoc or Open membership
• Grass-roots citizen groups
• Non-profit organizations
• Legally constituted Appointed positions
• Planning Commission
• General responsibilities
• Community Development Advisory Board
• Special projects
• Steering Committee
• Guides policy
• Planning Task Force
• Specific issue

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Outreach Methods

• Public Forums
• Participatory Workshops
• Focus Groups
• Idea Competitions
• Community Survey
• Informative Canvasing
• Design Modeling

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