COMMUNITY VISIONING and GOAL SETTING

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COMMUNITY VISIONINGandGOAL SETTING

the trouble with you is the trouble with me,got
two good eyes but still dont see
Casey Jones, the Grateful Dead
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Visiona statement of your desired future
Goala broad, action-oriented statement A
Community Vision community based plan in which
citizens and leaders work together to identify a
series of shared goals and specific strategies to
implement each goal
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Benefits of Vision

• creating shared goals
• identifying concrete strategies
• building consensus and good will
• facilitating action
• energizing local networks
• developing new leadership

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Challenges to a Vision

• water quality and quantity are complex issues
  requiring complex solutions
• scope and duration of the solutions are
  far-reaching, often 30 years or more
• decline in civic involvement plagues many
  communities

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Five Principles of Visioning

• a vision must be inclusive
• a vision must deal with all areas of concern to
  residents
• a vision must be community driven
• a vision must be carefully orchestrated
• a vision must lead seamlessly into
• on-the-ground success

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Conducting a Vision

• gathering ideas things valued, things to
  preserve, things to restore
• developing shared goals and strategies
• setting priorities
• celebrating the vision

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What does a Vision look like?

• A nice place to live, work and
• play.
• Chattanooga Vision 2000
• An active community that works
• proactively to preserve, protect,
• restore and promote Fluvannas
• rich heritage in the context of
• change.
• Fluvanna County, Virginia

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Heritage Preservation to Open Space
ConservationRe-Using the Vision Stuff

• Goals
• 1999 Heritage Preservation
• preserve historic/cultural sites
• manage waterways/protect water quality
• promote heritage tourism
• government mechanisms to implement heritage goals
• civic participation
• develop community leadership
• public education/awareness
• growth management

• Goals
• 2002 Open Space Conservation
• preserve rural character and sense of place
• identify and prioritize lands to protect as open
  space
• develop County open space and land preservation
  plan
• facilitate citizen input in revising zoning
  ordinances to implement County Comprehensive
  Plan
• manage growth by preserving important landscapes
  and directing future development to appropriate
  areas

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What does a Vision look like?

• Facilitate a voluntary regional approach to
• protect, preserve and promote our history and
• water heritage and to enhance fishing, farms,
• forests and villages, with consideration for
• sustainable economic development and public
• access.
• Northern Neck, Virginia Heritage
  Initiative

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What does a Vision look like?

• encourage all citizens of the Chesapeake
• Bay watershed to work toward a shared vision--
• a system with abundant, diverse populations of
• living resources, fed by healthy streams and
• rivers, sustaining strong local and regional
• economies, and our unique way of life.
• Chesapeake 2000 Vision

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Vision/Mission Goals

• Mission
• assist landowners and their
• communities in maintaining healthy
• rivers, protecting forest and farmland,
• and preserving rural heritage for the
• enjoyment and well being of present
• and future generations
• Resource Goals
• Water Quality-identify and conserve lands
  critical to water quality and quantity
• Forests-protect and maintain functioning forest
  ecosystem
• Agriculture-support working family farms in a
  viable economy
• Rural Heritage-preserve rural lifestyle, cultural
  traditions, working landscapes and wild lands
• Cacapon and Lost Rivers Land Trust

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Additional Information

• American Communities Partnership www.acp-planning.
  com
• Chattanooga Vision 2000 www.rivercitycompany.com
• Envision Utah www.envisionutah.org
• Building Gateway Partnerships, National Park
  Service, RTCA, April 1997
• Crafting a Community Vision Statement
  Reflecting the Process in the
• Product, Dotson, A. Bruce, www.people.virginia.e
  du