Ladder of citizen participation

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Ladder of citizen participation
citizen control
delegated pwr
Delegated power
partnership
placation
consultation
Consulting
informing
therapy
Therapy
manipulation
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Rungs on the ladder

• Delegated power Citizens group has
  organizational role in process. May have own
  funding and partner to implement.
• Consulting Boards, workshops, neighborhood
  meetings where good ideas emerge. Professionals
  use expertise to implement.
• Therapy Citizens given a chance to get it off
  their chests. Experts tick the box and move on.

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Plan

• What do we mean?

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Plan

• Process
• a method or way of proceeding thought out in
  advance to make a plan or design
• Product
• A document or drawing that shows the outcome of
  the process arrangement of places or facilities
  in space

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Types of plans

• Comprehensive plan
• Master plan
• Site plan

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Planning vs Design related to places
DESIGN
PLAN

• Scheme that directs change
• Often takes longer
• Often at a larger scale
• Temporal in orientation
• Can offer a direction for design
• Product is policy, management heavy

• Physical arrangement of parts for function and/or
  aesthetic
• Often shorter time period to complete
• Usually smaller scale
• Spatial orientation
• Supports a plan or helps to implement it
• Product is map, graphics heavy

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Formal planning process

• 1. Define issues, understand trends in what is
  needed/wanted
• Whats the planning cycle, time for a new one?
• Whats the staff feel for pulse of the
  community?
• 2. Develop goals, set vision
• What are community needs?
• What do best practices say?
• 3. Inventory, collect specific information
• What are the physical features of the place?
• What do residents (and visitors) think?

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Planning process cont.

• 4. Analyze information collected
• What physical spaces can accommodate needs?
• 5. Synthesize a plan pull all parts together
• 6. Implement
• Strategies for how to
• May provide management policy, design
  alternatives, location options
• Need a Champion key to getting things done
• 7. Monitor
• Is the plan working?
• Are people using the place, are conflicts
  occurring?