Envision Madison

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Envision Madison
The SOS Foundation Presents

• Positive Planning
• Or
• Something Sinister?

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Meeting Outline

• Prayer by Invitation
• Pledge
• Envision Madison Presentation
• by Scott Smith

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"Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but
provocation, that I can receive from another
soul. What he announces, I must find true in me,
or wholly reject and on his word, or as his
second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Divinity School Address,
1838
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Catch Phrases Terms

• Typical Terms
• Sustainable Development
• Sustainable Communities
• Smart Growth
• Urban Sprawl
• Urban Planning
• Global WarmingClimate Change

• Excluded By Design
• Future Planning
• Individual Liberty
• Property Rights

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Objective and Purpose
What is Envision Madison?
What is the Envisioning Process?
Who's really behind it all?
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Envision Madison, Or So They Say

• Envision Madison, is a grassroots, long term
  planning approach for Madison County.
• a community driven effort to help identify and
  develop a vision for the future of Madison
  County.

Source(s) http//www.madisoneconomicpartners.org/
pages/envision_login.php
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The Envisioning Process

• The process for Envision Madison is designed to
  create and build on public engagement at every
  stage of the process.
• Envision Madison Stakeholders will select
  elements of the scenarios they think should be
  explored. The reaction to the scenarios will
  serve as the basis for the vision's products a
  set of goals, along with a vision scenario that
  illustrates one plausible way these goals might
  play themselves out in the cities and county.
  Envision Madison will then take the principles
  and vision scenario and translate them into an
  action plan that includes both strategies and
  short-term tactics to shape the future of Madison
  County.

Source(s) http//www.madisoneconomicpartners.org
/pages/envision_login.php
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Robert Grow
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Stakeholders

• A
• Jill Anderson
• Carlos Aponte
• Gary Archibald
• George Archibald
• B
• Connie Ball
• Mickey Beaver
• Jordan Busby
• Terry Butikofer
• SRC President - BYU-Idaho
• C
• Christine Campbell
• Kim Clark
• Tom Cluff
• Craig Cobia
• Stephanie Cook
• Colby Coombs
• Bruce Crapo

• E
• Ryan Easton
• Trever Einerson
• Rex Erickson
• F
• Ron Feik
• G
• Kathryn Gardner
• Rachel Gonzalez
• Marianna Gonzalez
• Janet Goodliffe
• H
• Doug Hancy
• Dan Hanna
• Harold Harris
• Ted Hendricks
• Brent Hill
• Leslie Huddleston
• Ethan Huffman

• M
• Rochelle Mathews
• Doug McBride
• Kelly McCandless
• Anthony Merrill
• Jerry Merrill
• Art Morales
• N
• Matt Nielson
• P
• Phil Packer
• Aaron Peterson
• Shay Phister
• Glen Pond
• Randall Porter
• Spencer Priest
• R
• Dell Raybould
• Craig Rindlesbacher

• T
• Amy Taylor
• Teri Tengiao-Phillips
• Geoffrey Thomas
• David Thueson
• Shane Turman
• W
• Jedd Walker
• Jeff Walters
• Johnny Watson
• Richie Webb
• Jon Weber
• Bart Webster
• Joseph West
• Scott Wood
• Lori Woodland
• Richard Woodland
• Z
• Mary Zollinger

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Executive Committee
Gary Archibald Co-Chair
Lori Woodland Co-Chair
Kim Clark President, BYU-Idaho
Jon Weber Madison County Commissioner
Glen Dalling Mayor, Sugar City
Richard Woodland Mayor, City of Rexburg
Randall Porter Committee Member
Jeff Walters Committee Member
Carlos Aponte Committee Member
Richard Smith Committee Member
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Partners

• Envision Madison
• Madison Economic Partners, Inc.
• Madison County
• City of Rexburg
• City of Sugar City
• Rocky Mountain Power
• BYU-Idaho

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Envision Utah
Leave Your Personal Interests at the Door,
Please! In order to accept the invitation to
participate, each prospective Partner or Special
Advisor signed a pledge form, promising to
overlook his or her own self-interest (either
personal or of those whom he/she represented)
while bringing expertise to the table. They were
all challenged to work toward the common good of
the community and to look beyond the short term
issues now facing the region. Furthermore, they
were told that the Coalition and the Partnership
would take a neutral position on all
growth-related issues until the process was
complete and the community had voiced its desires
for a preferred growth strategy for the future
of the Greater Wasatch Area. (The History of
Envision Utah 15).
Is this even possible?
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Envision Utah Key Players
Robert J. Grow Founding Chairman
Peter Calthorpe Urban Designer
John Fregonese 3-D Modeler
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Robert Grow
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Peter Calthorpe
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Whats their angle?
Are these guys just opportunists who want to make
a buck on the green movement, or are they
committed environmentalists?
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The Agenda
Is the Envision Process following its own agenda?
OR
Does it follow an agenda laid out by a larger,
less benign entity?
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Glen Beck on Agenda 21
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ICLEI
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More ICLEI
Why is the International Council for Local
Environmental Initiatives praising the Utah
Envision model?
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Others Views of Envision Utah
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More UNLV
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More Beck The Local Connection
It was fuzzy when we found it.
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J. Gary Lawrence
Gary Lawrence is one of the key thinkers on
sustainable development, an advisor to the
US Presidents Council on Sustainable Development
and to US AID. He was on the US
Government delegation to the 1996 Habitat II
Conference and has also been Director of the
Centre for Sustainable Communities at the
University of Washington and Chief Planner in the
City of Seattle.
Source The Future of Local Agenda 21 in the New
Millennium J. Gary Lawrence
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Give It an Innocuous Name

• Participating in a UN advocated planning process
  would very likely bring out manywho would
  actively work to defeat any elected official who
  joined the conspiracy by undertaking Agenda
  21. So, we call our processes something else,
  such as comprehensive planning, growth management
  or smart growth.

Source The Future of Local Agenda 21 in the New
Millennium J. Gary Lawrence
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What can you do?

• Join the SOS Madison County group on Facebook to
  become and stay informed.
• Become a member of the SOS Foundation and come to
  future meetings so that together we can be
  organized in the fight.
• Attend the Envision Madison kick-off meeting on
  JUNE 13TH and express your concerns.

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You Can Do More

• E-mail and Visit with City and County Government
  Officials
• Go to City Council and County Commission Meetings